DeveloperWeek 2025: Full Schedule

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8:30am PST

Registration Open: Badge Pick Up

Thursday February 13, 2025 8:30am - 4:00pm PST

Thursday February 13, 2025 8:30am - 4:00pm PST
Santa Clara Convention Center - Lobby 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara CA 95054, United States

1. Badge Pick-up & Registration

In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek 2025 Hackathon

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PST

Expo Hall

Join 600+ Developers at the Nation's Largest Challenge-Driven Hackathon.

Join 800+ developers builidng new apps, bots -- in person or online. Participants can build any app of their choice and will compete for $20,000+ in cash, products and prizes.
Get all the details and the amazing challenges & prizes here: https://www.developerweek.com/events/hackathon/
Put yourself in the center of the developer world!

Register for your ticket here!

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PST
Expo Hall

4. Hackathon

In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

Tesla Self Driving Demonstrations

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

Session Type PRO Workshop Day (Tues), OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

Arcade Lounge

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Arcade Lounge
Chill in the lounge & try your hand at Pac-Man & other retro games!

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

2. Experiences & Official Events

Session Type OPEN Session, PRO Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

Community Photos & Headshots

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Community Photos & Headshots
Stand out from the crowd. Update your headshot or snap a group picture. Get your digital photo instantly!

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

2. Experiences & Official Events

Session Type PRO Session, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek EXPO Challenge (Win Rewards!)

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

https://www.developerweek.com/expo/challenge/
Complete the DeveloperWeek 2025 Expo Challenge to earn cool DeveloperWeek 2025 Swag!

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

2. Experiences & Official Events

Session Type PRO Session, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

Game Lounge

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Games Lounge
Play a game or two as you wait for the next session to begin!

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

2. Experiences & Official Events

Session Type OPEN Session, PRO Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:00am PST

EXPO HALL OPEN

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

3. Expo Hours

In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

OPEN Session: Engineering Leadership - Stepping Up and Breaking Through

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST

DeveloperWeek Main Stage

Sumit Amar, WEX, Vice President of Engineering

This session is for aspiring engineering managers, and for seasoned engineering leaders looking to grow leadership muscle in their teams. This session will cover some practical advice on how to break into an engineering manager role, and outline expected behavioral and technical aspects to be successful. Session will cover aspects of stepping up, taking ownership, writing OKRs, and growing others regardless of reporting structure.

Speakers

Sumit Amar

Vice President of Engineering, WEX

Sumit leads global engineering teams for Mobility/Fleet systems at WEX as a VP of Engineering. Before joining WEX, Sumit worked at Amazon as a Sr Manager of Software Development leading B2B Cobrand Payments and AWS API Gateway Dataplane orgs.Sumit has a proven track record of delivering... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics Technical Leadership & Management, Blockchain & Web3, Dev Career
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

OWASP Security Summit: OWASP Top 10 Risks to LLM Applications - A Developer’s View

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST

Dev Security World

Krishna Sankar, U.S. Bank, SVP/Distinguished Engineer
OWASP Certified

Speakers

Krishna Sankar

SVP/Distinguished Engineer, U.S. Bank

SVP/Distinguished Engineer − Generative AI Red Teaming, Guardrails & Explainability @ U.S.Bank Krishna is a Technologist with broader experience in AI, Data Science, Security and Networks. Working on building intelligence - may be even a JARVIS ! Love to write, teach and develop... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs
Session Type PRO Session
Conferences Dev Security World, OWASP Certified, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

Product Roundtable: Olga Podolyako, Principal API Architect, Microsoft

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 10:00am PST

Roundtable Room

Dev Roundtables / Product Roundtables / AI Roundtables give attendees the opportunity to meet in small groups with DeveloperWeek + ProductWorld + AI DevWorld speakers and industry leaders to discuss real-world topics relevant to you. These open roundtables are working sessions for in-depth industry conversations.

Speakers

Olga Podolyako

Principal API Architect, Microsoft

Olga is a Principal API Architect at Microsoft. After a long career in development Olga found her passion in the architecture professions working in roles such as business, integration, and enterprise architect. Currently Olga focuses on the API architecture and governance for Microsoft... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 10:00am PST
Roundtable Room

ProductWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Product Lead / Product Manager Roundtables (ProductWorld), ProductWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

DeveloperWeek Certificate Program

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 3:30pm PST

https://www.developerweek.com/certificates/

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 3:30pm PST

2. Experiences & Official Events

In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

"Dev Challenge" -- Earn Prizes

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST

Complete specific tasks at DeveloperWeek 2025 to earn "Dev Cash" to redeem for DeveloperWeek 2025 Prizes!
https://www.developerweek.com/dev-challenge/

Thursday February 13, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST

2. Experiences & Official Events

Session Type OPEN Session, PRO Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

KEYNOTE: Midnight -- Bridging Web2 and Web3: Enhancing Developer Experience for Seamless Blockchain Integration

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

DeveloperWeek Main Stage

Benjamin Beckmann, Midnight, CTO

This keynote explores how Web2 developers can transition smoothly into Web3 development by using familiar tools like TypeScript, which simplifies blockchain integration and reduces complexity. We'll showcase Real-world examples of dApps built with TypeScript will show how Web3 SDKs, APIs, and IDEs streamline development, making interaction with smart contracts and blockchain networks easier.We'll also highlight the role of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) in ensuring data privacy and compliance, allowing for secure, privacy-focused dApps that meet regulatory standards. Finally, we'll cover how these tools are reducing barriers for developers, and driving mass adoption by making dApp development scalable and secure.

Speakers

Benjamin Beckmann

CTO, Midnight Tribe

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Tracks & Topics Blockchain & Web3
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Developing the Most Efficient LLM Inferencing

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

Moshe Twitto, Pliops, Founder & CTO

Organizations are increasingly concerned about the lack of power budgets in data centers, particularly as AI infrastructure and emerging AI applications lead to higher energy footprints and strain cooling systems. As they scale their AI operations and add GPU compute tiers, the escalating power and cooling demands, coupled with significant capital investments in GPUs, are eroding margins. A monumental challenge looms as data centers struggle to secure essential power, creating significant pressure for companies striving to expand their AI capabilities.

In today's LLM inferencing computing, GPU prefill operations are heavily compute-bound and critically determine the batch size. While prefill can fully utilize GPU resources, increasing the batch size beyond a certain point only increases the Time to First Token (TTFT) without improving prefill rate. On the other hand, GPU decode operations are HBM bandwidth-bound and mainly influenced by model and KV cache sizes, benefiting significantly from larger batch sizes through higher HBM bandwidth efficiency. Pliops' solution improves prefill time, allowing for larger batch sizes without violating user SLA for prefill operations. This enhancement directly affects decode performance as well, as it gains greatly from the increased batch size. As a result, by improving prefill time, the system achieves nearly proportional improvements in end-to-end throughput.

