DDD Europe 2026 - Program

Program

Workshops

June 8-9-10

Advanced Software Architecture with Residuality
Workshop (3 days)
Barry O'Reilly
June 2-3-4
Architecture as Code; Making Architecture Work
Workshop (2 days)
Neal Ford
June 2-3
Architecture: The Hard Parts
Workshop (2 days)
Mark Richards
June 2-3
Designing Constraints: Enabling Emergence in Complex Sociotechnical Systems
Workshop (2 days)
Dr. Jabe Bloom
June 2-3
Implementing Tactical Patterns
Workshop (2 days)
Thomas Coopman
June 2-3
Leadership in Software Design
Workshop (2 days)
Gien Verschatse
June 2-3
Put an ML Model in Production with Me!
Workshop (2 days)
Chelsea Troy
June 2-3
Software Design Masterclass with Eric Evans
Workshop (2 days)
Eric Evans
June 2-3
SOLD OUT - EventStorming Masterclass
Workshop (2 days)
Alberto Brandolini
June 2-3
SOLD OUT - Strategic Domain-Driven Design
Workshop (2 days)
Maxime Sanglan-Charlier
June 2-3
SOLD OUT - The Architect Elevator: Visiting the Upper Floors
Workshop (2 days)
Gregor Hohpe
June 2-3
System Design as *system* *design*
Workshop (1 day)
Ruth Malan
June 3
Visualising software architecture with the C4 model
Workshop (1 day)
Simon Brown
June 3

