Programme topic
Adoption, cost & value
Make adoption useful beyond the first enthusiastic users. Explore model rollout, budgets and permissions, the limits of activity metrics, product strategy and the organisational changes that turn AI investment into better outcomes.
8 published talks
Talks about adoption, cost & value
Running AI Coding Agents at Scale: Adopting New Models, Controlling Cost, and Governing What Agents Do
Anthony IvanStaff AI Forward Deployed Engineer, Databricks
Running coding agents across a company comes down to three questions: which models to offer, how to control cost, and what agents should be allowed to…
Token usage is the new lines of code (and it's just as useless)
Fawaz AhmadSenior Engineering Director, Canva
Canva hit mid-2026 with every AI metric a vendor could hand us and no answer to the only question the business actually cared about: is this working?…
The Contradictions of Building AI Products and Teams
Sherif MansourDistinguished Product Manager and Head of AI, Atlassian
For every claim about how to build with AI, there seems to be an equal and opposite claim that’s also true. Chat is the universal interface, so go…
Lessons from Amazon's AI Journey
Matt TaylorPrincipal AI Specialist, AWS
Learn how AWS transformed for and with AI with lessons learn around strategy, operating model, data foundations, governance, measurement, and change…
The AI Theory of Constraints
Shawn WangEditor & Founder, Latent.Space & Smol AI
Lessons from Economics for the Human / Agent Software Workforce
Daniel NadasiPrincipal Engineer, Google
AI is reshaping software engineering, creating uncertainty about how engineering roles will change as increasingly capable systems take on work that…
The Model Wasn't the MOAT: How 10 Design System Engineers Turned Platform Knowledge into Enterprise AI
Sudharsanam NarasimhanSenior engineering manager, Design Systems & AI Developer Platforms, Atlassian
Most enterprise AI strategies begin with models, central AI teams, and a list of potential use cases. We started somewhere else: with a platform…
An AI-Assisted Brand Uplift at Scale
Guilherme EpifanioSoftware Engineer, Design System, Easygo
Sam AnnandTech Lead, Easygo
What if designers could build directly in the codebase? We used AI-assisted workflows to let designers prototype in production code with live preview…