AI Coding Days
Speaker FAQ
Guidelines for the talk
What applies on stage: ad-free knowledge, no speaker fee, no travel reimbursement, format, profile, and how the application works.
Nina is the speaker host of the AI Coding Days. She is an experienced speaker herself. She is available for every question about the talk.
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Ad-free talks
- Talks are ad-free. The focus is practical value for the attendees.
- No product pitches, no sales slots, no beginner lists, and no theory without practice.
- Pure knowledge and an exchange of know-how.
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Is there a travel budget or a speaker fee?
- No. Travel costs are not reimbursed, and there is no speaker fee.
- A talk does not incur any cost.
- Speakers are carefully selected and invited, because pitching is banned.
- There are no paid talks on stage. The AI Coding Days are a knowledge conference, not a sales event.
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Being part of the community
- The AI Coding Days are building the community. Speakers are expected to want to be part of that community.
- Selling inside the community is allowed and wanted. Making interesting contacts belongs to it.
- It is a network of competence, not a network of sales.
- The maxim is: sell through competence, not through bullshit bingo.
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Start with the content
- No long self-introduction. The talk starts with the practice.
- Expertise shows in the talk, not in a biography at the beginning.
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Tech: bring your own device
- Bring your own computer for the presentation.
- That keeps the familiar setup available on stage.
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Duration, format, and language
- A talk lasts about 30 minutes.
- Slides in 16:9.
- Every talk is in German only.
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Who we want on stage
- Absolute professionals: 15 to 20 years of software development, at least one to one and a half years of AI engineering and agentic engineering, a stack that is already converted, and a practice ahead of the people around them.
- No vibe coding as talk content, and no stage for the stance that agentic engineering does not work because someone is so special. Vibe coders stay welcome in the audience.
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Topics and tools
- A fit is software factories, rebuilding your own IT with AI, agentic engineering in teams, Cursor and Claude Code, local LLMs, open models and Mistral, lifting engineering teams to AI level, architecture for agentic workflows, or the path from a legacy monolith to AI-supported delivery. Your own topic is possible at the same depth of practice.
- Tools from practice: Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT and Codex, GitHub Copilot, Mistral and open models, local LLMs, Gemini, or another tool. At least one must fit the application.
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Application
- The application uses the form: name, email, company and role, favourite LM, topic LMs, keyword, talk title, abstract, and practical experience.
- After sending you receive a confirmation email. Fabian Rossbacher follows up.
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Date, place, and day plan
- The conference is on 19 November 2026 at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne.
- Admission, talk times, dinner, and the party are on the planning page.
- Dinner at Wilma Wunder and the party are described there as add-on bookings.