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Every talk is reviewed by a programme committee of practitioners. Vendor talks live on the expo stage.
14–16 Oct 2026 Harbor Hall, Portvale 60+ speakers
Build
the
next
thing.
Convenia 26 is three days of honest talks, hands-on workshops and hallway conversations for engineers, designers and the people who ship with them.
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PlatformDesign systemsAI & dataSecurityDeveloper experienceOpen sourcePerformanceAccessibility
60+
Speakers
48
Sessions
12
Workshops
2400
Attendees
Why Convenia
A conference that respects your time.
Seven years, 12,000 alumni and one rule: if a session wouldn’t change how you work on Monday, it doesn’t make the programme.
Workshops, not webinars
Twelve hands-on labs capped at 40 seats, with mentors walking the room.
The hallway track
Topic tables, speaker office hours and a matchmaking app that actually works.
Every talk recorded
Can’t choose between rooms? Recordings reach ticket holders within 48 hours.
Four tracks
Pick a lane. Or switch at every break.
01
Main Stage
Keynotes, panels and the talks everyone will be quoting on Monday.
14 sessions02
Build
Infrastructure, performance, security and the craft of shipping.
12 sessions03
Design
Design systems, accessibility, motion and research that changes roadmaps.
10 sessions04
AI & Data
Evaluations, small models, data contracts and ML in production.
11 sessionsAgenda
Three days, zero filler.
Tap a day, filter by track and star the sessions you don’t want to miss. Your agenda is saved on this device.
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Wed 14 Oct
Registration, badges & coffee
Pick up your badge, grab a flat white and find your people.
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Wed 14 Oct
Opening keynote: Build the next thing, not the last one
What a decade of platform work taught us about choosing the right problems.
Marcus Tan-ReyesCTO, Kestrel Cloud
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Wed 14 Oct
Design systems that survive the reorg
Governance, tokens and contribution models that outlive the org chart.
Sofia MarchettiHead of Design, Brightloop
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Wed 14 Oct
Rust at the edge: from 40 ms to 4 ms
A candid rewrite story with flame graphs, dead ends and one very good day.
Julian HartStaff Engineer, Quanta Grid
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Wed 14 Oct
Workshop: Prompt to production in 90 minutes
Bring a laptop. Leave with an evaluated, deployed LLM feature. 40 seats.
Arthur BellamyPrincipal Researcher, Vireo AI
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Wed 14 Oct
Lunch & expo floor
Street-food trucks, sponsor booths and the job board.
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Wed 14 Oct
Roadmaps are promises (so make fewer)
How six bets replaced a 90-item roadmap and doubled activation.
Lena ParkVP Product, Tessellate
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Wed 14 Oct
Threat modelling for humans
A 30-minute threat model any team can run on a whiteboard.
Tomás FerreiraSecurity Lead, Copperline
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Wed 14 Oct
Panel: Is the monolith back?
Three architects, one microphone, no slides.
Julian Hart, Marcus Tan-Reyes, Clara Nieves3 speakers
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Wed 14 Oct
Welcome party on the Harbor Deck
DJ, local beer and far too many stickers.
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Thu 15 Oct
Coffee & hallway track
The best conversations happen before the first talk.
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Thu 15 Oct
Keynote: Small models, big wins
Running useful language models on a laptop, and why you might want to.
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Thu 15 Oct
DX is a product
Measuring developer experience with the same rigour as any product metric.
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Thu 15 Oct
Accessible by default: auditing 400 components
What we found, what we fixed and the checklist we now ship with.
Maya RiosAccessibility Lead, Fieldnote -
Thu 15 Oct
Workshop: Figma to code without the handoff
Tokens, variants and a component pipeline you can copy on Monday.
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Thu 15 Oct
Lunch & sponsor demos
Ten-minute demos on the expo stage every half hour.
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Thu 15 Oct
From side project to two million users
Pricing, burnout and the features we’re glad we never built.
Nora LindqvistFounder, Fieldnote
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Thu 15 Oct
Evals are the new unit tests
Building an evaluation suite your product team can read.
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Thu 15 Oct
Motion with meaning
Animation principles for interfaces that respect attention.
Ines DuarteMotion Lead, Parcel & Pine -
Thu 15 Oct
Community meetups & open mic
Rust, design systems, ML and first-time speakers’ corner.
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Fri 16 Oct
Fireside: The next decade of the web
Two builders, one sofa and your questions from the app.
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Fri 16 Oct
Zero-downtime Postgres migrations
Expand, migrate, contract: the playbook behind 300 production migrations.
Kwame MensahStaff SRE, Halden Systems -
Fri 16 Oct
Data contracts in practice
Stop breaking dashboards: schemas, owners and alerts that work.
Priya RamanData Platform Lead, Orbital Nine -
Fri 16 Oct
Workshop: Hands-on threat modelling
Model a real system in small groups, then attack it. 36 seats.
