The AI Shift: Rethinking Hiring, Work, and Build | Mar 24 @ 6PM

Join us on Tuesday, 24th March 2026 for a Vancouver DevOps Meetup and Agile Vancouver collaboration as we continue to explore the AI frontier. We are thrilled to feature two exciting sessions as a collaboration with TEKsystems, who are sponsoring the room and A/V, and Agile Vancouver, who co-hosting and sponsoring food and beverage.

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Hiring in the Age of AI

Law, Matt (Senior Account Manager, Government Services) from TEKsystems, will provide a brief market overview, discussing Canada's current demand trends and the impact of the skills gap. The session covers how artificial intelligence is changing job roles, employer priorities, and essential skills for job seekers. Hiring managers will get practical tips to improve selection and reduce mis-hires, focusing on stakeholder experience, risk reduction, and cost avoidance. The overview ends with a call to action and a brief Questions and Answers session.

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How I Actually Use AI at Work

Jeff Oriecuia (Sr. Technical Product Manager @ AWS) , moves beyond abstract conversations about artificial intelligence and shows how it is actually used in day‑to‑day work. Jeff shares practical examples from his role as a Senior Technical Product Manager at AWS, including using AI to synthesize insights from customer conversations and to automate repetitive tasks. Through a short live demonstration, attendees will see how these techniques improve productivity without replacing human judgment, and how similar approaches can be applied across many careers, not just technical ones.

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Beyond Faster Code: The Real Shift to AI‑Native Software Delivery

Kaminski, Andre, Director of Advanced Technology Solutions at WorkSafeBC, author of "The AI-Native Software Development Lifecycle" and "Blending with Dragons: How Ancient Harmony Principles Transform Modern Conflict" explores why something big is happening in software development. Most organizations get it already. Few know what to do about it.

AI coding tools make developers 30% faster at writing code. Code writing is 8-15% of development time. That's a 6% improvement. The other 85-92% stays untouched. That's not transformation. That's optimization of the wrong constraint.
The roles are changing. Developer, scrum master, DevOps engineer, product owner. Every role evolves. None disappear, but the job looks different on the other side.
Andre will share a framework for what comes next, why the window to act is narrower than most people think, and what the emotional arc of this transformation looks like.

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Do not miss this collaboration opportunity.
Logistics

• Time: 6 to 8 p.m. / Registration and networking start at 5.15 p.m.
• UBC Robson Square, room C400/C420.
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Seats are limited for this exclusive event, so do not miss out! Kindly RSVP only if you plan to attend in person. And please remember to cancel your reservation if your plans change.