Michael Masson, CTO at Botpress, delivered the talk Kubernetes the Right Way: A Platform Engineering Approach to K8s. He acknowledged Kubernetes’ power and complexity, and showed how platform engineering provided a smoother, more manageable path for teams to benefit from K8s without forcing everyone to master it. Mark Savic, Cursor Ambassador for Montreal and CTO at Bucky AI, walked us through Mastering Vibes: Best Practices for Pair Programming. He addressed the gap between AI coding tool promises and the real frustrations developers faced, sharing proven patterns from the community to reduce friction, improve flow, and make AI-assisted development feel effortless. The session offered practical tools for all skill levels. Fred Lavoie, Founder and President at Deck, discussed Making Impossible Integrations… Possible. He demonstrated how authentication agents and a unified API made it feasible to integrate with any data source—even those without APIs—while ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable access to credentialed data.

Sylvain Perron, CEO and Co-Founder of Botpress delivered a talk titled llmz: The TypeScript AI Engine, where we learned how to use AI reliably—making LLMs perform complex actions safely and predictably. He explored llmz, an AI execution engine that wrote, ran, and reasoned in TypeScript to power LLM-native apps and features. Alexandre Bouchard, CEO and Co-Founder of Hookdeck, presented Webhooks at Scale: Best Practices, Lessons Learned. Drawing on Hookdeck’s experience processing over 100 billion webhooks, he highlighted key architecture patterns, considerations for event-driven applications, and the future of webhooks with event destinations and gateways.