Schedule

Gregor will be sharing both positive and negative trends that he's seeing, speaking with many engineering leaders across the industry. He'll also share how the role of engineering leaders is evolving, and tips on what to do to be a successful engineering leader in the age of AI.

In early 2025, a team of skilled engineers was given a formidable challenge: go from a traditional software engineering skillset to launching a production-grade, agentic AI insurance solution in just 16 weeks. This talk tells the story of that journey. It will dive into the practical, human-centric playbook developed for rapid upskilling in the age of AI. The presenter, Tim Makin, will share how his team built not just an "agentic engine room" on AWS Bedrock and a suite of collaborator agents, but also a culture of intense, continuous learning and psychological safety.

Our world runs on IT built in the 80s and 90s by engineers who are now retiring. This is becoming very worrying for corporates who have critical systems running on legacy code that only a handful of people still understand.That's where GenAI arrives. With its almost magical transpilation abilities, it is the innovation that was needed to kickstart the legacy modernisations that had been postponed for too long.Having worked on critical modernisations for more than 15 years, I jumped on the opportunity to experiment with how LLMs can accelerate complex migration projects. I will share the concrete experience we have accumulated on a wide range of stacks (Swift->React-Native, Eclipse RCP -> Spring Boot, Java 1.6 Spring -> Java 21 Spring Boot, PHP ZF1 -> Symfony 7), cover both the good surprises and the limitations that we uncovered, and share our current playbook to best leverage AI when migrating a legacy system.

As AI transforms software development, teams face a critical choice: lead the change, or risk being left behind! At Typeform, we're proactively encouraging the use of AI tools, and helping everyone level-up their AI proficiency.This means lots of things including the flexibility to try different tools, democratising access to (but controlling our expenditure on) LLMs, and ensuring we're hiring the next generation of engineers who have AI as part of their DNA.In this talk, I'll provide some practical examples of how we're achieving these things at Typeform, as well as how we're enhancing the way we collaborate with people outside of engineering using AI tools.I'll share real examples using AWS Bedrock and MCP servers, plus hard-won lessons from our journey. If your team is on the path to AI transformation, this talk will give you some practical strategies for making it a success.