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Monday, February 10
 

1:00pm PST

Registration Open: Early Badge Pick Up
Monday February 10, 2025 1:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Lobby
Pick up your DeveloperWeek, ProductWorld or AI DevWorld 2025 Attendee Badge at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Lobby from 1:00pm - 5:00pm!
Monday February 10, 2025 1:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Lobby 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara CA 95054, United States
  1. Badge Pick-up & Registration
 
Tuesday, February 11
 

11:00am PST

Registration Open: Badge Pick Up
Tuesday February 11, 2025 11:00am - 9:00pm PST
Santa Clara Convention Center - Lobby
Tuesday February 11, 2025 11:00am - 9:00pm PST
Santa Clara Convention Center - Lobby 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara CA 95054, United States
  1. Badge Pick-up & Registration

12:00pm PST

OAI Workshop: Intro to Contract Testing: Evolving APIs Safely
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE
Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear, Principal API Technical Evangelist

Microservices and modular API architectures have transformed the technical landscape, enabling rapid innovation, faster releases, and decentralized evolvability. However, scaling these architectures introduces significant challenges. Managing dependencies between providers, consumers, and environments often leads to API sprawl, increasing complexity and diminishing returns. Traditional reliance on integration and end-to-end testing struggles to keep pace, resulting in high costs, lengthy feedback loops, and the rise of “zombie APIs.”

Contract testing offers a scalable and efficient alternative to address these challenges, rebalancing the testing pyramid by focusing on the interactions between API providers and consumers. With bi-directional contract testing, teams can leverage existing OpenAPI artifacts and design-first workflows to validate changes without needing expensive, brittle end-to-end setups. Providers gain insight into the impact of API changes, while consumers understand the surface area of APIs they rely on.

We will cover:

- The limitations of end-to-end testing in modern API architectures.
- How contract testing reduces complexity and promotes collaboration.
- The fundamentals of provider and consumer workflows for bi-directional contract testing.
- How to leverage tools like Pact to maximize OpenAPI investments and enable faster scaling.
- Demonstrations showcasing contract testing in action.

Whether you're navigating a microservices ecosystem or building a modular API platform, this workshop will empower you to evolve APIs safely, deliver value faster, and streamline your testing strategy. Join us to bring clarity and confidence to your API architecture.
Speakers
avatar for Frank Kilcommins

Frank Kilcommins

Principal API Technical Evangelist, SmartBear
Frank has over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry, with his roles spanning from software engineering to enterprise architecture. His mission is to inspire, engage with and support the API community and SmartBear customers across the end-to-end API Development Lifecycle... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE

12:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Building The Next Generation of AI Agents with You.com
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Saahil Jain, You.com, Head of AI
Bryan McCann, You.com, Co-Founder & CTO

Description: In this session, You.com CTO Bryan McCann and Head of AI Saahil Jain will discuss various ways businesses can use AI to power new experiences across use cases, leveraging our experience in information retrieval and generative AI since we first launched in 2020. As the AI space rapidly evolves, You.com is constantly thinking about how to stay ahead of the curve and provide answers to the increasingly complicated questions that businesses face. We will share best practices and tips on how to use the latest advances in AI effectively.
Speakers
avatar for Saahil Jain

Saahil Jain

Head of AI, You.com
avatar for Bryan McCann

Bryan McCann

Co-founder and CTO, You.com
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

12:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Demystifying JavaScript Package Managers: (p)npm, Yarn, and Beyond
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
Dev Security World
Lukasz Pater, CERN, Software Engineer

As JavaScript continues to dominate web development, effective package management has become essential for navigating the increasing complexity of modern applications. This talk dives into the mechanics of three leading JavaScript package managers—npm, Yarn, and pnpm—shedding light on their distinct approaches to dependency management, performance, and disk space optimisation. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how each tool handles node_modules, along with their advantages, trade-offs, and guidance on choosing the right package manager for any project.

We’ll also take an in-depth look at package.json, the core of every JavaScript project. Beyond just listing dependencies, this file offers powerful features like scripts, peer dependencies, versioning strategies, and more to help streamline project management. In addition to package management, the session will explore the JavaScript module ecosystem, its inherent challenges, and how package managers simplify—or complicate—the process of module loading.

Finally, we’ll cover advanced topics like zero-install setups, workspaces, polyglot tools, the impact of package managers on DevOps workflows, along with emerging players like Bun, Deno, and Yarn Berry.
Speakers
avatar for Lukasz Pater

Lukasz Pater

Software Engineer, CERN
Lukasz is a seasoned developer with over 15 years of experience in the field. Prior to this, he focused on computer networks, particularly at DeNIC, where he delved into the world of DNS on a vast scale.Now, he leads the Asset and Maintenance Management service at CERN, while continuing... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
Dev Security World
  Frontend World

12:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Web-ifying AI: The Power of TensorflowJS
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
Dev Exec World
Manan Bedi, Paytm, Business Analyst, GenAI

AI is the most hyped topic in the current tech industry, especially with the advent of LLMs and GenAI. But never to forget, JavaScript is still one of the most used and popular programming languages among Software Engineers. TensorflowJS is one such framework through which we can build AI Applications using JavaScript. The session will explore using TensorflowJS to build amazing AI-enabled applications using a pre-trained CocoSSD Model. We will also dive into creating Neural Networks from Scratch using the framework.
We will understand the Client Side and Server Side powers both and how TensorflowJS utilizes both.
Additionally, we will also do a hands-on to build a Smart WebCam to identify objects with high accuracy along with the frontend built using HTML and CSS.
Hence, it would be a great opportunity to understand and implement AI in our projects using our favorite language: JavaScript.
Speakers
avatar for Manan Bedi

Manan Bedi

Business Analyst, GenAI, Paytm
A dedicated professional with a passion for Data, Technology, and Innovation. He is currently working as a Business Analyst at Paytm, where he leverages his analytical skills to drive data-driven insights. His journey in the field of AI has been equally amazing. With a strong background... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
Dev Exec World
  Frontend World

12:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Digital Accessibility Is Strategy, Not Compliance
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Jack Cunningham, Livefront, Director of Product Management

Many digital teams begrudgingly seek accessibility “compliance” and fail to see its value as a core product strategy. In this session, we reveal how prioritizing accessibility drives growth and opens new opportunities for those who do not rely on assistive technology just as much as those who do. Discover how native mobile accessibility functionality enhances user experience and offers value far beyond what is required to be inclusive.

Learn why & how to make accessibility a central product strategy to drive growth for all users. Discover how new iOS and Android features can be utilized to create more inclusive and engaging digital products. Identify how to make accessibility a core strategy with planning and collaboration tools that fit into the flow of your design and development work.
Speakers
avatar for Jack Cunningham

Jack Cunningham

Director of Product Management, Livefront
Jack Cunningham stands out in digital product leadership with his knack for blending entrepreneurial thinking and omni-channel expertise. With deep experience across native mobile, web, and CTV platforms, Jack is recognized for his blend of strategic and practical solutions tailored... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

12:00pm PST

DeveloperWeek Certificate Program
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm PST
https://www.developerweek.com/certificates/
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

12:00pm PST

PRO Workshop Day: DeveloperWeek + ProductWorld + AI DevWorld 2025
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm PST
PREMIUM & PRO Pass holders: Join us for PRO Workshop Day @ DeveloperWeek 2025 (+ ProductWorld 2025 and AI DevWorld 2025)

REMINDER:
  • Tues, Feb 11 is PRO Workshop Day and is available ONLY to the following pass types:  PREMIUM, PRO, SPEAKER PRO, SPONSOR PRO, EXHIBITOR, and MEDIA. See the full Workshop day schedule here: https://www.developerweek.com/conference/workshops/
  • OPEN Passes have access to DeveloperWeek 2025 only on Wed & Thur, Feb 12-13 to all 20+ Keynotes, 130+ OPEN Talks, and the 2-day Expo with 90+ exhibiting partners, games & swag challenges.
Tuesday February 11, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

1:00pm PST

OAI Workshop: Linting API Descriptions: Consistency is King for Developer Experience!
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE
Erik Wilde, INNOQ, Principal Consultant

API descriptions are describing the surface of an API so that it is clear how an API works. It can be a good idea to check these descriptions against general good practices or against specific internal good practices for API designs. Linting is the process that allows those checks to be performed, by taking the description, letting a linter inspect it, and then get warnings or errors regarding the API design.

In this workshop, we look at the various motivations to use API linting. We then specifically look at HTTP-based APIs, OpenAPI as their description language, and Spectral as a popular open source linting tool. Spectral performs opinionated linting out of the box by having a set of build-in rules. Spectral allows users to add their own rules or completely replace the built-in rules. Spectral also supports modularization so that for example in larger organizations, different APIs can use different combinations of rules for various APIs. In this workshop we cannot give a complete tutorial of Spectral, but you will walk away with a good understanding of when to use it, how to apply it to your use cases, and what its general capabilities look like.
Speakers
avatar for Erik Wilde

Erik Wilde

Ambassador, OpenAPI
Erik Wilde is an experienced and internationally known professional in the space of digital transformation and API strategy and management. Erik has degrees in computer science from TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He is the author of many articles and papers, various books, multiple standards... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
DeveloperWeek PRO STAGE

1:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): GenAIOps: Building Robust and Secure GenAI Systems
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Jason Kelly, Fremont AI, CEO

POCs and prototypes are exciting, but productionizing and scaling Generative AI applications is hard. How do you effectively monitor compliance, privacy, and safety? How do you support multiple models and use cases while avoiding vendor lock-in? And how do you help teams build their apps without reinventing the wheel or creating security vulnerabilities?

Whether your developers are wrapping third-party GenAI APIs or self-hosting a complex stack with RAG frameworks and fine-tuned LLMs, the landscape is filled with tools and frameworks that promise solutions. In this vendor-agnostic session, you'll get a detailed look at GenAIOps principles and tools. With real-world examples and sample code, you’ll learn how to navigate these challenges and leverage Generative AI with confidence.

We'll cover:

- Examples of GenAI pitfalls and business risk they create
- Components of a GenAIOps stack: Monitoring, Guardrails, API Management, Security, Developer Experience
- How GenAI integrates with the standard SDLC
- Examples from interviews with real-world teams in industry
- How-To: Deployable sample code for a cloud environment showing these guidelines in action [GitHub link to be included]
Speakers
avatar for Jason Kelly

Jason Kelly

CEO, Fremont Robotics
Jason Kelly is a tech entrepreneur with deep experience in applied autonomy and industrial AI. He is CEO of Fremont Robotics, a startup dedicated to automating dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks across manufacturing, energy, facilities management, and more.
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Deploy a dApp in 30 Minutes or Less
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
Dev Exec World
Koushik Gavini, Gala Games, Principal Blockchain Engineer

Getting started on a blockchain shouldn't be hard. With GalaChain you customize a channel, deploy chaincode and have dApps up and running in less than an hour!

Koushik Gavini, Principle Blockchain Engineer at Gala, walks you through everything you need to know to get started on GalaChain. Using Fablo, you'll configure your custom channel quickly and easily, then get straight into testing and deploying chaincode. No obscure language to learn — write dApps and contracts easily with TypeScript. Follow along to set up your own environment today!
Speakers
avatar for Koushik Gavini

Koushik Gavini

Principal Blockchain Engineer, Gala Games
Koushik was trained in computer engineering at San Jose State University. He's been known to play some tennis, but he's been immersed deeply in the web3 world for the past four years. With experience working as a blockchain engineer at Google, BSI Solutions, Accenture, and others... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
Dev Exec World
  Frontend World

1:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Launching an AI Product 101: A Blueprint for Success
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Nimisha Sharath, Uber, Senior Product Manager

Recall those AI-infused products that stumbled in the wild? They caused rollbacks, discontinuations, and hefty financial losses for companies. Nimisha, having crafted and launched numerous ML/AI products across organizations, shares her battle-tested blueprint to launch successful AI products that scale.

From product discovery to legal considerations, metrics, AB testing, GTM, and model quality maintenance, she guides you toward creating AI products that truly endure.
Speakers
avatar for Nimisha Sharath

Nimisha Sharath

Senior Product Manager, Uber
Nimisha Sharath is a data scientist turned product with 7 years of experience across Microsoft, Instacart and Uber. She's dabbled with Ads Tech, Multimedia experiences on ChatGPT, Personalized Promotions and most recently, Road Safety. She is a highly strategic, data driven PM with... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

1:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Introduction to Google DeepMind's Models: Gemini 2.0, Imagen 3, and Veo
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 2:50pm PST
Dev Security World
Paige Bailey, Google, GenAI Developer Experience Lead Google

This intensive workshop is designed for developers eager to explore the cutting-edge capabilities of Google's latest AI tools. Participants will gain hands-on experience working with the Gemini APIs, Google AI Studio, Veo 2, and Imagen 3, enabling them to build intelligent applications and generate stunning creative content. We'll also cover how to use Gemini 2.0 in developer tools like Cursor, Sourcegraph Cody, and more. 
Speakers
avatar for Paige Bailey

Paige Bailey

GenAI Developer Experience Lead, Google
Paige Bailey is the engineering lead for GenAI Developer Experience at Google. Paige has a deep understanding of the generative AI landscape, having previously served as an applied machine learning engineer at Microsoft and GitHub, and a product lead for Google's PaLM v2 and Gemini... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 2:50pm PST
Dev Security World
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Enterprise AI Applications - Real-World Use Cases from Predictive to Generative AI
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Manas Talukdar, Labelbox, Director of Engineering

This talk will discuss the latest trends in AI and how they are being applied in the enterprise. We will cover a range of topics from predictive analytics to generative AI, and provide real-world use cases and actual enterprise AI applications that demonstrate the impact of these technologies on business outcomes. The session will also explore the challenges and opportunities that organizations face when implementing AI solutions, and provide insights into best practices for successful AI adoption. We will also discuss best practices for building and deploying AI applications for the enterprise, and how to ensure that they are robust, reliable, and scalable. 
Speakers
avatar for Manas Talukdar

Manas Talukdar

Director of Engineering, Labelbox
Manas Talukdar is a senior industry leader in Data Infrastructure and Enterprise AI. He has significant experience designing and developing products in artificial intelligence and large-scale data infrastructure, used in mission critical sectors across the world. He is a senior member... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: GitHub Actions: Make Them Work for You!
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
Dev Exec World
Eleftherios Chrysochoidis, Chubb, Lead API Software Engineer

GitHub Actions offer robust and free CI/CD capabilities to streamline your development process. In this presentation, we'll dive into the core components of GitHub Actions and explore how they can be set to work for you by demonstrating various simple and advanced use cases!

GitHub Actions is an ideal tool for any project hosted on GitHub. It provides CI/CD features out of the box and is accessible to everyone without the need for extra infrastructure or setup. The declarative way of creating Actions makes their usage really easy, and its remarkable free layer provides sufficient limits even for big projects.

Especially for Open Source projects, where usually there is more than a single contributor, the need for CI/CD is huge. What will happen if you own an open source project and someone creates a Pull Request with really nice features but adds Security risks in the project (e.g. due to deprecated dependencies) or if they break some of the existing functionality? Would you be able to check all of them on your own? Maybe yes, but it would take much more time compared to having them all checked automatically by utilizing GitHub Actions.

Join me to explore how to make GitHub Actions run faster by utilizing caching mechanisms, build Reports for Testing, Coverage and Security issues and integrate them with any open Pull Request in the community, to have an automated evaluation of the suggested PR and get notifications for them.
Speakers
avatar for Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Lead API Software Engineer, Chubb
Experienced Lead Software Engineer with Passion for Community EngagementWith over six years of experience in software engineering, building and maintaining robust applications, Eleftherios (or simply Lefteris) gained a deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot technologies.His passion... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
Dev Exec World
  OpsWorld

2:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Building the Bridge: How to Connect Current and Future State Journey Maps
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Andrew Schall, ServiceNow, UX Research Leader & Strategist

Allowing organizational fortunetellers to create a future state vision of a journey map is risky because their projections are often based on speculation, intuition, and vague aspirations rather than concrete data and a deep understanding of the current state.

The journey from the current state to the optimal future state can be envisioned as constructing a long metaphorical bridge. This bridge is supported by various foundational pillars, each representing a critical aspect of the progression. These pillars provide the necessary support for incremental solutions to realize the optimal future state.

In this session, you will delve into envisioning an ideal user experience by creating a future state journey map. You will learn how to ground your future state journey map in current realities based on data and user research, ensuring that solutions are practical, actionable, and directly address identified pain points. By following this structured, evidence-based methodology, organizations can successfully navigate the journey from the current state to the future state, building a robust bridge to support ongoing progress, innovation, and adaptation.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Schall

Andrew Schall

UX Research Leader & Strategist, ServiceNow
Andrew Schall has over 20 years of experience as a UX leader, researcher, and strategist. He has collaborated with renowned organizations such as Citibank, Harley Davidson, The New York Times, National Institutes of Health, Office Depot, and Southwest Airlines. He currently leads... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

3:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Mastering TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Open-Source Frameworks for AI and Machine Learning
Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Stage 1
Prashanth Lakshmi Narayana Chaitanya Josyula, Salesforce, Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS)
Taha Bouhsine, MLNomads, CEO

In this comprehensive technical session, dive deep into the world of TensorFlow, PyTorch, and other cutting-edge open-source frameworks that are transforming the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

We will explore the strengths and unique features of these popular frameworks, providing a hands-on comparison to help you understand which one best suits various AI/ML tasks. Whether you are building neural networks, implementing deep learning models, or deploying large-scale machine learning solutions, this session will equip you with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about the right tools for your projects.
Speakers
avatar for Prashanth Lakshmi Narayana Chaitanya Josyula

Prashanth Lakshmi Narayana Chaitanya Josyula

Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS), Salesforce
Hello! I’m Prashanth, an avid connoisseur of technical literature and a dedicated practitioner in the field of programming. With a deep-seated passion for technology, I excel in crafting sophisticated code and exploring cutting-edge innovations.Currently serving as a Principal Member... Read More →
avatar for Taha Bouhsine

Taha Bouhsine

CEO, MLNomads
Taha Bouhsine is an AI/ML Google Developer Expert specializing in Deep Learning, with a focus on white-box models, multimodal systems, and self-supervised learning. He has published research in aviation safety, civil engineering, security, and remote sensing, collaborating with global... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Stage 1
  AI DevWorld

3:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Building Bulletproof Products: Embracing AI Red Teaming
Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
David Campbell, Scale AI, AI Risk Security Platform Lead

In this talk, we’ll trace the evolution of Red Teaming, from its traditional roots to the cutting-edge practice of AI Red Teaming, demonstrating how it’s shaping the future of Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI technologies. Drawing from my experience leading the development and deployment of the largest generative red teaming platform to date, I’ll share compelling real-world examples and personal insights. We’ll dive into how adversarial red teaming strengthens AI systems across all layers—protecting platforms, businesses, and consumers alike. From securing external application interfaces to fortifying LLM guardrails and improving the internal security of AI algorithms, we’ll explore the critical role of adversarial strategies in safeguarding the evolving AI landscape. 
Speakers
avatar for David Campbell

David Campbell

AI Risk Security Platform Lead, Scale, AI
David Campbell is a seasoned technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem, now spearheading Responsible AI initiatives at Scale AI. As the Lead AI Risk Engineer, David has been pivotal in developing a cutting-edge AI Red Teaming platform... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

4:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Supercharging Developer Workflow with Amazon Q Developer
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Vikash Agrawal, Amazon Web Services, Senior Engineer

This talk is about key features of Amazon Q Developers.

It will include live demo for the following
- /dev
- @workspace
- Code Scan
- @git and @history from Q-Cli

It will also include some real world example of customers case studies.

Audieence Takeaways:
- Introduction to Amazon Q Developer
- Key features and use cases
- Live demo in IDE
- Live demo in CLI
- Best practices and tips
Speakers
avatar for Vikash Agrawal

Vikash Agrawal

Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
Having over a decade of experience in Software Engineering, I have held positions as Team-Lead and Engineering Lead at companies such as Housing.com and Dream11. Currently, I am building Amazon Q Developer, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

4:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP: Hitchhikers Guide to Secure AI Development
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Stage 1
Ankur Chowdhary, 6Sense, Staff Security Engineer

In this talk I will discuss how organizations can define the scope of AI security based on understanding the context of AI use and integrate secure AI development lifecycle as a part of existing software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices. The talk will also cover metrics during each phase of AI development that should be considered for establishing the success criteria of secure and responsible development of AI system for an organization. 
Speakers
avatar for Ankur Chowdhary

Ankur Chowdhary

Staff Security Engineer, Appsec, 6Sense
Dr. Ankur Chowdhary is a cybersecurity researcher. He received Ph.D. (2020) and M.S. (2015) with specialization in cybersecurity from Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests include appsec, cloud security and AI/ML in cybersecurity.
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
AI DevWorld Stage 1
  AI DevWorld

4:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): How Can I Use AI Is the Wrong Question: Better Conversations Between Tech and Non-tech People
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Chris Butler, GitHub, Product Manager

Today everyone is asking the question: "how can I use AI in my product?" The issue is not asking the question about leveraging new technological innovation but how we have the conversation between the technical people that know about it and those that want to leverage it to create great products.

In this talk, Chris Butler will show you how to have better conversations between those different practices in your teams. This will focus on a particular workshop called Analogical Innovation Mapping that is rooted in how new technologies find new uses based on their characteristics.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Product Manager, GitHub
Chris Butler is a Chaotic Good Product Manager and Staff Product Operation Manager at GitHub. His role focuses on PM'ing the PM experience for the AI & Productivity group. Chris has worked previously as a product leader at Microsoft, Facebook Reality Labs, Cognizant, Google, KAYAK... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

5:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Turning a Technology to a Product: Perspective from Building AI Infrastructure at Google
Tuesday February 11, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Rishiraj Pravahan, Google, Product Manager

This talk will explore how a technology capability can be transformed into a product. The talk will focus on what it means to have a product view of a technical capability and how to reason about a particular tech as a product. The talk will use examples from my experience of working on AI infrastructure to highlight the product point of view while discussing its challenges and advantages.
 
Speakers
avatar for Rishiraj Pravahan

Rishiraj Pravahan

Group Product Manager, Google AI infrastructure
I am PhD particle physicist turned intra/entrepreneur turned Product Manager, with a penchant for technology to solve complex real-world problems. I bring imagination and a fundamental understanding of technology to identify how, when, and where to use a particular tool to solve a... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

6:30pm PST

2025 AI TechAwards Ceremony
Tuesday February 11, 2025 6:30pm - 7:00pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
The 2025 AI TechAwards Ceremony
6:30pm - 7:00pm | -- (AI DevWorld Main Stage - Santa Clara Convention Center)
(Open to these pass types: Premium, PRO, OPEN, EXPO, SPONSOR, SPEAKER, EXHIBITOR, MEDIA)
Tuesday February 11, 2025 6:30pm - 7:00pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  2. Experiences & Official Events

6:30pm PST

2025 DEVIES Awards Ceremony
Tuesday February 11, 2025 6:30pm - 7:00pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
DeveloperWeek 2025 is the world’s largest developer expo & conference series, and the 2025 DEVIES Awards Ceremony will be the definitive awards night for the developer technology industry.

