Unlocking developer joy, from onboarding to innovation
Europe’s Premier Event Focused On Developer Experience, Productivity & Satisfaction

28 – 29 October, 2025 | UK

Fatima Mookhtiar

Lead Technical Product Portfolio Manager - Developer Experience & Operational Excellence A.P. Moller - Maersk

CONFERENCE DAY ONE

4:20 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: Executive Buy-in for DX Initiatives: Demonstrating the Business Value

Developer Experience is still an emerging and evolving role. This panel aims to unravel the complexities of articulating the business value of DX investments to senior management.

  • Understanding the executive perspective into what drives executive decisions, including ROI, risk management, and long-term strategic benefits, to better align DX with priorities.
  • What methods are there for quantifying the impact of improved DX on productivity, innovation speed, and overall software quality, making the benefits tangible to executives.
  • Sharing real-world examples where DX initiatives have led to significant business improvements, highlighting strategies used to gain executive support.
  • Discussing the potential risks and costs associated with inadequate developer experience
  • Crafting a compelling narrative that combines qualitative and quantitative benefits of DX initiatives, to resonate with executive concerns and goals.

CONFERENCE DAY TWO

11:00 AM KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Identifying Developer Frictions & Creating Action Plans To Minimise

Address the critical challenges that impede developer productivity and satisfaction. How does DX serve as an alternative to effectively mitigate the frictions developers

face in their day-to-day work?

  • Recognizing Common Developer Frictions and pain points across the developer workflow, from inadequate tooling and poor documentation to organisational
  • bottlenecks and communication barriers.
  • Introducing methodologies for systematically identifying and categorising frictions, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of issues.
  • Formulating specific, actionable plans to address frictions, and ensuring smooth implementation, including new processes and tools, stakeholder buy-in, pilot testing,
  • and phased rollouts.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Fatima.

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