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Talk 1: Server-side rendered web apps in 2026

Speaker: Florian Polster (Staffbase SE)

It all started when I realized that while I’ve been working as a backend engineer for years I don’t know much about the frontend side. If only I wasn’t such a curious nerd, I could maybe have used the last year for something useful…

At Staffbase we use React. And it feels like the whole world does, too. Driven by my curiosity, I wanted to learn about this thing and find out what it is all about. I quickly realized that to really understand it I had to go back to the basics of web development. This rabbit hole turned out to be deeper than expected. I have come out on the other end wiser and would like to share my findings with you.

This will be a whirlwind tour of how we got from server-side rendering in the 90s, through client-side rendering in the 2010s, to how SSR is making a comeback in the last few years - and how it all fits together. I’ll talk about React and its competitors, Next.js and its competitors, HTMX, Alpine.js, Inertia.js, and others.

Talk 2: Plan-first Agentic Development

Speaker: Vinicius Dalpiccol (Staffbase SE)

AI agents are transforming software development, but their effectiveness depends on one critical factor: context. Without sufficient context, agents hallucinate, produce low-quality output, and burn tokens re-learning what they should already know. Plans are the solution; not just as specifications, but as the primary mechanism for context management.

This talk explores plan-first agentic development: treating plans as living artifacts in a system of record that maintain agent “flow state” across sessions. When plans capture the right context and feed learnings back into the system, agents work more effectively with less supervision. The feedback loop is key: completed work generates insights that make future plans richer, building organizational memory that compounds over time.

We’ll examine core principles including context provisioning as hallucination prevention, plans as token-efficient memory systems, and how structured context management enables agents to maintain coherence across complex, long-running work. You’ll leave understanding how to design workflows where agents get smarter with every task completed.

Raffle

All participants will be entered into a raffle to win one of the technical books “Prompt Engineering für Large Language Models” by John Berryman and Albert Ziegler, “Einführung in GitHub Copilot” by Brent Laster and “Generative KI-Systeme entwickeln” by Chip Huyen. All three books are published by O’Reilly Verlag. The publisher is supporting our event as a prize sponsor.

Host

We are hosted by our supporting member, Staffbase SE in Chemnitz. Thank you very much for your support! You can find out more about Staffbase in the company profile.