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Workshop

9:00 AM - 5:00 PMEngineering leadershipIntermediate

Building High-Performance Teams – Guided by Psychology

Psychological safety. Team intelligence. High performance. These concepts dominate today’s management discourse, yet few practitioners understand how to rigorously assess whether their teams actually possess these qualities, or how to systematically develop…

LeadershipPsychologyTeam dynamics

Workshop

9:00 AM - 5:00 PMUX/UIIntermediate

AI-Native Product Strategy

This workshop helps teams understand what makes a product truly AI-native and how to decide which AI opportunities are worth building. The session goes beyond adding a chatbot or automation to a…

AIAI UXProduct

Workshop

9:00 AM - 5:00 PMProduct

Success Metrics with and without AI: A Playbook for Product Managers

This workshop is designed to equip product managers with a flexible playbook for identifying success metrics and leading indicators that truly drive product and business outcomes. We’ll adapt and “mis-use” familiar metric-building…

ProductProduct AnalyticsSuccess Metrics

Workshop

9:00 AM - 5:00 PMAI/ML

Beyond RAG: From Demo to Production-Grade Context Blocks

Build a real Context Block, learn the advanced context-engineering skills rarely covered in depth — typed ontologies, evals for context, governance, self-evolving — and leave with a repeatable method you can apply…

Agentic EngineeringContext EngineeringRAG

Workshop

3:00 PM - 4:30 PMProductGeneral

AI-First Product Strategy Workshop: Designing & Prioritizing AI-First Opportunities

The workshop introduces the difference between AI-enabled and AI-native products, and explores how probabilistic AI changes traditional UX and product strategy. Participants work through a fictional fintech case in small product squads…

AI UXProduct Strategy

Workshop

10:40 AM - 12:20 PMData

Human-in-the-Loop Is You: Orchestrating Multiple Coding Agents

“Human-in-the-loop” is supposed to mean a person makes the judgment calls a model can’t. In practice, with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor all open at once, it usually means something dumber: copy-pasting…

AgentsOmnigent

Workshop

1:40 PM - 3:10 PMUX/UI

An Introduction to Inclusive Design Sprints at Microsoft

Learn how to apply the Microsoft Inclusive Design process to your own work through practical, real-world strategies for running inclusive design sprints. This workshop focuses on co-creation with people with disabilities, sharing…

Inclusive Design

Talk

11:00 AM - 11:40 AMAI/MLIntermediate

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AgentsAI

Workshop

2:00 PM - 4:00 PMDataBeginner+

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Data

Andy Cotgreave’s Talk

Talk

Data

Andrew Jones’s Talk

Talk

AI/MLIntermediate

Why Context Is Not Understanding

Feeding massive amounts of data into an LLM does not magically create an agent that understands your environment. Passive retrieval, like standard RAG, often breaks down when dealing with complex, time-sensitive enterprise…

AgentsContext EngineeringLLMMemory

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Data

Olof Granberg’s Talk

Talk

Data

Ronald Kovács’s Talk

Talk

AI/MLIntermediate

Why Agentic Systems Need Guardrails: The Case for Ontologies

Agentic systems fail in predictable ways. A second refund on the same order. A payout sent to the support desk instead of the buyer. An order status of “probably shipped.” These aren’t…

Agentic EngineeringAIArchitectureGovernance

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ProductGeneral

From AI Innovation to Revenue: Rethinking Software Monetization

AI innovation is everywhere—but turning it into profitable growth is much harder. As software evolves from helping people do their jobs to increasingly performing tasks autonomously, companies need to rethink not only…

AIMonetizationProduct InnovationSaaSSoftware

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DataIntermediate

Why We’ve Tried to Replace Data Analytics Developers Every Decade Since 1974

Since 1974, new tools have promised to replace the data developer. From SQL to Self-Service BI, and now Generative AI, the dream is always the same: let business users get answers automatically.…

AIDataLLM

Talk

DataGeneral

Architecting the Data Layer for AI Agents: From Transactional Systems to MCP and Semantic Models

Most conversations about production AI agents focus on the agent itself — the prompts, the orchestration, the framework. But the moment you put an agent in front of real enterprise data, a…

Agentic EngineeringAIData

Talk

Engineering leadershipGeneral

Have a PINT: The Psychometrics of High-Performing Teams

Why do teams stacked with talent still fall apart under pressure, while teams with modest resources somehow execute like clockwork? Most answers to that question are borrowed from motivational speakers and management…

LeadershipPsychologyTeam dynamics

Talk

Product

Damjan Gataric’s talk

Talk

UX/UIBeginner+

In Defense of Slow Work: Developing Craft and Taste as Design Skills

Conventional wisdom says beauty is in the eye of the beholder… so, did the elders lie, or is there no objectively good design? Well, when you encounter a beautifully crafted product, you…

