Programme 2024

Our location: Parkhotel Dresden

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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?

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.