🎤 Dushko Klincharov is joining #WhatTheStack! Software engineer at CodeChem and part of PyData Skopje, Dushko will take apart coding agents and show what really makes them work. Models, tools, context, prompts, memory, permissions, tests, and all the “magic” behind AI coding.

What The Stack is built by the community, for the community. 💙 For the third year in a row, Macedonian .NET Community is with us as a community partner. Monthly meetups, Global Azure Day, and now What The Stack. 📅 Sept 19 🎟️ wts.sh

You know @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social from last year as a speaker. This year, he is back as the host of one of our five stages. Get ready to learn, laugh and finally answer the call: “What the…?” “STACK!”

Meet @bugdan.dev, a Zurich-based web engineer and ZurichJS community organizer. At #WhatTheStack, he’ll present “How to Not Use AI”—an honest look at decision fatigue, skill loss, burnout, and how to use AI without losing our problem-solving abilities. 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 Domagoj Marić is back! Last year, he gave a great talk, then picked up a guitar at the after party and won our 12 points 🎶 This year, he returns with “Friendly Borders: Graph Algorithms Reveal Eurovision Voting Patterns.” 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

It may be easier to smash atoms than prejudice, but Goran David is ready to try. See you in Skopje on September 19 🎟️ wts.sh

🎨 Web security, but make it visual. @leichteckig.bsky.social is joining #WhatTheStack with “Artful Defense: Let’s Sketch Web Security” ❤️ Live sketch notes, XSS villains, Broken Access Control, and practical defenses you’ll actually remember. 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎮 Konrad Reczko is bringing shaders to #WTS. Software Engineer at Software Mansion, graphics programming enthusiast, and the person wondering how every game effect was rendered. TypeScript, TypeGPU, pixels, and the Jelly Slider. 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🧓 Legacy systems are joining #WhatTheStack! Meet Goran David, Senior Engineer and CEO at ForgeFuse. His talk: “Legacy in IT” COBOL, PHP, Java, jQuery, Oracle, and the “uncool” tech that somehow still runs the world. 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🏛️ This year, What The Stack is moving to the Technical Campus in Skopje, exactly where the biggest dev conference in the city belongs. Together with FINKI, FEIT, and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, we’re building a full campus experience. 📅 Sept 19 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 What do you do when Nvidia GPUs are not available for inference? Bojan Jakimovski is joining #WhatTheStack with a practical talk on CPU-first and hardware-flexible AI inference 🧠 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

☁️ Miroslav Janeski is joining #WhatTheStack! Technical Director at Init, Microsoft MVP for Cloud-Native and .NET, and a familiar face from the local .NET community and monthly meetups. His talk: “TypeScript AppHost: The Next Step for Polyglot Cloud-Native Apps”

🎤 If JavaScript error handling ever ruined your day, Andrej Acevski has a talk you’ll want to hear. At #WhatTheStack, he’ll present “I Stopped Throwing Errors and My Code Finally Works” 🍻 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 Faris Aziz is joining #WhatTheStack! Staff Software Engineer at Smallpdf, co-founder of ZurichJS, and international speaker. His talk: “Reverse-Engineering Seniority”, from bootcamp grad to Staff Engineer in four years 🚀 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 You probably already know him, one of those FCSE assistants who can explain complex things in a very developer-friendly way. Stefan will talk about “Stop Engineering Features. Start Learning Graphs.” 🧠 Graphs, GNNs, relational deep learning, and smarter ML pipelines.

🎤 Another voice from the Angular community is coming to #WTS: @samvloeberghs.be! Engineering Manager at KOR Financial, GDE for Angular, speaker, writer, and longtime Angular community contributor. His talk: “Building Angular Apps With AI” 🤖 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 @thealexlichter.com is joining #WhatTheStack! DevRel at VoidZero, Nuxt.js team member, Web Engineering Consultant, and co-host of DejaVue Podcast. He’ll talk about JavaScript tooling, Vite+, and how we can spend less time on setup and more time shipping ⚙️ 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 We are excited to welcome @Gerald to #WhatTheStack! Software Engineer at Microsoft, part of the .NET MAUI team, international speaker, and one of the voices helping developers understand .NET, GitHub Copilot, and AI-powered workflows. 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 Kiril Zafirov is back at #WhatTheStack! You know him from the previous edition. Kiril will talk about Angular Signal Forms, cleaner app architecture, less form chaos, and more joy in Angular code 😄 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 There is hardly anyone in the Macedonian IT scene who doesn’t know Wekoslav Stefanovski. Proudly from Kavadarci, full of knowledge and humor, he brings 30 years of JavaScript stories to #WhatTheStack 😄 📅 Sept 19 | Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 Meet Igor, founder of Time.mk and one of Macedonia’s most recognizable tech minds. At #WhatTheStack, he’ll explain how GPTs and LLMs really work, from training to hallucinations and practical use 🤖 📅 Sept 19, Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

📢 The CFP is now closed! This year, we set a new record with over 200 applications submitted. Thank you to everyone who applied and helped make this our biggest CFP yet. It's time for our CFP Committee to roll up their sleeves and start reviewing all the amazing proposals.💪

Create a moment people will still be talking about after the conference. Surprise us. Teach us. Inspire developers. Like Domagoj Marić did last year, show that great developers rarely fit into a single category. The CFP for WTS closes June 1. 👉 wts.sh

💸 Affordable doesn’t mean average! 🚀 WTS 2026 brings world-class speakers, globally recognized names, and top-tier tech talks, while staying one of the most budget-friendly conferences. 🎟Affordable tickets 🏨Low-cost stays 👇Check the cost: wts.sh/trip-cost

People often ask how our CfP works No black box, no vibes. Proposals are anonymized, scored by a rotating committee, with just enough math to keep things fair We also tightened things up this year + added a shorter-format stage Read more: wts.sh/blog

Fresh off the press: How does the CfP work at @wts.rocks - scoring system, committee, invites, and of course, tips and tricks for applying and making it to WTS 👇 darko.io/posts/inside...

Inside the CfP: How We Pick Talks at WhatTheStack

A transparent look at the conference's Call for Papers process, including scoring methodology, committee selection, and application tips.

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So, we've been cooking! Given our love for all things open - source, process, ideas - we've decided to build #WTS2026 in public. We'll document all the smooth and not-so-smooth stuff that happens during the months leading up to WTS 2026. 🔗 https://wts.sh/blog/behind-the-scenes-running-wts

🎟️ Tickets for International Dev What The Stack 2026 are LIVE! 💶 €50 — now & always (no early bird, no VIP) 🎓 €20 students*Free warmups, food & drinks, after party & the best dev talks 🔥 *Student ID via students@wts.sh 👉 wts.sh/tickets

New #cfp added for WhatTheStack (@wts.rocks) in September 2026. More details at cfp.watch/cfps/2026-wh.... #cfs #callforpapers #callforproposals #speakers #callforspeakers #publicspeaking #speakerlife

CFP is LIVE for What the Stack?! 🤘 Create your speaker profile. Drop your proposal. Ship it. Bring your weird bugs, hot takes, and oddly specific tech obsessions. 👉 Apply now: wts.sh #WhatTheStack