ISTA 2026 - The Future of Technology Conference
Tickets on sale4 parallel streamsOrganized by IT professionals since 2011
Signals, decisions and practice from the people building, testing and operating what ships next.
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Organized since 2011 by IT professionals for IT professionals — and, increasingly, read all year rather than attended once.
Talks about systems that are in production, from the people who put them there. Architecture decisions with their trade-offs still attached, not the version that survived the retrospective.
See the programmeEvery speaker has a profile that connects them to their session, their topics and the writing they are part of — so a name you hear on stage leads somewhere afterwards.
Meet the speakersDevelopment, quality, architecture and operations run in parallel, in one venue, on one day. You pick your track; you keep the same hallway.
Venue and logisticsISTA is one day in October and 38 published analyses in between, plus 7 archived editions you can still read, watch and search.
Read ISTA InsightsPractitioners from the companies building, testing and operating systems in this region and beyond.
Founder & Agentic Quality Engineer, Quantum QE
Co-Founder, Cybersecurity and Compliance, Stihia
Chief Executive Officer, A Data Pro
Dragan Spiridonov brings 30 years of IT experience, from computer repair and sysadmin in 1996 to leading QA/QE functions for the past 12 years.
Automation QA & AI Engineer, SiteGround
Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Co-Founder, Wiser Technology
Director, Solution Architecture & Strategy, Exadel
Automation QA Lead, Wiser Technology
Senior Manager, AI Operations, Progress Software
Head of Cloud Curriculum, DataCamp
Technical Director and Co-Owner, Automate The Planet
Technical Account Manager, Applitools
Senior Technical SEO Executive, Merkle Bulgaria
15 October 2026. Speakers are confirmed and the stream structure is set; individual sessions and track names are announced next.
4 parallel streams run across the day. The source programme does not yet name the tracks, so they are listed as published.
Your AI agent passes demos but fails in production? Motorway's three-layer evaluation framework cut their error rate from 1-in-8 to 1-in-50. Here's the pattern that actually ships.
The Digital Omnibus just reshuffled your EU AI Act timeline, high-risk obligations pushed to December 2027, but Article 50 disclosure hits in nine days. Here's what actually matters right now.
Banks are automating model documentation while a visa rule threatens to choke the talent pipeline building those models. The timing is almost poetic, and Bulgarian teams should pay attention to both.
Every figure below is counted from content published on this site, and each one links to where you can check it.
No attendance figure is published for ISTA 2026, so none is shown here. The one edition that did report attendance is 2019, where the figure appears on its own page.
Every tier includes the same access. Prices are per person and include VAT. Checkout is handled by bilet.bg.
120EURwith VAT
You will be taken to bilet.bg to complete the purchase.
96EURwith VAT
Closed
144EURwith VAT
Opens later
For volume discounts or questions, contact office@istacon.com.
Organizers run the conference; partners fund, staff and equip it. Every logo links to the company behind it.
Sponsorship packages, audience profile and past-edition figures.
Speakers, programmes, partners and photos from each edition — in this site's own design system, not a frozen copy of an old one.
ISTA has run since 2011. The 8 editions before 2019 were never published as archive pages on istacon.org, so there is nothing to migrate for them — they are listed in the ISTA story instead.
Sofia Event Center
Sofia, Bulgaria
One venue, all streams, central Sofia.
Transport, parking and accessibility details for this edition are published closer to the event. If you need them now — including step-free access or a companion ticket — email info@istacon.org and we will confirm directly.
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