Wednesday 

Room 5 

13:40 - 14:40 

(UTC+02

Talk (60 min)

Lightning Talks 1

Lightning talks (approx 10-15 minutes each)

AI

Talk 1: How I automated my life with MCP Servers - Cedric Clyburn & Legare Kerrison
Being a developer these days means you’re not only writing code, but also a Linux admin, a DevOps engineer, you name it! Thankfully, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made it significantly easier for me to ask my natural language questions, such as “What’s consuming the most memory in our dev cluster right now?”, and quickly receive a response. Hint: It was Prometheus!

What you’ll learn in this session is a straightforward way to build your own local “AI Agent” using open source technologies to interact with various API’s and tools. We’ll take a look at the most common MCP Servers that developers are using today, think Git, Databases, Dev Tools, and more. Plus, we’ll have some fun, and chain multiple tools together to automate your daily standup!

Talk 2: The fundamentals of Agentic Coding (AKA Vibe Coding) - Theodor René Carlsen
AI, whether we like it or not, has fundamentally changed the ways we work with code. In the beginning, many swapped out Stack Overflow for ChatGPT, moved from editing code to autocompleting with tools like Copilot, but now we are seeing more tools that that can write large parts of the solution for you.

Most people will relate to the feeling that “vibe coding” or “agentic coding” is a moving target, where both the models and the tools evolve at near-exponential speed. In this talk, I aim to reduce the sense of FOMO many might get when they hear people using these tools to write and refactor large parts of their codebase for them. Whether that FOMO comes from LinkedIn, X or your boss thats fully convinced that vibe coding is the future, we will try to stay grounded when meeting this new technology.

We will cover the basics so that you can actually understand what these tools are about: what they can and what they cannot do, what is mostly hype and what is actually worth checking out. And yes, we will also try to define the term "agentic coding" .

Talk 3: The Design Systems Graveyard - Kristoffer Nordström
It is said you can't succeed in building a Design System without having done so before. But building a Design System is easy - maintaining and making it grow is much more difficult. During the years many Design Systems have failed and ended up on the Design Systems Graveyard. I will share some trips and tricks that will make it less likely that you fail in your attempt of succeeding with one. Join me on a story about planning, categorising and sorting and about handling human beings and collaboration. This also have something in common with The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. If you fail maybe your Design System will end up on The Design Systems Graveyard.

Cedric Clyburn

Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking and organizing conferences including Devoxx, WeAreDevelopers, The Linux Foundation, KCD NYC, and more. Cedric loves all things open-source, and works to make developer's lives easier! Based out of New York.

Legare Kerrison

Legare Kerrison is an Open Source Engineer and Developer Advocate on Red Hat's AI team. She focuses on open source tools for building and deploying AI. She aims to make technical complexity digestible. She’s a tree hugger and avid matcha fan. Based in Boston.

Theodor René Carlsen

After one year as a developer in software consultancy firm in Oslo, he moved to Copenhagen to try his luck. He is fascinated with how humans communicate their visions and intentions through programming languages. This manifests itself in a interest in functional programming. And since he is currently a React Native developer this makes Typescript the most relevant language to explore. He currently works at the national broadcaster in Denmark: DR (Danmarks Radio).

Kristoffer Nordström

Kristoffer has a big heart ❤️ for humanity & inclusion. Have been called idealistic. Previous Head of Front End at the Norwegian Red Cross and currently working as a Principal Front End Developer at Variant building education systems of the future for Sikt. He has been working with the web since the 1990s GeoCities era. Specializing in usability, design and interfaces. A "Nordic citizen" from Sweden 🇸🇪 with roots on the Åland Islands 🇦🇽 and in Finland 🇫🇮, now living in Oslo Norway 🇳🇴.