The 2025 DEVIES Awards Ceremony
6:30pm - 7:00pm | -- (ProductWorld Main Stage - Santa Clara Convention Center)
(Open to these pass types: Premium, PRO, OPEN, EXPO, SPONSOR, SPEAKER, EXHIBITOR, MEDIA)
Tuesday February 11, 2025 6:30pm - 7:00pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  2. Experiences & Official Events

7:00pm PST

DeveloperWeek 2025 VIP Welcome Reception (Premium Passes & Invite Only)
Tuesday February 11, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm PST
7:00pm - 9:00pm | AI DevWorld Main Stage - Santa Clara Convention Center

Join us as we celebrate the opening of DeveloperWeek 2025. Complimentary beer and wine will be served.

The VIP Welcome Reception is open ONLY to Premium Pass holders, DeveloperWeek 2025 Sponsors (two attendees per Sponsor), Speakers, 2025 DEVIES Awards Winners, 2025 AI TechAward Winners and Media.

The VIP Welcome Reception guest list will be strictly adhered to.
Tuesday February 11, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events
 
Wednesday, February 12
 

8:30am PST

Registration Open: Badge Pick Up
Wednesday February 12, 2025 8:30am - 6:30pm PST
Santa Clara Convention Center - Lobby
Wednesday February 12, 2025 8:30am - 6:30pm PST
Santa Clara Convention Center - Lobby 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara CA 95054, United States
  1. Badge Pick-up & Registration

9:00am PST

Arcade Lounge
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:00pm PST
Expo Hall
Arcade Lounge
Chill in the lounge & try your hand at Pac-Man & other retro games!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:00pm PST
Expo Hall
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

Game Lounge
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:00pm PST
Expo Hall
Games Lounge
Play a game or two as you wait for the next session to begin!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:00pm PST
Expo Hall
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

Tesla Self Driving Demonstrations
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall

9:00am PST

Community Photos & Headshots
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
Community Photos & Headshots
Stand out from the crowd. Update your headshot or snap a group picture. Get your digital photo instantly!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek EXPO Challenge (Win Rewards!)
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
https://www.developerweek.com/expo/challenge/
Complete the DeveloperWeek 2025 Expo Challenge to earn cool DeveloperWeek 2025 Swag!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

EXPO HALL OPEN
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
  3. Expo Hours

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek 2025 Hackathon
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm 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!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
  4. Hackathon

9:30am PST

KEYNOTE (AI DevWorld): Stack Overflow -- Why Building Trust in AI Is Key to Healthy Knowledge Ecosystem
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Prashanth Chandrasekar, Stack Overflow, CEO

The internet and its business models are changing. For the last 16 years, Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web. In this time of disruption comes a necessary time to reflect, change, and break the norms of ‘this is how it's always been done.’ With the expansion of generative AI, many LLM providers are not allowing the world to operate as it has previously. Instead, a new paradigm has emerged: content created by thousands of creators across the Open Web is now being used to train models without respect or attribution for the original creator.

Consequently, in the current transformation, human-centered sources of knowledge are obscured. We face a world in which the old paradigms are no longer paramount, and their places in the world are redefined. Companies and organizations lucky enough to host these engines of knowledge production are at a decision point; how do they continue to monetize when the technological landscapes have changed? A change in strategy will allow these companies, AI tools, and the communities and data sets that power them to thrive.

CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar shares why in the GenAI era, trust in data is key to driving innovation, improving the developer experience, and building thriving knowledge communities.
Speakers
avatar for Prashanth Chandrasekar

Prashanth Chandrasekar

CEO, Stack Overflow
Prashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

9:30am PST

OpenAPI Summit: The Third-Wave of API Management
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Dev Exec World
Adrian Machado, Zuplo, Staff Engineer

The third-wave of API management is here. There are several trends that engineers and technical leaders need to know so they can choose the right tools and platforms for building their APIs. Trends include
1. Modernization around API gateways - The move towards GitOps over server configuration, and Edge over regional deployments
2. Centralization around OpenAPI and new tooling that's emerged
3. A strong focus on API DevX - what API-as-a-product really looks like in practice and the companies pushing the envelope. SDK generation, docs platforms, and more take center stage.

The talk will cover technology and tools engineering leaders should look to adopt and the benefits/drawbacks
Speakers
avatar for Adrian Machado

Adrian Machado

Staff Engineer, Zuplo
I am a Staff Software engineer working at Zuplo. I specialize in our open source technology and adopting emerging technologies (ex. AI) at the company. This includes our work on RateMyOpenAPI, Zudoku, Mockbin, and various other tools. I've written several blogs for Zuplo, and spoken... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

9:30am PST

PRO Session: Building an Evidence-Based Culture for Strategic Product Development
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Connor Joyce, Microsoft, Senior User Researcher

In today's competitive digital landscape, successful product development hinges not just on innovation but on the ability to make informed, evidence-based decisions that ensure features are satisfying user needs that align with business objectives. This talk introduces the "Impact Mindset," a revolutionary approach detailed in the book "Bridging Intentions to Impact," which includes an easy to adopt framework and process to guide product teams in redefining success through the lens of user behavior.

Key takeaways will include strategies for creating organic demand for insights within product teams to support informed decision-making and foster collaboration between UX designers, researchers, and product managers. Attendees will learn to define meaningful metrics that go beyond vanity statistics, ensuring that every feature launched drives measurable behavior change and positive user and business impact. Not only a presentation, the audience will be granted a free resource so they can leave the talk ready to apply the insights.

The Impact Mindset approach marks a new era in product development, where success is measured by depth and impact rather than mere usage.
Speakers
avatar for Connor Joyce

Connor Joyce

Senior User Researcher, Microsoft
Connor Joyce is the author of "Bridging Intentions to Impact" and a Senior User Researcher on the Microsoft Copilot Team, where he is advancing the design of AI-enhanced features. Passionate about driving meaningful change, Connor advocates that companies adopt an Impact Mindset... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

9:30am PST

Product Roundtable: Shalini Dinesh, Senior Product Manager, Walmart
Wednesday February 12, 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
avatar for Shalini Dinesh

Shalini Dinesh

Senior Product Manager, Walmart
Shalini Dinesh is a Senior Product Manager at Walmart, the world’s leading Fortune 1 company, where she plays a pivotal role in shaping product strategy and innovation. With a Master's in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Shalini combines technical... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 10:00am PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

9:30am PST

DeveloperWeek Certificate Program
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST
https://www.developerweek.com/certificates/
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:30am PST

"Dev Challenge" -- Earn Prizes
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 6:30pm PST
Complete specific tasks at DeveloperWeek 2025 to earn "Dev Cash" to redeem for DeveloperWeek 2025 Prizes!
https://www.developerweek.com/dev-challenge/
Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:30am - 6:30pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

10:00am PST

KEYNOTE (Product): The Product Guild -- Busting the Biases That Block Innovation
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Leslie Grandy, the University of Washington, Lead Executive in Residence

Innovation is the lifeblood of successful products, yet even the most talented teams can unknowingly fall prey to biases that stifle creativity and hinder progress. As product leaders, your decisions shape the future of your products and drive your organization’s growth. But are hidden biases holding your teams back from reaching their full potential?

In our fast-paced, competitive landscape, it’s not enough to generate ideas; we must create an environment where the best, most groundbreaking ideas can thrive. This presentation will reveal the common biases that subtly, yet powerfully, block innovation—from expert and confirmation biases that narrow our vision to status quo and fixation biases that keep us clinging to outdated methods.

You’ll learn actionable strategies to recognize and dismantle these biases, fostering a culture that embraces diverse perspectives, challenges assumptions, and encourages bold, creative thinking. By busting these biases, you’ll unlock your team’s full innovation potential, drive more impactful product development, and position your company as a leader in the market.
Speakers
avatar for Leslie Grandy

Leslie Grandy

Lead Executive in Residence, the University of Washington
Leslie Grandy is an accomplished author, speaker, and CEO advisor who helps companies, teams, and product leaders leverage creative thinking to elevate their organizations, conquer their markets, and maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world. Leslie works with start-ups and large... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Using AI to Solve Real Problems for Development Teams
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked, Founder & CEO

For all the claims about AI increasing developer productivity, why aren't developers seeing more of an impact?

What we’ve heard from thousands of developers is that writing code is not their main challenge. They’re stuck at Step #1 – trying to find the right context about how the codebase works and why.

Codebases are a compilation of thousands of decisions, discussions, and documents that live across tools like Confluence, Slack, Notion, Jira, Linear, GitHub, and more - accumulated over years if not decades. Whether a developer is onboarding to your team or trying to understand how a piece of legacy code works, they waste hours every day digging for the answers through all these systems.

Unblocked augments your code with context from the tools in your stack, giving your development team a platform for asking questions, and for discovering historical context about their code.

The impact here is profound: with Unblocked, developers can answer their own questions without interrupting their peers or having to wait for meetings. What’s more, they can find the entirety of the information they need wherever they're working.

If we want to see actual productivity benefits from AI, we need to use it where we spend the most time. The more we can empower developers with the context they need, the faster we can achieve our goals and the happier we can make our teams.
Speakers
avatar for Dennis Pilarinos

Dennis Pilarinos

Founder & CEO, Unblocked
Dennis Pilarinos is the founder and CEO of Unblocked, a developer platform that gives teams helpful answers to questions about their codebase. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Buddybuild, a mobile-focused continuous integration service that Apple acquired in 2018 and launched... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

PRO Session: From Hype to Impact: Cracking the Code on AI ROI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Nabil Bukhari, Extreme Networks, Chief Product & Technology Officer, EVP, GM Subscription Business

In the race to adopt AI, even experienced business leaders can find themselves focusing too much on the technology itself, leading to less-than-optimal results. AI isn’t just about algorithms, machine learning, and large language models - it’s about the meaningful impact it can deliver when applied strategically. Nabil Bukhari, CTO and GM of subscriptions at Extreme Networks, the world’s fastest growing cloud networking company, offers a fresh perspective on AI strategy—one that prioritizes real outcomes over flashy applications.

In this session, Nabil will present the ARC Framework, a proven approach that guides organizations (A)ccelerating existing processes, (R)eplacing outdated systems, and (C)reating valuable new experiences, all to ensure AI investments drive measurable business impact.

This framework took shape during the development of Extreme Platform One, one of Extreme’s most ambitious projects to date. In a world where 80% of AI projects fail, Extreme Platform One stands out for simplifying complex network management and delivering tangible value to organizations of all sizes. The ARC Framework highlights that AI itself is not the innovation - it’s how we apply it strategically to create meaningful outcomes. Learn actionable strategies to avoid common pitfalls, like chasing hype or low-impact use cases, and harness AI’s true potential to drive transformation in your business.

This is a must-attend for anyone looking to integrate AI in a way that optimizes AI investments, complements their organization’s culture, solves actual business challenges, and positions them for lasting impact. Join us to explore how you can lead AI-driven change with purpose and impact.

 
Speakers
avatar for Nabil Bukhari

Nabil Bukhari

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Extreme Networks
Nabil Bukhari firmly believes technology and business have a responsibility to improve the human condition. As a futurist, business leader and humanist, he has a passion for the democratization of technology and is determined to contribute to a world where tech has a positive social... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: How Not to Become a Database Expert
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Cloud Native World
Dmytro Hnatiuk, Wise, Principal Software Engineer

Tackling database scalability can seem daunting without a clear path forward. In "How Not to Become a Database Expert," we'll navigate the journey of database scalability together, emphasizing the strategic timing of each step. This talk isn't about the weeds of query optimization techniques; it’s about understanding when and why to apply certain types of optimizations to get the most out of your efforts. We’ll explore a tiered pyramid approach that guides software engineers through essential phases of scalability—from basic setups to more sophisticated strategies. By focusing on the right optimizations at the right time, you’ll learn how to efficiently improve your systems without overwhelming detail. Perfect for software engineers at any level, presentation will help you with the knowledge to make impactful decisions when your project needs it most. Join me to simplify your scalability strategy and focus on what truly matters in your database environment. 
Speakers
avatar for Dmytro Hnatiuk

Dmytro Hnatiuk

Principal Software Engineer, Wise
Dmytro Hnatiuk is a Principal Software Engineer at Wise, where he has been turning complex challenges into scalable solutions for eight years. With over a decade in the tech industry and a focused expertise in the Finance & Treasury domain for the last six years, he has successfully... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Scaling Secure, Codeless Mobile App Development and Continuous Monitoring in CI/CD for DevOps Teams
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Karen Hsu, Appdome, SVP Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions

In the fast-paced world of DevOps, delivering secure, functional mobile apps quickly and efficiently is critical. This session is tailored for DevOps engineers and leaders looking to streamline mobile app development by incorporating code-less, secure app building, automated testing, and continuous monitoring into their CI/CD pipelines. Attendees will learn how to:
Integrate Secure Mobile App Builds Without Code or SDKs:

1. Automatically build critical security features such as encryption, fraud/malware/social engineering prevention, and threat detection directly into the mobile app, without writing any additional code or relying on third-party SDKs.
Automate Testing in CI/CD: Seamlessly integrate no-code security testing and scriptless functional testing into your CI/CD workflows. This ensures that each code push automatically triggers comprehensive testing, identifying any issues with secured apps before deployment—without requiring manual intervention.

2. Implement Continuous Threat Detection: Incorporate real-time threat detection for all your mobile apps. Then automate builds with protections against live attacks in your CI/CD pipeline. By closing the loop between security monitoring and app development, teams can ensure their apps are secure post-deployment and protected against evolving threats.

3. Optimize CI/CD Workflows for Faster Delivery: Implement a fully automated, end-to-end process that ensures every app build is secure, functional, and continuously monitored for potential threats. DevOps teams will learn how to accelerate their app delivery timelines without sacrificing security or performance, leveraging CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI, Bitrise and Azure DevOps.

This session will include a live demonstration showing how DevOps teams can integrate these capabilities into their existing CI/CD workflows, enabling faster, secure, and scalable mobile app delivery.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Hsu

Karen Hsu

SVP Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions, Appdome
Karen Hsu is SVP Mobile DevOps and Security Solutions at Appdome, focused on automating building and testing of secure apps in the DevOps pipeline. She co-founded BlockchainIntel to identify fraud in ACH, credit card and blockchain transactions, becoming part of Appdome to extend... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  Dev Exec World

10:00am PST

OpenAPI Summit: OpenAPI Summit Introduction: Why and How to Use OpenAPI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Dev Exec World
Erik Wilde, OpenAPI, Ambassador
Speakers
avatar for Erik Wilde

Erik Wilde

Ambassador, OpenAPI
Erik Wilde is an experienced and internationally known professional in the space of digital transformation and API strategy and management. Erik has degrees in computer science from TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He is the author of many articles and papers, various books, multiple standards... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: Navigating the Edge-Cloud Bridge: Building Resource Optimized IoT/Edge Assistants with LLMs
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Frontend World
David vonThenen, DigitalOcean, Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML

The future of IoT and Edge devices lies in seamlessly integrating voice-assisted AI interfaces with cloud capabilities. This session provides a hands-on exploration of how to architect efficient, voice-driven solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs) while balancing the demands of edge computing and cloud resources.
Key takeaways include:
Making informed decisions about where to run GPU-intensive AI processes, weighing edge performance against cloud scalability, privacy, and security.
Designing modular, voice-first AI architectures that adapt to diverse IoT/Edge use cases.
Practical demonstrations showcasing designs that perform tasks with voice-driven AI in hybrid edge-cloud environments.
Attendees will gain practical insights into choosing the right workloads to deploy on resource-constrained edge devices versus the cloud, leveraging open-source tools and frameworks. By the end of this session, you’ll leave equipped to build smarter, voice-enabled IoT/Edge systems with architectures that maximize both resource efficiency and innovation.
Speakers
avatar for David vonThenen

David vonThenen

Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML, DigitalOcean
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
Frontend World
  Frontend World

10:00am PST

AI Roundtable: Manas Talukdar, Director of Engineering, Labelbox
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am 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
avatar for Manas Talukdar

Manas Talukdar

Director of Engineering, Labelbox
Manas Talukdar is a senior industry leader in Data Infrastructure and Enterprise AI. He has significant experience designing and developing products in artificial intelligence and large-scale data infrastructure, used in mission critical sectors across the world. He is a senior member... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am PST
Roundtable Room
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

OPEN Session: The Code Whisperers: How AI is Learning to Write Better Code (and What it Means for Engineering Leaders)
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
Lucas Mendes, Revelo, Founder and CEO
Panelist - Coming Soon!

AI is learning to write code, and it's happening faster than many realize. This panel discussion at DeveloperWeek 2025 explores the cutting edge of AI code generation, focusing on how these systems are being trained with human data to produce increasingly sophisticated and reliable code. More importantly, we'll examine what this means for engineering organizations – and the leaders who guide them.
Join our expert panel as they discuss:
  • The Human-AI Feedback Loop: Delve into the fascinating ways human expertise is being used to train LLMs for code generation. We'll explore techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the importance of diverse and high-quality datasets, and the ethical considerations of using human data in AI development.
  • The Evolving Role of the Software Engineer: Discuss how AI code generation tools are reshaping the roles and responsibilities within engineering teams. We'll examine the potential for increased productivity, the need for new skillsets (like prompt engineering and AI collaboration), and the changing dynamics between developers and AI assistants.
  • Leading the AI Transformation: Gain practical insights and strategies for engineering leaders navigating this new era. We'll discuss how to adapt hiring practices, upskill existing teams, foster a culture of continuous learning, and measure the ROI of AI code generation within your organization.
  • The Future of Software Leadership: Explore the long-term implications of AI for engineering leadership. We'll discuss the potential for increased innovation, the challenges of managing AI-augmented teams, and the ethical responsibilities of leading in an AI-driven world.

This session is essential for engineering managers, directors, and CTOs who want to understand how AI is changing the game and prepare their teams for the future of software development.
 
Speakers
avatar for Lucas Mendes

Lucas Mendes

Founder and CEO, Revelo
Lucas Mendes is the founder and CEO of Revelo, the leading platform that helps US companies find, hire and pay full-time remote software engineers in Latin America. Revelo boasts a network of 400,000 pre-vetted engineers, and has placed developers from 15 LatAm countries in hundreds... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
  Dev Exec World

10:00am PST

Hackathon Kickoff Networking
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Expo Hall
Meetup with your team, connect with other challengers and ask questions to the sponsors directly. Each hackathon participant will receive a FREE Hackathon Swag Bag (Drawstring Bag, phone holder, phone charger & Food Voucher) upon check in at the Hackathon Lounge!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Expo Hall
  4. Hackathon

10:30am PST

KEYNOTE: Red Hat -- Developer Experience, Platform Engineering and AI Powered Apps
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Ignacio Riesgo, Red Hat, Senior Director, Developer Marketing & Strategy
Cedric Clyburn, Red Hat, Developer Advocate

An open source environment enables microservices, containers, Kubernetes and AI to be deployed to optimize agility and speed at scale. The challenge can be staying ahead of the technology curve and positioning your enterprise for continued success. At Red Hat, hybrid cloud is the foundation of everything we do, leveraging open source in a multi-cloud environment to kickstart innovation. The advent of Generative AI has acted as an accelerant to business transformation increasing efficiency and productivity. Join the Developer Advocates team who will share a series of live demo innovations available today with OpenShift AI, OpenShift and Developer Hub that will accelerate development cycles and optimize your releasing performance. 
Speakers
avatar for Ignacio Riesgo

Ignacio Riesgo

Senior Director, Developer Marketing & Strategy, Red Hat
Ignacio Riesgo is Senior Director, Developer Marketing & Strategy, Global, for Red Hat. In his role, he leads all Developer Outreach Programs, Content and Advocacy initiatives.
avatar for Cedric Clyburn

Cedric Clyburn

Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: AI Assistants Unleashed: Building RAG Chatbots with Twilio
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Rishab Kumar, Twilio, Staff Developer Evangelist

In today's world of AI, building intelligent chatbots with RAG capabilities has traditionally required complex frameworks like LangChain and extensive integration work. However, Twilio AI Assistants is changing this landscape by offering a streamlined approach to building sophisticated AI applications. This presentation provides a practical comparison between these two approaches, demonstrating how Twilio AI Assistants significantly reduces development complexity while maintaining powerful capabilities.

Through live coding demonstrations, we'll explore:

The traditional approach using LangChain: understanding the components, integration points, and development overhead
The simplified path with Twilio AI Assistants: showing how to achieve the same results with fewer lines of code
Real-world implementation considerations, including scaling, maintenance, and cost implications
Best practices for implementing RAG in production environments using both approaches
How to choose which method is best for your project

Whether you've been coding AI for years or are just getting started, you'll learn practical ways to build better chatbots faster.
Speakers
avatar for Rishab Kumar

Rishab Kumar

Staff Developer Evangelist, Twilio
Rishab is a Staff Developer Evangelist at Twilio, co-author of Learn to Cloud, a GitHub Star, an AWS Community Builder, and a Google Developer Expert. He is passionate about helping people get into cloud and sharing his learnings from his time in cloud, DevOps and now DevRel.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:30am PST

PRO Session: Rise of the Machines: Embracing Agentic AI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Jen McVicker, Atlassian, Senior Enterprise Technical Architect

You've heard of NLP. You've heard of GenAI. You may know about Predictive AI. But have you heard about Agentic AI?

