What we're looking for

Talks from people who have done the work: shipped it, measured it, and can show what happened. First-time speakers welcome, with speaker support/coaching offered.

Topics

• AI-assisted development in production: coding agents and assistants at scale: adoption, guardrails, measured outcomes
• Measuring developer productivity in the AI era: what to measure when AI writes part of the code; beyond DORA/vanity metrics
• Platform engineering for AI workflows: golden paths, internal platforms, and infrastructure for AI-augmented teams
• Cognitive load & flow: review bottlenecks, context switching, and how AI helps or hurts
• Developer tooling: building and evaluating tools in the agentic era
• DevEx as architecture: organisational and technical design choices that shape developer experience
• AI SRE & operations: AI agents in incident response, on-call, observability, and reliability engineering
• AI cost & model strategy: open-source vs vendor models, self-hosting trade-offs, token economics, and controlling the cost of AI-assisted development at scale
• Honest failure stories: AI/DevEx initiatives that didn't work, and what they taught you

The length of each talk session will be 35-40 minutes, Q&A included.

What we can offer you if your talk is selected

• conference ticket;
• a single room for up to 2 nights (3 nights for people coming from outside the EU/European continent);
• speakers' dinner;
• a refund of up to €250 for travel costs within Europe (up to €500 outside the EU/European continent).

If your company wants to cover all your expenses it will receive a Silver sponsorship badge (worth €750); covering only your travel expenses will grant them a Bronze sponsorship badge (worth €500), or a discount of the same value if they purchase a higher level sponsorship.

Scholarships and Code of Conduct

GrUSP is committed to host a conference as inclusive, diverse and accessible as possible.
We have a scholarship program to provide discounted or free tickets to students and to those from under-represented and marginalized groups.
To ensure that anyone can feel comfortable we apply a code of conduct.

Travel expenses: a refund of up to €250 for travel costs within Europe (up to €500 outside the EU/European continent).