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XConf Europe 2023

Join us on September 21, in Amsterdam!
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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.

 

Rebecca Parsons

Keynote by Rebecca Parsons

Chief Technology Officer at Thoughtworks

How 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

Track 1

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

Track 2

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

 

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