Programme 2024

Time

TRACK 1 (BLauer salon)

TRACK 2 (Kakadu Bar)

TRACK 3 (Roter Salon)


08:30

Admission and registration

Our location: Parkhotel Dresden

09:30

Keynote: Layoffs, Crisis, Developer productivity, Gen AI & My life in between?

Location: Ballsaal | by Rutuja Joshi, Principal Program/Product Manager @ GoTo Technologies GmbH

10:00

From Zero to Hero: NextJS 14 and Tailwind CSS for Beginners

Marius Obert, Developer Evangelist @ Twilio

Join this hands-on session that takes you on a live-coding journey, showcasing the latest features of Next.js 14. Discover how the stable version of "App Router" revolutionizes the core of the framework, and leverage the power of preconfigured Tailwind CSS for seamless project bootstrapping.

Monte Carlo knows it better: Effective forecasting in an agile environment

Marc Gebler, Head of Agile & Product Delivery @ ParshipMeet Group (LOVOO)

One question we all know: ""How long will it take to complete the project?""
Here is the answer:
Monte Carlo simulation is an efficient forecasting method that enables accurate predictions even in an agile context and helps to optimize planning, project execution and stakeholder communication.

Seamless Transition to Serverless: A Step-by-Step Guide for Migrating from Kubernetes

René Penkert, Senior Cloud Architect @ AWS

Kubernetes is great, but it can be complex and time-consuming to manage. Serverless architectures are a simpler and scalable alternative that can help you save money. In this talk, we'll show you how to migrate your Kubernetes applications to serverless using AWS services.

10:45

Applied Psychology: Psychology-based UI improvements

Keren Kenzi, Senior Software Engineer

As developers, we implement given UI designs. But wouldn’t it be great if we could provide input and suggest psychology-based improvement ideas? And thus, making the product better and taking a more proactive role in the development process. In this talk, I will share with you knowledge from the field of cognitive psychology that you can apply to UI designs to improve them.

Agile in Cycles: Bias for Delivery and Eliminating the Waste of Incomplete Work

Maya Shallouf & Michael Fröhlich, Engineering Manager & Director of Software Engineering @ GoTo Technologies GmbH

Are you fighting incomplete work, frequent hand-offs and slow delivery? We did too! We present a low-overhead method to scale agile to an organisation by empowering teams, fostering collaboration and enabling customer delivery while fighting conflicting priorities.

Adding Security to Architecture one step at a time

Warren Parad, CTO @ Authress

It’s easy to make security an all or nothing approach. Often the focus is on engineering a perfect product vision or speed of delivery. Attention to security is left to the end and by that time it is too late.
Here, I’ll review the opportunities to inject a security mindset into your team, what components to use and when to use them, as well as how to grow a security culture as your company and product evolves.

11:30

Exploring Design Systems: Implementation and Maintenance Across Platforms

Tomasz Krol, Mobile Engineer (Android) @ ParshipMeet Group (LOVOO)

Discover the benefits of implementing a design system and effective ways to maintain it across various platforms. This session will also cover how to use Figma API for automating updates, ensuring your design system stays current with the latest trends and needs of your users.

Masterless Scrum: Harnessing the Power of AI in Agile Teams

Fred Deichler, Senior Agile Coach @ Triforce Agility

Unlock Agile success with "Masterless Scrum"! Learn how to harness ChatGPT to diagnose team challenges and strategize in the absence of a dedicated Scrum Master AND Learn how to create engaging retrospectives. Join me in navigating the complexities of Agile through a blend of AI and human intuition.

Powered Documentation: Integrating Markdown, Continuous Documentation and ADRs

Daniel Gaszewski, Software Engineer / IT consultant @ Sopra Steria

Revolutionize your Tech Docs! Dive into Git-powered documentation: Intertwine code & docs seamlessly Stay updated with every code change Explore tools like Docusaurus Track architectural decisions effortlessly with ADR cards. No IT architect? No problem! Join me & transform your documentation game.

12:15

Lunch & Networking

13:15

Lightning Talks

Location: Roter Salon

13:30

Keynote: Empowering Digital Sovereignty and Resilience through Open Source

Location: Blauer Salon | by Marius Feldmann, Chairman of the Board @ ALASCA e.V. & Mirko Swillus, Program Manager @ Sovereign Tech Fund
In an era marked by uncertainty and global challenges, there is a growing movement towards achieving digital sovereignty and strengthening the resilience of our fundamental digital infrastructure. It’s not a secret anymore that this infrastructure is mainly powered by Open Source these days, which is a fantastic success of the FOSS community and their values of openness and global collaboration. However, the time has come to ensure that this community and its contributors receive the necessary support to sustain and expand this ecosystem, which is pivotal for the competitive edge and innovative capacity of German and European businesses. This keynote will explore the connection between Open Source and digital sovereignty from two distinct perspectives.