Speakers

Moshe Twitto

Founder & CTO, Pliops

Moshe is the CTO and co-Founder of Pliops and an expert in advanced data management and coding algorithms. Prior to co-founding Pliops, Moshe served as CTO of Samsung’s SSD Controller Development Center in Israel, holds MSEE, BSEE degrees from Technion University, Summa Cum Laude... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, AI DevWorld, AI DevWorld: AI/ML Engineering Conference
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

PRO Session: Striking the Balance: Leveraging Human Intelligence with LLMs for Cost-Effective Annotations

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Shambhavi Srivastava, Appen, AI Solutions Architect

Data annotation involves assigning relevant information to raw data to enhance machine learning (ML) model performance. While this process is crucial, it can be time-consuming and expensive. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a unique opportunity to automate data annotation. However, the complexity of data annotation, stemming from unclear task instructions and subjective human judgment on equivocal data points, presents challenges that are not immediately apparent.

In this session, Chris Stephens, Field CTO and Head of AI Solutions at Appen will provide a overview of an experiment that the company recently conducted to test the tradeoff between quality and cost of training ML models via LLMs vs human input. Their goal was to differentiate between utterances that could be confidently annotated by LLMs, and those that required human intervention. This differentiation was crucial to ensure a diverse range of opinions or to prevent incorrect responses from overly general models. Chris will walk audience members through the dataset used as well as methodology for the experiment, as well as the company’s research findings.

Speakers

Shambhavi Srivastava

AI Solutions Architect, Appen

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs
Session Type PRO Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, Generative AI & LLMs (AI DevWorld), AI DevWorld: AI Strategy Conference, Applied AI Innovation (AI DevWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Building SDKs Developers Love: Custom AI Integrations and Enterprise Flexibility

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

Dev Innovation World Stage

Luca Filice, BeeFree, Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

SDKs that prioritize customization can unlock endless possibilities for developers and enterprises alike. This session explores lessons learned from building a highly flexible SDK, including enabling custom AI integrations for enterprise customers. Dive into the challenges of designing adaptable interfaces, creating modular architectures, and balancing usability with flexibility. Learn actionable strategies and hear a real-world case study of how Beefree SDK solved enterprise-level problems while staying developer-friendly.

Speakers

Luca Filice

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, BeeFree

Luca Filice holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering and has been working as a Full Stack Developer since 2019. He began his career building software for a major Italian energy company using Java and Vue.js. In 2022, he transitioned to the financial sector, contributing to... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Dev Innovation World Stage

Dev Innovation World

Tracks & Topics Developer Tools, Developer Experience (DX), Enterprise
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Innovation World, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

OWASP Security Summit: Breaking Down Silos: Enhancing Security in AppSec Programs

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

Dev Security World

Aruneesh Salhotra, Seasoned Technologist
OWASP Certified

In today’s interconnected world, organizational silos pose a significant challenge to effective application security (AppSec). These silos—rooted in specialization, control structures, and cultural divides—impede communication and collaboration, weakening overall security efforts.
This presentation will explore the causes and impacts of organizational silos on security programs and demonstrate how breaking these barriers can strengthen coordination and foster a unified security culture. Attendees will gain insights into why silos form, their detrimental effects on security initiatives, and actionable strategies to overcome them.
Few Key Takeaways:
Understanding Silos: How specialization and cultural divides create barriers.
Impact on Security: The risks silos introduce to AppSec programs.
Practical Strategies: Approaches such as cross-functional training, creating shared security visions, and initiating collaborative initiatives to dismantle silos.
Building a Unified Culture: Empowering every team member, not just the security team, to contribute to application security.

Speakers

Aruneesh Salhotra

Seasoned Technologist

Aruneesh Salhotra is a seasoned technologist and servant leader, renowned for his extensive expertise across cybersecurity, DevSecOps, AI, Business Continuity, Audit, Sales. His impactful presence as an industry thought leader is underscored by his contributions as a speaker and panelist... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Tracks & Topics Technical Leadership & Management
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Security World, OWASP Certified, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Elevating Cloud Security with a Graph-based Approach

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

OpsWorld

Roy Maor, Cisco, Algorithm Team Lead

It is evident that using a graph theory-based approach to reduce cyber security risk on the cloud is a need rather than a want. Having a reliable data model and a continuous mapping of your
cloud environment to a graph database yields value in two different aspects. First, visibility – gaining a deep understanding of the environment’s cloud architecture, and second, cloud risk
management – identifying critical attack paths in the environment and mitigating the risk they present. By finding the right connections between graph algorithms to cloud security
misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, gaining brand new visibility on faulty cloud architecture and turning it into high-value context-based risk insights becomes possible.

Speakers

Roy Maor

Algorithm Team Lead, Cisco

Roy Maor is an Algorithm Team Leader at Panoptica, Cisco's cloud application security product. Roy’s team drives the development of the product's trademark cloud graph, a dynamic engine detecting cloud security threats through graph theory models and algorithms. Roy is deeply passionate... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

PRO Session: The Growth Wheel: How Value Reports Transformed Customer Retention

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Benji Azaria, Cloudinary, VP Data

Most of our customers do not know how to quantify the time and money we save them, as they don't analyze data or calculate the value we provide. This lack of understanding makes it challenging to renew licenses or secure repeat purchases. If customers understood the exact savings, their satisfaction would increase, leading to internal marketing and higher consumption. Despite having extensive data on customer actions, we've primarily used it internally. Our customers are eager to understand how they compare to competitors, their effective use of our services, and potential growth areas. Providing this information will help them articulate our value and calculate ROI, making license renewals easier. In my presentation, I will detail our process, share industry examples, and highlight the impact on customers and our organization

Speakers

Benji Azaria

VP Data, Cloudinary

VP Data @Cloudinary, joined in 2018 and established the Data infrastructure and culture at Cloudinary.Before that worked in a leading gaming company, and before that owned a consultancy and drove tens of enterprise companies to become data-driven

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Management Tools & Software (ProductWorld), Product Lifecycle & Case Studies (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PST

Dev Roundtable: Hari Krishnan, Polyglot Full Stack Developer, Specmatic

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Hari Krishnan

Polyglot Full Stack Developer, Specmatic

Co-creator of Specmatic and Perfiz. I also advise organisations both large and small on their transformation journey. Apart from bringing ideas to life as working software products, I coach developers, project managers, product owners and engineering leaders.

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PST
Roundtable Room

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics Dev Career, Technical Leadership & Management
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: JSON and Relational Databases: Friends or foes?

