agenda

your roadmap for the day – see what’s planned throughout the days at bit summit.
Attendees walking up yellow stairs at the venue
36 talks
4 main tracks
1 workshop
23 – 24 September 2026

roadmap: overview

Day 1: 23.09.2026

09:00 – 10:00

09:00 – 10:00

Doors are open: registration, coffee and networking

10:00 – 10:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Carlo Szelinsky

Opening session: Welcome to bit summit

10:30 – 11:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Arnaud Jean

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

[1] Platform Engineering

Gang Luo, Kristina Kondrashevich

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

[2] Data & Observability

Luan Araldi

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

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Bartosz Sypytkowski

Collaborative documents for humans (and machines)

11:30 – 12:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Clemens Vasters

Adventures in Real-Time Data Analysis!

[1] Platform Engineering

Sergey Makarenko

Path to automating the deployment of staging environments

[2] Data & Observability

Jan Kamieth

Putting Druid on Ice: Serving Dashboards with StarRocks and Iceberg

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Sebastian Jakobs

Contain, Evolve, Detect: Engineering for a Billion Requests a Day

12:30 – 14:00

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Dominic Noy

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

[2] Data & Observability

Shilpa Bansal

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

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Lucas Rocha

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

[1] Platform Engineering

Ohans Emmanuel

Zero-trust harnesses for agentic software delivery

15:00 – 16:00

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Artur Fedorov

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

[1] Platform Engineering

Adriaan Wind

The Sovereign Stack: Building Beyond Hyperscalers in the European Cloud

[2] Data & Observability

Anthony Alaribe

Runbooks That Think: Executable Checklists with AI in the Loop

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Misha Kazakov

Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Platform Adoption in Practice

16:00 – 17:00

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Tejas Chopra

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

[1] Platform Engineering

Steve Wade

The Killer Question: How One Sentence Can Transform Your Engineering Career

[2] Data & Observability

Dotan Horovits

OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Simona Oancea

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

17:30 – 23:00

17:30 – 23:00

bit summit After Party

Day 2: 24.09.2026

09:00 – 10:30

09:00 – 10:30

Doors are Open: Registration, Coffee and Networking

09:30 – 17:00

[4] Workshop Track

Steve Wade

Introduction to Kubernetes: From Fundamentals to Production

10:30 – 11:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Ivan Klimuk

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

[1] Platform Engineering

Marius Kimmina

15 Dev Environments were not enough – Embracing Ephemeral Environments

[2] Data & Observability

Maren Afflerbach

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

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Luca Trușcă

3x Performance: A Humbling Journey

11:30 – 12:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Nima Rafiee

The Generative Paradigm Shift: A Blueprint for Next-Gen Personalisation

[1] Platform Engineering

Ohans Emmanuel

Zero-trust harnesses for agentic software delivery (same as day 1)

[2] Data & Observability

Domagoj Marić

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

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Roland Guijt

Level Up Your Security: OpenID Connect/OAuth Update

12:30 – 13:30

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Alessandro Romano

Hacking Myself: What I Learned From Training an LLM on My Private Chats

[1] Platform Engineering

Markus Stockhausen

Digital sovereignty on network switches – a phone booth full of hackers

[2] Data & Observability

Dmitry Yackevich

Cut incident time from 10 hours to 10 minutes

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

Valentin R

Kill regression

14:30 – 15:30

[0] AI Engineering in Practice

Martin Vogel

Context Is Not Memory: The Story of codebase-memory-mcp

[1] Platform Engineering

Falk Woldmann Lu, Maximillian Hausner

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

[2] Data & Observability

Utsav Srivastava

Mayday Framework: Birth of a Centralised Anomaly Detection System

[3] Software Architecture & Performance

André Alves

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

15:30 – 17:00

15:30 – 17:00

Networking and Drinks

[0] AI Engineering in Practice
[1] Platform Engineering
[2] Data & Observability
[3] Software Architecture & Performance
9 am
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
7 pm
8 pm
9 pm
10 pm

10:30 – 11:30

Arnaud Jean

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

11:30 – 12:30

Clemens Vasters

Adventures in Real-Time Data Analysis!

14:00 – 15:00

Dominic Noy

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

15:00 – 16:00

Artur Fedorov

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

16:00 – 17:00

Tejas Chopra

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

10:30 – 11:30

Gang Luo, Kristina Kondrashevich

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

11:30 – 12:30

Sergey Makarenko

Path to automating the deployment of staging environments

15:00 – 16:00

Adriaan Wind

The Sovereign Stack: Building Beyond Hyperscalers in the European Cloud

16:00 – 17:00

Steve Wade

The Killer Question: How One Sentence Can Transform Your Engineering Career

14:00 – 15:00

Ohans Emmanuel

Zero-trust harnesses for agentic software delivery

10:30 – 11:30

Luan Araldi

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

11:30 – 12:30

Jan Kamieth

Putting Druid on Ice: Serving Dashboards with StarRocks and Iceberg

14:00 – 15:00

Shilpa Bansal

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

15:00 – 16:00

Anthony Alaribe

Runbooks That Think: Executable Checklists with AI in the Loop

16:00 – 17:00

Dotan Horovits

OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability

10:30 – 11:30

Bartosz Sypytkowski

Collaborative documents for humans (and machines)

11:30 – 12:30

Sebastian Jakobs

Contain, Evolve, Detect: Engineering for a Billion Requests a Day

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

Misha Kazakov

Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Platform Adoption in Practice

16:00 – 17:00

Simona Oancea

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

09:00 – 10:00

Doors are open: registration, coffee and networking

10:00 – 10:30

Carlo Szelinsky

Opening session: Welcome to bit summit

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

17:30 – 23:00

bit summit After Party

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