AI DevSummit 2025 + DeveloperWeek Leadership 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am PDT

OPEN Session: From Technical Possibility to User Value: Product Management Strategies for Successful AI Implementation

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

Abhai Pratap Singh, Amazon, Senior Product Manager-Technical

"From Technical Possibility to User Value: Product Management Strategies for Successful AI Implementation" explores the delicate balance between advancing AI capabilities and maintaining genuine user value. Drawing from experience leading Alexa's voice assistant development, this session reveals practical strategies for putting user needs at the center of AI product development. Learn how to avoid the trap of 'tech for tech's sake' while driving meaningful innovation. Through real-world examples from voice AI and multi-modal interactions, discover frameworks for evaluating AI features, measuring user impact, and making strategic decisions that enhance rather than complicate the user experience. Perfect for product leaders navigating the AI revolution.

Speakers

Abhai Pratap Singh

Senior Product Manager-Technical, Amazon

Abhai Pratap Singh is a Senior Product Manager-Technical at Amazon Alexa, where he leads strategic initiatives in voice AI technology. With 9 years of experience building AI-driven products used by millions, he specializes in creating human-centric AI experiences that balance innovation... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
AI DevSummit Expo Stage

AI DevSummit

Additional Topics AI Product Strategy, AI Integration Strategy, Data Engineering, Product Management and Engineering Alignment
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks AI DevSummit, OPEN Session, AI Leadership & Strategy (AI DevSummit), Frameworks / Tools & Applied AI (AI DevSummit), DeveloperWeek Leadership, Data Access / Management & Operations (AI DevSummit), Productizing AI (AI DevSummit)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PDT

OPEN Session: Interpersonal Dynamics: The foundation of Team Excellence

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

DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

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 →

Katie Wasilenko Miller

Developer Marketing Advisor

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.

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

10:30am PDT

Sponsor Spotlight: Kloudfuse (Live Demo, Live Raffle/Giveaway)

Thursday May 29, 2025 10:30am - 10:45am PDT

South San Francisco Conference Center - Expo Hall

Join us for a quick demo of Kloudfuse Unified Observability and get a chance to win a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones!
Stick around to network with our team and grab some cool swag and fun stickers on your way out.
Booth # 203

Sponsors

Kloudfuse

Kloudfuse is a unified observability platform that automates the monitoring and troubleshooting of modern technology stacks. It offers over 700 integrations with cloud infrastructures, services, and applications, along with an open architecture. The platform utilizes AI and machine... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 10:30am - 10:45am PDT
South San Francisco Conference Center - Expo Hall

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks OPEN Session, DeveloperWeek Leadership, Sponsor Spotlight
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PDT

OPEN Session: AI Coding Agents: Three Keys to Successfully Scaling in the Enterprise

Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

AI DevSummit Expo Stage

Rob Whiteley, Coder, CEO

With great power comes great responsibility—and yes, coding agents can backfire if they’re not thoughtfully deployed. Instead of boosting productivity, they can frustrate developers, slow down progress, and even diminish your competitive edge.

Join Coder CEO, Rob Whiteley, as he unpacks three essential strategies organizations should embrace when scaling agentic coding agents enterprise-wide. Drawing from firsthand lessons and internal experiments—where agents effectively resolved nearly half the tasks we threw at them—we’ll share real-world scenarios showcasing engineering work AI agents excelled at. We’ll also highlight where they fell short, detailing what went wrong and what we’d do
differently next time.

You’ll walk away understanding:

* How realistic expectations ensure AI boosts rather than hinders productivity.
* Why effective human-agent collaboration is critical for developer satisfaction and innovation.
* How clear governance frameworks can prevent technical debt and keep productivity flowing.

Learn from our experiences and ensure your organization’s deployment of AI coding agents empowers your developers, ignites innovation, and solidifies your market leadership.

