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
Faris Aziz
Staff Software Engineer @ Smallpdf
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions
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
Igor Đurić
Principal Engineer of Product Software @ Tenstorrent
The Next Generation of AI Computers
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
Jorge Turrado Ferrero / Txus Ballesteros
Principal Site Reliability Engineer / Engineering Manager of the IDP team @ Schwarz Digits / STACKIT
Operating the Heart of the Sovereign Cloud
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
Marjan Bugarinović
Lead DevOps engineer @ Zuehlke Engineering D.O.O
Why nobody talks about the environmental impact of AI?
Marko Babić
Solution Architect
Open-Heart Refactor: MMO Surgery
Marko Kevac
Engineering Manager, Search Platform @ Perplexity
Living in a New World - How we hire, grow, and work in the age of AI
Martin Bach / Sonja Meyer
Product Manager / Software Engineer @ Oracle
MCP Supercharges APEX: Less Clicking, More Kicking — Straight to Git Push Done
Michael Dowden
CEO @ Andromeda Galactic Solutions
Reinvent Yourself
Milan Starčević
Principal Software Architect
Making Your Architecture a Reality: From Design to Implementation
Nebojša Vukšić
Software Engineer @ JetBrains
Build for the Future, Stay Compatible with the Past
Nevena Milinković
Senior Technical Manager @ Nutanix
Where Virtualization Fits in the AI Factory Infrastructure?
Nikola Kolevski
Head of Engineering @ Solflare
Cheap Code, Expensive Decisions
Peđa Trifunov
Senior Backend Engineer @ Nordeus
Don’t run Kubernetes on your laptop. Smuggle your JAR into the cluster instead.
Peter Farkas
CEO @ Percona
Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+
Ricardo Magalhães
Senior DevOps Engineer
AI-Assisted Kubernetes Troubleshooting with k8sgpt
Stevan Milić
Director of Engineering @ Rho
Scaling Product Velocity
Ties van de Ven
Software Quality Expert @ Alliander
The S in LLM stands for security
Tom Cools
Developer Relations Engineer @ Timefold
Adopt a Black Cat: Rehabilitating Unloved Technologies
Vijay Kakani
Computer Vision Engineering Manager @ Rivian
Intelligence at the Edge: Deploying Multimodal AI Under Extreme Compute Constraints
Violina Popova
Software Developer @ ClipMyHorse.TV
Is Your App Guessing? Let Data Decide!
Wout Werkman
Developer Advocate @ JetBrains