Agentic Experiences

AI agents are redefining software engineering, turning intent into execution at unprecedented speed.

Join practitioners building real systems, not hype: where prompts meet production, and superpowers get stress-tested.

When Code Feels Like Superpowers
There's a moment, building with AI agents, when the work stops feeling like work and starts feeling like something closer to a superpower.

Alexander Gomez tells the story of what he made with Claude Code, not in theory, but in the margins of an ordinary, busy life, and brings some of it into the room to show you.
It's part demo, part personal story. But really it's about a shift: the one where building something stops being a question of expertise, and becomes a question of simply starting.

Bio Alexander
Alexander Gomez has been building for the web for two decades. Today he's Lead Frontend Developer and Front End Code Architect at Rabobank (through Sopra Steria), where he works in TypeScript and Angular and has led high-performance delivery teams. Outside the day job he builds AI-powered side projects obsessively, music generators, self-deploying web apps, personal agents, the kind of things that make coding feel like a superpower. He's fascinated by the moment a tool stops feeling like work and starts feeling like play, and loves showing other developers how close that moment actually is.

The AI realist

AI is reshaping software engineering at a pace that leaves little room for reflection. For many developers, that's exciting. For others, it feels like watching their craft being hollowed out. This talk addresses that tension honestly. We'll explore what AI is genuinely good at and where it quietly struggles. Why does it turbocharge greenfield development but stumble on load-bearing, business critical software that enterprises actually depend on? What does the flood of AI-generated "abandonware" tell us about how we're using these tools? And what do real-world constraints like security, legacy systems and maintainability, mean for the AI-powered future we keep being promised? This isn't a talk about whether AI is good or bad. It's about understanding it clearly enough to figure out where you stand; and where you fit.

Bio Bjorn

Bjorn is an experienced hands-on software architect and senior engineer. He's worked for lots of projects large and small, and enjoys coaching, giving workshops and generally sharing knowledge and delivering value.

Hacking Agentic Development

Agentic development is very powerful, when used responsibly. It is also a new playground for attackers who weaponize untrusted inputs and unsupervised automations. We’ll look at why you might not want to auto-approve commands. Why companies emphasize human responsibility throughout an agentic development life cycle. We’ll also cover what could happen if we let agents run fully autonomously.

Bio Lara

Lara is a FullStack generalist currently working as a Tech Lead in a DevOps team, Security Champion at Sopra Steria, and AI Engineer at an AI Safety & Security Lab.

Programme

17:30 Walk in
18:00 Dinner
18:45 Talk 1
19:15 Break
19:20 Talk 2
19:50 Break
19:55 Talk 3
20:25 Drinks