Agenda

Consuming Kafka Events: Scaling is not enough

Java Stage — 30 minutes Java

• Cătălin Cimpoeru [Java Technical Lead — Playtika]

The Java Revolution: best new language features from Java 8 to Java 20

Java Stage — 45 minutes Java

• Victor Rentea [Java Champion — Independent Consultant]

Keynote powered by Google

Java Stage — 30 minutes Java

• Ignacio Blanco [Senior Staff Software Engineer — Google]

A Freakonomic Take on Open Standards and Jakarta EE

Java Stage — 45 minutes Java

Words like standard, de-facto, de-jure and open are frequently used and abused in our industry. The reality is that few people really understand what these words actually mean or how these ideas effect their own professional lives in the long and short term. This session aims to clear the air on some of these terms and outline why open standards like Jakarta EE are critically important to you today and in the future. We will explore these concepts in the context of well-established economic theories on competition, monopoly power, the network effect, innovation, open source and open standards - in true Freakonomist style!
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• Reza Rahman [Principal Program Manager, Java on Azure — Microsoft]

Lunch Break

Java Stage — 1 hour

Development Horror Stories

Java Stage — 45 minutes Java

We all enjoy hearing a success story, but in the software development industry, the life of a developer is also made up of disasters, disappointments, and frustrations. 
Have you ever deleted all the data in production? Or maybe you ran out of disk space, and your software failed miserably! How about crashing your server with a bug you introduced in the latest release? We can learn from each other with the mistakes we make. Come to this session and share with us your most horrific development story and what you did do to fix it.
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• Roberto Cortez [Principal Software Engineer — Redhat]

Happy Three Friends: Java, Helm, K8s

Java Stage — 30 minutes Java

Stretch the Java-Kubernetes integration to spin up multiple microservices, databases, and infrastructure objects. Leverage Kubernetes Helm Operators and Custom Resources to build an on-prem DNS solution.

• Andrei Mihai [Software Developer — 1&1 Internet Development]
• Mihaela Stoica [Java Developer — 1&1 Internet Development]

Keynote

Java Stage — 30 minutes

Effective Transactions Management with Spring

Java Stage — 30 minutes Java

Are you interested in developing concurrent applications that need to run safely and correctly? Are you looking for efficient ways to separate each transaction execution, isolated from the other ones? Are you interested in analyzing the mechanisms provided by Spring for effectively managing concurrent transactions? Working with transactions is a science and an art, and the talk will examine the main concepts of Spring Transactions and the mechanisms behind them. We’ll demonstrate their effective implementation in an application, debugging the concurrent executions while varying their essential parameters, such as isolation and propagation. Listeners will find out how to develop Java concurrent applications using Spring Transactions and how to effectively manage their parameters. We’ll also dive into debugging the way the isolation and propagation parameters work, demonstrating and analyzing concurrent transactional executions. The talk will be highly oriented on analyzing and debugging the transactional code.  Read More...

• Catalin Tudose [Java and Web Technologies Expert — Luxoft Romania]

Unleashing Team Potential: Microfrontends for Web Development at scale

Web Stage — 30 minutes Web

In an era of expanding tech teams and increasing complexity, our traditional monolithic web application architecture can become a roadblock to progress.  This talk will share our transformative journey from a single team of 3-5 people to a powerhouse of 6 teams and 40 individuals, and the unique challenges we faced with this growth.Each team desired full independence - in decision-making, in product development, and in release cycles. Bound by a common codebase, changes were often left as ‘work in progress’, stuck somewhere in the process, causing frustration and delay. Our solution was a radical shift in our development approach: the implementation of microfrontends.This talk will explore how this new approach allowed teams to become true owners of their processes, with smaller, isolated codebases bringing all the benefits of less code. We achieved faster time-to-market, reduced surface area for bugs, and gave each team control over their codebase. The result was a code that created a semantic unity, much easier for engineers to understand and work with.Join us as we delve into the world of microfrontends, demonstrating how this paradigm can boost productivity, simplify development, and revolutionize the way larger teams operate. Read More...

• Bruno Kovačić [Managing director & CTO — Happening]

Dev environment for Open Source. In one click.

