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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.

VirtusLab  was represented at the Scala Workshop 2025, held on October 13 and 14 in Singapore as part of the ICFP/SPLASH 2025 conference week.

Adam Warski from SoftwareMill, part of VirtusLab, presented "How Functional is Direct-Style?", a talk exploring the relationship between direct-style programming and functional paradigms that sparked considerable discussion among attendees.

The Scala Workshop is the continuation of the long-running Scala Symposium: a gathering of researchers and practitioners who come together to discuss the design, implementation, and real-world applications of Scala. Topics range from language features and compiler internals to type systems, tooling, and industrial use cases. This year's edition took a more open format, centred on talk proposals and live discussion rather than formal publications, making it one of the most practitioner-accessible editions to date.

We look forward to seeing the community again at the next edition.

This summer, we have joined the Scala community in Lausanne, Switzerland, as a Platinum Sponsor of Scala Days 2025: a special edition marking 15 years of the conference, held at the very place where Scala was born: EPFL.

The theme, Functional Programming And The Real World, brought together 57 talks, 5 workshops, 27 sponsors, and around 300 attendees across several co-located events. The energy in the city was unmistakable. It was a reminder of what makes this community so enduring.

At our booth, we shared how engineering teams can improve developer productivity through 12+ years of hands-on Scala experience and LLM-assisted workflows. With SoftwareMill now part of VirtusLab, attendees could also explore libraries like Tapir, STTP, and ox, and catch our live coding sessions.

Our team also took the stage with two talks. Wojciech Mazur presented "From Imports to Targets: Bazel on Autopilot with Scala Gazelle," and Krzysztof Romanowski explored "Scala, Productivity, and AI"; both reflecting the practical, tooling-focused work our engineers do every day.

VirtusLab has been part of the Scala ecosystem for over 15 years. We contribute directly to the language's development and maintain key tools including Scala CLI and Metals. Sponsoring Scala Days is a reflection of who we are and the community we've helped build.

Between June 2nd and 8th VirtusLab team joined New York Tech Week, an event where hundreds of companies, VCs, and communities taking over Manhattan for a week of panels, dinners, demos, and conversations.

Tech Week is unlike a traditional conference. There's no central venue, no single programme, no badge you scan at a door. The 2025 edition drew over a thousand events and more than 40,000 attendees across the the Manhattan neighbourhood, including SoHo, TriBeCa, Flatiron and Union Square.

Our team hosted its own event in Midtown, bringing together a group of engineers, technology leaders, and partners for an evening focused on software engineering and AI-assisted development where we were joined by experts from around the globe.

We're excited to share a major milestone in our long-standing partnership with Strapi. Working closely with Strapi's core team, VirtusLab engineers have delivered official integrations for Shopify, BigCommerce, and Cloudinary, making it easier for teams to manage content, commerce, and assets from a single unified platform.

Alongside these integrations, our engineers have built and now maintain a growing suite of open-source Strapi plugins, including a Strapi MCP Context plugin enabling AI-assisted workflows, as well as Astro-Strapi integrations that extend the ecosystem further.

The best software partnerships are built over years, not months. We're proud to be recognised as one of the most experienced Strapi partners in Europe.

March in Warsaw meant two conferences in the same week, and VirtusLab team was part of both.

Scalar 2025, organised by SoftwareMill, brought together more than 280 Scala enthusiasts at the POLIN Conference Centre for two days of talks from 26 speakers. VirtusLab sponsored the event alongside JetBrains, the Scala Center, ScalaWAW, and Scala Times, continuing a relationship with Warsaw's Scala community that goes back over a decade.

Rustikon followed just days later, also at POLIN. The first ever edition of Poland's dedicated Rust conference, it made a strong entry onto the scene with expert speakers, a buzzing networking area, and a community that showed up eager to learn and connect. Rustikon was born out of the same spirit that has made Scalar a Central European institution for over ten years, and the first edition proved there's real appetite for it.

Two conferences, one city, one week. It's a reminder of why Warsaw remains one of the most vibrant developer communities on the continent, and why we keep investing in it.

Software Mill - a part of VirtusLab Group, has partnered with Niebezpiecznik, a renowned cybersecurity consultancy known for its deep expertise in penetration testing, training, and online news services. This collaboration enhances VirtusLab Group's cybersecurity capabilities.

• Network Vulnerability Assessment,
• Web Application Penetration Test,
• Network Penetration Test,
• Social Engineering Test,
• Advanced Persistent Threat,
• Code Security

Their team of skilled pentesters identifies system weaknesses, and VirtusLab Group engineers can deliver secure software solutions. By expanding its cybersecurity expertise, VirtusLab Group can better protect Clients’ systems, data, and infrastructure from sophisticated attacks, ensuring the resilience and reliability of its services.

What if seniority in tech isn’t just about years of experience or job titles? What if it’s something more?

At Sphere.it Conf, we’re not just hosting another software conference—we’re building a space where forward-thinking developers, engineers, and tech professionals gather to explore what real growth looks like in the world of IT.

This year’s theme, “Going Beyond Senior,” invites you to challenge the traditional boundaries of career progression. Whether you're a mid-level developer or a seasoned engineering lead, this event is crafted for those who are ready to grow—not just up, but outward.

So, what does "beyond senior" mean?

It means diving into the full spectrum of career development:

• How to lead teams more effectively
• How to navigate complex organizational challenges
• How the right tools and processes can accelerate your impact
• And how to keep evolving in an ever-changing tech landscape

This isn’t about climbing the ladder—it's about reshaping it.

Join us in Krakow this September at the stunning Manggha Museum for two days of high-impact talks, honest conversations, and connection with a vibrant community of people who believe in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in software careers.

Let’s redefine seniority. Let’s go beyond it.