Fresh insights from GitHub Universe and practical sessions on what comes next for your engineering team.
Explore how your organization can extend its GitHub Copilot investment across the software development lifecycle.
Join Xebia and GitHub to explore agentic engineering, learn from practitioners, and understand what needs to change around AI to improve software delivery.
Event Details
- Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
- Time: 13:00 onwards
- Location: Xebia office, Laapersveld 27, 1213 VB Hilversum, Netherland
- Hosted by: Xebia & GitHub
- Format: GitHub Universe debrief, parallel breakout sessions, lightning talks, dinner, and networking
What will you explore?
What’s next from GitHub?
Hear insights and announcements from GitHub Universe 2026, shared by the Xebia team returning from San Francisco.
What does agentic engineering mean in practice?
Explore how developers, Copilot, and AI agents work together across development, testing, and deployment.
Is your engineering system ready?
Discuss the platform, architecture, security, governance, and working practices needed to turn AI capabilities into better delivery.
Agenda
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 13:00 to 13:30 | Walk-in & Welcome |
| 13:30 to 14:45 | What’s New from GitHub Universe 2026? |
| 14:45 to 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 to 17:00 | Parallel Breakout Sessions |
| 17:00 to 17:30 | Lightning Talks |
| 17:30 onwards | Dinner, Drinks & Networking |
Programme preview
Explore sessions on multi-model AI, context engineering, Copilot enablement and the engineering practices needed to support agentic software delivery.
Your Agents Got Faster. Did Your Engineering System?
Hidde de Smet | Microsoft MVP
As AI agents become more capable, generating code may no longer be the part of delivery that takes the most time. This session explores the engineering system around those agents and what needs to evolve for faster agents to contribute to faster software delivery.
GitHub Copilot enablement
Rob Bos | Microsoft MVP & GitHub Star
A session focused on GitHub Copilot enablement, including metrics and the AI Fluency extension. Explore the practical considerations around helping teams use Copilot effectively and understanding their progress.
Hydrafusion: auto model selection on steroids!
Raymond Splinter
Explore how Hydrafusion orchestrates multiple AI models in real time, selecting a workflow for each task. Discover the technology behind GitHub’s reported 67% lower estimated cost with improved task quality compared with Claude Opus 5 on TerminalBench 2.1, and what multi-model routing means for the future of GitHub Copilot.
Ever got the feeling GitHub Copilot is missing context?
Fokko Veegens | Microsoft MVP
Providing context to GitHub Copilot can take different forms, from including information in your prompt to giving it access to files, MCP servers and a GitHub Copilot Space.
Join Fokko to explore these approaches and take a closer look at the next level of context engineering.
More speakers and sessions
Further contributions are planned from:
- Jesse Houwing, Microsoft MVP & GitHub Star
- Liuba Gonta, Microsoft MVP
- Joas de Groot
- Danny van der Kraan
- Frederiek Vandepitte & Wouter van der Auwera
Join the conversation
Bring your engineering questions, choose the breakouts relevant to your team, and continue the discussion with peers and experts over dinner and drinks.