AI Engineering

All sessions in the AI Engineering track, grouped by day.

Thursday, July 2

08:30 – 10:00
Registration & coffee

☀️Registration starting from 8:30h

= Participants: Please register at one of the three registration lines, based on the first letter of your last name.

= Speakers & Companions: Please use the separate registration desk on the left.

📍Location: Pool level, Hotel Ambasador.

You received an email with a QR code, so please have it ready for registration.

Stick around for a short welcome speech by the pool just before the program starts. After the opening, make sure you find your seat in the correct room.

Martina Zrnec
AI Engineering
10:00 – 13:00
Build Your Own AI Agent
Martina Zrnec
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

Participants will build and deploy autonomous AI agents using Claude Code through a three-stage, hands-on development process. Developers will learn to integrate custom tools, connect external APIs, and use agents to diagnose and repair real-world codebases.

About the speaker

Martina Zrnec — Co-founder, CTO @ Stacklist

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11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch
Reception level

at Hotel Ambasador restaurant

Ondřej Chrastina
AI Engineering
14:15 – 17:15
Beyond the Chatbot: Engineering Your Proactive Digital Twin
Ondřej Chrastina
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

This workshop demonstrates how to transition from interactive chatbots to autonomous agents using the OpenClaw framework on a VPS. Participants will deploy a persistent digital twin that utilizes "heartbeats" and API integrations to proactively execute tasks and manage schedules independently.

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Ondřej Chrastina — Developer Advocate @ CKEditor

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
19:30 – 21:30
Wine & pasta hangout

at Garden Grill "Hortenzija"

Friday, July 3

Luka Riester
AI Engineering
10:00 – 13:00
The Renaissance Developer: Spec-Driven Development in the age of AI
Luka Riester
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

This workshop teaches participants to transition from manual coding to system engineering using Kiro, an agentic IDE. Attendees will gain hands-on experience building applications, creating agents, and conducting security inspections within the AWS ecosystem.

About the speaker

Luka Riester — Senior Solution Architect @ AWS

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11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch
Reception level

at Hotel Ambasador restaurant

Nikola Poljanec
AI Engineering
14:15 – 17:15
Multi-Agent Orchestration Patterns
Nikola Poljanec
Hald-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

This hands-on workshop teaches the multi-agent orchestration patterns that hold up in production: sequential pipelines, parallel fan-out, supervisor-worker systems, and council-style decision making. Participants will learn to choose the right topology, design reliable handoffs between agents, prevent context rot, and debug failure modes using traces, logs, and schema contracts.

About the speaker

Nikola Poljanec, Senior developer @ Atomic Intelligence

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
19:30 – 21:30
Beer & BBQ hangout

at Garden Grill "Hortenzija"

Saturday, July 4

08:00 – 08:30
Morning swim in the sea

meet at the Hotel Ambasador pool

Radovan Bacovic
AI Engineering
10:00 – 13:00
Fell in love with DevSecOps, AI and DataOps
Radovan Bacovic
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

This hands-on workshop demonstrates how GitLab Duo AI automates ETL development and data pipeline testing across platforms like Snowflake and dbt. Participants will learn to use agentic AI for streamlining CI/CD workflows, troubleshooting failures, and implementing automated DataOps governance.

About the speaker

Radovan Bacovic — Staff Data Engineer @ GitLab

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11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch
Reception level

at Hotel Ambasador restaurant

Sebastian Bergmann
AI EngineeringPHPJS
14:15 – 14:50
Test-Driven Security
Sebastian Bergmann
Talk · 75 minutes

This presentation bridges the gap between software testing and security by framing vulnerabilities as missing test cases. Attendees will learn to identify critical Common Weakness Enumeration flaws and implement testing strategies that block attack vectors before production.

About the speaker

Sebastian Bergmann - Creator of PHPUnit & Co-Founder @ thePHP.cc

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Hrvoje Čop
AI EngineeringJSPHP
14:50 – 15:30
0/140k LOC — Using agents to build complex apps that actually work
Hrvoje Čop
Talk · 75 minutes

Building a complex pixel-art editor without manual coding demonstrates that agentic success depends on codebase architecture rather than model capability. By implementing strict automated enforcement and legibility, developers can create systems that self-correct and prevent structural decay when driven by agents.

About the speaker

Hrvoje Čop — CTO @ Polymachine

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
Marko Dabrović
All tracks
16:00 – 17:00
Keynote: Efficiency in Architecture
Marko Dabrović
Keynote · 40 min

Delivered by an architect, this keynote tackles challenges every team knows: time as the only real resource, the balance of billable and non-billable hours, and which processes can run in parallel. It offers an outside perspective from a discipline that has faced these same constraints for decades, with lessons that reach far beyond architecture.

About the speaker

Marko Dabrović - Partner, architect @ 3LHD

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19:30 – 23:30
Dinner & final party
Yacht Club Opatija

at Yacht Club