Schedule

Essentials* is Craft's new track for developers who want to strengthen their foundations and grow. Whether you're early in your career or looking to fill in key gaps, these inspiring talks from world-class speakers will help you level up and get excited about becoming great at what you do.

Note: Specific timings of sessions, breaks, start and end timings are subject to change.
8:20 AM CET
8:20 AM - 9:20 AM
Registration
9:20 AM CET
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM CET
Main stage
Opening Ceremony
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM CET
Platform 2
Opening ceremony streamed

If there are no more seats left at the Main stage, come and watch the opening ceremony streamed at Platform 2.

9:40 AM CET
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM CET
Main stage
Keynote
The Forest & The Desert Are Parallel Universes
agile development
empirical development
leadership
software development
Talk with
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM CET
Platform 2
Keynote talk streamed

If there are no more seats left at the Main stage, come and watch the keynote streamed at Platform 2.

10:50 AM CET
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM CET
Main stage
The Psychology of Software Teams
leadership
organization
psychology
empirical development
programming
software development
technical excellence
Talk with
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM CET
Platform 2
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM CET
Orange stage
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM CET
Purple stage
ESSENTIALS - How to Write a Function
ESSENTIALS*
code quality
dependency management
domain model
design patterns
programming
refactoring
software architecture
software development
tdd
unit tests
Talk with
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM CET
Pink stage
Engineering Management in the AI Era
ai
leadership
management
organization
psychology
race against the machine
software development
Talk with
10:50 AM - 12:40 PM CET
Green stage
Building for Global Engineering Platforms - Let's make an Operator
hands-on
architecture
design patterns
microservices
programming
software architecture
software development
technical excellence
Talk with
11:35 AM CET
11:35 AM - 11:55 AM
🍵Coffee break
11:55 AM CET
11:55 AM - 12:40 PM CET
Main stage
11:55 AM - 12:40 PM CET
Platform 2
Shaped by Demand: the power of fluid teams
agile development
dependency management
failure demand
organization
scaling
software development
11:55 AM - 12:40 PM CET
Orange stage
Framework Agnostic Capacity Planning at Scale
management
agile
scaling
software development
tools
Talk with
11:55 AM - 12:40 PM CET
Pink stage
Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations from a 20 years-long journey
agile development
code quality
legacy code
maintenance
organization
programming
psychology
race against the machine
refactoring
software development
technical debt
technical excellence
technical neglect
vital skills
12:40 PM CET
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch break
2:00 PM CET
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CET
Main stage
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CET
Orange stage
Let Them Eat Code
software development
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CET
Purple stage
ESSENTIALS - Event Storming for fun and profit
domain model
ESSENTIALS*
modernization
vital skills
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM CET
Green stage
Process files: Blueprints for Agentic AI
ai
hands-on
llms
programming
refactoring
tdd
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CET
Sponsor arena
2:55 PM CET
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM CET
Main stage
Lambda? You Keep Using that Letter
javascript
programming
design
refactoring
Talk with
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM CET
Platform 2
Data Access and Data Sharing in Microservices
architecture
design
microservices
domain model
Talk with
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM CET
Purple stage
How We Decide
agile
adrs
architecture
architecture decision records
design
agile development
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM CET
Pink stage
Stop E2E Testing Your Next.js App! Write Better Tests with Contract Tests
code quality
javascript
microservices
mocks
tdd
testing
typescript
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM CET
Innovation stage
3:40 PM CET
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
🍵Coffee break
3:45 PM CET
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM CET
🚂 Train Tracks
🚂 Guided Tour of the Hungarian Railway Museum 💨

During the guided tour we'll discover Central Europe's largest open air railway museum in about 45 minutes. We'll learn about Hungary's remarkable railway history as well as picking up interesting technical information about the steam age and the exciting buildings and equipements designed for the locomotives. Stay tuned to experience the classic steel masterpieces from a gone by era of engineering.

REGISTER HERE

Guide: Balázs Ackermann

4:00 PM CET
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CET
Main stage
Architecture is Designing Knowledge Flow
software architecture
architecture
design patterns
leadership
modernization
vital skills
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CET
Orange stage
Lizard Optimization
product thinking
ux
testing
scaling
empirical development
Talk with
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CET
Purple stage
From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
agile
ai
software development
tools
code quality
programming
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CET
Pink stage
4:00 PM - 5:40 PM CET
Green stage
Refactoring from Objects to Functions
code quality
design
domain model
programming
refactoring
software architecture
software development
technical debt
technical debt management
hands-on
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CET
Innovation stage
4:55 PM CET
4:55 PM - 5:40 PM CET
Main stage
4:55 PM - 5:40 PM CET
Platform 2
Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems
design patterns
leadership
psychology
software architecture
Talk with
4:55 PM - 5:40 PM CET
Orange stage
4:55 PM - 5:40 PM CET
Purple stage
Evolutionary Architecture: The What. The Why. The How.
architecture
domain-driven design
modular monolith
microservices
software architecture
software development
4:55 PM - 5:40 PM CET
Pink stage
5:50 PM CET
5:50 PM - 6:50 PM CET
Main stage
Keynote
Building Resilience
leadership
5:50 PM - 6:50 PM CET
Platform 2
Keynote Streamed

If there are no more seats left at the Main stage, come and watch the keynote streamed at Platform 2.

6:50 PM CET
6:50 PM - 10:00 PM
Networking Party
7:00 PM CET
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM
🚂 Train Tracks
🚂 Guided Tour of the Hungarian Railway Museum 💨

During the guided tour we'll discover Central Europe's largest open air railway museum in about 45 minutes. We'll learn about Hungary's remarkable railway history as well as picking up interesting technical information about the steam age and the exciting buildings and equipements designed for the locomotives. Stay tuned to experience the classic steel masterpieces from a gone by era of engineering.

REGISTER HERE

Guide: Balázs Ackermann