On 22 April, Wallester hosted Devclub for the third time at its Tallinn HQ. What started as a first-ever external tech event in February has now become a regular fixture, an evening where the local tech community comes together to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and talk through what is really happening in engineering and product development.
Even if it arrived from two different directions – coordination – this edition had a clear through-line. How do people align inside organisations? And how are AI systems starting to do something similar on their own?
What Is Devclub?
Devclub is a staple of the Estonian tech scene. It is a community-driven initiative that brings together developers, architects, and tech enthusiasts to share technical knowledge, swap war stories, and keep the conversation about engineering practice alive outside of any single company or conference. It has been running for years and has become one of the more trusted formats in the local ecosystem. It is the kind of event where the talks are practical and the networking is genuine.
What Was Covered
Dennis Garavsky, Product Manager at DevExpress, made the case for public channels over private chats and direct messages. The argument is not new, but it rarely gets made with enough force inside most organisations. Information that lives in DMs is information that disappears, because it cannot be searched, referenced, or built on by anyone outside the conversation. Public channels create a shared record, reduce duplication, and let ideas develop in the open rather than in silos. For teams using Slack, Microsoft Teams, or similar tools, the setup choice has real consequences for how knowledge moves and how fast decisions get made.
Vladimir Ivanov, CTO at Supplied AI, took on the other side of the coordination question. Agentic AI is everywhere as a term right now, but what it means architecturally is less often explained clearly. Ivanov walked through what AI agents are, how they are built, and what agentic workflows look like in practice. It was a useful counterweight to the amount of noise currently surrounding the topic.
Why We Keep Hosting This
Wallester’s ambition has always been to be more than a place where the team builds payments infrastructure, and Hosting Devclub is part of that. It brings the Estonian tech community into the office, creates space for conversations that do not happen on Slack or in sprint reviews, and connects us to the engineers, architects, and builders working across the ecosystem. This was the third time, and it will not be the last.