Agentic AI refers to AI systems designed to operate as independent entities, capable of observing and interacting with their environment to achieve specific goals. Prepare to be amazed as this session unveils the extraordinary capabilities of AI agents, transforming your understanding of what's possible!
Speakers
avatar for Jen McVicker

Jen McVicker

Senior Enterprise Technical Architect, Atlassian
Jen is a highly skilled software development and delivery expert with over 25 years of experience in the field. She has a deep understanding of Agile principles and methodologies and has successfully led multiple teams through Agile transformations. As a member of the Advisory Services... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: Radical Transparency for Software Teams
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
OpsWorld
Gregory Lind, Buildly, CEO and Founder

Redefine team communication with radical transparency. Fostering a culture of openness, honesty, and positivity in your team, can create a work environment where everyone feels empowered to do their best work and grow both personally and professionally. This talk will give an overview to bringing radical transparency into your DevOps, software and product development processes. 
Speakers
avatar for Gregory Lind

Gregory Lind

CEO and Founder, Buildly
Author of "Radical Therapy for Software Teams", CEO of Buildly, and 20+ year career in Software, Open Source and Startups. Founder and CTO of four successful startups in 3 different countries. Worked with NGOs and Government agencies building open source grant management systems... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
OpsWorld
  Dev Exec World

10:30am PST

OpenAPI Summit: Describing API Workflows with Arazzo
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Dev Exec World
Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear, Principal API Technical Evangelist

Take a hands-on approach to mastering Arazzo, the API workflow specification from the OpenAPI Initiative, designed to streamline how to describe, validate, and share multi-step API interactions. This session cuts through the noise, giving you the tools and techniques needed to create high-quality workflow documents for real-world applications. We start with a breakdown of the Arazzo Specification structure and how it simplifies API workflows into reusable, programmatically readable formats. See Arazzo Specification GPT in action, accelerating the creation of Arazzo Documents and workflows with AI-driven precision. Dive into VSCode for hands-on editing, and how to validate and lint Arazzo Documents using Spectral. Learn how to create custom Spectral rules to enforce your team’s style guide, ensuring your documents are consistent and maintainable. You get tools, tips, and confidence to start your Arazzo journey, enabling you to weave together the use cases that enhance both human understanding and machine usability of your APIs.
Speakers
avatar for Frank Kilcommins

Frank Kilcommins

Principal API Technical Evangelist, SmartBear
Frank has over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry, with his roles spanning from software engineering to enterprise architecture. His mission is to inspire, engage with and support the API community and SmartBear customers across the end-to-end API Development Lifecycle... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

10:30am PST

OPEN Session: Designing with Developers in Mind (and Vice Versa)
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Frontend World
Megan Pekarek, Livefront, Front End Developer
Ben Wood, Livefront, Creative Director

Collaboration between developers and designers is crucial for creating successful and effective digital products. In this talk, we will explore how Figma can help bridge the gap between these two roles, allowing for smoother and more efficient collaboration. We will discuss various ways designers and developers can keep design files and code bases in sync. We’ll also discuss strategies for overcoming some common challenges that can arise while designing and building an ever changing product. Whether you’re a designer, developer, or both, you’ll come away from this talk with a deeper understanding of how to work collaboratively with your colleagues and create awesome stuff. See you there!
Speakers
avatar for Megan Pekarek

Megan Pekarek

Front End Developer, Livefront
Megan is a Front End Developer at Livefront with a UX/UI Design Bootcamp Certificate and a Web Accessibility Certification. She is passionate about finding ways to improve the user experience for everyone involved in creating and using web apps.
avatar for Ben Wood

Ben Wood

Creative Director, Livefront
Ben is a Design Leader based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, he brings over 15 years of expertise in design. He has collaborated with a diverse range of organizations, from startups and small businesses to industry giants such as Google, UnitedHealth Group, Cargill, Medtronic, 3M... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
Frontend World
  Frontend World

10:30am PST

PRO Session: Product Discovery: The Science Behind Qualitative Research
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Timoté Geimer, dualoop, CEO

Talking to your users is great. Doing it well is better. We hear every day that you need to speak to your customers to understand their needs and solve their problems. But who really knows how to do this? How to prepare interviews so as not to induce bias? In this session, we will delve into the social sciences and, more specifically, qualitative research to rediscover how to set up a scientifically valid research method. We will discuss the research hypothesis, interview guide, and much more. 
Speakers
avatar for Timoté Geimer

Timoté Geimer

CEO, dualoop
Timoté is the CEO of dualoop, a consulting firm specialising in product management. He has spent the last 12 years shaping and building product teams in startups and scale-ups. Timoté now shares his knowledge with peers through advising, guest-lecturing, forums, workshops, and private... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

10:30am PST

Dev Roundtable: Adrian Machado, Staff Engineer, Zuplo
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am 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
avatar for Adrian Machado

Adrian Machado

Staff Engineer, Zuplo
I am a Staff Software engineer working at Zuplo. I specialize in our open source technology and adopting emerging technologies (ex. AI) at the company. This includes our work on RateMyOpenAPI, Zudoku, Mockbin, and various other tools. I've written several blogs for Zuplo, and spoken... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am PST
Roundtable Room
  Cloud Native World

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: Playing with Fire and Controlling the Flare of AI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Bar-El Tayouri, Mend.io, Head of Mend AI

AI lets us reimagine what the world could look like, bringing new technologies—and unfortunately, increasing security risks—to life. Dive into the new reality of risk when playing with fire – exploring AI vulnerabilities in real-time, straight from the terminal.

In this session, you’ll see how these vulnerabilities are exploited, uncover adversarial methods, and explore real-world case studies—complete with technical code examples. Reveal how attackers identify and leverage AI weaknesses, including the creation of new zero-days. But knowing the risks is only half the battle. Learn concrete strategies to protect your AI systems, from strengthening prompts and setting up guardrails to spotting rogue agents and running AI-specific red team exercises. Whether you’re a developer or security pro, you’ll leave with the tools to safeguard your AI-powered projects and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Speakers
avatar for Bar-El Tayouri

Bar-El Tayouri

Head of Mend AI, Mend.io
Bar-El has been programming since the age of 12 and began hacking transportation cards while still in high school. Today, he leads Mend AI, a suite of products designed to enable the GenAI revolution for security-conscious enterprises. He co-founded Atom-Security, an AppSec prioritization... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

11:00am PST

PRO Session: Build Enterprise RAG
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Ofer Mendelevitch, Vectara, Developer Relations

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a leading approach for creating ChatGPT-like applications tailored to custom or private datasets. In this workshop, developers and builders will learn what RAG is, the key components of a RAG stack, and understand some of the challenges involved in building RAG and chatbot applications at enterprise scale. Participants will learn how to use Vectara's RAG-as-a-service API to build a working chatbot for their own use-case including both front end and backend. We will finish with an open Q&A session about RAG addressing participants questions. 
Speakers
avatar for Ofer Mendelevitch

Ofer Mendelevitch

Developer Relations, Vectara
Ofer Mendelevitch leads developer relations at Vectara. He has extensive hands-on experience in machine learning, data science and big data systems across multiple industries, and has focused on developing products using large language models since 2019. Prior to Vectara he built... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: DevEx Isn't Just for Developers
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Cloud Native World
Benjie De Groot, Shipyard, Co Founder

Empowering developers starts with enabling all the internal stake holders frictionless access to WIP features. We will discuss how shortening the internal feedback loop is a key critical aspect of DX. One of the largest contributors to overall efficiency, time to market, and innovation cycles is waiting on product, QA, customer success and C-Suite feedback. When discussing DevEx we must understand the critical role that non-developer stakeholders play in the SDLC and how enabling them speeds up lead time for changes / deployment frequency. DevEx for non developers is critical! 
Speakers
avatar for Benjie De Groot

Benjie De Groot

Co Founder, Shipyard
Benjie is the co-founder of Shipyard. Previously, he built out CI/CD pipelines for companies ranging in size from seed to Fortune 50. He enjoys automating the mundane and releasing code that he knows has been tested and validated! When not working, he likes hanging out with his pug... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

11:00am PST

OpenAPI Summit: Coming Soon!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Exec World
Henry Andrews, OpenAPI, OpenAPI Standards & Software Contractor
Speakers
avatar for Henry Andrews

Henry Andrews

OpenAPI Standards & Software Contractor, OpenAPI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: Stop the Silos: From Files to Apps, Integrate Your Dev Approach
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
John Wilson, IBM, Senior Product Manager

From standards to security, there’s no shortage of considerations when developing for the transmission of complex data through myriad systems, apps, partners, and geographies. Even if you can quickly transfer files of any size in a secure, governed and encrypted manner, there’s always another hop to get to value. But files, apps, APIs—these don’t live in a silo, and neither can your approach to integration.

In this session we’ll start with an MFT use case and showcase how IBM’s hybrid iPaaS (integration platform as a service) unifies disparate integration approaches to make collaboration easier. Check out a new way to solve common everyday enterprise file handling requirements directly from a cloud or hybrid solution.
Speakers
avatar for John Wilson

John Wilson

Senior Product Manager, IBM
John Wilson is a senior product manager in application integration and middleware. He has decades of experience as a practitioner in the integration space, having worked in-house for large enterprise corporations such as Colgate-Palmolive and Coca-Cola. He then moved into the technology... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
  Dev Innovation World

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Were Possible with GitHub Actions
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
OpsWorld
Jessica Deen, GitHub, Staff Developer Advocate

Unlock the full potential of GitHub Actions in this 25-minute demo with Jessica Deen, staff developer advocate at GitHub. Jessica will guide you through advanced features, such as job summaries, matrix jobs, reusable workflows, and OpenID Connect for passwordless cloud deployments. You'll also learn more about artifact attestations and explore starter workflow templates to help streamline your CI/CD processes. You'll see how these powerful tools can enhance your development workflow, boost productivity, and ensure security. 
Speakers
avatar for Jessica Deen

Jessica Deen

Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub
Jessica is currently a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. She previously worked for AWS and Microsoft. Before that, she spent over a decade as an IT Consultant / Systems Administrator for various corporate and enterprise environments, catering to end users and IT professionals in... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: Product Mastery: Immersive Learning for Discovery and Delivery
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Frontend World
Robert Clawson, Discover Financial Services, Agile and Product Dojo Coach)
Soumya Raju, Discover Financial Services, Senior Manager of Product

A safe space to practice dangerous things; this is the idea behind a dojo. Understand how Discovers Technology Academy has used immersive learning dojos on technology teams, with a specific focus on how they have accelerated our value delivery by dedicating the time to embrace product centricity head-on and emphasizing a generative organizational culture. Immersive learning dojos provide a unique environment for hands on learning, collaboration and skill development - enabling teams to slow down and take time to be thoughtful about their ways of working, products and technology. This session delves into the tactics employed and learned within the dojos that have empowered product owners to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency at delivering value, driving innovation, and empowering their technical counterparts. Attendees will gain insights into real word examples, lessons learned, and tangible strategies that can be applied to help assess their own organization and foster a culture of continuous improvement. 
Speakers
avatar for Robert Clawson

Robert Clawson

Agile and Product Dojo Coach, Discover Financial Services
Robert is a talented, energetic, and insightful coach focused on helping teams align on their best way of working to build trust and accountability. He has spent more than a decade in the IT field with a primary focus on agile framework, product development, and software quality... Read More →
avatar for Soumya Raju

Soumya Raju

Senior Manager of Product, Discover Financial Services
As a Senior Manager of Product, Soumya Raju is an accomplished product leader with over 15 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams and delivering innovative solutions. She plays a key role in leading the creation of product strategy and accelerating digital product delivery... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Frontend World
  ProductWorld

11:00am PST

PRO Session: From Vision to Delivery: Reshaping Agile Product Management through AI-driven OKRs
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Mariya Breyter, Amazon, Head of Product Management

Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework combined with Agile delivery takes product management to a new level. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have been well-known for decades now, and John Doerr's book on Measuring What Matters became a hit immediately after it was published. However, while OKRs as a concept seem logical and straightforward, many companies struggle with implementing this concept in an aligned and inspirational way. As an Agile practitioner implementing OKRs in multiple large organizations, I experience five major ANTI-PATTERNS that impact product management: 

(1) OKRs are implemented top-down. OKRs are not KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)** which are top-down arbitrary numbers provided by management to each employee at the beginning of a long-term period (usually a year). OKRs are set by teams, not individuals, and aligned with organizational objectives. In that, OKRs are inspirational and encourage teams to set up objectives that motivate them and inspire self-organizing teams to make a difference.

(2) OKRs are used to measure performance and define compensation. Unlike KPIs which are used to measure performance and influence compensation and promotions, OKRs are not related to performance in any way. Numbers are easy to game, and connecting OKRs to performance would negate the purpose of those. OKRs need to be aspirational and hard to achieve, and by doing that, the teams challenge them to continuously grow and become high-performing. This is the reason OKRs are self-graded, not measured by the managers.
OKRs are focused on activities, not results.

(3) Frequently, OKRs are focused on activities or tasks, e.g. providing 100 training sessions, hiring 300 employees, or creating a Playbook covering 50 topics. While sometimes there is a reason for task-based key results, in most cases, the objective is either customer-obsessed (e.g. customer adoption or customer satisfaction), business objective (e.g. revenue growth), employee-related (e.g. retention data), or a related goal. In either case, it forces teams to pivot if the initial set of activities does not bring the intended result and fails forward to pursue the goal.

(4) OKRs need to be measured by managers. OKRs are self-graded by the team that is committed to them. Pre-grading is a helpful technique that allows setting quantifiable success criteria from 0 (not started) to 1 (challenging but possible).

(5) OKRs are assessed at the end of the period for which they are set. OKRs are reviewed at frequent intervals (usually monthly for quarterly or annual OKRs), and it is important to keep in mind that the value of those sessions is not in grades but in alignment and collaboration discussions and outcomes.

We will review the role of AI in the OKR setting and review how AI-based simulations can help set up realistic customer-driven OKRs. Finally, we will discuss OKR implementation and review examples of how OKRs empower teams to self-organize while achieving shared goals within a scaled agile environment.

Learning Outcomes:

We know that mastery, autonomy, and purpose drive our professional satisfaction and create motivation. However, as product managers, we are all motivated by different objectives that may not be aligned with each other's or with organizational goals.

As product managers, how do we create a meaningful alignment of our team's goals, individual aspirations, and company objectives? How do we establish complete transparency across the organization so that at each moment of time anyone would see the same picture and understand how their individual or their team's activities contribute to this shared goal? How do we get a say in what are the objectives and a clear understanding of why they are so important for the whole company?

Participants will leave the workshop with a clear understanding of the process of: (a) how to build a cascading OKR structure within a scaled Agile organization as a product manager with AI and generative testing, (b) how to continuously pivot and self-assess their team's results, and (c) how to align the whole organization while allowing for team-level self-organization.
Speakers
avatar for Mariya Breyter

Mariya Breyter

Head of Product Management, Amazon
Mariya Breyter is a technology executive, product leader, and educator with experience ranging from leading technology companies and government jobs to versatile corporate experience in financial services, healthcare, media, education, and technology companies. She takes pride in... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:30am PST

KEYNOTE: Auth0 by Okta-- Coming Soon!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Shiven Ramji, Okta, President, Customer Identity Cloud
Speakers
avatar for Shiven Ramji

Shiven Ramji

President, Customer Identity Cloud, Okta
Shiv is an experienced product executive and builder obsessed with creating beautiful products. He is the President of Customer Identity at Okta, managing a $1B ARR business and overseeing the company’s product, data, security, and technology strategy and execution. Before Auth0... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

11:30am PST

OpenAPI Summit: OpenAPI Overlays: Strategies for API Description Management
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
Dev Exec World
Kevin Swiber, API strategy lead and technical evangelist

Are you puzzled by the number of ways OpenAPI descriptions might be used? How do you handle differences in visibility, custom extensions, or even multilingual documentation? OpenAPI Overlays offer a nuanced approach to modifying an API description without altering the original. This session will explore how you can use Overlays to address common challenges with OpenAPI Specification.
We'll cover:
- Core concepts of the OpenAPI Overlay Specification
- Practical use cases that require transforming API descriptions
- Techniques for managing API metadata and visibility
By understanding Overlays, you'll gain a flexible tool for adapting API specifications to different environments and requirements.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Swiber

Kevin Swiber

Developer Experience Advisor, Stripe
Kevin Swiber is a senior API strategy lead and technical evangelist with over 10 years of experience in API technology startups. They have a history of working in software engineering, infrastructure operations, and enterprise architecture. In addition to their work at API companies... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

11:30am PST

OPEN Session: Spice Up Your Mobile Design System: The Secret Sauce of Accessibility in React Native
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
Frontend World
Cecilia Geraldo, Thoughtworks, Technical Lead & Developer Consultant

Design systems are like the perfect recipe for creating consistent and efficient mobile apps. But what if I told you that many mobile design systems are missing a key ingredient—accessibility? Without it, you risk leaving users behind and even facing legal challenges. In this talk, we’re going to blend accessibility best practices into your React Native component library, creating a mobile design system that’s not just cohesive, but inclusive for everyone. Imagine saving development time, avoiding legal pitfalls, and delivering an app that’s a delight for all users. Don’t miss out on this essential session—your users (and your legal team) will thank you! 
Speakers
avatar for Cecilia Geraldo

Cecilia Geraldo

Technical Lead & Developer Consultant, Thoughtworks
Women TechMakers Ambassador from Chile. Building community and promoting visibiliby and women empowerment in tech industry. Cecy graduated form Laboratoria as Front End Developer, now she's a Software Developer Consultant and also Technical Lead at Thoughtworks. She strongly believes... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
Frontend World
  Frontend World

11:30am PST

PRO Session: Moving Fast, Achieving Big: The Role of Customer Focus and a Great Team
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Gabriela Brant Alves, Deel, Senior Product Manager

In today’s fast-paced market, achieving significant impact requires more than just a great product. I'll explore the critical elements that drive rapid growth and success: an unwavering focus on customers and the power of a strong product team.

By working in a company that became the fastest-growing startup in the industry, skyrocketing from $1M ARR to $100M in just 20 months and reaching $500M ARR in 5 years, I will delve into real-world strategies and experiences that illustrate how being deeply customer-centric and building a cohesive, agile team can accelerate progress and amplify results.

Discover practical insights on:
- Speed: How to maintain agility and responsiveness in a competitive landscape.
- Impact: Techniques for making a meaningful and measurable difference in your market.
- Customer Focus: Methods for deeply understanding and addressing customer needs to drive loyalty and growth.
- Team Excellence: The importance of fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

Whether you’re in the early stages of scaling or looking to optimize your current approach, this talk will provide actionable takeaways to help you move fast and achieve big. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to harness the power of customer focus and team dynamics to propel your product and company forward.
Speakers
avatar for Gabriela Brant Alves

Gabriela Brant Alves

Senior Product Manager, Deel
Gabriela Brant is a Senior Product Manager with 5+ years of experience in Product Management. Currently working at Deel, where she has driven key innovations in global payroll and compliance solutions. With a strong technical background, have worked in API product management and as... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:30am PST

AI Roundtable: YK Sugi, Senior AI Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm 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
avatar for YK Sugi

YK Sugi

Senior AI Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
Founder of CS Dojo, a leading programming education platform with over 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube, dedicated to empowering individuals with the skills needed for a successful career in tech. Beyond YouTube, he actively shares insights and tips on coding, AI, and tech career... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  AI DevWorld

12:00pm PST

Product Roundtable: Leslie Grandy, Lead Executive in Residence, The Product Guild
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm 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
avatar for Leslie Grandy

Leslie Grandy

Lead Executive in Residence, the University of Washington
Leslie Grandy is an accomplished author, speaker, and CEO advisor who helps companies, teams, and product leaders leverage creative thinking to elevate their organizations, conquer their markets, and maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world. Leslie works with start-ups and large... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

12:30pm PST

Dev Roundtable: Karen Hsu, SVP Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions, Appdome
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm 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
avatar for Karen Hsu

Karen Hsu

SVP Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions, Appdome
Karen Hsu is SVP Mobile DevOps and Security Solutions at Appdome, focused on automating building and testing of secure apps in the DevOps pipeline. She co-founded BlockchainIntel to identify fraud in ACH, credit card and blockchain transactions, becoming part of Appdome to extend... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  Dev Exec World

1:00pm PST

KEYNOTE: DigitalOcean -- AI Democratization: Enabling Developers of All Sizes
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Bratin Saha, DigitalOcean, Chief Product and Technology Officer

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be taking all industries by storm. Still, the sad reality is that so far, these changes are afforded to and created by large players who have the resources to develop AI technology. But if we are to unlock the full potential and promise of this technology, the future of AI development needs to be shaped by developers in companies of all sizes, even if they are resource-constrained. This session will explore how democratizing AI tools, platforms, and knowledge can accelerate innovation, bridge skill gaps, and empower the next generation of AI technology creators.

Technology tends to follow the path of democratization. From an infrastructure layer to a platform layer to finally the application layer, making the technology accessible to everyday users should be the natural progression. AI will soon move from the foundational models developed by companies like Anthropic and Open AI to applications that allow users to interact with unique and useful AI tools in their daily lives. This will be made possible by lowering barriers to entry through open-source frameworks, user-friendly APIs, and collaborative ecosystems so AI can become a tool for everyone, not just a privileged few.

Attendees will leave this talk with practical insights on how companies can ensure the efficient and equitable development of AI through the steps needed to enable developers with AI infrastructure, simplify AI platforms and empower developers with AI-driven applications.
Speakers
avatar for Bratin Saha

Bratin Saha

Chief Product and Technology Officer, DigitalOcean
As Chief Product and Technology Officer, Bratin Saha drives product and platform strategy, development, and security with a focus on making DigitalOcean the simplest, most productive, and most cost-effective platform for the developer community. Bratin brings more than 20 years of... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

1:00pm PST

PRO Session: Building an Advanced Software Engineering Agent
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
YK Sugi, Sourcegraph, Senior AI Developer Advocate

This presentation details the development of an experimental software engineering agent designed to answer complex questions about codebases. The core innovation lies in a graph-based approach where the agent iteratively gathers contextual information, using self-reflection to assess its confidence in answering the query. By treating accumulated context as a set and employing a greedy best-first search guided by confidence scores, the system aims to efficiently navigate the codebase and provide accurate answers. Initial findings are promising, with future benchmarks on real-world software engineering challenges planned to further validate its capabilities.  
Speakers
avatar for YK Sugi

YK Sugi

Senior AI Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
Founder of CS Dojo, a leading programming education platform with over 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube, dedicated to empowering individuals with the skills needed for a successful career in tech. Beyond YouTube, he actively shares insights and tips on coding, AI, and tech career... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: Your Cheat Code for API Authorization
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Dev Exec World
Omri Gazitt, Aserto, Co-founder & CEO

Congrats, your org is all-in on microservices! But now you have hundreds (or thousands!) of APIs. Some power your customer-facing apps. Others are platform services that your front-end services consume. Still others are back-end services used by internal tools.

And ALL of them need to be authorized.

Not to mention, you need to be able to answer questions like “which users are authorized to invoke this endpoint?” and “which endpoints can this user invoke?”

Having each API “do its own thing” makes it all but impossible to wrangle this complexity. You need a cross-cutting solution to apply authorization rules consistently - either in the API code or at the API Gateway.

Enter Aserto: an open source cloud-native authorization service that does this, and more.

This talk provides hands-on learning for how to go from an OpenAPI spec to a fine-grained authorization model, ready to authorize your users, in just a few minutes.
Speakers
avatar for Omri Gazitt

Omri Gazitt

Co-founder & CEO, Aserto.com
Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his 3rd entrepreneurial venture. He spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer & infrastructure tech, most recently as the CPO of Puppet. Previously he was the VP & GM of HP's Cloud Native Platform... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

1:00pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: AI and the Gaming Industry: Risks, Rewards, and the Future
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Dev Security World
Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca, SheHacksPurple, Secure Coding Trainer
OWASP Certified 
Speakers
avatar for Tanya

Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca

Secure Coding Trainer, SheHacksPurple
Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding', 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec'. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

1:00pm PST

Product Roundtable: Timoté Geimer, CEO, dualoop
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm 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
avatar for Timoté Geimer

Timoté Geimer

CEO, dualoop
Timoté is the CEO of dualoop, a consulting firm specialising in product management. He has spent the last 12 years shaping and building product teams in startups and scale-ups. Timoté now shares his knowledge with peers through advising, guest-lecturing, forums, workshops, and private... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

1:00pm PST

PRO Session: From Bold Ideas to Real Results: Crafting Achievable Roadmaps
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Surbhi Gupta, Zoox, Product Leader
Shalini Dinesh, Walmart, Senior Product Manager
Nupur Jain, Google, Product Manager, Google Deepmind


In a competitive landscape where businesses must evolve to meet customer demands, and sustain, the reality is up to 70% of strategic initiatives fail due to poor execution, unrealistic goals, or the inability to make timely strategic decisions (Harvard Business Review, 2020). Companies often embark on ambitious projects without clear, actionable roadmaps, leading to wasted resources, missed opportunities, and stalled growth. The disconnect between innovative ideas and actual results is often rooted in a failure to set clear, achievable objectives and align stakeholders across the organization.

This session will present data-driven insights and practical frameworks for crafting roadmaps that transform bold ideas into real results. To gain valuable outcomes, roadmaps must be designed with a focus on prioritizing high-impact initiatives, aligning them with measurable milestones, and ensuring adaptability to respond to evolving market conditions. This approach bridges the gap between aspiration and execution, ensuring that innovation translates into sustained success.

Drawing on research from McKinsey, which shows that companies that define and communicate clear strategies are 3.5 times more likely to outperform their peers (McKinsey & Company, 2021), we will outline the key steps to ensure strategic alignment, continuous feedback, and measurable outcomes. More details and actionable strategies will be discussed in the session, empowering leaders to move beyond lofty goals and drive meaningful, measurable change.

