WAWTech by DOU

WAWTech by DOU takes place on 26–27 November 2026 at Expo XXI, Warsaw. B2DB lists 105 speakers and 96 sessions announced so far.

WAWTech by DOU is an in-person technology conference held on 26–27 November 2026 at EXPO XXI in Warsaw, Poland, aimed at around 3,000 engineers, founders and product leaders from Poland and across Europe. The programme is organised into six tracks: Main, AI, Dev, HighLoad, Product and Future. There is no online stream, and a single ticket covers both days.

Key facts

Speakers (105)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

• Ivan Lapa UI Engineer L5, Netflix
• Maja Gojtowska Consultant, Gojtowska.com
• Oleks Maistrenko Chief Technology Officer, MISTO
• Alina Ashortiia Founder, JOIDY
• Julia Korytko, PhD Deputy Director of Engineering, Namecheap, Inc
• Eugene Plokhoj Vice President of Product, Readdle
• Vlad Kampov Engineering Manager, Netflix
• Alex Skakunov Technical Lead, Sportserve
• Yevhen Kovalevskiy Co-Founder, KOLO
• Pavlo Golub Senior Developer, CYBERTEC
• Luca Mezzalira Director, 50 cents media
• Dima Maleev Director of Engineering, Agoda
• Daniel Stenberg Curl CEO. Code Emitting Organism, The cURL project
• Artem Yavorskyi AI Software Engineer, Writer
• Mariusz Gąsiewski CEE Mobile Gaming and Apps Lead (Top Clients), Google
• José Valim Chief Adoption Officer, Dashbit
• Borys Musielak Founding Partner, SMOK Ventures
• Vamsi Penmetsa AI Champion, EPAM Systems
• Nuno Maduro Content Creator, youtube.com/@nunomaduro
• Anastasiia Voitova Head of Security Engineering, Cossack Labs
• Lucian Gruia Head of Data Science & AI, Ciklum
• Mateusz Sadowski Robotics Developer Relations, Foxglove
• Yaroslav Yermilov Principal Engineer, Preply
• Siim Viidu VP of Engineering, Bolt
• Sergey Kudryashov Venture Partner, ZAS Ventures
• Taras Kloba Chief Partner Architect, Data & AI, EMEA, Microsoft
• Michal Furmankiewicz Principal Program Manager @ AI Industry, Microsoft
• Barbara Wilk Head of Global Talent Acquisition and People Analytics, Appfire
• Yurii Kuka Head of Business Operations | Sportsbook, GR8_TECH
• Maksym Voitko R&D Tech Lead, monday.com
• Adam Warski Head of R&D, VirtusLab
• Hanna Pylieva CEO & Founder, Data Loves Academy
• Devrim Gunduz Founder, Freelance
• Anna Leushchenko Senior Staff Mobile Engineer, Tide
• Dmytro Kovalenko Staff Software Engineer, Dropbox
• Wojtek Strzałkowski Co-Founder, Superhero.tech
• Aliaksandr Valialkin Founder, VictoriaMetrics
• Michał Moneta Assistant Professor, Uniwersytet SWPS
• Sebastian Drzewiecki VP, Regional Leader, Global Operations, SoftServe
• Alex Petrunenko VP, AI & NoCode Transformation, Creatio
• Wojtek Gawroński Developer Advocate, Unleash
• Rafał Nowosielski Engineering Manager, Autodesk
• Witalij Rudnicki Principal Development Architect, Developer Relations, SAP
• Florian Barbaro, PhD Founder and CEO, UncovAI
• Ihor Olkhovatyi Senior Applied Scientist, SQUAD
• Rostyslav Salata Head of Product (B2C), Jooble
• Kamil Brzezinski Group Product Manager, Asana
• Przemyslaw Koper Partner, Espeo Software
• Vlad Sydorenko Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
• Mikalai Alimenkou Tech & AI Consultant, Organizational & Agile Coach, Stealth Startup
