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10:30 AM

Alexander Valentine
Senior Vice President, Global Sales Engineering
Harness
Trevor Stuart
General Manager & SVP
Harness
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Lunch and Networking

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1:50 PM

AI Adoption Patterns: What Works, What Doesn't

Ravi Upad
Head of Infrastructure and DevSecOps
FleetPride
Kunal Thapar
Senior Director Infrastructure and Engineering
Ritchie Bros.

Take a look at successful and failed AI adoption strategies across different team sizes and tech stacks. We share data-driven insights on ROI, common resistance patterns, training approaches, and the metrics that actually matter when evaluating AI tool effectiveness in development teams.

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2:15 PM

Security at AI Speed

Nicole Dove
Head of Security
Games Division, Riot Games
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
Harness

Security practices have evolved to match the pace of AI-assisted development and automated deployments. Learn about real-time threat detection, automated security testing that keeps up with rapid release cycles, and how enterprise security teams are leveraging AI to identify vulnerabilities faster than developers can introduce them.

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2:40 PM

Platform Engineering Maturity: From Golden Paths to Self-Healing Systems

Jayson Workman
Director
American Red Cross
Craig Statham
Distinguished Systems Architect
SAS
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
Harness

The evolution from basic developer platforms to intelligent systems that predict needs, auto-remediate issues, and adapt to usage patterns has ultimately changed the way dev and eng teams work. We deep dive into platform teams' shifting roles, building platforms that evolve with organizational needs, and measuring platform ROI beyond developer satisfaction scores.

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3:15 PM

Governance & Guardrails: Automating Compliance and Risk Management

Karthik Jayaraman
VP of IT
Fiserv
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO
Harness

AI is transforming software governance from manual reviews to intelligent, automated oversight across codebases, dependencies, and deployments. We’ll discuss how AI systems enforce architectural standards, detect compliance violations, predict security risks, and provide real-time governance feedback within developer workflows.

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3:35 PM

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: Trust at the Speed of AI

Michael McManus
SVP, Tech Ops, Architeture & Platform Engineering
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits
Vikas Mehta
Enterprise Architect - Principal
Deluxe
Cisco Vila
VP, Software Engineering
slack
Trevor Stuart
General Manager & SVP
Harness

AI coding assistants and autonomous agents are helping developers write code faster than ever. As the primary author of code shifts to be bots, what are the implications for DevSecOps pipelines and platforms? We’ll discuss how leaders are adapting their approaches to meet the needs of teams using AI most aggressively.

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4:00 PM
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Richard Steenburg
VP of SRE and Platform
Early Warning
Owen Wolf
Senior Director, Platform Engineering
Sony
Brandon Whelply
Field CTO & Board Member
Avyka
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
Harness
Sorabh Singhal
Business Head of Industry Cloud and Digital Service
Wipro
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO
Harness
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From Complexity to Clarity: Lloyds’ Journey to a Unified Developer Platform

Andrew Greenough
CI/CD Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
Tony Phillips
Engineering Lead - DevOps Services, Engineering Platform
Lloyds Banking Group
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Harness
Sorabh Singhal
Business Head of Industry Cloud and Digital Service
Wipro
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO
Harness

At Lloyds Banking Group, decades of tools and processes left developers navigating a fragmented, complex environment. Tony Phillips and Andrew Greenough share how the bank is simplifying with an Internal Developer Platform—introducing “Golden Paths,” self-service onboarding, and standardized pipelines to streamline delivery. Hear how they’re cutting through complexity to improve developer experience while balancing innovation with the stability required of a 250-year-old institution.

