Enterprise AI Summit

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?