• Bohdan Khomych Associate Director of R&D | Agentic AI, Products & Services, SoftServe
• Ignas Paplauskas Head of Engineering, Saily
• Joseph DeMers Sr. Manager, Account Based Marketing, Intellias
• Kostiantyn Tymoschuk VP of Growth, Skylum
• Kris Kosyk Co-Founder and Lead Trainer, FILAB
• Monika Nawrot Staff Software Engineer, Waymo
• Radek Wojtysiak Senior Front-end Software Engineer, Stowarzyszenie "Dobro w Pętli"
• Aditya Kamath Senior Engineering Consultant, Capgemini Engineering
• Artem Chernodub Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Zendesk
• Adrian Romański Web Events Organizer, GDG Wrocław
• Hanno Embregts Trainer / Technology Advocate, NLJUG - Dutch Java User Group
• Alicja Malok Senior Director, Technology PERM Poland, Hays
• Illia Onyschenko Founder & CEO, Detectolic Games
• Olek Danczewski Member, Vireston
• Kateryna Hirna Head of Recruitment and HR, Farsight Vision
• Denys Makogon Principal Software Development Engineer, Oracle
• Luisa Gonçalves Senior Product Manager, Superhuman
• Luke (Lukasz) Szyrmer Technical Product Manager, SoftServe
• Vadym Vlasenko Senior Director of Engineering, Preply
• Mykyta Antoshchuk Solution Engineer, Snowflake
• Oleksandr Piekhota Principal Software Engineer, Teaching Strategies, LLC
• Sasha Marynych Engineering Manager, Superhuman
• Marcin Piesiak Regional Delivery Head for Poland, Ciklum
• Line Rindvig Chief Strategy & Defence Investment Officer, Baryon Fund
• Maciej Broniarz Cybersecurity Incident Response Expert, DeCode9
• Maksym Cherkis R&D and innovations manager, Defence Builder
• Mariia Krasnoschok Country Coordinator, Expertise France in Ukraine
• Paweł Romul Architekt IT, Forcom Sp. z o.o.
• Maksym Kotliar Staff Research Engineer, MacPaw 🇺🇦
• Nataliia Ohiienko Chief of Staff, Moodro
• Piotr Ceranek Manager Engineering, Allegro
• Przemysław Frasunek CEO, Shareholder, Redge Technologies
• Pavlo Plotko Scientific Coordinator, Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik
• Clemens Mayer Certified CE Product Coordinator, Smander.com
• Daria Chuprina Artificial Intelligence Engineer, NooLogic
• Jarek Kusmierek Director of Engineering, Google
• Andrii Zavadskyi Director of Engineering, airSlate
• Kostyantyn Mykhaylovskyy Principal Mobile Engineer, BetterMe
• Krzysztof Skowron Software Development Engineer In Test Senior II Lead, Akamai Technologies
• Paweł Łochowski Drones and Photogrammetry Consultant | Drone Powered Solutions, PwC Polska
• Łukasz Wiśniewski Software Engineer, NDA
• Elnara Asadova QA Lead, SQUAD
• Wojciech Domagała Product Manager, Allegro
• Maksym Ulanov Software Engineer, Atlassian
• Robert Przybyłowski Lead Data Analyst, Capital.com
• Alex Lebedev AI Product Engineer, PostHog
• Ivan Zhuravel Lead Software Engineer, Cloudlinux
• Kateryna International Partnerships Manager, Wild Hornets
• Mykhailo Ivanov Mobile Tech Lead, mono
• Ruslan Turlakov CMO, EPC Network
• Yevhen Kondrashyn Software Engineering Consultant | High-Performance & Scalable Systems, Independent Consultant
• Bohdan Kit VP of Product, WordPress.com, Automattic
• Łukasz Jakubowski Forward Deployed Engineer, Stealth Startup
• Kacper Reutt Director of Engineering & Site Lead, Waymo
• Jan Kleczkowski Commercial Solutions Sales Lead, Microsoft Poland Board Member, Microsoft

