Enterprise AI Summit: Full Schedule

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8:00am PDT

Registration Open

Thursday April 9, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

Opening Remarks

Thursday April 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:15am PDT

Speakers

Gene Kim

Vibe Coder, Author, Researcher, IT Revolution

Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies—he is the WSJ bestselling author of The... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 9:00am - 9:15am PDT

Plenary

9:15am PDT

Our Journey to Agentification

Thursday April 9, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT

Speakers

John Rauser

Senior Director of Software Engineering, Cisco Cloud Security, Cisco

I am an enthusiastic engineering and product delivery leader, passionate about building distributed systems and developing the teams that support them. My goal is to create amazing experiences for our teams and our customers. I love to write and share my ideas on software delivery... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT

Plenary

9:40am PDT

Are We Ready for the AI Transformation?

Thursday April 9, 2026 9:40am - 10:05am PDT

Speakers

Amy Willard

Global IT Director - Enterprise Core Platforms & Operations, Strategy & Transformation, John Deere

Thursday April 9, 2026 9:40am - 10:05am PDT

Plenary

10:05am PDT

Exorcism of the Haunted Codebase — Modernizing Our Oldest, Scariest Code with AI

Thursday April 9, 2026 10:05am - 10:30am PDT

Speakers

Edith Harbaugh

Co-Founder and Executive Chair, LaunchDarkly

Edith Harbaugh is Co-Founder and Executive Chair of LaunchDarkly, the leading feature management platform. LaunchDarkly serves over a thousand global customers like IBM, Atlassian, and Intuit. She has more than 15 years of experience in engineering, product, and marketing with both... Read More →

Zach Davis

Principal Engineer, LaunchDarkly

Zach Davis is a principal engineer at LaunchDarkly. As an early employee and engineering leader he played an integral part in scaling the team from 10 to more than 550. These days he's focused on bringing the value of AI to a team of 100+ engineers working on legacy codebases in an... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 10:05am - 10:30am PDT

Plenary

10:30am PDT

Nothing.

Thursday April 9, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

Speakers

Matt Jones

President & Chief Executive Officer, Sigma Defense

Matt Jones has served as Sigma Defense’s President since January 2021 and was named CEO in October of the same year.Matt brings a results-oriented leadership style paired with expertise in business development, change management and a track record of double-digit business growth... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

Plenary

10:55am PDT

BREAK/Networking

Thursday April 9, 2026 10:55am - 11:25am PDT

Breaks

11:25am PDT

From Vibe Code to Fleet Mode: The Agentic Pivot Nobody’s Ready For

Thursday April 9, 2026 11:25am - 11:50am PDT

Speakers

Steve Yegge

Co-author of "Vibe Coding", Author of Gas Town agent swarm

Steve Yegge is ex-Geoworks, ex-Amazon, ex-Google, ex-Grab, and ex-Sourcegraph, with over 30 years of tech industry experience, 40 years coding total.

Thursday April 9, 2026 11:25am - 11:50am PDT

Plenary

11:50am PDT

Building an AI Native Engineering Org

Thursday April 9, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm PDT

Nearly every enterprise company has a mandate to convert its existing engineering org into an AI native one.

Buying the frontier models and tools is not enough. Everything about how we deliver software must change: from design, to development, to deployment.

In this talk, I’ll walk you through the journey of transitioning traditional software engineers into AI native ones, the systems and processes required for their success, and the new challenges agentic engineering introduces for large enterprise companies.

Speakers

Angie Jones

VP, Agentic AI Foundation

Angie Jones is the VP of the Agentic AI Foundation, where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem.

Angie is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software

... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm PDT

Plenary

12:15pm PDT

Return of the Theorem

Thursday April 9, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT

Speakers

Dr. Erik Meijer

Research Scholar, Leibniz Labs

I am an accomplished language, API, and type system designer, and have worked on the design of Haskell, Mondrian, C#, Visual Basic, Dart, and Hack, as well as advised on the design of Java, Scala, JavaScript, and Kotlin.

