Explore the full agenda for Open Conf 2025—a carefully curated experience of insightful sessions, hands-on workshops, and invaluable networking opportunities.
Open-source software (OSS) is everywhere — from libraries and frameworks to the infrastructure that powers modern applications. But not every project is equally safe to use. Hidden risks such as outdated dependencies, weak governance, or supply chain attacks can make a seemingly useful project a liability.
This workshop introduces participants to the core practices for evaluating the security of open-source projects. Through a mix of discussion and hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to assess the health of a project, spot red flags, and apply a systematic approach to deciding whether to adopt or trust an open source dependency.
Docling is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard in open-source document AI. The project has achieved remarkable adoption with over 30,000 GitHub stars, more than 500,000 monthly downloads, and trending to #1 repository globally on GitHub. Now incubated as a Linux Foundation AI & Data project, Docling provides enterprise-grade capabilities for parsing complex layouts, extracting tables, and converting unstructured documents into AI-ready structured formats.
In this workshop, we will use Docling to build workflows ranging from document extraction and conversion into different formats, to advanced RAG and agentic AI applications — covering a wide variety of document AI use cases.
Based on Thec by Patrick Lencioni, the session explores three traits of strong collaborators:
🔹 Humble – Team-focused
🔹 Hungry – Proactive
🔹 People Smart – Emotionally aware
Participants will learn how these traits influence team dynamics—and how missing one of them can create friction.
This interactive simulation workshop invites OpenConf participants to step into the everyday realities of women – particularly refugee women – as they navigate entering the Greek tech ecosystem. Powered by Sistech – a European non-profit advancing gender equity and refugee rights in technology – through this 60′ experience with guided role-play and real-world scenarios, attendees will experience the subtle and structural biases faced by women rebuilding their lives and careers in technology.
Τhe session combines experiential learning, reflection, and group discussion to reveal how unconscious assumptions shape hiring, team dynamics, and leadership pathways.
Participants will leave with actionable strategies to foster inclusion, making this session valuable for engineers, HR professionals, founders, students and anyone building products or teams.
The workshop will go in detail on explaining what is an Information Security Assurance programme within an organization, which are the benefits of establishing such a programme and best practices on implementing a holistic Information Security Assurance programme, requirements, challenges and further improvements.
In this demonstration, we delve into building an Azure Container Apps stack. This innovative approach allows us to deploy a Web App that facilitates interaction with three powerful models: GPT-4, Deepseek, and PHI-3. Users can select from these models for Chat Completions, gaining invaluable insights into their actual performance, token consumption, and overall efficiency through real-time metrics.
This deployment not only showcases the versatility and robustness of Azure AI Foundry but also provides a practical framework for businesses to observe and measure AI effectiveness, paving the way for data-driven decision-making and optimized AI solutions.
Tired of messy Flutter projects and spaghetti code? In this fun and practical workshop, you’ll learn how to structure your code and style your apps like a seasoned dev. We’ll cover simple, scalable patterns that take you from zero to hero—no experience in “architecture” needed! Whether you’re just starting out or looking to clean up your current project, you’ll walk away with battle-tested strategies to build apps that are clean, maintainable, and ready to grow.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to apply threat modeling directly to your own systems and projects. We’ll cover the basic concepts of threat modeling and walk through the STRIDE methodology. Then, in an interactive group exercise, you’ll work with your peers to analyze a real-world inspired system, uncover threats, and propose mitigations.
Learn how to leverage Amazon Bedrock and Claude to build an AI-powered solutions architect agent. This specialized agent will demonstrate how foundation models can be enhanced with targeted capabilities to assist cloud architects in accessing AWS documentation and automatically generating architectural diagrams from natural language descriptions.
In a world where software teams are expected to deliver fast and innovate faster, Design Thinking offers a structured yet creative approach to solving real user problems. This interactive, hands-on workshop introduces participants to the Design Thinking mindset and guides them through the five key phases: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
Whether you’re a developer, product owner, scrum master, or designer, you’ll leave this session with practical tools to inspire innovation, foster empathy, and improve team collaboration.
