Kickoff Meeting
    For The Developers
    Lisbon, Portugal
    / People, code, trends
    Nov, 29-30 / 2023

    Hello world!

    EpicHey! is a new professional conference for developer teams: backend, frontend engineers, product managers, team leaders, QA engineers, and more.

    EpicHey! is all about making connections, sharing knowledge and experiences, and having hot discussions in the hallways.

    The program is full of amazing talks about people, code, trends, and people again.

    All talks undergo a careful selection process by the program committee. There is no chance for marketing talks. Only meaningful content, only hardcore.

    EpicHey! is good to shake up the entire team, to charge with ideas, and to burst into the work routine with new energy.

    In 2023, EpicHey! will be held for the first time and will continue annually.

    Highlights: ≈400 participants, 3 parallel tracks, ≈ 40 speakers, expert zones, lightning talks, and a short sleep break between the first and second conference days.

    Registration is necessary. Participation too.

    Join us on November 29–30, 2023, in Lisbon.
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    Participation is necessary…
    But closed. Sold out already. See you next year.

    Speakers / Agenda

    The program is full of amazing talks about people, code, trends, and people again. All talks undergo a сareful selection process by our program committee. We don't accept marketing talks and don’t sell slots to sponsors. Only meaningful content, only hardcore.

    Call for papers is closed. Registration too. See you next year.

    Agenda. Be on time

    • EpicHey will start at 10:00am on November 29 and finish at 18:00 on November 30.
    • Three parallel tracks at the same time.
    • Breaks between talks to chat and hang out with a cup of coffee.
    • A special time for lunch is absent because we try to keep the same pace all day. Snacks are available during breaks between talks.
    • Time to sleep between the first and second days. If you need.

    29 November, Day 1
    Changes are possible. Will keep you updated.


    09:00–10:00

    09:00–10:00

    Check-in, Welcome Coffee, Small Talks
    10:00
    Opening, Keynote
    Room: Verdi
    10:00
    Opening, Keynote
    Room: Verdi
    Introducing Autonomous AI Agents
    Gerard Sans, Google Developer Expert, London

    11:00–11:45
    Room: Verdi

    11:00–11:45
    Room: Verdi
    Modern Web Debugging
    Jecelyn Yeen, DevRel, Google (Chrome DevTools), Germany
    #frontend

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    Product Scrum: Stop Dropping the Ball Between Product and Dev Teams
    Andrey Mikhaylyuk, Founder of AMGROWTH, Cyprus
    #project #product #teamlead #managers #engineers

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    Enhancing Cross-Team Contributions: InnerSource Tools and Practices
    Dmitrii Sugrobov, Engineering Manager, Digital Nomad
    #backend #devops #qa #teamlead #engineers

    12:00–12:45
    Room: Verdi

    12:00–12:45
    Room: Verdi
    How to debug autotests
    Andrei Solntsev, Selenide OÜ / founder, Codeborne / software developer, Tallinn
    #qa #backend

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    Clickhouse as backend for Prometheus
    Denis Babichev, Senior DevOps engineer at Hilbert Team, Serbia
    #backend #devops #data #managers

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    WebAuth and Passkeys: The future of authentication
    Guillermo Rodas, Senior Full-stack Engineer at EQT Group @ Motherbrain, Sweden
    #frontend #engineers #everyone

    13:00–13:45
    Room: Verdi, 20min

    13:00–13:45
    Room: Verdi, 20min
    The Highway to Becoming the Best Developer
    Aleksandr Lavrinenko, Engineering Manager at ManyChat, Barcelona
    #engineers #backend #frontend #teamlead #managers

    Room: Verdi, 20min

    Room: Verdi, 20min
    How can software developers survive in a Brave New World?
    Evgeny Smirnov, Founder of 4xxi, Spain
    #engineers #backend #frontend

    Room: Puccini, 20min

    Room: Puccini, 20min
    How ChatGPT and Copilot can help us to be better developers
    Ivo Fernandes, Flutter Lead Developer, Devexperts, Lisboa
    #engineers #backend #frontend #mobile

    Room: Puccini, 20min

    Room: Puccini, 20min
    Zero-JavaScript Web Development with Astro
    Ruby Jane Cabagnot, Full-Stack .NET/React Developer @Sannsyn, Norway
    #frontend #engineers

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    Continuous Performance Testing Mastery with K6 and Testkube
    Alexander Chumakin, Senior Automation QA Engineer at JetBrains, Netherlands
    #backend #qa

