GOTO Copenhagen 2025 Schedule

Monday, September 29

Time Sessions
09:00 - 17:00
2 days: Masterclass
  • 2 Days: Advanced Software Architecture with Residuality [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Barry O'Reilly – CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology
  • 2 Days: EventStorming - The smartest approach to collaboration beyond silo boundaries [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Alberto Brandolini – Creator of EventStorming
  • 2 Days: Incremental Architecture: Building Domain-focused Systems that Welcome Change [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen Speaks the World Listens
  • 2 Days: The Architect Elevator: Visiting the Upper Floors [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Gregor Hohpe – Riding the Architect Elevator, Platform Builder, Author
  • 2 Days: Imagine the Future and Build for the Now – System Design from Launch to Scale [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Christopher Simon – Live Coding Technology Coach
09:00 - 17:00
Masterclass
  • Technical Leadership Masterclass (Monday) [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy. Accelerating the Growth of Technical Leaders
  • Hexagonal architecture [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Alistair Cockburn – Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
  • Tidy Together: A Software Design Workshop (Monday) [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Kent Beck – Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
  • Microservice Communication [Saxo Bank, Philip Heymans Alle 15, 2900 Hellerup]
    • Sam Newman – Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to Microservices

Tuesday, September 30

Time Sessions
09:00 - 16:00
Masterclass
  • Keeping It Simple [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Kevlin Henney – Speaker, Writer, Author and Trainer, PC Member
09:00 - 17:00
2 days: Masterclass
  • 2 Days: Advanced Software Architecture with Residuality [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Barry O'Reilly – CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology
  • 2 Days: EventStorming - The smartest approach to collaboration beyond silo boundaries [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Alberto Brandolini – Creator of EventStorming
  • 2 Days: Incremental Architecture: Building Domain-focused Systems that Welcome Change [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen Speaks the World Listens
  • 2 Days: The Architect Elevator: Visiting the Upper Floors [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Gregor Hohpe – Riding the Architect Elevator, Platform Builder, Author
  • 2 Days: Imagine the Future and Build for the Now – System Design from Launch to Scale [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Christopher Simon – Live Coding Technology Coach
09:00 - 17:00
Masterclass
  • AI Engineering in Practice: From Foundation Models to Production-Ready Applications [CodeNode, Gdanskgade 2, 2150 Copenhagen]
    • Phil Winder – AI Pioneer, Author of Reinforcement Learning
  • AI-powered software development from the trenches [CodeNode, Gdanskgade 2, 2150 Copenhagen]
    • Henrik Kniberg – AI whisperer, Chief Scientist & Cofounder of Abundly.AI
  • Diagrams-as-code + AI [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Jacqui Read – Author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects.
  • Technical Leadership Masterclass (Tuesday) [KMD A/S, Lautrupparken 40, 2750 Ballerup]
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy. Accelerating the Growth of Technical Leaders
  • Increase team effectiveness with the heart of agile [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Alistair Cockburn – Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
  • Continuous Delivery - Mastering the 14 Essential Techniques [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Dave Farley – Bestselling Author, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.
  • Tidy Together: A Software Design Workshop (Tuesday) [Nordea, Grønjordsvej 10, 2300 Copenhagen]
    • Kent Beck – Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
  • Resilient Distributed Systems [Saxo Bank, Philip Heymans Alle 15, 2900 Hellerup]
    • Sam Newman – Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to Microservices