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

DeveloperWeek Main Stage

Beda Hammerschmidt, Oracle, VP, Oracle Database

As organizations increasingly adopt JSON as a preferred data interchange format, the need for seamless integration with databases becomes paramount.JSON Relational Duality Views – offering a novel approach to efficiently store and process JSON data within a relational database environment. This session explores the intricacies of leveraging Relational Duality Views to bridge the gap between relational and JSON data models. Attendees will gain insights into the underlying architecture and learn practical strategies for optimizing JSON storage, retrieval, and processing.

Speakers

Beda Hammerschmidt

VP, Oracle Database, Oracle

Beda Hammerschmidt is a Vice President of Development at Oracle. He leads an Oracle Database team working on JSON features. He is passionate about developing developer-friendly products and is a co-author of the SQL/JSON standard.

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience (DX), Developer Tools
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

PRO Session: AI Frontiers: Shielding Digital Gateways from Bot Invasions

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Parth Shukla, Cequence Security, Security Analyst
Khyati Ganatra, Cequence Security, Manager, Applied ML

In the presentation titled "AI Frontiers: Shielding Digital Gateways from Bot Invasions," we delve into the forefront of cyber defense against bot-driven threats that exploit API vulnerabilities. This comprehensive study explores how advanced AI and ML models are being harnessed to fortify digital defenses, offering a detailed analysis of API communication patterns and the evolving landscape of bot attacks. Through a series of real-world case studies, we illuminate the mechanisms of sophisticated bot strategies—ranging from data breaches and account takeovers to shopping bots that deplete inventories. The narrative progresses to unveil how AI/ML technologies serve as the cornerstone of innovative defense mechanisms. We dissect the architecture of AI-driven systems tailored to detect and counteract anomalous behaviors indicative of bot activities, leveraging vast datasets to train ML models that adeptly differentiate between legitimate user interactions and malicious bot intrusions. The discussion further navigates through the technical and operational nuances of implementing AI/ML defenses, emphasizing predictive analytics for preemptive action, machine learning for dynamic threat adaptation, and the overarching impact of such technologies in securing digital ecosystems against the insidious threats posed by automated attacks. This presentation not only highlights the challenges but also showcases the resilience and adaptability of AI/ML solutions in the ever-evolving battle against digital villains.

Speakers

Khyati Ganatra

Manager, Applied ML, Cequence Security

I am deeply fascinated by AI's profound ability to reshape industries and redefine the way we live and work. With a keen interest in the intersection of ML and cybersecurity, I have dedicated my career to developing cutting-edge ML solutions that protect organizations from malicious... Read More →

Parth Shukla

Security Analyst, Cequence Security

Parth Shukla is a cyber security analyst at Cequence Security and has a great passion for Web Application Security. Parth Shukla is also a Bug hunter; community builder and Cyber security enthusiast and I believe in the quote “security is a myth”.

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, AI Security & Governance & Compliance (AI DevWorld), AI DevWorld: AI/ML Engineering Conference, AI DevWorld: AI Strategy Conference, Bots & Language Processing (AI DevWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: 14 Years of Database Evolution in 25 Minutes

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

Cloud Native World

Laurent Doguin, Couchbase, Director Developer Relations

Couchbase started its life as a merge of two open source projects: CouchDB and Membase. This gave us a distributed key/value store with support for map/reduce querying if the value was a JSON document. As many open source projects it has evolved quite a bit in 14 years. We have added support for new data models, new query capabilities or ways of replicating data from cloud to cloud or to the edge. In this 25 minutes we will chronologically go through some of its features, see how sometimes they replaced old ones, or how they enabled new use cases.

Speakers

Laurent Doguin

Director Developer Relations, Couchbase

Laurent is a nerdy metal head who lives in Paris. He mostly writes code in Java and structured text in AsciiDoc, and often talks about data, reactive programming and other buzzwordy stuff. He is also a former Developer Advocate for Clever Cloud and Nuxeo where he devoted his time... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Cloud Native World

Cloud Native World

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Cloud Native World, Dev Innovation World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OWASP Security Summit: The Security-Developer Love Story: Moving from ‘No’ to ‘Let’s Go'

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

Dev Security World

Wendy Segura, Sage, Security Engineer
Andra Lezza, Sage, Principal Application Security Specialist
OWASP Certified

Speakers

Andra Lezza

Principal Application Security Specialist, Sage

Andra is a Principal Application Security Specialist at Sage, with over seven years of experience in the field of application security. She is responsible for implementing DevSecOps practices, conducting security assessments, and developing secure coding guidelines for software engineering... Read More →

Wendy Segura

Security Engineer, Sage

Wendy Segura is a Security Engineer at Sage who specializes in building secure, scalable technology solutions. With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, process optimization, and security client advisor she focuses on developing robust security frameworks, conducting comprehensive... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Security World, OWASP Certified, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: Reducing Developer Toil: Agentic AI-driven Testing

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

OpsWorld

Animesh Mishra, Diffblue, Senior Solutions Engineer

Developer toil is real — days, even weeks, are spent conducting manual, repetitive, time-gobbling tasks like unit testing. And while GenAI coding assistants can support developers, they repeatedly fall short in performing complex TestQA tasks without human oversight.

The problem is compounded by the shortage of experienced testers, leaving developers drowning in QA testing rather than writing and innovating application code. Reports show 75% of developers’ time is spent on tasks other than code generation, resulting in 57% of developers admitting to skipping unit tests entirely.

For companies to succeed, code must be fool proof. So how can developers ensure testing is comprehensive and done with due diligence — and at scale?

The answer lies in reinforcement learning-based autonomous AI, which can eliminate up to 95% of the time developers typically spend on test writing. In this session, you will learn how to eliminate developer toil by automating manual and tedious test operations at scale (both locally and in CI), how the right tools can autonomously write and maintain unit tests for entire Java code bases, and how to ensure your unit tests for complex code are comprehensive.

This talk is designed for dev leaders looking to push the boundaries of what’s possible in Test/QA with emerging AI technology.

Speakers

Animesh Mishra

Senior Solutions Engineer, Diffblue

Animesh Mishra is a dynamic B2B Sales Engineer with a background in both engineering and sales. Animesh excels in understanding complex AI solutions and translating them into tangible business benefits for engineering teams. He's passionate about AI and its transformative impact on... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, AI DevWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

PRO Session: How to Use AI to Unlock Ideal Enterprise Customer Experience

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Mahesh Chayel, Meta, Product Management Lead

Product managers face numerous challenges in delivering a seamless customer experience for enterprises, including managing complex product portfolios, personalizing experiences at scale, maintaining consistency across channels, and proactively resolving issues. They struggle with efficient knowledge management, handling high volumes of inquiries, understanding customer sentiment, and reducing churn. To address these challenges, enterprises must streamline onboarding processes, provide multilingual support, and strike a balance between automation and human touch. Continuous improvement is also crucial to meet evolving customer needs.

