Ines Bakker
Staff engineer, payments. Spent 2025 removing a feature flag system nobody could turn off.
4—5 June 2026 · Rotterdam
Two days on the code you already have.
No greenfield talks. No framework launches. Fourteen engineers on legacy systems, migrations that took three years, and the deletions they're proudest of.
- 14Talks, single track
- 2Days, 4—5 June
- 300Seats total
- €180Early bird, individual
Programme
Day one
Doors at 08:30. Everything happens in one room, so you never have to choose.
| Time | Talk | Speaker | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Deleting 140,000 lines without telling anyone | Ines Bakker | 40 min |
| 10:20 | The migration that took three years and was worth it | Tomás Ferreira | 40 min |
| 11:20 | Reading a codebase you inherited from someone who left angry | Priya Raman | 30 min |
| 13:30 | Tests for systems nobody understands yet | Kwame Osei | 40 min |
| 14:20 | Strangler fig, honestly assessed | Lena Fischer | 40 min |
| 15:30 | Lightning talks | Ten of you | 50 min |
Day two runs the same shape
Six talks, one long lunch and an unconference slot from 15:00 that is genuinely unplanned. The full grid goes out to ticket holders in May.
Speakers
Six of the fourteen
Tomás Ferreira
Led a mainframe-to-services migration at a bank, and will show the parts that failed.
Priya Raman
Consultant. Reads other people's codebases for a living, which she insists is a skill.
Kwame Osei
Test infrastructure at a logistics company with 900 services and no service catalogue.
Lena Fischer
Wrote the strangler-fig retrospective everyone quotes and now wants to complicate it.
You, maybe
Lightning talk slots open in April. Five minutes, no slides required.
Tickets
Three prices, same seat
Company tickets subsidise the community rate. Nobody sits in a different section.
Community
Students, between jobs, self-funded.
€60 both days
- Same seat, same lunch
- No questions asked
- 40 available
Individual
€180 both days
- Both days, all talks
- Lunch and coffee
- Recordings a week early
Company
€420 per person
- Invoiced, VAT receipt
- Name changes until 1 June
- Funds the community rate
Practical
Before you book travel
Where exactly is it?
A converted grain warehouse ten minutes from Rotterdam Centraal. Step-free throughout, hearing loop in the main room.
Are talks recorded?
Yes, and published free within a month. Ticket holders get them a week early.
Can I get a refund?
Full refund until 1 May, name transfer until the morning of the first day.
Is there a code of conduct?
Yes, enforced, with two named contacts who are not the organisers.