AI DevSummit 2025 + DeveloperWeek Leadership 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am PDT

OPEN Session: Interpersonal Dynamics: The foundation of Team Excellence

Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT

Sudha Viswanathan, ByteDance, Data Architect

Effective team connection, communication, and collaboration across all levels stems from strong interpersonal dynamics. This is a fundamental element of achieving exceptional team performance. Just as with any art, interpersonal skills are cultivated through learning, practice, and refinement. A team mastering both technical expertise and these vital interpersonal skills gains a significant competitive advantage, becoming a truly formidable force. This talk explores common interpersonal challenges encountered in the workplace and provides attendees with a valuable mind map, a practical tool for navigating and resolving these challenges.

Speakers

Sudha Viswanathan

Data Architect, ByteDance

Sudha Viswanathan brings two decades of experience as a seasoned technical leader, having worked at industry-leading companies such as Tiktok, Netflix, Wayfair, Walmart, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Cognizant. Specializing in large-scale data processing, analytics, and... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Additional Topics AI Strategy and Leadership, Leadership Career Paths, Learning and Development, Team Collaboration, Technical Decision Making, Remote and Distributed Team Management, Cross-functional Collaboration
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks DeveloperWeek Leadership, Career Development: Impact & Change (DeveloperWeek Leadership), Technical Leadership / Management & Teams (Managing People) (DeveloperWeek Leadership), OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PDT

INVITE ONLY -- DevMarketing @ DeveloperWeek Leadership 2025

Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome + Networking (Breakfast)

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM - Panel 1: Be Where the Developers Are
Developers often rely on one another to help evaluate new technologies, dev tooling, and programming ideas. How can marketing teams engage in these conversations without being perceived as invading their space? Our panelists will discuss their tactics for finding where developers share their knowledge and their tactics for supporting and informing these conversations.

1. Michael Ortega, Head of Marketing @ Predibase
2. Yolande Poirier, Senior Manager, Developer Community @ Neo4j
3. Bo English-Wiczling, Sr. Director, Head of DB Developer Relations @ Oracle
4. Katie Wasilenko Miller, Developer Marketing Advisor
Moderator: Ziwei Chen, Senior Developer Marketing Strategist @ Catchy

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM - Break

10:30 AM - 11:20 AM - Panel 2: Building a Developer Community
We often speak of the “Developer community” as if it’s a homogenous group of technical experts. In reality, it’s a collection of various communities consisting of unique individuals with differing experiences and skillsets - some of whom never cross paths with one another. Dev marketing teams dream of tapping into these communities by building a subset of developers devoted to their products and services, but often struggle to break through. Our panelists will explore how they have encouraged community among their developer audiences, the benefits it has brought for their organization, and the support these communities provide to the technical practitioners who belong to and engage deeply with them.
1. Nigel Hughey, Developer Advocate @ Zoom
2, Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist @ BackBlaze
3. Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations @ Neo4j
4. Anthony Lusardi, Developer Relations Strategy @ Captivate.dev
Moderator: Ziwei Chen, Senior Developer Marketing Strategist @ Catchy

11:20 AM - 12:00 PM Expo Tour + Networking

Speakers

Ziwei Chen

Senior Developer Marketing Strategist, Catchy

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of several titles with O'Reilly, Apress, and McGraw Hill. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne... Read More →

Bo English-Wiczling

Sr. Director, Head of DB Developer Relations, Oracle

Bo English-Wiczling is a Senior Director in the Oracle Database Product Management team leading Database Developer Relations and is transforming the way developers use Oracle Database products and services. She joined Oracle almost 8 years ago from Amazon and has more than 29 years... Read More →

Nigel Hughey

Developer Advocate, Zoom

As a Developer Advocate at Zoom with previous experience at Apple, I've spent 6+ years in Developer Relations focused on building thriving app ecosystems. At Zoom, I've helped hundreds of companies build and publish successful integrations on our App Marketplace. I'm passionate about reducing friction in the developer journey based on community feedback and usage data... Read More →

Anthony Lusardi

Developer Relations Strategy, Captivate.dev

I've been bringing people together – both online and offline – since I was a teenager! In 2018, I realized I could turn that passion into a career and left software engineering to focus on Developer Relations. I've been building sustainable and thriving developer communities ever... Read More →

Michael Ortega

Head of Marketing, Predibase

Michael has over a decade of experience leading marketing strategy and teams at high-growth startups. As the Head of Marketing at Predibase, he drives their go-to-market efforts for their suite of LLM training and inference solutions, translating complex ML tooling into compelling... Read More →

Pat Patterson

Chief Technical Evangelist, BackBlaze

Pat Patterson is Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Over his three decades in the industry, Pat has built software and communities at Sun Microsystems, Salesforce, StreamSets, and Citrix. In his role at Backblaze, he creates and delivers content tailored to the needs of the... Read More →

Yolande Poirier

Sr. Manager, Developer Community, Neo4j

Yolande Poirier is passionate about technology and developer communities. Her goal is to empower developers and data scientists everywhere to successfully grow their projects. At Neo4j, she runs the advocacy programs, including the Ninja program.