In this session, I will share how by leveraging AI technologies, PMs can enhance their customer experience, leading to increased satisfaction, loyalty, and business growth.

Speakers

Mahesh Chayel

Product Management Lead, Meta

Mahesh Chayel is a distinguished product leader and AI innovator with a remarkable track record of scaling AI-powered B2B products across multiple industries. As the current Product Management Lead at Meta, Mahesh spearheads the development of AI-driven Creative Automation, a multi-billion... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Lifecycle & Case Studies (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

KEYNOTE (Product): Kraftful -- Product in the Age of AI

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

DeveloperWeek Main Stage

Yana Welinder, Kraftful, Founder & CEO

Ever wondered how cutting-edge product teams use AI to supercharge their efficiency and decision-making? Join Yana Welinder as she explores this topic, drawing on her experience with Kraftful — the fastest-growing AI solution for product teams. In just a year, Kraftful has been adopted by over 50,000 teams to analyze vast amounts of user feedback, conduct AI-driven user interviews, and rapidly create exceptional PRDs and user stories based on those insights.

Speakers

Yana Welinder

Founder & CEO, Kraftful

Yana Welinder is the CEO and founder of Kraftful, an AI assistant that helps 50,000 product teams build better products by listening to users at scale. Kraftful has been named the 2024 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company, has won multiple product awards, and is backed by Y Combinator... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Management Tools & Software (ProductWorld), Product Roadmap Strategy & Innovation (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

PRO Session: Reproducible AI with Langchain and lakeFS

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Oz Katz, Treeverse, CTO & Co-Founder

Langchain has become one of the most popular frameworks for anyone building custom, generative AI-driven apps powered by LLMs, that leverage RAG for the most enhanced results. But like all data products, these applications are really only as good as the org data fed into them.

In this live session you’ll learn how to build a reproducible AI app pipeline with Langchain & lakeFS, including how to build a RAG chatbot, while iteratively tuning it for best results leveraging Delta Lake’s temporal versions, you’ll come away with improved methods for data reproducibility for custom AI apps.

Speakers

Oz Katz

CTO & Co-Founder, Treeverse

Oz Katz is the CTO and Co-Creator of the open source lakeFS Project, an open source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage based data lakes. Oz engineered and maintained petabyte-scale data infrastructure at analytics giant SmilarWeb, which he joined... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, AI DevWorld: Industry AI Conference, AI for the Enterprise (AI DevWorld), AI DevWorld: AI/ML Engineering Conference, MLOps & AIOps (AI DevWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: Unlocking AI-Powered DevOps Within Your Organization

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

Jon Peck, GitHub, Technical Advocate & Software Developer

Software development is a team sport, with many different roles, where eveyone can win. But success isn't guaranteed; it depends on specific practices, policies, and tools which enable minimally-siloed, AI-accelerated collaboration across all parts of the DevOps process, from PM to development to CI/CD and security.

Discover the patterns and tools which lead to success, methods for changing the status quo, and perhaps a few horror stories. We'll touch on innersourcing, cloud development, AI, automation, governance, security, scaling and more -- with actionable learnings for everyone from small maintainer communities to F500 Enterprises.

Speakers

Jon Peck

Software Developer, GitHub

An Enterprise Advocate (and occasional manager) at GitHub, Jon Peck meets daily with maintainers, startups, and F500 executives to familiarize them with industry best practices, policy suggestions, and product capabilities across DevOps and AI. With 25+ years of experience as a fullstack... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics Technical Leadership & Management, DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, AI DevWorld, OPEN Session, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: Going Beyond API-First to SDK-First

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

Frontend World

Sagar Batchu, Speakeasy, Founder/CEO

It’s no coincidence that the most successful API companies all support a wide range of SDKs for their users. SDKs give developers the ability to integrate with APIs in a dev-friendly manner, using their favorite languages and frameworks. That leads to faster integration and wider adoption of the API. It’s a win-win. Join Sagar Batchu, CEO at Speakeasy, to explore how your organization can turbocharge its API adoption and how you can give your APIs the SDK-first treatment with automated GitHub workflows.

Speakers

Sagar Batchu

Founder/CEO, Speakeasy

Sagar Batchu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Speakeasy, where he is making it easy to create and consume any API. For the last 10 years, Sagar has worked as a hands-on engineering leader focused on developer and data infrastructure. Prior to founding Speakeasy, he was Director of Engineering... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Frontend World

Frontend World

Tracks & Topics APIs & Microservices, Developer Experience (DX)
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpenAPI Summit
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN SESSSION: History of Auth

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

OpsWorld

Tony Blank, FusionAuth, Sr. Director of Developer Marketing

Join Tony Blank of FusionAuth on a captivating journey through the evolution of authentication—from ancient clay seals to modern biometrics. Blending history, tech milestones, and humor, this talk explores how humanity has secured identity and access across ages, offering insights for developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts alike.

Speakers

Tony Blank

Sr. Director of Developer Marketing, FusionAuth

As the Sr. Director of Developer Marketing at FusionAuth, Tony Blank is deeply rooted in the developer ecosystem. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has delivered hundreds of workshops, mentor sessions, and speaking engagements to help educate developers. His unique perspective... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

PRO Session: Digesting Monsters: 5 Traps of Large Features and How to Avoid Them

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Shay Mandel, Next Insurance, Product Architect

Large features that stretch over 6 or more can quickly become monstrous undertakings, filled with hidden traps that can derail even the most experienced product managers. From dealing with overlapping initiatives and shifting company strategies to navigating the rapid rise of new technologies like AI, these projects are fraught with complexities. Add in the challenges of managing team dynamics, preventing feature creep, and keeping executive buy-in, and the path forward can seem daunting.

In this session, we’ll share case studies that break down the five biggest traps that long-term features can present and provide you with practical strategies to avoid them. Discover how to keep your team focused, safeguard your feature’s scope, and secure ongoing executive support. We’ll also explore how leveraging Scrum can help you manage these complexities, ensuring your project stays on track.

Attend this session to gain actionable insights and tools to turn long-term challenges into opportunities for success, making you a more effective and resilient product manager.

