The Day Your Expertise Became Useless
Ekaterina Volkova
15:55-16:30, Wednesday, 20th May 2026
Your stack will die. And you will be asked to start again. This talk explores the moral and psychological impact of constant technology shifts — when experienced engineers are repeatedly pushed back into the role of a beginner. Not about learning tools. About surviving inevitability.
Ekaterina Volkova
Ekaterina is a software engineer working with Swift and React at Zalando, one of Europe’s largest fashion platforms serving over 50 million customers.
She holds an engineering degree majored in IoT and networks. Ekaterina is an experienced international speaker and has presented at numerous conferences across Europe and beyond. Her talks focus on practical engineering challenges, and the intersection of technical decision-making and human factors.