Our Sessions

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Optimizing Attack Placement

The rapid integration of Generative AI technologies, and particularly their multimodality, presents an exciting frontier for tackling complex and leng... Read More

From Zero to Full Prototype in 72 Hours? Ninjas Say “Yes”

"There's no way this will be ready by next week." Sound familiar? As developers, we're trained to spot problems, but what if we flipped the script and... Read More

Curiosity Driven Development

What happens when you approach everything with curiosity? For me, it turned a frustrating job managing Oracle RAC databases into a career spent buildi... Read More

Prepare for the Fragmented Web Revolution

More and more people are using AI agents to get things done - reading content, booking flights, managing tasks - all without ever visiting traditional... Read More

Timeouts, Retries and the Devil

“Timeouts, Retries, and the Devil” dives into the often-overlooked complexity of error handling in high-scale systems. We’ll explore why short timeout... Read More

The 5 Ingredients for Successfully Adopting AI Code Generation in Complex Engineering Environments

According to social media, it is well known that every software company in the world now uses agentic AI to write most of its code. But in reality, ag... Read More

LLMs Suck at Cyber Intel—Unless You Hack Them Right

Every second, 6,000 posts flood X.com—some valuable, most just noise. Hidden in the chaos are leaked credentials, malware sightings, and attack indica... Read More

Micro Service - Mega Cost: Architectural Styles and Their Hidden Price Tags

As developers, we love debating monoliths vs. microservices, event-driven vs. REST, serverless vs. Kubernetes. But beyond scalability, isolation, prod... Read More

Bringing AI into R&D, Taking a Human-Centric Approach

Introducing AI into engineering workflows is more complex than it appears. Over the past several months, I’ve led an initiative to integrate agentic A... Read More

Uncovering My Holocaust Legacy: Using LLMs for Historical Exploration

My grandmother mentioned she had never read any of her father’s articles. I thought: “No way.” He was a well-known journalist in his time, the dar... Read More

Dali's DAL - Designing a Data Access Layer Like an Artist

Did you know that Dali’s melting clocks were inspired by the pain of refactoring to support a DB migration? Ok, not really - but they totally could’ve... Read More

You Are No Longer a Senior Engineer

We often think of GenAI eating into the roles of junior engineer (because of “having a coding agent is like having multiple junior engineers doin the ... Read More

The Dev Team Has New Teammates (and They’re Autonomous)

Forget passive copilots - at monday.com, we've built domain-specific autonomous AI agents that don't just assist, they act. From proactively reviewing... Read More

Consensus: Quorum, Minority Quorum, Administered Quorum, and Beyond

Consensus protocols like Paxos and Raft are the backbone of modern distributed systems — but their purpose, limitations, and trade-offs are often misu... Read More

From Outside In to Inside Out: Owning Your Success

In today’s high-performing environments, many individuals meet all the external definitions of success - degrees, careers, family, and yet still strug... Read More

From Spacecraft Docking to API Hacking: Integration Lessons Across 50 Years

50 years ago, during the height of the cold war, the USA and Soviet Union decided to do the impossible - a joint spaceflight where two spacecraft, dev... Read More

Explain It Like I’m 5: Discovering the Joy of Coding with Cramel

"Mommy, what is an algorithm?" "Daddy, what is code? And why does your computer screen always look so dark?" As developers, we know how fun and power... Read More

The End of SaaS: The (Re)birth of Service Companies

For two decades, SaaS was the dominant model for software startups: build a horizontal product, sell it by the seat, scale with digital distribution. ... Read More

Me, Myself and (A)I - Deploying a Persona-Based Agent When Real Users Don’t Exist

What if you could talk to your product personas—and they will talk back? At LSports, where I lead Gen AI and analytics products, we ran into a classi... Read More

Standard Score for Trend Analysis

While relative and absolute change offer an intuitive glimpse into data trends over time, they can be misleading. Is a +10% increase significant? Perh... Read More

Wildlife S.O.S.: Why Isn't There an App for that?

Have you ever had a brilliant idea for an app that could make life easier and better, only to have it shot down by others? You even have a friend who ... Read More

Surprise Song

This year we got something really special for you...

Who Bumped My Car? Multimodal Agentic AI for Edge Case Mining in Massive Datasets

In vehicle inspection, spotting edge cases like a shallow scratch on a tail light can make all the difference. These rare issues often lie in the long... Read More

Not Broken Yet: Observability Beyond the Obvious

Your dashboards are green. Latency is stable. Error rates are low. But users are complaining - something feels off. In this talk, we’ll explore how t... Read More

Small Habits, Big Impact: Rethinking How We Lead

As managers, we often find ourselves caught between day-to-day demands and the deeper work of driving change and long-term impact. That’s where habi... Read More

One of Us Is an Agent!

