Ever hit that point where everything you’ve been faking suddenly stops working? Yeah, me too. What came next? Let’s just say it involved some unexpected career detours, a lot of self-reflection, and maybe a meltdown or two.

In this talk, I’ll share a story that’s part comedy, part cautionary tale—what happens when you realize the path you’ve been on might not be the one you actually care about. If you’re in tech, feeling stuck, or wondering why your career doesn’t feel as fulfilling as it should, you’re not alone.

Let’s explore the fine line between ambition and burnout, and how sometimes the best thing you can do is just stop pretending.

💚 What does Gaudí’s art have in common with an overwhelmed designer? After mentoring 50+ designers across 20+ countries, one thing is clear:

Stress is just a signal, not a setback.

In her talk "Turn Stress into Inspiration", Eva will share how challenges, when met with clarity and intention, fuel authentic creative growth.

This isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about growing better. 🍀

Join her and explore together what really fuels creative growth.

About the speaker

Eva Staneva is a design leader with 15+ years of experience and a mentor passionate about personal development for over 10 years. She helps businesses create innovative, user-centered products and empowers designers to grow creatively and confidently in trust-based, collaborative environments.

Augmented Coding is more than just asking an AI to help you write code.

You externalize your decision points, heuristics, and workflows into artifacts the agent can follow. The agent becomes your mentee.

As you do that, you change your focus from low-level details to high-level intent and methodology. Decisions that were unconscious become explicit.

In this talk, I’ll share my story of how I learned to teach AI a Software Crafter’s approach to development.

The agent follows a rigorous TDD process with 121 unique nodes and 131 directed edges that can run autonomously for hours, creating dozens of commits.

It covers advanced context engineering and techniques to increase autonomy while aiming to maintain quality.

And I will tell real stories of AI-enabled breakthroughs in real-world product development.

Join us for an irreverent exploration of software development's favorite false economy. We'll dive into the seductive world of "ship now, test never" and trace how those passionate early-stage shortcuts transform into toxic long-term relationships with your codebase.

Through battle scars and war stories, you'll discover why "we'll add tests when things calm down" belongs in the same fantasy realm as "I'll start going to the gym next Monday."

Learn practical strategies for integrating testing into your workflow without sacrificing velocity, protecting both your production environment and your team's sanity.

Perfect for engineering teams navigating the delicate balance between speed and sustainability—because nothing kills momentum quite like rebuilding the same features over and over again.