Voxxed Days Ticino 2026: new growth and focus on AI agents

With 428 attendees and an enhanced programme, the 2026 edition of Voxxed Days Ticino consolidated its role as a landmark event for the developer community in southern Switzerland and beyond. Co-organised by the Institute of Information Systems and Networking (ISIN) at SUPSI, the Faculty of Informatics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), and Exteso, the event centred on the new frontiers of software engineering, with a particular focus on AI agents and security.

Held on Friday, 6 February 2026 at Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, the eleventh edition of Voxxed Days Ticino brought together developers, companies, researchers and ICT professionals from Ticino, Switzerland and Northern Italy. The event featured a dense programme of 47 talks spread across five rooms, reflecting the growing interest in technological innovation and software development.

Voxxed Days Ticino is part of the international Voxxed Days circuit—a spin-off of Devoxx—and serves as a forum for training and exchange created by and for developers. The 2026 edition covered a wide spectrum of topics, from methodology to software architecture to the advanced use of IT. This year's central theme was AI agents, viewed as a paradigm shift for development teams, alongside an increasing focus on system security.

To keep pace with these trends, the event expanded organisationally, growing from four to five rooms and introducing two panels: "Spec-Driven Development with AI" and "Practical Security Strategies". Among the highlights was the keynote by independent consultant and trainer Kevlin Henney, who explored the past, present, and future of programming languages in the wake of Large Language Models, and the closing talk by Mario Fusco on the individual and group biases that impact software quality.

The event was preceded on Thursday, 5 February 2026, by four professional workshops hosted at the USI-SUPSI East Campus in Lugano. These sessions allowed an additional 59 participants to dive deep into emerging tools and practices, bringing the total attendance to 487.

As highlighted by the organisers, the 2026 edition marked a symbolic and substantive shift toward a new era of software development—one increasingly driven by intelligent agents and advanced techniques capable of managing the complexity of modern systems. In this light, Voxxed Days Ticino remains a premier platform for exchange between academic research, professional practice and the local business ecosystem.

The event was held under the patronage of the City of Lugano. Further information and materials are available on the official website.