Schedule

Thomas Read & Noho

2000 seats

Foyer

1600 seats

Stage 1

451 seats

Stage 10

355 seats

Stage 8

351 seats

Stage 4

222 seats

Stage 3

147 seats

Stage 2

143 seats

Stage 9

100 seats

Mittwoch, 05.11.2025

07:00

60min slot

Breakfast 🥐☕️

07:45

20min slot

Welcome Speech

Martin Westphal
AdeAnima
Tobias Schlottke
saas.group

Welcome Speech

Martin Westphal
AdeAnima
Tobias Schlottke
saas.group

08:05

50min slot

21st cCentury C++

Bjarne Stroustrup
Columbia University

21st cCentury C++

Bjarne Stroustrup
Columbia University

09:00

45min slot

150min slot

Fireside Chat: The Evolution and Future of C++ with Bjarne Stroustrup

Martin Westphal
AdeAnima
Bjarne Stroustrup
Columbia University

Beyond the Black Box: Taming iOS Crashes with MetricKit

Niklas Hennings
adjoe GmbH

Ransomware, Reality, and Recovery – The Qilin Attack on guenstiger.de

Torben Mallwitz
guenstiger.de GmbH

Unlock the Planet: Geospatial Analytics with Google Maps, BigQuery and AI

Martin Kleppe
Ubilabs

AI Unleashed at the Zoo: Building a Search Chatbot with customized Agents

An Dang
Lufthansa Industry Solution
Tim Staubert
Lufthansa Industry Solutions AS GmbH

Code Like a GameDev - A Hands-On Workshop by InnoGames

Brett Partridge
InnoGames GmbH

10:00

45min slot

In Praise of Normal Engineers

Charity Majors
Honeycomb

Stage Separation: The Decisive Moment to Leave Legacy Behind

Philipp Grote
Synatix
Patrik Kluge
Synatix

Look ma, no hands! Multimodal AI-Agents in the browser

Nico Martin
Hugging Face

What Choosing a Place for Dinner Taught Me About Recommender Systems

Hafez Dehghani
adjoe

Low-Code in Git, Plain Text in Code – CI/CD meets MCP and AI!

Sonja Meyer
Oracle
Martin Bach
Oracle Deutschland b.v. & Co KG

11:00

25min slot

Pirates of the cAIbbean - vibe coding for security

Vladyslav Cherednychenko
About You

Vote for Laws, Not Politicians: How AI Agents Are Redefining DAO Governance

Christian Ziegler
StableLab

The AI-Native CTO: Navigating Startup Leadership in the Age of AI

Christian Zacharias
Wingmaite

ML In Particle Physics - Pushing Us Closer Towards The Next Big Discovery?

Yuval Frid
CERN & Tel Aviv University

Gen Z’s Attitude and Why It Matters: A Tech Exec, Lecturer & Mum’s Perspective

Slobodanka Sersik
Independent

11:15

120min slot

Lunch time 🍴🍜

11:30

25min slot

How AI Is Changing the Hacker Playbook: New Threats for Modern IT Architectures

Niklas Hanitsch
SECJUR

How we almost delivered 100 tons of Stracciatella Mousse

Dr. Tobias Schröder
METRO AG
Björn Wendland
METRO.digital

Context is (almost) all you need

Kevin Heinicke
Deichmann

12:30

25min slot

AI software is still software: test it, probe it, break it

Irina Vidal Migallón
Mozilla.ai

From Battlefield to Backlog: Marine Corps-inspired leadership and planning for software teams

André Alves
freiheit.com technologies gmbh

Thousands of Mandays and one Deadline: Working as a Staff Engineer in one of the largest software projects in Germany

Michael Bohn
freiheit.com

13:00

45min slot

110min slot

240min slot

The Birth of the AI Team Member

Stefan Richter
freiheit.com technologies gmbh

Objektorientierte Programmierung automatisch skalieren mit Virtual Actors

Heiner Wolf
Tegtmeier Inkubator

Side Event

240 minutes

Trino on Kubernetes: Speed, Flexibility, and Control Beyond AWS Athena

Tadeh Alexani
adjoe

Exceptions: The New Spaghetti Code? — Rethinking Error Handling for Modern Software

Florian Wilhelm
inovex GmbH

Commit. Push. Play. Wie wir gemeinsam ein Mobile Game entwickeln – intern und mit der Community

Marina Knol
intersoft GmbH
Nikola Merkas
Studio Merkas

From Prompts to Production: Building AI Agents with the AI SDK

Yi Min Yang
Vercel
josh
Vercel

14:00

45min slot

You can write code faster. Can you deliver it faster?

Hans Dockter
Gradle Inc.

GitHub Coding Agents in Action: Solving Real-World DevOps Challenges

Neno Loje
Neno Loje
Marc Müller
4tecture GmbH

From Syntax to Software – Why Rails Feels Like a Language You Already Know

Emma A. A. Rünzel
1Komma5°

Symphony of Things - Exploring AWS IoT Through Music

Anne Stein
superluminar GmbH

Soft Skills in the age of AI

Kirill Boiarkin
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

15:00

45min slot

110min slot

Simplify! 10 ways to reduce complexity in software development

Uwe Friedrichsen
codecentric AG

GitOps in Aktion: Automatisiert, sicher & wartungsfrei mit ArgoCD, Kured & Renovate