    14:00–14:45
    Room: Verdi

    14:00–14:45
    Room: Verdi
    Building Analytical App From Scratch With ClickHouse
    Alexey Milovidov, CTO, ClickHouse, Netherlands
    #backend #engineers #data #teamlead

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    You need test analysis more than you think
    Anastasiia Zarechneva, QA engineer at JetBrains, Germany
    #qa #teamlead #managers

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    How to research without a researcher
    Ruslan Vovchenko, Product designer at Revolut, Portugal
    #product #project #managers #engineers

    15:00–15:45
    Room: Verdi

    15:00–15:45
    Room: Verdi
    Dumb ways to fail onboarding into a new company
    Aleksandr Regner, Digital Leader, ADEO Marketplace, France
    #teamlead #engineers #managers

    Room: Puccini, 20min

    Room: Puccini, 20min
    Improve your Teams Productivity Using Nx
    Santosh Yadav, GDE Angular, GitHub Star, Germany
    #backend #devops #frontend #qa #teamlead #engineers

    Room: Puccini, 20min

    Room: Puccini, 20min
    Building an open-source MongoDB-compatible database on top of PostgreSQL
    Elena Grahovac, Director of Engineering at FerretDB, Germany
    #backend #devops

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    Cost-effective Selenium infrastructure
    Leonid Rudenko, Software Developer at JetBrains, Germany
    #qa #devops #backend

    16:00–16:45
    Room: Verdi

    16:00–16:45
    Room: Verdi
    Elevating Your Organization through PM Peer Reviews
    Frank Turley, P3.express / PM Coach, Belgium
    #project #product #teamlead #managers

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    Handling Dozens Millions of Queries per Second: Titan's Experience of peer-to-peer NoSQL
    Aleks Volochnev, Developer Advocate at DataStax, Germany
    #backend #data #devops #engineers #managers

    Room: Rossini,
    90min, 1st slot, beginning

    Room: Rossini,
    90min, 1st slot, beginning
    Workshop. How to build trust through conflict management in cross-cultural teams (beginning)
    Alexandra Klimenko, Soft Skills Lab, Founder, Spain
    #managers #teamlead #project #product

    17:00–17:45
    Room: Verdi

    17:00–17:45
    Room: Verdi
    Happy Healthy Team
    Vasilika Klimova, Developer Relations Engineer at Kadena, Luxembourg
    #managers #project #product #teamlead #engineers

    Room: Puccini, 20min

    Room: Puccini, 20min
    3 reasons to switch to OKLCH
    Anton Lovchikov, Product designer at Evil Martians, Portugal
    #frontend #design

    Room: Puccini, 20min

    Room: Puccini, 20min
    Discover the everyday responsibilities and core values of a DevRel Engineer
    Alba Silvente Fuentes, DevRel Engineer at Storyblok, Amsterdam, NL
    #engineers #frontend #teamlead #managers #everyone

    Room: Rossini,
    90min, 2nd slot, ending

    Room: Rossini,
    90min, 2nd slot, ending
    Workshop. How to build trust through conflict management in cross-cultural teams (ending)
    Alexandra Klimenko, Soft Skills Lab, Founder, Spain
    #managers #teamlead #project #product

    17:45–10:00

    17:45–10:00

    Some go to sleep, others go for a walk.

    And the 2nd day will come: 30 November

    30 November, Day 2
    Changes are possible. Will keep you updated.


    09:30–10:00

    09:30–10:00

    Morning Coffee, Small Talks

    10:00–10:45
    Morning Keynote
    Room: Verdi

    10:00–10:45
    Morning Keynote
    Room: Verdi
    Senior managers are senior liars
    Evgeny Kot, VP of Engineering at Rarible, Portugal

    11:00–11:45
    Room: Verdi

    11:00–11:45
    Room: Verdi
    Nine lessons I learned working with ML products
    Andrew Mende, Sr. Product Manager Machine Learning at booking.com, Netherlands
    #product #data #project #managers

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    Empowering Teams for Quality Excellence
    Anton Necheukhin, Head of QA at Miro, Netherlands
    #qa

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    What is new in CSS?
    Fellyph Rozendo Cintra, Digitale Methode / Front-end lead, Lagos/Portugal
    #frontend #design

    12:00–12:45
    Room: Verdi

    12:00–12:45
    Room: Verdi
    There is always a way to fix Accessibility
    Glafira Zhur, SpurIT, Accessibility Team Lead, Lithuania
    #frontend #product #qa #engineers

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    How to re-invent your product in a market crisis?
    Vera Langer, Head of Product at Fox&Owl Energy Experts, Germany
    #product #project #teamlead #managers

