Enterprise AI Summit: Full Schedule

Agenda is subject to change.

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...
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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

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

Breaks

8:00am PDT

Registration Open

Friday April 10, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

Opening Remarks

Friday April 10, 2026 9:00am - 9:15am PDT

Speakers

Gene Kim

Vibe Coder, Author, Researcher, IT Revolution

Friday April 10, 2026 9:00am - 9:15am PDT

Plenary

9:15am PDT

Enabling Everyone to be Builders with AI

Friday April 10, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT

Speakers

Max Reele

VP of Delivery, Rise8

Friday April 10, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT

Plenary

9:40am PDT

Lessons from Transforming Teams to AI Native Workflows

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

Most AI success stories are based on simple greenfield projects with few dependencies and fast feedback loops. That's not the world most enterprise developers live in. Brownfield applications are complex, built piecemeal over years. Developer experiences are full of bottlenecks - slow and inaccurate feedback loops, incomplete documentation, outdated frameworks. These are problems that human...
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Speakers

Tim Cochran

Principal, Amazon Software Builder Experience, Amazon

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

Plenary

10:05am PDT

Big‑T Notation: Engineering for Token Efficiency in the Age of Enterprise AI

Friday April 10, 2026 10:05am - 10:30am PDT

Why Cost, Scale, and Architecture Matter More Than Model BrillianceAI is revolutionizing enterprise work, yet many orgs struggle with the complex economic factors underpinning it. As workloads intensify and expand, the expense associated with leveraging advanced AI models escalates quickly. As AI becomes a staple in everyday operations, token consumption is outpacing the capabilities of...
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Speakers

Dan Neff

Senior Principal Cloud Architect, Adobe

Dan Neff is a Senior Principal Cloud Architect at Adobe, leading enterprise-scale generative AI operational onboarding defining use cases, running the AI Tools Radar, and standardizing vendor reviews and onboarding. He drives developer and engineering tools strategy and maintains... Read More →

Brian Scott

Cloud Engineering Leadership, Adobe

Friday April 10, 2026 10:05am - 10:30am PDT

Plenary

10:30am PDT

Fireside Chat with Dr. Topo Pal

Friday April 10, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

Speakers

Tapabrata "Topo" Pal

Vice President, Architecture, Fidelity Investments

Dr. Tapabrata "Topo" Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is a hands-on developer and Open Source contributor. Topo has been leading and contributing... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

Plenary

10:55am PDT

BREAK/Networking

Friday April 10, 2026 10:55am - 11:25am PDT

Breaks

11:25am PDT

Edge of the Present: Pursuing AI’s Frontier in the Enterprise

Friday April 10, 2026 11:25am - 11:50am PDT

AI is quickly becoming a key pillar across many enterprises’ priorities. Here, we share how scaling inference-time compute can support product teams with the changing AI landscape, the advancements in model capabilities, and our drive for responsible innovation.

Speakers

Devlin McConnell

Head of Emerging Technology Research, Vanguard

Devlin McConnell is Head of Emerging Technology Research at Vanguard, where he leads a team responsible for catalyzing innovation across GenAI, blockchain, quantum computing, and other disruptive technologies. His team is responsible for evaluating emerging capabilities, running enterprise... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 11:25am - 11:50am PDT

Plenary

11:50am PDT

Production > Prototype: How a Small Team Replaced a Core Platform in 90 Days

Friday April 10, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm PDT

Speakers

Dustin Warner

Director of Software Engineering, NRC Health

I'm a Director of Software Engineering leading globally distributed teams delivering data-intensive healthcare platforms. But I care less about shipping code and more about designing the system behind the system. The hard part of building software has never been writing the code... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 11:50am - 12:15pm PDT

Plenary

12:15pm PDT

The Surplus Problem: What Happens When Vibe Coding Succeeds?

