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VirtusLab was back at New York Tech Week 2026, and this year our team came as hosts, running three events across AI-assisted software delivery, enterprise tooling, and the future of insurance technology.

We kicked off Tuesday June 2 with a lunchtime session, "How to Write a Book on AI in Enterprise SDLC While Patterns Keep Changing," where Artur Skowroński and Tomasz Lelek talked about their newest book, "Vibe Engineering," and shared the story of turning industry insights into a hardcover.

That afternoon, Artur ran "From Copilot to Control Plane," a session built around Visdom 2.0, VirtusLab's platform for giving AI coding agents the historical context, verification pipelines, and auditability that enterprise delivery actually requires.

Thursday evening we closed the week with "InsurTech Insights After-Hours," bringing together insurance technology leaders for dinner and the kind of off-the-record conversation that rarely happens on a conference stage. With our growing presence in the MGA and broader insurance market, it felt like the right way to end the week.

Three events, two days, one city. The US market is important to us, and moments like Tech Week are where real relationships get started.

On may 28th, during this year's Boston Tech Week, our team hosted an event, "From Data Swamp to AI-Ready Data Foundation: What it Actually Takes," that brought together CDOs, CTOs, VPs of Data and Engineering, and Heads of AI from across the Boston area.

Grzegorz Król led the room through a 10-layer AI data readiness model built from work across dozens of enterprise environments, covering open standards, discoverability, access controls, and the formats that work for humans but break models. The raised hands and sharp questions from the floor told their own story. It was exactly the kind of session we set out to run: no pitches, just the diagnostic.

After the talk, the group stayed for drinks, food, and the kind of conversation that doesn't need an agenda. Then the group walked one block to watch the Fenway for the Braves vs. Sox.

This event has proven that Boston is a city with a real community that is open to exchange ideas and knowledge.

We're thrilled to share that SoftwareMill, part of VirtusLab, has landed on the podium in the Best Workplaces in Poland 2026 ranking, securing 4th place among medium-sized companies and 1st place as the top workplace for Millennials in Poland.

This recognition belongs entirely to our team. It's their daily energy, commitment, and honest feedback that made it possible.

Looking ahead, we're setting our sights even higher. Next year, we plan to enter this ranking as the full VirtusLab, aiming for the top spot among large companies. Building a great workplace is a continuous journey, and every voice on the team matters.

We're proud to announce that VirtusLab has successfully passed its TISAX recertification audit, confirming continued compliance with the rigorous information security standards required to work with the automotive industry.

TISAX, the Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange, is the benchmark for information security in the automotive sector. Maintaining this certification reflects our commitment to protecting our clients' data and systems to the highest standard.

A huge thank you to everyone involved in the preparation and audit process. Your dedication keeps our standards high and our clients confident.

We hosted another DataKRK MeetUp in Kraków, bringing together data professionals and enthusiasts for an evening of expert talks and community connection.

The evening featured two thought-provoking sessions. Massoud Alibakhsh, CEO of OMADEUS, introduced OMIO, a software architecture that embeds AI at the object level rather than treating it as a bolt-on feature. Our very own Tomasz Jażdżewski then tackled a question on many practitioners' minds: is classic machine learning becoming obsolete in the age of large language models, or does it remain a vital and complementary discipline?

At VirtusLab, we believe the tech community grows strongest when knowledge is shared openly. Events like DataKRK are a core part of how we give back, and we look forward to many more.

We have been part of Scalar 2026, Central Europe's premier functional programming conference, which returned to the Polin Conference Centre in Warsaw this March for its 11th edition.

Organised by SoftwareMill, part of VirtusLab, this year's event brought together the Scala community for two intensive days of talks, live coding, and debate. The programme reflected where the ecosystem is heading, from Martin Odersky's opening keynote on building trust into AI agents using types and capabilities, to practical sessions on Scala 3, concurrency, GPU computing, and LLM integration.

Our own Wojciech Mazur took the stage to share the story behind the Open Community Build, the ongoing effort to build and migrate nearly 2,000 open-source projects every week to keep the Scala ecosystem stable and release-ready. Tomasz Godzik presented practical strategies drawn from a year of Scala LLM workshops, offering the audience concrete ways to improve developer experience in an AI-assisted world.

VirtusLab's presence throughout the event served as a central hub for attendees, reflecting the role we've played in the Scala community for over 15 years, from contributing to the language itself to maintaining key tools like Scala CLI and Metals.

We're excited to announce the release of Visdom 2.0, a platform that infuses AI coding agents with the historical context, verification pipelines, and auditability controls that large-scale software delivery demands.

