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

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

10:30am PDT

OPEN Session: So You Want to Hire for Platform Engineering?

Thursday May 29, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation, Fellow

I see you want to hire a developer to work on platform engineering, internal developer tooling, developer experience, and the overall generally intangible but admirable goal of "making life better for devs". That’s awesome; you've got one hell of a challenge ahead of you. This role is extremely difficult to hire for. In my opinion, and in my experience, it’s been the most difficult role in the company outside of senior leadership, and the most likely to fail; if there ever was a role that burns people out, it’s this one.

Come with Hazel as we draw on her experiences building platform teams and organizations in order to talk about making this platform engineering thing a reality. In doing so, we'll end up discussing topics such as

- The hiring pipeline and interview loop
- Timing, politics, and the meta strategies
- Getting to zero from negative
- Avoiding pitfalls

Speakers

Hazel Weakly

Fellow, Nivenly Foundation

Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. One of her favorite things is... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Additional Topics Learning and Development, Strategic Technical Hiring, Technical Decision Making, Change Management, Leadership Career Paths
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks Technical Leadership / Management & Teams (Managing People) (DeveloperWeek Leadership), Career Development: Impact & Change (DeveloperWeek Leadership), OPEN Session
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

OPEN Session: Operationalizing Production-Ready AI Agents for Data Analytics Workflows

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

AI DevSummit Expo Stage

David Kucher, Numbers Station, Principal Engineer

The rise of AI agents is driving a growing push to automate repetitive tasks. Recent breakthroughs like Devin and Cursor highlight AI’s impact on software development—now, it’s transforming data analytics. Using a multi-agent system, Numbers Station (numbersstation.ai) has emerged to automate the end-to-end analytics workflow—from pulling insights, generating dashboards, and taking action using your native tools.

This talk explores Numbers Station’s composable AI agents, including a step-by-step guide to building a SQL Agent using retrieval-augmented generation and error correction. We’ll then discuss how our agents—handling search, diagnostics, charting, and reporting—are orchestrated together to automate analytics requests.

We’ll cover challenges like message routing and long-context management in multi-agent systems. Finally, we’ll showcase real-world applications, demonstrating how these AI agents enhance decision-making and eliminate inefficiencies in enterprise data workflows.

Speakers

David Kucher,

Principal Engineer, Numbers Station

David Kucher is a Principal Engineer at Numbers Station, where he brings machine learning and AI to automate and improve data tasks. He previously worked on computer vision and ML systems at SambaNova Systems. David holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical and Computer... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
AI DevSummit Expo Stage

DeveloperWeek Leadership

Additional Topics Agents
Session Type OPEN Session
Tracks Productizing AI (AI DevSummit), Frameworks / Tools & Applied AI (AI DevSummit), AI DevSummit, 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

2:30pm 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