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Monday, December 8
Time	Sessions
08:00 - 08:45	Registration
08:45 - 09:00	Overview of Today's Talks & Introduction of Keynote Speaker
09:00 - 10:00	Morning Keynote Sustainable Augmented Development [Red Room] Kent Beck – Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
10:00 - 10:30	Morning break
10:30 - 11:15	Parallel Sessions A Fun and Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases [Red Room] Alexander Chatzizacharias – Software Engineer at JDriven Dungeons Dragons & Developers [Green Room] Matt Brunt – Dungeon Master, Code Tinkerer & Cybersecurity Pro Java Container Mastery: Optimizing Images Across Build Tools [Blue Room] Matthias Haeussler – VP Consulting Expert at CGI
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:15	Parallel Sessions The Pub-Time Parliament [Red Room] Jim Webber – Working on a variety of database research topics with a focus on fault-tolerance at Neo4j The Continuing Developer Evolution [Green Room] Derek Bingham – Senior Developer Advocate at AWS The Future of AI – Key Trends Shaping What’s Next [Blue Room] Ekaterina Sirazitdinova – Senior Developer Advocate at NVIDIA
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:00	Parallel Sessions Pushing Java to the Limits: Processing a Billion Rows in Under 2 Seconds [Red Room] Roy van Rijn – Developer and Architect, Robotics Enthusiast, Hobby Mathematician Platform Engineering Practices for Speedy Delivery [Green Room] Liz Fong-Jones – Field CTO, Honeycomb.io Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable [Blue Room] Charles Humble – Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant
14:00 - 14:15	Break
14:15 - 15:00	Parallel Sessions A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey [Red Room] Paul Roe – Dean Research at James Cook University WebAssembly on Kubernetes [Green Room] Nicolas Fränkel – Developer Advocate for Loft Labs Breaking and Securing OAuth 2.0 in Frontends [Blue Room] Philippe De Ryck – Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:15	Parallel Sessions The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages [Red Room] Kevlin Henney – Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer Enter the Matrix [Green Room] Conor Hoekstra – Research Scientist at NVIDIA To be announced [Blue Room] Katie Paxton-Fear – PhD Student, Occasional Bug Bounty Hunter and Educational YouTuber
16:15 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 17:45	Evening Keynote Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI [Red Room] Sam Aaron – Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi
17:45 - 18:45	Welcome Reception

Tuesday, December 9
Time	Sessions
08:45 - 09:00	Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00	Morning Keynote Conceptualisation [Red Room] Michael Feathers – Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”
10:00 - 10:30	Morning Break
10:30 - 11:15	Parallel Sessions The C4 Model - Beyond The Basics [Red Room] Simon Brown – Creator of the famous C4 model, author Front End Testing with GitHub Actions [Green Room] Amy Kapernick – Front End Engineer at AmysKapers.dev Beyond Line Charts [Blue Room] Yao Yue – Founder of IOP Systems
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:15	Parallel Sessions Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions [Red Room] Andrew Harmel-Law – Tech Principal at Thoughtworks To be announced [Green Room] Matthew Keesan – VP & GM at IonQ Create (Agentic) AI-infused Apps, the Easy Way [Blue Room] Kevin Dubois – Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 14:00	Parallel Sessions Mission-Critical Generative AI in Action: Delivering Safety, Reliability, and Customer Value [Red Room] Scott Shaw – Crew Lead, GenAI Platform at Commonwealth Bank From Charted to Uncharted Territory: Accessibility and Interactive Data Experiences [Green Room] Frank Elavsky – Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University To be announced [Blue Room] Nada Amin – Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS
14:00 - 14:15	Break
14:15 - 15:00	Parallel Sessions Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence [Green Room] Katharine Jarmul – Privacy/Security Expert at Probably Private & O'Reilly Author To be announced [Blue Room] Rod Johnson – Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:30	Evening Keynote 13 Years of Cryptocurrency De-anonymization (and Counting) [Red Room] Sarah Meiklejohn – Professor in Cryptography and Security
16:30 - 17:30	Farewell Drinks