Building a Culture of Psychological Safety

The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

Tuesday Mar 17 / 01:35PM GMT

Career progression in engineering has traditionally followed a predictable path: junior tasks teach fundamentals, mid-level work builds judgment, senior roles require synthesis across systems.

Alasdair Allan

Scientist, Author, Hacker, Maker, Journalist, and Head of Documentation, CTO @Negroni Venture Studios, Interim CTO @Evaro

Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI

Tuesday Mar 17 / 10:35AM GMT

Details coming soon.

Matthew Skelton

CEO & Principal @Conflux, Co-Author of "Team Topologies", Leader in Modern Organizational Dynamics for Fast Flow

From Copilots to Orchestrators: A Three-Month Playbook for Training AI-Native Engineering Teams

Tuesday Mar 17 / 05:05PM GMT

Most engineering teams are stuck treating AI as autocomplete. Engineers have GitHub Copilot installed (or Claude or Cursor or whatever), they're generating snippets faster, but leaders can't connect usage to business outcomes—and developers are shipping code they don't fully understand.

Krystal Flores

Staff Software Engineer @Crunchyroll, Previously @Carta, @Lob, @Simple Habit, and @Nordstromrack.com|HauteLook

Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Working Teams in the Age of AI

Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT

Every senior engineer knows the feeling: a model makes a bad decision, a customer complains, and suddenly you're debugging a system that spans three teams, two pipelines, and a machine learning model nobody fully owns. Where do you even start?

Unconference: Building Engineering Teams

Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT