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08:00 - 09:00
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Vaadin on Jakarta EE
Ivar Grimstad, Eclipse Foundation
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09:00 - 09:45
RAG
Sven Ruppert
Coffee
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10:00 - 10:45
Coming soon!
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10:00 - 10:45
Vaadin with Kotlin: Leveraging Kotlin's advantages (null safety, coroutines, DSLs)
Geovanny Mendoza - Session in Spanish
Coffee
Happening in room: Main Track
11:15 - 12:00
Lab: Figma to Vaadin UI
Marcin Głowacki & Juuso Kantonen, Vaadin
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11:15 - 12:00
jFokus backoffice application
Mattias
Lunch
Happening in room: Main Track
13:00 - 13:45
AI driven UIs
Rolf Smed, Vaadin
Happening in room: Second Track
13:00 - 13:45
The end of artisan development? Building Software in the Age of AI Agents
Petter Holmström, Vaadin
Happening in room: Main Track
14:00 - 14:45
The future of full-stack development
Leif Åstrand, Vaadin
Coffee
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14:00 - 14:45
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15:00 - 15:45
Customer panel
Steven Grandchamp & Customers
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10:00 - 10:45
Office-hours: Theming and styling
Jouni Koivuviita
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Office-hours: Theming and styling
Jouni Koivuviita
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The end of artisan development? Building Software in the Age of AI Agents
In the late 1990s, I was a teenager building data-driven UIs on top of Paradox databases with Delphi. The UI was driven by the database schema. It was ugly. It worked. I was hooked.
I spent the next two decades learning that how you build software matters — not just whether it works. I came to see code as craft. Vaadin then asked me to codify that craft into The Vaadin Way. It was grounded in ten years of real-world screw-ups — and it didn’t go as planned. The craft resisted codification. I was already rethinking the whole approach when AI agents showed up and made the question urgent for everyone.
Today, I have colleagues running unchecked AI-generated code in production. It works. I also have a personal project where an agent writes every line — and I’ve never been more excited about building software. Both are true at the same time, and I don’t think we’re talking enough about what that means.
This is not a talk about how to use AI agents with Vaadin. This is about what happens to craft, experience, and judgment when the machine gets good enough.
I spent the next two decades learning that how you build software matters — not just whether it works. I came to see code as craft. Vaadin then asked me to codify that craft into The Vaadin Way. It was grounded in ten years of real-world screw-ups — and it didn’t go as planned. The craft resisted codification. I was already rethinking the whole approach when AI agents showed up and made the question urgent for everyone.
Today, I have colleagues running unchecked AI-generated code in production. It works. I also have a personal project where an agent writes every line — and I’ve never been more excited about building software. Both are true at the same time, and I don’t think we’re talking enough about what that means.
This is not a talk about how to use AI agents with Vaadin. This is about what happens to craft, experience, and judgment when the machine gets good enough.
Petter Holmström
Principal Software Engineer, Vaadin
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