Scaling AI Adoption: The Real Challenges of Transforming 300 Engineers

Transitioning from an individual contributor role to a leadership position, especially in the fast-paced tech industry, is hugely challenging. Most new leaders don't receive any training at all in the first 10 years of their new responsibilities.Our comprehensive workshop is designed to assist new and emerging tech leaders in understanding their new roles and gaining the skills to make them confident, happy and effective leaders.

Most teams are still using AI as a glorified autocomplete, but the future is already here. I'll show you how engineering teams work when coding agents handle implementation while humans focus on guidance and oversight.I have built coding agents that have our team guidelines embedded - no more style guides or coding standards docs. You'll see agents that automatically follow our Next.js 15 patterns, Nx monorepo structure, shadcn/ui conventions, and more of our tech stack, while humans make small corrections that improve all future work.This isn't about replacing engineers - it's about scaling the possibilities of your team through agent multiplication instead of hiring and restructurizations. I'll demonstrate the workflow where the agent implementation is followed by human refinement, creating consistent quality that doesn't depend on human variability.

A Developer’s Guide to Communicating, Convincing, and Collaborating Effectively With Stakeholders
It’s a tale as old as time - collaboration between developers and business stakeholders has long been a challenge, with a lack of clear communication often leaving both sides frustrated. The best developers can deeply understand their business counterparts’ needs, effectively communicate technical strategy without losing the non-technical crowd, and convince the business to make the right decisions. Working at a consultancy, I’ve both failed and succeeded in architecting and “selling” technical visions, learning many lessons along the way.Whether you work at a product company, are a consultant/freelancer, or want to venture beyond just being a developer, the ability to convince and clearly communicate with stakeholders can set you apart in the tech industry. This becomes even more important with the rise of GenAI and the increasingly competitive developer market, as problem-solving and effective communication are key to positioning yourself.In this workshop, I’ll share real-world examples, both good and bad, and guide you through putting the theory into practice through dojos.

Onboarding to a new project can be difficult, no matter your background and experience. But it can be especially challenging for new developers straight out of school or a coding bootcamp. Drawing on personal experience as a bootcamp grad and JavaScript consultant, this talk will discuss tips and strategies for managers to help the new developers on their teams get their bearings in an unfamiliar codebase, so they can make more of an impact, faster!