The call for your proposals

The "Agile meets Architecture" is back for the third time, and the first years were amazing (if we should humbly say so ourselves). Have a look at what happened on our YouTube channel and read what participants and speakers said.

Become part of the people shaping the 2025 AmA-Conf in Berlin on April 3 and 4, 2025 by submitting your proposal before October 31, 2024, 23:59 CEST.

Feedback and program building

We will build the program from early November through to November 30, 2024. Since we build the program from your proposals we might contact you during that time to fine tune content and program. Final notice to all people who submitted proposals will be sent out by November 20, 2024.

The conference

The conference continues to be the place where people and ideas from professional software architecture and real-world agile adoption congregate/mingle/come together.

With two conference days, there will be plenty of time and opportunity to spread your ideas on how to bring those worlds together.

After decades of professional software architecture and more than 20 years after the Agile Manifesto, there are still many questions left unanswered when it comes to different approaches and their tradeoffs. This is the place to address the questions you deem most important in this realm and suggest your answers.

The sessions – delivering tangible insights

We want the program to reflect today’s tough questions and their answers in a representative and actionable way.

We actively curate the program and the idea is to have only one introductory talk per concept and then some in-depth talks on those topics so that you can submit proposals for both kinds of sessions.

Range of proposal topics

We want to create a program built upon your input around the main topic of the conference: How do agile approaches and software architecture complement or counteract each other and how do we best handle that?

To get you started, here are some broad topics we, the program committee, would like to see at the conference:

- Agile and Architecture in the context of
    - software that’s older than you are
    - legacy systems
    - (big) architecture improvements

- Agile software development and large environments
    - Architectural governance
    - Agile decision-making in large organizations
    - Architectural decision-making in agile environments

- Culture clashes between "Agilists" and "Architects"
    - The troubles Agilists have with Architects (and vice versa)
    - Role of managers and management in agile organizations

- Practical issues
    - DevEx or Developer Productivity
    - Delete Your Backlog
    - Pair programming/Ensemble Programming

- The learning organization
    - Teaching and didactics
    - Communicating Architecture to Teams

- (New) Trends and their impact on agility and architecture
    - No Code; Low Code
    - Serverless approaches
    - Implications of the LLM and general AI hype

- Surprise us: How would you tag your talk?

Session timing

A session should be 40 Minutes including Q&A. We're especially looking for sessions with a well-balanced mixture of lecture-style content and hands-on experiences for the participants.

Speaker travel and accommodation

Accommodation is covered up to 300 EUR (for those from outside Berlin). Travel is covered up to a certain amount (depending if you’re traveling within Europe or from out of Europe).

Your Submission

We use Sessionize to collect your submissions and to help us evaluate the submissions and create a program. You will need to register with Sessionize to submit. In order to submit we will ask you to provide the following:

- Title of the session
- An abstract describing the session
- Type of the session (introductory or deep dive)
- Tags, how you would characterize your talk
- Your name
- Your title
- Your high-resolution photo
- Your email
- Optionally more contact information like your LinkedIn address

All submitted sessions are expected to be in English.

Accommodation is covered up to 300 EUR (for those from outside Berlin). Travel is covered up to a certain amount (depending if you’re travelling within Europe or from out of Europe).