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2025 Schedule
The schedule is subject to change.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Badge Pick-Up and Breakfast
Conference Introduction and Keynote:
Busting AI Myths and Embracing Realities in Privacy & Security
Break
Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, compared to other programming languages like Node.js and Python.
Building a Future-Proof Observability Platform to Empower Engineers
Join Wayne Bell, Director of Engineering at Skyscanner, and Dan Gomez Blanco, Principal Observability Architect at New Relic, as they share Skyscanner's transformative journey in revolutionising observability.
Practical Robustness: Going Beyond Memory Safety in Rust
Robustness is a key concern in high-stakes fields like aerospace, automotive, and finance, but achieving it often requires strict processes and specialized tooling. This can be an unnecessary burden for many other domains.
Break
Architecting AI Systems for the Messy Reality of Enterprises: Why Agentic Compute is the Missing Layer
Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because of models or frameworks , it fails because of architecture.
Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded
Most Internal Developer Platforms fail not because of technical limitations, but because they're built like infrastructure projects rather than products developers want to use.
The Human Scalability Problem: Why Your Teams Don’t Scale Like Your Code
In tech, we know how to scale systems; but humans? That’s another story. This keynote explores why technical teams struggle to scale behaviorally and culturally, even when processes and tools are in place.
Lunch - Located in Iberico (Ground Floor)
Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software
Efficient theming systems need an architecture that supports different personas at different stages. Shopify has been pioneering that with Liquid themes for years, using a human-friendly DSL to power millions of lightning-fast storefronts.
Image Processing for Automated Tests
The final step in UI test automation is to check the correct appearance. What seems to a simple image processing task makes even modern AI struggle. It surprisingly fails to correctly attribute many simple changes.
From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering
Join Sergiu on a 4-year journey inside the world's largest insurance company, where we tackled the challenges of legacy systems, vendor lock-in and the imperative for rapid innovation.
Break
Balancing Innovation and Control: The Path to AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Digital Sovereignty has become a pivotal topic in the European IT landscape, driven by increasing concerns around data privacy, regulatory compliance, and geopolitical developments.
Lessons Learned From Building Phoenix, an AI Care Agent
AI-powered products are changing healthcare delivery by enabling more personalized, effective, and efficient care at scale. However, deploying these systems in a highly regulated industry presents unique challenges in ensuring consistency, safety, and reliability.
Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?
Event-driven architectures promise scalability, traceability, and resilience - but in a regulated, cloud-native banking environment, they also come with very real challenges.
Break
Reimagining Platform Engagement with Graph Neural Networks
This session will explore how graph neural networks (GNNs) can help enhance recommender systems and personalisation algorithms for e-commerce and entertainment industries.
Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Dive deep into Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore solution. This talk explores Valkey's architecture on AWS, achieving sub-millisecond data access in both standalone and cluster modes.
Attendee Social - Snacks & Beverages - Located in the Smart Cafe
'Birds of a Feather' (BoF) - After Hours Unconference & Peer Discussions
Join us at the end of the day to socialize with other participants and expert speakers while discussing topics you bring to the table.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Badge Pick-Up and Breakfast
Conference Introduction and Keynote:
AI Innovation in 2025 and Beyond
Break
From Thousands to One: Building LLM-Powered Selection Systems
LLM text generation is well-established, but what happens when you need to select optimal choices from thousands of options? How do you architect systems that apply user-defined constraints and business rules reliably?
Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
Enforcing rules and best practices consistently while enhancing operational efficiency, reducing risks, and controlling costs is a tricky journey, that often leads to frustration, loss of productivity, and friction between engineering teams and yours because the challenge is not purely technical.
Clean Architecture for Serverless: Business Logic You Can Take Anywhere
As cloud platforms evolve, serverless functions offer scalable solutions, but cloud-specific requirements often make it challenging to keep business logic portable.
Break
Duolingo's Kubernetes Leap
Join us to hear how EKS is transforming Duolingo’s backend platform. We’ll dive into Duolingo's cloud platform and what drove their migration to EKS, including key features like blue-green deployments and ephemeral dev deployments.
Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers
Want to level up your engineering career? Product management and ownership skills will help you showcase the business value of IT investments and align technical solutions with company goals.
Next-Gen PDF Rendering: Scaling to 1 Million Documents in 10 Minutes with Serverless Rust
Generating documents at scale is a common but deceptively complex challenge, especially in regulated industries like finance where millions of reports are required within tight time windows.
Lunch - Located in Iberico (Ground Floor)
Building a CTO Office: Technical Lessons From Cloud Migration and Platform Harmonization in Regulated Industries
In this talk, I share my real-world experience from Private Equity, FinTech, and Healthcare environments, where I harmonized multiple platforms, led large-scale cloud/data migrations, and established a CTO Office that could scale.
Leveraging Adversary Emulation for GenAI Red Teaming
Securing GenAI systems is a constantly evolving challenge that requires innovative security measures. Unlike traditional systems, GenAI responses are typically non-deterministic, making them challenging for traditional cybersecurity approaches to address.
Data Mesh in the Fast Lane: A Domain-Driven Journey from Centralized to Decentralized Data at Horse Powertrain
In this session, Anurag will share the practical journey of implementing Data Mesh principles at Horse Powertrain, a global leader in hybrid and combustion powertrain solutions.
Break
Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
"Because customers are watching TV right now, not planning to watch it tomorrow."
Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
In a world where vulnerabilities like Log4J, Spring4Shell, and the XZ Backdoor make headlines, securing our software ecosystem has never been more critical.
Break
4 Patterns of AI Native Development
Development is experiencing a new phase of automation, similar to what we saw with DevOps. Numerous new tools are emerging, and it can be challenging to keep up with them.
Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
In the quest for greater control over our analytics infrastructure and to ensure full compliance with GDPR, we embarked on a journey to replace Google Analytics with a custom-built user tracking service.
Attendee Social - Snacks & Beverages - Located in the Smart Cafe