Web Stage — 45 minutes Web Open Source

Modern tech stack is amazing, but it tends to overcomplicate things. In this talk, we will go throught the process we implemented at daily.dev to make our Open Source project scale in the proper way, letting people to recreate the whole dev environment with a single click.

• Francesco Ciulla [Developer Advocate — daily.dev]

Keynote

Web Stage — 30 minutes

Let’s make development fun again!

Web Stage — 45 minutes Web

Chances are you wanted to become a developer because you wanted to code all day on great products. 
Now you have the fancy developer title, a shiny new laptop, and the office has a ping-pong table 🤷🏻‍♀️… but do you actually get to code this much, or is your time spent on finding documentation , figuring out who owns that API, onboarding your new colleagues and figuring out how to work with the infrastructure? In this session Suzanne will share (and show) four ways how an Internal Developer Portal can help you to actually spend time on coding and shipping. Read More...

• Suzanne Daniels [Developer Relations Lead — Port]

Lunch Break

Web Stage — 1 hour

Pay the Web Forward 

Web Stage — 45 minutes Web

Trying to get paid on the Web today, as a creator, is broken and unfair. 
70% of ad spend globally goes to only 2 platforms. Until recently, the Web couldn't natively compete.   A new W3C Standard proposal, Web Monetization, uses the Interledger Protocol to enable developers like you to make money from your work in an open, native, and seamless way. And all that with as little as a single line of code!
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• Alex Lakatos [CTO — Interledger Foundation]

The future of Web Dev

Web Stage — 30 minutes

Back to the Future: A PHP Frontend

Web Stage — 45 minutes PHP Web

Step into my time machine, set the dial, and venture back to the future in a day and age where JavaScript's dominance seems unshakable, yet server-side languages like PHP are making surprising comebacks on the frontend, defying the conventional wisdom of yesteryears.
 It’s not just PHP; every other “traditional backend” language has a contender by now. Things such as Vaadin, Blazor, LiveView or Hotwire. At first glance it appears to be just a detour from the JavaScript-centric future. but there are lessons we need to learn before rejoining the SPA madness parade.
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• Nick Ciolpan [Managing Partner — Graffino]

Mobile Banking - fast delivery approaches with Adaptive Elements

Mobile Stage — 30 minutes Mobile

In a fast and competitive environment is essential to create an app that is both secure and highly responsive.
In this session we'll discuss some of the strategies we implemented on backend in order to create adaptive elements for frontend, how we handle integrations, routing and much more.
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• Lucian Apostol [(CEE) Mobile Team Lead — UniCredit]
• Andreea Soltan [Software Developer — UniCredit]

Keynote

Mobile Stage — 45 minutes

Keynote powered by DB Global Technology

Mobile Stage — 30 minutes

Espresso Martini - A Swift Mock Server

Mobile Stage — 45 minutes Mobile

This talk will go over how we can build a full mock server using Swift and Vapor. 
This mock server can run locally on our machine and be used by all platforms, or be installed as part of our iOS Application and simulate network calls and errors to debug edge cases, replicate bugs and work with nothing more than an API contract. We will also learn how to build a command-line tool using Swift to run our server from the command line.

Additional information on talk:
Basically participants will learn the following arguments:
- How to use Vapor
- How to build a Command Line interface using Swift
- How to use Swift beyond basic iOS Development
- How to leverage iOS/Swift knowledge to build better products
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• Firas Safa [Senior iOS Engineer — TrueLayer]

Lunch Break

Mobile Stage — 1 hour

Adventures in Flutter-land

Mobile Stage — 45 minutes Mobile Flutter

There is always that business lure to save money and "build once, deploy everywhere"; and it might work for a short while but long term support is a nightmare. The community is full of stories of rewrites.
In this keynote, we'll take Flutter for a spin and see if it lives to its hype. It does have a big name behind it and one must wonder why does Google provide an alternative to its native tools. Come and find out!
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• Paul Ardeleanu [Senior Manager, Developer Relations — Moderator]

The future of mobile development

Mobile Stage — 30 minutes

• Quentin Braet [Architecture Lead — In The Pocket]

