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Developers love coffee, but sometimes you need cocoa. ☕🍫 Africa Closer is back at #WhatTheStack with their amazing cocoa, warm, rich, and with a little magnesium and iron boost. Let’s bring cocoa culture to the next level. 🎟️ wts.sh

@jetbrains.com is joining #WhatTheStack as a Bronze Sponsor. 💙 They don’t need an introduction in the developer world. From IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, Rider, Kotlin, and more, their tools are part of everyday dev life. Meet them at their booth on Sept 19.

PHP Skopje is joining #WhatTheStack as a community partner. 💙 They’ve been part of the local dev scene for years, bringing people together around code, backend, and strong PHP opinions. They also promised more events after the conference, and yes, we will remind them. 😄

Switzerland has mountains, chocolate, fondue… and @zurichjs.com We’re happy to have ZurichJS as a community partner of #WhatTheStack They’re organizing ZurichJS Conf before WTS, and you get 15% off with code WTS_15 Joining us in Skopje: @farisaziz.com and @bugdan.dev from ZurichJS 😍

Eurovision: where countries perform songs and everyone else performs geopolitics. 🎤 Do neighbors really exchange 12 points? Domagoj Marić brings the data and graphs to WTS. Last year: chords. This year: nodes. 🎸 📍 Sept 19, Skopje 🎟️ wts.sh

Speaker announcement for MAUI Day Skopje! Stéphane Delcroix, Software Engineer at Microsoft, is joining us with “XAML in .NET 11”. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.nl/e/net-maui-d... #MAUIDay #DotNetMAUI #DotNet #XAML

Day Zero is coming 🚀 Organized with GDG Skopje, as part of Pre-DevFest Days and pre-What The Stack activities. International speakers, Google agent tooling, Agentic Accessibility, and multi-agent systems with ADK. 🎟️ wts.sh

JavaScript can do almost anything… but operator overloading is still missing. 👀 At What The Stack 2026, @iwoplaza.dev from Software Mansion will talk about the weird, clever, and sometimes cursed ways developers have tried to solve it, including the approach TypeGPU uses today. ⚡🧠

☁️ Welcome AWS User Group Macedonia. From AWS re recaps and AWS GameDays to meetups, workshops, and practical cloud talks, they keep the local cloud scene active and connected. Happy to have them again as a community partner. 📅 Sept 19 🎟️ wts.sh

🎮 Welcome Macedonian Games Industry Association as a community partner of #WhatTheStack! The people behind Game Dev Rev and Global Game Jam Skopje, helping grow the local game dev scene. Code, design, art, engines, storytelling, and games. 📅 Sept 19 🎟️ wts.sh

💻 Frontier AI research, starting from the laptop in your backpack. Nino Risteski, Founding ML Engineer at AIRecruitPro, is joining #WTS with “From Portable AI Lab to Frontier Research” 🤖 MacBook, tinygrad, GPU kernels, compiler optimization, and what really happens under the AI stack. 🎟️ wts.sh

We’re happy to welcome ProdACT, the Macedonian product community, as a community partner of #WhatTheStack. Known for their monthly meetups, friendly faces, big enthusiasm, and Product Management Conference. 📅 Sept 19 🎟️ wts.sh

🎤 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...

🎟️ 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

What The Stack Is Live! 🤩 The What The Stack website just dropped with a better look, smoother vibes, and a bunch of new surprises inside. ✨ 🎟️ Ready to grab your ticket? 🗣️ Thinking about stepping on stage as a speaker? 👉 wts.sh Stay tuned...

🚀....and it’s a start! ✨ Did you miss us? 👀 Did you miss the vibe? ⚡ We know you did...so... Date successfully compiled ✅🧠 19.09.2026 📅 Skopje 📍 Stay tuned for the news 📰, for the code 💻, for the lovely people of this community ❤️👩‍💻👨‍💻

The recording of my talk and transcript from @wts.rocks 2025 is now up on my website!

Over 750+ attendees joined us this year – far beyond our expectations – to experience: ✨ 30 inspiring speakers from across Europe ✨ 4 stages packed with tech & ideas ✨ A game corner full of fun & connections ✨ 1 week of pre-conference workshops 💜 Thank you to everyone!

@wts.rocks is well underway in Skopje. If you wanna talk about midi, birds, rap, or growing award winning vegetables. . . come find me folks.

Had a blast at @wts.rocks - thanks for the great hospitality and overall for the good times 💪😎