Conference

June 10-11-12

A Defence of Technical Excellence
Talk (50min)
Chris Simon
A Hands On Introduction to Domain Driven Design and Hexagonal Architecture
Hands-on Lab
Jeremy Davis
Advanced Refactor Using DDD
Hands-on Lab
Alberto Acerbis and Alessandro Colla
AI-accelerated legacy modernisation
Talk (50min)
Fabrice Bernhard
Baking Domain Concepts Into Code
Hands-on Lab
Chris Simon and Paul Rayner
Baking Domain Concepts Into Code
Hands-on Lab
Chris Simon and Paul Rayner
Becoming a Great Team
Hands-on Lab
Kevin Meadows and Woody Zuill
Beyond Big Ideas: Strategies for Continuous Product Innovation
Hands-on Lab
Zsófia Herendi
Beyond Words: Navigating the Power and Pitfalls of Metaphors in Software Design
Hands-on Lab
Helen Rapp and Martin Günther
Breaking conventions for more performant models
Talk (50min)
Cyrille Martraire
Charting the uncharted: Discovering and evolving bounded contexts
Talk (50min)
Prem Chandrasekaran
Creating a language for collaborative modelling: hands-on
Hands-on Lab
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen
DDD & BDD Then and Now: Unpacking Similarities and Differences
Talk (50min)
Anita Kvamme
DDD for Mergers and Acquisitions
Talk (50min)
Henning Schwentner
DDD Surrounded by Legacy, Govt Edition
Talk (50min)
John Phamvan
Design a System in 2 hours
Hands-on Lab
Jacqui Read
Design Patterns for Software Diagramming
Talk (50min)
Jacqui Read
Digging deep into a domain by digging scientific papers
Hands-on Lab
Cyrille Martraire
Domain Experiments
Talk (50min)
Mike Wojtyna
Domain-driven (re)design: Rejuvenating a forty-year-old legacy system
Talk (50min)
Davy Landman and Sung-Shik Jongmans
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns through Object Calisthenics
Hands-on Lab
Baptiste Macé and Dorra Bartaguiz
Enable Clean Domain Models and Manage Complexity with Hexagonal Architecture
Hands-on Lab
Christian Franzen and Ferdinand Ade
Evaluating Patterns in Gen AI Outputs (alternative: "What can we expect of LLMs as software engs?")
Talk (50min)
Chelsea Troy
Event Sourcing: The Backbone of Agentic AI
Sponsored Talk
Kevin Hoffman
Expanding your Design Heuristic Repertoire One Experiment at a Time
Hands-on Lab
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Fast Feedback Development By Avoiding The Fallacy Of Integrated End-To-End Tests
Hands-on Lab
Jan Van Ryswyck
From Business Goals to Software Requirements - Combining Impact Mapping and Domain Storytelling
Hands-on Lab
Henning Schwentner and Mufrid Krilic
Growing and Thriving in a Multi-Model World.
Talk (50min)
Alberto Brandolini
Helping Stakeholders Make Investment Decisions with Collaborative Modeling
Talk (50min)
Mufrid Krilic
How to design an API using DDD and AI
Hands-on Lab
Annegret Junker
How to Make Your Stakeholders Talk: Techniques from Professional Interviewers
Hands-on Lab
Pamela Paterson
How to Train Your Domain Model
Talk (50min)
Tobias Goeschel
Impact Mapping Workshop
Hands-on Lab
Krisztina Hirth
Improving feature flag implementation to achieve flow
Talk (50min)
Dorra Bartaguiz
Interactively designing distributed systems integration with collaborative modelling
Hands-on Lab
Henning Schwentner, Kenny (Baas) Schwegler, Krisztina Hirth and Maxime Sanglan-Charlier
Limitation-driven exploration: Hands-on modelling workshop
Hands-on Lab
Thomas Coopman
Living Domain Model: Continuous Refactoring to Accelerate Delivery
Talk (50min)
Younès Zeriahi
Model Drift and Software Attractors
Talk (50min)
Barry O'Reilly
Model Tension Heuristics: Preventing Accidental Design Debt
Talk (50min)
Josian Chevalier and Julien Topçu
Modelling Stories of the Beautiful Mess
Talk (50min)
John Cutler and Xin Yao
Modernising in Healthcare - a case study in decision making
Talk (50min)
Leander Vanderbijl
Modular Monoliths: The Architecture That Scales With Your Domain
Talk (50min)
Omphile Matheolane
My AI Learning Journey
Talk (50min)
Eric Evans
Persistence strategies for aggregates: exploring the trade-offs
Hands-on Lab
Michael Plöd
Platform Engineering is Domain-Driven Design
Talk (50min)
Gregor Hohpe
Realizing Domain Design Through Architectural Modularity and Service Granularity
Talk (50min)
Mark Richards
Residuality Q&A
Hands-on Lab
Barry O'Reilly
Scaling Teams with Ownership
Sponsored Talk
Thomas Coopman
See the Forest for the Trees
Talk (50min)
Trond Hjorteland
Seeing is Scaling: Visualizing and Managing Dependency Graphs in Modular Apps
Sponsored Talk
Felipe Marino
Situational Leadership for Architecture Decision Making
Hands-on Lab
Beija Nigl
System Seeing and System Design
Hands-on Lab
Ruth Malan
Team topologies and the microservice architecture: a synergistic relationship
Talk (50min)
Chris Richardson
Team Topologies is not enough; you need a management model to match!
Hands-on Lab
João Rosa
The Anatomy of Business Conditions
Talk (50min)
Łukasz Reszke
The Boeing 737 MAX: When Humans and Technology Don't Mix
Talk (50min)
Kyle Kotowick
The C4 model - misconceptions, misuses, and mistakes
Talk (50min)
Simon Brown
The Unbearable Weight of Architecture
Talk (50min)
David Whitney
Through the Looking Glass: Applying Architecture Principles to Social Systems
Talk (50min)
Dr. Jabe Bloom
Undo - so you want to rewrite history?
Talk (50min)
Pieter Herroelen
Use DDD for Enterprise Application Integration
Hands-on Lab
Karol Skrzymowski, Philipp Kostyra and Thomas Seifert
Variability: The Second Hardest Problem In Systems Architecture
Talk (50min)
Andrew Harmel-Law

We run workshops all year at DDD Europe Academy.