Agenda

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Overview

Day 1: 23.09.2026

09:30 – 10:30

Architecture & Core Design

Carlo Szelinsky

Plenum Session

10:30 – 11:30

Architecture & Core Design

Luan Araldi

We built it wrong (on purpose): The Evolution of adjoe’s Feature Store

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Arnaud Jean

Let’s Create our own Role-Playing Game with Agentic AI using Strands Agents

Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)

Maren Afflerbach

Operating the Unobservable: Building Observability for a System Nobody Wants to Touch

Systems Engineering & Performance

Tejas Chopra

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

11:30 – 12:30

Architecture & Core Design

Clemens Vasters

Adventures in Real-Time Data Analysis!

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Sergey Makarenko

Path to automating the deployment of staging environments

Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)

Anthony Alaribe

Runbooks That Think: Executable Checklists with AI in the Loop

Systems Engineering & Performance

Artur Fedorov

From /research to /ship: An Agentic Pipeline for Frontend Developers Going Fullstack

12:30 – 14:00

Architecture & Core Design

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00

Architecture & Core Design

Ivan Klimuk

Fancy Another One? Lessons from Personalising Reddit’s Notification Volume

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Dominic Noy

The Biological Edge: Using Psychophysics to Shrink AI for Real-Time Safety

Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)

Shilpa Bansal

Beyond the Crash: From 46-Hour Detection to Real-Time Recovery

Systems Engineering & Performance

Lucas Rocha

From Zero to Million: How I got 2 Million downloads on my Open-Source PHP package

15:00 – 16:00

Architecture & Core Design

Misha Kazakov

Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework and Hawkins Design System

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Adriaan Wind

The Sovereign Stack: Building Beyond Hyperscalers in the European Cloud

Systems Engineering & Performance

Domagoj Marić

The web as the world’s largest dataset and how to use It responsibly

16:00 – 17:00

Architecture & Core Design

Simona Oancea

The Architecture Decision You Can Undo: Microservice Boundaries with Spring Modulith

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Dotan Horovits

OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability

Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)

Steve Wade

he Six-Hour Outage I Caused by Deleting a Service Mesh

Systems Engineering & Performance

Bartosz Sypytkowski

Collaborative documents for humans (and machines)

Day 2: 24.09.2026

09:30 – 17:00

Workshop Track

Steve Wade

Introduction to Kubernetes: From Fundamentals to Production

10:30 – 11:30

Architecture & Core Design

Nima Rafiee

The Generative Paradigm Shift: A Blueprint for Next-Gen Personalized Ecosystems

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Marius Kimmina

15 Dev Environments were not enough – Embracing Ephemeral Environments

Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)

Hossein Salahi

Bridging Workloads: Real-world Lessons from Running Virtual Machines Natively on K8s with KubeVirt

Systems Engineering & Performance

Sebastian Jakobs

TBA2

11:30 – 12:30

Architecture & Core Design

André Alves

Grimoire: A Rust DSL for Moving Ions in a Quantum Computer

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Gang Luo, Kristina Kondrashevich

Your Platform Is Your Context: Scaling AI Agents with Platform Engineering

Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)

Dmitry Yackevich

Cut incident time from 10 hours to 10 minutes

Systems Engineering & Performance

Luca Trușcă

3x Performance: A Humbling Journey

12:30 – 14:00

Architecture & Core Design

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00

Architecture & Core Design

Jan Kamieth

Putting Druid on Ice: Serving Dashboards with StarRocks and Iceberg

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Valentin R

Kill regression

15:00 – 16:00

Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure

Falk Woldmann Lu

NAT Gateway to Net Savings: How OTTO saved $500k with IPv6

Architecture & Core Design
Cloud-Native & AI-Infrastructure
Resilience & SRE (The Post-Mortem Track)
Systems Engineering & Performance
9 am
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm

09:30 – 10:30

Carlo Szelinsky

Plenum Session

10:30 – 11:30

Luan Araldi

We built it wrong (on purpose): The Evolution of adjoe’s Feature Store

11:30 – 12:30

Clemens Vasters

Adventures in Real-Time Data Analysis!

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00

Ivan Klimuk

Fancy Another One? Lessons from Personalising Reddit’s Notification Volume

15:00 – 16:00

Misha Kazakov

Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework and Hawkins Design System

16:00 – 17:00

Simona Oancea

The Architecture Decision You Can Undo: Microservice Boundaries with Spring Modulith

10:30 – 11:30

Arnaud Jean

Let’s Create our own Role-Playing Game with Agentic AI using Strands Agents

11:30 – 12:30

Sergey Makarenko

Path to automating the deployment of staging environments

14:00 – 15:00

Dominic Noy

The Biological Edge: Using Psychophysics to Shrink AI for Real-Time Safety

15:00 – 16:00

Adriaan Wind

The Sovereign Stack: Building Beyond Hyperscalers in the European Cloud

16:00 – 17:00

Dotan Horovits

OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability

10:30 – 11:30

Maren Afflerbach

Operating the Unobservable: Building Observability for a System Nobody Wants to Touch

11:30 – 12:30

Anthony Alaribe

Runbooks That Think: Executable Checklists with AI in the Loop

14:00 – 15:00

Shilpa Bansal

Beyond the Crash: From 46-Hour Detection to Real-Time Recovery

16:00 – 17:00

Steve Wade

he Six-Hour Outage I Caused by Deleting a Service Mesh

10:30 – 11:30

Tejas Chopra

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

11:30 – 12:30

Artur Fedorov

From /research to /ship: An Agentic Pipeline for Frontend Developers Going Fullstack

14:00 – 15:00

Lucas Rocha

From Zero to Million: How I got 2 Million downloads on my Open-Source PHP package

15:00 – 16:00

Domagoj Marić

The web as the world’s largest dataset and how to use It responsibly

16:00 – 17:00

Bartosz Sypytkowski

Collaborative documents for humans (and machines)

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