XConf Europe 2026
2026-09-11
London, United Kingdom
[XConf Europe 2022, XConf Europe 2023, XConf Europe 2024, XConf Europe 2025, XConf Europe 2026]
who it's for
engineering managers, platform engineers, software engineers, data engineers, machine learning engineers, site reliability engineers, technical program managers
topics
agent-based ETL pipelines; Gemini Flash 2.5; canonical JSON intermediates; Terraform infra generation; synthetic data testing; dependency inventory graph; clinical AI inference; system mapping from metrics; Obsidian-style LLM wiki; specification as architecture; role-based agent orchestration; token governance and budgeting
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building Sovereignty: Where Your AI Runs Matters | Jens Peveling | 24m |
Defines digital sovereignty as retaining effective control over critical data and workloads and demonstrates a workload‑first assessment that converts policy… | ||
| Scaling ETL Migrations to 300x with AI | Carolina Allende, Aakash Jain | 39m |
Shows an agent-based pipeline that combines an input parser, Gemini Flash 2.5, a canonical JSON intermediate, and output parsers to auto-translate legacy ETL… | ||
| Using AI to Make Legacy Systems Legible | Prachi Tyagi | 40m |
Uses AI to turn scattered code, docs, logs and Grafana/Prometheus metrics into a first‑pass map, auto‑generated diagrams and extracted business rules; runs… | ||
| LLM Wiki: Your Mind, Structured by AI | Maria Martinez Miralles | 27m |
LLM wiki structures chaotic sources into a searchable Obsidian-style knowledge base by applying four automated operations — group, ingest, improve, lint —… | ||
| Code is cheap. Now what? | Chris Ford | 37m |
Claim: coding agents make code is cheaper, shifting decisions about legacy, architecture and buy vs build. Evidence: examples of cloning and reimplementation… | ||
| Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvisational jazz to engineering | Lu Wilson | 54m |
Claim: letting everyone edit without permission produces functioning systems fast. The group uses Flock then built a collaborative live‑coding tool called… | ||
| The Augmented Engineer: Evolving Sensible Defaults through Human-Centric AI | Elena Guidi | 37m |
Argues that AI should be a disciplined assistant, not an owner: teams keep humans in the loop, retain architectural decisions and responsibility, and treat… | ||
| What Agents Do When You’re Not Looking | Matias Vizcaino | 32m |
Built a fleet of agents across 25 projects that run ~600 sessions, share 1.5 million messages and cost about 2 billion tokens. An orchestrator, implementers… | ||
| Clarity-First Method: Vibe-coding products without tech debt | Maria Jose Lalama | 34m |
Vivian is vibe-coded into a working women's-health app in 48 hours using Lovable, Claude, Superbase and Vercel and ships to 50 beta testers; architecture… | ||
| AI-First Software Maintenance & AI-First Software Delivery | Vitória Regina Ragazzon Toebe, Amy Pellegrini | 27m |
AI generates code and docs faster than humans can vet, creating an evaluation gap that surfaces as contradictory ADRs, confusing monitors and 45 Jira tickets… | ||
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