6–8 December 2026 · The Foundry
The schedule
Build Day workshops on Sunday, then two days of keynotes, panels and parallel streams. Times are London time.
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Sunday 6 December
Day 1 · Build Day
Hands-on workshops of no more than 40 people, a fireside chat, then Diavola Late from 18:00.
9:00 am
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9:45 am
9:45 am
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10:00 am
10:00 am
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12:30 pm
Workshop: Prototyping with AI in a Morning
Bring a laptop and an idea. Leave with a working prototype built with today’s AI tools.
10:00 am
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12:30 pm
Workshop: Design Systems That Survive Engineering
Audit a real component library, find where design and code drift apart and fix it together.
12:30 pm
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1:30 pm
1:30 pm
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4:00 pm
Workshop: Shipping LLM Features Safely
Guardrails, evaluation and rollout plans for putting a language model feature in front of real users.
1:30 pm
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4:00 pm
Workshop: Customer Interviews That Change Roadmaps
Plan, run and synthesise interviews, then turn what you heard into roadmap decisions.
4:30 pm
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5:15 pm
Fireside Chat: Building Copperline in Public
Tom Hargreaves on four years of building an AI company in the open, mistakes included.
6:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Diavola Late: Opening Party
Drinks, music and the first chance to meet everyone before the main conference.
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Monday 7 December
Day 2
Keynotes and panels in the main hall all morning, three parallel streams after lunch.
8:30 am
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9:15 am
9:15 am
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9:30 am
9:30 am
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10:15 am
Keynote: Products People Can’t Stop Using
What Fernhill learned about habit, trust and delight from four million customers.
10:15 am
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11:00 am
Panel: Shipping Faster Without Breaking Trust
Three teams on release speed, quality and keeping customers on side.
11:00 am
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11:30 am
11:30 am
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12:15 pm
Talk: The Design Debt Nobody Budgets For
How small design shortcuts add up, and how to make the case for paying them back.
12:15 pm
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1:15 pm
1:15 pm
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3:30 pm
Afternoon Streams
Choose one of three parallel streams: Product, Design or Engineering.
Stream
Stream A: Product
Roadmaps, activation and the hard choices behind products people keep using. Runs in Main hall, Monday 7 December, 13:15 to 15:30.
Stream
Stream B: Design
Design systems, research and accessibility that hold up in production. Runs in Hall one, Monday 7 December, 13:15 to 15:30.
Stream
Stream C: Engineering
Reliability, migrations and the team habits behind good software. Runs in The Studio, Monday 7 December, 13:15 to 15:30.
3:30 pm
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4:00 pm
4:00 pm
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4:45 pm
Closing Keynote: The Next Interface
Voice, agents and the end of the menu: what replaces the screens we design today.
5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Tuesday 8 December
Day 3
AI, funding and teams in the morning, three more streams in the afternoon, then the closing panel.
8:30 am
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9:15 am
9:15 am
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9:30 am
9:30 am
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10:15 am
Keynote: What AI Changes About Building Software
What changes for product, design and engineering teams when software can write software.
10:15 am
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11:00 am
Panel: Funding Product Companies in 2027
An investor, a founder and a product leader on what gets funded next year.
11:00 am
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11:30 am
11:30 am
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12:15 pm
Talk: Engineering Teams That Scale Past 100
Team shapes, ownership and the meetings Kestrel Logistics stopped holding.
12:15 pm
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1:15 pm
1:15 pm
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3:30 pm
Afternoon Streams
Choose one of three parallel streams: AI in Practice, Growth or Leadership & Teams.
Stream
Stream D: AI in Practice
Evaluating, building and paying for AI features in real products. Runs in Main hall, Tuesday 8 December, 13:15 to 15:30.
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Stream E: Growth
Pricing, metrics and the move from self-serve to sales. Runs in Hall one, Tuesday 8 December, 13:15 to 15:30.
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Stream F: Leadership & Teams
Managing, hiring and growing teams that build software. Runs in The Studio, Tuesday 8 December, 13:15 to 15:30.
3:30 pm
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4:00 pm
4:00 pm
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4:45 pm
Closing Panel: What We’ll Build Next Year
Three speakers on the ideas from Diavola they will take back to their teams.
4:45 pm
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5:00 pm
See you at The Foundry
Diavola 2026 · 6–8 December · Bankside, London. Full passes from £549 + VAT, day passes from £249.