How to personalise your schedule for DDD Europe 2026

Posted on 2026-05-05 - 3 minute read

Three days. Dozens of sessions. Rooms running in parallel. If you've ever stood in the hallway at a conference, the program booklet in hand, wondering which talk to walk into, we've been thinking about you.

This year we've overhauled the schedule page to make planning a lot more intentional.

Find what's right for your level

One of the most common questions we hear is: "Is this talk for me?" This year, we have a solution for you. Every session on the schedule is now labelled Introductory, Intermediate, or Advanced, and you can filter by level on each day. Whether you're coming to DDD Europe for the first time or you've been practising Domain-Driven Design for a decade, there's a level built around where you are.

New to DDD? Start with Talysson Oliveira Cassiano's "So You Want to Be a DDD Practitioner," work through Paul Rayner's hands-on Context Mapping lab, and catch Hannes Lowette's "Event Sourcing: Dealing with an Eventful Past." A full introductory day is right there, ready to go. Read more about our Foundation Track on this blog.

More experienced? Filter up and you'll find sessions like Pietro Roversi on rewriting a legacy monolith as a modular monolith, or Carola Lilienthal and Henning Schwentner's lab on domain-driven transformation.

Browse by theme

We've also made it possible to filter by topic, so you can follow the threads that matter most to you across the three days. A few themes we think will be particularly interesting this year:

AI and DDD is impossible to ignore in 2026. Hila Fox gives her take on socio-technical systems in the AI era, Philipp Kostyra runs a hands-on lab asking whether AI can serve as a co-domain expert in modelling sessions, and Felienne Hermans closes the day with something more personal: how AI has made her question everything she thought she knew about programming. Three very different angles on the same seismic shift.

Modelling in practice has always been the heart of this conference, and this year is no different. Henning Schwentner and Stefan Hofer bring Domain Storytelling to life in a two-hour lab. Martin Günther and Marco Schneider explore collaborative data modelling through linguistic cues. Arnaud Courtès and Julien Gaubert take you from an anemic domain model to well-designed aggregates.

Strategic design and architecture runs throughout the program. From Tomasz Ducin on how bounded contexts shape frontend architecture, to Manfred Steyer's lab on moduliths and micro frontends, to Andrew Harmel-Law introducing the Architecture Advice Process.

People, organisations, and change is the theme that often surprises first-time attendees most. We look forward to Anja Kunkel's lab on power structures and politics. Krisztina Hirth and Ghizlane Aroussi tell the story of becoming a DDD company from two very different vantage points.

Legacy and modernisation is well represented too, with sessions by Raj Navakoti on reverse-engineering DDD in legacy systems, monolith rewrites, and domain-driven transformation at scale with Carola Lilienthal and Henning Schwentner.

Save your favourites, build your personalised schedule

Once you've explored by level and theme, you can favourite individual sessions to build your personal schedule. Your saved talks appear together, per day, so you can see exactly how your three days will look before you even board the train to Antwerp. Don’t forget to take a screenshot before you leave your browsing session.

Head to 2026.dddeurope.com/schedule and start planning.