Speakers
avatar for Surbhi Gupta

Surbhi Gupta

Product Leader, Zoox
Surbhi Gupta brings a unique blend of product mastery and mentorship to the stage. From launching impactful products at industry giants like Meta, Tesla, and Amazon's Zoox to guiding startups at Plug and Play, she's a force to be reckoned with. Her groundbreaking innovations have... Read More →
avatar for Shalini Dinesh

Shalini Dinesh

Senior Product Manager, Walmart
Shalini Dinesh is a Senior Product Manager at Walmart, the world’s leading Fortune 1 company, where she plays a pivotal role in shaping product strategy and innovation. With a Master's in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Shalini combines technical... Read More →
avatar for Nupur Jain

Nupur Jain

Product Manager, Google Deepmind, Google
Nupur Jain is an accomplished product leader with over a decade of experience in driving innovation and launching AI-powered solutions at Google. As a Product Manager for Google Deepmind, she spearheads the development of cutting-edge extensions on the Gemini platform, integrating... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

1:30pm PST

PRO Session: AI in Financial Services: Emerging Trends and Opportunities
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Awais Bajwa, Bank of America, Head of Data & AI Banking

- Why does it matter: Financial Services is one of the largest addressable vertical markets for gen AI
- Emerging use cases: customer engagement, knowledge discovery, coding, content marketing
- The Gen AI infrastructure stack & integration with legacy IT systems
- Key challenges to adoption: data privacy, security, bias, hallucinations, regulatory compliance.
- Responsible AI: Establishing governance framework, ethical guardrails and controls
Speakers
avatar for Awais Bajwa

Awais Bajwa

Head of Data & AI Banking, Bank of America
Awais Sher Bajwa is a leader in Data and AI banking, as well as a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. With a career spanning over 15 years, Awais has led over 60 strategic deals, including IPOs, M&A, and capital raises, with a total value exceeding $60 billion.Awais founded Bank... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Stateful Workloads Made Easy: A Practical Demo of Live Migration
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Cloud Native World
Steven Fraser, CAST AI, Senior Solution Architect

Kubernetes works great for stateless applications, but stateful workloads like databases or long-running jobs pose a challenge. These applications rely on persistent data and can’t afford interruptions, making Kubernetes’ “ephemeral” approach risky. Downtime can lead to data loss, inconsistencies, and system failures.

That’s where live migration comes in, allowing stateful workloads to move between nodes without disruption. At Cast AI, we’ve developed Container Live Migration to automatically consolidate these workloads, ensuring continuous uptime, reducing resource fragmentation, and cutting costs. Join us to see how we’re making Kubernetes work for stateful applications in a practical demo.
Speakers
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Steven Fraser

Senior Solution Architect, CAST AI
Senior Solution Architect
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

1:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Where Is the Love? Why Automated Regression Testing Isn’t Getting the Attention It Needs
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
OpsWorld
Jens Wessling, Veracode, Chief Technology Officer

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace and new innovations bring a world of possibilities, one item is often left behind: automated regression testing. The truth is without it, organizations can forget about software quality, security, winning customers' trust or being agile.

Regression testing is an integral, non-negotiable part of the production software development process right from the very moment the first line of production code is written. Its impact goes beyond code correctness, influencing development velocity, reducing long-term maintenance costs and ensuring a smoother integration process during acquisitions. However, companies often scramble to retrofit regression testing into their legacy code, but in reality, less than 10% of these after-the-fact efforts ever pan out. It might be tempting to overlook the absence of solid regression testing in smaller companies, but here's the catch: the long-term costs of maintaining code without automated testing don't just stay put – they grow. It's not just a “nice to have” it’s a strategic investment to safeguard their current operations and for companies to position themselves for future growth, innovation and success.

In this Thought Leadership Session, Jens Wessling, CTO of Veracode, outlines the importance of automated regression testing, highlighting why both developers and the C-Suite should make it a priority from the outset and how to make it a core aspect of your team's ethos.
Speakers
avatar for Jens Wessling

Jens Wessling

Chief Technology Officer, Veracode
Jens Wessling is the Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He leads the architecture vision for Veracode’s core capabilities around its proprietary data model and AI-powered remediation engine. With more than 25 years’ experience in software engineering and architecture, Jens... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
OpsWorld
  Dev Exec World

1:30pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: No AI without APIs
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Dev Exec World
Jeremy Snyder, Firetail, CEO

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the most important developments in tech of the last 10 years. While AI has grabbed the majority of headlines lately, APIs are the unsung heroes, the “connective tissue” that ensures seamless integration across our digital lives. But how will the more recent emergence of AI affect API security, and how do APIs affect the security of AI? 
In this talk, we’ll explore these two hot topics that make our online worlds work. AI can be helpful to API security by allowing security teams to automate certain processes or make testing more efficient, but it can also be used to help malicious actors automate their attacks.
 
Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Snyder

Jeremy Snyder

CEO, FireTail
Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup. Prior to FireTail, Jeremy worked in M&A at Rapid7, a global cyber leader, where he worked on the acquisitions of 3 companies during the pandemic. Jeremy previously led sales at DivvyCloud, one of the... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

1:30pm PST

Product Roundtable: Connor Joyce, Senior User Researcher, Microsoft
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 2:00pm 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
avatar for Connor Joyce

Connor Joyce

Senior User Researcher, Microsoft
Connor Joyce is the author of "Bridging Intentions to Impact" and a Senior User Researcher on the Microsoft Copilot Team, where he is advancing the design of AI-enhanced features. Passionate about driving meaningful change, Connor advocates that companies adopt an Impact Mindset... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

2:00pm PST

KEYNOTE (AI DevWorld): The Agentic Workforce Revolution: How to Futureproof Your Governance Framework
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Manish Rai, Snaplogic, VP of Product Marketing

The rise of AI agents shows no sign of slowing down, with the market projected* to grow tenfold from $5 billion in 2024 to nearly $50 billion by 2030. By this time, generative AI will be table stakes, and business and IT leaders will instead be grappling with how to manage an entire workforce of AI agents carrying out a range of automated tasks.

In an AI-powered future, enterprises are like gardens with AI agents as gardeners, helping the landscapers maintain the estate. These agents are smart, self sufficient tools, and excel at specific tasks, but if the tool shed is disorganized they will be slowed down — or worse, use the wrong soil or seeds and cause irreparable damage, preventing the garden from blooming to its full potential. To avoid this, organizations must keep their tools in order.

In this session, Manish Rai will explore a range of considerations for enterprises as they implement and scale a team of AI agents to set themselves up for long-term success. It will encompass topics such as function management, and how to govern the tools AI agents will have access to — while maintaining guardrails. As use cases for AI agents expand to non-technical teams, Rai will also discuss key stakeholders for overseeing implementation to prevent shadow data. Finally, he will provide tips for organizations seeking to rework their overall data governance framework to meet the moment head on, and be prepared for a new agentic workforce.
Speakers
avatar for Manish Rai

Manish Rai

VP of Product Marketing, SnapLogic
Manish Rai is the VP of Product Marketing at SnapLogic. Rai has 15+ years of Silicon Valley marketing experience spanning Generative AI, integration, low-code, RPA, and mobility solutions. He was previously VP of Marketing at Super.AI, where he helped drive rapid company growth in... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Building AI Applications from Your Desktop with Podman AI Lab
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
Cedric Clyburn, Red Hat, Developer Advocate

Generative AI is revolutionizing how we build modern applications, but for developers, it can be daunting, particularly with evaluating models, building with Gen AI, and the path to production. But, it doesn’t have to be worrisome! Join us in this session to be ahead of the curve when it comes to AI-enabled cloud-native application development.

Using container technology and open source models from Hugging Face, we’ll show how to practically integrate Gen AI in an existing application from your local development environment and ultimately deploy it onto Kubernetes. Why work with local and open-source models? From reducing cloud computing costs, keeping control of your sensitive data, and alleviating vendor-locking, it’s an increasingly popular way for developers to prototype AI applications quickly. We’ll demonstrate a sample of the whole AI journey, starting from assessing models, building applications with LLMs, and deploying/serving AI applications.
Speakers
avatar for Cedric Clyburn

Cedric Clyburn

Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: From DevEx Disaster to Delight: How to Champion a DevEx Revolution in Your Organization
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Frontend World
Jeremy Meiss, DevEx Institute, Developer Experience & Community Leader

Is your team struggling with bugs, inefficient tools, and demoralizing processes? Do you often hear them expressing their frustration with the deployment process and the codebase? Don't worry, this talk is your ticket to transforming your organization's Developer Experience (DevEx) from a disaster zone to a developer utopia.

We'll delve into the what, why, and how of DevEx, exploring practical strategies that will empower you to make your developers' lives easier and more productive. We'll cover everything from tooling and automation to fostering a culture of collaboration and feedback. By the end of this talk, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and practical tips to become a DevEx champion in your organization.
Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Meiss

Jeremy Meiss

Developer Experience & Community Leader, DevEx Institute
Jeremy is a seasoned Developer Experience and Community leader, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including support, system and database administration... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Frontend World
  Dev Exec World

2:00pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: APIOps: Interface Development at Scale
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Exec World
Erik Hansen, Dell Technologies, API Architect, Developer Platform Services

Sure, your product may deliver a REST API to customers, but what about all those interfaces that exist within your company - between microservices, for internal tooling, and from imported packages? API Operations (APIOps) enables a consistent process, for developing and sharing any type of software interface, within your company and for your customers – whether you have 2 or 200 teams.
In this talk, learn how Dell is implementing APIOps to:
- Increase development velocity - for the team producing a shared interface, and their consumers.
- Reduce complexity - through common developer tooling and processes.
- Promote Consistency - by automating validation and governance.
- Expand Visibility - across all types of interfaces: REST, gRPC, event-based, and others.
Speakers
avatar for Erik Hansen

Erik Hansen

API Architect, Developer Platform Services, Dell Technologies
Erik is a Distinguished Member Technical Staff and API Architect at Dell Technologies. He is an advocate for User Centered Design and Developer Experience, helping Dell modernize its software development processes and engagement with external developers.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

2:00pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: Building a Network Telemetry Platform to minimize Security Threats
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Security World
Siri Varma Vegiraju, Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer

Maintaining robust network security in the cloud environment is more crucial than ever. This talk explores the design and implementation of a proactive network telemetry platform that strengthens infrastructure security. The platform collects and analyzes telemetry data from virtual machines to identify and scrutinize traffic patterns deviating from industry-standard baselines. By generating actionable insights and promptly notifying relevant teams of potential issues, it enables swift problem resolution. This proactive approach significantly reduces the attack surface, minimizes exposure to network attacks, and enhances overall cloud security. 
Speakers
avatar for Siri Varma Vegiraju

Siri Varma Vegiraju

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Siri Varma Vegiraju is a seasoned professional in healthcare, cloud computing, and security. Currently, he focuses on securing Azure Cloud workloads, leveraging his extensive experience in distributed systems and real-time streaming solutions. Prior to his current role, Siri contributed... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Say Goodbye to Toil: Automating Cluster Upgrades
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld
Ben Ryves, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer

How difficult is it to minimize the toil of cluster upgrades while increasing confidence in deploying the changes?

Even when managed, cluster upgrades are an unavoidable part of cluster maintenance, yet they can also be a source of toil, stress and outages; either when upgrading Kubernetes itself or additional cluster components. Manually testing changes in staging clusters, deploying with a high sense of uncertainty - these time consuming tasks can be mitigated with tests. Add nifty automation and cluster management efforts are reduced to a bare minimum.

Is investing in cluster tests and automation worth it? Yes! This talk shows how a team of three engineers keeps multiple clusters continuously up-to-date with minimal time investment, effort and disruptions. By leveraging the e2e-framework and Helm, everything from Istio to cluster autoscaler is tested and seamlessly managed.
Speakers
avatar for Ben Ryves

Ben Ryves

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide
Ben works as an SRE at GetYourGuide, building automation and testing tooling to provision production Kubernetes clusters. His main focus is networking, security, and resource optimisation.
avatar for Maggie Slukova

Maggie Slukova

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide
Maggie is a backend engineer turned SRE with a background in Mathematics. Her areas of focus are Kubernetes, Istio, cluster optimisation, autoscaling and automation. She loves building things, be it software, infrastructure, furniture or games.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

2:00pm PST

PRO Session: Scaling Smarter: Lessons from Air Canada’s Transformational Growth
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Ivana Ciric, Thoughtworks, Director of Product, Practice
Jose Platero, Air Canada, Director, Digital Product & Design

Over the last few years, Air Canada has navigated significant growth, expanding partnerships, services, and modernizing its tech stack. This journey demanded a radical shift in the product operating model across the organization.

Through sharing our journey, we'll cover how you can:
- Build Scalable Product Teams: The strategies we used to cultivate teams that are equipped to scale rapidly and effectively.
- Drive Innovation Amid Market Realities: How we prepared our teams to adapt and innovate in response to dynamic customer needs and future-proofing our products.
- Prove the Value of Transformation: How we demonstrated the tangible business impact of evolving our product practices to stakeholders.
Speakers
avatar for Jose Platero

Jose Platero

Director, Digital Product & Design, Air Canada
Jose Platero is a digital product, design and delivery leader who helps startups, scale ups and enterprises to define and scale their product management, product design and product delivery practices so they deliver better products faster.Currently, he leads digital product and design... Read More →
avatar for Ivana Ciric

Ivana Ciric

Director of Product, Practice, Thoughtworks
As the Director of Product, Practice at Thoughtworks, Ivana is at the helm of product strategy and delivery across diverse industries including Commodities, Automotive, Travel, and Consumer Electronics. Her skill in developing forward-thinking 0-1 software products, ranging from ML... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

2:00pm PST

Dev Roundtable: Omri Gazitt, Co-founder & CEO, Aserto
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm 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
avatar for Omri Gazitt

Omri Gazitt

Co-founder & CEO, Aserto.com
Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his 3rd entrepreneurial venture. He spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer & infrastructure tech, most recently as the CPO of Puppet. Previously he was the VP & GM of HP's Cloud Native Platform... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  Cloud Native World

2:30pm PST

OPEN Session: 10 Steps to Transform RAG from POC to Production: The Hidden Complexity of RAG
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Neelesh Pateriya, Cisco Systems, Principal Engineer

In this talk, we will explore the journey of the Cisco DevNet engineering team as we transformed a simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) proof of concept (POC) into a robust, production-ready application for developer.cisco.com. While creating a basic RAG demo is straightforward, scaling it to meet production standards involves navigating a myriad of challenges and complexities. This session will provide a step-by-step guide to the key aspects of this transformation, including vector indexing, model selection, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, security, user feedback, and continuous improvement. 
Speakers
avatar for Neelesh Pateriya

Neelesh Pateriya

Principal Engineer, Cisco
Neelesh is a Principal Engineer at the Cisco Developers platform. With a strong focus on driving innovation and excellence, he leads the development of the platform and the tool "API Insights," which plays a pivotal role in enabling a comprehensive organization-wide API Quality program... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Building AI Agents: Architectures & Common Challenges
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Frontend World
Akash Sharma, Vellum, CEO & Co-Founder

Join us in this session as we go through the components of how to build Advanced AI systems - from experimentation, evaluation, deploying and monitoring. We’ll dive deep into each step of the process, outlining what are our recommended best practices and how to overcome common challenges in the process. To top this all off - we’ll cover some of our favorite success stories and walk you through how it all works in a live demo. 
Speakers
avatar for Akash Sharma

Akash Sharma

CEO & Co-Founder, Vellum
Akash Sharma, CEO and co-founder at Vellum (YC-backed dev tools startup) is enabling developers to easily start, develop and evaluate LLM powered apps.By talking to over 1,500 people at varying maturities of using LLMs in production, he has acquired a very unique understanding of... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Frontend World
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: API Governance in the age of AI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Dev Exec World
Olga Podolyako, Microsoft, Principal API Architect

API governance faces a big challenge today to balance the need for speed and innovation in API products with the assurance of their quality and security. Recently we learned that AI technologies such as AI agents can increase the productivity of knowledge workers, which include software engineers and architects, by up to 29% in industries that use them such as health care, law and finance. The purpose of today’s talk is to explore how AI technology can help with API governance. 
Speakers
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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 →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Dev Exec World
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

PRO Session: Orchestrating Agentic AI Workflows: Bringing Predictability to Unpredictable Systems
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
Tony Holdstock-Brown, Inngest, CEO & Co-founder

AI poses unique challenges for developers, from unpredictable compounding inference responses to varying response times to rapid iteration. In this 25-minute talk, Inngest CEO Tony Holdstock-Brown will explore how to develop and deploy reliable, flexible, and scalable AI-driven applications using "agentic workflows". Learn how to simplify complex AI workflows by autonomously managing state, scale, and queuing via step functions. Walk away with insights on customizing workflows to handle AI's unpredictability, unlocking new possibilities for AI development at scale. 
Speakers
avatar for Tony Holdstock-Brown

Tony Holdstock-Brown

CEO & Co-founder, Inngest
CEO of Inngest, specializing in modern queuing, orchestration, and AI workflows. Over 15 years of experience designing and building complex systems.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

OPEN Session: How GenAI Helps Solve Data Consistency Problems with Cloud-Native Apps
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Cloud Native World
Brijesh Deo, Oracle, Director, Software Development

Data consistency has been a longstanding challenge, dating back to the mainframe era, and transactions have traditionally been used to address these issues. However, with the rise of modern applications built on microservices architectures, ensuring data consistency has become even more complex. While AI adds further complexity to app development, it also offers significant potential to ease these challenges. New transaction patterns have emerged to tackle these modern issues. In this session, you will learn about these new patterns and the solutions available today to integrate these patterns into your applications. We will also explore in detail how some of these solutions are leveraging genAI to help developers avoid writing transaction management code or worry about associated infrastructure, making it extremely easy to adopt such transaction patterns. 
Speakers
avatar for Brijesh Deo

Brijesh Deo

Director, Software Development, Oracle
Brijesh Deo is the Director of MicroTx product development in the database organization at Oracle. He is passionate about distributed systems and cloud technologies and specializes in Kubernetes, Microservices, AI, and Java. Brijesh has a rich industry experience of more than two... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

2:30pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: API Security 101: How to Not Be Featured in a Top Ten Breaches List
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Dev Security World
Dan Barahona, APISec, Co-Founder

This talk will dive into the fundamentals and best practices for API Security. By understanding the 3 Pillars of API Security, encompassing governance, testing and monitoring, attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the essential elements required to safeguard APIs. The session will conclude with practical insights, offering best practices and valuable do's and don'ts for implementing and maintaining secure APIs.

Why are APIs under attack?
-83% of internet traffic are APIs
-APIs are under-secured

How do APIs get attacked?
Attackers look for APIs that are over-permissioned, return to much information, access unauthorized functions, and expose logic flaws. Attackers are able to bypass a web or mobile app and hit the API directly.

OWASP top 10!!
#1-#4 are the biggest issues

More compliance regulations are including testing APIs.
-PCI
-HIPPA
-GDPR
-FedRAMP
Speakers
avatar for Dan Barahona

Dan Barahona

Co-Founder, APIsec University
Dan is a 20+ year cybersecurity veteran, having held exec positions at companies including Qualys, ArcSight, Anomali and APIsec. He founded APIsec University in 2022 to offer free, non-vendor training on API security. The site has grown to over 50,000 students in its first 6 months... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

2:30pm PST

Dev Roundtable: Dmytro Hnatiuk, Principal Software Engineer, Wise
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm 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
avatar for Dmytro Hnatiuk

Dmytro Hnatiuk

Principal Software Engineer, Wise
Dmytro Hnatiuk is a Principal Software Engineer at Wise, where he has been turning complex challenges into scalable solutions for eight years. With over a decade in the tech industry and a focused expertise in the Finance & Treasury domain for the last six years, he has successfully... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  Cloud Native World

3:00pm PST

KEYNOTE: IBM -- The Sneaky Secrets of Integration in a World of AI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Brenton House, IBM, Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods

AI has disrupted the world of development and data, creating a chaotic landscape where APIs, integrations, and security are all under siege. Every day, headlines reveal new breaches and vulnerabilities, exposing the growing risks we all face. But when you start to connect the dots, a fascinating picture emerges — one where AI and integration play a central role in both the problems and the solutions.

Join AI and cybersecurity strategist Brenton House as he uncovers the sneaky secrets of integration that EVERY developer needs to know. From shocking API vulnerabilities to AI’s hidden hand in modern breaches, you’ll gain the insights and strategies you need to navigate today’s high-stakes environment. Learn how a hybrid integration solution just might be your secret weapon to thrive in this chaotic and interconnected world.
Speakers
avatar for Brenton House

Brenton House

Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods, IBM
Brenton House is an ex-hacker, developer, strategist, and now Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods. Known for his unique creative work and YouTube channel, Brenton has produced several hit series including The Redacted Hacker, AI: Man vs. Machine, and API Cybersecurity... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

3:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Beyond Vectors: Evolving GenAI through Transformative Tools and Methods
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Alison Cossette, Neo4j, Data Science Strategist, Advocate, Educator

Embark on a thought-provoking exploration of GenAI's evolution with "Beyond Vectors: Evolving GenAI through Transformative Tools and Methods." Tailored for engineers seeking fresh perspectives, this session encourages practitioners to step beyond familiar Vector Database practices. It's not just a departure; it's a pragmatic leap forward into precision methodologies for data quality and crafting datasets essential for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) excellence. We'll navigate the complexities of adding non-semantic context through graph databases, shedding light on the nuanced limitations of distance metrics like Cosine Similarity. Join us for this insightful journey, pushing the boundaries of GenAI evolution with transformative tools and methods. 
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 →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

3:00pm PST

OpenAPI Summit: API Resiliency Testing
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Exec World
Hari Krishnan, Specmatic, Polyglot Full Stack Developer

Are your APIs leaving you worried about data loss, data corruption, security vulnerabilities, or poor user experiences? If so, this talk is exactly what you need to address these issues. Discover how you can leverage your API specifications—like OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL SDLs—to test and enhance the resiliency of your APIs with a completely #NOCODE approach.

In this talk, you’ll gain insights into the importance of API resilience and how to build APIs that can gracefully handle flaky dependencies in real-world scenarios. We’ll explore the role of contract testing in ensuring resilience and demonstrate how to transform API specifications into executable contracts that can be continuously validated. You’ll see how to set up resilience tests, including those for latency, errors, and unexpected disconnections. The session features live demos on configuring tools to simulate these conditions, interpret the results, and iteratively enhance your API designs.
Speakers
avatar for Hari Krishnan

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.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

3:00pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: 30 Tips for Secure JavaScript
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Security World
Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca, SheHacksPurple, Secure Coding Trainer
OWASP Certified 

In this talk, we will cover 30 tips for writing more secure JavaScript, emphasizing what to do, what NOT to do, and utilizing open-source tooling to enhance security. JavaScript is not only the most popular web programming language, but it also faces security threats like XSS and code injection, meaning we need to ensure our JavaScript is tough, rugged, and secure. We’ll touch only upon items that are specific to JavaScript, as opposed to agnostic topics that apply to all languages, such as encryption or authentication. By the end, you’ll gain insights into selecting the best framework, adopting secure coding practices, and leveraging tools for web application security, catering to both seasoned developers and beginners seeking practical guidance. 
Speakers
avatar for Tanya

Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca

Secure Coding Trainer, SheHacksPurple
Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding', 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec'. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

3:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Blend of PLM with Human Sciences
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
Rupa Bhagwat, Parker Hannifin, Product Manager, IoT and Smart & Connected Systems

Product Lifecycle Management through the lens of Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Neuroscience. By weaving human sciences into PLM, we’re not just creating products—we’re crafting experiences that resonate and endure. It’s this approach that breathes life into our products and helps startups thrive rather than falter. 
Speakers
avatar for Rupa Bhagwat

Rupa Bhagwat

Product Manager, IoT and Smart & Connected Systems, Parker Hannifin
Experienced Growth Product Manager with a unique approach, leveraging psychology, behavioural economics, and neuroscience to design highly engaging products. I excel in applying the "build-measure-learn" feedback loop for rapid and efficient progress.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Innovation World Stage
  ProductWorld

3:00pm PST

PRO Session: Navigating Culture Change: The Role of Product Operations in Value Alignment
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Chris Butler, GitHub, Product Manager

Culture change is a formidable challenge for any organization, requiring a strategic approach to align values and behaviors across teams.

