code.talks 2026 – The Conference for Developer Teams and CTOs

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Simon Wardley

Owner

SWARDLEY MAPS LTD

SESSIONS

KEYNOTE

From here to there and back again

Wed, Nov 4

14:00

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15:00

Stage 10

Wed, Nov 4

15:00

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15:30

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Owner

Organisation

SWARDLEY MAPS LTD

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

With a background in genetics, a love for mathematics, and a deep fascination with economics, Simon brings a unique lens to understanding complex systems from behavioural patterns to tech infrastructure and everything in between.

- Former CEO
- Advisor to multiple startups
- Fellow of Open Europe
- Twice voted one of the Top 50 Most Influential People in tech in the UK

TALK

From here to there and back again

With the aid of maps, we take a wander through the history of technology development, what it means, where we are going and what should we learn from the past. This talk will introduce the concept of mapping and use this to explore cloud, devops and serverless before focusing on the impact of AI and what this means in terms of architecture, project management and software engineering.

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Aino Corry

Instigator of Fun · Metadeveloper

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Aino Corry

Instigator of Fun · Metadeveloper

Aino Corry, author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns", is a teacher, a technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator. She holds a masters degree and a ph.d. in computer science. She has 12 years of experience with Patterns in Software Development, and 25 years of experience with agile processes in academia and industry (in other words; she is old). She also teaches how to teach Computer Science to teachers, and thus lives up to the name of her company; Metadeveloper. In her spare time, she runs and sings (but not at the same time).

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Andreas Rossberg

Researcher and Engineer · Independent

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Andreas Rossberg

Researcher and Engineer · Independent

Andreas Rossberg is an independent researcher and engineer. By a few twists of fate, he became one of the designers of WebAssembly, author of its formalisation and specification, and champion of various proposals for enhancements. For a while, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he worked on V8, the JavaScript/Wasm virtual machine, and led V8's language feature team. Before his time in industry he was a post-doc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems after receiving a Dr from Saarland University. His research interests mainly revolve around programming languages, ranging from foundational theory, over design, to implementation, as long as they aren't ugly.

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Annette Bieniusa

Professor for Software Technology · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

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Annette Bieniusa

Professor for Software Technology · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Annette is a professor of Software Technology at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau. Her research interests include the semantics of concurrent and distributed programming, focusing on replication strategies and synchronization techniques. She is passionate about CRDTs, local-first software, programming languages, verification, and teaching students about all aspects of programming.

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Artie Shevchenko

Software Engineer · Canva

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Artie Shevchenko

Software Engineer · Canva

Artie Shevchenko is the author of Code Health Guardian. A former Google software engineer and startup founder, he is currently a software engineer at Canva and a lecturer at ITMO University. Artie draws on broad industry experience spanning over 15 years to inform his pragmatic approach to code health. His career includes leadership and technical roles—as a CEO, engineering manager, and software engineer—in tech giants like Google and Canva as well as medium-sized companies and agile startups.

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