This year the Digit Conference looks a little different.
The theme, Driving the Change, reflects what’s happening across the industry right now. With LLMs reshaping how we build, think, and work, the focus isn’t on any single language or tool but on how developers are adapting in practice: what's actually changing, what holds up, and what doesn’t.
Rather than tackling that from one perspective, this year’s format brings multiple viewpoints into the same room.
What the program looks like
The conference is split into multiple parts, each with a slightly different focus.
Digit this year is less fluff and more depth. The program is built for developers, senior engineers, and tech leads who are actually building systems day to day. We’ve deliberately cut out the noise to focus on what’s practical, technical, and useful.
Digit stage
The Digit stage focuses on how software engineering is evolving with the rise of LLMs from developers to developers. Expect technical talks on integrating LLMs into real systems, covering topics like architecture, scalability, reliability, and trade-offs in practice – what works, what doesn’t, and how developer workflows are changing.
Data & ML stage
This stage will feature a dedicated data, machine learning, and AI track with more focused technical content. This includes ecosystem-specific talks, deeper dives into tooling, and discussions.
Workshops
Hands-on sessions focused on practical skills: for example, how to use LLMs in everyday development, how to stay up-to-date, and how to adjust your workflow without getting lost in the noise.
Demo area & side events
Alongside the stages, there’s a demo area where companies showcase tools, platforms, and real-world implementations — a chance to see what’s actually being built and talk directly to the teams behind it.
In the days leading up to the conference, smaller side events take place across the city, offering more room for conversations, deeper dives, and informal meetups. The main conference day wraps up with an afterparty on the evening of October 9 to continue conversations in a more relaxed setting.
What topics are being covered
Across the program, the focus stays close to day-to-day development work. You’ll hear about:
The goal is not to predict the future, but to look at what people are already doing and what can be learned from that.
How to approach the event
The format gives you some flexibility.Or you can move between sessions, depending on what’s relevant. The overlap between topics makes that fairly natural, especially around areas like data, backend systems, and LLM usage.
Why this might be the best year to attend
For anyone who has not attended either Digit before, the combined format offers something another event could provide on its own: the depth of a specialist community alongside the scope of a full software engineering conference, all in one place, in one day.
If you want to understand where software development is heading. Not in the abstract, but through the experience of practitioners who are figuring it out in real time, this is a reasonable place to start.
And if nothing else, it brings different kinds of developers into the same room, which is usually where the most useful conversations start!
__________________________________________________________Digit 2026 will take place in the Kammivabrik Factory in Tartu on 9 October.
If you want to follow how the program develops, see which speakers are joining, and get updates as they are announced, you can stay up to date on our social media @digitconf. Tickets to the event are already available on Fienta: https://fienta.com/digitconf2026