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    Hacking the native clients OAuth 2.0 — is this system safe?
    Alina Boshchenko, Software engineer and security champion at JetBrains, Netherlands
    #backend #frontend #mobile

    13:00–13:45
    Room: Verdi

    13:00–13:45
    Room: Verdi
    P3.express: A Minimalist, libre project management system
    Nader K. Rad, Project Management Author, Speaker, and Adviser, Management Plaza, Belgium
    #project #product #teamlead #managers

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    1 Million Notifications in 60 Seconds : How We Engineered A Processing Engine
    Zac Clifton, Systems and Application Architect at Novu, Israel
    #backend

    Room: Rossini, 20min

    Room: Rossini, 20min
    From Angular to Qwik! The Framework that changes the paradigm
    Ayoub Alouane, DevRel and TechLead in Adservio, France
    #frontend #backend

    Room: Rossini, 20min

    Room: Rossini, 20min
    From Zero to Production: A Lightning Talk about our WebAssembly journey
    Andrey Nagikh, TechLead in WebPros, Bulgaria
    #frontend #backend #teamlead #engineers

    14:00–14:45
    Room: Verdi

    14:00–14:45
    Room: Verdi
    5 Red Flags in QA Work: When It's Time to Run
    Alex Pshe, Independent QA expert, Netherlands
    #qa

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    Inside Out — The Design of Internal Tools
    Ilia Tiulin, Product Designer at Revolut, Portugal
    #product #project #design

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    Incomplete guide to build non-working microservices platform
    Vladimir Sapronov, Principal Software Engineer at Amwell, USA
    #backend #devops #engineers #teamlead

    15:00–15:45
    Room: Verdi

    15:00–15:45
    Room: Verdi
    Core Web Vitals: Put your application into orbit with best practices
    Nicolas Frizzarin, Developer Advocate & Senior Staff Engineer at Sfeir Luxembourg, France
    #frontend

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    Sensitive data active catalog. How to control sensitive data in real time
    Aleksandr Sungurov Security Architect in Infrastructure Security, Exness, Cyprus
    #backend #devops #data

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    Individual Contribution and Team Responsibility: myths and reality
    Dmitry Kushnikov, CTO at ManyChat, UK
    #project #product #teamlead #managers

    16:00–16:45
    Room: Verdi

    16:00–16:45
    Room: Verdi
    The Ideal Working Environment for a Product Development Team: Why It's Impossible and How to Get Closer to It
    Samat Galimov, CTO, Fedor & Samat, Latvia
    #managers #product #project #teamlead #engineers

    Room: Puccini

    Room: Puccini
    How to Test BigData/ETL Solutions?
    Igor Khrol, Team Lead at Automattic, Lithuania
    #qa #data #devops #engineers

    Room: Rossini

    Room: Rossini
    A Software Engineer's Journey Through Microservices Data Sharing
    Daniil Doronkin, Software Engineer at Booking.com, Netherlands
    #backend #frontend #engineers

    17:00–17:45
    Keynote and Goodbye
    Room: Verdi

    17:00–17:45
    Keynote and Goodbye
    Room: Verdi
    Beyond the web of today
    Kenneth Rohde Christiansen, Intel Corporation/Principal Engineer and Web Platform Architect, Denmark

    Back to yesterday: 29 November
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    • Developers for Developers
      Our work is our life and our passion. We perform our job every day and understand the daily challenges and complexities that we must solve. At EpicHey!, we strive to uncover the most relevant topics of today and anticipate what will be relevant tomorrow.
    • Community-driven
      We believe that sharing experiences and engaging in heated discussions help us grow and drive the industry forward. There are no corporate interests behind us. We can discuss anything in any form: a talk, a standup, a flipchart session, or pub discussions. The topic is more important than the speaker's fame. However, sometimes it's the opposite.
    • Meetup vibe at the conference
      EpicHey! is all about making connections, sharing knowledge and experiences, and engaging in lively discussions in the hallways. There are no VIP options or special access to speakers; everyone is on an equal footing. You can wear your slippers, sit on the floor, code during the talk, or even sleep on the couch. Just don't snore.
    Venue
    Dom Pedro Lisboa
    Av. Eng. Duarte Pacheco 24, 1070-110 Lisboa

    All speakers and team will stay here.

    Bed & Breakfast
    • €150 per night between Nov 27–Dec 1.
    • Breakfast included.
    • Promocode: EPICHEY or follow the link.

    Note. Free cancellation 7 days prior to check-in date. Non-refundable cancellations after 7 days before the check-in date or no-show.
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