Timezone: CEST - Central European Summer Time, UTC +02:00
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Happening in room: Main Track
08:00 - 09:00
Registration starts 08:00
Happening in room: Main Track
09:00 - 10:15
Welcome to Vaadin Create 2026
Steven Grandchamp, CEO
Coffee
Happening in room: Main Track
10:30 - 11:15
Spec-Driven Development - Why Vaadin Is the Perfect Fit
Simon Martinelli, Martinelli LLC
Happening in room: Second Track
10:30 - 11:15
Size matters: How to create load tests with K6 for your Vaadin Application
Sebastian Kuehnau, Vaadin
Coffee
Happening in room: Main Track
11:30 - 12:15
Accessibility in Vaadin apps
Rolf Smeds
Happening in room: Second Track
11:30 - 12:15
Coming soon!
Lunch
Happening in room: Main Track
13:15 - 14:00
Coming Soon!
Happening in room: Second Track
13:15 - 14:00
Coming Soon!
Happening in room: Main Track
14:15 - 15:00
Software modernization: Java legacy app to web
Marcus Hellberg, Vaadin
Happening in room: Second Track
14:15 - 15:00
Creating and adding Vaadin add-ons
Sami Eklbad, Vaadin
Coffee
Happening in room: Main Track
15:15 - 16:00
Turning Vaadin into a Dynamic Enterprise Platform Through Metadata
César Quinteiro Rendo, Intergal S.Coop.G.
Happening in room: Second Track
15:15 - 16:00
AI agents
Artur Signell
Coffee
Happening in room: Main Track
16:15 - 17:00
Creating a perfect container image for Java application
Catherine Edelveis, BellSoft
Coffee
Happening in room: Main Track
17:15 - 18:30
Community corner — come and show what you've built
After hours 🍻
Bartender
Coffee
Happening in room: Second Track
16:15 - 17:00
Security
Sven Ruppert
Session descriptions
Opening
Welcome to Vaadin Create 2026
Explore the future of business app development with Vaadin and Spring.From AI-powered productivity and the latest in Vaadin 25 - Flow, Design System, Modernization, and Copilot—to new advances in Spring Boot and Spring AI. Get inspired by how innovation is reshaping enterprise Java development.
Steven Grandchamp
CEO, Vaadin
Community
Spec-Driven Development - Why Vaadin Is the Perfect Fit
AI makes coding faster, but speed does not solve the real problem: specifications and implementation drifting apart.
This session shows a practical spec-driven approach based on the AI Unified Process, where structured requirements
and system use cases drive the application, and AI generates and evolves code from them incrementally.
You will see why Vaadin is particularly well suited for AI-driven development. Its server-side model, type safety,
and unified Java stack give AI agents a consistent and predictable environment to generate UI and backend together,
without the complexity of fragmented frontend stacks. This improves traceability, stability, and maintainability.
Using real examples, the talk demonstrates how specifications drive UI creation, how guardrails keep architecture consistent,
and how Vaadin enables efficient AI-assisted development of real enterprise applications.
Simon Martinelli
Programming Architect, Martinelli LLC
Community
Turning Vaadin into a Dynamic Enterprise Platform Through Metadata
AI makes coding faster, but speed does not solve the real problem: specifications and implementation drifting apart.
This session shows a practical spec-driven approach based on the AI Unified Process, where structured requirements
and system use cases drive the application, and AI generates and evolves code from them incrementally.
You will see why Vaadin is particularly well suited for AI-driven development. Its server-side model, type safety,
and unified Java stack give AI agents a consistent and predictable environment to generate UI and backend together,
without the complexity of fragmented frontend stacks. This improves traceability, stability, and maintainability.
Using real examples, the talk demonstrates how specifications drive UI creation, how guardrails keep architecture consistent,
and how Vaadin enables efficient AI-assisted development of real enterprise applications.
César Quinteiro Rendo
CTO, Intergal S.Coop.G.
Community
Creating a perfect container image for Java application
In this session, we’ll treat container images like a product with clear requirements. Using a full-stack Spring Boot app with the Vaadin-based frontend, we will explore build and packaging approaches and their real-world implications in terms of startup speed, memory footprint, security posture, and scaling convenience.
In the end, you’ll get a practical playbook for designing Java images based on your goals, including a decision framework and a reusable checklist.
In the end, you’ll get a practical playbook for designing Java images based on your goals, including a decision framework and a reusable checklist.
Catherine Edelveis
DevRel, BellSoft