Speakers

Shay Mandel

Product Architect, Next Insurance

I've been programming since I was 8 years old, and since then I'm passionate about building software. I've been a developer / manager / product manager / architect / CEO (not in this order), in startups, medium sized companies and corporations (Microsoft, HP, VMWare, Sears). Being... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Lifecycle & Case Studies (ProductWorld), Methodology: Agile and Rapid Prototyping and SCRUM and Beyond (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

Dev Roundtable: Roy Maor, Algorithm Team Lead, Cisco

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Roy Maor

Algorithm Team Lead, Cisco

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am PST
Roundtable Room

Cloud Native World

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Cloud Native World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OWASP Security Summit: F*** Security: We’ll do it Live

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST

Dev Security World

Jason Haddix, Arcanum Information Security, CEO, CISO, and “Hacker in Charge”
OWASP Certified

Security at the speed of dev, making secure choices in design, and making security invisible and easy for developers for any size org

Speakers

Jason Haddix

CEO, CISO, and “Hacker in Charge”, Arcanum Information Security

Jason Haddix AKA jhaddix is the CEO, CISO, and “Hacker in Charge” at Arcanum Information Security. Arcanum is a world class assessment and training company. Jason also holds the title of Field CISO for Flare.io a world class threat intelligence platform. Jason has had a distinguished... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Security World, OWASP Certified, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

DevMarketing @ DeveloperWeek 2025

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 2:00pm PST

Dev Innovation World Stage

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 2:00pm PST
Dev Innovation World Stage

2. Experiences & Official Events

Tracks & Topics Developer Experience (DX), Dev Career, Technical Leadership & Management
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:30am PST

OPEN Session: Intuit’s Strategy for Maximizing Developer Productivity Using GenAI

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST

AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

Jothimani kanthan Ganapathi, Intuit, Principal Engineer
Anish Dhason, Intuit, Group Product Manager

Intuit, a global leader in financial software, is revolutionizing the industry by integrating Generative AI (GenAI) across its entire product portfolio, including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mailchimp, and CreditKarma. By embedding GenAI into critical aspects of the development life cycle—such as code generation, review, and test creation—Intuit is driving innovation, enhancing productivity, and delivering smarter, more efficient experiences for both developers and customers alike.

This presentation explores how Intuit is revolutionizing the software development lifecycle by leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) to accelerate application development, enhance developer productivity, and streamline complex coding tasks. A key focus will be on how Intuit has implemented secure and scalable methods to integrate Intuit-specific knowledge into the context of GenAI-assisted developer tools. Through real-world case studies, we will demonstrate how AI-powered developer assistants are automating code generation for Intuit-specific APIs, commonly used libraries, and unit test creation, leading to a 25% reduction in task completion times with AI-driven tools.

Join us to discover how Intuit is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in modern software development, driving both innovation and efficiency using GenAI

Speakers

Anish Dhason

Group Product Manager, Intuit

Product leader with extensive experience in building scalable platforms and products for enterprises. Currently leading efforts to accelerate the end-to-end development lifecycle and boost development productivity through GenAI powered innovations.

Jothimani kanthan Ganapathi

Principal Engineer, Intuit

JK Ganapathi is a Principal Architect at Intuit, where he spearheads the GenAI-Based software development initiative, a transformative effort aimed at revolutionizing developer productivity. In this role, he is responsible for integrating Generative AI into Intuit’s development... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

AI DevWorld

Tracks & Topics Enterprise, Gen AI / LLMs
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:30am PST

Product Roundtable: Benji Azaria, VP Data, Cloudinary

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Benji Azaria

VP Data, Cloudinary

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm PST
Roundtable Room

ProductWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Product Lead / Product Manager Roundtables (ProductWorld), ProductWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

12:30pm PST

AI Roundtable: Jocelyn Matthews, DevRel, Head of Community, Pinecone

Thursday February 13, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Jocelyn Matthews

DevRel, Head of Community, Pinecone

Jocelyn Matthews works at Pinecone, where she is responsible for building and nurturing the technical community. Her focus is to grow a vibrant ecosystem to which everyone brings their best selves. Jocelyn is a former Rosberg-Geist Fellow at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm PST
Roundtable Room

AI DevWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, AI DevWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

KEYNOTE: DigitalOcean -- The Sound of Innovation: Why Voice Cloning Will Redefine Human-Computer Interaction

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

DeveloperWeek Main Stage

David vonThenen, DigitalOcean, Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML

Voice cloning is rapidly emerging as a transformative technology, redefining how we interact with AI and bridging the gap between machines and humans through personalized experiences. This session delves into the conceptual underpinnings of voice cloning, exploring its potential to revolutionize applications across personal branding, customer engagement, and human-computer interaction.
This session explores the growing importance of voice cloning in the broader context of AI-driven technologies. By addressing real-world use cases, this talk will highlight why voice cloning is not just a technological novelty but a pivotal advancement that will shape the future of AI applications. Through an exploration of the adjustments and refinements that define a truly convincing synthetic voice, we’ll examine the delicate balance between precision and authenticity. Join us to explore why the human voice is a powerful tool for innovation and how voice cloning can make technology more personal and relatable.

Speakers

David vonThenen

Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML, DigitalOcean

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

PRO Session: Pattern Rights - An Ethical Framework for Generative AI Training Data

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Alison Cossette, Neo4j, Data Science Strategist, Advocate, Educator

As generative AI continues to push boundaries, creating novel content by learning from massive datasets, we are faced with complex issues around intellectual property, privacy, and the ethical use of data. Current systems of copyright, fair use, and data protection lack the scope to fully address the unique challenges posed by AI pattern recognition and generation.

This pivotal talk introduces the pioneering concept of "Pattern Rights" - a holistic ethical framework to inform the development and deployment of generative AI technologies. Pattern Rights serves as an umbrella construct, encompassing principles of copyright, fair use, training data transparency, privacy, data ownership, and accountability.

We will explore how Pattern Rights can ensure appropriate attribution and compensation when AI models learn from copyrighted works or personal data. It establishes guidelines around consent, anonymization, and ethical data sourcing practices.

As the AI industry is rapidly evolving, we urgently need governance to foster innovation while upholding rights and safeguarding against misuse. Pattern Rights provides a roadmap to navigate this uncharted territory responsibly and equitably.

Speakers

Alison Cossette

Data Science Strategist, Neo4j

Alison Cossette is a dynamic Data Science Strategist, Educator, and Podcast Host. As a Developer Advocate at Neo4j specializing in Graph Data Science, she brings a wealth of expertise to the field. With her strong technical background and exceptional communication skills, Alison bridges... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, AI DevWorld: AI Strategy Conference, AI Security & Governance & Compliance (AI DevWorld), AI Ethics (AI DevWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

OPEN Sesssion: Scaling Efficiently to Exabytes: Securing and Accelerating Cloud Storage

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

Cloud Native World

Alok Ranjan, Dropbox, Software Engineering Manager

In this talk, I will explore how Dropbox has successfully scaled its storage infrastructure to manage exabytes of data while maintaining high levels of efficiency, security, and speed. We’ll dive into our innovative multi-level encryption approach that safeguards user data and the concept of "stores" that ensures rapid file sharing without compromising system performance. This presentation will provide a unique perspective on Dropbox’s strategies to manage massive data volumes and ensure secure and seamless user experiences.