Wednesday, October 1

Time Sessions
07:30 - 08:45
Registration & Morning Refreshments
08:45 - 09:00
Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote
  • Connection is Everything [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Ken Hughes – The King of Customer Experience
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 11:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy. Accelerating the Growth of Technical Leaders
  • Every Event, Everywhere, All at Once [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Jacqui Read – Author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects.
  • A Long Spring: 19 Years of Living with Your Past Mistakes [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Arjen Poutsma – Practical Insights from a Spring Framework Veteran
  • Extended keynote Q&A [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Ken Hughes – The King of Customer Experience
11:00 - 11:15
Break
  • Book signing with Jackqui Read and Patrick Kua [TAP1 Book Store]
11:15 - 12:00
Parallel Sessions
  • A Commune in the Ivory Tower [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Andrew Harmel-Law – Tech Principal at Thoughtworks
  • TDD & DDD from the Ground Up [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Christopher Simon – Live Coding Technology Coach
  • Towards Safety and Security in C++26 [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Daniela Engert – Hardware Hacker and Software Engineer
  • Continuous Delivery in a World of Constant Change [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Abby Bangser – Platform Engineering Insights from Syntasso delivering Kratix
    • Dave Farley – Bestselling Author, Founder and Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Keynote
  • Gen AI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Rod Johnson – Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel
14:00 - 14:15
Break
14:15 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Ye Cannae Change the Laws of Physics [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Kevlin Henney – Speaker, Writer, Author and Trainer, PC Member
  • Master Software Architecture: From Simplicity to Complexity [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Maciej Jedrzejewski – Author of Evolutionary Architecture by Example
  • AI Agents In Practice [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Henrik Kniberg – AI whisperer, Chief Scientist & Cofounder of Abundly.AI
  • Spring Then & Now: What’s Next? [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Trisha Gee – Award-winning Engineer, Author and PC Member
    • Rod Johnson – Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel
    • Arjen Poutsma – Practical Insights from a Spring Framework Veteran
15:00 - 15:15
Break
  • Book signing with Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee [TAP1 Book Store]
15:15 - 16:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Platforms: Build Abstractions, not Illusions [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Gregor Hohpe – Riding the Architect Elevator, Platform Builder, Author
  • Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Barry O'Reilly – CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology
  • Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Sarah Wells – "Real governance is about alignment and reducing technical risk"
  • Cloud, containers, security and AI - what’s now, what’s next? [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Adrian Mouat – Author of 'Using Docker'
    • Kief Morris – Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
    • Sam Newman – Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to Microservices
16:00 - 16:15
Break
  • Book Signing with Sarah Wells [TAP1 Book Store]
16:15 - 17:00
Parallel Sessions
  • The Forest & The Desert Are Parallel Universes [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Kent Beck – Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
  • Modern Enterprise Architecture: Architecting for Outcomes [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Simon Rohrer – Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking
  • How Debuggers Work [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Sy Brand – C++ Debugger Expert
  • Every Software Org is Dysfunctional [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Andrew Harmel-Law – Tech Principal at Thoughtworks
    • Barry O'Reilly – CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology
    • Gregor Hohpe – Riding the Architect Elevator, Platform Builder, Author
    • Rebecca Parsons – CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks
17:00 - 17:15
Break
  • Book signing with Gregor Hohpe and Kent Beck [TAP1 Book Store]
17:15 - 18:15
Keynote
  • 13 years of cryptocurrency de-anonymization (and counting) [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Sarah Meiklejohn – The Mind Behind Breaking the Bitcoin Anonymity, Professor in Cryptography and Security
18:15 - 19:00
Welcome reception
  • Welcome reception

Thursday, October 2

Time Sessions
08:00 - 08:45
Registration & Morning Refreshments
08:45 - 09:00
Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote
  • AI, Corporate Responsibility, and Democratic Legitimacy – Is DevOps the Answer? [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Joanna Bryson – Professor of Ethics and Technology, Responsible Data Science for Human Development
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 11:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Leading 3000 Developers into the Next Era of Software Engineering [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Garth Gilmour – Delivered over 1,000 masterclasses & author of 40+ training courses; Learning Consultant at Liberty IT
    • Stuart Greenlees – Senior Director of Technology at Liberty IT
  • Lexical, Vector and Hybrid Search with Elasticsearch [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Carly Richmond – Manager at Elastic
  • From Human Promise to Digital Twin: Predicting Personality with AI. A case storie [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Anders Hasle Nielsen – Takes human avatars to another level
  • Extended keynote Q&A [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Joanna Bryson – Professor of Ethics and Technology, Responsible Data Science for Human Development
11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 12:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Are Your Tests Slowing You Down? [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Trisha Gee – Award-winning Engineer, Author and PC Member
  • Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Katharine Jarmul – Building Privacy-first Data and AI/ML Systems, Products and Platforms
  • The Green Shift: Transitioning .NET Services Across Architectures [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Sara Bergman – Co-Author of "Building Green Software" & Software Engineer at Microsoft
  • Engineering Leadership in Turbulent Times [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Daniel Terhorst-North – Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy. Accelerating the Growth of Technical Leaders
    • Sarah Wells – "Real governance is about alignment and reducing technical risk"
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Keynote
  • Things You Thought You Didn’t Need To Care About That Have a Big Impact On Your Job [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Holly Cummins – JavaOne Rock Star. Building Quarkus to make the cloud cloudier, PC member
14:00 - 14:15
Break
  • Book signing with Kief Morris [TAP1, Partner Area]
14:15 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Growing and thriving in a multi-model world [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Alberto Brandolini – Creator of EventStorming
  • Beyond Uptime: What the 'Metric' Is Going On with Green Software? [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Sarah Hsu – Co-Author of "Building Green Software" & Project lead at Green Software Foundation
  • A Fun & Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Alexander Chatzizacharias – Vector databases explained with humor in a very visual way
  • The Tech Truth Circle [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Martin Fowler – Pioneer!
    • Kent Beck – Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
15:00 - 15:15
Break
  • Book Signing with Katherine Jarmul and Sam Newman [TAP1 Book Store]
15:15 - 16:00
Parallel Sessions
  • How Fast Can You Parse a File with 1 Billion Rows of Weather Data Using Java? [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Roy van Rijn – Robotics Enthusiast, Hobby Mathematician
  • The Evolution of User Interfaces [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Ken Pfeuffer – The Mastermind Behind Apple's Gaze-and-Pinch Technology
  • From Lag to Lightning: Confident, Automated Changes at Scale [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Aubrey Chipman – Keeper of the Netflix Developer Productivity Secrets
    • Roberto Perez Alcolea – Software Engineer at Netflix
  • Sustainability [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Rebecca Parsons – CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks
    • Sara Bergman – Co-Author of "Building Green Software" & Software Engineer at Microsoft
    • Sarah Hsu – Co-Author of "Building Green Software" & Project lead at Green Software Foundation
16:00 - 16:15
Break
  • Book Signing with Sara Bergman and Sarah Hsu [TAP1 Book Store]
16:15 - 17:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Best Simple System for Now [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Daniel Terhorst-North – Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
  • Observability and the art of Software Engineering [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Martin Thwaites – Hands-on Observability Engineer
  • Building Data Visualisations in Python in Minutes [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Kris Jenkins – Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast Host
  • Security & Developer Experience: Can We Have Both? [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Abby Bangser – Platform Engineering Insights from Syntasso delivering Kratix
    • Adrian Mouat – Author of 'Using Docker'
    • Holly Cummins – JavaOne Rock Star. Building Quarkus to make the cloud cloudier, PC member
17:00 - 17:15
Break
17:15 - 18:15
Keynote
  • The Way the Future Was [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • James Lewis – Director at Thoughtworks, Coined the Term Microservices, PC Member
    • Kevlin Henney – Speaker, Writer, Author and Trainer, PC Member
18:15 - 20:30
GOTO Gathering
  • GOTO Gathering

