Moving forward in tech isn’t always about becoming the best specialist in your field. At a certain point, career growth often means expanding your perspective, thinking beyond your area of expertise, and learning how to influence decisions across the wider business.In this panel, we’ll explore what it takes to make that shift - from developing strategic thinking and communicating with non-technical stakeholders to building visibility and influence beyond your immediate role. We’ll discuss how to recognize when you’re ready for the next step, which skills become increasingly important as you progress, and whether becoming a manager is really the only path to seniority.We’ll also explore how women in tech can position themselves for more strategic opportunities, build credibility, and confidently navigate their next career move.

Speakers: Klaudia Szücs (Product Engineer at Productboard), Klara Matousova (Project Manager at Schneider Electric), TBA

AI has blurred who writes the code, who writes the spec, and who's actually accountable when something breaks - and most teams haven't rebuilt their collaboration playbook to match. In this talk, Kamila Fournier (Sr. Product Manager, Productboard) unpacks what happens when ownership gets fuzzy and communication breaks down: critical issues slip through because everyone assumes someone else caught them, engineering and product end up solving for different assumptions without realizing it, invisible work piles onto whoever's willing to absorb it, and trust erodes right when teams need it most.Leave with concrete tactics for setting clear boundaries, building a shared language across roles, and creating feedback habits that stick - so your team always knows who's in the pilot seat, and how to talk to each other when things go sideways.

Speaker: Kamila Fournier (Senior Product Manager at Productboard)

Many professionals don’t lack competence - they lack belief in their own abilities. Confidence is often seen as a personality trait, but in reality it’s something that can be built intentionally over time. In this session, we’ll explore how confidence develops step by step and what it takes to strengthen your internal trust. You’ll learn practical ways to speak up more confidently, navigate self-doubt, and show up more fully in your work and professional conversations.

Speaker: Daria Hvizdalova (AI & LLMs at MIT Professional Education, AI Adoption at Make)

Taking on the UK National Lottery - the largest lottery transition in European history - meant building an agile, high-performing tech and business engine from the ground up under strict regulatory oversight. In this 20-minute talk, Monika shares how she stepped up from IT analyst to lead an international team of 40+ Business Analysts across 10 strategic workstreams to deliver the blueprint for a modern lottery tech stack on time. She will share practical lessons on turning high-level complexity into precise, testable delivery, establishing cross-functional ownership across international teams, and how this high-stakes experience became the perfect foundation for her next leadership leap: driving Front-End Delivery at Allwyn.

Speaker: Monika Dubová (Head of IT Front-End Delivery at Allwyn)

AI is rapidly expanding what engineers can do. We can explore unfamiliar technologies, build and review solutions, test ideas, and move across domains faster than ever. Access to plausible answers is becoming cheap, but there is still a big difference between a solution that looks right and one that actually works in a real system.
So what makes an engineer senior when everyone has access to the same powerful assistant?
Through concrete examples, this talk looks at what separates generating a solution from engineering one: understanding consequences, reasoning about trade-offs and failure, challenging assumptions, asking the right questions, and knowing what needs to be verified. AI may be making all of us juniors again. It may also be making real engineering judgment more valuable than ever.

Speaker: Katerina Charvatova (Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ceska Sporitelna)

Never has it been easier to create something. And yet, never has it been harder to create something people will truly remember. How is the creative process changing in the age of generative AI? At a time when AI can generate dozens of ideas in seconds, the real competitive advantage is no longer the ability to produce more ideas, but the ability to make better creative decisions. What makes an idea truly work? How do you recognize which direction is worth pursuing? And how do you create products, campaigns, or solutions that have a clear purpose and create meaningful impact?Through real-world examples and hands-on exercises, you'll experience a creative process where AI becomes your creative thinking partner. You'll learn how to have a productive dialogue with AI to define problems more clearly, ask better questions, uncover new perspectives, develop stronger concepts, and confidently decide which ideas are worth taking further. You'll leave with practical frameworks that you can immediately apply to your own work.

Speaker: Gaby Sittova (Creative Director at YORD)

Do retrospectives in your team feel like a waste of time? Are they seen as a repetitive ceremony, a place to complain, or at best a group therapy session with little real impact?Retrospectives are designed to help teams reflect on their work, learn from their experiences, and continuously improve. When done well, they can drive meaningful change. In this workshop, you will go back to the basics, experience a short retrospective firsthand, and discover practical tools and techniques that help turn retrospectives into honest and productive conversations.Whether you are a team lead, product manager, or developer, you can help shape the quality and outcomes of a retrospective. Productive retrospectives are not created by facilitators alone. Every participant has the power to influence the discussion, build trust, and turn insights into action.

Speaker: Veronika Smrckova (Scrum Master & Software Developer at HORIBA Test Automation Ltd)

How do you ensure AI Agents reach production and avoid failing in the pilot stage? In this practical, hands-on workshop, we will explore how tech and product teams can build sustainable foundations for Agentic processes across teams.

Speaker: Martin Hyravy (AI Adoption & Enablement Manager at Make)