Thursday, October 22, 2026 · Aotea Centre
AGENDA
The conference day running order. Select a talk to read the abstract and meet the speakers.
- 8:50 AM – 9:00 AM
Welcoming Address
Chris M - 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
- 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
AI Won't Eat Your Stack: Why Robust Components Matter More Than Ever
Randy Shoup · CircleCI - 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
- 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Morning tea
- 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
You're the Principal Engineer of an Agent Squad. Not a Manager.
David Curlewis · Canva - 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
- 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Securing the AI-DLC: Travel Edition
Everett Toews & Pauline Kelly · Deloitte & AWS - 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Build your own AI Software Factory
Igor Costa · Autohand AI - 12:45 PM – 1:35 PM
Lunch
- 1:35 PM – 2:05 PM
Eval Driven Development
Jyothi Madanlal · AWS - 2:05 PM – 2:35 PM
- 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM
Software Factories: From Success to Scale
Josh Wulf · Camunda - 2:55 PM – 3:05 PM
Building MCP Servers: Is Another Stack Really Necessary?
Sagara Gunathunga · WSO2 - 3:05 PM – 3:20 PM
Afternoon tea
- 3:20 PM – 3:45 PM
Your Agent Isn't Broken. The Internet Is.
BMK Lakshminarayanan · SECTION6 - 3:45 PM – 4:10 PM
Intent Is Not Policy: The Two-Layer Contract for Production Agents
Darshit Pandya · Serko - 4:10 PM – 4:35 PM
We built a conversational AI. Our customers built a report generator.
David Sickmiller · AskNicely - 4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
Lightweight Architecture Governance in the Age of AI
Amir Mohtasebi & Brian Wang · Trade Me
Running order subject to change.