Speakers

Rob Whiteley

CEO, Coder

Rob Whiteley serves as CEO of Coder. Previously he was GM of NGINX. He has led marketing, product, and analyst teams for companies like Hedvig, Riverbed, and Forrester. Rob uses his experience working with enterprise IT and DevOps customers to deliver thought leadership and drive... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
AI DevSummit Expo Stage

AI DevSummit

Additional Topics AI Product Strategy, Agents, Governance and Regulation, AI Ethics and Bias, Scaling Engineering Teams, Technical Debt Management, AI Strategy and Leadership
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks AI DevSummit, OPEN Session, AI Leadership & Strategy (AI DevSummit), Frameworks / Tools & Applied AI (AI DevSummit), AI Security / Ethics / Governance & Compliance (AI DevSummit), AI Case Studies & Success Stories (AI DevSummit), DeveloperWeek Leadership
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PDT

PRO Session: Dev Productivity Will Dip Before It Soars. The Pains and Gains of GenAI in Software Development

Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

AI DevSummit Main Stage

Ben Lloyd Pearson, LinearB, Director, DevEx Strategy

GenAI is revolutionizing software development, offering new ways to automate repetitive tasks and improve collaboration. But with these opportunities come challenges: how do you integrate AI into your workflow without disrupting creativity or team dynamics? How do you avoid over-reliance on automation while maintaining quality and efficiency? In this session, explore practical approaches to using AI for tasks like code reviews, testing, and daily development, while overcoming the productivity dips and adoption hurdles that GenAI brings in 2025. Whether you’re optimizing your own workflow or contributing to team success, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to thrive in the evolving developer landscape.

Speakers

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 →

Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
AI DevSummit Main Stage

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Additional Topics Generative AI, AI Integration Strategy, Developer Career Paths, Learning and Development, AI Strategy and Leadership, SCRUM
Session Type PRO Session
Tracks DeveloperWeek Leadership, AI DevSummit
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

2:00pm PDT

PRO Session: Decoding Enterprise AI for Devs: Choosing Between Private LLMs and Public Generative AI Services

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

AI DevSummit Main Stage

Shomron Jacob, Iterate.ai, Head of Applied Machine Learning & Platform

This AIDev Summit session will navigate an increasingly pivotal crossroads: the decision between investing in proprietary, custom-tailored Large Language Models (LLM) or capitalizing on the versatility and ease of public generative AI services.

The session will begin by demystifying the complexities of private LLMs. With domain-specific capabilities and enhanced data security, these models have faster customization and compliance with industry-specific regulations. Yet, they also pose challenges: a bigger investment, infrastructure requirements, and ongoing maintenance. These elements necessitate a thorough examination.

Next, the session will scrutinize public generative AI services, exploring the inherent benefits of these ready-to-use solutions. With their scalability, diverse applications, and lower upfront costs, they hold significant appeal. But they also come with their own set of considerations, such as data privacy, standardized performance, and reduced control over the model’s behavior.
With real-world examples, we will walk through how various organizations have approached this decision, the results they achieved, and the invaluable lessons learned.

The session will then go into a decision-making framework, with the purpose of enabling attendees to assess their options between private LLMs and public generative AI services more effectively.

Speakers

Shomron Jacob

Head of Applied Machine Learning & Platform, Iterate.ai

Shomron Jacob is the Head of Applied Machine Learning & Platform at Iterate.ai. Shomron began his career as a software engineer but soon found himself learning ML/AI and switched his professional direction to follow it. He lives in Silicon Valley.

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
AI DevSummit Main Stage

AI DevSummit

Additional Topics Generative AI, LLMs, Governance and Regulation, AI Integration Strategy, AI Product Strategy, Technical Decision Making, AI Strategy and Leadership
Session Type PRO Session
Tracks AI DevSummit, AI Leadership & Strategy (AI DevSummit), DeveloperWeek Leadership, Strategy / Methodology & Tooling (DeveloperWeek Leadership), Machine Learning / Models & Architectures (AI DevSummit)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PDT

OPEN Session: Hackathon Top 5 Teams Live Demo

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

4. Hackathon

Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks AI DevSummit, OPEN Session, DeveloperWeek Leadership
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PDT

OPEN Session: Leveraging AI to Turbocharge Developer Productivity

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

Vinay Gaba, Airbnb, Engineering Leader
Sridhar Ramakrishnan, Slack, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Developer Experience & Productivity
Ashish Bhalgat, Thoughtworks, Cloud & AI Strategist
Moderator: Nic Galluzzo, ProductColab, Co-Founder

Developer productivity is undergoing a seismic shift with the advent of advanced AI technologies. Companies at the forefront—like Airbnb, Uber, Slack and others—are rapidly integrating AI into their developer workflows, redefining what's possible in coding efficiency, system reliability, and innovation speed. In this panel, engineering leaders and experts from top technology companies will come together to discuss real-world applications of AI in boosting developer productivity, share insights from their experiences, debate best practices and pitfalls, and predict future trends in AI-driven development. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas and strategies to harness AI effectively within their own engineering teams.

Speakers

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks DeveloperWeek Leadership, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person