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> 10–11 Jun 2027 · Schaltwerk, Berlin· Third edition

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Signal/Noise 2027, a conference for people who build

● T-minus to doors · Thu 10 June, 09:00 CEST

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Two days in Berlin for people who build. 48 talks picked blind by working engineers, six hands-on workshops, 1,400 builders and not one sponsor keynote.

Early bird · €390See the schedule

01Speakers12 of 48 announced

Forty-eight people who’ve shipped the thing.

Every portrait here is generated from noise as the page loads, one technique per speaker, no two alike. Hover or tap a portrait and it re-acquires the signal.

  • SN/01 · Keynote● LockedRidge lines

    Opening keynote · Thu 09:00 · Hall A

    Ines Albrecht

    Staff Engineer · Kontor

    “The queue is a database now. Act like it.”

    Ines kept Kontor’s payment ledger correct at 40,000 writes a second for six years. Her keynote is about the day your message queue quietly became your source of truth, and what to do before it bites.

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    Thu 09:50 · Hall A

    Kenji Arakawa

    Head of Infrastructure · Lumen Rail

    “We turned off Kubernetes. Here’s the bill.”

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    Thu 09:50 · Hall B

    Sofía Restrepo

    Research Engineer · Halde Labs

    “Evals are product specs in disguise.”

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    Thu 10:50 · Hall B

    Jonas Wiik

    CTO · Nordlys Energi

    “Running a power grid on Postgres.”

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    Thu 10:50 · Hall A

    Mirela Stan

    Principal Designer · Patchbay

    “Designing for software that’s wrong 3% of the time.”

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    Thu 13:35 · Hall B

    Rafael Quintero

    Creative technologist · Independent

    “Shaders for people who hate math.”

  • SN/07● LockedFM carriers

    Thu 15:50 · Hall A

    Amara Diallo

    Security Lead · Tessel

    “The supply-chain attacks you’ll patch next year.”

  • SN/08● LockedConcentric

    Thu 15:50 · Hall B

    Tobi Okonkwo

    Co-founder · Fernwerk

    “Shipping a compiler with four people.”

  • SN/09● LockedStipple

    Thu 16:40 · Hall A

    Malte Høgh

    Maintainer · zstack

    “Ten years of saying no to pull requests.”

  • SN/10 · Keynote● LockedSpectrum

    Day 2 keynote · Fri 09:15 · Hall A

    Kavitha Venkataraman

    Staff ML Engineer · Orbit Health

    “Every model call has a latency budget.”

  • SN/11● LockedCross-hatch

    Fri 10:05 · Hall A

    Yuki Tanabe

    Firmware Lead · Fieldkit

    “Firmware updates for 40,000 devices in a field.”

  • SN/12● LockedVector field

    Fri 10:05 · Hall B

    Leah Brauer

    Engineering Manager · Quarry

    “Small teams, big pager.”

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    More speakers drop on 1 February 2027, including the closing keynote we’re not allowed to name yet.

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02The filter612 in, 48 out

Signal is what’s left when you take out the noise.

On the program

612 talks were submitted for 2027. Three working engineers reviewed each one blind: no names, no companies, no follower counts. 48 made it. No vendor pitches, no slides that end on a pricing page, no keynote slots for sale.

Builders in the room
1,400
Countries last year
31
Blind reviews per talk
3
Sponsor keynotes, ever
0

03ScheduleAll times CEST

Two days. Three rooms. Zero pitches.

Talks run 30 minutes with questions, keynotes 40. Every Hall A and B talk is captioned live and online for ticket holders within 48 hours. Star what you want to see; your picks stay in this browser.

Day 1 · Thursday 10 June 2027Doors 08:00 · Party till late

  1. 60′Foyer

    Doors, badges and coffee

    Pretzels, filter coffee and the badge desk under the turbine crane.

  2. 40′Hall A
    Opening keynote

    The queue is a database now. Act like it.

    Ines Albrecht · Kontor

  3. 30′Hall A

    We turned off Kubernetes. Here’s the bill.

    Kenji Arakawa · Lumen Rail

  4. 30′Hall B

    Evals are product specs in disguise

    Sofía Restrepo · Halde Labs

  5. 30′Everywhere

    Break and the hallway track

  6. 30′Hall A

    Designing for software that’s wrong 3% of the time

    Mirela Stan · Patchbay

  7. 30′Hall B

    Running a power grid on Postgres

    Jonas Wiik · Nordlys Energi

  8. 90′Lab
    Live

    Bring us your flaky test

    Two maintainers, one projector, your worst CI failure. Sign up at the Lab door.

