# The Final NGKATO Meetup of 2026 🎉
Kalimera, Angular community!
We're wrapping up 2026 with a little Greek twist! ☀️
For our final NGKATO meetup of the year, we're bringing a touch of Athens to Katowice, welcoming two amazing speakers from the Greek Angular community!
Three speakers. Two countries. One Angular community. 💙
Join us for one more evening of tech, inspiring conversations, knowledge sharing and, of course, a great community. Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning or this will be your first NGKATO meetup, you’re more than welcome to join.
📅05.11.26 18:00
📍 LOCATION
Avenga, Silesia Star Building B
20 Uniwersytecka Street, Katowice
AGENDA
- Start
- Fanis Prodromou - The Next Generation of Forms: A Practical Guide to Angular Signal Forms
- Break
- George Oikonomopoulos - Context Budgeting: How to Stop Wasting your Tokens
- Break
- Jakub Kubacki - Build a workflow editor for AI agents in Angular
- Networking
📢 SPEAKERS:
🎤 Fanis Prodromou
Title: Deterministic AI Workflows for a Large-Scale Code Base
Let’s be honest, managing complex forms in Angular often feels like a constant battle against boilerplate. Between managing valueChanges subscriptions, manual change detection tweaks, and the complex code that handles custom validations, the developer overhead can be exhausting.
Enter Signal Forms. This talk is a practical roadmap for moving to the next generation of Angular development. We will explore the core mental model of Signal-based forms and see how they fundamentally change the way we handle user input. Starting with the basics, we’ll progressively build a high-complexity form, proving that you can write less code while achieving better performance and more predictable state.
Join me for a session packed with "aha!" moments as we bridge the gap between theoretical signals and practical form implementation. You will walk away with a clear understanding of the Signal Forms API and the confidence to implement cleaner, more maintainable forms in your next Angular project.
Key Takeaways:
Learn how Signal Forms actually work — the mental model, how form state is managed, and why it feels fundamentally different from reactive forms.
Go from a simple login form to a complex multi-component form using schema composition and hidden logic.
Write custom validators with validate and validateTree that cover the most common real-world scenarios.
About Fanis:
Fanis is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular and Senior Front-End Developer. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge through his YouTube channel, speaking at conferences and meetups, and technical articles. He also stays current in the ever-evolving tech world by attending conferences and experimenting with new technologies, and is a co-organizer of the Angular Athens meetup in Greece.
🎤 George Oikonomopoulos
Title: Context Budgeting: How to Stop Wasting your Tokens
Large context windows make AI assistants powerful, but unoptimized prompts lead to high token costs, slower responses, and degraded outputs. In this session, you’ll learn simple, high-impact habits to keep Claude’s context window lean and hyper-efficient.
About George:
He is an Angular Expert at Mindwave and an Angular Instructor. With over a decade of Angular experience across various projects and teams, he's a dedicated contributor to the community, sharing his insights through articles, mentoring, and code contributions. He's also a member of the Angular Athens Meetup team.
🎤 Jakub Kubacki
Title: Build a workflow editor for AI agents in Angular
Every AI stack today needs a place to see and shape what agents actually do - which is why workflow editors are suddenly everywhere: n8n, Dify, LangGraph, a wave of agent builders. Most of them are built for the web at large; almost none for Angular teams. This talk shows how to build one yourself.
Using ngDiagram: an open-source Angular diagramming library - we go from an empty canvas to a working editor for agentic workflows: the common patterns you have to support (chaining, routing, parallelization, reflection, human-in-the-loop), a live demo of the finished editor, and then the code behind it - just a handful of components - to show how much leverage the library gives you.
You leave knowing how to start: the docs, the AI-assisted tooling, and the patterns worth stealing.
About Jakub:
Jakub Kubacki is a Principal Developer at Synergy Codes and the developer face of ngDiagram, an open-source Angular diagramming library. He builds node-based editors in Angular and has shown them hands-on at Warsaw IT Days, meet.js, Angular Warsaw and Wroclaw.
Expect inspiring talks, great conversations, and the friendly NG-KATO atmosphere you know and love.
Save your spot, bring your curiosity, and join us!
