AI Engineer Code Summit: AIE/LEAD Track

Alex Lieberman – Co-founder, @MorningBrew & @tenex_labs – Your Leadership Track MC!
Kath Koravec – Engineering, @GoogleLabs – Proactive Agents
Katelyn Lesse – Head of Engineering, Claude Developer Platform, @AnthropicAI – Evolving Claude APIs for Agents
Michele Catasta – VP of AI, @Replit – Autonomy Is All You Need
Lisa Orr – Engineering Leader, @Zapier – Your Support Team Should Ship Code
Gene Kim – Author & Researcher, IT Revolution – 2026: The Year the IDE Died
Bill Chen – Product Manager, @OpenAI – Future-Proof Coding Agents: Building Reliable Systems That Outlast Model Cycles
Brian Fioca – Engineering, @OpenAI – Future-Proof Coding Agents: Building Reliable Systems That Outlast Model Cycles
Steve Yegge – Engineering Leader, @Sourcegraph – 2026: The Year the IDE Died
Martin Harrysson – Partner, @McKinsey – Moving away from Agile: What's Next?
Natasha Maniar – Partner, @McKinsey – Moving away from Agile: What's Next?
Yegor Denisov-Blanch – Researcher, @Stanford – How to Quantify AI ROI in Software Engineering (Stanford Study / 120k Devs)
Itamar Friedman – CEO, @QodoAI – The State of AI Code Quality: Hype vs. Reality
Olive Song – Senior Researcher, @MiniMax__AI – Minimax M2
Kat Kampf – Product Manager, @Google – Research to Reality with Google DeepMind
Ammaar Reshi – Product Manager, @Google – Research to Reality with Google DeepMind
Asaf Bord – Engineering Leader, @NM_Financial – Small Bets, Big Impact: Building GenBI at a Fortune 100
Lei Zhang – Head of Technology Infrastructure Engineering, @Bloomberg – What We Learned Deploying AI within Bloomberg’s Engineering Organization
Samir Mody – Engineering, @browsercompany – From Arc to Dia: Lessons learned in building AI Browser
Max Kanat-Alexander – Engineering Leader, @CapitalOne – Developer Experience in the Age of AI Coding Agents
Arman Hezarkhani – Engineering, @tenex_labs – Paying Engineers like Salespeople: How Tenex Rebuilt the Incentive Stack for Modern Engineering
Justin Reock – Chief Architect, @DeveloperXM – Leadership in AI-Assisted Engineering
Dan Shipper – Founder, @every – How to build an AI-native company (even if your company is 50 years old)