Engineering & Developer Conference

Hall 8 Foyer for Registration, Expo & Catering.

Call to Hall 4 for Welcome.

Welcome from Jason Sahota, Chair of the Board, TechWM.

Hear from Praveen Jeyaraj, Vice President, Goldman Sachs as he shares insights on delivering curated web experiences at speed.

Hear from keynote speaker Amanda Brock.

50,000 hours is a lot of time, and we want to tell the story of how we saved this much time through iterating and improving on the developer experience at Capital One. With hundreds of engineers as our customers, we will explore what it takes to have impact in a large and highly regulated business.

Hear from Abdi Timer, IBM.

Hear from Alfonso Sandoval Rosas, Cisco on taming your data networks with the power of NetDevOps.

A 1 hour lunch break.

Hear from Dr Manimuthu Arunmozhi, Aston University on From Zero-Trust to Quantum-Trust: Future-Proofing Data Security

Hear from Parris Small in Private Wealth Management and Ambar Jin in Risk, two analysts at the firm.

In this talk, I’ll share how I identified a critical gap in the Dagster ecosystem (with 43+ developers upvoting the need) and built a production-ready Kafka integration instead of waiting for someone else to solve it. I’ll discuss the practical mindset shift from “someone should build this” to “I can build this,” along with strategies for validating community needs, overcoming technical challenges, and sharing solutions effectively.

Key takeaways for attendees:

• How to identify valuable contribution opportunities in your technical ecosystem.
• Techniques for validating that your solution addresses a real community need.
• Steps for taking a project from prototype to production-ready open source.
• Building confidence to tackle problems others haven’t solved yet.
• How solving your own problems can accelerate both your projects and career.

This talk aims to inspire developers of all levels to become problem-solvers rather than problem-reporters in their technical communities.

Ministry of Defense: Kingsley Okonkwo

What happens when your AI agent goes rogue? From leaked API keys to unmonitored access, this talk uncovers the shocking risks of AI agents and gives developers practical ways to turn them from threats into trusted allies.

Cynthia Akiotu

Hear Talks from Oneadvanced.

Hear talks from Igor Kanyuka, Meta, on Challenges in Managing Millions of Bare-Metal Servers.

Developers’ worlds have become increasingly complex; with tools, AI and ops all increasing cognitive load to the point of overwhelm. A new discipline has emerged in the last 7/8 years that is aimed at providing self-service tooling, automation and “golden paths” for Developers.

On the surface, Platform Engineering appears to be reserved for large-scale orgs, with vast hordes of Developers and enough Engineers to have a dedicated Platform team. But what if that’s not the case? What if Platform Engineering can be for every team, no matter its size?

This talk will give an overview of Platform Engineering, and look at ways that it can be adopted by any team.

AI is now part of our workflows in building things, either as copilots or tools to develop everything from scratch. However, it’s still so new that we get AI-slop if we aren’t careful. We’ll discuss where AI should be used in its current form & what tools you need to get your products off the ground.

Mike Elsmore.