Track host
About the track
Explore the organizational restructuring needed to effectively adopt AI, focusing on new roles, skills, and workflows within engineering teams. Learn strategies for managing team dynamics and leading successful change in the age of intelligent software development.
Sessions in this track
Wednesday 18 March. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session AI AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction Nathen Harvey Lead of DORA and Product Manager @Google Cloud AI adoption in software development is nearly universal, yet the outcomes for teams are highly variable. Why do some organizations see massive productivity gains while others see their delivery stability crash? DORA’s latest research provides a key insight: AI acts as an amplifier. 11:45 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session Responsible AI Ethical AI Is an Engineering Problem Clara Higuera Cabañes Responsible AI Program Lead @BBVA - Driving Innovation & Social Impact in AI, PhD Thesis Advisor, Member of OdiseIA, Previously Data Scientist @BBC The systems we design encode the values we choose… 13:35 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session AI The Reinvention of the Dev Team Hannah Foxwell Independent Consultant at the Intersection of Platform Engineering, Security, and AI, Founder of AI For the Rest of Us I don’t need to tell you that AI has changed software development forever. You know this. Whether you’re positive, negative or indifferent to this change, you can’t deny that the past 2 years have radically changed the role of the software developer. 14:45 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session AI Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review Sarah Deitke Software Engineer @Duolingo At Duolingo, we realized that successful AI adoption would require deliberate learning — not just access to tools. Over the past year, we scaled AI usage across 300+ engineers through intentional dogfooding programs, live training, office hours, and AI observability dashboards. 15:55 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session Context Is the New Code Patrick Debois AI Product Engineer @Tessl, Co-Author of the "DevOps Handbook", Content Curator at AI Native Developer Community We version control code, review it, test it, and observe it in production. We spent two decades building rigorous lifecycles around it.
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon London 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.