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IT Futures 2026 – Österreichs IT Karriere-Festival

The IT Futures 2026 is Austria’s career festival focused on the future, technology, innovation, and professional opportunities. The free two-day event features top-level tech talks and keynotes on the latest IT trends, offers networking with industry leaders and companies, and includes a special Women in IT Zone, hands-on innovation areas, and coding playgro…

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12Speakers
19Sponsors
19Exhibitors
20Sessions
39Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at IT, in alphabetical order.

Anja Gstöttner
Clara Hackenbuchner-Buresch
Women in AI Austria
Georg Haupt
Quality Evangelist, Leidenschaft: Software zerstören · oose eG
Manuela Astrid Weixlbaumer
Head of Intellectual Property · KEBA Group AG
Manuel Blum
Nahed Hatahet
Digital & AI Transformation Expert, Berater, Trainer, Mentor, Keynote Speaker und Autor · KI-Trainings.at
Nina Hofbauer-Haunold
Mind Yourself NH e.U.
Roman Ferstl
triscon IT- Services
Sabrina Gaupmann
Digital Product Specialist · Wiener Netze
Simon Jimenez
Storywise
Thomas Stranig
PERSENTIS GmbH
Xiao Chen
Women in AI Austria

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

42Vienna
72net
ACV
AI Factory
AlphaMint
Ambertech
AMS Wien
ASQF
Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Austrian Testing Board
Automatenvermietung
BizUp_UpperAustria
CodeFactoryWien
Der Standard
DevOpsDays Graz
FitchGallery
FoundersToday
Gamers
Great Place To Work

Agenda

Selected from 20 sessions.

  • 09.30 – 10.00, Main Stage

    Eröffnungskeynote: WILLKOMMEN IM FALSCHEN FILM – Nieder mit dem Obstkorb Warum Obstkorb, Kicker und Karriere-Buzzwords noch keine moderne Arbeitswelt machen.

    Stellenanzeigen sind wie Filmtrailer: große Versprechen, dramatische Musik – und die wichtigsten Probleme wurden elegant herausgeschnitten. Zwischen „flachen Hierarchien“, „familiä…

  • 10.15 – 10.45, HUB I

    Barrierefreiheit im Web: Was du heute lernen solltest, um morgen gefragt zu sein – Ein Skill-Set für die Zukunft.

  • 10.15 – 10.45, HUB II

    Debug your Leadership: Warum Mentaltraining und Systemik die neuen „Critical Updates“ für Tech-Leader sind

    Nach über 25 Jahren in der IT-Branche weiß ich: Die größten Herausforderungen in der digitalen Transformation entstehen selten durch Technologie allein, sondern dort, wo Menschen u…

  • 10.45 – 11.15, HUB I

    TechTalk | solicon IT GmbH

  • 10.45 – 11.15, HUB II

    Social Media und Plattformverantwortung. Was der Digital Services Act (DSA) bedeutet.

    Die sozialen Medien prägen mittlerweile unseren Alltag. Doch wer trägt Mitverantwortung für die dort platzierten Inhalte? Der Vortrag stellt eine verständliche Einführung in Rechts…

  • 11.15 – 11.45, HUB I

    TechTalk | IVM Technical Consultants

  • 11.15 – 11.45, HUB II

    Zwischen Macht und Maschine – Wem können wir in Zukunft noch trauen?

    Wenn KI Stimmen imitiert, Gesichter fälscht und Entscheidungen trifft – wem begegnen wir dann wirklich? Nahed Hatahet, Technologie-Experte, Vordenker und Story-Teller beleuchtet, w…

  • 11.45 – 12.15, HUB I

    Break it til you make it

    Wie du mit Last- und Performancetests Systeme ans Limit treibst und als IT-Detektiv verborgene Bottlenecks aufdeckst. Jedes System hat Grenzen – die Frage ist nur, wo diese liegen…

  • 11.45 – 12.15, HUB II

    Command and Conquery: How to control a Software with an LLM

    I’ll show what is needed to make a pre-existing software controllable by AI in a safe, human-in-the-loop compliant way. I’ll show what architecture we used, our methods and which p…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 39 companies show up, and 8 bet on three roles at once?

39 companies. eight 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
8All threespeak · spons · exh
11Sponsoringsponsor only
11Exhibitingexhibitor only
9Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

42Vienna·AI Factory·AlphaMint·AMS Wien·Austrian Testing Board·Automatenvermietung·BizUp_UpperAustria·Der Standard

Speakers by seniority

8% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of18%
  • Engineer · IC18%
  • Advisor / Investor18%
  • Other roles975%

Of 12 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
142ViennaSponsorExhibitor-
2AI FactorySponsorExhibitor-
3AlphaMintSponsorExhibitor-
4AMS WienSponsorExhibitor-
5Austrian Testing BoardSponsorExhibitor-
6AutomatenvermietungSponsorExhibitor-
7BizUp_UpperAustriaSponsorExhibitor-
8Der StandardSponsorExhibitor-
972netSponsor-
10ACVSponsor-
11AmbertechSponsor-
12ASQFSponsor-
13Austrian Institute of TechnologySponsor-
14CodeFactoryWienSponsor-
Sponsors by tier
unspecified19
100% of 19
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