Forward Summit 2026

September 11–12, 2026 · STATION Berlin

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Tickets

Early bird

€249.00

All talks and workshops, both days.

Regular

€349.00

All talks and workshops, both days.

Team (5+)

€299.00

Per seat, for teams of five or more.

Program

Main

11:00–12:00

Opening keynote: Build what matters

Why the next decade belongs to small, fast teams.

Product

12:00–13:00

Scaling Laravel to 10M jobs a day

Queues, sharding and the boring architecture that works.

Engineering

15:00–16:00

Lunch & networking

Food trucks in the courtyard.

16:00–17:00

Panel: AI in production

Four teams, four very different lessons.

Product

19:00–20:00

Closing day one + drinks

Recap and a cold one on the roof.

Workshop Lab

13:00–15:00

Workshop: Event-driven design

Hands-on session — bring a laptop.

Engineering

Main

11:00–12:00

Day two keynote: The craft of product

Discovery is a habit, not a phase.

Product

12:00–13:00

Live incident review

A real outage, replayed and dissected on stage.

Engineering

18:00–19:00

Closing: Ship it

Awards, thank-yous and the road to 2027.

Workshop Lab

13:00–15:00

Workshop: Design systems that ship

From tokens to components in 120 minutes.

Product

Speakers

Product strategy Marketplaces

Maya Lindqvist

CEO at Northwind. Previously scaled two marketplaces from zero to exit. Talks fast, ships faster.

Laravel Scaling

Jonas Weber

Principal engineer, queue whisperer and author of "Boring Architecture".

Design systems Accessibility

Aisha Okafor

Design systems lead. Believes a component library is a product, not a side quest.

Reliability Observability

Tom Bakker

SRE. Has broken production so you don't have to. Incident-review evangelist.