Adopting AI as hands-on Engineering Leaders Practical AI in SDLC from discovery to production

Ben Brandt works at Zed, helping shape how engineers collaborate with AI and with each other. He is also a Lead Maintainer of the Agent Client Protocol, an open standard for interoperability between editors and coding agents.

Jessica has extensive experience and expertise within cloud architecture, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. She is a hands on, technical architect and team lead who has built up and led platform teams within developer experience and data. She is also a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador who regularly shares her knowledge both in the local Gothenburg community and at conferences such as QCon.​

Kevin Ball is VP of engineering at Mento, focused on helping modern workers grow in their careers via a unique combination of coaching and mentorship. He is also a trained coach who works with engineers and engineering managers, a panelist on the JSParty podcast, and publishes Human Skills, a series of weekly interviews of tech industry leaders on all of the non-technical skills that go into success in the tech industry.

Kevin is an experienced engineer, manager, and entrepreneur who has co-founded and acted as CTO for 2 companies, founded the San Diego Javascript Meetup, and has written articles for publications including Smashing Magazine, web designer magazine, Net magazine, and LeadDev. He has spoken around the world including conferences like All Things Open, Web Unleashed, NodeConf Colombia, and React Amsterdam.

Lindsey Simon is the VP of Engineering at Vercel. Making the Web faster has been his lifelong career ambition. Prior to Vercel, Lindsey spent seven years at Google, where he helped launch App Engine as an original core team member, and worked as a tech lead on the Google Translate and Web Performance teams. Lindsey has lived in San Francisco for the past 15 years, and his creative hobbies (beyond coding) include writing music and hunting for wild mushrooms.

Gregor is an engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in the engineering industry. In his career, he grew as an engineer to Senior Software Engineer and after to Lead roles (Team Lead to Engineering Manager to Head of Engineering to VP of Engineering to CTO). And now he is helping people and teams/companies to thrive with Fractional/Interim CTO roles, tech advising, coaching and mentoring. He is also writing one of the fastest growing newsletters for engineers and managers called Engineering Leadership newsletter.

Founder of Theodo, a tech consultancy he scaled with Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle from 10 to 700 people in 10 years.

He worked on his first large legacy modernisation in 2008 and has been back in the trenches to experiment first-hand how AI is revolutionising this challenge.

Fabrice has shared his Lean Tech and AI modernisation expertise at various conferences, including CraftConf, DevopsDays and Lean Summits.

Nihan Bircan is a Senior Engineering Manager at Flo Health in London, leading a team of iOS, Android, and backend engineers building AI-driven health and wellbeing features for one of the world's leading women's health apps. Her work includes cross-company integrations with Oura, Google Health Connect, and Apple HealthKit to improve ML-based cycle predictions.

With 15 years in software development and 8 years in leadership, Nihan has held roles at Spotify, Microsoft, and Schibsted. At Flo, she launched initiatives recovering significant lost revenue, drove gamification features that meaningfully lifted premium activation and retention, and delivered the company's first marketable perimenopause product achieving multi-million dollar revenue targets.

Ilya Pukhalski is a founder and partner at ENDGAME. He spent 20+ years in software engineering, architecture and product development, designing and delivering large transformation programs for IKEA, Primark, Nike, Albert Heijn.

He founded ENDGAME on a conviction: software engineering is in a renaissance, and machines amplify great engineering minds rather than replace them. At ENDGAME he builds a dark factory of autonomous agent pipelines, and helps other organizations make the same leap into agentic product development.