Expert speakers. Innovative ideas.

Our speakers include include Developer Productivity Engineering and Developer Experience experts from some of the best software organizations around.

Keynote Speakers

Anjali Gugle

Anjali Gugle

Speed, Flow, and Metrics: Mastering the Developer Productivity Paradox

Bishwajeet Paul
Subha Rajagopalan
Mani Nagaraj

Bishwajeet Paul, Subha Rajagopalan & Mani Nagaraj

Reimagining CI/CD with Agentic AI: The Future of Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions

Vishruth Ashok

Vishruth Ashok

Shift Left, Not Off a Cliff: Making Early Testing Actually Work

Katie Lamkin-Fulsher
Vijay Agrawal

Katie Lamkin-Fulsher & Vijay Agrawal

Debug Less, Deploy More: Intuit’s CI/CD Productivity Evolution

Roberto Perez Alcolea
Aubrey Chipman

Roberto Perez Alcolea & Aubrey Chipman

From Lag to Lightning: Transforming Dependency Update Timelines

Sergey Chernov

Sergey Chernov

Maven Turbo reactor

Nick McDuffie

Nick McDuffie

Scaling AI for Developers: Lessons from the Inside at Salesforce

Anugrah Singhal
Jason Erickson

Anugrah Singhal & Jason Erickson

From 25 Minutes to 2.5: Okta’s Journey to Faster Builds

Karim Nakad

Karim Nakad

Optimizing for Time: Dark Matter

Olga Lvova
Yanina Ledovaya

Olga Lvova & Yanina Ledovaya

JetBrains DevEco Survey: What Thousands of Developers Tell Us About Productivity in Their Companies

Brian Demers
François Martin

Brian Demers & François Martin

Testing on Thin Ice: Chipping Away at Test Unpredictability

Akshat Bhatia

Akshat Bhatia

Developer Velocity in the AI Era: The Databricks Way

Elise Paradis

Elise Paradis

How might we improve the impact of AI on developers’ productivity?

Hassan Chagani
Clinton Teegarden

Hassan Chagani & Clinton Teegarden

The Need for Speed: Streamlining CI/CD for Rapid App Releases

Szczepan Faber

Szczepan Faber

Agentic coding at Airbnb

Khalid Elsawaf
Patrick Ayoup

Khalid Elsawaf & Patrick Ayoup

Information to Inspiration: Morgan Stanley’s Data-Driven Approach to Developer Productivity

Aurimas  Liutikas

Aurimas Liutikas

Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules

Ash Jones

Ash Jones

Developer Experience Measurement Evolution at Pinterest

Muktesh Mishra

Muktesh Mishra

Unleashing Developer Productivity: Supercharging Zero Day Cloud-Native Developer Experience from IDE

Rebecca Fitzhugh

Rebecca Fitzhugh

Crossing the communication chasm to drive targeted productivity improvements

Paul Hundal
Shivang Shah

Paul Hundal & Shivang Shah

Beyond the Keyboard: Reclaiming Idle Time for Developer Productivity

Benjie De Groot
Erin Doyle

Benjie De Groot & Erin Doyle

How to be quick without being dirty: maintaining quality at high velocity

Dhruva Juloori

Dhruva Juloori

Merge Queue at Uber Scale

Juan Marcano

Juan Marcano

Operators, DeepSeek and the Future of AI and Productivity

Hilary Lanham
Tom Kelk

Hilary Lanham & Tom Kelk

Measuring Productivity from a standing start in a 320yr old bank

Jason Pearson

Jason Pearson

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Abi Noda
Nicole Forsgren

Abi Noda & Nicole Forsgren

Developer experience in the AI era

Eric Wendelin
Jasmine Robinson

Eric Wendelin & Jasmine Robinson

How is Generative AI actually making developers more productive?

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