This year’s sessions

We’re excited about this awesome group of speakers and sessions for 2026. We’ll update this with the schedule details soon!

Session Speaker Category
Breakfast
Choosing an AI Coding Workflow Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
How to Ruin a User Interface: Surprisingly Easy Ways to Screw Over Your Users Product Design & User Experience
Microservices for Pragmatists Architecture & Platform Engineering
Ship It First, Fix It Later: How a Medical Crisis Led to a Global Tool Application Development
Vector Databases and Embeddings Demystified Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Blending Product Thinking with Software Modernization Software Quality & Delivery
Why Tech Debt Never Gets Prioritized (And Why "Explain the Business Impact" Won't Fix It) Professional Growth & Leadership
Ghosts in the Machine: Tampering with the JavaScript Supply Chain Security & Privacy Engineering
Mission: AI Possible – Taming your AI agent swarms Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Managing the Human Side of Technology: Leadership in Times of Change Professional Growth & Leadership
The Dark Side of Microservices Architecture & Platform Engineering
Claude Code in Action: Transforming Custom Software Development with Agentic AI Software Quality & Delivery
When Logs Tell the Whole Story: OpenTelemetry for Beginners Architecture & Platform Engineering
Caffeinate Your Queries: Brew Up Faster SQL with Tuning Data Engineering & Analytics
Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals Application Development
Know Your JS: SBOMs for Frontend Devs Security & Privacy Engineering
The Vibe Analyst's Guide to AI Coding: From Autocomplete to Agent Orchestration Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Ensuring Software Quality in the world of AI Developers Software Quality & Delivery
Relevance by Design: A Sustainable Learning System for Senior Devs Professional Growth & Leadership
Microsoft Fabric for Developers Data Engineering & Analytics
Agents & Arbiters - An Adventurer’s Guide to Multi-Agent Collaboration with LangGraph.js Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Productivity Theater: When ‘Just Use AI’ Becomes a Management Strategy Professional Growth & Leadership
Dark UX Patterns Product Design & User Experience
Making and Baking an Application Security Department Security & Privacy Engineering
An intro to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Unlocking Quantum Computing: An Overview Other
TypeScript You MIGHT Like Architecture & Platform Engineering
Better the Devil you NoSQL - A Battle of Paradigms Application Development
Cutting Through the Hype: Building High Performing Teams Professional Growth & Leadership
The DevOops Handbook: A satirical guide to slow software delivery Software Quality & Delivery
The 5 Fundamentals of UX Everyone Should Know Product Design & User Experience
From Power to Supply Chains: Sustainability is Security Security & Privacy Engineering
Lunch
Pending
Generating Quality Code with AI Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
The Life-Changing Art of Being Wrong Product Design & User Experience
Boiling The Frog: Implementing a Modern Message Based Architecture Without Anyone Noticing Architecture & Platform Engineering
Configurable cloud-native applications with .NET Aspire Application Development
Automating User Interface Tests with Playwright Software Quality & Delivery
Java Anti-Patterns Application Development
Increasing Productivity by Doing Nothing Professional Growth & Leadership
A developer’s guide to making security reviews suck less Security & Privacy Engineering
AI in Agile: How to Leverage AI for Smarter Sprints & Roadmaps Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Completing the Rewrite from Hell: Five Years of Technical Debt and How We Escaped Application Development
Engineering for Reliability and Stability in the Azure Messaging Services Architecture & Platform Engineering
Decision Records: Understanding Why Those Decisions Were Made! Architecture & Platform Engineering
Git Configuration secrets THEY don't want you to know about Application Development
The Low Risk Entrepreneur Professional Growth & Leadership
LGTM is not a Strategy Software Quality & Delivery
The Death of Data: AI, Obsolescence, and Your Digital Afterlife Other
MCP Demystified 🤖 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Securing your Azure AI Workload Architecture & Platform Engineering
Application Architecture Patterns Architecture & Platform Engineering
150K Lines, 0 Unit Tests, No Documentation: How To Work With A Software Landfill Application Development
Designing Data Pipelines That Don’t Hate You Six Months Later Data Engineering & Analytics
From PRs to Performance: Using Metrics and AI to Coach Stronger Engineering Teams Professional Growth & Leadership
Managing for Failure Professional Growth & Leadership
Maintenance by Smell: When Reading Every Line Becomes Obsolete Software Quality & Delivery
Movie Trailers

Last Updated: March 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM EDT