Ever wanted to run your business in a self-determined and sovereign way? Learn how to deploy a scalable, all-in-one cluster with Proxmox, providing storage, virtualization, and high availability. With Ansible, set up your stack quickly at any location, giving you full control over costs, latency, redundancy, and avoiding vendor lock-in and data privacy risks.

A story about founding multiple startups, securing funding, and building complex products. One exit, funding disclosed. The key lesson: Success comes from having the right people around you to tackle tough problems. It’s not just about shipping more, but shipping faster. Motivation is finite, especially with a team involved.

This talk explores how focusing on team flow can lead to predictable delivery. Using the metaphor of road traffic congestion, it shows how to shift from estimation-driven planning to data-based forecasting, helping manage expectations and achieve more predictable outcomes.

Scaling agile methods can be challenging, with frameworks like SAFe or Scrum@Scale often feeling bureaucratic. We share insights from our journey, showing how we adapted our organizational structure to scale agile practices, ensuring fast, user-centric product development and sustainable employee satisfaction.

This talk introduces AndroidEnv, a Python library that turns Android devices into RL environments. It explores how to design reward systems in model-free RL, using algorithms like DQN and Q-learning to demonstrate how rewards shape an agent’s learning and goal achievement.

This talk, inspired by Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map, explores how to decode cultural differences to improve communication and unlock innovation. Learn strategies to navigate cultural cues, build trust, and leverage diversity for creativity, collaboration, and success.

Generative AI is transforming industries but often acts as a “black box.” How can we trust and deploy such technology responsibly? This talk explores Explainable and Responsible AI (XAI/RAI), covering their importance, cutting-edge methods, and real-world adoption to ensure transparency and accountability.

During an incident, the pressure is immense: frustrated users, constant stakeholder inquiries, and first responder engineers balancing issue resolution with communication. The incident coordinator role reduces this, allowing engineers to focus on solving problems. I’ll share how we built and implemented this role.

Small, autonomous “two-pizza teams” can drive innovation and deliver results through strong ownership and knowledge sharing. Focusing on learning from mistakes, we’ll dive into Amazon’s Correction of Errors (COE) process, which helps identify root causes and derive actionable improvements in a blameless way.

Explore how the “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) principle can lead to rigid, complex code in frontend development. Learn to balance abstraction trade-offs and discover why composition often results in cleaner, more flexible solutions across frameworks.

Explore the exciting world of GitHub Copilot Extensions! Learn how these tools enhance productivity by integrating custom services within Copilot Chat. We’ll build a custom extension together to answer questions in GitHub.com and Visual Studio Code – offering a hands-on experience to supercharge your workflows with AI-driven assistance.

This talk presents an automated solution using machine learning and knowledge graphs to streamline CO2 footprint analysis and sustainable building certification. We’ll explore how these technologies address unstructured data challenges, enabling efficient, scalable climate action plans and certifications for buildings and urban districts.