Most represented companies

• Microsoft — 3 speakers
• SoftServe — 3 speakers
• Allegro — 2 speakers
• Ciklum — 2 speakers
• Google Pay & Wallet — 2 speakers
• Netflix — 2 speakers
• Preply — 2 speakers
• SQUAD — 2 speakers
• Stealth Startup — 2 speakers
• Superhuman — 2 speakers

Agenda (96 sessions)

Day 1 — Thursday 26 November 2026

• Opening 09:00–09:25 · MAIN
• What we have learned about GenAI and Agents adoption in the last 5 years. Experience from the field after working with customers in Poland and globally 09:30–09:55 · GROWTH — Michal Furmankiewicz
• The Harness Layer — Running AI Platforms in Regulated Environments 09:30–10:15 · ENGINEERING — Vamsi Penmetsa
• The AI Reality Check 10:00–10:45 · PRO STAGE — Ivan Lapa, Artem Yavorskyi, Yaroslav Yermilov
• How to minimize the token usage with agentic coding 10:00–10:55 · STUDIO — Maksym Voitko
• Beyond AI Adoption: Why organizational capability is the new competitive advantage 10:00–10:25 · GROWTH — Joseph DeMers
• Nobody needs a CTO anymore: I went up the ladder and came back down 10:30–10:55 · GROWTH — Oleks Maistrenko
• Building AI Agents That Don’t Suck 10:30–11:15 · MAIN — Nuno Maduro
• From Lab to Battlefield: Engineering Autonomous Systems For Real-World Impact 11:00–11:25 · GROWTH — Paweł Łochowski
• Agent Orchestration as an Extension of CI/CD 11:00–11:25 · STUDIO — Andrii Zavadskyi
• Beyond the Hype: Practical AI in Cybersecurity 11:00–11:25 · ENGINEERING — Olek Danczewski
• Your Autonomous Engineering Team: Building GitHub Agentic Workflows That Maintain Your Project 11:30–12:25 · STUDIO — Taras Kloba
• From Adoption to Impact: AI at Bolt 11:30–11:55 · MAIN — Siim Viidu
• Your LLM Doesn’t Need Better Prompts. It Needs a P&L 11:30–11:55 · GROWTH — Ruslan Turlakov
• How to build the most accurate object detection 11:30–11:55 · ENGINEERING — Ihor Olkhovatyi
• The Scaling Tax: Growing The Mobile Team Beyond 100 Engineers 12:00–12:25 · GROWTH — Anna Leushchenko
• When “Buy” Becomes a Function Call 12:00–12:25 · MAIN
• Loops, Skills, Artifacts, Factory: How I Turned AI Buzzwords Into a Personal Assistant That Actually Improved My Life 12:00–12:45 · ENGINEERING — Yaroslav Yermilov
• Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt: The Price of Letting AI Think First 12:30–13:15 · GROWTH — Michał Moneta
• AI-Driven Transformation of IT Business 12:30–13:15 · PRO STAGE — Vlad Kampov, Alex Petrunenko, Przemyslaw Koper, Wojciech Domagała
• These Songs Would Make Some Great Code Comments 12:30–12:55 · MAIN — Hanno Embregts
• Your System Will Fail. What Now? 13:00–13:25 · ENGINEERING — Paweł Romul
• Twoje wdrożenie AI nie uda się bo popełniasz ten sam błąd co 95% innych organizacji – PL 13:00–13:45 · MAIN
• Women in Miltech & Engineering: Why You Should Try 13:00–13:55 · STUDIO — Daria Chuprina
• Ask Me Anything 13:30–13:55 · PRO STAGE — José Valim
• TBA 13:30–13:55 · GROWTH — Kostiantyn Tymoschuk
• Robotics devices from mobile app perspective: challenges & solutions 13:30–13:55 · ENGINEERING — Elnara Asadova
• What Makes a Tech Product Win in 2026 14:00–14:45 · MAIN — Eugene Plokhoj, Mariusz Gąsiewski, Wojtek Strzałkowski, Luke (Lukasz) Szyrmer
• Modern Java - Past, Present, and Future 14:00–14:25 · ENGINEERING
• Before Your AI Can Send Email: Designing Trust and Permission Boundaries for Agentic Products 14:00–14:25 · STUDIO — Sergey Kudryashov
• Is BI Dead? Data Analytics of the future 14:00–14:25 · GROWTH — Mykyta Antoshchuk
• Engineering Productivity: Are We Measuring the Wrong Things? 14:00–14:45 · PRO STAGE — Julia Korytko, PhD, Siim Viidu, Vadym Vlasenko
• Open-Source Robotics for Software Engineers 14:30–14:55 · ENGINEERING — Aditya Kamath
• The Sovereign Mind: Learning with Gemini and Gemma Without Losing Control 14:30–14:55 · GROWTH — Adrian Romański
• TBD 15:00–15:25 · GROWTH — Alex Lebedev
• Designing for compromise: security architecture for mission-critical systems 15:00–15:45 · ENGINEERING — Anastasiia Voitova
• What it means to be an expert in the age of AI? 15:00–15:25 · MAIN — Mariusz Gąsiewski
• From Teleop to Policy: Training a Robot Arm with LeRobot and MCAP 15:00–15:55 · STUDIO — Mateusz Sadowski
• TBA 15:30–15:55 · GROWTH — Yurii Kuka
• Building AI Products When Nobody Knows the Answer 16:00–16:25 · GROWTH — Luisa Gonçalves, Sasha Marynych
• The Engineer of Tomorrow: What Matters Now? 16:00–16:45 · PRO STAGE — Oleks Maistrenko, Luca Mezzalira, Rafał Nowosielski, Monika Nawrot
• Podcast: Shit I know 16:00–17:00 · STUDIO — Dima Maleev, Kris Kosyk
• High volume AI vulnerability reporting 16:00–16:45 · MAIN — Daniel Stenberg
• Beyond Bigger Models: Hybrid AI for Physical Simulation and Physical AI 16:00–16:25 · ENGINEERING — Bohdan Khomych
• Making AI Agents Work More Deterministically in Mature Native Mobile Projects 16:30–16:55 · ENGINEERING — Kostyantyn Mykhaylovskyy
• Building an In-House CMS on Laravel Nova: Why Argue When You Can Show It? 16:30–16:55 · GROWTH — Oleksandr Piekhota

