Building Resilience in modelling sessions - DDD Europe 2026
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Building Resilience in modelling sessions

Antwerp, Belgium
Gien Verschatse

Gien Verschatse

BlunderingGoddess<'T> @ Aardling

Romeu Moura

Romeu Moura

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(This is a hands-on lab with limited capacity)

Power dynamics shape every modelling session, often invisibly. This hands-on lab offers a focused, experiential dive into three patterns that repeatedly surface in collaborative modelling work, chosen because they are useful, recognisable, and far from exhaustive. Please consider this an invitation to explore a much wider territory.

We work through divergence and convergence, learning to name and navigate that tension in real time. We put on risk and opportunity hats to separate what we fear from what we stand to gain. And we confront the hardest question of all: can a group align without any process at all? And what does that frustration reveal about our deepest need for simplicity?

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Gien Verschatse

About Gien Verschatse

BlunderingGoddess<'T> @ Aardling

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Gien Verschatse is an experienced consultant and software engineer at Aardling. She specialises in domain modelling and software architecture. She has experience in many domains such as the biotech industry, where she specialised in DNA building. She's fluent in both object-oriented and functional programming, mostly in .NET. As a Domain-Driven Design practitioner, she always looks to bridge the gaps between experts, users, and engineers. Gien is studying Computer Science at the OU in the Netherlands. As a side interest, she's researching the science of decision-making strategies, to help teams improve how they make technical and organisational decisions. She shares her knowledge by speaking at international conferences. And when she is not doing all that, you'll find her on the sofa, reading a book and sipping coffee.
Romeu Moura

About Romeu Moura

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Endless conversation — with friends, compilers — on art, equivocacy, Symmathesy, methods, absurdism, dialectic, paradigm jumps, serendipity.

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