PS DEV

Timeline

Monday, October 12

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Kesselhaus

Doors open

08:00–09:00
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Opening Session & Keynote: The End of Programming?

Martin Odersky
09:00–10:00 Keynote

Keynote Discussions & Coffee

10:00–10:30
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sbt 2.0: takeoff

Eugene Yokota
10:30–11:00 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

11:00–11:20
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A brief history of Scala

Odd Möller, Martin Zachrison
11:20–11:50 Talk

Speaker Discussions

11:50–12:10
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A Maiden Voyage into Open Source, Datatypes, and Scala

L Denney
12:10–12:15 Lightning Talk
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Cats Go Wasm/WASI: Typelevel on Server-side WebAssembly

Mariusz Jakoniuk
12:20–12:25 Lightning Talk
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Inline Traits for Specialization

James You
12:30–12:35 Lightning Talk

Lunch & Networking

12:40–14:10
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The state of Scala in 2026

Piotr Chabelski, Lukas Rytz
14:10–14:40 Talk

Speaker Discussions

14:40–15:00
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Shopping for a Scala Framework

Daniel Ciocîrlan, Riccardo Cardin
15:00–15:30 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

15:30–15:50
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The State of Scala on WebAssembly

Rikito Taniguchi
15:50–16:20 Talk

Speaker Discussions

16:20–16:40
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Caching in Scala using Cats Ref

Katrina Petrevice
16:40–17:10 Talk

Speaker Discussions

17:10–17:30
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Closing session Day 1

18:00–18:15 #ScalaDays
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Community Party

18:15–22:15 #ScalaDays
Maschinenhaus
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Simpler User Interfaces with Capability-Passing

Noel Welsh
10:30–11:00 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

11:00–11:20
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AI Multiplies — Let Scala Hold the Line

Krzysztof Romanowski
11:20–11:50 Talk

Speaker Discussions

11:50–12:10

Lunch & Networking

12:40–14:10
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Scala’s LibGDX: A Report from the Trenches

Mateusz Kubuszok
14:10–14:40 Talk

Speaker Discussions

14:40–15:00
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Hard to Hire, Hard to Learn, Hard to Break: A CTO’s Scala Case

Gordon Cooke
15:00–15:30 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

15:30–15:50
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Is metaprogramming just functional programming?

Kathryn Frid
15:50–16:20 Talk

Speaker Discussions

16:20–16:40
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Optimizing Scala bytecode for fun and profit

Solal Pirelli
16:40–17:10 Talk

Speaker Discussions

17:10–17:30
Palais Atelier
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Securing Typelevel: Lessons from the GitHub SOS Fund

Antonio Jimenez
10:30–11:00 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

11:00–11:20
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How OOP Earned Our Trust and Let Us Down

Pavel Kozlov
11:20–11:50 Talk

Speaker Discussions

11:50–12:10

Lunch & Networking

12:40–14:10
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Quality Pipelines for Generative AI

Bill Venners
14:10–14:40 Talk

Speaker Discussions

14:40–15:00
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On Folding

Johanna Odersky
15:00–15:30 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

15:30–15:50
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Back to the roots – VirtusLab Scala Stack

Jacek Kunicki
15:50–16:20 Talk

Speaker Discussions

16:20–16:40
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Teaching Software Architecture using Scala

Michael Sperber
16:40–17:10 Talk

Speaker Discussions

17:10–17:30
Frannz Salon: Lab 1
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A Distributed System On Fire: Diagnosing Failures with otel4s

Antonio Jimenez, Maksym Ochenashko
11:00–13:00 Interactive labs

Lunch & Networking

13:00–14:10
Frannz Salon: Lab 2
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Building Real Applications in Scala Native

Noel Welsh
11:00–13:00 Interactive labs

Lunch & Networking

13:00–14:10
Frannz Salon: Lab 3
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sbt 2.0 lab

Eugene Yokota, Anatolii Kmetiuk
11:00–13:00 Interactive labs

Lunch & Networking

13:00–14:10

Tuesday, October 13

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Kesselhaus

Doors open

08:00–09:00
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Welcome back!

