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code.talks 2026

code.talks is a two-day conference in Hamburg for the entire Dev-Team, bringing together highly curated tracks and sessions for developers and CTOs. The event features renowned speakers, a gaming and expo area, meals and entertainment, and is set in one of Germany’s largest cinemas. Attendees can expect a vibrant, family-like community focused on networking…

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35Speakers
10Sponsors
13Exhibitors
14On the bill · sessions
38Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at code.talks, in alphabetical order.
Aino Corry
Instigator of Fun · Metadeveloper
Andreas Rossberg
Annette Bieniusa
Cat Swetel
Director of Engineering · Nubank
Daniel Jones
AND Digital
Daniel Terhorst North
Daniel Terhorst-North
Founder & Principal Consultant · Goalwards
Dex Horthy
HumanLayer
Diana Montalion
Founder, Principal Architect · Mentrix / The Athletic
Emily Bache
Bache Consulting
Eric Evans
Software Designer
Gertrud Kolb
CTO · Scout24 SE
Gregor Hohpe
Enterprise Strategist · The Architect Elevator
Henning Schwentner
Ingo Eichhorst
AI Architect · IONOS
Kevlin Henney
CEO · Curbralan
Kim Nena Duggen
Lars Hupel
Luca Rossi
Founder · Refactoring
Maja Göpel
Founder & Honorary Professor · Leuphana University
Malte Ubl
CTO · Vercel
Michael Feathers
Founder · R7K Research & Conveyance
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
adjoe
Deichmann
DevOpsDays
German Tech Job
Kube Events
PyConDE & PyData 2026
Sentry
Synatix
Text Control
Vercel
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Agenda

Selected from 14 sessions on the bill.
  • 01

    Why Software Factories Fail

    We spent the last year building the software factory: sandboxes, orchestration, code review, skills, feedback loops. The factory is mostly built - so what happens if we turn the li…

    GenAI & LLMs
  • 02

    How To Teach Your Agents About Architecture

    Emphemerality: the concept of things being transitory, fleeting, or existing only for a short time. Suddenly, one of the most important considerations for code is ephemerality–how …

    Architecture
  • 02

    Knowledge Flow: Designing Actual Intelligence

    We’ve never had better tools. Faster streams. Decoupled architectures. AI writing our code. And yet , systems still drift towards a big ball of mud. Unsatisfying and difficult to c…

    Architecture
  • 02

    Lessons learned building a harness to rediscover and replace a legacy system

    Can AI help us to modernize these 3 legacy systems faster? This was the question we asked ourselves after yet another bug that forced us to dig through the many synchronization iss…

    Architecture
  • 02

    Taming Modularity: A Practical Design Model for the AI Era

    Modularity has been software design's holy grail since the 1960s ...and we've been failing at it for just as long: OOP, design patterns, architectural styles, SOA, microservices. N…

    Architecture
  • 02

    We Doubled Engineering Productivity at eBay, but Couldn't Change the Culture

    This is the story of eBay’s company-wide Velocity initiative, which doubled engineering productivity across all 5000 engineers, but still could not save the company from its own pa…

    Architecture
  • 04

    A New Literacy: Thinking Clearly While AI Writes the Code

    AI-assisted coding tools are changing what it means to be a developer. For decades, software engineering literacy meant mastering languages, frameworks, and the mechanics of writin…

    Security
  • 08

    AI & Social Acceleration: Why are we faster yet falling behind?

    Every paradigm shift in computing resets our relationship with time, labor, and craft. As AI accelerates technical execution, we are experiencing what sociologist Hartmut Rosa defi…

    Culture
  • 08

    From Digital to AI-Native: Transforming Scout24

    AI is rapidly changing how companies build products, make decisions, and create value for customers. For established digital businesses, the challenge is no longer whether to adopt…

    Culture
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 38 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?

38 companies. six are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
6All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
7Exhibitingexhibitor only
21Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Sentry·Vercel·adjoe·Deichmann·Synatix·Text Control

Speakers by seniority

29% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite39%
  • Founder / Owner514%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead26%
  • Engineer · IC617%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles1646%

Of 35 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01SentrySpEx1V
  2. 02VercelSpEx1V
  3. 03adjoeSpEx
  4. 04DeichmannSpEx
  5. 05SynatixSpEx
  6. 06Text ControlSpEx
  7. 07DevOpsDaysSp
  8. 08German Tech JobSp
  9. 09KubeEventsSp
  10. 10PyConDE & PyData 2026Sp
  11. 11A1 DigitalEx
  12. 12Auth0Ex
  13. 13F5Ex
  14. 14intersoftEx
Sponsors by tier
unspecified10
100% of 10
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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