Fwdays

Fwdays AI Summit is a conference about how AI is transforming IT product development — from engineering to leadership.

📌 Key highlights:
- AI Tooling / Productivity — AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.), Prompt Engineering, Agent Skills, MCP, Spec-Driven Development, Vibe Coding.
- Building AI Systems — RAG, Evals, agents building, AI architecture, observability, security, infrastructure, cost & latency optimization.
- AI for Tech Leadership — AI-first teams, AI-driven processes, delivery with AI, presale, AI ROI, metrics, AI-ready SDLC.
- Industry Shift / Trends — AI use cases across industries, major trends and breakthroughs, the future of AI & AGI, adapting careers in the AI era.
For operational news, chatting, and questions, we use a Telegram chat 👉 https://t.me/+TKNHnM9EdH4I9HTf

📅 Date: April 25, 2026
📍Format: Offline (Kyiv) and Online

🟠 Talks and speakers:
✅ Oleksandr Krakovetskyi — CEO at DevRain
In his talk “Deep Dive into LLM APIs”, Oleksandr will break down how LLMs work, how to use them via APIs, and the key challenges of building RAG systems — along with practical ways to solve them.

✅ Vyacheslav Koldovskyy — Competence Manager at SoftServe
In his talk “Agentic Engineering for Brownfield Projects”, Viacheslav will explore why it’s sometimes easier to build a new product than maintain an existing one — and how to apply agentic tools in real-world projects.

✅ Oleksii Minakov — Consultant & Educator in Generative AI
In his talk “Beyond Productivity: Using AI for Personal Self-Development”, Oleksii will explore how AI can be used not just for efficiency, but for development — from goal setting to reflection, learning, and skill-building — as well as the risks of overreliance and the illusion of competence.

✅ Dmytro Shabanov — Solution Architect at Temabit
In the talk “Agents Instead of Manual Optimization: How We Stopped “Tuning” and Started Delegating”, Dmytro will show how AI agents can take over performance optimization tasks, how to “communicate” with them in engineering terms, and how to control results to achieve real impact.

✅ Vasyl Hoshovskyi — Founder at Multimedia Lab
In his talk “The AI Video Generation Service That Doesn’t Exist Yet: A Director’s Brief for Developers”, Vasyl will explore how AI is transforming video creation, why current tools lack control, and what an ideal platform for a fully controlled production process should look like.

✅ Andrii Bilous — CEO at StayInno AI
In his talk “How to Stitch Corporate Data with AI: From RAG and DeepSearch to Knowledge Graphs”, Andrii will explain why RAG alone is no longer enough and how to unify diverse data sources into a system that delivers accurate and verifiable answers.

✅ Kateryna Stetsiuk — CEO at LyraTech AI
In the talk "AI transformation, no illusions: what works, what doesn’t, and why 90% of pilots don’t deliver business results", Kateryna will break down why most companies fail to achieve results with AI, what mistakes are the most costly, and what truly drives ROI.

✅ Volodymyr Holomb — AI/ML Engineer, AICoE (Centre of Excellence), Diia
In the talk “Defence-in-Depth: How We Build Security for Diia.AI”, Volodymyr will share how LLMs operate within government services under real-world load, why standard AI safety approaches fall short, and how a layered security architecture works in practice.

🎟 There are 2 types of tickets:
Online Ticket — online access to talks during the livestream on April 25, all recordings, Q&A with speakers, networking chat, and certificate of participation.
Full Ticket — all options from Online Ticket + Offline participation in the event on April 25 (in Kyiv), lunch, coffee breaks, live networking.
Learn more and buy a ticket 👉 https://bit.ly/4avZDGM

💌 Join us:
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/fwdays

📅 Старт: 4 травня
🛠 9 онлайн-занять + домашні завдання
👉 Реєстрація та деталі: https://bit.ly/4s5ujWU

👨‍🏫 Ментор: Денис Васильєв — Principal Site Reliability Engineer / UK Global Talent Visa Holder, 17+ років у індустрії; сертифікований Kubernetes Administrator, спікер DevOps/SRE-конференцій.

Результат курсу:
🎯 Практичні навички роботи з Kubernetes.
🎯 Розуміння сучасних DevOps/SRE-процесів.
🎯 Досвід впровадження AI-агентів у кластері.

Отримайте новий досвід разом з Fwdays Academy!

📅 Коли? 6 та 9 травня
👉 Реєстрація та деталі: https://bit.ly/4uiXXJN
🤑 До 15 березня діють спеціальні ціни для Early Birds!

Більшість проблем із безпекою виникає не через окремі баги, а через архітектурні рішення. На цьому воркшопі ви розберетеся з реальними сценаріями атак на веб- та SaaS-системи й побачите, як переходити від реактивного «латання дір» до підходу Secure by Design.

👨‍🏫 Ментор: Станіслав Клевцов — Security Engineering Lead у Creatio, 11+ років досвіду в інформаційній безпеці: від роботи в ЗСУ до побудови security-процесів у глобальних SaaS-продуктах.

Результат воркшопу:
🎯 розуміння, як атакуючі експлуатують помилки в додатках та інфраструктурі
🎯 архітектурні патерни Secure by Design
🎯 навички Threat Modeling для додатків і інфраструктури
🎯 розуміння, як інтегрувати security у SDLC
🎯 вміння бачити архітектурні причини вразливостей, а не лише їх симптоми

🔐 Отримайте практичні навички security-архітектури разом з Fwdays Academy!

JavaScript fwdays’26 — the 16th tech conference by Fwdays, fully dedicated to JavaScript. Join us to explore modern JS frameworks, tools, performance, the ecosystem, and how AI is reshaping JavaScript development.

📢 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀:
We are looking for practical, informative talks, as well as speakers in Kyiv for the offline part. If you would like to perform and share your experience, please fill out the form by April 23 https://bit.ly/4uS89Jy

For operational news, chatting, and questions, we have a Telegram chat 👉 https://t.me/+Qjomfxavcbr7QyQu

📅 Date: May 23, 2026
📍Format: Offline (Kyiv) and Online

🟠 First speakers:
-Illia Klymov, GitLab.
In his talk “JavaScript, agentic coding, and harsh reality”, Illia will share practical experience of using AI in a large brownfield project at GitLab — how to combine AI and JavaScript, what actually works in agent-based development, and why the mythical 10x productivity isn’t as simple as it seems.
-Andrii Shumada, WalkMe.
In the talk “No MCP, No Zod: Lean AI Agents in Nоdе.js and Vertex AI”, Andrii will cover building a multi-tool AI agent with Nоdе.js on top of Google Vertex AI, share insights on model selection and scaling development with CI/CD, and explain why the team moved away from MCP servers and Zod, often considered standard for such systems.
-Oleh Dutchenko, Kasta.
In the talk “Frontend Architecture: Myth, Diagram, or a Living System? A Large E-commerce Migration Case Study”, Oleh will explain how the team is migrating a large e-commerce platform from a Clojure monolith to a separate frontend, how they approach architecture in practice, and where reality diverges from initial plans.
-Oleksandr Zinevych, Avenga.

🎟 There are 2 types of tickets:
Online Ticket — online access to talks during the livestream on May 23, all recordings, Q&A with speakers, networking chat, and certificate of participation.
Full Ticket — all options from Online Ticket + Offline participation in the event on May 23 (in Kyiv), lunch, coffee breaks, live networking.

Learn more and buy a ticket 👉 https://bit.ly/4t8Pt6H

Join us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fwdays
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fwdays/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/fwdays