TechLead Conference 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs London Edition

Technical leaders face the challenge of balancing innovation with governance when rolling out AI assistants across teams. This session offers a tactical view on operationalizing AI in software development - covering success metrics, telemetry, feedback loops, and enterprise guardrails. Based on the GitHub Well-Architected framework and broadened to general-purpose AI tools, we’ll explore how to create visibility into usage, address security and compliance risks, and ensure that AI-powered development doesn’t just happen - it scales with intent and trust. A must-attend for those building the platforms and policies of tomorrow’s engineering organizations.

As AI transforms software development, teams face a critical choice: lead the change, or risk being left behind! At Typeform, we're proactively encouraging the use of AI tools, and helping everyone level-up their AI proficiency.This means lots of things including the flexibility to try different tools, democratising access to (but controlling our expenditure on) LLMs, and ensuring we're hiring the next generation of engineers who have AI as part of their DNA.In this talk, I'll provide some practical examples of how we're achieving these things at Typeform, as well as how we're enhancing the way we collaborate with people outside of engineering using AI tools.I'll share real examples using AWS Bedrock and MCP servers, plus hard-won lessons from our journey. If your team is on the path to AI transformation, this talk will give you some practical strategies for making it a success.