Only available to attendees with a “Conference (3 days) + Certification (half day)” ticket.
AI isn't just about fancy code completion anymore – it's shaking up the entire software lifecycle, from design to deployment and beyond! 🤯
We're thrilled to have a panel of rockstars joining us to share their experiences and answer your burning questions:
- 👨💻 Iaroslav Amerkhanov (Senior Data Scientist at Delivery Hero), fresh off his talk in the AI for Software Engineers track!
- 🤖 Birgitta Böckeler (Global Lead for AI-Assisted Software Delivery at Thoughtworks), who blew us away yesterday with her insights on Chat-Oriented Programming and agentic engineering!
- 🧠 Karthik Ramgopal (Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn), a mastermind behind LinkedIn's very own AI Hiring Assistant!
- ✍ Srini Penchikala (Software Architect, Author, and InfoQ Lead Editor), bringing his deep expertise in all things data engineering and AI!
This is your chance to dive deep and ask these incredible minds anything about the impact of AI on how we deliver software. Come prepared with your questions, or just come ready to learn!
Speaker

Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @EqualExperts, ex-Thoughtworker & ex-VMWare, 16-Time QCon Chair, Creator/Co-host of The InfoQ Podcast
Wes has been an active member of the QCon and InfoQ communities since 2015. Professionally, he is a Technical Principal at Equal Experts, where he specializes in app modernization and platform engineering. Wes embraces the notion of the T-shaped engineer, blending broad expertise across a wide range of software domains with deep technical knowledge in the cloud-native ecosystem. He believes in the transformative power of speaking, teaching, and continuous learning.
Wes has over 20 years of experience in software engineering. During that time, he has chaired more than 15 QCon software conferences in San Francisco, London, and New York; created the well-respected InfoQ Podcast; and spent over 10 years teaching 400-level courses on software architecture and programming at the University of Louisville. These experiences have provided him with broad knowledge across a wide range of areas in software while fostering technical depth in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, and platform thinking.
Before joining Equal Experts, Wes held technical leadership roles at Thoughtworks, where he focused on cloud and modernization; at VMware, as a Tanzu Platform Architect specializing in Spring, Kubernetes, and the developer path to production; and at an edge-related startup, where he served as VP of Technology, driving innovation at the edge.