Voxxed Days Zürich
From Developer to Builder
Inspire. Have Fun. Repeat.
Speakers of the 2026 Edition
International headliners and local heroes, practitioners who ship rather than talk slideware. Want your name up here? The Call for Speakers is your stage.
Topics & Tracks
Eleven tracks curated by developers for developers: from AI in production to cloud-native architecture and the craft of writing better software.
Architecture
Pragmatic architectures for real systems: modular monoliths to microservices, event‑driven, data mesh, edge/serverless. SLO‑driven design, socio‑technical fit, resilience and cost‑effective scale.
Backend Development
Building resilient services: virtual threads & structured concurrency, event‑driven workflows, messaging, HTTP/gRPC, durable execution, observability (OpenTelemetry), performance and cost awareness.
Build & Deploy
Modern operational concerns, including build pipelines, orchestration, observability, monitoring, resilience, and compliance, as the software world embraces DevOps and cloud delivery.
Data
Big Data, NoSQL, SQL, GraphDB, vector databases, streaming pipelines, lakehouse (Iceberg/Delta), Data governance and privacy.
Development Practices
Lead modern teams: product thinking beyond frameworks, Team Topologies, DORA/SPACE done right, DevEx, continuous discovery, facilitation and feedback.
Frontend Development
Modern UI engineering with React/Angular/Vue/Svelte/Solid and meta‑frameworks (Next/Nuxt/SvelteKit). RSC/SSR & islands, accessibility, container queries, WebAssembly, micro‑frontends.
Java
All aspects of Java as a platform: emerging or established, Java language, JVM (languages), JDK, frameworks, standards, performance etc
Machine Learning & AI
RAG/agents in production, vector databases, LLMOps/MLOps, evaluation & safety.
Mind the Geek
Developer delights: robotics, bio‑computing, creative coding, maker hardware, retro tech, playful AI and future toys that inspire beyond the day‑to‑day.
People & Culture
Build inclusive, healthy teams: psychological safety, DEI and neurodiversity, mentoring & communication, remote/hybrid collaboration, burnout prevention, career growth, communities of practice.
Security
Hands‑on AppSec: threat modeling, secure defaults, secrets & identity, SAST/DAST/IAST, supply‑chain (SBOM, Sigstore), policy‑as‑code, AI security (prompt injection, data controls).
Get Your Ticket
A full day of talks and hallway conversations for less than a day of cloud spend: the smartest training budget you will approve this year. Early tiers sell out first.
I love VDZ
For the fans: support the community event you love and lock in the best price while doing it.
Blind Bird
For the bold: buy before a single speaker is announced and pay the early-adopter price.
Early Bird
For the planners: the line-up is taking shape and the price is still ahead of the curve.
Student
Studying in Switzerland? Come and meet the industry you are about to join, for less than a textbook.
Standard
The full conference day: every talk, every conversation, the whole experience.
Inspire. Have Fun. Repeat.
In 2026, we sold almost 700 tickets and had an incredible event filled with insightful sessions and great energy. Get a feel for the experience by checking out our #VDZ26 videos on YouTube and browsing the event photos on Flickr. The 11th edition lands on Tuesday, 9 March 2027. Expect production-grade talks, honest hallway conversations, and hundreds of fellow builders in the middle of Zürich. Follow us on X, BlueSky, Mastodon, and Instagram so you don't miss the Call for Speakers, Blind Bird tickets and line-up announcements.
Ship Java, TypeScript, AI models or Kubernetes clusters? If you build software, grab a cinema seat: this is your yearly firmware update.
2026 Edition Highlights
Sponsors
These companies put their brand in front of hundreds of engineers, architects and tech leads from Zürich and across Switzerland, the people who pick the tools their companies buy.
Gold
Bronze
Starter
Supporters
Speakers Diversity & Inclusion
Although we are a community and not-for-profit conference, VDZ has a limited budget for speaker travel and accommodation. To keep our stage accessible to everyone, supportive companies can cover their speaker's expenses and are recognised as a Friend of VDZ.
Put Your Company on Our Stage
Hold the marketing or hiring budget, or know who does? Sponsoring VDZ gets you visibility, a booth full of conversations with senior developers, and first contact with the talent you want to hire. Ask us for the sponsor deck.
Friends of VDZ
The meetups and community groups that power Zürich's developer scene all year round. Cover your speaker's travel, or lend a hand, and join them as a Friend of VDZ.
Location
Arena Cinemas Sihlcity: talks from proper cinema seats, a short tram ride from Zürich HB.
Send Us a Message!
Tickets, talks, sponsoring or a wild idea for the event: a real human from the crew answers every message.