Katie Wasilenko Miller

Developer Marketing Advisor

Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 12:00pm PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

2. Community Events & Experiences

Additional Topics AI Strategy and Leadership, Developer Career Paths, IT/Ops Career Paths, Leadership Career Paths, Learning and Development, Team Collaboration, Technical Decision Making, Engineering Culture, Product Management and Engineering Alignment, Scaling Engineering Teams
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks OPEN Session, DeveloperWeek Leadership, AI DevSummit
In-Person/Virtual In Person

12:00pm PDT

INVITE ONLY -- Leader's Lunch @ DeveloperWeek Leadership 2025

Thursday May 29, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM: Welcome & Networking

12:25 PM CircleCI Sponsor Spotlight: Enabling Faster Experimentation and Feedback Loops for Strategic Innovation

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Town Hall Panel: How AI Will Impact Your Organization's Structure
Ben Lloyd Pearson, LinearB, Director, DevEx Strategy
Ram Venkatesh, Sema4.ai, CTO and Co-Founder
Amol Dewhare, Altimetrik, Senior Client Partner - Sales and Business Development
Moderator: Katie Wasilenko Miller, Developer Marketing Advisor

AI dominates every technical conversation. As models improve, many technical teams are adopting AI as a coding assistant and, in some limited cases, as replacements for full time developers and technical staff. Vibe coding is replacing old fashioned GUI-style drag and drop low/no code systems. AI/ML models are improving in their ability to identify network anomalies, with some models capable of responding without human assistance. Chat interfaces make it easier for business executives to ask questions of their complex data, potentially reducing the need for on-staff analysts.

In this panel, we'll talk with industry leaders about their plans to integrate AI into their workflows and how they believe these decisions will impact their hiring strategies throughout 2025-2026.

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM Expo Tour & Networking

Speakers

Amol Dewhare

Senior Client Partner - Sales and Business Development, Altimetrik

Ben Lloyd Pearson

Director, DevEx Strategy, LinearB

Ben hosts Dev Interrupted, a podcast and newsletter for engineering leaders, and is Director of DevEx Strategy at LinearB. Ben has spent the last decade working in platform engineering and developer advocacy to help teams improve workflows, foster internal and external communities... Read More →

Ram Venkatesh

CTO and Co-Founder, Sema4.ai

Ram Venkatesh is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Sema4.ai. He is responsible for the long-term technology strategy and vision, collaborating closely with the largest customers, engineering, product, and go-to-market functions. With over 25 years of experience in the... Read More →

Katie Wasilenko Miller

Developer Marketing Advisor

Thursday May 29, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

2. Community Events & Experiences

Additional Topics AI Strategy and Leadership, Developer Career Paths, IT/Ops Career Paths, Leadership Career Paths, Learning and Development, Team Collaboration, Technical Decision Making, Engineering Culture, Product Management and Engineering Alignment, Scaling Engineering Teams
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PDT

PRO Session: One Thousand People, One Roadmap

Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

Fabricio Buzeto, Brex, Engineering Manager

As a company grows, the tendency to divide and conquer can nurture siloed goals that do not align with the company. Impeding the ability to deliver constant and meaningful improvements. The natural tendency is to increase bureaucracy and control, which usually only hinders the results. Companies like Airbnb and Brex have been in the headlines for trying the opposite. Reducing layers and bureaucracy while bringing alignment and increasing velocity. Let me tell you about what I learned while living in such a reality.

Speakers

Fabricio Buzeto

Engineering Manager, Brex

Fabricio has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently an Engineering Manager at Brex. For the past 20 years have been developing software in distributed teams focused on digital products consulting for both big and small organizations. Amongst his own ventures, it can highlight... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Additional Topics Cross-functional Collaboration, Technical Decision Making, Team Collaboration, Learning and Development, Leadership Career Paths
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks DeveloperWeek Leadership, Technical Leadership / Management & Teams (Managing People) (DeveloperWeek Leadership), Strategy / Methodology & Tooling (DeveloperWeek Leadership), OPEN Session, Career Development: Impact & Change (DeveloperWeek Leadership)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PDT

KEYNOTE (Leadership): GumGum -- From 0 to 100: How to Scale Product & Engineering Teams

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

Ken Weiner, GumGum, Chief Technology Officer

A product is only as strong as the team behind it—without the right leadership and guidance, even the best ideas can fall flat. To foster growth and innovation, it's essential to have a clear strategy for scaling operations and aligning resources. Ken, who has grown GumGum’s technology team from 0 to over 100 employees, will share tactics to scale your teams, operations, and product for the long term. He’ll discuss strategies such as establishing career ladders, minimizing dependencies between teams, and leading with an innovative mindset. Additionally, he’ll highlight the importance of fostering diversity within your team to drive growth and creativity.

Speakers

Ken Weiner

Chief Technology Officer, GumGum

Ken Weiner is the Chief Technology Officer of GumGum, where he has led engineering and product teams in developing a blend of cutting-edge contextual, creative, and attention technologies. Ken, as GumGum's first employee, has driven the company's technological innovation for over... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

Additional Topics Agile, Leadership Career Paths, Learning and Development, Team Collaboration, Change Management, Product Management and Engineering Alignment, Scaling Engineering Teams
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks DeveloperWeek Leadership, Technical Leadership / Management & Teams (Managing People) (DeveloperWeek Leadership), OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person