Vienna

Our Illustrious Presenters

Each of our events has between 8 and 12 sessions. We update our presenter information regularly. We usually save a few details to give you some surprises on the day of the event, including the order of the sessions.

HalfStack
More to be revealed
This is the start of our 2026 lineup. We will announce more presenters between now and the event.

Carmen Huidobro
The Feature that Didn't Need to be Smart
A more and more common story: You're asked to add AI to a product. Not a chatbot. Not an AI platform. Just one small feature that needed to be smarter. In this session Carmen shares practical lessons from shipping a small LLM feature in production: how to keep the architecture simple, how to set guardrails, how to ethically communicate with your values, and how to decide when AI is actually the right tool. This isn't the first time a big technology hype catches up to us and might creep us out at first, and this session will look at this history, too.


Niels Leenheer
CSS is DOOMed!
Let's take CSS where it has not gone before. What would happen if you took the classic game DOOM and tried to recreate it in CSS? Every wall, floor, ceiling, barrel, imp and fireball is a <div>. Thousands of them in total, all positioned in 3D space using CSS 3D transforms that will almost bring browsers to their knees. Sprinkle on a good dose of CSS trigonometry functions, animations, filters, clipping paths, animations and transitions… and a bit of JavaScript too, and you'll get a fully playable game – even with network multiplayer support.


Nik Graf
Mine, Cached, and Unclouded
Offline-first apps for people who like their data like their coffee—local and strong.


Edouard Maleix
Purr-mission Denied: Securing Your App with ReBAC
We will share more closer to the event, but there will definitely be cats.


Michael Bromley
The Importance of Simplicity
Something I've been thinking about a lot recently. Simplicity is the most prized property we can strive towards when programming & building. high-level stuff I think would be relevant to any dev.


Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes
The Little iFrame That Wanted to Become the Biggest Payment Platform
Once upon a time, a little iFrame dreamed of becoming a mighty platform. Like a mammoth with strange companions, it first faced the 'manual deployment' beast, then wrestled with QA until outside-in testing arrived. A monorepo brought order to chaos. And finally, like a leap off a building, it soared with performance. Let's dive into that journey, with fewer mishaps!