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Fri 16 Oct
Lunch
Last chance for the sticker swap table.
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Fri 16 Oct
Lightning talks: eight ideas in sixty minutes
Community speakers picked from 300 submissions.
Leon Achterberg, Zainab Idris, Oskar Weil3 speakers -
Fri 16 Oct
Closing keynote: Ship kindly
Speed and care aren’t opposites. Here’s the proof.
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Fri 16 Oct
Closing drinks
Say your goodbyes, swap handles, book next year.
Nothing here yet. Tap “Add” on any session to build your agenda.
Speakers
People who actually ship.
01TalkBuild the next thing, not the last oneRead bio
Marcus Tan-Reyes
CTO · Kestrel Cloud
Marcus leads 400 engineers at Kestrel Cloud and still reviews pull requests on Fridays. He spent a decade scaling payments infrastructure before moving to developer platforms, and writes a much-shared newsletter on engineering culture.
02TalkDesign systems that survive the reorgRead bio
Sofia Marchetti
Head of Design · Brightloop
Sofia built Brightloop’s design system from a single Figma file to 600 components used by 40 product teams. She teaches design operations and is happiest when a token saves somebody a meeting.
03TalkRust at the edge: from 40 ms to 4 msRead bio
Julian Hart
Staff Engineer · Quanta Grid
Julian rewrote Quanta Grid’s request router in Rust and lived to tell the tale. He maintains two popular open-source crates and has opinions about flame graphs he will happily share over coffee.
04TalkFrom side project to two million usersRead bio
Nora Lindqvist
Founder · Fieldnote
Nora started Fieldnote as a weekend notebook app and grew it to two million users with a team of nine. She talks candidly about pricing, burnout and the features she is glad she never built.
05TalkSmall models, big winsRead bio
Arthur Bellamy
Principal Researcher · Vireo AI
Arthur has spent twenty years in applied machine learning, most recently making small language models useful on ordinary laptops. He is known for clear explanations and very honest benchmarks.
06TalkRoadmaps are promises (so make fewer)Read bio
Lena Park
VP Product · Tessellate
Lena runs product at Tessellate, where she replaced a 90-item roadmap with six bets and doubled activation. She mentors first-time product managers and writes about saying no, kindly.
07TalkThreat modelling for humansRead bio
Tomás Ferreira
Security Lead · Copperline
Tomás turns security reviews into conversations developers actually enjoy. He has run red teams for banks and start-ups and now leads product security at Copperline.
08TalkDX is a productRead bio
Clara Nieves
Developer Advocate · Stackwise
Clara has shipped SDKs in five languages and onboarding flows for millions of developers. She measures developer experience the way product teams measure everything else: with evidence.
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The venue
Harbor Hall, Portvale
A converted 1920s ferry terminal on the waterfront: one 1,800-seat main hall, three track rooms, a loft for workshops and a deck for everything after.
- 6 min walk from Portvale Central
- 25 min from Portvale Airport
- 3 partner hotels with 15% off
- Step-free with hearing loops
Sponsors
Made possible by good people.
Platinum
- Kestrel Cloud
- Vireo AI
- Brightloop
Gold
- Quanta Grid
- Tessellate
- Copperline
- Stackwise
Community
- Orbital Nine
- Lumen Forge
- Halden Systems
- Fieldnote
- Parcel & Pine
Want your team here? Sponsorship deck
Alumni
Heard in the hallway.
Best signal-to-noise of any conference I attend. I came back with three ideas we shipped the following sprint.
Hana KowalskiEngineering Manager, Parcel & Pine
The agenda builder saved my week. Every talk I starred ended up on my phone with the room number next to it.
Ravi ShahFrontend Lead, Halden Systems
Workshops small enough to get real help. I left with a working prototype, not a slide deck and a headache.
Olivia BrandtProduct Designer, Fieldnote
FAQ
Good questions.
Still curious? Write to hello@convenia.example.
Yes. Student passes are $99 with a valid student ID, and we fund 120 free scholarship passes for people under-represented in tech. Applications close on 20 September.
Transfers are free until 7 October. Use the link in your ticket email, enter the new name and the pass is re-issued instantly.
Every Main Stage and track talk is recorded and available to ticket holders within 48 hours. Workshops are hands-on and are not recorded.
Full refunds until 14 September, 50% until 7 October. After that we can’t refund, but you can always transfer your pass.
Harbor Hall is step-free throughout, with hearing loops in every room, live captions on the Main Stage, a quiet room and reserved seating near every exit.
Five or more tickets in one order save 10% automatically. For ten or more we can invoice your company. Just get in touch.
See you in Portvale.
Standard passes are 70% sold. Lock in your seat, your lunch and your spot on the Harbor Deck.
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