FLOWCON 2025: Full Schedule

The conference is in Paris (Beffroi de Montrouge), on April 1-2 2025.

The registration is available here https://www.flowcon.io/#tickets with options to be s
The program is https://flowcon2025.sched.com

Standard seat : 525€ until March 20.

11:15 CEST

🇬🇧 The Socio-Technical Approach to Reliable Systems at Zalando

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 12:15 CEST

The Socio-Technical Approach to Reliable Systems at Zalando

In the talk, we explore how reliability engineering ("SRE") is fundamentally a socio-technical challenge. Drawing from real-world lessons at Zalando, we’ll walk through how systems thinking, structured incident processes, and SLO-driven prioritization help organizations steer reliability without slowing down innovation. You’ll learn practical frameworks for balancing developer productivity, on-call health, and system resilience, and leave with actionable insights on how to embed reliability into your company’s engineering culture.

Sum up the session in only 1 sentence
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What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
Reliability is a Socio-Technical Challenge Systems Thinking is Key to Scaling Reliability SLOs are More Than a Metric—They’re a Decision-Making Tool

Speakers

Heinrich Hartmann

Senior Principal SRE, Zalando

Who are you?Heinrich is a seasoned industry expert with more than 10 years in the field or monitoring and observability. Currently he is Senior Principal SRE at Zalando where he overseas reliability engineering at a company-wide level and co-host of the CASE Podcast, where he explores... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 12:15 CEST
Feedback Loop - 90p

Tech, Conference

15:05 CEST

🇬🇧 Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews, a Case Study

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:05 - 16:00 CEST

Fast Flow - Auditorium

Title: Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews, a Case Study

The problem with the current most commonly accepted way of running code reviews using Pull Requests is that they have the nasty habit of blocking the flow of delivery. They introduce a cost of delay. Delays reduce feedback and drive down quality.

The usual way to achieve fast efficient and effective Continuous Code Reviews without disrupting the flow of delivery is through Pair Programming or Team Programming. However, for various valid reasons, these are often a cultural stretch for many teams and organisations.

In 2012, a novice team practising trunk-based development set up a fairly uncommon but efficient alternative to implementing continuous code reviews on mainline without ever blocking the flow of delivery. This team went from a bunch of rag-tags to becoming a reference team in the organisation, with auditors falling on the floor because of the amount of quality the team delivered.

Sum up the session in only 1 sentence
How to run code reviews with trunk-based development when pair programming is a cultural stretch?

What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
Be able to explain how Pull Requests disable the benefits of Continuous Delivery. Be able to enumerate the key ideas behind non-blocking code reviews. Understand how non-blocking code reviews are an enabler for Continuous Delivery.

Speakers

Thierry de Pauw

Founder & Consulting CTO, Thinking Labs

Who are you?I founded ThinkingLabs, an advisory firm around optimising IT delivery. I happen to be a CI/CD advocate and jack-of-all-trades. Instead of balancing quality & delivery, I believe and practice that better quality is actually a way to more and better deliveries.What do you... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:05 - 16:00 CEST
Fast Flow - Auditorium

Tech, Conference

16:30 CEST

🇫🇷 IA Générative : passer du wow à la création de valeur

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 17:25 CEST

Fast Flow - Auditorium

Face à l'IA générative, les entreprises oscillent entre fascination et paralysie. Certaines se lancent dans des projets, sans vision, pendant que d'autres restent spectatrices par peur ou incompréhension. Au-delà des démonstrations spectaculaires, comprenez ses réelles capacités et limites de l'IA Gen. Découvrez comment cette technologie prend tout son sens dans une approche de complémentarité où l'intelligence humaine et artificielle se renforcent mutuellement. Le sens critique et le jugement humain deviennent essentiels pour exploiter pleinement son potentiel.
Apprenez à gérer son déploiement comme un produit, en vous adaptant à son évolution permanente. Maîtrisez les clés de l'adoption, de l'accompagnement des équipes à la gestion du changement, pour transformer cette alliance homme-machine en véritable levier de performance.

Sum up the session in only 1 sentence
IA Générative : du "wow" initial à l'adoption, en adoptant une approche ambitieuse et humaine pour créer une valeur durable.

What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
L'IA :
- La comprendre
- Savoir la déployer
- Apprendre à cohabiter avec

Speakers

Didier Girard

Managing Director, SFEIR

Who are you?Je suis un expert en technologie. J'ai obtenu un doctorat dans le domaine de l'IA et suis reconnu dans le domaine de la data, du cloud et de l'architecture des SI.What do you do for a living?J'occupe actuellement le poste de directeur général de SFEIR et de WENVISION... Read More →

Aude Defretière

Experte en Stratégie Produit & GenAI, WEnvision

Who are you?Je suis Aude, consultante en Product Management dans un cabinet tech spécialisé en GenAI. Ce qui me motive au quotidien, c'est de rendre des innovations technologiques complexes accessibles et utiles pour tous. J'aime accompagner des équipes dans la transformation de... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 17:25 CEST
Fast Flow - Auditorium

Tech, Conference

17:35 CEST

🇫🇷 Systèmes legacy : Pourquoi continuons-nous à les créer ?