This presentation focuses on the pivotal role of product operations in driving and sustaining culture change through value alignment.

Attendees will explore how product operations serves as a linchpin for translating organizational values into actionable strategies, processes, and behaviors.

From fostering collaboration and accountability to promoting transparency and continuous improvement, join us to discover how product operations can navigate and lead culture change initiatives with precision and impact.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Product Manager, GitHub
Chris Butler is a Chaotic Good Product Manager and Staff Product Operation Manager at GitHub. His role focuses on PM'ing the PM experience for the AI & Productivity group. Chris has worked previously as a product leader at Microsoft, Facebook Reality Labs, Cognizant, Google, KAYAK... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

3:00pm PST

AI Roundtable: Tony Holdstock-Brown, CEO & Co-founder, Inngest
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm 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
avatar for Tony Holdstock-Brown

Tony Holdstock-Brown

CEO & Co-founder, Inngest
CEO of Inngest, specializing in modern queuing, orchestration, and AI workflows. Over 15 years of experience designing and building complex systems.
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  AI DevWorld

3:30pm PST

KEYNOTE: Harness -- How To Lead, Scale, and Innovate
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Nick Durkin, Harness, Field CTO

Join Nick Durkin, CTO of Harness and multi-unicorn founder, as he discusses his best practices when it comes to leading teams, driving innovation, building platforms, and scaling products. His track record as CEO of multiple high-growth tech companies includes selling AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7B and scaling Harness to its $3.7B valuation. Jyoti is in a unique position to speak to what it takes to build billion-dollar software companies while maintaining a self-sustaining, always-growing, and innovative culture. Learn how he drives leadership, navigates challenges, and fosters innovation across his ventures that are shaping the future of DevOps. 
Speakers
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Nick Durkin

CTO, Harness
Nick Durkin is a Field CTO at Harness, the modern software delivery platform. Nick has his finger on the pulse of all-things software, AI, and cybersecurity from his daily conversations with customers, and 14+ years spent in ML and AI as an architect for companies like Zelle, Trace3... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

3:30pm PST

PRO Session: How Can Engineering Leaders Measure the Impact of GenAI
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
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
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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 →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

3:30pm PST

PRO Session: Decoding the Early Stage Product Strategy: Taking a Product from MVP to Release 1.0
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
Amala Rangnekar, Workday Search, Product Manager

With the recent advent in cutting-edge technologies that were unheard of before, companies have started aggressively investing in the development of innovative products. However, products in a nascent stage can be intimidating to build, especially if they belong to a specialised domain. Products typically follow the lifecycle phases of introduction, growth, maturity and decline. However, the introductory phase is the most crucial one and can have long-lasting effects on the upcoming stages. In my session, I will cover best practices for product leaders who are building such products from scratch. This includes setting a product vision and strategy based on the market landscape when you have no existing roadmap and 0 customers. I will also share personal experiences on how I came up with the appropriate product phases of early stage, limited availability and general availability by observing the use-cases and stakeholders as well as customer patterns and feedback from existing competition. Lastly, I will explain how effective team processes, data analysis and a strong business acumen(marketing, positioning and product messaging) are a PM’s best friend to help successfully deploy early stage products. 
Speakers
avatar for Amala Rangnekar

Amala Rangnekar

Product Manager, Workday Search
I am a Product Manager in Workday's Search team(the backbone that powers Workday's global search bar and prompt based searches for customers). I recently completed my M.B.A from UCLA's Anderson School of Management, with a focus on Business Strategy and Product Marketing. I also have... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

3:30pm PST

Product Roundtable: Chris Butler, Product Manager, GitHub
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm 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
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Product Manager, GitHub
Chris Butler is a Chaotic Good Product Manager and Staff Product Operation Manager at GitHub. His role focuses on PM'ing the PM experience for the AI & Productivity group. Chris has worked previously as a product leader at Microsoft, Facebook Reality Labs, Cognizant, Google, KAYAK... Read More →
Wednesday February 12, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

4:00pm PST

DeveloperWeek 2025 Expo Block Party
Wednesday February 12, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Expo Hall
Join us for the DeveloperWeek 2025 Expo Block Party!

The Expo Block Party gives registrants the chance to visit participating DeveloperWeek exhibitors, while enjoying free drinks & food.

Additionally, participants are encouraged to play our Expo Challenge & "Dev Cash" Game, where visiting exhibitors during the show will allow you to win great swag!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Expo Hall
  2. Experiences & Official Events

6:00pm PST

Dev AfterHours @ DeveloperWeek 2025!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm PST
Dev AfterHours @ DeveloperWeek 2025!

Details coming soon!
Wednesday February 12, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events
 
Thursday, February 13
 

8:30am PST

Registration Open: Badge Pick Up
Thursday February 13, 2025 8:30am - 4:00pm PST
Santa Clara Convention Center - Lobby
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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 13, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  Dev Exec World

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

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
avatar for Olga Podolyako

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

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

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

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
avatar for Benjamin Beckmann

Benjamin Beckmann

CTO, Midnight Tribe
Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

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

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
avatar for Shambhavi Srivastava

Shambhavi Srivastava

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

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

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

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

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

10:00am PST

Dev Roundtable: Hari Krishnan, Polyglot Full Stack Developer, Specmatic
Thursday February 13, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am 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
avatar for Hari Krishnan

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

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
avatar for Beda Hammerschmidt

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

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

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

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
avatar for Andra Lezza

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 →
avatar for Wendy Segura

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

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

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

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
avatar for Yana Welinder

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

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

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
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 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  Dev Exec World

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

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

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

11:00am PST

Dev Roundtable: Roy Maor, Algorithm Team Lead, Cisco
Thursday February 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am 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
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 13, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am PST
Roundtable Room
  Cloud Native World

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

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

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

11:30am PST

Product Roundtable: Benji Azaria, VP Data, Cloudinary
Thursday February 13, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm 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
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 13, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

12:30pm PST

AI Roundtable: Jocelyn Matthews, DevRel, Head of Community, Pinecone
Thursday February 13, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm 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
avatar for Jocelyn Matthews

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

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
avatar for David vonThenen

David vonThenen

Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML, DigitalOcean
Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

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

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

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

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

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

1:00pm PST

Product Roundtable: Benji Azaria, VP Data, Cloudinary
Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm 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
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 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

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

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
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 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
Frontend World
  AI DevWorld

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

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
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 13, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
OpsWorld
  Dev Exec World

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

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

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

1:30pm PST

Product Roundtable: Shay Mandel, Product Architect, Next Insurance
Thursday February 13, 2025 1:30pm - 2:00pm 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
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 13, 2025 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

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

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

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
avatar for Neha Surendranath

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

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
avatar for James Evans

James Evans

Director of Product Management, Amplitude
Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  ProductWorld

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

2:00pm PST

Dev Roundtable: Alok Ranjan, Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox
Thursday February 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm 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
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 13, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  Cloud Native World

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
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 13, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

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

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

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

2:30pm PST

AI Roundtable: Jocelyn Matthews, DevRel, Head of Community, Pinecone
Thursday February 13, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm 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
avatar for Jocelyn Matthews

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 2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Roundtable Room
  AI DevWorld

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
avatar for Robert Brunner

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

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
avatar for Jocelyn Matthews

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 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

3:00pm PST

OWASP Security Summit: How to be a Security Champion
Thursday February 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Security World
Marisa Fagan, Katilyst, Head of Product
OWASP Certified 
Speakers
avatar for Marisa Fagan

Marisa Fagan

Head of Product, Katilyst
Thursday February 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

3:00pm PST

Product Roundtable: Ajit Ghuman, CEO, Monetizely
Thursday February 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm 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
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 13, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm PST
Roundtable Room
  ProductWorld

3:30pm PST

OPEN TALK: Closing Remarks + Hackathon Winners + Raffle Winners
Thursday February 13, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Thursday February 13, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST
DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  4. Hackathon

4:00pm PST

Dev AfterHours @ DeveloperWeek 2025!
Thursday February 13, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Dev AfterHours @ DeveloperWeek 2025!

Details coming soon!
Thursday February 13, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events
 
Tuesday, February 18
 

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Building The Next Generation of AI Agents with You.com
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Saahil Jain, You.com, Head of AI
Bryan McCann, You.com, Co-Founder & CTO

Description: In this session, You.com CTO Bryan McCann and Head of AI Saahil Jain will discuss various ways businesses can use AI to power new experiences across use cases, leveraging our experience in information retrieval and generative AI since we first launched in 2020. As the AI space rapidly evolves, You.com is constantly thinking about how to stay ahead of the curve and provide answers to the increasingly complicated questions that businesses face. We will share best practices and tips on how to use the latest advances in AI effectively.
Speakers
avatar for Saahil Jain

Saahil Jain

Head of AI, You.com
avatar for Bryan McCann

Bryan McCann

Co-founder and CTO, You.com
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Demystifying JavaScript Package Managers: (p)npm, Yarn, and Beyond
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
Lukasz Pater, CERN, Software Engineer

AI is the most hyped topic in the current tech industry, especially with the advent of LLMs and GenAI. But never to forget, JavaScript is still one of the most used and popular programming languages among Software Engineers. TensorflowJS is one such framework through which we can build AI Applications using JavaScript. The session will explore using TensorflowJS to build amazing AI-enabled applications using a pre-trained CocoSSD Model. We will also dive into creating Neural Networks from Scratch using the framework.
We will understand the Client Side and Server Side powers both and how TensorflowJS utilizes both.
Additionally, we will also do a hands-on to build a Smart WebCam to identify objects with high accuracy along with the frontend built using HTML and CSS.
Hence, it would be a great opportunity to understand and implement AI in our projects using our favorite language: JavaScript.
Speakers
avatar for Lukasz Pater

Lukasz Pater

Software Engineer, CERN
Lukasz is a seasoned developer with over 15 years of experience in the field. Prior to this, he focused on computer networks, particularly at DeNIC, where he delved into the world of DNS on a vast scale.Now, he leads the Asset and Maintenance Management service at CERN, while continuing... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
  Frontend World

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Web-ifying AI: The Power of TensorflowJS
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Manan Bedi, Paytm, Business Analyst, GenAI

AI is the most hyped topic in the current tech industry, especially with the advent of LLMs and GenAI. But never to forget, JavaScript is still one of the most used and popular programming languages among Software Engineers. TensorflowJS is one such framework through which we can build AI Applications using JavaScript. The session will explore using TensorflowJS to build amazing AI-enabled applications using a pre-trained CocoSSD Model. We will also dive into creating Neural Networks from Scratch using the framework.
We will understand the Client Side and Server Side powers both and how TensorflowJS utilizes both.
Additionally, we will also do a hands-on to build a Smart WebCam to identify objects with high accuracy along with the frontend built using HTML and CSS.
Hence, it would be a great opportunity to understand and implement AI in our projects using our favorite language: JavaScript.
Speakers
avatar for Manan Bedi

Manan Bedi

Business Analyst, GenAI, Paytm
A dedicated professional with a passion for Data, Technology, and Innovation. He is currently working as a Business Analyst at Paytm, where he leverages his analytical skills to drive data-driven insights. His journey in the field of AI has been equally amazing. With a strong background... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Frontend World

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: GitHub Actions: Make Them Work for You!
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Eleftherios Chrysochoidis, Chubb, Lead API Software Engineer

GitHub Actions offer robust and free CI/CD capabilities to streamline your development process. In this presentation, we'll dive into the core components of GitHub Actions and explore how they can be set to work for you by demonstrating various simple and advanced use cases!

GitHub Actions is an ideal tool for any project hosted on GitHub. It provides CI/CD features out of the box and is accessible to everyone without the need for extra infrastructure or setup. The declarative way of creating Actions makes their usage really easy, and its remarkable free layer provides sufficient limits even for big projects.

Especially for Open Source projects, where usually there is more than a single contributor, the need for CI/CD is huge. What will happen if you own an open source project and someone creates a Pull Request with really nice features but adds Security risks in the project (e.g. due to deprecated dependencies) or if they break some of the existing functionality? Would you be able to check all of them on your own? Maybe yes, but it would take much more time compared to having them all checked automatically by utilizing GitHub Actions.

Join me to explore how to make GitHub Actions run faster by utilizing caching mechanisms, build Reports for Testing, Coverage and Security issues and integrate them with any open Pull Request in the community, to have an automated evaluation of the suggested PR and get notifications for them.
Speakers
avatar for Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Eleftherios Chrysochoidis

Lead API Software Engineer, Chubb
Experienced Lead Software Engineer with Passion for Community EngagementWith over six years of experience in software engineering, building and maintaining robust applications, Eleftherios (or simply Lefteris) gained a deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot technologies.His passion... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  OpsWorld

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Product Value Curves | A Practical Approach to Building Effective Product Strategy
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Lakshmi Sowjanya Uppala, Amazon, Senior Technical Program Manager

Have you ever had to come up with a product strategy for an area which is already functioning well, critical to business/your organization and involves tools/services used by different stakeholders who are all measuring successfully? If yes, this session is for you.

I will share my personal experience of building a product strategy and roadmap impacting billions of transactions done and products sold on Amazon, involving multiple stakeholder teams with conflicting success metrics by starting from users, jobs to be done and product value curves. This is practical for large- and small-scale products equally and enables creation of multi-year product roadmaps with incremental wins to users and business value.
Speakers
avatar for Lakshmi Sowjanya Uppala

Lakshmi Sowjanya Uppala

Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon
Lakshmi Sowjanya is a Senior Technical Program Manager in Amazon. She is a product and program management professional with over 12 years of experience across multiple Fortune 500 companies spanning multiple industries.Over the last 7 years, she led the launch of a multi-device OTT... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek Certificate Program
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 3:00pm PST
https://www.developerweek.com/certificates/
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 3:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Workshop Day: DeveloperWeek + ProductWorld + AI DevWorld 2025
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 3:00pm PST
PREMIUM & PRO Pass holders: Join us for PRO Workshop Day @ DeveloperWeek 2025 (+ ProductWorld 2025 and AI DevWorld 2025)

REMINDER:
  • Tues, Feb 18 is PRO Workshop Day and is available ONLY to the following pass types:  PREMIUM, PRO, SPEAKER PRO, SPONSOR PRO, EXHIBITOR, and MEDIA. See the full Workshop day schedule here: https://www.developerweek.com/conference/workshops/
  • OPEN Passes have access to DeveloperWeek 2025 only on Wed & Thur, Feb 19-20 to all 20+ Keynotes, 130+ OPEN Talks, and the 2-day Expo with 90+ exhibiting partners, games & swag challenges.
Tuesday February 18, 2025 9:00am - 3:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): GenAIOps: Building Robust and Secure GenAI Systems
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Jason Kelly, Fremont AI, CEO

POCs and prototypes are exciting, but productionizing and scaling Generative AI applications is hard. How do you effectively monitor compliance, privacy, and safety? How do you support multiple models and use cases while avoiding vendor lock-in? And how do you help teams build their apps without reinventing the wheel or creating security vulnerabilities?

Whether your developers are wrapping third-party GenAI APIs or self-hosting a complex stack with RAG frameworks and fine-tuned LLMs, the landscape is filled with tools and frameworks that promise solutions. In this vendor-agnostic session, you'll get a detailed look at GenAIOps principles and tools. With real-world examples and sample code, you’ll learn how to navigate these challenges and leverage Generative AI with confidence.

We'll cover:

- Examples of GenAI pitfalls and business risk they create
- Components of a GenAIOps stack: Monitoring, Guardrails, API Management, Security, Developer Experience
- How GenAI integrates with the standard SDLC
- Examples from interviews with real-world teams in industry
- How-To: Deployable sample code for a cloud environment showing these guidelines in action [GitHub link to be included]
Speakers
avatar for Jason Kelly

Jason Kelly

CEO, Fremont Robotics
Jason Kelly is a tech entrepreneur with deep experience in applied autonomy and industrial AI. He is CEO of Fremont Robotics, a startup dedicated to automating dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks across manufacturing, energy, facilities management, and more.
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Introduction to Google DeepMind's Models: Gemini 2.0, Imagen 3, and Veo
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
Paige Bailey, Google, GenAI Developer Experience Lead Google

This intensive workshop is designed for developers eager to explore the cutting-edge capabilities of Google's latest AI tools. Participants will gain hands-on experience working with the Gemini APIs, Google AI Studio, Veo 2, and Imagen 3, enabling them to build intelligent applications and generate stunning creative content. We'll also cover how to use Gemini 2.0 in developer tools like Cursor, Sourcegraph Cody, and more. 
Speakers
avatar for Paige Bailey

Paige Bailey

GenAI Developer Experience Lead, Google
Paige Bailey is the engineering lead for GenAI Developer Experience at Google. Paige has a deep understanding of the generative AI landscape, having previously served as an applied machine learning engineer at Microsoft and GitHub, and a product lead for Google's PaLM v2 and Gemini... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Deploy a dApp in 30 Minutes or Less
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Koushik Gavini, Gala Games, Principal Blockchain Engineer

Getting started on a blockchain shouldn't be hard. With GalaChain you customize a channel, deploy chaincode and have dApps up and running in less than an hour!

Koushik Gavini, Principle Blockchain Engineer at Gala, walks you through everything you need to know to get started on GalaChain. Using Fablo, you'll configure your custom channel quickly and easily, then get straight into testing and deploying chaincode. No obscure language to learn — write dApps and contracts easily with TypeScript. Follow along to set up your own environment today!
Speakers
avatar for Koushik Gavini

Koushik Gavini

Principal Blockchain Engineer, Gala Games
Koushik was trained in computer engineering at San Jose State University. He's been known to play some tennis, but he's been immersed deeply in the web3 world for the past four years. With experience working as a blockchain engineer at Google, BSI Solutions, Accenture, and others... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Frontend World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Launching an AI Product 101: A Blueprint for Success
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Nimisha Sharath, Uber, Senior Product Manager

Recall those AI-infused products that stumbled in the wild? They caused rollbacks, discontinuations, and hefty financial losses for companies. Nimisha, having crafted and launched numerous ML/AI products across organizations, shares her battle-tested blueprint to launch successful AI products that scale.

From product discovery to legal considerations, metrics, AB testing, GTM, and model quality maintenance, she guides you toward creating AI products that truly endure.
Speakers
avatar for Nimisha Sharath

Nimisha Sharath

Senior Product Manager, Uber
Nimisha Sharath is a data scientist turned product with 7 years of experience across Microsoft, Instacart and Uber. She's dabbled with Ads Tech, Multimedia experiences on ChatGPT, Personalized Promotions and most recently, Road Safety. She is a highly strategic, data driven PM with... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Enterprise AI Applications - Real-World Use Cases from Predictive to Generative AI
Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Manas Talukdar, Labelbox, Director of Engineering

This talk will discuss the latest trends in AI and how they are being applied in the enterprise. We will cover a range of topics from predictive analytics to generative AI, and provide real-world use cases and actual enterprise AI applications that demonstrate the impact of these technologies on business outcomes. The session will also explore the challenges and opportunities that organizations face when implementing AI solutions, and provide insights into best practices for successful AI adoption. We will also discuss best practices for building and deploying AI applications for the enterprise, and how to ensure that they are robust, reliable, and scalable. 
Speakers
avatar for Manas Talukdar

Manas Talukdar

Director of Engineering, Labelbox
Manas Talukdar is a senior industry leader in Data Infrastructure and Enterprise AI. He has significant experience designing and developing products in artificial intelligence and large-scale data infrastructure, used in mission critical sectors across the world. He is a senior member... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Building the Bridge: How to Connect Current and Future State Journey Maps
Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Andrew Schall, ServiceNow, UX Research Leader & Strategist

Allowing organizational fortunetellers to create a future state vision of a journey map is risky because their projections are often based on speculation, intuition, and vague aspirations rather than concrete data and a deep understanding of the current state.

The journey from the current state to the optimal future state can be envisioned as constructing a long metaphorical bridge. This bridge is supported by various foundational pillars, each representing a critical aspect of the progression. These pillars provide the necessary support for incremental solutions to realize the optimal future state.

In this session, you will delve into envisioning an ideal user experience by creating a future state journey map. You will learn how to ground your future state journey map in current realities based on data and user research, ensuring that solutions are practical, actionable, and directly address identified pain points. By following this structured, evidence-based methodology, organizations can successfully navigate the journey from the current state to the future state, building a robust bridge to support ongoing progress, innovation, and adaptation.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Schall

Andrew Schall

UX Research Leader & Strategist, ServiceNow
Andrew Schall has over 20 years of experience as a UX leader, researcher, and strategist. He has collaborated with renowned organizations such as Citibank, Harley Davidson, The New York Times, National Institutes of Health, Office Depot, and Southwest Airlines. He currently leads... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

12:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Building Bulletproof Products: Embracing AI Red Teaming
Tuesday February 18, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
David Campbell, Scale AI, AI Risk Security Platform Lead

In this talk, we’ll trace the evolution of Red Teaming, from its traditional roots to the cutting-edge practice of AI Red Teaming, demonstrating how it’s shaping the future of Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI technologies. Drawing from my experience leading the development and deployment of the largest generative red teaming platform to date, I’ll share compelling real-world examples and personal insights. We’ll dive into how adversarial red teaming strengthens AI systems across all layers—protecting platforms, businesses, and consumers alike. From securing external application interfaces to fortifying LLM guardrails and improving the internal security of AI algorithms, we’ll explore the critical role of adversarial strategies in safeguarding the evolving AI landscape. 
Speakers
avatar for David Campbell

David Campbell

AI Risk Security Platform Lead, Scale, AI
David Campbell is a seasoned technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem, now spearheading Responsible AI initiatives at Scale AI. As the Lead AI Risk Engineer, David has been pivotal in developing a cutting-edge AI Red Teaming platform... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

12:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Digital Accessibility Is Strategy, Not Compliance
Tuesday February 18, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Jack Cunningham, Livefront, Director of Product Management

Many digital teams begrudgingly seek accessibility “compliance” and fail to see its value as a core product strategy. In this session, we reveal how prioritizing accessibility drives growth and opens new opportunities for those who do not rely on assistive technology just as much as those who do. Discover how native mobile accessibility functionality enhances user experience and offers value far beyond what is required to be inclusive.

