Talk 1: Power Games – From Fear to Freedom - Shomaila Kausar
Power dynamics (called Hersketeknikker) aren't a relic from 1981, they're alive and well in today's workplaces, in meeting rooms, on Slack, and in code reviews.
In this talk, we take theese manipulation tactics out of the textbooks and into reality. You'll learn to recognize them when they happen — directed at you, around you, or perhaps without even realizing you're using them yourself. And most importantly: what you can actually do about it.
For those who experience it.
For those who witness it.
For everyone who wants to contribute to a healthier workplace.
Because the tech industry deserves psychological safety — not just technical excellence.

Talk 2: 400 tech leads, same problems - none of them technical - Anemari Fiser
After training and coaching more than 400 tech leads across different companies, industries, and levels of experience, one pattern keeps repeating: when tech leads struggle, it’s rarely a technical gap.
In this talk, Anemari Fiser shares the most common challenges tech leads bring into coaching sessions and why “getting better technically” almost never fixes them. Instead, the real blockers show up as overload, unclear expectations, ownership confusion, and assumed alignment. These patterns consistently lead to slow decisions, delivery friction, and burned-out tech leads, even in teams with strong engineers and modern tooling.
Drawing from real coaching sessions, training group discussions, and concrete case studies, this talk explores where tech leads consistently get stuck. For each pattern, it looks at what the tech lead thought the problem was, what it turned out to be, and the small but meaningful shifts that helped them move forward: from rethinking 1-on-1s, to making expectations explicit, to letting go without losing trust.
This isn’t a talk about abstract “soft skills.” It’s about the invisible leadership work tech leads are expected to do without ever being taught how.
Attendees will leave with concrete ways to spot people problems early, make expectations explicit, and reduce the load they carry as tech leads.
If you’ve ever thought, “I didn’t expect the role to be this hard,” this talk is for you.

Talk 3: Conway's law in real life - Oda Hoem
A journey through the challenges and frustrations of being a developer in a product team within a non-product-oriented organization. What happens when you are thrown into a project where a ready-made solution is purchased to replace a critical subsystem—without completing the job of understanding existing processes or integrations? This talk dives into the concrete problems that arose, how we handled them, and the lessons learned after working with a product that was supposed to solve everything, but instead created more chaos

Talk 4: China's App Independence vs Europe's US Dependence - Jill Sarandi
From WeChat to Alipay, China’s digital landscape is dominated by homegrown platforms that shape daily life. In this talk, we’ll explore the contrast between the apps powering China and those popular in Europe, and why this matters more than ever. But the conversation doesn’t stop at comparison. I’ll argue that Europe’s future hinges on its ability to build and embrace its own digital platforms - platforms that reflect European values, protect user data, and foster innovation on home soil.