  9. 75′Terrace

    Lunch on the river terrace

    Vegetarian by default, vegan and gluten-free labelled, nobody queues longer than eight minutes.

  10. 45′Hall A
    Panel

    Who’s on call for the model?

    Leah Brauer, Kavitha Venkataraman, Amara Diallo

  11. 30′Hall B

    Shaders for people who hate math

    Rafael Quintero · Independent

  12. 50′Hall A
    Lightning

    8 × 5 minutes from the open call

    From a 300-line database to a keyboard firmware that types in Morse.

  13. 30′Everywhere

    Break, cake, sponsor tables

  14. 30′Hall A

    The supply-chain attacks you’ll patch next year

    Amara Diallo · Tessel

  15. 30′Hall B

    Shipping a compiler with four people

    Tobi Okonkwo · Fernwerk

  16. 30′Hall A

    Ten years of saying no to pull requests

    Malte Høgh · zstack

  17. lateKesselhaus
    Party

    Signal/Noise Night

    Hall A goes dark, a modular synth set from Hertz & Söhne, Schöneweide lager and demos until the lights come on.

No starred sessions on this day yet. Tap a star to keep one.

Day 2 · Friday 11 June 2027Doors 08:30 · Close 17:30

  1. 45′Foyer

    Doors and breakfast

    Strong coffee for the people who stayed for the synth set.

  2. 40′Hall A
    Day 2 keynote

    Every model call has a latency budget

    Kavitha Venkataraman · Orbit Health

  3. 30′Hall A

    Firmware updates for 40,000 devices in a field

    Yuki Tanabe · Fieldkit

  4. 30′Hall B

    Small teams, big pager

    Leah Brauer · Quarry

  5. 30′Everywhere

    Break and the hallway track

  6. 30′Hall A

    Accessibility bugs your tests can’t see

    Corinna Wendt · Stadtwerk Digital

  7. 30′Hall B

    Idempotency keys saved our Black Friday

    Dele Owusu · Kiezpay

  8. 90′Lab
    Live

    Pair with a maintainer

    Bring a laptop and the issue you’ve been avoiding. Six maintainers, 20-minute slots.

  9. 75′Terrace

    Lunch on the river terrace

  10. 45′Hall A
    Panel

    Founders who still write the code

    Tobi Okonkwo, Hana Kovač, Rafael Quintero · chaired by Leah Brauer

  11. 30′Hall B

    The boring stack behind 9 million requests a day

    Hana Kovač · Ledgerline

  12. 50′Hall A
    Lightning

    Demo or it didn’t happen: 8 × 5 minutes

    Live demos only. If it crashes on stage, the room claps anyway.

  13. 30′Everywhere

    Break

  14. 30′Hall B

    Your dashboard is lying: sampling bias in product analytics

    Margit Haugen · Lodestar

  15. 40′Hall A
    Closing keynote

    Announced 1 February 2027

    We’re saving one. Ticket holders hear first.

  16. 60′Terrace

    Last commit

    Closing drinks by the river. Keep your badge: it carries the 2028 pre-sale code.

No starred sessions on this day yet. Tap a star to keep one.

Hall A · Turbinenhalle · 1,100 seatsHall B · Schalthalle · 420 seatsKesselhaus Lab · 120 standing

04WorkshopsDay zero

Wednesday is for getting your hands dirty.

Six workshops the day before the talks, in the Kesselhaus Lab. Small rooms, real code, the speaker at your shoulder. Add one to any conference ticket.

Date
Wed 9 June
Seats
24 per room
Half day
€190
Full day
€290
  1. W/01

    09:30–12:30Jonas WiikIntermediate

    Build a Postgres extension in Rust

    From an empty crate to a working custom index type. You leave with code you can load into your own database on Monday.

    7 of 24 seats left
  2. W/02

    09:30–12:30Rafael QuinteroBeginner

    Shader sketching without a math degree

    Noise, distance fields and feedback loops, one visual idea at a time. Bring a laptop and nothing else.

    11 of 24 seats left
  3. W/03

    13:30–16:30Sofía RestrepoIntermediate

    An eval harness in an afternoon

    Write the test set, the graders and the dashboard for a real feature, then watch your prompt change move the numbers.

    3 of 24 seats left
  4. W/04

    13:30–16:30Amara DialloAll levels

    Threat-model your own app

    Bring an architecture diagram, leave with a ranked list of what an attacker tries first and what it costs to stop them.