14:00

Generative AI: How do Large Language Models work and how can I use them?

Oliver Guhr, AI and Robotics Researcher @ HTW Dresden

Dive into the world of Generative AI with our exploration of LLMs!

Understand the inner workings of these groundbreaking AI systems and discover how you can use them in your projects. Join us as we explore the exciting landscape of open source LLMs.

why self organisation with holacracy is not business anarchy

Thomas Zinn, Agile Coach @ ostec GmbH

Ostec uses self organisation to enable its employees to decide issues where the highest expertise is. When I tell people how we organize,the first question asked always is: but how do you prevent people from doing only the stuff they want?
The answer is: you don't. They do it themselves. On purpose.

DevOps Ideals - Simplicity & Locality

Daniel Schier, DevOps Engineer @ proficom GmbH

DevOps will be described with 5 ideals, very often. What are these ideals, namely “Simplicity & Locality”, “Focus, Flow and Joy”, “Improvement of Daily Work” and the others all about? In the talk, I want to demonstrate how one of the ideals “Simplicity & Locality” can be understood and applied to a development process. Together, we will plan, code, build, test, release and deploy our software, without leaving the IDE once. We will use Git, Podman/Docker and Kubernetes for the same.

14:45

Ephemeral Code

David Baldin, Senior Software Developer @ DevBoost GmbH

LLM agents can revolutionize software development, replacing traditional roles with AI-driven agents. We explore how AI agents iteratively write software to meet human requirements and reduce costs. We're challenging the way to develop software and envision the future of AI in software development!

Ingredients to successfully manage cross-team projects

Tobias Deekens, Principal Engineer - Frontend Architecture @ commercetools GmbH

Let`s face it: cross-team projects are challenging! Many stakeholders are involved. Things are easily perceived negatively and get off-track. I will share learnings of redesign project across 9 teams with 50+ stakeholders. There is something in this for everyone to take away into their next project.

Develop CI/CD-pipelines locally with dagger.io

Fabian Kretzer, IT-Consultant @ innoq.com

CI/CD-pipelines without YAML. Your pipeline steps are containers. Your full pipeline can be developed and tested locally on your machine. Caching makes everything fast. You don't need to learn a new syntax, just use a SDK from your preferred language. Did i mention there is no YAML involved?

15:30

Coffee Break & Networking

16:00

Building something real with RAG

Jon Bratseth, CEO @ Vespa.ai

Generative AI is transformative, but in most cases it needs to be combined with your data to deliver something truly useful - this is the topic of retrieval augmented generation (RAG). This talk will discuss how to make RAG applications that delivers quality results in production at reasonable cost.

Simplicity in Complexity

Burcu K. Kutluay, Sr. IOS Developer @ Eurail B.V.

Unlock the secrets of simplifying complex business rules in app development. Learn practical strategies for a streamlined process, balancing functionality and simplicity. Join us to empower your solutions for business challenges!

Looks GREAT To Me: Getting Past Bare Minimum Code Reviews

Adrienne Braganza Tacke, Sr. Developer Advocate @ Cisco

Ah, code reviews. We need them, but we dread them. We do them, but not well. What do we do with large PRs? Why are effective comments so difficult to write? How do we shorten reviews? Is SSDaaRB (Single Senior Developer as a Reviewer Bottleneck) something we have to accept? I’ll answer these & more in my session!

16:45

AI Unbiased: Navigating the Maze of Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning

Christopher Danz, Machine Learning Engineer @ Positive Thinking Company

Discover the hidden biases in AI and master the art of fairness in machine learning. Join me to explore cutting-edge detection methods, data integrity strategies, and effective bias mitigation techniques throughout the ML lifecycle. Transform AI into a force for equitable innovation!

Designers and Developers Unite: Strategies for Successful Collaboration in a Scaling Organization

Perihan Rashed, Senior Product Experience Designer & UX Guild Lead @ Dynatrace

In this talk, I'll share my journey leading a small team in a large company. I'll cover restructuring stages, integrating diverse mindsets, and strategies for scalability. As developers, designers, and leaders, bridging the design-development gap is a shared challenge. Join me for practical insights on fostering collaboration. Tailored for developers, designers, and leaders aiming to enhance collaboration, this talk offers strategies for optimization and growth. Let's unlock the power of collaboration for organizational success.

Software development in times of climate crisis

Hendrik Lösch, Management Consultant @ ZEISS digital Innovation

Software is often seen as part of the solution to the climate crisis, but not recognized as part of the problem. Therefore, we will highlight where we as software developers can and must make a difference.