Day 2 — Friday 27 November 2026

• Opening 09:00–09:25 · MAIN
• How a Failed Computer Game Became a Profitable Business 09:30–09:55 · GROWTH — Illia Onyschenko
• The Modern Challenge of Integrating C++ into the Java Ecosystem: Problems, Consequences, and Solutions 09:30–09:55 · ENGINEERING — Denys Makogon
• Driving Towards a Driverless Future The Waymo Journey 09:30–10:15 · MAIN — Monika Nawrot
• No API Key Required: Running an AI Model Inside PostgreSQL 10:00–10:55 · STUDIO — Pavlo Golub
• The Spec Drift Problem: What Breaks After You Adopt SDD 10:00–10:25 · ENGINEERING — Mykhailo Ivanov
• AMA with Daniel Stenberg 10:00–10:25 · PRO STAGE — Daniel Stenberg
• How to harness Small Language Models 10:00–10:25 · GROWTH — Maksym Kotliar
• The Hidden Cost of Coordination: How I Rebuilt Product Teams to Move Faster 10:30–10:55 · GROWTH — Rostyslav Salata
• Automating support with an AI agent in a corporate environment 10:30–10:55 · ENGINEERING — Rafał Nowosielski
• Human to Robot protocol: From Speech to Motion 11:00–11:25 · GROWTH — Ivan Zhuravel
• Garbage Context, Garbage Code 11:00–11:45 · MAIN — Luca Mezzalira
• The Startup Journey 11:00–11:45 · PRO STAGE — Alina Ashortiia, Borys Musielak, Mariia Krasnoschok
• Suffering from success - 3x engineering speed and problems that come with that 11:00–11:25 · ENGINEERING — Ignas Paplauskas
• Evals as a Merge Gate: Make Your AI Harness Safe to Change in 45 Minutes 11:30–12:25 · STUDIO — Ivan Lapa
• The Way of the Samurai: 0 to Product Launch Solo with Claude Code 11:30–11:55 · GROWTH — Hanna Pylieva
• The New Bottleneck of the AI Era 11:30–11:55 · ENGINEERING — Dmytro Kovalenko
• The CTO Playbook for 2027: What Still Works, What Must Change 12:00–12:45 · MAIN — Dima Maleev, Jarek Kusmierek
• Catching the Clones: Building Lightweight Models to Detect GenAI at Scale 12:00–12:45 · ENGINEERING — Florian Barbaro, PhD
• AI Adoption at Scale: Rethinking Engineering Processes 12:00–12:25 · GROWTH — Julia Korytko, PhD
• The Decisions That Built (or Broke) Our Companies 12:30–13:15 · PRO STAGE — Alex Skakunov, Sebastian Drzewiecki, Marcin Piesiak, Krzysztof Skowron
• From Frontline Need to a Field-Ready Solution 12:30–12:55 · GROWTH — Kateryna
• Agents That Work While You Don’t: Building Ambient AI From Scratch 13:00–13:55 · STUDIO — Artem Yavorskyi
• AI-driven SDLC or Extreme Programming on Steroids 13:00–13:45 · GROWTH — Mikalai Alimenkou
• Java’s Structured Concurrency: why you and your agent should be interested 13:00–13:25 · ENGINEERING — Adam Warski
• Infrastructure Engineering in the Age of Agents 13:30–13:55 · MAIN — Vlad Sydorenko
• Flutter/Dart & AI: One Developer, One Codebase, Three Platforms 13:30–13:55 · ENGINEERING — Łukasz Wiśniewski
• (r)Evolution of Software Development 14:00–14:45 · MAIN — Dima Maleev
• VictoriaLogs architecture: how can it handle a petabyte of logs on a single node 14:00–14:25 · GROWTH — Aliaksandr Valialkin
• Why PostgreSQL is the best database: Extend your database 14:00–14:45 · ENGINEERING — Devrim Gunduz
