Previous events
If we look familiar, there’s a good chance you’ve already crossed paths with us at a stage, workshop, or afterparty across one of these past events.
2026
June 4-5
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
2000+ visitors
80+ speakers
8 workshops
Craft Conference 2026
Craft Conference 2026 centres on how engineers and companies can keep up with AI-driven change, with the topic explored alongside professionals from Google, Netflix, Meta, Nvidia, and IBM. A key theme is addressing "AI anxiety" and building predictable, reliable AI.
2025
May 29-30
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
2000+ visitors
70+ speakers
8 workshops
Craft Conference 2025
Craft Conference 2025's standout speakers included Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming), Adrian Cockcroft, and Dave Snowden (creator of the Cynefin framework). Alongside the talks, attendees could visit company booths, play AI-based games, and try VR experiences.
2024
May 30-31
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
2000+ visitors
70+ speakers
6 workshops
Craft Conference 2024
The 2024 edition celebrated Craft Conference's 10th anniversary. The opening keynote was given by Gergely Orosz on the past, present and future of software development, and one of the programme's key themes was the impact of generative AI on the workplace.
2023
May 18-19
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
1800+ visitors
70+ speakers
13 workshops
Craft Conference 2023
In 2023 Craft Conference positioned itself as Central Europe's largest software development festival, again complemented by the CraftHack hackathon. The programme was built around software architecture, microservices, and tech leadership.
2022
June 2-3
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
1800+ visitors
70+ speakers
6 workshops
Craft Conference 2022
After two virtual years, Craft Conference returned in hybrid format in 2022: talks ran across 5 in-person and 2 virtual stages, complemented by 6 on-site workshops. The line-up included names such as Kelsey Hightower and Eric Brewer.
2021
June 2-4
Online / virtual (due to the pandemic)
1500+ visitors
80+ speakers
4 workshops
Craft Conference 2021
Due to the pandemic, Craft Conference 2021 was held entirely online in a festival-like format, and for the first time included a standalone hackathon (CraftHack). The focus was on distributed data architecture, observability, and organising remote teams.
2019
May 9-10
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
2200+ visitors
80+ speakers
20 workshops
Craft Conference 2019
Craft 2019 brought in industry icons such as Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++) and Dave Snowden (creator of the Cynefin framework). The programme centred on systems design, managing complexity and quality engineering.
2018
May 10-11
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
1800+ visitors
90+ speakers
20 workshops
Craft Conference 2018
Compared to previous years, 2018 leaned less technical and more architectural and organisational. Speakers included Martin Kleppmann, Simon Wardley and Mel Conway (of Conway's Law fame).
2017
April 27-28
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
2000+ visitors
80+ speakers
27 workshops
Craft Conference 2017
In 2017 Craft was expanded for the first time with a hackathon and the "Street of the Future" exhibition. Alongside technical topics (Docker, microservices), team psychology and feedback culture received growing emphasis.
2016
April 28-29
Budapest, Hungarian Railway History Park
2000+ visitors
70+ speakers
20 workshops
Craft Conference 2016
Craft Conference 2016 was held in the spirit of software craftsmanship, featuring leading international voices such as Martin Fowler, Kelsey Hightower and Adrian Cockcroft. The programme centred on microservices, container technologies and team leadership.
2015
April 23-24
Budapest, Várkert Bazár
1300+ visitors
50+ speakers
11 workshops
Craft Conference 2015
In its second year, Craft Conference moved to the newly renovated Várkert Bazár and expanded its keynote programme to four sessions running 9am-7pm. Talks spanned microservices, software architecture, and the ethics and culture of software delivery, with a notably diverse (25% female) speaker line-up.
2014
April 24-25
Budapest, Bálna
900+ visitors
50+ speakers
5 workshops
Craft Conference 2014
Craft Conference's inaugural edition brought together the region's largest gathering of international software experts to date, opened by Bodil Stokke's keynote "Programming, Only Better." The programme was built around three pillars: language-agnostic engineering problems, organisational topics, and emerging technology trends.
