Design isn’t magic, it’s a set of rules you can learn. In this talk, we’ll go through the core visual principles developers can use to make UIs look clean and intentional: alignment, spacing, sizing, and colour. You’ll learn to spot design issues early and make quick fixes that elevate your work, even without a designer […]

Typography is a key part of every design – yet it’s often an afterthought, until something goes seriously wrong. What can we learn from a PR disaster for IKEA, the wrong movie winning an Oscar, and a disaster at the Pope’s grave? That typography isn’t just about aesthetics – it’s a critical part of user […]

Revolut has implemented extreme DevOps automation to handle the challenges of operating within a large-scale microservices architecture. This approach allows a 15-person DevOps team to support 1300 engineers, manage 6500 deployments to serve 70M customers worldwide. This efficiency is critical to ensuring teams focus on innovation rather than the complexities of infrastructure and tool configuration.

Design and code are great at solving today’s user needs, but what if your product category rewrites itself tomorrow? In a world of accelerating change and rising entropy, strategic foresight helps teams look beyond trends to map plausible futures, test their likelihood, and spot the hidden assumptions shaping roadmaps. You’ll learn a practical approach to […]

In this talk, Yoav will walk you through how his team at Similarweb uses LLMs and embeddings to reduce analytics noise, speed up time to insight and improve the overall user experience across their products. You will learn practical techniques for running both paid and open source LLMs and embedding models in production, along with […]

Modern frontend teams often rely on powerful UI frameworks to move fast, but over time, those tools can quietly become bottlenecks. What once accelerated development begins to add weight, slow down performance, and make customisation more complex than it should be. In a world where performance budgets are tight and user expectations are high, these […]

In this talk, Anastasiia shares how to build a theming system, so adding new themes doesn’t become a nightmare. She’ll demonstrate how to organise design tokens, layer themes, and maintain UI consistency – even as your project grows. Learn how to manage themes with different color schemes, light and dark modes, and address color contrast […]

While the industry debates whether AI will rewrite the product manager’s job, the best already moved on. The rewrite happened, quietly, through practitioners porting human craft into AI’s strongest parts. Credible product voices are already saying it on record: the information mover PM is becoming a dinosaur; the judgment-and-taste PM is being paid more. This […]

What if the usual advice on designing UX, creating products and building teams is all wrong? What if the key to success is to ignore your users? To make products intentionally harder to use? To launch prototypes before they are ready? Or to purposefully build incompatible teams? How about doing what your stakeholders explicitly don’t […]

Accessibility is often discussed, but not always addressed effectively. This talk focuses on real-world data (from sources like WebAIM and the WebAIM Million) to identify which issues have the most impact on users. We’ll also examine critical gaps in WCAG 2 – especially the lack of prioritization based on context and function – and briefly […]