At Microsoft, after working on languages and runtimes, a... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT

Plenary

12:40pm PDT

LUNCH

Thursday April 9, 2026 12:40pm - 2:10pm PDT

Breaks

2:35pm PDT

Measuring the Impact of AI Education

Thursday April 9, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm PDT

Speakers

Ezra Savard

Engineer, Netflix

Thursday April 9, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm PDT

Plenary

3:00pm PDT

Making Vibe Coding a Core Skill

Thursday April 9, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

Newton is an international consulting firm that contracts exclusively on client outcomes — if we don't deliver results, we don't get paid. Most of our people are operations specialists, not software engineers, and their primary tools were Excel and Power BI. In late 2025, we set out to make vibe coding a core skill for every employee by mid-2026.

This talk shares what we learned from eight hackathons, getting ~40% of the organisation actively vibe coding, and moving from prototypes to production on real client work — including a case study where six hours of paired programming replaced a month of quoted contractor time. We'll cover the four principles that drove adoption at scale, the engineering fundamentals people absorbed without formal training, and the honest question we're still wrestling with: how far along the engineering literacy spectrum can non-engineers realistically go?

Speakers

Ben Grinnell

Board Member Capabilities and AI, newtonimpact.com

Ben Grinnell is Chief AI Officer at Newton, where he works with senior leaders to design organisations that can adopt and scale AI in complex, high‑consequence environments. Ben specialises in the intersection of AI, operating models, and delivery — helping organisations move... Read More →

Tom Kilcommons

AI Innovation Lead, newtonimpact.com

Tom Kilcommons leads technical client engagements at Newton, a consulting firm that puts 100% of its fees at risk against measurable client results. Alongside delivery, Tom has been instrumental in building Newton's AI capability programme — designing the developer environments, tooling, and eng... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

Plenary

3:25pm PDT

NETWORKING

Thursday April 9, 2026 3:25pm - 4:25pm PDT

Breaks

4:25pm PDT

From Analytics to Agentic Apps

Thursday April 9, 2026 4:25pm - 4:50pm PDT

Agentic Coding 20 Healthcare AI Products Into Production –Replacing 100+ Legacy SaaS vendors

Speakers

Tisson Mathew

Founder & CEO, Skypoint.ai

Tisson Mathew is the Founder and CEO of Skypoint, an agentic AI platform transforming healthcare operations through unified data and AI Agents. Since founding the company in 2020, he has led Skypoint’s rapid growth, earning recognition on the Deloitte Fast 500 (two consecutive years... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 4:25pm - 4:50pm PDT

Plenary

4:50pm PDT

What Handcrafted Servers Taught Us About Handcrafted Code

Thursday April 9, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm PDT

Speakers

Charity Majors

Co-Founder/CTO, Honeycomb.io

I am an operations and database engineer and sometimes engineering manager. Right now I am the CEO and cofounder of Honeycomb, where we build observability for distributed systems. (“Monitoring” doesn’t have to be a dirty word; give us a try.)Until recently I was a production engineering manager at Facebook. I spent 3.5 years working on Parse (both pre and post-acquisition by FB). I also spent... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 4:50pm - 5:15pm PDT

Plenary

5:15pm PDT

Reimagining the Magic

Thursday April 9, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm PDT

Speakers

Jason Cox

Executive Director, AI R&D and Engineering, Disney

Jason Cox is Executive Director of AI R&D and Engineering at The Walt Disney Company, where he leads the development of enterprise AI platforms, applied research, and advanced engineering systems that transform emerging AI capabilities into real, scalable business impact. His work... Read More →

Thursday April 9, 2026 5:15pm - 5:40pm PDT

Plenary

5:40pm PDT

Closing Remarks (Day 1)

Thursday April 9, 2026 5:40pm - 5:45pm PDT

Speakers

Gene Kim

Vibe Coder, Author, Researcher, IT Revolution

Thursday April 9, 2026 5:40pm - 5:45pm PDT

Plenary

5:45pm PDT

Industry Party

Thursday April 9, 2026 5:45pm - 7:15pm PDT

Be sure to stick around after Day 1 for the Industry Party! We'll have food trucks, plenty of conversation, and we'll close the evening with the GitLab Game Night Build Challenge. With no prep, no preview, and no safety net, six coders will take the stage and have just 30 minutes to create a bot capable of competing in a multiplayer game—all in silence, while every keystroke is displayed live across six mirrored screens. It will be an unforgettable way to end the evening!

Thursday April 9, 2026 5:45pm - 7:15pm PDT

Breaks