Learn why & how to make accessibility a central product strategy to drive growth for all users. Discover how new iOS and Android features can be utilized to create more inclusive and engaging digital products. Identify how to make accessibility a core strategy with planning and collaboration tools that fit into the flow of your design and development work.
Speakers
avatar for Jack Cunningham

Jack Cunningham

Director of Product Management, Livefront
Jack Cunningham stands out in digital product leadership with his knack for blending entrepreneurial thinking and omni-channel expertise. With deep experience across native mobile, web, and CTV platforms, Jack is recognized for his blend of strategic and practical solutions tailored... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Supercharging Developer Workflow with Amazon Q Developer
Tuesday February 18, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Vikash Agrawal, Amazon Web Services, Senior Engineer

This talk is about key features of Amazon Q Developers.

It will include live demo for the following
- /dev
- @workspace
- Code Scan
- @git and @history from Q-Cli

It will also include some real world example of customers case studies.

Audieence Takeaways:
- Introduction to Amazon Q Developer
- Key features and use cases
- Live demo in IDE
- Live demo in CLI
- Best practices and tips
Speakers
avatar for Vikash Agrawal

Vikash Agrawal

Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
Having over a decade of experience in Software Engineering, I have held positions as Team-Lead and Engineering Lead at companies such as Housing.com and Dream11. Currently, I am building Amazon Q Developer, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP: Hitchhikers Guide to Secure AI Development
Tuesday February 18, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
Ankur Chowdhary, 6Sense, Staff Security Engineer

In this talk I will discuss how organizations can define the scope of AI security based on understanding the context of AI use and integrate secure AI development lifecycle as a part of existing software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices. The talk will also cover metrics during each phase of AI development that should be considered for establishing the success criteria of secure and responsible development of AI system for an organization. 
Speakers
avatar for Ankur Chowdhary

Ankur Chowdhary

Staff Security Engineer, Appsec, 6Sense
Dr. Ankur Chowdhary is a cybersecurity researcher. He received Ph.D. (2020) and M.S. (2015) with specialization in cybersecurity from Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests include appsec, cloud security and AI/ML in cybersecurity.
Tuesday February 18, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual Exclusive] PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Running Billion-Scale Similarity Search at LLM Production Systems
Tuesday February 18, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Ohad Levi, Hyperspace, Founder and CEO

Search databases are integral to information retrieval and facilitation of similarity-based content discovery, playing a pivotal role in generative AI tech stack. Within this framework, the synergy of lexical and vector search algorithms enables the combination of structured and unstructured data, optimizing the precision, diversity and efficiency of LLM and RAG systems.

As a result, the demand for powerful search infrastructure is higher than ever: organization data is growing exponentially, while millions to billions of documents are becoming standard and the search queries become more resource-intensive, presenting significant performance, scalability and cost challenges at production-grade systems.

In this session we will explore various techniques to address those challenges, from space reduction to approximation methods as well as a range of acceleration technologies, which are highly parallelizable and designed for large scale real-time production systems. Transitioning from lab to production is not always seamless and contributing to the failure of numerous AI projects, the session target is to provide insights and solutions directly impacting the efficiency and success of future Gen AI applications.
Speakers
avatar for Ohad Levi

Ohad Levi

Founder and CEO, Hyperspace
Co-founder & CEO at Hyperspace | Building the world's fastest search engine
Tuesday February 18, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Turning a Technology to a Product: Perspective from Building AI Infrastructure at Google
Tuesday February 18, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Rishiraj Pravahan, Google, Product Manager

This talk will explore how a technology capability can be transformed into a product. The talk will focus on what it means to have a product view of a technical capability and how to reason about a particular tech as a product. The talk will use examples from my experience of working on AI infrastructure to highlight the product point of view while discussing its challenges and advantages.
 
Speakers
avatar for Rishiraj Pravahan

Rishiraj Pravahan

Group Product Manager, Google AI infrastructure
I am PhD particle physicist turned intra/entrepreneur turned Product Manager, with a penchant for technology to solve complex real-world problems. I bring imagination and a fundamental understanding of technology to identify how, when, and where to use a particular tool to solve a... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (AI DevWorld): Mastering TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Open-Source Frameworks for AI and Machine Learning
Tuesday February 18, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
Prashanth Lakshmi Narayana Chaitanya Josyula, Salesforce, Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS)
Taha Bouhsine, MLNomads, CEO

In this comprehensive technical session, dive deep into the world of TensorFlow, PyTorch, and other cutting-edge open-source frameworks that are transforming the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

We will explore the strengths and unique features of these popular frameworks, providing a hands-on comparison to help you understand which one best suits various AI/ML tasks. Whether you are building neural networks, implementing deep learning models, or deploying large-scale machine learning solutions, this session will equip you with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about the right tools for your projects.
Speakers
avatar for Taha Bouhsine

Taha Bouhsine

CEO, MLNomads
Taha Bouhsine is an AI/ML Google Developer Expert specializing in Deep Learning, with a focus on white-box models, multimodal systems, and self-supervised learning. He has published research in aviation safety, civil engineering, security, and remote sensing, collaborating with global... Read More →
avatar for Prashanth Lakshmi Narayana Chaitanya Josyula

Prashanth Lakshmi Narayana Chaitanya Josyula

Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS), Salesforce
Hello! I’m Prashanth, an avid connoisseur of technical literature and a dedicated practitioner in the field of programming. With a deep-seated passion for technology, I excel in crafting sophisticated code and exploring cutting-edge innovations.Currently serving as a Principal Member... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Stage 1
  AI DevWorld

4:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): How Can I Use AI Is the Wrong Question: Better Conversations Between Tech and Non-tech People
Tuesday February 18, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Chris Butler, GitHub, Product Manager

Today everyone is asking the question: "how can I use AI in my product?" The issue is not asking the question about leveraging new technological innovation but how we have the conversation between the technical people that know about it and those that want to leverage it to create great products.

In this talk, Chris Butler will show you how to have better conversations between those different practices in your teams. This will focus on a particular workshop called Analogical Innovation Mapping that is rooted in how new technologies find new uses based on their characteristics.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Product Manager, GitHub
Chris Butler is a Chaotic Good Product Manager and Staff Product Operation Manager at GitHub. His role focuses on PM'ing the PM experience for the AI & Productivity group. Chris has worked previously as a product leader at Microsoft, Facebook Reality Labs, Cognizant, Google, KAYAK... Read More →
Tuesday February 18, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld
 
Wednesday, February 19
 

9:00am PST

DeveloperWeek Virtual Challenge - Enter to win Tech Prizes!
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

9:00am PST

[VIRTUAL] EXPO HALL OPEN
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:00am - 6:30pm PST
Expo Hall
  3. Expo Hours

9:30am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI DevWorld): Stack Overflow -- Why Building Trust in AI Is Key to Healthy Knowledge Ecosystem
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Prashanth Chandrasekar, Stack Overflow, CEO

The internet and its business models are changing. For the last 16 years, Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web. In this time of disruption comes a necessary time to reflect, change, and break the norms of ‘this is how it's always been done.’ With the expansion of generative AI, many LLM providers are not allowing the world to operate as it has previously. Instead, a new paradigm has emerged: content created by thousands of creators across the Open Web is now being used to train models without respect or attribution for the original creator.

Consequently, in the current transformation, human-centered sources of knowledge are obscured. We face a world in which the old paradigms are no longer paramount, and their places in the world are redefined. Companies and organizations lucky enough to host these engines of knowledge production are at a decision point; how do they continue to monetize when the technological landscapes have changed? A change in strategy will allow these companies, AI tools, and the communities and data sets that power them to thrive.

CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar shares why in the GenAI era, trust in data is key to driving innovation, improving the developer experience, and building thriving knowledge communities.
Speakers
avatar for Prashanth Chandrasekar

Prashanth Chandrasekar

CEO, Stack Overflow
Prashanth Chandrasekar is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results. Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Securing Your AI-Powered Software Development with AI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Dev Innovation World, GitHub, Sr Developer Advocate

We'll learn how to block secrets from ever entering your codebase, use AI to automatically generate multi file security fixes, and incorporate all your favorite third-party security tools into your native GitHub workflow! 
Speakers
avatar for Dhanashri Chavan

Dhanashri Chavan

Sr Developer Advocate, GitHub
Dhanashri Chavan is a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, where she collaborates with the developer community to promote awareness and adoption of GitHub products and features while representing customer needs within the organization.With over 20 years of professional experience... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  AI DevWorld

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: The Third-Wave of API Management
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Adrian Machado, Zuplo, Staff Engineer

The third-wave of API management is here. There are several trends that engineers and technical leaders need to know so they can choose the right tools and platforms for building their APIs. Trends include
1. Modernization around API gateways - The move towards GitOps over server configuration, and Edge over regional deployments
2. Centralization around OpenAPI and new tooling that's emerged
3. A strong focus on API DevX - what API-as-a-product really looks like in practice and the companies pushing the envelope. SDK generation, docs platforms, and more take center stage.

The talk will cover technology and tools engineering leaders should look to adopt and the benefits/drawbacks
Speakers
avatar for Adrian Machado

Adrian Machado

Staff Engineer, Zuplo
I am a Staff Software engineer working at Zuplo. I specialize in our open source technology and adopting emerging technologies (ex. AI) at the company. This includes our work on RateMyOpenAPI, Zudoku, Mockbin, and various other tools. I've written several blogs for Zuplo, and spoken... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

9:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Building an Evidence-Based Culture for Strategic Product Development
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Connor Joyce, Microsoft, Senior User Researcher

In today's competitive digital landscape, successful product development hinges not just on innovation but on the ability to make informed, evidence-based decisions that ensure features are satisfying user needs that align with business objectives. This talk introduces the "Impact Mindset," a revolutionary approach detailed in the book "Bridging Intentions to Impact," which includes an easy to adopt framework and process to guide product teams in redefining success through the lens of user behavior.

Key takeaways will include strategies for creating organic demand for insights within product teams to support informed decision-making and foster collaboration between UX designers, researchers, and product managers. Attendees will learn to define meaningful metrics that go beyond vanity statistics, ensuring that every feature launched drives measurable behavior change and positive user and business impact. Not only a presentation, the audience will be granted a free resource so they can leave the talk ready to apply the insights.

The Impact Mindset approach marks a new era in product development, where success is measured by depth and impact rather than mere usage.
Speakers
avatar for Connor Joyce

Connor Joyce

Senior User Researcher, Microsoft
Connor Joyce is the author of "Bridging Intentions to Impact" and a Senior User Researcher on the Microsoft Copilot Team, where he is advancing the design of AI-enhanced features. Passionate about driving meaningful change, Connor advocates that companies adopt an Impact Mindset... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

9:30am PST

DeveloperWeek Certificate Program
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST
https://www.developerweek.com/certificates/
Wednesday February 19, 2025 9:30am - 4:00pm PST
  2. Experiences & Official Events

10:00am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (Product): The Product Guild -- Busting the Biases That Block Innovation
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Leslie Grandy, the University of Washington, Lead Executive in Residence

Innovation is the lifeblood of successful products, yet even the most talented teams can unknowingly fall prey to biases that stifle creativity and hinder progress. As product leaders, your decisions shape the future of your products and drive your organization’s growth. But are hidden biases holding your teams back from reaching their full potential?

In our fast-paced, competitive landscape, it’s not enough to generate ideas; we must create an environment where the best, most groundbreaking ideas can thrive. This presentation will reveal the common biases that subtly, yet powerfully, block innovation—from expert and confirmation biases that narrow our vision to status quo and fixation biases that keep us clinging to outdated methods.

You’ll learn actionable strategies to recognize and dismantle these biases, fostering a culture that embraces diverse perspectives, challenges assumptions, and encourages bold, creative thinking. By busting these biases, you’ll unlock your team’s full innovation potential, drive more impactful product development, and position your company as a leader in the market.
Speakers
avatar for Leslie Grandy

Leslie Grandy

Lead Executive in Residence, the University of Washington
Leslie Grandy is an accomplished author, speaker, and CEO advisor who helps companies, teams, and product leaders leverage creative thinking to elevate their organizations, conquer their markets, and maintain relevance in a rapidly changing world. Leslie works with start-ups and large... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Using AI to Solve Real Problems for Development Teams
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked, Founder & CEO

For all the claims about AI increasing developer productivity, why aren't developers seeing more of an impact?

What we’ve heard from thousands of developers is that writing code is not their main challenge. They’re stuck at Step #1 – trying to find the right context about how the codebase works and why.

Codebases are a compilation of thousands of decisions, discussions, and documents that live across tools like Confluence, Slack, Notion, Jira, Linear, GitHub, and more - accumulated over years if not decades. Whether a developer is onboarding to your team or trying to understand how a piece of legacy code works, they waste hours every day digging for the answers through all these systems.

Unblocked augments your code with context from the tools in your stack, giving your development team a platform for asking questions, and for discovering historical context about their code.

The impact here is profound: with Unblocked, developers can answer their own questions without interrupting their peers or having to wait for meetings. What’s more, they can find the entirety of the information they need wherever they're working.

If we want to see actual productivity benefits from AI, we need to use it where we spend the most time. The more we can empower developers with the context they need, the faster we can achieve our goals and the happier we can make our teams.
Speakers
avatar for Dennis Pilarinos

Dennis Pilarinos

Founder & CEO, Unblocked
Dennis Pilarinos is the founder and CEO of Unblocked, a developer platform that gives teams helpful answers to questions about their codebase. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Buddybuild, a mobile-focused continuous integration service that Apple acquired in 2018 and launched... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: From Hype to Impact: Cracking the Code on AI ROI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Nabil Bukhari, Extreme Networks, Chief Product & Technology Officer, EVP, GM Subscription Business

In the race to adopt AI, even experienced business leaders can find themselves focusing too much on the technology itself, leading to less-than-optimal results. AI isn’t just about algorithms, machine learning, and large language models - it’s about the meaningful impact it can deliver when applied strategically. Nabil Bukhari, CTO and GM of subscriptions at Extreme Networks, the world’s fastest growing cloud networking company, offers a fresh perspective on AI strategy—one that prioritizes real outcomes over flashy applications.

In this session, Nabil will present the ARC Framework, a proven approach that guides organizations (A)ccelerating existing processes, (R)eplacing outdated systems, and (C)reating valuable new experiences, all to ensure AI investments drive measurable business impact.

This framework took shape during the development of Extreme Platform One, one of Extreme’s most ambitious projects to date. In a world where 80% of AI projects fail, Extreme Platform One stands out for simplifying complex network management and delivering tangible value to organizations of all sizes. The ARC Framework highlights that AI itself is not the innovation - it’s how we apply it strategically to create meaningful outcomes. Learn actionable strategies to avoid common pitfalls, like chasing hype or low-impact use cases, and harness AI’s true potential to drive transformation in your business.

This is a must-attend for anyone looking to integrate AI in a way that optimizes AI investments, complements their organization’s culture, solves actual business challenges, and positions them for lasting impact. Join us to explore how you can lead AI-driven change with purpose and impact.

 
Speakers
avatar for Nabil Bukhari

Nabil Bukhari

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Extreme Networks
Nabil Bukhari firmly believes technology and business have a responsibility to improve the human condition. As a futurist, business leader and humanist, he has a passion for the democratization of technology and is determined to contribute to a world where tech has a positive social... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Scaling Secure, Codeless Mobile App Development and Continuous Monitoring in CI/CD for DevOps Teams
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Karen Hsu, Appdome, SVP Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions

In the fast-paced world of DevOps, delivering secure, functional mobile apps quickly and efficiently is critical. This session is tailored for DevOps engineers and leaders looking to streamline mobile app development by incorporating code-less, secure app building, automated testing, and continuous monitoring into their CI/CD pipelines. Attendees will learn how to:
Integrate Secure Mobile App Builds Without Code or SDKs:

1. Automatically build critical security features such as encryption, fraud/malware/social engineering prevention, and threat detection directly into the mobile app, without writing any additional code or relying on third-party SDKs.
Automate Testing in CI/CD: Seamlessly integrate no-code security testing and scriptless functional testing into your CI/CD workflows. This ensures that each code push automatically triggers comprehensive testing, identifying any issues with secured apps before deployment—without requiring manual intervention.

2. Implement Continuous Threat Detection: Incorporate real-time threat detection for all your mobile apps. Then automate builds with protections against live attacks in your CI/CD pipeline. By closing the loop between security monitoring and app development, teams can ensure their apps are secure post-deployment and protected against evolving threats.

3. Optimize CI/CD Workflows for Faster Delivery: Implement a fully automated, end-to-end process that ensures every app build is secure, functional, and continuously monitored for potential threats. DevOps teams will learn how to accelerate their app delivery timelines without sacrificing security or performance, leveraging CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI, Bitrise and Azure DevOps.

This session will include a live demonstration showing how DevOps teams can integrate these capabilities into their existing CI/CD workflows, enabling faster, secure, and scalable mobile app delivery.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Hsu

Karen Hsu

SVP Mobile DevOps & Security Solutions, Appdome
Karen Hsu is SVP Mobile DevOps and Security Solutions at Appdome, focused on automating building and testing of secure apps in the DevOps pipeline. She co-founded BlockchainIntel to identify fraud in ACH, credit card and blockchain transactions, becoming part of Appdome to extend... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  Dev Exec World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: OpenAPI Summit Introduction: Why and How to Use OpenAPI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Erik Wilde, OpenAPI, Ambassador
Speakers
avatar for Erik Wilde

Erik Wilde

Ambassador, OpenAPI
Erik Wilde is an experienced and internationally known professional in the space of digital transformation and API strategy and management. Erik has degrees in computer science from TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He is the author of many articles and papers, various books, multiple standards... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Navigating the Edge-Cloud Bridge: Building Resource Optimized IoT/Edge Assistants with LLMs
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
David vonThenen, DigitalOcean, Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML

The future of IoT and Edge devices lies in seamlessly integrating voice-assisted AI interfaces with cloud capabilities. This session provides a hands-on exploration of how to architect efficient, voice-driven solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs) while balancing the demands of edge computing and cloud resources.
Key takeaways include:
Making informed decisions about where to run GPU-intensive AI processes, weighing edge performance against cloud scalability, privacy, and security.
Designing modular, voice-first AI architectures that adapt to diverse IoT/Edge use cases.
Practical demonstrations showcasing designs that perform tasks with voice-driven AI in hybrid edge-cloud environments.
Attendees will gain practical insights into choosing the right workloads to deploy on resource-constrained edge devices versus the cloud, leveraging open-source tools and frameworks. By the end of this session, you’ll leave equipped to build smarter, voice-enabled IoT/Edge systems with architectures that maximize both resource efficiency and innovation.
Speakers
avatar for David vonThenen

David vonThenen

Senior Developer Advocate II, AI/ML, DigitalOcean
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
  Frontend World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The Code Whisperers: How AI is Learning to Write Better Code (and What it Means for Engineering Leaders)
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
Lucas Mendes, Revelo, Founder and CEO
Panelist - Coming Soon!

AI is learning to write code, and it's happening faster than many realize. This panel discussion at DeveloperWeek 2025 explores the cutting edge of AI code generation, focusing on how these systems are being trained with human data to produce increasingly sophisticated and reliable code. More importantly, we'll examine what this means for engineering organizations – and the leaders who guide them.
Join our expert panel as they discuss:
  • The Human-AI Feedback Loop: Delve into the fascinating ways human expertise is being used to train LLMs for code generation. We'll explore techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the importance of diverse and high-quality datasets, and the ethical considerations of using human data in AI development.
  • The Evolving Role of the Software Engineer: Discuss how AI code generation tools are reshaping the roles and responsibilities within engineering teams. We'll examine the potential for increased productivity, the need for new skillsets (like prompt engineering and AI collaboration), and the changing dynamics between developers and AI assistants.
  • Leading the AI Transformation: Gain practical insights and strategies for engineering leaders navigating this new era. We'll discuss how to adapt hiring practices, upskill existing teams, foster a culture of continuous learning, and measure the ROI of AI code generation within your organization.
  • The Future of Software Leadership: Explore the long-term implications of AI for engineering leadership. We'll discuss the potential for increased innovation, the challenges of managing AI-augmented teams, and the ethical responsibilities of leading in an AI-driven world.

This session is essential for engineering managers, directors, and CTOs who want to understand how AI is changing the game and prepare their teams for the future of software development.
 
Speakers
avatar for Lucas Mendes

Lucas Mendes

Founder and CEO, Revelo
Lucas Mendes is the founder and CEO of Revelo, the leading platform that helps US companies find, hire and pay full-time remote software engineers in Latin America. Revelo boasts a network of 400,000 pre-vetted engineers, and has placed developers from 15 LatAm countries in hundreds... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
  Dev Exec World

10:30am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE: Red Hat -- Developer Experience, Platform Engineering and AI Powered Apps
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Ignacio Riesgo, Red Hat, Senior Director, Developer Marketing & Strategy
Cedric Clyburn, Red Hat, Developer Advocate

An open source environment enables microservices, containers, Kubernetes and AI to be deployed to optimize agility and speed at scale. The challenge can be staying ahead of the technology curve and positioning your enterprise for continued success. At Red Hat, hybrid cloud is the foundation of everything we do, leveraging open source in a multi-cloud environment to kickstart innovation. The advent of Generative AI has acted as an accelerant to business transformation increasing efficiency and productivity. Join the Developer Advocates team who will share a series of live demo innovations available today with OpenShift AI, OpenShift and Developer Hub that will accelerate development cycles and optimize your releasing performance. 
Speakers
avatar for Cedric Clyburn

Cedric Clyburn

Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric... Read More →
avatar for Ignacio Riesgo

Ignacio Riesgo

Senior Director, Developer Marketing & Strategy, Red Hat
Ignacio Riesgo is Senior Director, Developer Marketing & Strategy, Global, for Red Hat. In his role, he leads all Developer Outreach Programs, Content and Advocacy initiatives.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: AI Assistants Unleashed: Building RAG Chatbots with Twilio
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Rishab Kumar, Twilio, Staff Developer Evangelist

In today's world of AI, building intelligent chatbots with RAG capabilities has traditionally required complex frameworks like LangChain and extensive integration work. However, Twilio AI Assistants is changing this landscape by offering a streamlined approach to building sophisticated AI applications. This presentation provides a practical comparison between these two approaches, demonstrating how Twilio AI Assistants significantly reduces development complexity while maintaining powerful capabilities.

Through live coding demonstrations, we'll explore:

The traditional approach using LangChain: understanding the components, integration points, and development overhead
The simplified path with Twilio AI Assistants: showing how to achieve the same results with fewer lines of code
Real-world implementation considerations, including scaling, maintenance, and cost implications
Best practices for implementing RAG in production environments using both approaches
How to choose which method is best for your project

Whether you've been coding AI for years or are just getting started, you'll learn practical ways to build better chatbots faster.
Speakers
avatar for Rishab Kumar

Rishab Kumar

Staff Developer Evangelist, Twilio
Rishab is a Staff Developer Evangelist at Twilio, co-author of Learn to Cloud, a GitHub Star, an AWS Community Builder, and a Google Developer Expert. He is passionate about helping people get into cloud and sharing his learnings from his time in cloud, DevOps and now DevRel.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Rise of the Machines: Embracing Agentic AI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Jen McVicker, Atlassian, Senior Enterprise Technical Architect

You've heard of NLP. You've heard of GenAI. You may know about Predictive AI. But have you heard about Agentic AI?

