Engineering for Reality

Mostly backend developers, architects and tech leads. You'll be at home if you're deep in a legacy migration, rethinking your platform, or trying to work out what to bet on next.

3 things. Every talk is picked by our program committee, not sold to us. No sales pitches from the stage. And the speakers stay. Around 75% of them hang around on the days they're not speaking, so the hallway conversations are as good as the program.

Speakers stay all week, so the person whose book you read is in the coffee queue. Three days out of the office is three days nobody can pull you into a stand-up, and everyone around you is solving the same problems at a different scale.

An expert program committee builds it. They're working practitioners, and they pick every talk based on what matters in software right now.

Cloud and DevOps, AI and data, frontend and web, security, developer productivity, programming, architecture, teams and organization, and tech for good (or evil). Every day mixes what you can use immediately with what's coming next, so you never get a full day of theory or a full day of tooling tips.

The conference tells you what's coming and what other teams are doing. A masterclass gives you a skill you can use on Monday. If you already know which problem you're trying to solve, do the masterclass. If you're scanning the landscape, do the conference. If you can, do both.

Conference tickets cover all sessions on your chosen days, plus breakfast, lunch, snacks and coffee, the receptions and the conference party. Recordings and slides come to you afterwards. Masterclass tickets cover the class itself, materials, lunch and refreshments for that day.

Yes. You get a full playlist with all the slides and talks after the conference.