Build Realtime Application with SignalR

Mobile Stage — 45 minutes

Keynote powered by The Estée Lauder Companies Bucharest Global Technology Center

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes Women in Tech

• Alexandra Varzaru [Director, Tech Ops Discipline Lead — Estée Lauder Companies Bucharest Global Technology Center]

The Global Data and Cyber Security Skills Gap: Current Trends and Future Direction

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes Women in Tech

Employees need digital skills to work with new data management and privacy technologies and to keep up to date with rapid technological advancements. Data is central to business success in today's world. Increasingly, the insights it provides are being recognized as an enabler for more accurate, evidence-based decision-making. When it comes to increasing internal knowledge, up skilling existing teams and their understanding can be a vital step when a business faces a skills gap.
Mandatory staff training, appointing data protection and cyber security champions, and circulating reading materials can help boost awareness and educate employees that might be lacking essential knowledge. Enterprises need to sufficiently invest in their data security maturity and data protection teams to retain privacy staff, up skill talent to fill open roles, and prioritize privacy training efforts to ensure all employees support privacy initiatives.


Key Takeaways:
- Data security skills gap and its impact has come to the forefront of discussions in the new digital era.
- On a global scale, it is becoming increasingly clear that the privacy technologies skills gap comes at a cost.
- While the demand for data security skills is high, supply is low, and businesses often struggle to find talent for data protection roles.
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• Onur Korucu [Vice President of EMEA Consulting Service — WomenTech Global Ambassador & Council Member | IAPP Knowledgenet Chapter Chair]

Breaking the glass ceiling

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes Women in Tech

We are hearing talking about breaking the glass ceiling since 50 years now and the topic has always created huge debates worldwide. But do we really know what is this about?
And do we really care about it? I would like to have the audience leaving this session with more clarity on the concept and with a confidence that this concept doesn't define us as human beings. And that it's on us to take whatever it needs to become the version we aspire to be.
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• Corina Dinca [Team Leader IT — Societe Generale Global Solution Centre]

Making Equal Opportunities a Reality

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes

• Berta Herrero [Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion — Huawei Europe]

Lunch Break

Women in Tech Stage — 1 hour

Empowering the Next Generation of Women in Tech

Women in Tech Stage — 1 hour Women in Tech

Panel discussion between powerful women from tech industry. A free discussion about their experience, share ideas with the audience and a dedicated Q&A session. 

• Diana Tarfulea [Director of Engineering — Adobe Systems Romania]
• Edwige Fiaclou [Head Tech Talent & Methodology — Swissquote]
• Elena Enache [Director Applications & Data - European Delivery Center — Cegeka]
• Andreea Ioniță [Chief Digital & Technology Officer — E.ON România]

Global industry trends in Women Technology

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes

Story of the Mayflower 400 – worlds first fully autonomous ship

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes Women in Tech

The culmination of a multi-year project with IBM and marine research non-profit ProMare The maritime research vessel Mayflower Autonomous Ship is a first-of its-kind autonomous ship — and IBM technology played a central role in bringing it to life. On its inaugural journey, the ship will commemorate the original Mayflower by following its transatlantic route. But this modern Mayflower will gather critical ocean data on the impact of climate change and pollution so that marine researchers can better understand and protect our oceans — now and into the future. IBM and ProMare co-engineered the software for the crewless ship with three layers of technology: sensory inputs, real-time machine learning and analytics, and a decision engine. IBM and ProMare experts used petabytes of data to train machine learning models and wrote rules-based decisioning for the decision engine, enabling the ship to react to an often-treacherous ocean environment — with zero human intervention. It adheres to maritime law while making crucial split-second decisions. It reroutes itself around harsh weather environments. It collects and analyzes massive amounts of ocean data. And it does it all 24/7. By extending the ship’s groundbreaking intelligent automation, operational decision-making, edge computing and AI-powered remote monitoring technologies across industries, we can pave the way for the next generation of innovation, efficiency, safety and cost-savings in your business. Read More...