Agentic AI refers to AI systems designed to operate as independent entities, capable of observing and interacting with their environment to achieve specific goals. Prepare to be amazed as this session unveils the extraordinary capabilities of AI agents, transforming your understanding of what's possible!
Speakers
avatar for Jen McVicker

Jen McVicker

Senior Enterprise Technical Architect, Atlassian
Jen is a highly skilled software development and delivery expert with over 25 years of experience in the field. She has a deep understanding of Agile principles and methodologies and has successfully led multiple teams through Agile transformations. As a member of the Advisory Services... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Radical Transparency for Software Teams
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
Gregory Lind, Buildly, CEO and Founder

Redefine team communication with radical transparency. Fostering a culture of openness, honesty, and positivity in your team, can create a work environment where everyone feels empowered to do their best work and grow both personally and professionally. This talk will give an overview to bringing radical transparency into your DevOps, software and product development processes. 
Speakers
avatar for Gregory Lind

Gregory Lind

CEO and Founder, Buildly
Author of "Radical Therapy for Software Teams", CEO of Buildly, and 20+ year career in Software, Open Source and Startups. Founder and CTO of four successful startups in 3 different countries. Worked with NGOs and Government agencies building open source grant management systems... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  Dev Exec World

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: Describing API Workflows with Arazzo
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear, Principal API Technical Evangelist

Take a hands-on approach to mastering Arazzo, the API workflow specification from the OpenAPI Initiative, designed to streamline how to describe, validate, and share multi-step API interactions. This session cuts through the noise, giving you the tools and techniques needed to create high-quality workflow documents for real-world applications. We start with a breakdown of the Arazzo Specification structure and how it simplifies API workflows into reusable, programmatically readable formats. See Arazzo Specification GPT in action, accelerating the creation of Arazzo Documents and workflows with AI-driven precision. Dive into VSCode for hands-on editing, and how to validate and lint Arazzo Documents using Spectral. Learn how to create custom Spectral rules to enforce your team’s style guide, ensuring your documents are consistent and maintainable. You get tools, tips, and confidence to start your Arazzo journey, enabling you to weave together the use cases that enhance both human understanding and machine usability of your APIs.
Speakers
avatar for Frank Kilcommins

Frank Kilcommins

Principal API Technical Evangelist, SmartBear
Frank has over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry, with his roles spanning from software engineering to enterprise architecture. His mission is to inspire, engage with and support the API community and SmartBear customers across the end-to-end API Development Lifecycle... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

10:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Fix What Matters First: Bridging Code and Cloud Security
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
Eric Carter, Sysdig, Senior Director Product Marketing

Organizations modernizing applications in the cloud find themselves drowning in vulnerabilities and security alerts. With too much noise and not enough time, teams need a better way to prioritize and address real risks to stay ahead of threats.

Join Sysdig for a discussion of how to boost your software supply chain security and address risk from development through production.

In this session we’ll cover:

-The latest cloud-native security risks and challenges

-How to better prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations

-Using runtime signals to reduce AppSec noise up to 95%

-Detecting active cloud risk to protect against cyberattacks

-Improving outcomes with AppSec tools like Snyk, Checkmarx, and Docker
Speakers
avatar for Eric Carter

Eric Carter

Senior Director Product Marketing, Sysdig
Eric is Director of Product Marketing focused on cultivating Sysdig’s technology cloud and container partner ecosystem. Eric has spearheaded marketing efforts for enterprise technology solutions across various domains, such as security, monitoring, storage, and backup. He is passionate... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
  Frontend World

10:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Product Discovery: The Science Behind Qualitative Research
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Timoté Geimer, dualoop, CEO

Talking to your users is great. Doing it well is better. We hear every day that you need to speak to your customers to understand their needs and solve their problems. But who really knows how to do this? How to prepare interviews so as not to induce bias? In this session, we will delve into the social sciences and, more specifically, qualitative research to rediscover how to set up a scientifically valid research method. We will discuss the research hypothesis, interview guide, and much more. 
Speakers
avatar for Timoté Geimer

Timoté Geimer

CEO, dualoop
Timoté is the CEO of dualoop, a consulting firm specialising in product management. He has spent the last 12 years shaping and building product teams in startups and scale-ups. Timoté now shares his knowledge with peers through advising, guest-lecturing, forums, workshops, and private... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Playing with Fire and Controlling the Flare of AI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Bar-El Tayouri, Mend.io, Head of Mend AI

AI lets us reimagine what the world could look like, bringing new technologies—and unfortunately, increasing security risks—to life. Dive into the new reality of risk when playing with fire – exploring AI vulnerabilities in real-time, straight from the terminal.

In this session, you’ll see how these vulnerabilities are exploited, uncover adversarial methods, and explore real-world case studies—complete with technical code examples. Reveal how attackers identify and leverage AI weaknesses, including the creation of new zero-days. But knowing the risks is only half the battle. Learn concrete strategies to protect your AI systems, from strengthening prompts and setting up guardrails to spotting rogue agents and running AI-specific red team exercises. Whether you’re a developer or security pro, you’ll leave with the tools to safeguard your AI-powered projects and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Speakers
avatar for Bar-El Tayouri

Bar-El Tayouri

Head of Mend AI, Mend.io
Bar-El has been programming since the age of 12 and began hacking transportation cards while still in high school. Today, he leads Mend AI, a suite of products designed to enable the GenAI revolution for security-conscious enterprises. He co-founded Atom-Security, an AppSec prioritization... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Build Enterprise RAG
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Ofer Mendelevitch, Vectara, Developer Relations

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a leading approach for creating ChatGPT-like applications tailored to custom or private datasets. In this workshop, developers and builders will learn what RAG is, the key components of a RAG stack, and understand some of the challenges involved in building RAG and chatbot applications at enterprise scale. Participants will learn how to use Vectara's RAG-as-a-service API to build a working chatbot for their own use-case including both front end and backend. We will finish with an open Q&A session about RAG addressing participants questions. 
Speakers
avatar for Ofer Mendelevitch

Ofer Mendelevitch

Developer Relations, Vectara
Ofer Mendelevitch leads developer relations at Vectara. He has extensive hands-on experience in machine learning, data science and big data systems across multiple industries, and has focused on developing products using large language models since 2019. Prior to Vectara he built... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session (DeveloperWeek): DevEx Isn't Just for Developers
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
Benjie De Groot, Shipyard, Co Founder

Empowering developers starts with enabling all the internal stake holders frictionless access to WIP features. We will discuss how shortening the internal feedback loop is a key critical aspect of DX. One of the largest contributors to overall efficiency, time to market, and innovation cycles is waiting on product, QA, customer success and C-Suite feedback. When discussing DevEx we must understand the critical role that non-developer stakeholders play in the SDLC and how enabling them speeds up lead time for changes / deployment frequency. DevEx for non developers is critical! 
Speakers
avatar for Benjie De Groot

Benjie De Groot

Co Founder, Shipyard
Benjie is the co-founder of Shipyard. Previously, he built out CI/CD pipelines for companies ranging in size from seed to Fortune 50. He enjoys automating the mundane and releasing code that he knows has been tested and validated! When not working, he likes hanging out with his pug... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: Coming Soon!
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Exec World
Henry Andrews, OpenAPI, OpenAPI Standards & Software Contractor
Speakers
avatar for Henry Andrews

Henry Andrews

OpenAPI Standards & Software Contractor, OpenAPI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Stop the Silos: From Files to Apps, Integrate Your Dev Approach
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
John Wilson, IBM, Senior Product Manager

From standards to security, there’s no shortage of considerations when developing for the transmission of complex data through myriad systems, apps, partners, and geographies. Even if you can quickly transfer files of any size in a secure, governed and encrypted manner, there’s always another hop to get to value. But files, apps, APIs—these don’t live in a silo, and neither can your approach to integration.

In this session we’ll start with an MFT use case and showcase how IBM’s hybrid iPaaS (integration platform as a service) unifies disparate integration approaches to make collaboration easier. Check out a new way to solve common everyday enterprise file handling requirements directly from a cloud or hybrid solution.
Speakers
avatar for John Wilson

John Wilson

Senior Product Manager, IBM
John Wilson is a senior product manager in application integration and middleware. He has decades of experience as a practitioner in the integration space, having worked in-house for large enterprise corporations such as Colgate-Palmolive and Coca-Cola. He then moved into the technology... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
  Dev Innovation World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Product Mastery: Immersive Learning for Discovery and Delivery
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
Robert Clawson, Discover Financial Services, Agile and Product Dojo Coach)
Soumya Raju, Discover Financial Services, Senior Manager of Product

A safe space to practice dangerous things; this is the idea behind a dojo. Understand how Discovers Technology Academy has used immersive learning dojos on technology teams, with a specific focus on how they have accelerated our value delivery by dedicating the time to embrace product centricity head-on and emphasizing a generative organizational culture. Immersive learning dojos provide a unique environment for hands on learning, collaboration and skill development - enabling teams to slow down and take time to be thoughtful about their ways of working, products and technology. This session delves into the tactics employed and learned within the dojos that have empowered product owners to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency at delivering value, driving innovation, and empowering their technical counterparts. Attendees will gain insights into real word examples, lessons learned, and tangible strategies that can be applied to help assess their own organization and foster a culture of continuous improvement. 
Speakers
avatar for Robert Clawson

Robert Clawson

Agile and Product Dojo Coach, Discover Financial Services
Robert is a talented, energetic, and insightful coach focused on helping teams align on their best way of working to build trust and accountability. He has spent more than a decade in the IT field with a primary focus on agile framework, product development, and software quality... Read More →
avatar for Soumya Raju

Soumya Raju

Senior Manager of Product, Discover Financial Services
As a Senior Manager of Product, Soumya Raju is an accomplished product leader with over 15 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams and delivering innovative solutions. She plays a key role in leading the creation of product strategy and accelerating digital product delivery... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
  ProductWorld

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: From Vision to Delivery: Reshaping Agile Product Management through AI-driven OKRs
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Mariya Breyter, Amazon, Head of Product Management

Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework combined with Agile delivery takes product management to a new level. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) have been well-known for decades now, and John Doerr's book on Measuring What Matters became a hit immediately after it was published. However, while OKRs as a concept seem logical and straightforward, many companies struggle with implementing this concept in an aligned and inspirational way. As an Agile practitioner implementing OKRs in multiple large organizations, I experience five major ANTI-PATTERNS that impact product management: 

(1) OKRs are implemented top-down. OKRs are not KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)** which are top-down arbitrary numbers provided by management to each employee at the beginning of a long-term period (usually a year). OKRs are set by teams, not individuals, and aligned with organizational objectives. In that, OKRs are inspirational and encourage teams to set up objectives that motivate them and inspire self-organizing teams to make a difference.

(2) OKRs are used to measure performance and define compensation. Unlike KPIs which are used to measure performance and influence compensation and promotions, OKRs are not related to performance in any way. Numbers are easy to game, and connecting OKRs to performance would negate the purpose of those. OKRs need to be aspirational and hard to achieve, and by doing that, the teams challenge them to continuously grow and become high-performing. This is the reason OKRs are self-graded, not measured by the managers.
OKRs are focused on activities, not results.

(3) Frequently, OKRs are focused on activities or tasks, e.g. providing 100 training sessions, hiring 300 employees, or creating a Playbook covering 50 topics. While sometimes there is a reason for task-based key results, in most cases, the objective is either customer-obsessed (e.g. customer adoption or customer satisfaction), business objective (e.g. revenue growth), employee-related (e.g. retention data), or a related goal. In either case, it forces teams to pivot if the initial set of activities does not bring the intended result and fails forward to pursue the goal.

(4) OKRs need to be measured by managers. OKRs are self-graded by the team that is committed to them. Pre-grading is a helpful technique that allows setting quantifiable success criteria from 0 (not started) to 1 (challenging but possible).

(5) OKRs are assessed at the end of the period for which they are set. OKRs are reviewed at frequent intervals (usually monthly for quarterly or annual OKRs), and it is important to keep in mind that the value of those sessions is not in grades but in alignment and collaboration discussions and outcomes.

We will review the role of AI in the OKR setting and review how AI-based simulations can help set up realistic customer-driven OKRs. Finally, we will discuss OKR implementation and review examples of how OKRs empower teams to self-organize while achieving shared goals within a scaled agile environment.

Learning Outcomes:

We know that mastery, autonomy, and purpose drive our professional satisfaction and create motivation. However, as product managers, we are all motivated by different objectives that may not be aligned with each other's or with organizational goals.

As product managers, how do we create a meaningful alignment of our team's goals, individual aspirations, and company objectives? How do we establish complete transparency across the organization so that at each moment of time anyone would see the same picture and understand how their individual or their team's activities contribute to this shared goal? How do we get a say in what are the objectives and a clear understanding of why they are so important for the whole company?

Participants will leave the workshop with a clear understanding of the process of: (a) how to build a cascading OKR structure within a scaled Agile organization as a product manager with AI and generative testing, (b) how to continuously pivot and self-assess their team's results, and (c) how to align the whole organization while allowing for team-level self-organization.
Speakers
avatar for Mariya Breyter

Mariya Breyter

Head of Product Management, Amazon
Mariya Breyter is a technology executive, product leader, and educator with experience ranging from leading technology companies and government jobs to versatile corporate experience in financial services, healthcare, media, education, and technology companies. She takes pride in... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

11:30am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE: Auth0 by Okta-- Coming Soon!
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Shiven Ramji, Okta, President, Customer Identity Cloud
Speakers
avatar for Shiven Ramji

Shiven Ramji

President, Customer Identity Cloud, Okta
Shiv is an experienced product executive and builder obsessed with creating beautiful products. He is the President of Customer Identity at Okta, managing a $1B ARR business and overseeing the company’s product, data, security, and technology strategy and execution. Before Auth0... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

11:30am PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: OpenAPI Overlays: Strategies for API Description Management
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Kevin Swiber, API strategy lead and technical evangelist

Are you puzzled by the number of ways OpenAPI descriptions might be used? How do you handle differences in visibility, custom extensions, or even multilingual documentation? OpenAPI Overlays offer a nuanced approach to modifying an API description without altering the original. This session will explore how you can use Overlays to address common challenges with OpenAPI Specification.
We'll cover:
- Core concepts of the OpenAPI Overlay Specification
- Practical use cases that require transforming API descriptions
- Techniques for managing API metadata and visibility
By understanding Overlays, you'll gain a flexible tool for adapting API specifications to different environments and requirements.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Swiber

Kevin Swiber

Developer Experience Advisor, Stripe
Kevin Swiber is a senior API strategy lead and technical evangelist with over 10 years of experience in API technology startups. They have a history of working in software engineering, infrastructure operations, and enterprise architecture. In addition to their work at API companies... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

11:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Moving Fast, Achieving Big: The Role of Customer Focus and a Great Team
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Gabriela Brant Alves, Deel, Senior Product Manager

In today’s fast-paced market, achieving significant impact requires more than just a great product. I'll explore the critical elements that drive rapid growth and success: an unwavering focus on customers and the power of a strong product team.

By working in a company that became the fastest-growing startup in the industry, skyrocketing from $1M ARR to $100M in just 20 months and reaching $500M ARR in 5 years, I will delve into real-world strategies and experiences that illustrate how being deeply customer-centric and building a cohesive, agile team can accelerate progress and amplify results.

Discover practical insights on:
- Speed: How to maintain agility and responsiveness in a competitive landscape.
- Impact: Techniques for making a meaningful and measurable difference in your market.
- Customer Focus: Methods for deeply understanding and addressing customer needs to drive loyalty and growth.
- Team Excellence: The importance of fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

Whether you’re in the early stages of scaling or looking to optimize your current approach, this talk will provide actionable takeaways to help you move fast and achieve big. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to harness the power of customer focus and team dynamics to propel your product and company forward.
Speakers
avatar for Gabriela Brant Alves

Gabriela Brant Alves

Senior Product Manager, Deel
Gabriela Brant is a Senior Product Manager with 5+ years of experience in Product Management. Currently working at Deel, where she has driven key innovations in global payroll and compliance solutions. With a strong technical background, have worked in API product management and as... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: JSON and Relational Databases: Friends or foes?
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL 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
avatar for Beda Hammerschmidt

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.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Building an Advanced Software Engineering Agent
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
YK Sugi, Sourcegraph, Senior AI Developer Advocate

This presentation details the development of an experimental software engineering agent designed to answer complex questions about codebases. The core innovation lies in a graph-based approach where the agent iteratively gathers contextual information, using self-reflection to assess its confidence in answering the query. By treating accumulated context as a set and employing a greedy best-first search guided by confidence scores, the system aims to efficiently navigate the codebase and provide accurate answers. Initial findings are promising, with future benchmarks on real-world software engineering challenges planned to further validate its capabilities.  
Speakers
avatar for YK Sugi

YK Sugi

Senior AI Developer Advocate, Sourcegraph
Founder of CS Dojo, a leading programming education platform with over 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube, dedicated to empowering individuals with the skills needed for a successful career in tech. Beyond YouTube, he actively shares insights and tips on coding, AI, and tech career... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: Your Cheat Code for API Authorization
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Omri Gazitt, Aserto, Co-founder & CEO

Congrats, your org is all-in on microservices! But now you have hundreds (or thousands!) of APIs. Some power your customer-facing apps. Others are platform services that your front-end services consume. Still others are back-end services used by internal tools.

And ALL of them need to be authorized.

Not to mention, you need to be able to answer questions like “which users are authorized to invoke this endpoint?” and “which endpoints can this user invoke?”

Having each API “do its own thing” makes it all but impossible to wrangle this complexity. You need a cross-cutting solution to apply authorization rules consistently - either in the API code or at the API Gateway.

Enter Aserto: an open source cloud-native authorization service that does this, and more.

This talk provides hands-on learning for how to go from an OpenAPI spec to a fine-grained authorization model, ready to authorize your users, in just a few minutes.
Speakers
avatar for Omri Gazitt

Omri Gazitt

Co-founder & CEO, Aserto.com
Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his 3rd entrepreneurial venture. He spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer & infrastructure tech, most recently as the CPO of Puppet. Previously he was the VP & GM of HP's Cloud Native Platform... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: AI and the Gaming Industry: Risks, Rewards, and the Future
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca, SheHacksPurple, Secure Coding Trainer
OWASP Certified 
Speakers
avatar for Tanya

Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca

Secure Coding Trainer, SheHacksPurple
Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding', 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec'. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: From Bold Ideas to Real Results: Crafting Achievable Roadmaps
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Surbhi Gupta, Zoox, Product Leader
Shalini Dinesh, Walmart, Senior Product Manager
Nupur Jain, Google, Product Manager, Google Deepmind



In a competitive landscape where businesses must evolve to meet customer demands, and sustain, the reality is up to 70% of strategic initiatives fail due to poor execution, unrealistic goals, or the inability to make timely strategic decisions (Harvard Business Review, 2020). Companies often embark on ambitious projects without clear, actionable roadmaps, leading to wasted resources, missed opportunities, and stalled growth. The disconnect between innovative ideas and actual results is often rooted in a failure to set clear, achievable objectives and align stakeholders across the organization.

This session will present data-driven insights and practical frameworks for crafting roadmaps that transform bold ideas into real results. To gain valuable outcomes, roadmaps must be designed with a focus on prioritizing high-impact initiatives, aligning them with measurable milestones, and ensuring adaptability to respond to evolving market conditions. This approach bridges the gap between aspiration and execution, ensuring that innovation translates into sustained success.

Drawing on research from McKinsey, which shows that companies that define and communicate clear strategies are 3.5 times more likely to outperform their peers (McKinsey & Company, 2021), we will outline the key steps to ensure strategic alignment, continuous feedback, and measurable outcomes. More details and actionable strategies will be discussed in the session, empowering leaders to move beyond lofty goals and drive meaningful, measurable change.
Speakers
avatar for Nupur Jain

Nupur Jain

Product Manager, Google Deepmind, Google
Nupur Jain is an accomplished product leader with over a decade of experience in driving innovation and launching AI-powered solutions at Google. As a Product Manager for Google Deepmind, she spearheads the development of cutting-edge extensions on the Gemini platform, integrating... Read More →
avatar for Shalini Dinesh

Shalini Dinesh

Senior Product Manager, Walmart
Shalini Dinesh is a Senior Product Manager at Walmart, the world’s leading Fortune 1 company, where she plays a pivotal role in shaping product strategy and innovation. With a Master's in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Shalini combines technical... Read More →
avatar for Surbhi Gupta

Surbhi Gupta

Product Leader, Zoox
Surbhi Gupta brings a unique blend of product mastery and mentorship to the stage. From launching impactful products at industry giants like Meta, Tesla, and Amazon's Zoox to guiding startups at Plug and Play, she's a force to be reckoned with. Her groundbreaking innovations have... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: AI in Financial Services: Emerging Trends and Opportunities
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Awais Bajwa, Bank of America, Head of Data & AI Banking

- Why does it matter: Financial Services is one of the largest addressable vertical markets for gen AI
- Emerging use cases: customer engagement, knowledge discovery, coding, content marketing
- The Gen AI infrastructure stack & integration with legacy IT systems
- Key challenges to adoption: data privacy, security, bias, hallucinations, regulatory compliance.
- Responsible AI: Establishing governance framework, ethical guardrails and controls
Speakers
avatar for Awais Bajwa

Awais Bajwa

Head of Data & AI Banking, Bank of America
Awais Sher Bajwa is a leader in Data and AI banking, as well as a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. With a career spanning over 15 years, Awais has led over 60 strategic deals, including IPOs, M&A, and capital raises, with a total value exceeding $60 billion.Awais founded Bank... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Stateful Workloads Made Easy: A Practical Demo of Live Migration
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
Steven Fraser, CAST AI, Senior Solution Architect

Kubernetes works great for stateless applications, but stateful workloads like databases or long-running jobs pose a challenge. These applications rely on persistent data and can’t afford interruptions, making Kubernetes’ “ephemeral” approach risky. Downtime can lead to data loss, inconsistencies, and system failures.

That’s where live migration comes in, allowing stateful workloads to move between nodes without disruption. At Cast AI, we’ve developed Container Live Migration to automatically consolidate these workloads, ensuring continuous uptime, reducing resource fragmentation, and cutting costs. Join us to see how we’re making Kubernetes work for stateful applications in a practical demo.
Speakers
avatar for Steven Fraser

Steven Fraser

Senior Solution Architect, CAST AI
Senior Solution Architect
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Where Is the Love? Why Automated Regression Testing Isn’t Getting the Attention It Needs
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
Jens Wessling, Veracode, Chief Technology Officer

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace and new innovations bring a world of possibilities, one item is often left behind: automated regression testing. The truth is without it, organizations can forget about software quality, security, winning customers' trust or being agile.

Regression testing is an integral, non-negotiable part of the production software development process right from the very moment the first line of production code is written. Its impact goes beyond code correctness, influencing development velocity, reducing long-term maintenance costs and ensuring a smoother integration process during acquisitions. However, companies often scramble to retrofit regression testing into their legacy code, but in reality, less than 10% of these after-the-fact efforts ever pan out. It might be tempting to overlook the absence of solid regression testing in smaller companies, but here's the catch: the long-term costs of maintaining code without automated testing don't just stay put – they grow. It's not just a “nice to have” it’s a strategic investment to safeguard their current operations and for companies to position themselves for future growth, innovation and success.

