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XConf Europe 2024 highlights

 

XConf by Thoughtworks has been our flagship conference created for technologists by technologists. We want to offer a day where like-minded professionals from all over Europe can come together and talk about their passion and experience in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. This year our one-day, two-track event took place in Barcelona and hosted a diverse range of software, data, and infrastructure engineers discussing and sharing learnings based on their daily work with our clients.

You missed XConf Europe 2024? We got you covered. Join on of our exclusive Xtra webinars via Linkedin Live on Nov 06-08 to catch the XConf vibes or watch the recordings of all talks here.

XConf Europe Xtra - LinkedIn Live webinars 
 

You missed XConf? We got you covered join one of our three exclusve webinars from Nov 06-08 and catch the XConf vibes. The webinars will be live streamed via LinkedIn Live. You can register for each talks individually below. We are looking forward having you at our webinars!

Cloud Cost Chaos? Get clarity with FinOps

 

Maria Valero -  Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks

 

Nov 06 | 12pm CET 

 

FinOps appears as a practical approach for bringing clarity and collaboration to cloud cost management. In this session, you will get practical recommendations to start your FinOps journey and develop the capabilities that you will need and how to implement a company-wide FinOps practice. You should be able to walk away with actionable steps and resources to unleash the power of FinOps in your cloud journey.

Measuring developer productivity: the good, the bad and the data 

 

Marco Pierobon - Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks

 

Nov 07 | 5pm CET

 

Should developers be ranked like salespeople? Recently a question like this ignited a lot of debates and outcry in the development community. In this talk we will examine the inner complexity of measuring development productivity using a data based approach.

What digitalization means for a critical, highly-distributed infrastructure company

 

Andreas Reisenauer - Head of Infrastructure at Elia Group
 

Nov 08 | 12pm CET

 

In this talk Andreas will demonstrate the technological approach to delivering a platform that enables a cloud-native environment for realizing data-intensive applications at scale that will drive core TSO processes. From building infrastructure in data centers, to enabling seamless delivery and providing building blocks of a modern data architecture is part of this effort.


Check out the recordings of XConf Europe 2024 

 

You missed XConf? We got you covered join one of our three exclusve webinars from Nov 06-08 and catch the XConf vibes. The webinars will be live streamed via LinkedIn Live. You can register for each talks individually below. We are looking forward having you at our webinars!

In this talk, Meissaneake on a journey with Backstage, sharing practical tips for solving common problems you might run into. From customizing it to fit your team's needs, through improving onboarding experience, removing undifferentiated work to automated governance we’ll go over real experiences and lessons learned to showcase how to make the most out of its capabilities.

This talk will introduce the Impact Framework using some fun storytelling (a panda and racoon in space!). The project is entirely open source and composability is a core design principle. Minette and Andy will demonstrate how you can develop your own plugins and plug them into the framework, or pick from a broad universe of open source plugins created by others. This talk should inspire you to start using the Impact Framework as you develop software, by making it as simple as possible.

Listen to Tom and Alessio discussing incremental legacy modernization and CodeConcise, a Proof of Concept developed in-house by EMPC and Data and AI service lines. CodeConcise uses GenAI to help understand large legacy codebases, aiding both reverse engineers and business analysts in modernizing mainframe systems more efficiently.

XConf Europe 2024 | Barcelona

 

Keynote by Trisha Gee


Are your tests slowing you down?

Track 1

 

Building data mesh on Databricks and Azure for a large manufacturing company

Rieke Heinze and Dominika Makuch

 

Lessons learned implementing a large-scale data mesh transformation at Payback

Alessandro Confetti and Till Keyling (Payback)
 

 

Unlocking Backstage’s potential: Insights and solutions for a smoother developer experience

Germelinda Musliaj and Abel Guillen

 

Measuring developer productivity: the good, the bad and the data

Marco Pierobon

 

What digitalization for a critical, highly-distributed infrastructure company means

Andreas Reisenauer (from Elia Group)

 

Container Security: Zero trust and principle of least privilege in containers inside K8s

Amit Dube

Track 2

 

How to measure your software's impact on the planet

Minette Mangahas and Andy Symonds

 

 

Cloud cost chaos? Get clarity with FinOps

Maria Valero

 

 

Uncovering seams in the mainframe and GenAI-assisted reverse engineering for incremental legacy modernization

Tom Coggrave and Alessio Ferri

 

 

Fireside Chat: Continuous Deployment

Valentina Servile

 

 

Evaluating LLM systems: The nuts and bolts

Aili Asikainen and Oege Dijk

 

 

GenAI synthetic data used to fine tune a domain specific model

Meissane Chami and Siobhan Hughes

 

Past keynote speakers

Rebecca Parsons

Rebecca Parsons

 

Former CTO – Emerita, Thoughtworks

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler

 

Chief Scientist, Thoughtworks

Emily Gorcenski

Emily Gorcenski

 

Head of Data Europe, Thoughtworks

Trisha Gee profile

Trisha Gee 

 

Software engineer, Java Champion and author

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