Sessions in this track
Monday 16 November. 7 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
11:45 Pacific LM Session Sponsored session Details coming sson 10:35 Pacific LM Sponsored Legacy vs. AI-Native Is the Wrong Question: Architecting the Modern Platform Payal Patel, Saiprasad Murali Engineering leaders modernizing operational platforms are often presented with a false binary: choose the control and reliability of established enterprise platforms or embrace AI-native tools optimized for speed, automation, and intelligent experiences. 11:45 Pacific LM Sponsored Beyond the Model: Engineering the Agent Harness for Autonomous Software Delivery Jayant Kulkarni Senior Solution Architect, Client Engineering, IBM Technology Generating code is no longer the hard part. The hard part is coordinating agents so their work is verifiable, governed, and repeatable across a real engineering organization. In practice, the model is rarely the bottleneck — the harness around it is. 13:35 Pacific LM Sponsored Your Agents Lack Context: Here's How to Fix 'You're absolutely right!"' Brandon Waselnuk Developer Relations @Unblocked Every AI coding tool can generate code. Very few can generate the right code for your organization, because they’re missing context. 14:45 Pacific LM Sponsored Wait, You're Still Doing PRs? Lee Faus Founder & CEO @Atomic PRs were built for open source. A non-maintainer wanted to contribute, a maintainer needed a gate, and you opened the PR early so the two of you could work through the change together while it was still forming. That was the point. The PR was where the thinking happened. 15:55 Pacific LM Sponsored AI Amplifies Everything, Including Your Mess: Lessons from Delivering with AI at Global Scale Caio Sousa Engineering Manager @Nu AI doesn’t fix how a team works. It multiplies it. This talk shares real lessons from an engineering team rebuilding its software development lifecycle around AI while delivering Nu Global, a product that scales financial services globally on top of crypto rails. 17:05 Pacific LM Sponsored Apache Spark: Structured Streaming Real-Time Mode Jerry Peng Senior Staff Software Engineer @Databricks Apache Spark Structured Streaming is a distributed stream processing engine built on Spark SQL and is widely used for ETL-style workloads, where seconds- to minutes-level latency is acceptable. But millisecond-latency use cases have historically been out of reach.
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