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Happy Hour Networking

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September 29, 2026

The Hilton Alpharetta, 5775 Windward Parkway

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10:30 AM

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12:30 PM

2 hr

Opening Keynote

Trevor Stuart
Alexander Valentine
Senior Vice President, Global Sales Engineering
,
Harness
Trevor Stuart
Trevor Stuart
General Manager & SVP
,
Harness

12:30 PM

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1:30 PM

1 hr

Lunch

1:30 PM

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1:50 PM

20 min

Fireside Chat:

Shipping AI-Written Code Without Losing Control

Yogs Jayaprakasam, Deluxe's Chief Technology & Digital Officer, joins Harness to talk about what it actually takes to ship AI-accelerated software safely. Deluxe has AI projects running across the business, and speed is no longer the bottleneck. The real question is how you govern and ship code once AI is writing it faster than any team can manually review. Yogs will unpack the gap between AI writing code and AI shipping code safely, and what governance has to look like when engineering moves at AI speed.

Trevor Stuart
Yogaraj Jayaprakasam
SVP, Chief Technology, Digital Officer
,
Deluxe
Trevor Stuart
Carlos Delatorre
President, Go To Market
,
Harness

1:50 PM

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2:15 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

AI Adoption Patterns: What Works, What Doesn't

Take a look at successful and failed AI adoption strategies across different team sizes and tech stacks. We share data-driven insights on ROI, common resistance patterns, training approaches, and the metrics that actually matter when evaluating AI tool effectiveness in development teams.

Trevor Stuart
Ravi Upad
Head of Infrastructure and DevSecOps
,
FleetPride
Trevor Stuart
Kunal Thapar
Senior Director Infrastructure and Engineering
,
Ritchie Bros.

2:15 PM

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2:40 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Security at AI Speed

Security practices have evolved to match the pace of AI-assisted development and automated deployments. Learn about real-time threat detection, automated security testing that keeps up with rapid release cycles, and how enterprise security teams are leveraging AI to identify vulnerabilities faster than developers can introduce them.

Trevor Stuart
Nicole Dove
Head of Security
,
Games Division, Riot Games
Trevor Stuart
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
,
Harness

2:40 PM

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3:05 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Platform Engineering Maturity: From Golden Paths to Self-Healing Systems

The evolution from basic developer platforms to intelligent systems that predict needs, auto-remediate issues, and adapt to usage patterns has ultimately changed the way dev and eng teams work. We deep dive into platform teams' shifting roles, building platforms that evolve with organizational needs, and measuring platform ROI beyond developer satisfaction scores.

Trevor Stuart
Jayson Workman
Director
,
American Red Cross
Trevor Stuart
Craig Statham
Distinguished Systems Architect
,
SAS
Trevor Stuart
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
,
Harness

3:05 PM

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3:15 PM

10 min

Break

3:15 PM

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3:35 PM

20 min

Panel Session:

Governance & Guardrails: Automating Compliance and Risk Management

AI is transforming software governance from manual reviews to intelligent, automated oversight across codebases, dependencies, and deployments. We’ll discuss how AI systems enforce architectural standards, detect compliance violations, predict security risks, and provide real-time governance feedback within developer workflows.

Trevor Stuart
Karthik Jayaraman
VP of IT
,
Fiserv
Trevor Stuart
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO
,
Harness

3:35 PM

-

4:00 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: Trust at the Speed of AI

AI coding assistants and autonomous agents are helping developers write code faster than ever. As the primary author of code shifts to be bots, what are the implications for DevSecOps pipelines and platforms? We’ll discuss how leaders are adapting their approaches to meet the needs of teams using AI most aggressively.

Trevor Stuart
Michael McManus
SVP, Tech Ops, Architeture & Platform Engineering
,
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits
Trevor Stuart
Vikas Mehta
Enterprise Architect - Principal
,
Deluxe
Trevor Stuart
Cisco Vila
VP, Software Engineering
,
slack
Trevor Stuart
Trevor Stuart
General Manager & SVP
,
Harness
1:30 PM –2:00 PM30 min

Panel: Security at AI Speed

Three security leaders on defending a delivery pipeline that now ships faster than any human review cycle — and why the old perimeter model doesn't survive contact with AI-generated code.

Nicole Dove
Nicole Dove
Head of Security, Riot Games
Craig Statham
Craig Statham
Distinguished Systems Architect, SAS
Ravi Upad
Ravi Upad
Head of Infrastructure & DevSecOps, FleetPride

4:00 PM

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5:00 PM

1 hr

Happy Hour