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Thursday, February 20
 

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek Virtual Challenge - Enter to win Tech Prizes!
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

[VIRTUAL] EXPO HALL OPEN
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall
  3. Expo Hours

9:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Principles-Based Framework for AI Governance
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Mithun A. Sridharan, Think Insights, Founder

A principles-based framework for AI governance provides a compass to navigate the ethical and responsible development and use of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike rigid rulebooks, these frameworks establish core principles that guide decision-making throughout the AI lifecycle to address the unique challenges posed by different AI systems.

Several prominent examples of principles-based frameworks exist. The European Union's Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, the Bletchley Declaration, SR 117, and ISO/IEC 42001 are a few frameworks that provide a comprehensive set of principles for organizations to manage AI throughout its lifecycle.

The principles-based approaches provide a strong foundation for navigating the complexities of AI development and implementation. As AI technology continues to evolve, these frameworks can be revisited and refined to address new challenges. By focusing on core ethical principles, they ensure that AI development remains responsible and human-centric. 
Speakers
avatar for Mithun A. Sridharan

Mithun A. Sridharan

Founder, Think Insights
I'm Mithun A. Sridharan, an entrepreneur, author and keynote speaker on Strategy, Management Consulting and Digital Transformation. I'm a Forbes Technology Council Thought Leader, a Member of Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, Chapter Director at Startup Grind Rhein-Neckar... Read More →
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

9:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Striking the Balance: Leveraging Human Intelligence with LLMs for Cost-Effective Annotations
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Shambhavi Srivastava

Shambhavi Srivastava

AI Solutions Architect, Appen
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: CSI Forensics: Unraveling Kubernetes Crime Scenes
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
Stefano Chierici, Sysdig, Technical Lead Manager
Alberto Pellitteri, Sysdig, Threat Research Engineer

In a security breach, employing well-defined DFIR techniques becomes imperative to effectively mitigate the incident's impact. However, with the spread of the adoption of containers, the employment of DFIR processes and capabilities is not just complex but is increasingly so. Join us in an insightful session covering cutting-edge DFIR practices on container environments. After a short overview of the essence of DFIR, we'll direct our focus towards various advanced DFIR techniques within a Kubernetes environment, which can prove highly beneficial in the event of a compromise. Starting from how to checkpoint compromised apps and restore them in a sandboxed environment for further analysis, we will move to conducting memory forensics on container evidence using old-style open-source DFIR tools. At the end of the presentation, the audience will be familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of the latest DFIR capabilities and have the basics to understand how to use them. 
Speakers
avatar for Alberto Pellitteri

Alberto Pellitteri

Threat Research Engineer, Sysdig
avatar for Stefano Chierici

Stefano Chierici

Technical Lead Manager, Sysdig
Stefano Chierici is a security researcher in Sysdig where his research focuses on defending containerized environments and cloud environments from attacks ranging from web to kernel. Stefano is one of the Falco contributors, an incubation level CNCF project. He studied cyber security... Read More →
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Engineering Leadership - Stepping Up and Breaking Through
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Sumit Amar

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 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  Dev Exec World

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: OWASP Top 10 Risks to LLM Applications - A Developer’s View
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Krishna Sankar, U.S. Bank, SVP/Distinguished Engineer
OWASP Certified 
Speakers
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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 20, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

9:30am PST

DeveloperWeek Certificate Program
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST
https://www.developerweek.com/certificates/
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

10:00am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE: Midnight -- Bridging Web2 and Web3: Enhancing Developer Experience for Seamless Blockchain Integration
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Benjamin Beckmann

Benjamin Beckmann

CTO, Midnight Tribe
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Developing the Most Efficient LLM Inferencing
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Moshe Twitto

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 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: How Can Engineering Leaders Measure the Impact of GenAI
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Yishai Beeri, LinearB, CTO

Generative AI has taken the world by storm since its general availability to the public in early 2023. Going from novel technology to commodity in months, this disruptive technology quickly found applications in the software development world - and many engineering organizations are trying to capitalize on the disruptive technology.

Nearly every engineering organization has adopted, or is thinking about adopting GenAI as a tool for developers. It has become wildly popular for everything from generating code, to writing and deploying tests, pull request reviews, experimentation and PoCs and much more. But who checks the machines?

In this talk I'll dive into the actual measurable outcomes - positive and negative - of adopting GenAI in engineering organizations. While engineering leaders rapidly jumped on the GenAI bandwagon, many are still struggling to quantify its value, not to mention manage its risks. This talk will discuss how and what to measure to understand adoption, quantify benefits and control risks in your initiative to leverage AI in your engineering organization. Join us to learn about the specific metrics you should be monitoring to ensure maximizing ROI on your GenAI engineering org initiatives.
Speakers
avatar for Yishai Beeri

Yishai Beeri

CTO, LinearB
Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless.He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur... Read More →
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Building SDKs Developers Love: Custom AI Integrations and Enterprise Flexibility
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
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
avatar for Luca Filice

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 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
  Dev Innovation World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: Breaking Down Silos: Enhancing Security in AppSec Programs
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Virtual 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
avatar for Aruneesh Salhotra

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 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Elevating Cloud Security with a Graph-based Approach
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Roy Maor

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 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: The Growth Wheel: How Value Reports Transformed Customer Retention
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Benji Azaria

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 20, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

10:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: AI Frontiers: Shielding Digital Gateways from Bot Invasions
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Khyati Ganatra

