San Francisco

San Francisco

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11:00 AM

The Agentic Shift: The Rise of Autonomous Engineering and AI Software Delivery

Jyoti Bansal
CEO
Harness
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Harness

Every engineering team is already generating code with AI. The harder problem is knowing how much of it should ship without a person "in the loop".  Most organizations are still deciding that case by case, with no real system behind it. In this keynote, we'll explore what that system could look like: an agentic framework that scales autonomy to the risk of each AI-generated change, not a blanket policy that treats them all the same. You'll see it in real demos, backed by customers already running it at production scale.

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Lunch and Networking

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2:20 PM

Time vs. Trust: Do You Trust Your AI Agents?

Sachin Malhotra
Member of Technical Staff
Anthropic
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
Harness

The biggest bottleneck has become more nuanced than velocity: it's trust. As AI agents take on more of the build-deploy-secure cycle, the teams winning aren't just moving faster. They're moving with confidence. We break down what context-native AI actually looks like in practice, and how high-performing engineering orgs have built the trust frameworks that let them ship without second-guessing every step.

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2:45 PM

Security and Governance at AI Speed

Swati Raju
VP, Veza Engineering
ServiceNow
Brett Wolmarans
Staff Solutions Engineer, Americas West
Kong Inc.
Rahul Sood
General Manager, Application Security
Harness

As AI accelerates how fast code ships, security and governance can't stay bolted on at the end. This panel explores what it takes to build security and compliance directly into AI-speed delivery — from real-time threat detection and automated testing to governing the access and permissions of AI agents themselves. Panelists share how their organizations are closing the gap between security and engineering, embedding guardrails into the pipeline rather than the review queue, and staying compliant without slowing teams down.

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3:20 PM

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: DevOps in the AI Coding Era

Dilpreet Bindra
Sr Director
Broadcom Software
Angela Knox
Group VP, Platform Engineering
Proofpoint
Stephen Cihak
Field CTO
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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3:50 PM

Beyond the Bottlenecks: How Machine Intelligence Is Reshaping DevOps Constraints

Swetha Thimojapalli
Director of DevX
Workday
Mitali Parthasarathy
Director, Engineering
Yelp
Trevor Stuart
General Manager & SVP
Harness

AI has eliminated or reduced bottlenecks from code review backlogs to infrastructure provisioning delays to incident response times. But, as we saw in 2025, the bottleneck moved further down the pipeline. We'll look at present day data on how AI tools have shifted where teams spend their time, which traditional constraints remain relevant, what new bottlenecks have emerged in AI-augmented workflows, and how to unlock your AI investment potential.

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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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4:15 pm

Happy Hour Networking

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6:30 PM

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September 10, 2026

Oracle Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza

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11:00 AM

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1:00 pm

2 hr

Opening Keynote:

The Agentic Shift: The Rise of Autonomous Engineering and AI Software Delivery

Every engineering team is already generating code with AI. The harder problem is knowing how much of it should ship without a person "in the loop".  Most organizations are still deciding that case by case, with no real system behind it. In this keynote, we'll explore what that system could look like: an agentic framework that scales autonomy to the risk of each AI-generated change, not a blanket policy that treats them all the same. You'll see it in real demos, backed by customers already running it at production scale.

Trevor Stuart
Jyoti Bansal
CEO
,
Harness
Trevor Stuart
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
,
Harness

1:00 pm

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2:00 pm

1 hr

Lunch

2:00 pm

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2:20 PM

20 min

Fireside Chat:

AI, Digital Transformation, and the Discipline of Scaling It

Trevor Stuart
Rashmi Kumar
Chief Information Officer
,
Medtronic
Trevor Stuart
Jyoti Bansal
CEO
,
Harness

2:20 PM

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2:45 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Time vs. Trust: Do You Trust Your AI Agents?

The biggest bottleneck has become more nuanced than velocity: it's trust. As AI agents take on more of the build-deploy-secure cycle, the teams winning aren't just moving faster. They're moving with confidence. We break down what context-native AI actually looks like in practice, and how high-performing engineering orgs have built the trust frameworks that let them ship without second-guessing every step.

Trevor Stuart
Sachin Malhotra
Member of Technical Staff
,
Anthropic
Trevor Stuart
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
,
Harness

2:45 PM

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3:10 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Security and Governance at AI Speed

As AI accelerates how fast code ships, security and governance can't stay bolted on at the end. This panel explores what it takes to build security and compliance directly into AI-speed delivery — from real-time threat detection and automated testing to governing the access and permissions of AI agents themselves. Panelists share how their organizations are closing the gap between security and engineering, embedding guardrails into the pipeline rather than the review queue, and staying compliant without slowing teams down.

Trevor Stuart
Swati Raju
VP, Veza Engineering
,
ServiceNow
Trevor Stuart
Brett Wolmarans
Staff Solutions Engineer, Americas West
,
Kong Inc.
Trevor Stuart
Rahul Sood
General Manager, Application Security
,
Harness

3:10 PM

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3:20 PM

10 min

Break

3:20 PM

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3:50 PM

30 min

Panel Session:

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: DevOps in the AI Coding Era

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
Dilpreet Bindra
Sr Director
,
Broadcom Software
Trevor Stuart
Angela Knox
Group VP, Platform Engineering
,
Proofpoint
Trevor Stuart
Stephen Cihak
Field CTO
,
Harness

3:50 PM

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4:15 pm

25 min

Panel Session:

Beyond the Bottlenecks: How Machine Intelligence Is Reshaping DevOps Constraints

AI has eliminated or reduced bottlenecks from code review backlogs to infrastructure provisioning delays to incident response times. But, as we saw in 2025, the bottleneck moved further down the pipeline. We'll look at present day data on how AI tools have shifted where teams spend their time, which traditional constraints remain relevant, what new bottlenecks have emerged in AI-augmented workflows, and how to unlock your AI investment potential.

Trevor Stuart
Swetha Thimojapalli
Director of DevX
,
Workday
Trevor Stuart
Mitali Parthasarathy
Director, Engineering
,
Yelp
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

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4:15 pm

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