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.
Lunch and Networking
The Windshield, Not the Wall: Security at the Speed of AI
Every enterprise wants to move faster with AI, but somebody still has to catch what AI gets wrong. Neil Watkins runs security, compliance, and global privacy for Burns & McDonnell, and he doesn't see security as a gate; he sees it as the windshield in a storm of AI bugs. We'll talk about how Harness secures, governs, and standardizes software delivery at the pipeline gate, and how that removes security as a blocker to AI adoption.
DevSecOps in the Agentic Era
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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.
Shipping with AI: The New Standard for Engineering Excellence
AI coding tools are everywhere. But most engineering teams are seeing incremental gains when transformational results are possible. In this conversation, Martin Harrysson, Senior Partner at McKinsey, draws on the latest research to unpack why the gap exists and what the top-performing engineering organizations are doing differently. David Pan, Field CTO at Cursor, joins to share what he sees on the front lines of AI-assisted development: how the best teams are moving beyond autocomplete to fundamentally rethinking how software gets built, reviewed, and shipped. Together they explore what engineering excellence actually looks like in the AI coding era, and what it takes to get there.
Governed and Fast: Platform Engineering in the AI Era
Every platform engineering team is facing the same tension right now: developers want to move faster with AI, and the platform has to keep up without compromising the governance, compliance, and reliability that enterprise organizations depend on. In this session, we explore what it looks like to navigate that tension in highly regulated environments — from rethinking golden paths and toolchains to maintaining developer trust as AI coding agents become embedded in every stage of the SDLC. What does it actually take to build a platform that enables AI-driven velocity at enterprise scale without leaving governance behind?
From Complexity to Clarity: Lloyds’ Journey to a Unified Developer Platform
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.
From Code to Factory: Building Software in the Age of AI
Everyone's talking about AI engineering — but most companies are nowhere close to what's actually possible. In this fireside chat, Morning Brew co-founder and Tenex Cofounder & Comanaging Partner Alex Lieberman breaks down the concept taking over the industry in 2026: the Software Factory. Drawing from his work helping enterprises build and scale agentic engineering orgs, Alex walks through what a Software Factory actually is, why the gap between what CEOs think they have and what they actually have is enormous, and how to honestly assess where your org stands today using his five-level Software Factory Ladder — from Artisan to Autonomous. Trevor Stuart, SVP at Harness, joins to explore what it takes to climb that ladder and what the best-in-class engineering teams are doing right now.