AICollaborationDesign Craft

Talk

UX/UIIntermediate

“You Can’t Just Turn It On”: The Hidden Work Behind Enterprise AI

Everyone wants to turn on AI features . Then Legal walks into the room and says no. The question we will answer is WHY? Enterprise AI comes with questions about data, permissions,…

AgentsEnterpriseGovernance

Talk

UX/UIIntermediate

AI, Anxiety, and Actual Impact: Leading Design Teams Through the AI Era

As AI hype collides with workplace realities, design leaders face a threefold challenge: managing executive expectations fueled by LinkedIn headlines and pithy X posts, calming teams worried about being replaced, and figuring…

AICultureDesign Leadershipmanagement

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Data

Pedro Paiva’s talk

Talk

AI/ML

Praveen Bodigutla’s talk

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AI/MLGeneral

Your AI Agent Doesn’t Need a Smarter Model — It Needs to Know Your Domain

Every talk this year is about making AI agents do more — write more code, take more actions, run more autonomously. Yet many enterprise AI pilots still fail to deliver production value,…

Agentic EngineeringAI

Talk

AI/ML

Dmytro Yaroshenko’s talk

Talk

UX/UIBeginner

From Feed to Friend: The Emotional Architecture of AI

AI did not suddenly become emotional once it learned how to have a conversation. Recommender systems have shaped a range of feelings from FOMO to belonging to outrage. Now generative AI systems…

AIEmotional DesignPsychology

Talk

AI/MLIntermediate

Behind the Voice Agent

AgentsAI in HRConversational AI

Talk

UX/UI

Do Not Trust the Process: Critical Conditions and Relational Capacities in an Era of Uncertainty and Volatility

This talk explores why our current paradigms and the underlying logics of dominant worldviews cannot cope with the compounding crises of our time – nor can the rigid, linear processes that keep…

ProcessResilience

Talk

DataIntermediate

AI Data Context: A data expert at every collaborator’s side

Our north star: a data expert at every collaborator’s side. A PM, a CSM, a GTM analyst, a marketer — anyone — should be able to get an analyst’s answer whenever they…

Agentic EngineeringAgentsContextConversational AIProduct

Talk

Engineering leadershipIntermediate

The 7 pitfalls of AI

AI everywhere. Companies hustling not to stay behind. However, things are not as easy as we are usually told if we want to leverage the power of AI successfully. In this session,…

AICultureEngineeringLeadership

Talk

AI/ML

Closing the loop: the journey towards AI systems that improve themselves

Building a robust production AI system today means orchestrating hundreds of agents, tools, and prompts. So when something breaks or when you try to improve the system, an eval that verifies a…

AI System

Talk

Engineering leadershipGeneral

The AI Playbook That Works, and Why Yours Doesn’t

A year ago, PFF had a ChatGPT subscription. That was it. Today we’ve achieved 10x developer output and built more in the last six months than we did in the previous two…

AICultureEngineeringLeadership

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DataGeneral

Claude Code isn’t going to replace data engineers (yet)

AI will not replace data engineers tomorrow. But it is already changing how we work — including, occasionally, helping us do stupid things with more confidence. Used badly, AI will make us…

AIData

Talk

UX/UI

Digital Craftsmanship for the Disabled — Fit, Flow, and Fidelity for Everyone

Craftsmanship is the fundamentals of quality. This talk presents a practical framework—Fit, Flow, Fidelity—that helps product teams deliver digital experiences that work for real people across diverse bodies, minds, and contexts. ⁜ Fit…

Digital ExperienceFrameworkInclusivityScenarios

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Engineering leadership

Doubling engineering throughput with AI: scaling agentic engineering across an org

In 2025, Fin (formerly Intercom) took on an ambitious goal: double the throughput of its engineering team, not by building fancy demos, but by using AI agents to get real features, built…

Agentic EngineeringLeadership

Talk

Engineering leadership

Presence Without Performance: The Human Advantage in the Age of AI

As AI rapidly reshapes the way we build products, lead teams, and make decisions, many organisations are becoming faster, but not necessarily wiser. In the rush toward optimisation, automation, and scale, something…

CultureLeadership

Talk

UX/UIGeneral

A movie-inspired guide to visionary product design

This talk explores the often-neglected superpower of product design: vision. Not just strategy decks or north star flows, but emotionally charged, speculative, team-energising visionary ideas and thinking, the kind that lifts teams…

DesignUX

Talk

AI/MLIntermediate

Building a Software Dark Factory with Agentic Engineering

At GitGuardian, 80 to 90% of our code is now written by AI. We’re building towards what we call a “dark factory”: systems that take a well-written spec and ship a working…

