Sessions in this track
Monday 16 November. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
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 Session Sponsored Session Details coming soon! 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.
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