Schedule

The full day, by room.

All times are Eastern (Detroit), and every room is on the 3rd floor. Tap any session for its abstract.

Bear (B)

Dennison (D)

Georgian (G)

Hat (H)

8:00 AM

until 9:30 AM

Registration & Light Breakfast

9:00 AM

until 9:45 AM

Beyond the AI Hype - Let's Have an Honest Conversation

Daniel Davis, Jason Mars, Alex Kehaya, Ava Wiseman

Looking Forward

10:00 AM

until 10:45 AM

The Real Carbon Cost of Running Agents (It's Higher Than You Think)

Sajitha Sritharan

Ethics & Sustainability

Making AI Real: From Experiments to Measurable Outcomes

From Experience

Token Economics: Behavioral Changes to Control Costs

Michael Rissover

Looking Forward

When Software Builds Itself: How the Engineering Gets Encoded

Travis Frisinger

11:00 AM

until 11:45 AM

"TDD" is Dead! Here's what to do instead for quality code in the age of AI.

From Experience

Everyone Is Using AI. Now What? Leading AI Adoption Without Slowing Innovation

From Experience

How We Built a Functioning Software Product Without Raising a Dime. And You Can Too.

From Experience

Skip the Scaffolding: Building Human Agency with Agentic Engineering

Chris O'Connor, Fred Estabrook

Ethics & Sustainability

11:45 AM

until 1:05 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

until 1:45 PM

Keeping AI Honest: A/B Testing for Agent Reliability and Maturity

From Experience

When Bigger Isn't Better: Decomposing Tasks to Push LLMs Past Their Limits

Labor Impact of AI: What Does the Data Show?

Chris Moyer, Heidi Porter

Ethics & Sustainability

2:00 PM

until 2:45 PM

After the Chatbot: Building the Agentic Software Factory

Looking Forward

When Delivery Gets Cheap, the Org Chart Gets Expensive: Restructuring the Product Org for AI

From Experience

Where AI Sharpens Discovery, and Where It Lies

From Experience

2:45 PM

until 3:00 PM

Snack

3:00 PM

until 3:45 PM

We Thought AI Would Change Our Technology. It Changed Our Operating Model.

From Experience

AI and Social Impact: Expanding What We Measure and Why

Ethics & Sustainability

Don’t Prompt It. Teach It: Clean Code Practices for AI Agents

Eric Heikkila, Chris O'Connor

From Experience

4:00 PM

until 4:45 PM

From Tools to Agents - Agents Need Tools. MCP Gives Them a Contract.

Madhavi Pasumarthi

From Experience

AI-Assisted Coding for the Cautious: A Phased Pilot Case Study

From Experience

From AI Pilots to $30M ROI: Scaling Enterprise AI in Production

Satish Chandra Guruvelli

Looking Forward

4:45 PM

until 6:30 PM

Afterparty