• Victoria Bunyard [NCEE Technical Director — IBM]

Keynote powered by LSEG

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes

Service Contract profitability management powered by machine learning

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 30 minutes BigData Cloud

• Claudio Ceccotti [Head of Data Science and Web3 — Nagarro-ATCS]

Sustainability is eating IT - What we can/t do today

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 45 minutes BigData Cloud

Sustainability is in some way an evergreen, catching up industry by industry. Now it’s time for the IT, but Carbon-aware (cloud) computing is in its very early stage. 
Many different activities in the open-source community and within enterprises are on their way to change that. But we don't need to wait until this development delivers its fruits.Max will show you the challenges we have to face, and actions that can be taken to optimize your computing and infrastructure. Without being carbon aware we have to target efficiency, utilization and reduction of resources. Yet, it also includes process changes and the pipelines that deliver those. Let's move sustainability into the responsibility of everyone, like security, and implement holistic approaches for doing things better. Read More...

• Max Körbächer [Co-Founder and Cloud Native Advocate — Liquid Reply]

Breaking Down Cloud Migration Options for Telcos

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 30 minutes BigData Cloud

An interesting thing happened during the last few years: the cloud hyperscalers stormed into the telecom industry.  AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have all made their intentions clear: to facilitate the transformation of the telecom industry through cloud integration.We're witnessing a pivotal moment in the industry where the telecommunications sector is increasingly embracing cloud technology. Some major operators have designed their 5G networks to run inside the cloud, and others are working to shift part of their core network functions into a cloud environment.This talk will explore the cloud migration options for the telecom operators and share specific use cases on how the cloud platforms are being used by the operators. Read More...

• Cristian Constantin [Telecom Solutions Architect — R Systems]

Keynote

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 45 minutes

Lunch Break

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 1 hour

Carbon-Aware Computing: Measuring and Reducing the Carbon Intensity of Software

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 45 minutes BigData Cloud

In today's world, software technologies have become an integral part of our lives.
However, the rapid growth in software technologies and democratization through cloud services has provided organizations with unprecedented access to computational power, which could incur high energy usage and associated emissions costs. To accelerate our technological progress in a sustainable manner, software itself needs the ability to measure and reduce its impact on carbon emissions. This presentation will introduce the concept of carbon-aware computing and discuss how it can you design solution to lower the carbon footprint. The presentation will introduce a case that I worked on with Vestas Wind Systems building a very large high performance compute cluster. By attending this presentation, you will gain a better understanding of how to make your organization's software stack more environmentally friendly while still maintaining its functionality and performance.

Objectives
- Explain the principals of green software
- Analyze carbon emissions impact of technology choices
- Design solutions for greener compute
- Identity areas with large carbon impact or quick wins
- To provide examples of companies that have successfully implemented carbon-aware computing practices and reduced their carbon footprint.
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• Anders Lybecker [Principal Software Engineering Lead — Microsoft]

Big Data and Cloud Solutions in North American Beverages Market

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 30 minutes BigData Cloud

Do you associate beverages with big data? Few people do. But maybe there is a way to equip a large-scale manufacturing and distribution organization with agile data processing and interpretation activities. Big companies can be smarter about analyzing the large volumes of production, sales, performance, and supply chain data they use. During our presentation, you'll find out more about how big data is used to unlock valuable insights, inform business & sales decisions, and optimize the overall making, shipping, and selling of beer and related products. Join our presentation and find out how we are brewing our big data success story. Read More...

• Elena Raduta [BI & Analytics Team Leader  — Molson Coors GBS]

Keynote

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 45 minutes

Modern Data Warehousing with GCP in Real Life

Big Data & Cloud Stage — 30 minutes BigData Cloud

Scalability, availability, (almost) unlimited storage, and integration capabilities are some of the benefits of a Modern Data Warehousing platform.
With strong experience in classic data warehousing as vendor, integrator and customer, Andrei will discuss about the available architectures on GCP, terminology mapping between on-premise and cloud platforms, common challenges and customer requests. He will share more about how to carefully pick the right technology, and showcase success cases, pitfalls and lessons learned. 
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• Andrei Dăneasa [GCP BigData Architect — SoftServe]

From TelCo to TechCo: Taking Vodafone to the next level

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

What do you do when words like legacy, lack of standardization, waterfall, complex processes, expensive maintenance and lack of interconnection become the norm? You can panic and live with it or start experimenting and taking advantage of all the new "cool" technologies and practices. Join us in this session to discover how we create the future, where the only constant thing is change.   Read More...

