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Right after Scala Days 2026 in Berlin, the VirtusLab team is crossing the Atlantic. This October we're bringing the latest Scala Days insights to local meetups in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. We'll carry the conversations started in Berlin further and help bring Scala communities across the US back together.

Each stop centres on where Scala is heading next: its role in AI development, how agentic AI coding fits into the Scala ecosystem, the move from Scala 2 to Scala 3, and the health of the ecosystem. Adam Warski will present Where Scala meets AI, and Łukasz Biały will present Making the AI agents safe with Scala. Local community voices will join them along the way, including Bill Venners in San Francisco and Daniel Spiewak in Chicago.

• October 19, San Francisco: Scala Summit 2026, a full-day community conference with SF Scala
• October 22, Chicago: Where is Scala heading next? with the Chicago-Area Scala Enthusiasts
• October 26, New York: Fresh Insights Straight from Scala Days 2026 with NY Scala

We look forward to meeting engineers and engineering leaders, sharing what we've learned, and hearing how teams across the US are building with Scala. Registration details are on each event's Meetup page. See you in the US!

We're proud to share that VirtusLab has taken over maintenance of Scala 2. We now oversee development of both Scala 2 and Scala 3, working closely with Scala Center and the Scala Core Team.

Scala 2 still powers many production systems, and we're committed to supporting it. We will keep maintaining Scala 2.12 and 2.13 for as long as needed, and keep improving the path from Scala 2 to Scala 3. The Scala 2 team members who worked at Akka have joined our open-source team. The next releases, Scala 2.12.22 and 2.13.19, are already in the works.

For teams that need more than community maintenance, our Scala Enterprise Support gives them direct access to the engineers who build the compiler, ready to engage for required investigation and priority bug fixing. If you're planning to move to Scala 3, we also offer up to 10 person-days of free migration support, including a codebase analysis and migration of key libraries.

A big thank you to Akka for many years of support for the Scala community, and to our OSS team for taking this on. Read the full announcement on the Scala blog.

See how we can support your Scala project directly →

We've launched the new Visdom website, the go-to place to learn how Visdom works and why it matters for enterprise teams bringing AI into software delivery. Visdom is the missing layer between AI coding and production. Built by VirtusLab, it brings the context, governance, CI and traceability needed to make AI-generated code production-ready. Visit visdom.virtuslab.com

Next, Visdom is going on tour, with 18 stops across Europe and the US: from Zurich, Berlin, Amsterdam and London to New York, San Francisco and Austin. At conferences, roundtables, meetups and online sessions, our engineers will show how Visdom works in real enterprise environments. No generic pitch, just practical conversations with the people who build it. See all tour stops

One of the tour's highlights is TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, October 13-15. Visit us at booth A13 to see Visdom live and talk to the team about what it takes to get AI coding agents shipping to production.

This October, the VirtusLab team is heading to Berlin for Scala Days 2026. As a sponsor of the event and a long-standing partner of the Scala community, we are proud to support this year’s conference and contribute to its programme with a strong group of VirtusLab speakers. Many more of us will be there to meet the community, exchange ideas, and discuss the latest developments shaping Scala and software engineering. But Berlin will be only the beginning.

After Scala Days, we will take some of these conversations across the Atlantic as part of an upcoming VirtusLab roadshow in the United States. We are looking forward to sharing the latest insights and trends, meeting engineering communities, and continuing the discussions started in Berlin.

More details about our Scala Days presence and US plans will follow soon.

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.