Explore all confirmed talks and workshops for DevFest 2026! Check out our 3 thematic tracks: AI & Machine Intelligence, Cloud & Platform Engineering, and Web, Mobile & Dev Experience.
During the two days of DevFest Modena 2026, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from and connect with industry experts, international innovators, and world-class tech leaders.
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Welcome to the Sessions Catalog! Below you will find all 46 sessions already confirmed for DevFest Modena 2026, organized by topic. For the hourly schedule by room, visit the Agenda 2026 page.
AI Agents, GenAI, Robotics, LLMs, ethics and the future of coding
Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Security and site reliability
Modern Web, Native Mobile, Developer tooling and software quality
AI Agents, GenAI, Robotics, LLMs, ethics and the future of coding
Based on (more than) one true story: how can we survive as tech workers in 2026? What challenges do we encounter day by day? What are the risks? What strategies can we adopt to manage our daily …
As of June 2026, over 57% of global web traffic is generated by bots and AI-based systems, surpassing human traffic.
This changes the way we design: not only for users interacting with AI, but also …
AI is changing software engineering, but perhaps not in the way we first expected. It is not simply replacing tasks or accelerating workflows. It is exposing what has always mattered most in great …
The command line has been the bastion of developers and architects since the dawn of terminals in computers (so forever). A CLI usage of AI is the best compromise between the actions an AI agent can …
A 1:1 conversation dedicated to your career. No slides. No front-facing lectures. No abstract theories.
Just 20 minutes to talk with a career coach about what you really want to unlock in your …
The physical world is becoming increasingly complex, and the rise of Physical AI, autonomous robots, intelligent sensors, and embedded decision-making, will only accelerate this trend.
Managing this …
Every time you start a new AI-assisted session, your agents start blind. No memory of last week’s architectural decision. No knowledge of why you chose that pattern three projects ago. No …
We are used to thinking that scalability comes with more raw power: faster CPUs, horizontal scaling, more RAM, and—sometimes—a quantized model. Well, we are wrong. Scalability comes from trade-offs, …
Working in international teams, what seems like a “bug” is often a cultural default.
Using Erin Meyer’s Culture Map, I’ll explore key cultural dimensions - communication styles, feedback, leadership, …
What happens when bugs don’t just cause a crash, but destroy human lives? In a world that increasingly delegates critical decisions to algorithms, the line between “statistical …
Artificial intelligence is redefining how software is designed, understood, and maintained. We are no longer just talking about autocomplete or chatbots inside IDEs: the industry is entering the era …
Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, the Evil Empire began building a terrifying weapon: artificial intelligence. Rebel groups analyze the blueprints of this dangerous instrument’s …
The personal and professional growth journey that is leading me to develop a unique vision for a new kind of company environment.
There is immense talk about agents, coding agents, and autonomous software, often surrounded by an almost magical aura. The reality, however, is deeply rooted in software engineering. Behind every …
How can we make robots accessible and useful tools for everyone? In this talk, I will share part of my PhD journey carried out at the “Enzo Ferrari” Engineering Department in the field of …
For years, we’ve said “hardware is hard” to explain why robots haven’t taken over the world yet. But in 2026, the script has flipped. AI is finally giving robotics its “iPhone …
The world of software engineering is undergoing a drastic and rapid transformation. And many developers are asking themselves if they will become obsolete very soon.
This presentation tries to answer …
You have an AI that wants to do things, and services that know how to do them, but they don’t talk to each other. MCP is the protocol that solves exactly this: a standard layer for connecting …
In an era where data is growing exponentially and the need for smarter search is becoming critical, Vector Databases represent a revolution in how we store, index, and retrieve information. This talk …
Vibecoding promises speed, but on real-world projects it leaves behind chaos, lost context, and hard-to-maintain code. In this talk, I show why the real leap isn’t “having AI write more …
Accurately extracting information from documents has been a decades-old dream. Many important workflows — from automated back-office processing to enterprise RAG — depend on it.