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 →
avatar for Parth Shukla

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 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: 14 Years of Database Evolution in 25 Minutes
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Laurent Doguin

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 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: The Security-Developer Love Story: Moving from ‘No’ to ‘Let’s Go'
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Wendy Segura, Sage, Security Engineer
Andra Lezza, Sage, Principal Application Security Specialist
OWASP Certified 
Speakers
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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 →
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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 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Reducing Developer Toil: Agentic AI-driven Testing
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Animesh Mishra

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 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

10:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: How to Use AI to Unlock Ideal Enterprise Customer Experience
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Mahesh Chayel

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 20, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (Product): Kraftful -- Product in the Age of AI
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
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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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Reproducible AI with Langchain and lakeFS
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Oz Katz

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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: How Robust APIs Win in a Competitive Market
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
Shireen Nagdive, Salesforce, Senior Software Engineer
Jatin Taneja, Salesforce, Senior Member of Technical Staff

With today’s tools, creating APIs has become a streamlined process—just write the API contract and generate the rest. Yet, despite similar backend functionalities, some APIs stand out and are preferred by users over others. One critical differentiator is API resiliency: the ability to stay functional and dependable when faced with failures or unexpected conditions.
In this session, we’ll dive into proven strategies for designing resilient APIs and examine common issues that arise with different resiliency approaches. By understanding these patterns and their potential pitfalls, developers can ensure their APIs are built not just for functionality but for long-term success in real-world environments.

After attending this session, attendees will walk away knowing -
1. Understanding API resiliency and its importance.
2. Why resiliency is key to API success.
3. Common resiliency strategies and their challenges.
Speakers
avatar for Shireen Nagdive

Shireen Nagdive

Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Shireen is a Senior Software Engineer on the Enterprise API team, which currently serves half of all API traffic for the Salesforce.com ecosystem, processing billions of transactions and over a trillion records monthly, across 30+ versions of API endpoints and formats. She builds... Read More →
avatar for Jatin Taneja

Jatin Taneja

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
As a software engineer with over 10 years of experience, I specialize in building scalable, resilient APIs for data intensive applications. I have been working with Salesforce for over 5 years as part of the Enterprise API team. My experience spans various areas of enterprise API... Read More →
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Unlocking AI-Powered DevOps Within Your Organization
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Jon Peck

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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  Dev Exec World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Going Beyond API-First to SDK-First
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Sagar Batchu

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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
  Frontend World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSSION: History of Auth
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Tony Blank

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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Digesting Monsters: 5 Traps of Large Features and How to Avoid Them
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Shay Mandel

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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: F*** Security: We’ll do it Live
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
Virtual 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
avatar for Jason Haddix

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 20, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

11:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSSION (DeveloperWeek): Intuit’s Strategy for Maximizing Developer Productivity Using GenAI
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Jothimani kanthan Ganapathi

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 →
avatar for Anish Dhason

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.
Thursday February 20, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE: DigitalOcean -- The Sound of Innovation: Why Voice Cloning Will Redefine Human-Computer Interaction
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for David vonThenen

David vonThenen

Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML, DigitalOcean
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Pattern Rights - An Ethical Framework for Generative AI Training Data
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Alison Cossette

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 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Sesssion: Scaling Efficiently to Exabytes: Securing and Accelerating Cloud Storage
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Alok Ranjan

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 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: OWASP SamuraiWTF for All the Developer Ninjas
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Kevin Johnson, Secure Ideas, Chief Executive Officer
OWASP Certified 

The best security training environment for Developers and AppSec Professionals
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Johnson

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 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The Laws of UX & UI Design
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Andrew Peterson

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 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: GenAI: A New Renaissance in Product Development
Thursday February 20, 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
avatar for Emerson Taymor

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 20, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Give Your LLMs a Left Brain
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Stephen Chin

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 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Streaming Data Integration at Scale with IBM StreamSets
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Dima Spivak

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 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
  AI DevWorld

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Will Copilot and AI Take Over Accounting Jobs?
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Dan Edwards

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 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Beyond the Expected: Unconventional Paths to Engineering Leadership
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Maher Hanafi

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 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  Dev Exec World

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: Securing Python Lab
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Guled Abdilahi, FanDuel, Staff Engineer
OWASP Certified

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Speakers
avatar for Guled Abdilahi

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 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Beyond Failing Fast: How to Use Fast Feedback to Learn Without Failing
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Michael Mace

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 20, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: From Thought to Action: How Agentic AI Will Reshape Enterprise AI
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Utkarsh Contractor

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 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: 15 Ways to Break Microsoft Copilot
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Virtual 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
avatar for Tamir Ishay Sharbat

Tamir Ishay Sharbat

Software Engineer, Zenity
Tamir Ishay Sharbat is a Software Engineer focused on AI with Zenity
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: How to Ensure Your AI Investments Pack the Most Punch
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for James Evans

James Evans

Director of Product Management, Amplitude
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  ProductWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: The Dynamic Landscape of Building Trust in Products
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Sam Bradley

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 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI DevWorld): SambaNova Systems -- Composition of Experts: A Modular Approach to Scaling AI Models
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Anton McGonnell

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 20, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: A 5-step Method To Nail Your SaaS Pricing Strategy
Thursday February 20, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Ajit Ghuman

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 20, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: How to be a Security Champion
Thursday February 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Marisa Fagan, Katilyst, Head of Product
OWASP Certified 
Speakers
avatar for Marisa Fagan

Marisa Fagan

Head of Product, Katilyst
Thursday February 20, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World
 
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