• Bianca Oprea [Technical Product Owner — _VOIS]
• Traian Caramihale [Senior Developer, Technical Product Owner, People Manager — _VOIS]

Developer Joy – How great teams get s%*t done

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes DevOps DevLead

Software development has become more complex over the years: Building and running a distributed architecture in the cloud, ensuring observability, discussing user experience with design and product, and keeping a healthy balance between dev speed and code quality isn’t easy. 
Just be agile and practice DevOps, they say. Join Sven and learn how great software teams measure and improve their developer experience, coordinate work across teams, run autonomous but highly aligned teams, and create a healthy and joyful engineering culture. Always backed up by data (not driven) instead of opinions. The talk will demonstrate how great teams faced development challenges, reinvented themselves, and created new ways of working to get s%*t done. Without losing sight of what makes this craft fun for engineers. Read More...

• Sven Peters [Developer Advocate — Atlassian]

The Leadership Dilemma

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

What is leadership?  The purpose of this talk is to explore the diverse interpretations of leadership, uncover its essence, and discover surprising insights on measuring its impact. Ultimately, the aim is to redefine our understanding of effective leadership and arrive at potentially surprising conclusions
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• Stefan Teleu [Project Manager — Systematic]

Empowering Your Development with FP: Understanding and Practice

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes DevLead

Functional Programming (FP) has become an increasingly popular programming paradigm, known for its ability to simplify code and increase efficiency.

However, for many developers, the transition from traditional programming to FP can be challenging.
This talk aims to bridge the gap by providing a comprehensive introduction to FP and demonstrating how it can empower your development.
We will start by discussing the core concepts of FP, including immutability, pure functions, and higher-order functions.
From there, we will dive into the practical applications of FP, highlighting its benefits and drawbacks.
You will learn how to implement FP in your own projects and how to approach common challenges when transitioning to FP.
Whether you are new to FP or looking to deepen your understanding, this talk will provide you with the tools and knowledge needed to empower your development and take your coding skills to the next level.
By the end of this talk, you will have a strong understanding of FP and the confidence to incorporate it into your own projects.
Join us and discover how FP can help you write cleaner, more efficient, and maintainable code.
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• Ties Van De Ven [Software consultant — JDriven]

Lunch Break

DevLead Stage — 1 hour

Panel discussion

DevLead Stage — 1 hour

The future of technology and human capital

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes

Four approaches that a Senior Leader can adopt to inspire and cultivate a talent-focused culture

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes DevLead

In the shadows of leadership, a Senior Leader holds the key to a talent-focused culture.  Senior Leader unleashes the power of learning, nurturing growth and potential. He navigates on the path of expectations, leading their teams towards direction and purpose. By keeping in mind excellence, motivation, encouragement and fostering collaboration, a senior leader inspires the Software Engineering of tomorrow and intentionally drives diversity within the team(s) to produce excellence. In this keynote, Edwige Fiaclou proposes you a deep dive into the pursuit of excellence and actions taken to be attractive in Software Engineering Management: a competitive sector.
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• Edwige Fiaclou [Head Tech Talent & Methodology — Swissquote]

The 10 Vicious Circles at Work: Detecting and Breaking Them Up

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes DevLead

A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with harmful results.
 
They can be happening today, anywhere at your company, creating friction, misalignment, bottlenecks, and even making the best employees quit.
In the last ten years of working as an agile coach and Scrum Master in several types of companies and departments, I’ve listed 10 very common vicious circles that I saw again and again, and that can be a true pain in the ̶a̶s̶s̶ neck.(And you might be in one of these loops without even knowing!) Let’s explore the 10 vicious circles together and get to know powerful practices, tools, and tips to break them up. Key takeaways:- Be aware of the 10 vicious circles at work and understand the impact they have on people, products, and processes.- Learn useful tips, practices, and tools that can be used the next day to break these vicious circles up.- Use the clear and straight-to-the-point visuals from this talk to discuss with your colleagues and generate insights and actions.- Feel empowered, energized, and inspired by real-life stories, a great pace, and a good dose of humor. Read More...

• Artur Margonari [Agile Coach, Trainer, Facilitator — InspirationOwl]