Speakers

Alok Ranjan

Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox

Hello, I’m Alok Ranjan, an Engineering Manager at Dropbox overseeing the Storage Platform team in the infrastructure org. My team focuses on providing interfaces for file and block storage, along with encryption, compression, and verification of user data. With a master’s degree... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Cloud Native World

Cloud Native World

Tracks & Topics Enterprise, APIs & Microservices
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Cloud Native World, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: OWASP SamuraiWTF for All the Developer Ninjas

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

Dev Security World

Kevin Johnson, Secure Ideas, Chief Executive Officer
OWASP Certified

The best security training environment for Developers and AppSec Professionals

Speakers

Kevin Johnson

Chief Executive Officer, Secure Ideas

Kevin Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Secure Ideas. Kevin has a long history in the IT field including system administration, network architecture and application development. He has been involved in building incident response and forensic teams, architecting security solutions... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Tracks & Topics Developer Experience (DX)
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Security World, OWASP Certified, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

OPEN Session: The Laws of UX & UI Design

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

OpsWorld

Andrew Peterson, MESCIUS, Technical Engagement Engineer

This presentation focuses on UX and UI design, why they are important, and how to follow the industry's best practices. We will take a closer and more precise look at these best practices so you can create an app or website that will have an advantage over the competition.

Speakers

Andrew Peterson

Technical Engagement Engineer, MESCIUS

Andrew Peterson graduated from Utah University with a bachelor’s degree in Web Design and Development. Before joining MESCIUS as a Technical Engagement Engineer, Andrew worked his way up from a Technical Support Engineer to a Junior Software Engineer at Solcius. While studying web... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics Developer Tools, Enterprise
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

PRO Session: GenAI: A New Renaissance in Product Development

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Emerson Taymor, InfoBeans, SVP, Design

Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance, a time of explosive cultural and economic growth, we explore how GenAI is poised to revolutionize product development. I’ll explore its groundbreaking impact on global collaboration, user research, and product development process. I will also highlight potential caveats and pitfalls. This talk promises an action-packed look at GenAI's role in shaping a new era of human-centric and economically impactful product development, ensuring you're equipped to experiment in this modern renaissance.

Speakers

Emerson Taymor

SVP, Design, InfoBeans

Emerson Taymor is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and currently the SVP of Design at InfoBeans as well as the creator of multiple hospitality brands in New York City. He co-founded the digital product studio, Philosophie, where he worked with enterprise executives and startup founders... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs
Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Team Management & Structure (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

Product Roundtable: Benji Azaria, VP Data, Cloudinary

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Benji Azaria

VP Data, Cloudinary

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Roundtable Room

ProductWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Product Lead / Product Manager Roundtables (ProductWorld), ProductWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Give Your LLMs a Left Brain

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

Stephen Chin, Neo4j, VP of Developer Relations

The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, each of which specializes in different types of tasks. Your right brain excels at imagination, intuition, art, rhythm, feelings, and dreams. Meanwhile, the left brain is more analytical and focused on logic, sequencing, linear thinking, and mathematics. Like a human brain, generative AI excels at certain tasks, especially those related to right-brain creative activities. However, the absence of relevant and up-to-date information produces confusing hallucinations that are not grounded in reality.
This presentation will explore how knowledge graphs built with factual and updated information can complement LLMs via retrieval augment generation (RAG) to produce more reliable results.

Speakers

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, member of the Open AI Alliance, and author of several titles with O'Reilly, Apress, and McGraw Hill. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Streaming Data Integration at Scale with IBM StreamSets

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

Frontend World

Dima Spivak, IBM, Vice President of StreamSets Development & Product Management

Modern enterprises operate in a fast-paced digital landscape where acting on the latest data is essential to staying competitive. IBM StreamSets is a powerful, developer-friendly platform designed to address the challenges of streaming data integration across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In this session, we’ll explore how StreamSets simplifies the ingestion, transformation, and delivery of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data using an intuitive no-code/low-code interface.

Discover how adaptive pipelines handle schema drift, optimize data quality, and ensure low-latency data movement for mission-critical workloads. We’ll also showcase the platform’s flexible deployment options and seamless integration with popular technologies like Apache Kafka and Pulsar, enabling developers to rapidly operationalize streaming data pipelines with minimal overhead.

Speakers

Dima Spivak

Vice President of StreamSets Development & Product Management, IBM

Dima Spivak is Vice President of StreamSets Development & Product Management at IBM. Before he joined StreamSets in 2016, he was a Software Engineer at Cloudera.

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Frontend World

AI DevWorld

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs, Data Engineering
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

PRO Session: Will Copilot and AI Take Over Accounting Jobs?

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Dan Edwards, Crowe, Managing Director

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are rapidly evolving, the accounting profession stands at the precipice of significant transformation. This session aims to demystify the impact of AI technologies, such as Microsoft Copilot, on the future of accounting.

Join us for an insightful exploration into the capabilities of AI in the accounting space, where we will delve into the current state of AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, their potential to automate complex accounting tasks, and the implications for accounting professionals.

This session is designed for accounting professionals at all levels who are seeking to understand the impact of AI on their careers and how to strategically position themselves for success in a rapidly changing technological landscape. Whether you're a seasoned CPA or a recent graduate, this session will provide valuable insights into the future of accounting.

Speakers

Dan Edwards

Managing Director, Crowe

Dan is a CPA with over 30 years of experience in the ERP industry. During this time, he has worked in many different roles allowing him to truly understand the complete industry. The combined experience of marketing, sales, presales, consulting and training allows him to provide a... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, AI DevWorld: AI Strategy Conference, AI Security & Governance & Compliance (AI DevWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Beyond the Expected: Unconventional Paths to Engineering Leadership

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

OpsWorld

Maher Hanafi, Betterworks, VP of Engineering

Contrary to the conventional narrative, the path to engineering leadership is far from linear. Successful leaders often emerge from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. In this session, I'll share my personal journey, which began with building leadership skills through online gaming and unexpectedly stumbled into entrepreneurship.

Discover how these unconventional experiences equipped me with the skills and perspectives needed to excel in leadership roles. We'll explore how diverse experiences, from hobbies and passions to unexpected challenges, can provide valuable insights and transferable skills that are essential for effective leadership.

Learn how to recognize and leverage your unique strengths, regardless of your traditional career path. We'll discuss how overcoming challenges, whether personal or professional, can build resilience, adaptability, and problem-solving skills. By understanding the unconventional paths of successful engineering leaders, you'll be inspired to embrace your own unique journey and discover your potential for leadership.

