Jo Hasenau
CTO at Cybercraft GmbH
Braunlage, Germany
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Jo Hasenau is an open source veteran who has been building, maintaining, and scaling community-driven software ecosystems for more than two decades.
He started out in the early days of the internet, moved from a late-80s designer background to digital media production in the 90s, and then shifted his focus to large-scale platforms and integration problems - from corporate environments such as T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom to long-running open source projects such as TYPO3, maintained in the open.
He is known for shipping pragmatic tools and growing communities, as a maintainer of widely used extensions, a trainer and coach, a speaker at conferences, developer days, and camps, and an organizer of formats such as the User Experience Week. He has also contributed through publications, including the O’Reilly TYPO3 Cookbook.
After serving as CTO at InnoCoding, he now works at the next layer beyond websites as a Big Picture Brainiac at Cybercraft, focusing on AI-enabled content infrastructure, interoperability, and digital sovereignty.
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A True Story About Speeding Up the Wrong Things
Why AI increases chaos and how to reduce complexity and regain control.
AI and vibe coding boost the speed of shipping production software. That sounds like progress until you realize what we are actually accelerating.
This session begins with a true story about real systems that looked perfect on paper but failed in predictable failure modes. Not because people were careless, but because the solution itself amplified the original flaw, faster, louder, and at scale.
From there, we connect the pattern to today’s AI integration gold rush. MCP everywhere, automations everywhere, agents everywhere. Each part makes sense locally. The network effect is where costs explode and maintainability becomes wishful thinking.
Then we look at a different path. How to reduce connections instead of generating more. How to keep speed without losing control. Why governance and observability are not paperwork, but survival functions in AI driven systems. And why open standards and open source patterns are the only sustainable way to make this work across ecosystems.
If you have ever looked at your integration landscape and thought everything is fine, and you just need more of it, this session is for you.
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