Marcelo Castro
intersoft GmbH

Processing One Billion Rows in PHP

Florian Engelhardt
Datadog

Path to AGI: Beyond Words and Towards an Architecture of Reliable AI Reasoning

Armagan Amcalar
Coyotiv GmbH

The Limits of Blackbox and Whitebox Testing

Leah Buchberger
synvert Hamburg

Kubernetes Advanced: From Basics to DevOps

Verena Traub
b'nerd GmbH
Bernd
b'nerd GmbH
+1 more

15:30

90min slot

Coffee break ☕️

16:00

45min slot

The State of GenAI 2025

Alejandro Saucedo
Zalando SE
Dat Tran
DATANOMIQ

AI: The Double-Edged Sword in the Fight Against Disinformation

Tereza Iofciu
The Data Diplomat

Write Once, Set Up Anywhere: Dev Environment Automation with Ansible

Lily Oliveira
SAP

The Echidna Pattern: Scaling Software Without Losing Flexibility

Jan Moser
NFQ Solutions GmbH

DevOps is a lie

Marco Hutzsch
Nordcloud

17:30

600min slot

After Conference Party 🥳🎈🥂

Donnerstag, 06.11.2025

08:00

60min slot

Breakfast 🥐☕️

09:00

25min slot

45min slot

150min slot

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

Zamina Ahmad
shades&contrast
Benedikt Stemmildt
hackers&wizards

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

Florian Krause
Etribes Connect GmbH

KI als Karriereboost: Deine Gelegenheit – die Zukunftsbranchen rechtzeitig erkennen

Roland Golla
Never Code Alone

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

Peter Friese
Google

F*ck Feature Branches

Felix Fischer
codecentric AG

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

Nico Albers
ABOUT YOU

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

Marcin Szymaniuk
TantusData
Bartek Sadlej
TantusData

09:30

25min slot

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

Annemarie Paul
Kuehne+Nagel

10:00

45min slot

From Android XR to Everyday Spatial Computing

Anna Graf
Arvato Systems GmbH
Raphael Kuhlmann
Arvato Systems Digital GmbH
+2 more

The Knowledge Gap: Why AI Agents Fail in Real Life

Matthias Lau
Heureka Labs

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

Ole Michaelis
1KOMMA5º
Sara Kola
1KOMMA5º

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

Benedikt Stemmildt
hackers&wizards

From Reactive to Proactive: Reinventing Customer Experience with AI Agents

Nensi Hakobjanyan
Amazon Web Services

Continuous Improvements of The Code Review Process

Keren Kenzi
AT&T

11:00

25min slot

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

Anthony Alaribe
monoscope

Building Agents with the AI SDK

josh
Vercel

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

Abhijeet Prasad
Sentry

My New Staff Engineers

Lior Oren
Replika

The AI Developer's Guide to Not Accidentally Summoning Skynet

Ramona Schwering
Auth0

GitHub CoPilot - the best intern in the world

Lisa Mittmann
:)

11:30

25min slot

120min slot

Lunch time🍴🍜

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

Roland Golla
Never Code Alone

How to scrape modern websites to feed AI agents

Tobiáš Potoček
Apify

From Pi to Cluster: A Tale of Clusters and Chaos

Verena Traub
b'nerd GmbH

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

Jessica Cabarcas
FREENOW

12:30

25min slot

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

Dennis Proppe
Fachhochschule Wedel

Solo-founding an AI startup with AI

Christoph Hartmann
DoneThat

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

Christoph Beylage
Haspa Next GmbH

13:00

45min slot

110min slot

Move Fast and break Silos - Interdisciplinary Teams That Work

Klaus Breyer
myo

AI is not Software

Stephan Schmidt
Amazing CTO

Testen ist heute, morgen sind Formale Methoden

Michael Sperber
Active Group GmbH

How to finally delete the Stuff

Melanie PATRICK
trivago N.V.

Nix(OS): How to enjoy reproducible setups

Mika Zimina
Bonial GmbH

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

Bianca Schlüter
SHI GmbH

Search and Rescue in the Storm - Helsing drone control challenge

Dennis Schön
Helsing
Nicholas Sunderland
Helsing

14:00

45min slot

End to End with Shape Up: A Case Study

Ryan Singer
Ryan Singer

Linking Backstage and GitHub Copilot

Erik Doernenburg
Thoughtworks

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

Wolfram Wingerath
Uni Oldenburg

Re-Implementing IP-Authentication: A Story of Failures

Christoph Eicke
Statista

SaaS is dead, long live SaaS

Lars Rieche
xmatics
Aykut Çevik
Ayzeo.com / Fyrma Inc.

The Elastic Loop: From Tool Thinking to Team Dynamics

Robert Glaser
INNOQ

14:30

60min slot

Book Signing Session with the DoomsGuy

John Romero
Romero Games Ltd.

15:00

25min slot

Biological Qubits & How We Can Address Them

Alex Waldherr
Medical University Innsbruck

Rust Beyond The Hype

Matthias Endler
corrode

Infrastructure's Trust Issues

Alina Boshchenko
JETBRAINS

Flutter for frontenders or there and back again

Aleksandr Gorbunov
Smart Steel Technologies GmbH

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

Alexander Zank
ETH Zürich

Vom Coder zum Dirigent - Wie ich mich selbst ersetze

Torben Keller
INNOQ Deutschland GmbH

15:30

10min slot

code.talks 2026 reveal and Goodbye

Martin Westphal
AdeAnima

code.talks 2026 reveal and Goodbye

Martin Westphal
AdeAnima

code.talks 2026 reveal and Goodbye

Martin Westphal
AdeAnima

15:35

50min slot

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

John Romero
Romero Games Ltd.

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

John Romero
Romero Games Ltd.

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

John Romero
Romero Games Ltd.