Friday April 10, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT

Vibe coding is unlocking something your organization hasn't seen in years: margin. Suddenly, the backlog is clearing, the debt is shrinking, and the CFO is paying attention. That's exactly when it gets dangerous.The biggest risk of AI-driven productivity isn't that it fails — it's that it succeeds, and leadership harvests every gain straight to the bottom line. No reinvestment. No reimagination....
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Speakers

Ryan Martens

Cofounder, Manifest AI

Ryan Martens is the Co-founder of Manifest AI, bringing decades of experience in technology and entrepreneurship. He was previously the Co-founder and CTO of Rally Software, where he helped shape the agile software movement, and he is also a Co-founder of Pledge 1%, a global movement... Read More →

Melissa Reeve

Founder, HyperadaptiveSolutions

Melissa Reeve brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective shaped by over three decades at the intersection of executive leadership, organizational transformation, and process excellence. Her foundation in the Lean mindset began at Waseda University in Tokyo, where she studied the... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 12:15pm - 12:40pm PDT

Plenary

12:40pm PDT

LUNCH

Friday April 10, 2026 12:40pm - 1:45pm PDT

Breaks

1:45pm PDT

Architecting AI-Native Organizations: How to Redesign Work at Scale

Friday April 10, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT

Speakers

Joe Beutler

Head of Solutions Engineering, Strategics, OpenAI

Joe Beutler leads the Solutions Engineering team for OpenAI’s largest enterprise customers, helping Fortune 100 companies turn cutting-edge AI into real business impact. He and his team partner directly with executives and engineering teams to design, prototype, and deploy solutions... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT

Plenary

2:10pm PDT

GenAI at Sea for Naval Surface Forces

Friday April 10, 2026 2:10pm - 2:35pm PDT

Speakers

CDR Collin Fox

Chief Strategy Officer, U.S. Naval Surface Forces I TF Hopper (AI/ML)

Friday April 10, 2026 2:10pm - 2:35pm PDT

Plenary

2:35pm PDT

The Specialisation Trap

Friday April 10, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm PDT

For decades, organisations have been atomising the software engineering role into ever-narrower specialisations. Product owners took requirements, architects took design, quality engineers took testing, platform engineers took operations. What remained for many software engineers was writing code - and with generative AI, that's now the most automatable task of all.AI adoption among engineers is...
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Speakers

Annie Vella

Distinguished Engineer, Westpac NZ

Annie Vella is a Distinguished Engineer at Westpac New Zealand, where she focuses on AI adoption, software engineering transformation, and systems thinking. With over 20 years of experience across startups, scale-ups, and large enterprises in four countries, she has spent two decades... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 2:35pm - 3:00pm PDT

Plenary

3:00pm PDT

In Pursuit of Good Vibes: I'm Not Sure Where We're Going, but I'm Happy We’re Going There Together

Friday April 10, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

Speakers

Cat Swetel

GM & Senior Director of Engineering, Nubank

Cat is a technology leader deeply interested in exploring how the digital transformation of society could create the conditions for more generative institutions. In addition to her role as Director of Engineering at Nubank, Cat is pursuing a master's degree in Science and Technology... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

Plenary

3:25pm PDT

BREAK

Friday April 10, 2026 3:25pm - 3:40pm PDT

Breaks

3:40pm PDT

Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit

Friday April 10, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm PDT

Speakers

Adrian Cockcroft

Technology Advisor and Consultant

Adrian Cockcroft is a technology advisor to Nubank and a former Vice President at Amazon Web Services, where he focused on building customer relationships and supporting the global technical community. During his time at AWS, he keynoted more than 20 AWS Summits worldwide, presented... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 3:40pm - 4:05pm PDT

Plenary

4:05pm PDT

Features Versus Futures

Friday April 10, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT

Speakers

Kent Beck

Software Engineer, Programmer & Author

Kent Beck brings over forty years of pioneering experience in software engineering methodologies, having created Extreme Programming (XP) and co-created Test-Driven Development (TDD)—practices that fundamentally transformed how organizations develop software. Currently authoring... Read More →

Friday April 10, 2026 4:05pm - 4:30pm PDT

Plenary

4:30pm PDT

Closing Remarks (Day 2)

Friday April 10, 2026 4:30pm - 4:40pm PDT

Speakers

Gene Kim

Vibe Coder, Author, Researcher, IT Revolution

Friday April 10, 2026 4:30pm - 4:40pm PDT

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