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    • 09:00

    • Food

      Foyer

      Breakfast 🥐☕️

      Lang

      English

    • 10:00

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      No More Broken Handoffs between Product & Engineering - Why Product and Dev Teams Need Shared AI Workflows

      Zamina Ahmad

      shades&contrast

      Benedikt Stemmildt

      hackers&wizards

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      AI-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING

      AUTONOMOUS AGENTS

      DATA

      Beyond Vectors: Unleashing the Power of Knowledge Graphs for Next-Gen RAG (GraphRAG)

      Florian Krause

      Etribes Connect GmbH

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 2

      DEVELOPER TOOLING

      PRODUCTIVITY

      PYTHON

      Bring your python environment to the next level with uv and the new star on the horizon: PEP 751

      Nico Albers

      ABOUT YOU

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 3

      CI/CD

      TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

      DEVELOPER TOOLING

      TRUNK BASED DEVELOPMENT

      F*ck Feature Branches

      Felix Fischer

      codecentric AG

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      GENERATIVE AI

      FRAMEWORKS

      MULTIMODAL AI

      Beyond Prompts: Building Intelligent Applications with Genkit and the Model Context Protocol

      Peter Friese

      Google

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      KI als Karriereboost: Deine Gelegenheit – die Zukunftsbranchen rechtzeitig erkennen

      Roland Golla

      Never Code Alone

      Lang

      German

      level

      Beginner

    • Micro Hackathon

      Stage 9

      LLMs and LangChain: A Practical Starter's Guide to building AI projects

      Marcin Szymaniuk

      TantusData

      Bartek Sadlej

      TantusData

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • 10:30

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      Beyond Functional AI: Building Systems that Serve Both Business and Human Needs

      Annemarie Paul

      Kuehne+Nagel

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • 11:00

    • Panel

      Stage 1

      From Android XR to Everyday Spatial Computing

      Anna Graf

      Arvato Systems GmbH

      Raphael Kuhlmann

      Arvato Systems Digital GmbH

      Simon Graff

      nextReality.Hamburg e.V.

      Thorsten Hennig-Thurau

      University of Münster

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      The Knowledge Gap: Why AI Agents Fail in Real Life

      Matthias Lau

      Heureka Labs

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 2

      Continuous Improvements of The Code Review Process

      Keren Kenzi

      AT&T

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 3

      AGENTIC SYSTEMS

      CLOUD COMPUTING

      ARCHITECTURE

      GENAI

      From Reactive to Proactive: Reinventing Customer Experience with AI Agents

      Nensi Hakobjanyan

      Amazon Web Services

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      Vibe-Coding Is Killing Your AI Productivity (Here's What Actually Works)

      Benedikt Stemmildt

      hackers&wizards

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      EVENT SOURCING

      ARCHITECTURE

      INSIGHTS

      “But We’ve Always Done It This Way!” Digitizing Craftsmanship, One Event at a Time

      Ole Michaelis

      1KOMMA5º

      Sara Kola

      1KOMMA5º

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • 12:00

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      Detecting the Undetectable: Applying Merkle Trees and LLMs to Software Monitoring

      Anthony Alaribe

      monoscope

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      Building Agents with the AI SDK

      josh

      Vercel

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 2

      GitHub CoPilot - the best intern in the world

      Lisa Mittmann

      :)

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 3

      The AI Developer's Guide to Not Accidentally Summoning Skynet

      Ramona Schwering

      Auth0

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      GENERATIVE AI

      AI-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING

      FRAMEWORKS

      My New Staff Engineers

      Lior Oren

      Replika

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      From Chaos to Clarity: Achieving End-to-End Production Visibility with Tracing

      Abhijeet Prasad

      Sentry

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • 12:30

    • Food

      Foyer

      Lunch time🍴🍜

      Lang

      English

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      Warum Accessibility-Arbeit ohne Tool scheitert – und wie es mit Monitoring + AI klappt

      Roland Golla

      Never Code Alone

      Lang

      German

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      How to scrape modern websites to feed AI agents

      Tobiáš Potoček

      Apify

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      I Became an Engineering Manager with AI as a copilot—And You Can Too

      Jessica Cabarcas

      FREENOW

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      CONTAINERS

      INSIGHTS

      HARDWARE

      From Pi to Cluster: A Tale of Clusters and Chaos

      Verena Traub

      b'nerd GmbH

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • 13:30

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      AI-Assisted Coding: What the Evidence Really Says: Evidence, Methods, and Lessons from Research & Practice

