Event for hands-on Engineering Leaders London Edition: Adopting AI in Orgs

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.

Leandro Fernandez is an Engineering Manager at Meta, London, with 16 years of experience as an engineer/manager in big tech, like Meta, Uber and Dell Technologies. He has a successful track record of supporting high performing teams of software and machine learning engineers. Some of the cool projects that he launched in the past include Uber's Audio Recording and Record My Ride, and Meta's automated data removal infrastructure.

Andy Kuszyk is a Staff Engineer at Typeform, an occasional blog author, and an Emacs enthusiast! He's mostly worked in backend systems with the likes of Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes, but also enjoys thinking about the way teams work, communicate, and transfer knowledge.

Tech Lead with over 15 years of experience in IT across various industries, including media, public sector or finance. Proven track record in leading development teams, designing scalable systems, and delivering impactful solutions. Recent work focuses on the practical implementation of AI in production environments, enhancing workflows, automating processes, and driving innovation.

Tim Makin is a Software Engineering Manager at CDL with over 20 years of experience in driving innovation and delivering high-impact digital products. They currently lead 14 teams, guiding projects from conception to completion while fostering a culture of excellence. Before their current role, Tim spent six of those years as the founder of a digital agency, developing solutions for world-renowned organisations including the BBC, Tesco, IKEA, and Sage.

Senior lead software engineer with 16+ years of experience building large-scale platforms and leading multi-million dollar projects. Co-founder of multiple startups, open-source contributor, and UK Global Talent Visa holder. Named World’s Most Influential Mentor and #1 Mentor in Europe by ADPList. Former WorldSkills medalist and expert in IT Software Solutions.

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.

Steven has 13+ years of industry experiance as an engineer, tech lead, interim CTO, technical co-founder and technical consulting. Starting out as a software engineer and moving quickly to tech lead and consulting to building digital venture teams across London. Most two roles have been Head of Technology and Head of AI/Developemnt for two multinational companies. Day to day activies focused around research, development and integration of new tools and workflows for engineering teams, hiring and training the next generation of developers and building modern sustainable software.