09:00–09:15 #ScalaDays
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Future of Programming

Nada Amin
09:15–10:00 Keynote

Keynote Discussion & Snack

10:00–10:30
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A Typelevel Prospectus

Arman Bilge
10:30–11:00 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snack

11:00–11:20
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Where Scala meets AI

Adam Warski
11:20–11:50 Talk

Speaker Discussions

11:50–12:10
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Stop testing, start proving

Valentin Bergeron
12:10–12:15 Lightning Talk
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Scala OSS vs. the LLM Era

Patryk Zieliński
12:15–12:20 Lightning Talk
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AI on your desktop: secure automation using capture checking

Salim Belkhir
12:20–12:25 Lightning Talk
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DimWit – Tensor programming with wit

Benjamin Meyer, Marcel Lüthi
12:25–12:30 Lightning Talk

Lunch & Networking

12:35–14:10
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Panel discussion

14:10–14:55 #ScalaDays

Community Discussions

14:55–15:15
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Making the AI agents safe with Scala

Łukasz Biały, Jakub Warchoł
15:15–15:45 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

15:45–16:05
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Advocacy, Funding, and Patience: The Security Audit of Scala

Amir Montazery
16:05–16:35 Talk

Speaker Discussions

16:35–16:55
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Type-Driven AI: High quality Scala code with LLM

Giovanni Ruggiero
16:55–17:25 Talk

Speaker Discussions

17:25–17:45
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Closing session Day 2

17:45–18:00 #ScalaDays
Maschinenhaus
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Report: where are we going with the Standard Library?

Jamie Thompson
10:30–11:00 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snack

11:00–11:20
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First-class Logical Refinement Types for Scala

Matt Bovel
11:20–11:50 Talk

Speaker Discussions

11:50–12:10

Lunch & Networking

12:35–14:10

Community Discussions

14:55–15:15
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OSS & AI: How to support your project community

Hana Frluckaj
15:15–15:45 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

15:45–16:05
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Cyfra: Scala on GPU

Szymon Rodziewicz, Marcin Złakowski
16:05–16:35 Talk

Speaker Discussions

16:35–16:55
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Metals Reimagined – LSP in the age of LLMs

Tomasz Godzik
16:55–17:25 Talk

Speaker Discussions

17:25–17:45
Palais Atelier
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Mastering IntelliJ IDEA’s Debugger for Scala Development

Maciej Gorywoda
10:30–11:00 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snack

11:00–11:20
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Blazing-Fast Lambda Calculus via Metaprogramming

Alex Nemish
11:20–11:50 Talk

Speaker Discussions

11:50–12:10

Lunch & Networking

12:35–14:10

Community Discussions

14:55–15:15
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Scoverage: Test Coverage for the Scala Codebases

Anatolii Kmetiuk
15:15–15:45 Talk

Speaker Discussions & Snacks

15:45–16:05
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Stop Breaking Production – Schema Evolution Demystified

Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel
16:05–16:35 Talk

Speaker Discussions

16:35–16:55
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Bridging between Scala & Python with GraalVM

Hamza Remmal
16:55–17:25 Talk

Speaker Discussions

17:25–17:45
Frannz Salon: Lab 1
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Build a production service with VirtusLab Scala Stack and AI

Piotr Janczyk
11:00–13:00 Interactive labs

Lunch & Networking

13:00–14:10
Frannz Salon: Lab 2
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Build a webapp with Cats Effect and FS2

Arman Bilge
11:00–13:00 Interactive labs

Lunch & Networking

13:00–14:10
Frannz Salon: Lab 3
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Reactive UI with Laminar

Jamie Thompson
11:00–13:00 Interactive labs

Lunch & Networking

13:00–14:10