AI Coding Summit Asia 2027

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and Remix.

Previously a Staff Engineer at Meta, he created Docusaurus 2, one of the company’s most popular open-source projects. He now explores the intersection of AI, frontend engineering, and design.

Mesut is a Quality Assurance Capabilities Leader with extensive experience in test automation, CI/CD transformation, and building quality into development lifecycles. In his role as a cross-squad quality leader, he focuses on scaling organizational quality capabilities across teams while continuously improving the efficiency and impact of QA practices. He brings strong expertise in Agile, CMMI, and PMP methodologies, and has held key roles such as Quality Owner, Hiring Manager, and Chapter Lead in multinational environments. His experience spans a wide range of industries, including Industrial Automation, IoT, SaaS/PaaS, Cloud Services, Defense, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Embedded Software, and Supply Chain Management. Beyond his day-to-day work, Mesut is an active contributor to the global QA community. He is a frequent international speaker, Best Presentation Award winner, and program committee member at industry conferences. He is also the founder of Tokyo Test Fest, the first international Software QA conference in Japan, bringing together professionals from over 30 countries and fostering global collaboration. See: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKTxhk1KEhXBw4kJRTBnHrfusn1S6-Yi/view

Besides being a husbad and father, Rotem is a software engineer and manager, open source advocate, focusing on developer experience and building developer tools for over 13 years. Passionate about optimizing development flows, for both humans and agents, learning and educating when I can. Creator of returnzero.dev In his current role at Taboola, Rotem has a dual mission: to make ADLC transparent, measurable and steerable, and make the CI feedback loop blazingly fast, to support the 10x PRs ADLC brings with it.

Dante is a consultant and software crafter, helping companies develop well-crafted software solutions, mainly with .NET and TypeScript. He believes great software is built by collaborative teams where quality, testing, and continuous improvement are part of the culture. As a public speaker, he shares his passion for software craftsmanship with developers who want to sharpen their skills, write high-quality code, and take pride in their work.

Hari Krishnan is the author of Spec-Driven Development: Engineering with Intent (Manning) and the Founder and CEO of Polarizer Technologies (https://polarizer.in) and creator of https://intent-driven.dev. His current work focuses on Intent-Driven Development, Context Engineering, and AI-native software engineering. He advises technology leaders on AI adoption and technology transformation and has led several transformation initiatives over his career. He is also a seasoned trainer and coach. Hari has over two decades of experience building engineering teams, designing scalable systems, and leading technology initiatives. His industry experience spans investment banking, retail, logistics, and deep tech. Hari speaks regularly at international conferences, writes for technology publications including InfoQ, and actively contributes to open-source projects.

Tinkerer • Thinker • Reader

Kaiwalya Koparkar is a Platform Advocate at Gravitee and CNCF Ambassador with CKA and CKAD certifications. He specialises in API Management, cloud-native infrastructure, and SRE, and is the founder of Cloud Native Nashik.

Lukas is Co-Founder of eomer, an AI startup based in Singapore. We develop timeseries foundation models to advance enterprise decision making. LLMs have transformed how enterprises deal with text, tabular foundation models bring the revolution to the world of numbers and spreadsheets. His academic background is in physics and applied AI with industry experience in quantitative finance at and BlackRock.