Architecture and Design

Presenters Jacob Lauritzen Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Chatbox: Why Complex AI Agents Need More Than Just Conversation 🚀 If you have ever tasked an AI agent with a long-running, complex project—like drafting a legal contract—you have likely hit the “context rot” wall. You watch the agent spin up sub-agents, search the web, and write files, only for it to stumble on a minor detail, hallucinate, or lose the plot entirely 30 minutes later. ...

Presenters Raia Hadsell Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Chatbot: Exploring the Frontier of Intelligence with Raia Hadsell 🚀 At the recent AI Engineer conference in London, Raia Hadsell, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, took the stage to remind us that the future of AI is much broader than just text boxes and chat interfaces. With a background spanning from the philosophy of religion to a PhD in convolutional neural networks under Yann LeCun, Hadsell now leads a massive team of 1,200 scientists and engineers across 10 global labs. ...

Presenters Arndt Schwenkschuster Dmitry Telegin Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 🚀 Bridging the Gap: How SPIFFE and Transaction Tokens Secure the Modern Cloud In the fast-evolving world of cloud-native architecture, we face a persistent, nagging problem: how do we connect human identity (the user clicking a button) with workload identity (the microservices talking to each other)? At a recent industry talk, Arndt Schwenkschuster (SPIFFE Maintainer and Standards Architect) and Dmitry Telegin (Keycloak contributor) unveiled a powerful solution. They demonstrated how to use SPIFFE and the emerging OAuth Transaction Tokens specification to create a secure, cryptographically verifiable chain of identity from the frontend all the way to the database. ...

Presenters David Festal Jon Koops Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 🚀 Stop Rebuilding Your Backstage App: The Power of Dynamic Runtime Plugins In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage stands as the industry titan. However, anyone who has managed a large-scale instance knows the “banana and the rainforest” problem: you want a simple plugin, but you end up pulling in a massive web of transitive dependencies that bloat your build and slow your CI/CD pipeline to a crawl. ...

Presenters Chris Detsicas Antonio Jimenez Martinez Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Supercharging Your Deployments: Progressive Rollouts with Argo Rollouts and Metrics! 💡 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the nail-biting tension of a new application release? We’ve all been there. Today, we’re diving deep into a game-changer for Kubernetes deployments: Argo Rollouts. Get ready to transform your releases from risky gambles into smooth, confidence-inspiring journeys. This session, brought to you by Chris Detsicas and Antonio Jimenez Martinez from Thousand Eyes, is all about mastering progressive delivery using continuous verification driven by metrics. We’re moving beyond just checking if your app is “healthy” to ensuring it’s “behaving as expected.” Pretty cool, right? ...