Visdom 2.0 builds on our experience deploying Visdom 1.0 across enterprise engineering teams. Over that time, we observed a pattern repeating itself across organizations: teams that had successfully adopted AI-assisted development were finding that agents produced inconsistent, difficult-to-maintain code. Not because the technology wasn't capable, but because agents were being asked to make decisions in codebases they didn't truly understand. They had access to today's code. Not to the years of architectural decisions and trade-offs that shaped it.

Visdom 2.0 addresses that gap directly. The new platform ensures agents spend their capacity on actual development work rather than reconstructing context from scratch. It introduces intelligent PR classification, infrastructure scaling for agent-generated code, and full Agent Tracing so teams maintain the oversight and auditability enterprise delivery requires.

"New infrastructure helps engineering teams move faster with AI without sacrificing the oversight, auditability, and context that enterprise delivery requires," says Artur Skowroński, lead engineer behind Visdom.

Visdom 2.0 is currently being rolled out across multiple enterprise projects. We look forward to sharing more as the rollout progresses.

Rustikon 2026, organised by SoftwareMill, part of VirtusLab, returned to the POLIN Conference Centre in Warsaw on March 19 and 20 for its second edition.

Last year's feedback was clear: one day wasn't enough. The 2026 edition answered that with a full two-day programme of 20-plus talks in a single-track format, covering AI agent safety in Rust, infrastructure automation, async concurrency, GPU debugging, and more. Single-track by design, so the whole community stays in the same room and the conversations don't fragment.

Between sessions the networking area kept things moving, and when the stage wrapped, everyone headed to the Arco Club for the afterparty. The bowling lanes, the pizza, the debates about async runtimes at midnight; that's the social glue that keeps people coming back.

Our Head of Cloud & Data Engineering, Bartek Antoniak, and Head of Commercial Solutions, Peter Ratcliffe, represented VirtusLab at Insurtech Insights Europe 2026, Europe's largest insurtech conference, which brought together 6,000+ executives, entrepreneurs, and investors at the InterContinental London, The O2, on 18 and 19 March.

Nearly 200 sessions explored enduring industry challenges alongside emerging developments shaping the future of insurance, with the 2026 programme placing increased emphasis on what the industry can learn from developments in adjacent sectors, including autonomous mobility, advances in artificial intelligence, and other technologies beginning to reshape risk, regulation, and customer engagement.

Beyond the main conference, we hosted a private dinner for a select group of senior insurance leaders. It was an evening of candid conversation about technology, transformation, and where the industry is genuinely heading. The kind of discussion that tends to be more useful than any panel. We're grateful to everyone who joined us and look forward to continuing those conversations.

VirtusLab has joined the Managing General Agents' Association (MGAA) as a Supplier Member, deepening our commitment to the specialist insurance market.

The MGA market is one of the most dynamic segments in insurance. Managing General Agents bring deep specialist expertise, strong relationships, and a product agility that larger carriers often cannot match. Yet the technology supporting these businesses has historically lagged behind their ambition. Critical functions: underwriting, claims, finance, compliance, frequently rely on disconnected platforms, manual controls, and institutional knowledge that lives in people's heads rather than in systems.

That's the gap we're here to help close. VirtusLab works with insurers to modernise operations, augment human expertise with AI, and enable smarter decisions through better data visibility, freeing capital for growth rather than maintenance.

We also see this as a longer-term responsibility. Insurance has historically set operational standards where regulation couldn't: from building fire safety to cybersecurity practices. As AI reshapes every industry, we believe insurance must lead the way once again, and we want to help make that happen.

We look forward to contributing to the MGAA community and to the conversations ahead.

VirtusLab was represented at Jfokus 2026, one of Europe's largest and most respected vendor-independent developer conferences, held on February 2 to 4 at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre.

Our own Artur Skowroński delivered one of those deep dives: "JVM in the Age of AI: 2026 Edition." Rather than adding to the noise around LLM-as-a-Service, Artur took the audience under the hood, examining what actually needs to happen inside the virtual machine for the JVM to become a serious platform for machine learning and AI.

Jfokus has long been a natural home for VirtusLab's engineers. The JVM ecosystem sits at the heart of much of what we build and contribute to, and Stockholm in February is where many of the conversations that shape that ecosystem begin.

We kicked off February by hosting a MeetUp at Forty Kleparz Restobar in Kraków, an evening dedicated to a topic close to our hearts: making developers happier and more effective through better tools, metrics, and practices.

The topic of the evening was “DX or Developer Productivity?” and we were joined by two outstanding speakers: Anita Zbieg from Network Perspective and Steve Yegge from Sourcegraph, whose insights sparked rich conversations about the future of developer tooling and the human side of engineering productivity.

Developer experience isn't a buzzword for us. It's a discipline we invest in every day, for our own teams and for our clients. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the evening such a success.