AI DevSummit 2025 + DeveloperWeek Leadership 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Interpersonal Dynamics: The foundation of Team Excellence

Thursday June 5, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT

VIRTUAL 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 June 5, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL 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), Virtual, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

10:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Staying in Your Lane: Incident Response for Leaders

Thursday June 5, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

Kat Gaines, PagerDuty, Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy and Community

During incident response, every second counts. As a leader, you’re expected to have all the answers, and that pressure can make it very tempting to play the hero and take control of the response process. While “I’ll just do it myself” may seem faster on occasion, this instinct can hinder your team’s effectiveness and actually slow down resolution.

We’ll explore how you can evolve from a command-and-control manager into a genuinely empowering leader. You’ll learn how to maintain composure under pressure while creating space for your team to shine. We’ll cover essential frameworks, usable by new managers and individual contributors building incident response processes from scratch as well as experienced leaders looking to level up their approach.

Key takeaways will include:
How to recognize when you may be over-managing during an incident…and how to empower your team to help you recognize these moments.
Building team confidence and ownership in crisis situations
Clear guidelines for when to step in versus step back
Establishing and maintaining clear communication channels
Whether you’re establishing your first incident response playbook, fine-tuning an existing process, or managing up to help your leaders help you do your best work, you’ll leave equipped to help your team handle incidents more effectively - and help you sleep better at night knowing they’ve got this.

Speakers

Kat Gaines

Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy and Community, PagerDuty

Kat leads the Developer Advocacy and Community team at PagerDuty. She enjoys talking and thinking about incident response, customer support, and automating the creation of a delightful end-user and employee experience. She previously ran Global Customer Support at PagerDuty, and as... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage

DeveloperWeek Leadership

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

11:00am PDT

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

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage

Dave Ahr, Coder, Staff Sales Engineer

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.

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

Dave Ahr

Staff Sales Engineer, Coder

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage

AI DevSummit

Additional Topics AI Product Strategy, Agents, Governance and Regulation, AI Ethics and Bias, Technical Debt Management, Scaling Engineering Teams, 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), Virtual, AI Case Studies & Success Stories (AI DevSummit)
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

11:00am PDT

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

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

VIRTUAL 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 June 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL 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, Virtual, Productizing AI (AI DevSummit)
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

2:00pm PDT

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

Thursday June 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT

VIRTUAL 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 June 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL 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), Virtual, DeveloperWeek Leadership, Strategy / Methodology & Tooling (DeveloperWeek Leadership), Machine Learning / Models & Architectures (AI DevSummit)
In-Person/Virtual Virtual