17:30

Closing Talk

17:40

Snacks

18:30

Dinner & Networking

18:00

After Work Party

The conference is followed by networking in a relaxed atmosphere: the DecompileD After Work Party offers the perfect opportunity to talk to speakers, developers, sponsors, partners and potential customers from 6 pm. Whether over a drink at the bar, to the beats of DJ Rick Menaira on the dance floor or a game of blackjack or darts in the gaming area - networking has never been so easy and entertaining. A hot tip, also for management, HR and sales.

15:00

What’s currently hot in AI – review of the latest research findings

Torsten Hartmann, CEO @ Avantgarde Labs GmbH

Researchers and practitioners have pushed the state-of-the-art in many subfields of artificial intelligence in the last years. The presentation gives an overview over some of the most promising publications from leading AI conferences like ICML, NIPS or ACL and leading corporate labs like Google Research or Baidu Research.

Myths and Benefits of 5G and Beyond?

Vincent Latzko, PhD Researcher @ TU Dresden

5G has been heralded as the enabler of the next industrial revolution, a prerequisite for autonomous driving, and everything inbetween ('tis not a talk about covid-rays). Now that we have it, we wonder where the promises went: did they smoothly flee to 6G? What exactly was promised, what subset of that was realistic, and what is the technical basis for these visions? Can we still achieve Great Things without waiting another decade (the next G), can or should we put a focus on dataflow privacy, and how is AI helping?

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15:30

GitOps using Flux: How we manage Kubernetes clusters at Staffbase

Rico Berger, Site Reliability Engineer @ Staffbase GmbH
At Staffbase we are using GitOps, to implement Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications. It focuses on a developer-centric experience when operationg infrastructure, by using tools developers are already familiar with. The core idea of GitOps is having a Git repository that always contains declarative descriptions of the infrastructure currently desired in the production environment.

VIRTUAL: Evolution 3.0: solve your everyday problems with genetic algorithm

Mey Beisaron, Backend Developer @ AppsFlyer Inc.
When was the last time you wrote an algorithm to plan your diet? In this talk I will share how I coded a Genetic Algorithm and used it to solve my everyday problems: planning my diet and semester timetable. Using code examples I will bring you closer to solving your everyday problems with GAs.

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16:00

Coffee Break & Networking

16:30

Learning Machines - Machine Learning and Industrial Prognostics

Steffen Seitz, PhD Researcher @ TU Dresden
Monitoring the condition of machines is one of the most important use cases for machine learning in predictive maintenance. In order to train respective models, modern industrial facilities produce terabytes of unlabeled data every day. Unfortunatly, supervised learning approaches rely on labeled data to perform. In this talk, we will discuss this dilemma of supervised learning in industrial prognostics and show how to train meaningful models in order to detect machine failures earlier than ever before.

Building a Central Nervous System for Data with Apache Kafka

Anatoly Zelenin, Freelancing Kafka Expert and Author

Do you want super-powers? Analyzing and reasoning about data in large companies in real-time is one of these! Apache Kafka is not only about moving data between services, but about building a backbone for your data infrastructure.
With such a backbone you know what happens in your company NOW. In this talk, we will explore how Apache Kafka can help you to achieve this and cover how you and your company can avoid common pitfalls. Get ready for the wonderful world of real-time data!

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17:00

You don’t need your freaking Kafka - Event Bus for small teams

Ilja Bauer, CTO & Co-Founder @ Entwicklerheld

Many service architectures use an event bus to integrate multiple services together. The use of an event bus offers many advantages in the way services can be developed, tested and operated. The use of common event bus technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or NATS is associated with a steep learning curve and is not feasible in operation, especially for small teams. However, most teams have a lot of experience with classic relational databases like PostgreSQL or MariaDB. In the presentation, we explain how we use PostgreSQL & Redis as an event bus for over 1.5 million events and thus use the advantages of an event-driven integration for our EntwicklerHeld platform right from the start, without obstruct the switch to a "real" event bus later on.

On the necessity to fail from the perspective of a company that must not fail

Andreas Nicklas, Chief Digital Officer @ SachsenEnergie

As an energy supplier, SachsenEnergie AG operates critical infrastructure. Security and stability naturally come first. In the competition for customers, we also have to be innovative and agile. A field report on squaring the circle.

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17:30

Digital Twin: Cloning real-world robotic devices into the cloud

Florian Purchess, CTO @ WAKU Robotics

A robot revolution is happening right now, that dramatically impacts the way our logisitics and production facilities work. Autonomous mobile robots are springing up like npm packages, covering our shop floors and warehouses. But new technologies always come with their own unique challenges. This is a tale on how we´re tackling them at WAKU Robotics.

VIRTUAL: Technical SEO demystified for web developers

Martin Splitt, Developer Advocate @ Google
The web is a great platform to reach a broad audience with our web apps and sites, but to do so we need to make sure that our web apps are findable for our potential users. In this session we will open up the black box of SEO and find out what we can do in our code to make sure our web apps are search-friendly and gather a set of tools to debug and test our sites for discoverability.

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