Speakers

Maher Hanafi

VP of Engineering, Betterworks

A passionate and results-oriented engineering leader, possesses a proven track record of transforming and empowering high-performing teams across diverse industries, from video games and mobile to cloud computing and AI. As Vice President of Engineering at Betterworks, he leverages... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
OpsWorld

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics Technical Leadership & Management
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: Securing Python Lab

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

Dev Security World

Guled Abdilahi, FanDuel, Staff Engineer
OWASP Certified

Speakers

Guled Abdilahi

Staff Engineer, FanDuel

Staff Engineer with FanDuel, OWASP Atlanta Chapter co-leader and rich history in Secure by Design, DevSecOps and security architecture within telco and entertainment

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OWASP Certified, Dev Security World, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

PRO Session: Beyond Failing Fast: How to Use Fast Feedback to Learn Without Failing

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Michael Mace, UserTesting, VP Market Strategy

The idea of failing fast has become so central to Agile development that it’s almost a religious belief. It’s been the subject of countless articles and even full books. According to Google Trends, the phrase “fail fast” has been on the rise since late 2009.

We’ve become so focused on the “fail fast” mantra that it’s easy to forget that the goal of failing fast isn’t actually to fail; it’s to maximize your speed of learning, so you can evolve a better product quickly. Back when cloud computing first appeared, deploying software was so fast and customer research so slow that it made sense to try things and see what worked rather than waiting months to do a research study.

But today the situation has changed. Through fast feedback products, you can now get customer feedback almost instantly on virtually any idea or experience —within a sprint, without waiting to ship it.

In this session we'll give specifics on how product teams are using fast feedback to make higher-confidence decisions without slowing down the agile process -- reducing rework and increasing customer satisfaction. We'll give real-world examples and practical advice based on UserTesting's own processes, plus examples from other companies.

Speakers

Michael Mace

UserTesting, VP Market Strategy

Mike is a 25-year veteran of the tech industry. He held marketing and strategy roles at Apple and Palm, founded two startups, and has also consulted with many tech industry leaders.

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Methodology: Agile and Rapid Prototyping and SCRUM and Beyond (ProductWorld), Product Team Management & Structure (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

Product Roundtable: Shay Mandel, Product Architect, Next Insurance

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Shay Mandel

Product Architect, Next Insurance

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Roundtable Room

ProductWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Product Lead / Product Manager Roundtables (ProductWorld), ProductWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

PRO Session: From Thought to Action: How Agentic AI Will Reshape Enterprise AI

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Utkarsh Contractor, Aisera, VP of AI

Enterprises are on the cusp of a transformative shift. They are moving beyond task-specific AI to embrace agentic systems capable of autonomous decision-making and actions through probabilistic reasoning. This evolution marks a new era of autonomy, where AI not only augments human capabilities but also drives business outcomes by:
- Optimizing Operations: Self-regulating systems enhance efficiency, ensure compliance, and proactively mitigate risks.
- Accelerating Innovation: Data-driven insights fuel strategic decision-making, enabling rapid market adaptation.
- Enhancing Customer Experience: Intelligent agents anticipate customer needs, delivering personalized solutions.

Although the potential benefits are immense, successful implementation demands a strategic approach that encompasses ethical considerations, security, and complexity management.

Join Utkarsh Contractor, VP of AI/ML at Aisera, as we explore the opportunities and challenges of this paradigm shift and how organizations can harness agentic AI to achieve sustained competitive advantage.

Speakers

Utkarsh Contractor

VP of AI, Aisera

Utkarsh Contractor is the VP of AI at Aisera, where he leads the AI team working on Enterprise LLMs and GenAI applications. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University, focusing his research and experiments on intersection of language and vision in large multimodal... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences AI DevWorld, AI DevWorld: Industry AI Conference, AI for the Enterprise (AI DevWorld), Generative AI & LLMs (AI DevWorld), AI DevWorld: AI Strategy Conference
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: 15 Ways to Break Microsoft Copilot

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

Dev Security World

Tamir Ishay Sharbat, Zenity, Software Engineer
OWASP Certified

Microsoft Copilot Studio is the technology that powers Microsoft's copilots, and the platform behind custom copilots built in the enterprise. The promise is that everyone can build a secure copilot, under the assumption that every bot will be secure by-default. Does it hold under scrutiny?

In this talk, we will show how Copilot Studio bots can easily be used to exfiltrate sensitive enterprise data circumventing existing controls like DLP. We will show how a combination of insecure defaults, over permissive plugins and wishful design thinking makes data leakage probable, not just possible. We will analyze how Copilot Studio puts enterprise data and operations in the hands of GenAI, and expose how this exacerbates the prompt injection attack surface, leading to a material impact on integrity and confidentiality.

Next, we will drop CopilotHunter, a recon and exploitation tool that scans for publicly accessible Copilots and uses fuzzing and GenAI to abuse them to extract sensitive enterprise data. We will share our findings targeting thousands of accessible bots, revealing sensitive data and corporate credentials.

Finally, we will offer a path forward by sharing concrete configurations and mistakes to avoid on Microsoft's platform, and generalized insights on how to build secure and reliable Copilots. Security at the speed of dev, making secure choices in design, and making security invisible and easy for developers for any size org

Speakers

Tamir Ishay Sharbat

Software Engineer, Zenity

Tamir Ishay Sharbat is a Software Engineer focused on AI with Zenity

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Security World

Dev Security World

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Security World, OWASP Certified, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Optimizing CI/CD pipelines for High Performance

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

OpsWorld

Neha Surendranath, LinkedIn, Sr. Technical Program Manager

In this technical session, we will explore advanced strategies to enhance the efficiency and reliability of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. We will also discover how implementing GitOps workflows with Argo CD and Flux can automate deployments and ensure consistency across environments. We'll also delve into advanced deployment techniques such as canary and blue-green releases to minimize downtime and reduce risk.

Speakers

Neha Surendranath

Sr. Technical Program Manager, LinkedIn

I work as a Senior Program Manager at LinkedIn, where I lead the development and enhancement of key platform features that help millions of professionals connect and find job opportunities. My role is crucial as I oversee projects like the recent update to our job recommendation algorithm... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: How to Ensure Your AI Investments Pack the Most Punch

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

James Evans, Amplitude, Director of Product Management

The past two years have been spent exploring AI’s capabilities. Now, businesses are looking to make AI investments that actually drive value by giving customers what they want, how and when they want it. Tying AI to business outcomes will be critical in 2025. At the end of the day, AI is just software. It can be incredibly powerful, but it is only valuable if it solves a customer problem. In this session, Francois James will discuss how innovators can use the right data, the right tools, and the right strategies to know exactly the AI tools to build or invest in to drive bigger business KPIs.