General-purpose LLMs …
Nowadays, the AI term gained a wide popularity thanks to the Generative AI solutions available to everyone. Beyond this, the physical AI is another revolutionary wave that is promising to bring this …
Toborino is a small wheeled robot built with Arduino, sensors, and electronic components. It can move, detect obstacles, perform emergency stops, and communicate with a web dashboard in real time.
In …
Last year at the Festival, I presented a reflection on how people who use AI react, urging developers to take responsibility not only for technical aspects but also for their cognitive, relational, …
Choosing to attend DevFest this weekend already says something about you: ambition is not an option, but your standard. Excellence is not a possibility, but the only path forward.
Top performers who …
The AI agent hype is deafening. The actual understanding of what an agent is: near silence.
Most developers have built a chatbot and called it an agent. They’re not the same thing, and the gap …
After its debut at Coderful 2026 in Catania — where it was met with great enthusiasm and strong technical engagement — this talk now brings its mission to the GDG Modena community: a full immersion …
Sometimes, making an evolutionary leap only takes one guy with a computer, a lot of time, and an industrial amount of stubbornness.
Released in an era where every video game was full of sprites and …
In 2026, building smart AI isn’t enough anymore – it also has to be secure and compliant. With regulations like the EU AI Act now in full effect, security can no longer be an afterthought. But …
Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Security and site reliability
In this session, we move past simple code generation to explore the “Developer-as-Architect” mindset. We will build a functioning Angular application live, but with a twist: we’ll …
Nowadays, proper data and environment management is essential; business forecasts, budgets, decision-making strategies, and much more depend on them. Managing security and regulatory compliance is a …
Why keep managing your cloud infrastructure with rigid HCL when you can use the power of Python?
Traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools forced us developers to use domain-specific languages …
Today, Large Language Models are almost always consumed via cloud services, with associated costs, latency, and privacy implications. But is it really necessary to always stay connected?
In this talk, …
Agentic swarms are shifting the development bottleneck from code generation to validation. This leads to the “Agentic Efficiency Paradox”: accelerating output without evolving our review …
In conjunction with the Smart Life Festival, Modena reflects on the theme of “Intelligences”. For tech professionals, this is not just an ethical challenge, but a design challenge: how can …
All of us have written simple automations: in the beginning, the workflow is linear and everything seems under control. Then the process grows: smart retries are needed, manual pauses, service …
Modern Web, Native Mobile, Developer tooling and software quality
Artificial Intelligence is often celebrated for its ability to optimize industrial processes or generate creative content. But what happens when we place this extraordinary power at the service of …
We’ve spent decades teaching users how to navigate applications through menus, tabs, buttons, and forms. But what if your users didn’t need to navigate at all?
Agentic UI is flipping that model …
This isn’t your average DevTools talk. This is a full-throttle, 45 minute live demo that takes you on a journey through the evolution of debugging. We’ll start with the must-know features …
Many students enter open source hoping to build a resume and earn a stipend. When I joined Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023, I was no different. However, my work with the Oppia Foundation …
Validating a Jira ticket on a real Android device takes thirty minutes on a good day but can be days of hands-on testing when every edge case matters. What if the agent could do it for you?
In this …
Meet a framework-free, zero-deps app stack powered by the near-future web: a tiny signal-based store, DOM-first rendering, and tagged template literals for expressive, safe views.
Sketching an …
CI is green, tests are passing, and the release is ready. Then someone opens the product on an old tablet, over a slow connection, or following a path that was never anticipated. And there it is: the …
It was February 5th. I was boarding a flight to South Africa, leaving behind nothing but a beefy Linux machine named pupurabbux and a restless curiosity about automation. Little did I know that by …
Tools like Claude Code, Lazygit (76k stars on GitHub), Codex, OpenCode, and many others have chosen the terminal as their user interface. This is not nostalgia, but a choice backed by solid, practical …
For years, the browser was a safe but isolated playground. If you wanted to communicate with a Bluetooth device, modify local files, or access a serial port, native development was the only route. …
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