What happens when you throw an AI into a group chat with real people playing Mafia - the classic social deduction game? I wanted to find out. But the... Read More

History in the Making: On Computer Preservation

Our young little industry is, at 70 years and an estimated 27 million engineers, no longer young or little. The breakneck pace of hardware and softwar... Read More

Flattening the Curve: Rediscovering Web UI Through Historic Geometric Constructions

Modern UI/UX design is built upon concepts much older than computers. This talk uncovers how ideas from the history of geometry continue to shape the ... Read More

When Tables Start Talking: The Next Big AI Revolution

Generative AI is transforming everything, yet it still struggles with one of machine learning's oldest challenges: making accurate predictions from ta... Read More

The Fourth Revolution: How AI is Redefining Our Era

We are living through humanity’s fourth great industrial revolution. The steam engine mechanized our muscles. Electricity powered mass production. Com... Read More

How Kernel Programming Escaped the Kernel

eBPF started as a way to make Linux networking faster. Now it's revolutionizing everything from security to observability to performance optimization,... Read More

Riding the AI Crisis

In a world where frameworks rise and fall faster than our coffee cools, staying relevant as a developer feels like a full-time job — especially now, w... Read More

Beyond Doctor GPT: Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs for Real-World Clinical Data Research

Real world healthcare data is a goldmine for medical research, but nearly 80% of it is trapped in unstructured notes, making it largely inaccessible. ... Read More

Attacks on Machine Learning Models

Machine learning models are used everywhere! From text to speech to object recognition, from image classification to speech to text. Those models are ... Read More

From Chat to Everything: Building Reusable AI Infrastructure Across All Platforms

We had 6 weeks and vague requirements: "we need chat and other AI features." What we built now powers multiple chat experiences and various AI feature... Read More

Beyond Vector Similarity - Making Your Search Smarter

"Search" sounds like an auxiliary function - until your users can’t find what they’re looking for. Whether they’re trying to read, buy, or make a deci... Read More

Breakin ‘Em All – Overcoming Pokemon’s Go Anti-Cheat Mechanism

It was the summer of 2016, and like everyone else, I was out playing Pokémon Go. Except my rural location barely spawned anything interesting. Natural... Read More

The Illusion of Success: Rethinking Frontend Monitoring

Imagine a user interacting with your application: clicking buttons, navigating pages, submitting forms—everything seems fine on the surface, and Core ... Read More

It Takes a Village to Build a Good Hebrew Speech-to-Text Model

In this talk we will share the ivrit.ai story, a zero-budget non-profit community project that set out to build an open, high-quality Hebrew speech-to... Read More

Agentic AI in DevOps

Agentic AI marks a leap beyond simple chatbots, introducing autonomous agents capable of complex task execution and independent decision-making. In th... Read More

🔥 Generative UI: The Future of Frontend (And Why You Should Care)

This talk is all about Generative UI. AI-driven user interfaces that actually adapt to users in real time. No more static, one-size-fits-all UIs. We’r... Read More

Optimizing the Deployment of LLMs for Cost Efficiency

In this talk, we delve into the vital considerations surrounding cost management when deploying LLMs in real-world applications. We explore the nuance... Read More

How Internal Platforms Drive Business Outcomes in the AI Era

What’s the real impact of investing in internal platforms in the AI Era? In this talk, I’ll share best practices and real-life examples of how applyin... Read More

Seven Process Optimization Techniques That Just Work

In this fast-paced five-minute talk, I’ll share seven simple, proven techniques to improve system performance. Distilled from 20 years of optimizing l... Read More

I swear, PMs and Developers CAN Actually Like Each Other

After working as a product manager for years, I taught myself how to code and became a developer. Suddenly, I realized how many misunderstandings betw... Read More

The Secret Masters of Time: Who Really Controls Your datetime.now()?

Who controls time in Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, and Go? Not the language creators. Not tech giants. A small team of volunteers whose decisions inst... Read More

Hacking the quarantine with a Raspberry Pi & Electronics

While working from home during quarantine, our team launched a new service. It was important for me to keep tabs on its metrics, but I didn't have a s... Read More

Building a Window to History: Talking to Anne Frank

A few months ago, I set out to deepen my understanding of AI tooling by building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application using Cursor AI. A... Read More

Dating Analysis

A sharp and funny spoken word piece that tells the story of my past year: I got divorced, went on a ridiculous number of dates, and—of course—analyzed... Read More

Protecting your LLM Based Service from Fraud & Abuse - the Base44 Story

What are the fraud & abuse / trust & safety risks that an LLM based service is exposed to? How can we leverage LLMs to manage those risks? In this... Read More

How We Handed the Keys to Marketing - Building a Self-Serve Marketing Stack

Remember the last time marketing Slacked “just a tiny headline tweak”? At Empathy we killed that ticket treadmill. In this 30‑minute story‑driven sess... Read More

When Labels Are Missing: Building ML Pipelines Without Annotated Data

Access to labeled data remains one of the biggest bottlenecks in deploying machine learning in real-world domains - especially in healthcare, where an... Read More

Iceberg Lakehouses: Scaling Data & AI Without Breaking the Bank

Session Description: As data volumes continue to explode and AI workloads become more demanding, organizations face increasing pressure to scale their... Read More

Building CSS Features your Browser Doesn’t Have Yet

CSS Houdini is a set of APIs that gives you great power and access to the browser's rendering engine itself. It allows developers to extend the CSS la... Read More

Evaluating Your AI Agent: How Do You Properly Measure Performance?

AI agents are becoming the next big thing. But deploying an agent without truly understanding its performance, limits, and potential failure points is... Read More