In this Thought Leadership Session, Jens Wessling, CTO of Veracode, outlines the importance of automated regression testing, highlighting why both developers and the C-Suite should make it a priority from the outset and how to make it a core aspect of your team's ethos.
Speakers
avatar for Jens Wessling

Jens Wessling

Chief Technology Officer, Veracode
Jens Wessling is the Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He leads the architecture vision for Veracode’s core capabilities around its proprietary data model and AI-powered remediation engine. With more than 25 years’ experience in software engineering and architecture, Jens... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL OpsWorld
  Dev Exec World

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: No AI without APIs
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Jeremy Snyder, Firetail, CEO

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the most important developments in tech of the last 10 years. While AI has grabbed the majority of headlines lately, APIs are the unsung heroes, the “connective tissue” that ensures seamless integration across our digital lives. But how will the more recent emergence of AI affect API security, and how do APIs affect the security of AI? 
In this talk, we’ll explore these two hot topics that make our online worlds work. AI can be helpful to API security by allowing security teams to automate certain processes or make testing more efficient, but it can also be used to help malicious actors automate their attacks.

Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Snyder

Jeremy Snyder

CEO, FireTail
Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup. Prior to FireTail, Jeremy worked in M&A at Rapid7, a global cyber leader, where he worked on the acquisitions of 3 companies during the pandemic. Jeremy previously led sales at DivvyCloud, one of the... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI DevWorld): The Agentic Workforce Revolution: How to Futureproof Your Governance Framework
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Manish Rai, Snaplogic, VP of Product Marketing

The rise of AI agents shows no sign of slowing down, with the market projected* to grow tenfold from $5 billion in 2024 to nearly $50 billion by 2030. By this time, generative AI will be table stakes, and business and IT leaders will instead be grappling with how to manage an entire workforce of AI agents carrying out a range of automated tasks.

In an AI-powered future, enterprises are like gardens with AI agents as gardeners, helping the landscapers maintain the estate. These agents are smart, self sufficient tools, and excel at specific tasks, but if the tool shed is disorganized they will be slowed down — or worse, use the wrong soil or seeds and cause irreparable damage, preventing the garden from blooming to its full potential. To avoid this, organizations must keep their tools in order.

In this session, Manish Rai will explore a range of considerations for enterprises as they implement and scale a team of AI agents to set themselves up for long-term success. It will encompass topics such as function management, and how to govern the tools AI agents will have access to — while maintaining guardrails. As use cases for AI agents expand to non-technical teams, Rai will also discuss key stakeholders for overseeing implementation to prevent shadow data. Finally, he will provide tips for organizations seeking to rework their overall data governance framework to meet the moment head on, and be prepared for a new agentic workforce.
Speakers
avatar for Manish Rai

Manish Rai

VP of Product Marketing, SnapLogic
Manish Rai is the VP of Product Marketing at SnapLogic. Rai has 15+ years of Silicon Valley marketing experience spanning Generative AI, integration, low-code, RPA, and mobility solutions. He was previously VP of Marketing at Super.AI, where he helped drive rapid company growth in... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Building AI Applications from Your Desktop with Podman AI Lab
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
Cedric Clyburn, Red Hat, Developer Advocate

Generative AI is revolutionizing how we build modern applications, but for developers, it can be daunting, particularly with evaluating models, building with Gen AI, and the path to production. But, it doesn’t have to be worrisome! Join us in this session to be ahead of the curve when it comes to AI-enabled cloud-native application development.

Using container technology and open source models from Hugging Face, we’ll show how to practically integrate Gen AI in an existing application from your local development environment and ultimately deploy it onto Kubernetes. Why work with local and open-source models? From reducing cloud computing costs, keeping control of your sensitive data, and alleviating vendor-locking, it’s an increasingly popular way for developers to prototype AI applications quickly. We’ll demonstrate a sample of the whole AI journey, starting from assessing models, building applications with LLMs, and deploying/serving AI applications.
Speakers
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Cedric Clyburn

Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
  AI DevWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: From DevEx Disaster to Delight: How to Champion a DevEx Revolution in Your Organization
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Frontend World
Jeremy Meiss, DevEx Institute, Developer Experience & Community Leader

Is your team struggling with bugs, inefficient tools, and demoralizing processes? Do you often hear them expressing their frustration with the deployment process and the codebase? Don't worry, this talk is your ticket to transforming your organization's Developer Experience (DevEx) from a disaster zone to a developer utopia.

We'll delve into the what, why, and how of DevEx, exploring practical strategies that will empower you to make your developers' lives easier and more productive. We'll cover everything from tooling and automation to fostering a culture of collaboration and feedback. By the end of this talk, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and practical tips to become a DevEx champion in your organization.
Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Meiss

Jeremy Meiss

Developer Experience & Community Leader, DevEx Institute
Jeremy is a seasoned Developer Experience and Community leader, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including support, system and database administration... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Frontend World
  Dev Exec World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: APIOps: Interface Development at Scale
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Erik Hansen, Dell Technologies, API Architect, Developer Platform Services

Sure, your product may deliver a REST API to customers, but what about all those interfaces that exist within your company - between microservices, for internal tooling, and from imported packages? API Operations (APIOps) enables a consistent process, for developing and sharing any type of software interface, within your company and for your customers – whether you have 2 or 200 teams.
In this talk, learn how Dell is implementing APIOps to:
- Increase development velocity - for the team producing a shared interface, and their consumers.
- Reduce complexity - through common developer tooling and processes.
- Promote Consistency - by automating validation and governance.
- Expand Visibility - across all types of interfaces: REST, gRPC, event-based, and others.
Speakers
avatar for Erik Hansen

Erik Hansen

API Architect, Developer Platform Services, Dell Technologies
Erik is a Distinguished Member Technical Staff and API Architect at Dell Technologies. He is an advocate for User Centered Design and Developer Experience, helping Dell modernize its software development processes and engagement with external developers.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: Building a Network Telemetry Platform to minimize Security Threats
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Siri Varma Vegiraju, Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer

Maintaining robust network security in the cloud environment is more crucial than ever. This talk explores the design and implementation of a proactive network telemetry platform that strengthens infrastructure security. The platform collects and analyzes telemetry data from virtual machines to identify and scrutinize traffic patterns deviating from industry-standard baselines. By generating actionable insights and promptly notifying relevant teams of potential issues, it enables swift problem resolution. This proactive approach significantly reduces the attack surface, minimizes exposure to network attacks, and enhances overall cloud security. 
Speakers
avatar for Siri Varma Vegiraju

Siri Varma Vegiraju

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Siri Varma Vegiraju is a seasoned professional in healthcare, cloud computing, and security. Currently, he focuses on securing Azure Cloud workloads, leveraging his extensive experience in distributed systems and real-time streaming solutions. Prior to his current role, Siri contributed... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Say Goodbye to Toil: Automating Cluster Upgrades
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld
Ben Ryves, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer

How difficult is it to minimize the toil of cluster upgrades while increasing confidence in deploying the changes?

Even when managed, cluster upgrades are an unavoidable part of cluster maintenance, yet they can also be a source of toil, stress and outages; either when upgrading Kubernetes itself or additional cluster components. Manually testing changes in staging clusters, deploying with a high sense of uncertainty - these time consuming tasks can be mitigated with tests. Add nifty automation and cluster management efforts are reduced to a bare minimum.

Is investing in cluster tests and automation worth it? Yes! This talk shows how a team of three engineers keeps multiple clusters continuously up-to-date with minimal time investment, effort and disruptions. By leveraging the e2e-framework and Helm, everything from Istio to cluster autoscaler is tested and seamlessly managed.
Speakers
avatar for Ben Ryves

Ben Ryves

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide
Ben works as an SRE at GetYourGuide, building automation and testing tooling to provision production Kubernetes clusters. His main focus is networking, security, and resource optimisation.
avatar for Maggie Slukova

Maggie Slukova

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide
Maggie is a backend engineer turned SRE with a background in Mathematics. Her areas of focus are Kubernetes, Istio, cluster optimisation, autoscaling and automation. She loves building things, be it software, infrastructure, furniture or games.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld
  OpsWorld

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Scaling Smarter: Lessons from Air Canada’s Transformational Growth
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Ivana Ciric, Thoughtworks, Director of Product, Practice
Jose Platero, Air Canada, Director, Digital Product & Design

Over the last few years,  Air Canada has navigated significant growth, expanding partnerships, services, and modernizing its tech stack. This journey demanded a radical shift in the product operating model across the organization.

Through sharing our journey, we'll cover how you can:
- Build Scalable Product Teams: The strategies we used to cultivate teams that are equipped to scale rapidly and effectively.
- Drive Innovation Amid Market Realities: How we prepared our teams to adapt and innovate in response to dynamic customer needs and future-proofing our products.
- Prove the Value of Transformation: How we demonstrated the tangible business impact of evolving our product practices to stakeholders.
Speakers
avatar for Jose Platero

Jose Platero

Director, Digital Product & Design, Air Canada
Jose Platero is a digital product, design and delivery leader who helps startups, scale ups and enterprises to define and scale their product management, product design and product delivery practices so they deliver better products faster.Currently, he leads digital product and design... Read More →
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Ivana Ciric

Director of Product, Practice, Thoughtworks
As the Director of Product, Practice at Thoughtworks, Ivana is at the helm of product strategy and delivery across diverse industries including Commodities, Automotive, Travel, and Consumer Electronics. Her skill in developing forward-thinking 0-1 software products, ranging from ML... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (Product): Aldar -- From the USA to MENA: The Role of Culture in Shaping High-Performing Product Teams
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Tony Pagliocco, Aldar, Senior Vice President of Product Management

In today’s fast-paced world of product development, technical expertise is only part of the equation for success. The real key to building high-performing teams lies in creating a strong, values-driven culture. In this session, Tony shares his journey from the USA to the Middle East, highlighting how building a culture centered around shared values has been the foundation of his teams' incredible success.

Drawing from over 20 years of experience in product management, Tony will discuss how culture shapes collaboration, accountability, and innovation. Through his leadership roles at global companies like Boeing, Hasbro, and now Aldar in the Middle East, Tony will illustrate how fostering a cohesive culture helped him navigate new markets and build winning product teams across borders.

Attendees will walk away with actionable insights on building and sustaining a values-driven culture that can empower teams to deliver exceptional results—no matter the challenges they face.
Speakers
avatar for Tony Pagliocco

Tony Pagliocco

Senior Vice President of Product Management, Aldar
With 20 years of expertise across product management, digital media, web engineering, and organizational leadership, Tony has led teams to enhance engineering processes, deliver high-quality digital products, manage global product roadmaps, and craft technical organizational strategies... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: 10 Steps to Transform RAG from POC to Production: The Hidden Complexity of RAG
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Neelesh Pateriya, Cisco Systems, Principal Engineer

In this talk, we will explore the journey of the Cisco DevNet engineering team as we transformed a simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) proof of concept (POC) into a robust, production-ready application for developer.cisco.com. While creating a basic RAG demo is straightforward, scaling it to meet production standards involves navigating a myriad of challenges and complexities. This session will provide a step-by-step guide to the key aspects of this transformation, including vector indexing, model selection, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, security, user feedback, and continuous improvement. 
Speakers
avatar for Neelesh Pateriya

Neelesh Pateriya

Principal Engineer, Cisco
Neelesh is a Principal Engineer at the Cisco Developers platform. With a strong focus on driving innovation and excellence, he leads the development of the platform and the tool "API Insights," which plays a pivotal role in enabling a comprehensive organization-wide API Quality program... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Building AI Agents: Architectures & Common Challenges
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
Akash Sharma, Vellum, CEO & Co-Founder

Join us in this session as we go through the components of how to build Advanced AI systems - from experimentation, evaluation, deploying and monitoring. We’ll dive deep into each step of the process, outlining what are our recommended best practices and how to overcome common challenges in the process. To top this all off - we’ll cover some of our favorite success stories and walk you through how it all works in a live demo. 
Speakers
avatar for Akash Sharma

Akash Sharma

CEO & Co-Founder, Vellum
Akash Sharma, CEO and co-founder at Vellum (YC-backed dev tools startup) is enabling developers to easily start, develop and evaluate LLM powered apps.By talking to over 1,500 people at varying maturities of using LLMs in production, he has acquired a very unique understanding of... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Frontend World
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: API Governance in the age of AI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Olga Podolyako, Microsoft, Principal API Architect

API governance faces a big challenge today to balance the need for speed and innovation in API products with the assurance of their quality and security. Recently we learned that AI technologies such as AI agents can increase the productivity of knowledge workers, which include software engineers and architects, by up to 29% in industries that use them such as health care, law and finance. The purpose of today’s talk is to explore how AI technology can help with API governance. 
Speakers
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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 →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Orchestrating Agentic AI Workflows: Bringing Predictability to Unpredictable Systems
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
Tony Holdstock-Brown, Inngest, CEO & Co-founder

AI poses unique challenges for developers, from unpredictable compounding inference responses to varying response times to rapid iteration. In this 25-minute talk, Inngest CEO Tony Holdstock-Brown will explore how to develop and deploy reliable, flexible, and scalable AI-driven applications using "agentic workflows". Learn how to simplify complex AI workflows by autonomously managing state, scale, and queuing via step functions. Walk away with insights on customizing workflows to handle AI's unpredictability, unlocking new possibilities for AI development at scale. 
Speakers
avatar for Tony Holdstock-Brown

Tony Holdstock-Brown

CEO & Co-founder, Inngest
CEO of Inngest, specializing in modern queuing, orchestration, and AI workflows. Over 15 years of experience designing and building complex systems.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld Main Stage
  AI DevWorld

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: How GenAI Helps Solve Data Consistency Problems with Cloud-Native Apps
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
Deepak Goel, Oracle, Vice President, Software Development
Brijesh Deo, Oracle, Director, Software Development

Data consistency has been a longstanding challenge, dating back to the mainframe era, and transactions have traditionally been used to address these issues. However, with the rise of modern applications built on microservices architectures, ensuring data consistency has become even more complex. While AI adds further complexity to app development, it also offers significant potential to ease these challenges. New transaction patterns have emerged to tackle these modern issues. In this session, you will learn about these new patterns and the solutions available today to integrate these patterns into your applications. We will also explore in detail how some of these solutions are leveraging genAI to help developers avoid writing transaction management code or worry about associated infrastructure, making it extremely easy to adopt such transaction patterns. 
Speakers
avatar for Brijesh Deo

Brijesh Deo

Director, Software Development, Oracle
Brijesh Deo is the Director of MicroTx product development in the database organization at Oracle. He is passionate about distributed systems and cloud technologies and specializes in Kubernetes, Microservices, AI, and Java. Brijesh has a rich industry experience of more than two... Read More →
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Deepak Goel

Vice President, Software Development, Oracle
Deepak Goel is a Vice President, Software Development in Oracle's High Availability Cloud Development team. Throughout his career, he has been deeply involved with transaction processing and data integrity technologies and is currently leading the development of multiple products... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL Cloud Native World
  Cloud Native World

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: API Security 101: How to Not Be Featured in a Top Ten Breaches List
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Dan Barahona, APISec, Co-Founder

This talk will dive into the fundamentals and best practices for API Security. By understanding the 3 Pillars of API Security, encompassing governance, testing and monitoring, attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the essential elements required to safeguard APIs. The session will conclude with practical insights, offering best practices and valuable do's and don'ts for implementing and maintaining secure APIs.

Why are APIs under attack?
-83% of internet traffic are APIs
-APIs are under-secured

How do APIs get attacked?
Attackers look for APIs that are over-permissioned, return to much information, access unauthorized functions, and expose logic flaws. Attackers are able to bypass a web or mobile app and hit the API directly.

OWASP top 10!!
#1-#4 are the biggest issues

More compliance regulations are including testing APIs.
-PCI
-HIPPA
-GDPR
-FedRAMP
Speakers
avatar for Dan Barahona

Dan Barahona

Co-Founder, APIsec University
Dan is a 20+ year cybersecurity veteran, having held exec positions at companies including Qualys, ArcSight, Anomali and APIsec. He founded APIsec University in 2022 to offer free, non-vendor training on API security. The site has grown to over 50,000 students in its first 6 months... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE: IBM -- The Sneaky Secrets of Integration in a World of AI
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Brenton House, IBM, Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods

AI has disrupted the world of development and data, creating a chaotic landscape where APIs, integrations, and security are all under siege. Every day, headlines reveal new breaches and vulnerabilities, exposing the growing risks we all face. But when you start to connect the dots, a fascinating picture emerges — one where AI and integration play a central role in both the problems and the solutions.

Join AI and cybersecurity strategist Brenton House as he uncovers the sneaky secrets of integration that EVERY developer needs to know. From shocking API vulnerabilities to AI’s hidden hand in modern breaches, you’ll gain the insights and strategies you need to navigate today’s high-stakes environment. Learn how a hybrid integration solution just might be your secret weapon to thrive in this chaotic and interconnected world.
Speakers
avatar for Brenton House

Brenton House

Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods, IBM
Brenton House is an ex-hacker, developer, strategist, and now Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods. Known for his unique creative work and YouTube channel, Brenton has produced several hit series including The Redacted Hacker, AI: Man vs. Machine, and API Cybersecurity... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Beyond Vectors: Evolving GenAI through Transformative Tools and Methods
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
Alison Cossette, Neo4j, Data Science Strategist, Advocate, Educator

Embark on a thought-provoking exploration of GenAI's evolution with "Beyond Vectors: Evolving GenAI through Transformative Tools and Methods." Tailored for engineers seeking fresh perspectives, this session encourages practitioners to step beyond familiar Vector Database practices. It's not just a departure; it's a pragmatic leap forward into precision methodologies for data quality and crafting datasets essential for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) excellence. We'll navigate the complexities of adding non-semantic context through graph databases, shedding light on the nuanced limitations of distance metrics like Cosine Similarity. Join us for this insightful journey, pushing the boundaries of GenAI evolution with transformative tools and methods. 
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 →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL AI DevWorld OPEN Stage
  AI DevWorld

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: API Resiliency Testing
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
Hari Krishnan, Specmatic, Polyglot Full Stack Developer

Are your APIs leaving you worried about data loss, data corruption, security vulnerabilities, or poor user experiences? If so, this talk is exactly what you need to address these issues. Discover how you can leverage your API specifications—like OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL SDLs—to test and enhance the resiliency of your APIs with a completely #NOCODE approach.

In this talk, you’ll gain insights into the importance of API resilience and how to build APIs that can gracefully handle flaky dependencies in real-world scenarios. We’ll explore the role of contract testing in ensuring resilience and demonstrate how to transform API specifications into executable contracts that can be continuously validated. You’ll see how to set up resilience tests, including those for latency, errors, and unexpected disconnections. The session features live demos on configuring tools to simulate these conditions, interpret the results, and iteratively enhance your API designs.
Speakers
avatar for Hari Krishnan

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.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Exec World
  Dev Exec World

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OWASP Security Summit: 30 Tips for Secure JavaScript
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca, SheHacksPurple, Secure Coding Trainer
OWASP Certified 

In this talk, we will cover 30 tips for writing more secure JavaScript, emphasizing what to do, what NOT to do, and utilizing open-source tooling to enhance security. JavaScript is not only the most popular web programming language, but it also faces security threats like XSS and code injection, meaning we need to ensure our JavaScript is tough, rugged, and secure. We’ll touch only upon items that are specific to JavaScript, as opposed to agnostic topics that apply to all languages, such as encryption or authentication. By the end, you’ll gain insights into selecting the best framework, adopting secure coding practices, and leveraging tools for web application security, catering to both seasoned developers and beginners seeking practical guidance. 
Speakers
avatar for Tanya

Tanya "SheHacksPurple" Janca

Secure Coding Trainer, SheHacksPurple
Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding', 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec'. Over her 28-year IT career she has won countless awards (including OWASP Lifetime Distinguished Member and... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
Virtual Dev Security World
  Dev Security World

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Blend of PLM with Human Sciences
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
Rupa Bhagwat, Parker Hannifin, Product Manager, IoT and Smart & Connected Systems

Product Lifecycle Management through the lens of Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Neuroscience. By weaving human sciences into PLM, we’re not just creating products—we’re crafting experiences that resonate and endure. It’s this approach that breathes life into our products and helps startups thrive rather than falter. 
Speakers
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Rupa Bhagwat

Product Manager, IoT and Smart & Connected Systems, Parker Hannifin
Experienced Growth Product Manager with a unique approach, leveraging psychology, behavioural economics, and neuroscience to design highly engaging products. I excel in applying the "build-measure-learn" feedback loop for rapid and efficient progress.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation World
  ProductWorld

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Navigating Culture Change: The Role of Product Operations in Value Alignment
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Chris Butler, GitHub, Product Manager

Culture change is a formidable challenge for any organization, requiring a strategic approach to align values and behaviors across teams.

This presentation focuses on the pivotal role of product operations in driving and sustaining culture change through value alignment.

Attendees will explore how product operations serves as a linchpin for translating organizational values into actionable strategies, processes, and behaviors.

From fostering collaboration and accountability to promoting transparency and continuous improvement, join us to discover how product operations can navigate and lead culture change initiatives with precision and impact.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Product Manager, GitHub
Chris Butler is a Chaotic Good Product Manager and Staff Product Operation Manager at GitHub. His role focuses on PM'ing the PM experience for the AI & Productivity group. Chris has worked previously as a product leader at Microsoft, Facebook Reality Labs, Cognizant, Google, KAYAK... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld

3:30pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE: Harness -- How To Lead, Scale, and Innovate
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
Nick Durkin, Harness, Field CTO

Join Nick Durkin, CTO of Harness and multi-unicorn founder, as he discusses his best practices when it comes to leading teams, driving innovation, building platforms, and scaling products. His track record as CEO of multiple high-growth tech companies includes selling AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7B and scaling Harness to its $3.7B valuation. Jyoti is in a unique position to speak to what it takes to build billion-dollar software companies while maintaining a self-sustaining, always-growing, and innovative culture. Learn how he drives leadership, navigates challenges, and fosters innovation across his ventures that are shaping the future of DevOps. 
Speakers
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Nick Durkin

CTO, Harness
Nick Durkin is a Field CTO at Harness, the modern software delivery platform. Nick has his finger on the pulse of all-things software, AI, and cybersecurity from his daily conversations with customers, and 14+ years spent in ML and AI as an architect for companies like Zelle, Trace3... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

3:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO Session: Decoding the Early Stage Product Strategy: Taking a Product from MVP to Release 1.0
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
Amala Rangnekar, Workday Search, Product Manager

With the recent advent in cutting-edge technologies that were unheard of before, companies have started aggressively investing in the development of innovative products. However, products in a nascent stage can be intimidating to build, especially if they belong to a specialised domain. Products typically follow the lifecycle phases of introduction, growth, maturity and decline. However, the introductory phase is the most crucial one and can have long-lasting effects on the upcoming stages. In my session, I will cover best practices for product leaders who are building such products from scratch. This includes setting a product vision and strategy based on the market landscape when you have no existing roadmap and 0 customers. I will also share personal experiences on how I came up with the appropriate product phases of early stage, limited availability and general availability by observing the use-cases and stakeholders as well as customer patterns and feedback from existing competition. Lastly, I will explain how effective team processes, data analysis and a strong business acumen(marketing, positioning and product messaging) are a PM’s best friend to help successfully deploy early stage products. 
Speakers
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Amala Rangnekar

Product Manager, Workday Search
I am a Product Manager in Workday's Search team(the backbone that powers Workday's global search bar and prompt based searches for customers). I recently completed my M.B.A from UCLA's Anderson School of Management, with a focus on Business Strategy and Product Marketing. I also have... Read More →
Wednesday February 19, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
VIRTUAL ProductWorld Main Stage
  ProductWorld
 
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 →
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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
avatar for Andra Lezza

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 →
avatar for Wendy Segura

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
avatar for Yana Welinder

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.
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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
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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. 
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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 
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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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