Friday, October 3

Time Sessions
08:00 - 08:45
Registration & Morning Refreshments
08:45 - 09:00
Conference Opening
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote
  • Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Sam Aaron – Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 11:00
Parallel Sessions
  • WebAssembly on Kubernetes [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Nicolas Fränkel – Live Coding Guru
  • Platform as a Product: A Deep Dive into the Technical Foundations [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Abby Bangser – Platform Engineering Insights from Syntasso delivering Kratix
  • Application-Driven Infrastructure Deployment: Enabling More Effective Software Delivery [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Kief Morris – Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 12:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Making AI Personal: Building Context-Rich AI Tools with MCP [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Kris Jenkins – Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast Host
  • Platform Engineering for Software Developers, Architects, and the Rest of Us [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Daniel Bryant – Platform Engineer Expert at Syntasso
  • From Neural Networks to Digital Brains: The Next Leap in AI [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Daniel Lütgehetmann – Leading AI Research & Innovation
  • Software Design, Architecture & Giving Clarity at Scale [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Simon Rohrer – Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking
    • Jacqui Read – Author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects.
    • Sam Newman – Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to Microservices
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Keynote
  • Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Lu Wilson – Software Engineer
14:00 - 14:15
Break
14:15 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Why Do We Need an Agent Framework? [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Rod Johnson – Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel
  • Three Words to Remember When Working with People’s Motivation and Productivity: Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness to Others [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Yanina Ledovaya – JetBrains, DX Research team lead, cognitive psychologist
  • Supply Chain Security and the Real World: Lessons From Incidents [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Adrian Mouat – Author of 'Using Docker'
  • The Tech Truth Circle [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • James Lewis – Director at Thoughtworks, Coined the Term Microservices, PC Member
    • Sam Aaron – Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi
15:00 - 15:15
Break
15:15 - 16:00
Parallel Sessions
  • Navigating Uncharted Waters: Coding Agents & Language Evolution [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • José Valim – Creator of Elixir, Author of Three Technical Books.
  • Developer Productivity at a Developer Productivity Startup [TAP1, Room 1]
    • Robert-Jan Huijsman – The future of developer productivity
  • Reflections of AI: A Trilogy in Four Parts [TAP1, Room 2]
    • Rasmus Lystrøm – Disrupting all things cloud, DevOps, and AI while speaking about it publicly
  • Rewriting the SDLC playbook with GenAI—how to build a GenAI-augmented software organization? [TAP1, Thoughtworks Live Stage]
    • Kris Jenkins – Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast Host
    • Marko Klemetti – CTO of Eficode
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:30
Keynote
  • Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law [TAP1, Main Stage]
    • Allen Holub – Authority. When Allen Speaks the World Listens