    9 of 24 seats left
  5. W/05

    09:30–16:30 · Full dayYuki TanabeAdvanced

    Over-the-air updates that never brick

    A/B partitions, signed images and rollbacks on real hardware. We hand you an ESP32 board; you keep it.

    Full · waitlist open
  6. W/06

    13:30–16:30Leah BrauerAll levels

    Incident command: a tabletop game

    A simulated outage, a pager that will not stop and five roles to fill. Funnier than it sounds, and you’ll run your next real one better.

    14 of 24 seats left

05Venue52.4581° N · 13.5153° E

A 1928 switching station on the Spree.

Schaltwerk was built to route power to the cable works across the river. Now it routes 1,400 builders between three halls with 11-metre ceilings, a river terrace and fibre we tested ourselves.

Map of Oberschöneweide. Schaltwerk sits on the south bank of the Spree, three minutes on foot from the Edisonstraße tram stop and six minutes by tram from S Schöneweide. Spree SCHALTWERK Kabelwerkufer 9 S Schöneweide Tram 63 · 67 3 min walk Treskowbrücke Wilhelminenhofstr. N 250 m
Berlin-Oberschöneweide · 12459Not to scale where it’s inconvenient
Halls
Turbinenhalle 1,100 seats, Schalthalle 420, Kesselhaus Lab 120 standing around workbenches
Access
Step-free everywhere, lifts to the gallery, live captions in both halls, hearing loops in Hall A
Quiet
A quiet room with no laptops, a parents’ room, all-gender toilets on every floor
Kids
Free childcare for ages 2–10, book by 15 May
Network
Wi-Fi that works, plus 60 wired desks in the Lab

Schaltwerk OberschöneweideKabelwerkufer 9, 12459 Berlin · Partner rate at Hotel Kabelwerk with code SN27, 8 minutes on foot

  1. 32min

    From BER airport

    S9 straight to Schöneweide, then tram 63 or 67 four stops.

  2. 34min

    From Hauptbahnhof

    S9 direct, no changes. Trains every 10 minutes.

  3. 22min

    From Kreuzberg by bike

    Along the canal and the Spree. 300 racks in the yard.

  4. 08min

    From the partner hotel

    Hotel Kabelwerk, 15% off with code SN27 until 1 May.

06TicketsPrices excl. 19% VAT

Pick your bandwidth.

Every ticket covers both days, lunch, coffee, the Thursday party and the recordings. Early bird closes on 31 January or at 400 tickets, whichever comes first.

Ticket type
Tickets
1
  • Both days, all three rooms, no session caps
  • Lunch, coffee and breakfast both days
  • Signal/Noise Night on Thursday
  • Captioned recordings within 48 hours
  • Full refund until 1 April 2027
  • Visa letters within three working days
120

Free tickets for students and under-represented builders

Includes a travel stipend of up to €600 and a hotel night. Applications are read by people, not a form filter. Apply by 15 March 2027.

Apply for a scholarship

06.1Questions

Before you buy.

Can I transfer my ticket?

Yes, for free, until 1 June 2027. Use the link in your confirmation email and type in your colleague’s name. After 1 June we print badges, so the name is fixed.

What if I can’t come?

Full refund until 1 April 2027 and half until 1 May. After that, transfer the ticket instead. If we ever have to cancel, everyone gets everything back, including the workshop add-on.

Will the talks be recorded?

Every Hall A and Hall B talk is filmed and captioned. Ticket holders get them within 48 hours; everyone else 90 days later. Lab sessions are not recorded so people can break things in peace.

Do you send visa invitation letters?

Yes, within three working days of buying a ticket. Email [email protected] with your passport name and we send a signed letter on paper and as a PDF.

Is there a code of conduct?

Yes, and we enforce it. Two trained responders are on site for every hour of the event, reachable at the info desk or on +49 30 555 014 29. Reports are handled the same day.

07SponsorsThe signal chain

Paid for by tickets first. Sponsors second.

CarrierKeeps the lights on

Graphwerkostwind.cloud

AmplifierPays for captions and childcare

paperplane/ciMoorhausSigma TwelveKiln Data

FilterPays for the scholarships

BitfuchsNebenan LabsPlattform EinsHalbtonLötkolben & CoNachtzug DataSpur

Sponsors get a table in the foyer, their name on this page and our thanks. They don’t get a keynote, a talk slot or the attendee list. The 2027 sponsor pack is one page long.

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