Speakers

James Evans

Director of Product Management, Amplitude

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences ProductWorld, AI DevWorld, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

PRO Session: The Dynamic Landscape of Building Trust in Products

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Sam Bradley, PayPal, Director of Product Management, Offers & Rewards

A talk on how to approach building and measuring trust in products that product managers lead. The talk will review several examples around a framework of measuring trust. I will also review the impact of AI on trust with customers and how that will continue to evolve as the technology becomes more mainstream

Speakers

Sam Bradley

Director of Product Management, Offers & Rewards, PayPal

Sam is passionate about solving customer problems through storytelling and empowering product managers to build scalable products. He is currently a Director of Product Management at PayPal, and leads Offers & Rewards product teams, after previously leading peer-to-peer payments... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Lifecycle & Case Studies (ProductWorld), Product Roadmap Strategy & Innovation (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

Dev Roundtable: Alok Ranjan, Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Alok Ranjan

Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Roundtable Room

Cloud Native World

Tracks & Topics Dev Career, Technical Leadership & Management
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Dev Exec World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

KEYNOTE (AI DevWorld): SambaNova Systems -- Composition of Experts: A Modular Approach to Scaling AI Models

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Anton McGonnell, SambaNova Systems, VP of Product

This session, led by Anton McGonnell, Head of Software Products at SambaNova Systems, presents an in-depth exploration of the Composition of Experts approach in AI - a model made up of many models that work in conjunction with each other - and in particular the benefits to individual developers. Instead of building one monolithic model, this strategy composes workflows using many specialised, independent "expert" models. This proves to be more efficient, modular, and extensible.

The talk will provide a deep dive into the advantages of this technique, which promotes reusability, saves on alignment tax, and enables granular access control. By detailing real-world implementations, attendees will learn best practices for breaking down problems, assigning appropriate experts, and orchestrating data flow between them. McGonnell will discuss how an architecture with a large memory capacity, enables this approach by hosting and serving thousands of models in parallel on a single node without performance degradation. This makes the Composition of Experts approach highly scalable and reduces the total cost of ownership for inference.

Additionally, the session will offer crucial hardware considerations for executing Composition of Experts at scale. It will examine how specialised architectures can allow hosting thousands of models in parallel on a single node. With companies increasingly relying on AI, reliability and cost-efficiency are paramount concerns. Composition of Experts tackles these challenges through modularity and inference optimisation. By attending, developers and engineers can expect to gain highly applicable skills for improving the scalability, performance, and governance of AI in production environments.

Speakers

Anton McGonnell

VP of Product, SambaNova Systems

Anton McGonnell is SambaNova’s VP of Product and leads the team defining their cutting-edge full-stack chips-to-model platform.Prior to SambaNova, Anton played a pivotal role in shaping the development and implementation of advanced machine learning technologies at UIPath.Anton... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Tracks & Topics Gen AI / LLMs
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, AI DevWorld, Generative AI & LLMs (AI DevWorld), AI DevWorld: AI Strategy Conference
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

PRO Session: A 5-step Method To Nail Your SaaS Pricing Strategy

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST

ProductWorld Main Stage

Ajit Ghuman, Monetizely, CEO

Pricing strategy can be the difference between growth and stagnation for SaaS companies. Drawing on examples from Twilio, Zoom, and Medallia, Ajit Ghuman will guide participants through the process of building a robust pricing model that aligns with business goals. This session will cover key aspects of pricing such as selecting the right metrics, avoiding common packaging pitfalls, and designing flexible, scalable pricing structures. Whether your company is pre-IPO or scaling post-IPO, this session will provide critical insights into how the best SaaS companies price and package their products.

Speakers

Ajit Ghuman

CEO, Monetizely

Ajit Ghuman is an expert in SaaS pricing and product marketing with over 15 years of experience. He’s worked with leading companies like Twilio, Narvar, and Medallia, helping them build pricing strategies that fuel growth and increase revenue. Ajit is also the author of Price to... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Session Type PRO Session
Conferences ProductWorld, Product Roadmap Strategy & Innovation (ProductWorld), Product Lifecycle & Case Studies (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

Networking Break

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Join us for networking in the Networking Lounges on the Expo Hall Floor!

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Expo Hall

2. Experiences & Official Events

Session Type OPEN Session, PRO Session
Conferences OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Hackathon Top 5 Teams Live Demo

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST

Dev Innovation World Stage

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Dev Innovation World Stage

4. Hackathon

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, Dev Innovation World, AI DevWorld, ProductWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

AI Roundtable: Jocelyn Matthews, DevRel, Head of Community, Pinecone

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST

Roundtable Room

Speakers

Jocelyn Matthews

DevRel, Head of Community, Pinecone

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Roundtable Room

AI DevWorld

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, AI DevWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PST

KEYNOTE (Product): Ammunition -- What’s Worth Designing in The First Place? How to Build Great Products by Becoming Design-Driven

Thursday February 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST

DeveloperWeek Main Stage

Robert Brunner, Ammunition, Founder & Partner

What sets a good design apart from a great one? The answer is an unwavering, almost religious commitment to doing it right. Reflecting on his 40-year career designing iconic products for Apple, Beats, and more, Robert will break down his unique design ideology and perspective and the key ideas and behaviors that result in building something truly great. He’ll share insights from working with high-profile tech founders and dive into how leaders can build a culture of faith and commitment in design needed to captivate customers and revolutionize your company's products.

Speakers

Robert Brunner

Founder & Partner, Ammunition

An early designer at Apple and Lead Designer of Beats by Dre, Robert is a globally acclaimed product designer with over 40 years of industry experience. As the Director of Industrial Design at Apple, he built its pioneering internal corporate design organization, Apple IDg. After... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, ProductWorld, Product Lifecycle & Case Studies (ProductWorld), Product Roadmap Strategy & Innovation (ProductWorld)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PST

PRO Session: Embeddings: Core Concepts for Developers

Thursday February 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST

AI DevWorld Main Stage

Jocelyn Matthews, Pinecone, DevRel, Head of Community

If you had a collection of every kind of animal on earth, from mules to narwhals to goldfish, how would we pick out just the animals that are housepets? And how does AI distinguish between a pack mule and a Moscow Mule?

Embeddings are numerical representations that capture the essential features and relationships of discrete objects, like words or images, in a continuous vector space, enabling tasks such as semantic search, clustering, and recommendations.

This is a dense but entertaining talk about the core concepts of embeddings, ranging from multidimensional vector space to the ever-familiar box of crayons we used as kids. The presentation will cover fundamental concepts, including how embeddings represent various data types, the importance of context sensitivity, and between dimensionality.

The talk introduces specialized terms and breaks them down into simple, everyday examples to help learners relate difficult concepts to familiar things. Then, we build back up to the specialized terms to deepen understanding.

Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how embeddings work, their benefits, and why they are leveraged in machine learning tasks

Speakers