Engineering Leadership

Session Startups

Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering

Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST

Startups are the harshest environments for engineers. Limited time, resources, and energy force teams to make decisions under pressure — and those decisions can determine whether a company survives or stalls.

Speaker image - David Gudeman

David Gudeman

Co-Founder and CTO @Velocity AI

Session AI Agents

Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project

Tuesday Nov 18 / 10:35AM PST

Claude Code is the first developer tool built specifically to maximize AI development velocity.

Speaker image - Adam Wolff

Adam Wolff

Engineer and Individual Contributor to Claude Code @Anthropic, Previously @Robinhood, @Facebook

Session Engineering Leadership

Lead Without a Ladder: How I Climbed Into Engineering Leadership

Tuesday Nov 18 / 10:35AM PST

Climbing into senior engineering leadership isn’t always a matter of following fixed rungs—it can be more like scaling a rugged, ever-shifting mountain. You know there might be a path somewhere on the south face but for some reason the North face has more appeal.

Speaker image - Pauline Jepp

Pauline Jepp

Head of Engineering @TicketSwap