• Defence Tech: From Breakthrough Ideas to Real-World Impact 14:00–14:45 · PRO STAGE — Yevhen Kovalevskiy, Line Rindvig, Maksym Cherkis, Nataliia Ohiienko
• From Coal to Exabytes: How a German Mining Region Is Being Rebuilt Around the Technology and Science of the 2030s 14:30–14:55 · GROWTH — Pavlo Plotko
• The network that survives the blackout: assemble your own LoRa mesh node 14:30–15:25 · STUDIO — Yevhen Kondrashyn
• Fail Fast, Comply Early: Why CE Compliance and Prototyping Must Go Hand in Hand 15:00–15:25 · GROWTH — Clemens Mayer
• The Developer Loop, Rewired: Building Systems That Build Systems 15:00–15:25 · ENGINEERING — Lucian Gruia
• TBA 15:00–15:45 · MAIN — Artem Yavorskyi
• The Changing Talent Market 15:00–15:45 · PRO STAGE — Maja Gojtowska, Barbara Wilk, Alicja Malok
• Designing mission-critical multi-surface experiences 15:30–15:55 · GROWTH — Kamil Brzezinski
• From IT to deftech: what nobody tells you before you switch 15:30–15:55 · STUDIO — Kateryna Hirna
• Reversibility-as-a-Service: Runtime Control as a Platform Capability 15:30–15:55 · ENGINEERING — Wojtek Gawroński
• The Data Analyst in the AI Era: Evolution, Not Extinction 16:00–16:25 · GROWTH — Robert Przybyłowski
• Idioms for building collaborative and scalable agentic systems with Elixir 16:00–16:45 · MAIN — José Valim
• Cybersecurity in the Age of AI 16:00–16:45 · PRO STAGE — Pavlo Golub, Anastasiia Voitova, Maciej Broniarz, Przemysław Frasunek
• Selling Your Work: How Engineers Can Accelerate Career Growth in Large Organizations 16:00–16:25 · ENGINEERING — Maksym Ulanov
• From Manager Back to Coding 16:30–16:55 · ENGINEERING — Radek Wojtysiak
• Podcast TBD 16:30–17:30 · STUDIO — Ivan Lapa, Dmytro Kovalenko
• Tabular AI: In-Context Learning for Structured Business Data 16:30–16:55 · GROWTH — Witalij Rudnicki
• AI for Engineering Managers: Turning Repositories and Backlogs into Better Decisions 17:00–17:25 · GROWTH — Piotr Ceranek
• Don’t Break the LLM: Recipes for Seamless Prompt Migration and Optimization 17:00–17:25 · ENGINEERING — Artem Chernodub
• DakhaBrakha Concert 18:00–19:00 · MAIN

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Sponsors (22)

Laravel · Shelf · Waymo · Upstars · Ciklum · EU4Innovation East · Solidgate · Capital.com · creatio · GR8 Tech · N-IX · Nord Security · Fire Point · MacPaw · Netflix · Growe Talents · Fiberax · Preply · Bolt · Svitla Systems · airSlate · Wild Hornets

Media Partner (1)

Magazyn Programista

Association Partners (2)

Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce · IT Ukraine Association

Supporting Partners (21)

Startup Bridge · Maserati Polska · Perspektywy · Eventivity · EuroTechJobs · AIoAI · Testerzy · Crumb · SysOps Polska · Drukomat · Crossweb · The Brain Embassy · WeWork · Off Drop · 4programmers · Gudbags · Brief · Software & Computer Museum · PostgreSQL · meet.js · iPlan

Source: the published agenda. See how B2DB compiles its records.