Talk 1: What's your favourite number of threads? - Ryan Healey
Now you're presumably thinking, "What a stupid question?". Surely, there's no one answer to this. It depends on several factors; what you're doing, where the code is running, and how many you need. However, I had never really thought about it in-depth before until someone asked me: "What is your favourite number of threads?".
In this short (and hopefully fun) talk, I will take you through nearly all possible answers to this question and why they are both right and wrong on a technical and human level. Finally, I will give what I believe is the ultimate and final answer to the question: "What is the best number of threads?".
There is no barrier to entry here. If you know what a thread is, then you're qualified enough to come along and have fun.

Talk 2: Designing the In-Between States with Async React - Aurora Scharff
A surprising amount of user experience happens in the in-between moments: loading screens, errors, and pending states. These gaps between user action and final render are easy to overlook, yet they strongly influence how polished a React application feels and its perceived performance.

This session takes a practical engineering view on architecting these moments with Async React and modern Next.js 16: what's feasible, where designer-engineer collaboration matters, and how the ecosystem tools help. It covers reusable patterns for skeletons, error boundaries, view transitions, and design-layer components that own their loading states, and shows how small architectural decisions shape a smoother, more intentional product experience.

Talk 3: Reinventing the wheel considered useful - Erik Schierboom
Programmers are taught not to reinvent the wheel. This "wisdom" is rarely questioned, but there are very good reasons to go against this advice!

In this lightning talk, you'll learn why reinventing the wheel can actually make your software more secure. You'll also see how reinventing the wheel is a great way to improve your skills, which is becoming even more important with the advent of AI-assisted code generation.

Talk 4: Good enough - A love letter to failure - Elin Brusberg
This society is tough, getting tougher.
You may feel that more is required of you every day, and you are probably not wrong. I would argue though that the path to excellence lies not in perfection but in failure, and if you truly want to be better in life and work you need to switch focus and lean into the unpredictability of life.

Together we will reflect on tech failures and learn from them. What mistakes can you not come back from? When can a failure be a stepping stone to achieve your goal? What can you do to get less of the first and more of the second?

Maybe you will disagree with me and maybe you will see that failure not only is an option - it's a good one.