Lutz Hühnken speaking at Devoxx Belgium

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I've been speaking at international conferences for over a decade, sharing practical insights on event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and engineering leadership. I'm available for conference keynotes, corporate events, and internal team presentations.

Whether you're organizing a tech conference or want to bring expertise directly to your engineering team, I deliver engaging talks that combine real-world experience with actionable takeaways.

Featured Talks

Signature Talks for Your Organization

These talks can be delivered at your company as internal presentations or workshops. Each can be adapted to your team's experience level and specific challenges.

Patterns and Antipatterns for Event-Driven Architecture

A practical guide to designing event-driven systems that actually work. Covers event design, messaging patterns, common pitfalls, and lessons learned from production systems. Suitable for teams considering or already building event-driven architectures.

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Complex Workflows in Event-Driven Systems

How to handle sagas, long-running processes, and complex business workflows in distributed systems. Covers choreography vs. orchestration, failure handling, and when to use workflow engines. Based on real-world implementation experience.

Duration: 60-90 minutes

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Lutz Hühnken speaking at JavaLand conference

Selected Talks

Conference Talks

Upcoming

2026

  • OOP Munich, February 2026 — Patterns and Antipatterns for Event-Driven Architecture

2025

  • Software Architecture Summit Berlin — Event-Driven Architecture in Java (half-day workshop)
  • Agile Meets Architecture Berlin — Building a Bank [Slides][Video]
  • FastFlowConf 's-Hertogenbosch — Building a Bank [Slides][Video]
  • OOP Munich — Event Driven Architecture is More Than Events [Slides]

2024

  • Software Architecture Gathering Berlin — Events, Workflows, Sagas [Slides]
  • Software Architecture Alliance Munich — Event-Driven Architecture: 10 Jahre klüger [Slides]
  • BOBKonf Berlin — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Events [Slides][Video]

2023

  • LeadDev Berlin — Managing Architecture [Slides][Video]
  • w-jax Munich — Microservices need Microworkflows [Slides]
  • Software Architecture Alliance Munich — Events, Workflows, Sagas
  • Microservices Meetup Hamburg — Events, Workflows, Sagas
  • Developer Week Nuremberg — Events, Workflows, Sagas [Slides]

2022

  • KanDDDinsky Berlin — Events, Workflows, Sagas [Slides][Video]
  • code.talks Hamburg — Events, Events everywhere! [Slides][Video]
  • Microservices Meetup Hamburg — Events, Events, überall Events! [Slides]

2014–2021

  • 20+ talks at conferences including Devoxx, ScalaDays, JAX, w-jax, microXchg, JavaLand, code.talks, and user groups across Europe and the US
  • Topics: Event-Driven Architecture, Reactive Systems, Microservices, Scala, Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing, CQRS
  • View complete list · Slides on Speaker Deck · Videos on YouTube

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