XConf Europe

Technologists from Europe are invited to hear insightful keynotes from local thought leaders and participate in a robust agenda of talks from Thoughtworks technologists. Our fantastic line-up will share first-hand experiences around emerging technology, insights, experiences, and new ways to empower teams, deliver quality software and drive innovation for responsible tech.
Get ready for XConf Europe 2023! Our annual technology event created by technologists for technologists.

Keynote by Rebecca Parsons
Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtworksHow will Evolutionary Architecture evolve?
A major premise underlying Evolutionary Architecture is that not only will things change, but we can't predict how they will change. While this premise makes predicting anything problematic (at best), we can postulate some ways that the principles and practices of Evolutionary Architecture will change in the medium term. This talk will examine some possible futures for the principles and practices of Evolutionary Architecture.
Agenda
09:00
Welcome and registration
09:30
Opening
Alexandre Goedert and Martin ter Horst

10:00 am
Building a knowledge graph with the Natural History Museum to work as a ‘taxonomic equivalence engine’
Andy Symonds and Siobhan Hughes
10:45 am
Break 15 min
11:00 am
Socially responsible AI: Practical tools for robust design
Jesse McCrosky
11:50 am
Preventing disaster with data testing: Real-life examples
and best practices
Anna Andrea Lagutina
12:35 pm
Lunch break 45 min
13:20 pm
Observability in a complex data migration: A system refactoring story
Jose Pech
14:10 pm
Generative modeling for recipe generation: Success stories without ChatGPT
Aili Asikainen and Alessandro Pagliero
14:55 pm
Break 15 min
15:10 pm
Building and scaling a machine learning platform
for even more joy while driving
Magdalena Kuhn (BMW) and Anton Vlasov
15:55 am
Break 15 min

10:00 am
Rust, zig and carbon: Hype, hope or hell programming languages?
Desiree Santos and Michael Fait
10:45 am
Break 15 min
11:00 am
Taming the cloud sprawl
Kief Morris
11:50 am
Make the internet a better place - with coding
for accessibility
Larissa Günther
12:35 pm
Lunch break 45 min
13:20 pm
Mobile engineering myths, misconceptions and facts
Alexandra Lovin
14:10 pm
A commune in the ivory tower: A new approach
to architecture
Andrew Harmel-Law
14:55 pm
Break 15 min
15:10 pm
The art of secure software: Zero-trust delivery pipelines
Jim Gumbley
15:55 am
Break 15 min
16:10
Closing keynote: Rebecca Parsons
How will Evolutionary Architecture evolve?
17:00
Closing and networking
Highlights from XConf Europe 2022
Katharine Jarmul
Barry Postma
Andrew Harmel-Law