Agentic EngineeringAICulture

Talk

DataIntermediate+

Beyond the Monolith: Designing an Event-Driven Platform Across Continents

What happens when a successful monolith needs to evolve into a platform capable of serving users across continents? This talk follows the transformation from a region-bound, synchronously connected architecture toward an event-driven…

Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitectureMulti-Region Architecture

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DataIntermediate

The Best Engineer in the Room Doesn’t Write Code

As AI coding tools evolve from session-based assistants into always-on agents, the role of the engineer is changing. In this talk, Emilie Schario explores what it means to build software with agents…

AgentsAIArchitectureEngineeringLLM

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AI/ML

Your Vision Model Is Biased: Lessons From Shipping Real-Time Video Detection

We put students in front of a webcam to protect the integrity of remote standardized tests. Then our production pipeline started flagging kids for phone use while they drank from a water…

LLMSuccess Metrics

Talk

AI/MLIntermediate

Firmware Health Check: ML & LLM Diagnostics

Connected devices such as routers, cameras, sensors and industrial controllers run embedded software (firmware) that is often overlooked but can create major risks across software supply chains. Studying firmware involves extracting and…

DataFirmwareLLM

Talk

UX/UIGeneral

Transparent recruiting: a better way to hire people

The hiring market has flipped. After years of frenzied growth, tech is now defined by mass layoffs, cautious headcount, hiring freezes, and hundreds of applicants for every role. Hiring cycles have grown…

HiringLeadershipUX

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Engineering leadershipIntermediate

Software vs People vs AI Agents — Pricing, Security, UX

We’re in the middle of a shift: companies are buying AI agents, vendors are selling them, but the rules are still unclear. Pricing models range from tokens to subscriptions to outcomes—each with…

AI AgentHumans

Talk

Engineering leadershipIntermediate

Most Engineering Interviews Are Broken: Here’s What Actually Matters Now

AI has transformed how engineers work, but most hiring processes haven’t kept up. Candidates now enter interviews with AI tools that can generate code and refine system designs in seconds, yet many…

AIAI in HRHiringInterviews

Talk

ProductIntermediate

Nobody Asked for Another AI Assistant

These days, everyone is talking about Agentic AI and how to create entirely new apps with just a few prompts. We are living the AI hype. I’ve stopped counting how many apps…

AIProduct scaling

Talk

ProductGeneral

The Secret to Building Delightful Tech Products

In my experience building products at companies like Google, Spotify, and Microsoft, I’ve learned one powerful truth: the most loved products aren’t just useful—they’re emotionally resonant. They spark joy, create meaningful connections,…

DesignEngineeringLeadershipProduct

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ProductIntermediate

From AI Enabled to AI Native

How do we future-proof not only our careers but also our products and business models in the age of AI? Mirela explores the shift from simply using LLM to speed up PM…

AIProduct Management

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ProductAdvanced

Everyone’s a Developer Now. Or Are They? – Real stories from product teams in the AI transition

Everyone is talking about AI adoption. Few are being honest about what it actually looks like inside a real product team. This talk is built on firsthand interviews with product leaders at…

Product & AITeam StructuresWays of Working

Talk

UX/UIGeneral

Diary studies and the potential to capture decisions as they happen

As an online grocery store, we often wonder what happens in the exact moments people make a decision. What makes you spontaneously add something to the shopping cart? Why do you decide…

UX research

Talk

DataIntermediate

From Chatbots to AI-Native Apps: Building Agentic Memory with Lakebase

The shift from simple chatbots to autonomous agents requires more than just better prompts; it requires Agentic Memory. While standard RAG provides a snapshot of data, true AI-native apps need a persistent,…

AgentsAIArchitectureDataDatabases

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AI/MLIntermediate

Tile Programming for GPUs

Parallel programming can be intimidating, but doesn’t need to be! Tile-based programming models make GPU parallelism more newcomer-friendly, highly productive, and still fast by letting you write sequential, array-centric code while the…

cuTileGPU parallelismParallel ProgrammingTile-based programming

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AI/MLGeneral

Building a data context layer to fix your AI analytics

Agents are now consumers of your data stack, and unlike analysts they never pause to ask whether a metric is accurate or still relevant. How do you make your data platform robust?…

AIAnalytics

Talk

AI/MLIntermediate

Conscious Cars – Crafted Conversations

This session explores the unique challenges of designing speech interfaces for in-vehicle use, focusing on drivers’ specific cognitive needs compared to other users. It examines key use cases, along with the syntactic…

Conversational AIConversational User ExperienceLLMSpeech Interfaces