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:35 - 18:30 CEST

Limit WIP - 70p

Systèmes legacy : Pourquoi continuons-nous à les créer ?

Un enseignement clé de cette présentation est que les systèmes hérités résultent souvent d'une réticence à engager des discussions difficiles sur les bonnes pratiques d'ingénierie. Cette réticence à aborder les problèmes fondamentaux d'ingénierie est aggravée par une mauvaise utilisation du concept de "dette technique", souvent assimilé à une analogie financière qui masque son véritable sens : une conséquence de conceptions logicielles déficientes. Nous examinerons également la relation entre les systèmes hérités et la dette technique, en montrant comment cette confusion contribue à leur perpétuation. Ne pas s'attaquer à ces causes profondes peut entraîner des défis majeurs pour les organisations, notamment une augmentation des coûts de maintenance, des vulnérabilités en matière de sécurité et des difficultés d'adaptation aux nouvelles exigences métier. En comprenant l'origine des systèmes hérités, nous pouvons adopter une approche proactive du développement logiciel, favorisant des pratiques d'ingénierie durables et minimisant l'accumulation de dette technique.

Accroche :
Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé pourquoi nous sommes en permanence confrontés aux "systèmes legacy" ? Est-ce vraiment juste une question de vieux code, ou y a-t-il quelque chose de plus fondamental en jeu ? Dans cette conférence, nous explorerons les raisons surprenantes pour lesquelles ces systèmes persistent et remettrons en question certaines idées reçues sur la dette technique. Indice : ce n’est pas seulement une question de pratique !

Sum up the session in only 1 sentence
Les systèmes legacy sont le plus souvent créés par absence de prise de décisions forte.

What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
* Un systèmes legacy est le reflet de non-choix produit * Un systèmes legacy ne peut vraiment évoluer que si le produit est impliqué * Le concepts de dette technique ne fonctionne pas bien pour en parler

Speakers

Kevin Platel

Global Principal Architect, Leboncoin

Who are you?Passionné par les systèmes sous toutes leurs formes, je suis un geek curieux aussi bien dans mon métier que dans les jeux vidéo, l'économie, la physique ou encore les règles des jeux de rôle. J'aime apprendre, comprendre les mécanismes qui nous entourent et décrypter... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:35 - 18:30 CEST
Limit WIP - 70p

Tech, Conference

09:30 CEST

🇬🇧 So You’ve Built It, Now Support It. From Chaos to Happy Customers

Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:30 - 10:30 CEST

Feedback Loop - 90p

So You’ve Built It, Now Support It. From Chaos to Happy Customers - Doing the Gardening At Bloom & Wild

Humans make mistakes, it’s a fact of life. Despite our best intentions, and no matter how many checks we put in place, sometimes things go wrong. It’s no different with software. To move at speed then it’s inevitable that production issues will happen. Sometimes it’s your code that doesn’t work as expected, sometimes dependencies break, sometimes infrastructure breaks. Sometimes that once in a lifetime event happens. Again.

This talk is a story about support. It’s a real life story of how what was a chaotic situation, with unhappy customers and developers, has been turned around to something that keeps our customers happy, and is even fun to be a part of.

Sum up the session in only 1 sentence
All teams should support their systems in production and I'm going to explain what I've learnt about doing that, with added flowers :)

What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
1. Why they’ll always be some need for production support, why needing it isn’t a indication of failure and how we can make it a nicer experience
2. The different ways that we've supported our systems at Bloom & Wild and what we've learnt as we've rapidly scaled the team
3. A little about flowers and a lot about learning

Speakers

Steve Janaway

VP Engineering, Bloom & Wild

Who are you?I'm Steve. I'd describe myself as a passionate software engineering leader with a proven track record in building and leading successful teams across diverse industries including social, retail, and telecom. I've spoken a lot in the past about leadership and software... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:30 - 10:30 CEST
Feedback Loop - 90p

Tech, Conference

10:45 CEST

🇬🇧 Low code & no code solutions: Agile or fragile?

Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:45 - 11:40 CEST

Feedback Loop - 90p

No Code, Low Code, Machine Code

What level of abstraction is just right?

Everything looks solvable if you ignore most of the complications. Many things look impossible if you’re stuck in the weeds. The current fashion for low/no code solutions heralds the cyclical return to looking for solutions that require softer skillsets. When is this appropriate and when is it a recipe for disaster?

Sum up the session in only 1 sentence
There is no silver bullet (reprise)

What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
- Essential complexity cannot not be simplified away - No code/low code solutions are only beneficial in limited domains - AI and ML are tools not solutions

Speakers

Seb Rose

Independent Software Consultant

Who are you? I am Seb Rose and I've been involved with commercial software since 1980 when I was writing accounting software in compiled BASIC on an Apple 2. I went on to get a degree in Computer Science and Electronics and wrote firmware for the Linn Rekursiv after graduating. I... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:45 - 11:40 CEST
Feedback Loop - 90p

Tech, Conference

FLOWCON 2025