Education, Career & Life
9 talks from the 2026 edition.
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"You are an intelligent business analyst": how i learned to talk to business ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Darya Petrashka
Developers don’t need to become business analysts, but they do need business skills. This talk shows how learning to communicate with stakeholders, uncover real business needs, and bridge gaps between tech and...
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(Autism and) The Predictive Brain Theory (in Tech) ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Dennie Declercq
New studies showed how the brain is not a passive receiver of stimuli but an active predictor of stimuli. People with autism have more difficulties when the predicted and received stimuli doe not match. How do we...
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Escape the Hype: Teaching LLM Concepts Through an Interactive AI Factory Game ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Vadim Vlasov, Eric Glaser, Lisa Amrhein
Everyone talks about LLMs, RAG, and AI agents - but who truly understands them? Marketing promises magic while documentation assumes expertise. Recent research from Gartner reveals the consequences: only 8% of HR...
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Getting Career Clarity in Uncertain Times ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Tereza Iofciu
Feeling unsure about your next step in your career? The data & AI field is evolving faster than ever. New tools, new roles, and constant “next big things” can make even experienced professionals feel unsure about...
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In Praise of Documentation: Tools, Tips & Techniques for Literate Programming in the AI Age ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Stephen
This talk has one simple message: *please document your code*. If you attend my talk, you'll hear me explain why I praise documentation, and why you should too. While writing documentation is generally acknowledged...
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Making Tech Tutorials Accessible: Practical Techniques for Educators ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Tamara Badikyan
Want to make your tech tutorials accessible but don't know where to start? This talk shares practical techniques anyone can use. In June 2025, I started creating tutorials for deaf and hard-of-hearing learners...
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Pair & Share: How formal Mentoring pushed REWE Analytics to a new level ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Axel Buddendiek
As one of Europe’s largest retail corporations, REWE Group owns and manages prominent supermarket chains such as REWE and PENNY, among many other subsidiaries. In this talk I will give a brief overview of how we...
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Surviving AI Fatigue: Staying Sane and Relevant in a Fast Moving Field ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Ajay, Jeyashree Krishnan
In an era where new AI models, benchmarks, and frameworks emerge daily, many of us feel caught in a relentless cycle of catching up, what is called "AI fatigue". This talk dives into the causes and consequences of...
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Your First Open Source Contribution in Python: From Fork to Pull Request ▶ Recording 📝 Transcript
Camila Maia
Contributing to open source can feel intimidating, even for experienced Python developers. In this hands-on tutorial, participants will make their first real open source contribution to a Python project, learning the...