      Dennis Proppe

      Fachhochschule Wedel

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      ENTREPRENEURSHIP

      FOUNDING

      VIBECODING

      PRODUCTIVITY

      MULTIMODAL AI

      Solo-founding an AI startup with AI

      Christoph Hartmann

      DoneThat

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      One Library to Rule Them All? – Wenn Shared Code zur Organisationsfrage wird

      Christoph Beylage

      Haspa Next GmbH

      Lang

      German

      level

      Intermediate

    • 14:00

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      Move Fast and break Silos - Interdisciplinary Teams That Work

      Klaus Breyer

      myo

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      AI

      APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

      MINDSET

      INSIGHTS

      AI is not Software

      Stephan Schmidt

      Amazing CTO

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 2

      ANALYTICS

      AI-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING

      DATA

      INSIGHTS

      OBSERVABILITY

      Search Smarter, Not Harder: Zwei Data-Analytics-Lösungen im Vergleich

      Bianca Schlüter

      SHI GmbH

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 3

      DEVELOPER TOOLING

      PRODUCTIVITY

      AUTOMATION

      REPRODUCIBILITY

      FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

      Nix(OS): How to enjoy reproducible setups

      Mika Zimina

      Bonial GmbH

      Lang

      English

      level

      Advanced

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      How to finally delete the Stuff

      Melanie PATRICK

      trivago N.V.

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      Testen ist heute, morgen sind Formale Methoden

      Michael Sperber

      Active Group GmbH

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Micro Hackathon

      Stage 9

      Search and Rescue in the Storm - Helsing drone control challenge

      Dennis Schön

      Helsing

      Nicholas Sunderland

      Helsing

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • 15:00

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      End to End with Shape Up: A Case Study

      Ryan Singer

      Ryan Singer

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      Linking Backstage and GitHub Copilot

      Erik Doernenburg

      Thoughtworks

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 2

      The Elastic Loop: From Tool Thinking to Team Dynamics

      Robert Glaser

      INNOQ

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 3

      SaaS is dead, long live SaaS

      Lars Rieche

      xmatics

      Aykut Çevik

      Ayzeo.com / Fyrma Inc.

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      PHP

      CLOUD COMPUTING

      DEVOPS

      INSIGHTS

      ARCHITECTURE

      Re-Implementing IP-Authentication: A Story of Failures

      Christoph Eicke

      Statista

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      “It Worked on Staging!”: How to Build, Break, and Fix a Global Real-User Monitoring Data Platform

      Wolfram Wingerath

      Uni Oldenburg

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • 15:30

    • Fun

      Foyer

      Book Signing Session with the DoomsGuy

      John Romero

      Romero Games Ltd.

      Lang

      English

      level

      All Levels

    • 16:00

    • Talk

      Stage 1

      Biological Qubits & How We Can Address Them

      Alex Waldherr

      Medical University Innsbruck

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 10

      PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

      INSIGHTS

      SCALABILITY

      DEVELOPER TOOLING

      Rust Beyond The Hype

      Matthias Endler

      corrode

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • Talk

      Stage 2

      Vom Coder zum Dirigent - Wie ich mich selbst ersetze

      Torben Keller

      INNOQ Deutschland GmbH

      Lang

      German

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 3

      From App to Ability: Six Decades of Human-Computer Interaction and the Post-Screen Future

      Alexander Zank

      ETH Zürich

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 4

      Flutter for frontenders or there and back again

      Aleksandr Gorbunov

      Smart Steel Technologies GmbH

      Lang

      English

      level

      Beginner

    • Talk

      Stage 8

      Infrastructure's Trust Issues

      Alina Boshchenko

      JETBRAINS

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

    • 16:30

    • Talk

      Stage 1
      Stage 8 📡
      Stage 10 📡

      code.talks 2026 reveal and Goodbye

      Martin Westphal

      AdeAnima

      Lang

      English

      level

      All Levels

    • 16:35

    • Talk

      Stage 1
      Stage 10 📡
      Stage 8 📡

      Inflection Point: What Game Development’s Next Era Means for the Rest of Tech

      John Romero

      Romero Games Ltd.

      Lang

      English

      level

      Intermediate

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