Talks at Voxxed Days Crete 2025
Discover 28 amazing talks from world-class speakers
Artificial, yes; Intelligent, no" (basically about how AI is not going to replace us all and we're all overreacting)
Artificial, yes; Intelligent, no" (basically about how AI is not going to replace us all and we're all overreacting)
Data & AI 
Automating Cloud Security Compliance: From Patching to Machine Image Building and Auto Scheduling
From manually upgrades to automating machine image building in order to be compliant with security standards and reduce potential threats.
Build & Deploy 
Behind the Scenes of Novibet’s Casino API: Building a Scalable and Modular Platform
Join me for a high-level technical walkthrough of Novibet’s Casino API - the backbone of our gaming platform. I’ll share how we designed a modular, sc...
Architecture 
Beyond the Prompt: Evaluating, Testing, and Securing LLM Applications
This talk discusses evaluating and securing LLM applications by measuring changes in prompts or RAG pipelines. It highlights evaluation frameworks lik...
Data & AI 
Component wrappers and other patterns for making your tests bulletproof.
This talk guides frontend developers in writing stable Vitest/Jest tests by addressing common mistakes and exploring effective patterns. It covers opt...
UI & UX 
Don't be an Idiot
This talk connects ancient Athenian democracy and mystery cults to the origins of the internet and open source, arguing that modern standards and open...
Development Practices 
From Insanity to Sanity: How We Let the Product Team Take Over
Always the developer on-call for every copy tweak, campaign launch, or urgent content update? In this talk, we’ll share how we used Sanity CMS to move...
UI & UX 
From Space to Code: Using NASA's Open Data APIs with Kepler
This session explores NASA's open APIs for building educational and sustainable applications. Key focuses include Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars a...
Mind the Geek 
Front end development in 2040
Let’s imagine front-end development 15 years from now. Will TypeScript still be around? What about React? And what will happen to the everyday problem...
Mind the Geek 
Hello (Virtual) World
This session introduces creating a virtual reality game using JavaScript, HTML, A-Frame, and the DOM API. Through a live demo, participants will learn...
Mind the Geek 
How to read code (properly)
This talk explores the common tendency to criticize old code, especially from others, and the belief that rewriting can improve it. The first part del...
People & Culture 
How to survive as a developer in the exponential age of AI
Sander Hoogendoorn, CTO at iBOOD.com, examines AI's rapid impact on software development, questioning its potential to replace developers or enhance t...
People & Culture 
Introduction to ADRs
In software projects, it's important to write down why we make certain big decisions about how the software is built. These written records are called...
Architecture 
Investing for geeks v1.1.0
This talk addresses how developers can better manage their disposable income, focusing on budgeting and investing. It introduces index investing throu...
People & Culture 
It Works on My Machine: Why Engineers Are Misunderstood (and What They Can Do About It)
This talk examines common misconceptions about engineers and their impact on collaboration and influence. It explores the origins of these myths, thei...
People & Culture 
Java Agent vs. eBPF: A Deep Dive into OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Technologies
This talk compares OpenTelemetry's eBPF instrumentation with Java agent technology, focusing on deployment, compatibility, security, and performance....
Build & Deploy 
Level Up Your Java Streams with Gatherers
This session explores Java 24's new Stream Gatherers, enabling custom intermediate operations on streams. Attendees will learn their functionality, ad...
Java 
LLMs, Meet Your Tools: The Magic of Model Context Protocol
Model Context Protocol (MCP) enhances LLM capabilities by integrating external tools, APIs, and data sources within IDEs, fostering intelligent, conte...
Build & Deploy 
Modern Sandboxing: Using Web Assembly in Java
Sandboxing enables safe execution of untrusted third-party code by restricting its access. This proposal explores using Web Assembly, a secure binary...
Architecture 
Prometheus Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases
Prometheus makes monitoring easy - until it doesn’t. From hidden cardinality explosions to misleading query results and unexpected interpolation or ex...
Build & Deploy 
Revisiting user registration and authentication
This talk explores enhancing user registration and authentication by combining two cryptographic protocols: Proof of Work (PoW) and Zero-Knowledge Pas...
Mind the Geek 
Robust Testing Strategies for AI-Driven Applications
This talk addresses the challenges of testing AI-driven applications, offering practical strategies for unit, functional, and integration tests tailor...
Development Practices 
Solving Real-World Data Fetching Challenges with Next.js and TanStack Query: A Pragmatic Case Study
This session explores improving user experiences by addressing API design challenges like excessive network requests and inefficient caching. Using a...
UI & UX 
StructuredTaskScope And ScopedValue - Get The Most Out of Virtual Threads
This talk explores Java 21's virtual threads and two preview features, StructuredTaskScope and ScopedValue. Through live coding, attendees will learn...
Java 
The Cutting Edge of AI: From LLMs to Multimodal Intelligence
This session explores advances in artificial intelligence, focusing on generative AI, large language models, and multimodal systems integrating text,...
Data & AI