Speakers at Heapcon 2026
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Bruno Macabeus
Software Engineer @ Anima
Retro Game Decompilation (+ AI)
Dora Makszy
Head of Design @ Element Logic
The irresistible UX: the psychology of brainwaves and clickbait
Milan Milanović
CTO @ Trucking Hub
Expect the Unexpected: How Software Laws Shape People, Teams, and Systems
Dušan Stanojević
CEO and Founder @ Traceway
Signals, Proxies, and Dark Magic
Giulia Panozzo
Founder @ Neuroscientive
Beyond the Turing Test: Measuring Human Responses to AI
Ignacio Navarro
Ethical Hacker
Every ride you take - Hacking a City’s Public Transportation
Ines Panker
Staff Engineer @ Sleuth
Software Estimates and the Illusion of Control
Jelena Marjanović
Principal Cybersecurity Engineer @ Schneider Electric
Building Trust into Software: Secure Development Lifecycles, Automation, and Provenance
Kelly Jille / Tom Cools
Java software engineer / Developer Relations Engineer @ OpenValue / Timefold
Adopt a Black Cat: Rehabilitating Unloved Technologies
Łukasz Nowak
Senior Software Engineer
Let’s create a11y automated testing suite from scratch!
Maarten Vandeperre
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect (AppDev & AI) @ Red Hat
Platform Engineering 101: Building Internal Developer Platforms
Maciek Próchniak
Map Search Engineer @ MapTiler
Maps and territories
Marko Babić
Solution Architect
Open-Heart Refactor: MMO Surgery
Martin Bach / Sonja Meyer
Product Manager / Software Engineer @ Oracle
MCP Supercharges APEX: Less Clicking, More Kicking — Straight to Git Push Done
Mete Atamel
Developer Advocate @ Google
Tour of Agent Protocols: MCP, A2A, AG-UI, A2UI
Michael Dowden
CEO @ Andromeda Galactic Solutions
Reinvent Yourself
Nikola Kolevski
Head of Engineering @ Solflare
Cheap Code, Expensive Decisions
Ricardo Magalhães
Senior DevOps Engineer
AI-Assisted Kubernetes Troubleshooting with k8sgpt
Ties van de Ven
Software Quality Expert @ Alliander
The S in LLM stands for security
Violina Popova
Software Developer @ ClipMyHorse.TV
Is Your App Guessing? Let Data Decide!
Wout Werkman
Developer Advocate @ JetBrains
Async Is the New 'goto': What Modern Java Concurrency Is Really About
Yash Thakare
Software Engineer - AI (Mphasis) @ Liferay