Anna Prinz explains why quality should not be treated as something to verify at the end. She shows how teams design for failure via overloaded delivery pipelines, unclear Definition of Ready/Done, and quality gates that protect brands instead of designing systems. The talk connects Conway’s Law, Toyota Flow, Theory of Constraints, and queuing theory to explain why quality comes from how the system runs, not from inspection. You’ll learn to: use shift-left testing, Define Ready/Done to create quality before code is written; apply WIP limits, flow control and queue management to prevent technical debt; read overload signals in your pipeline to avoid shipping faster that slows delivery. The focus is on building a delivery system that produces quality on purpose, not rescuing it at the end.

In the last few years, one of the leading new areas of development in JetBrains has been AI assistance. It started with simple access to an external large language model within IntelliJ IDEA—but we didn’t stop there. Today, JetBrains offers a wide range of new features and plugins that can make software developers work more quickly and productively. During this talk, we will go through the most important of them – AI Assistant, local and cloud completion, connecting to local LLMs, and more. We will discuss how these tools can boost your productivity and improve your coding experience. We will also delve into… sorry, I mean, we will talk about JetBrains Junie, AI agents in general, and the future of AI tooling. The talk will consist of animated infographics and live coding examples.

Vlad Konstantinov shares his journey as the first QA engineer on the Compose Multiplatform team at JetBrains. From a blank slate with no defined QA process to testing strategies, automation, and scaling the QA function as the product expanded from desktop to iOS and web. He discusses balancing process, automation, and hiring, and lessons learned for future growth.

In this fireside chat, IT Analyst Yegor Yarko from JetBrains shares their team’s AI journey: starting with enterprise search to unify knowledge, then layering AI to accelerate discovery. Learn how they are streamlining access to information through AI-powered search, and creating a trusted foundation for AI. Hear first-hand how they determined whether to build vs. buy an enterprise search solution, the change management that is helping to drive adoption, and pragmatic steps you can apply to boost productivity across your organization.

Sergei Moryahin, QA Lead @ JetBrains: Join Sergei, QA Lead at JetBrains, as he shares how his team supported a complete refactoring of the Kotlin plugin for IntelliJ IDEA over three years without disrupting millions of users. This talk covers the testing strategy behind a live rewrite of compiler and IDE integration, how QA collaborated with development, managed risks across JetBrains IDEs and third-party plugins, and defined quality gates that enabled a silent, staged rollout. A real-world case study in testing under continuous change, invisible deployments, and maintaining trust through QA engineering.

Sifting through the deluge of data from your distributed systems can be overwhelming – but it doesn’t have to be. Join us to see how Traces Drilldown in Grafana, powered by Tempo, can simplify complex troubleshooting, helping you quickly detect latency issues, identify error trends, and spot anomalies – all without having to learn yet another query language.

Metric analysis is hard. For engineers and for machines. I'll show you how to make it easy. In this talk, I'll share simple steps to boost your Grafana dashboard's UX and ML capabilities. Want to automate your Grafana analysis? Join my session to find out how.

Learn how to create highly responsive and readable dashboards, automatically generated from code. Viacheslav will showcase performance monitoring for YouTrack, the JVM, and Nginx using Grafana as Code — ideal for developers of self-hosted systems and Grafana enthusiasts.

This talk will be from the perspective of JetBrains product developers, providing insights into how the documentation landscape is evolving, and showcasing innovative approaches that shape both the practice of documentation and the tools used to create and manage it.

Ever wondered what it's like to test a compiler? Join Alexander Zakharenko, a QA engineer from the Kotlin/Native team, as he shares his journey into the intricate world of compiler testing. This session will cover the unique challenges of testing a language compiler, including tools, automation strategies, and the diverse tasks that go beyond traditional testing methods. Perfect for developers, testers, and those curious about the inner workings of compilers!

Panel discussion on how UX Researchers function in different organizational contexts, with Q&A.