Uğur Başak

Uğur Başak

Director of Engineering TomTom
Uğur Başak

Ugur Basak is Director of Engineering at TomTom, where he leads Platform Engineering for a 120+ engineer organisation. He has spent 20+ years leading technical transformations at VeriPark, Booking.com, and TomTom, embedding developer experience, platform thinking, and change management into organisations at scale. He speaks on DX leadership, Platform Engineering, engineering productivity, and AI's real impact on engineering organisations.

More at ugurbasak.com and linkedin.com/in/ugurbasak.

CONFERENCE DAY TWO

2:30 PM Presentation: Stop Treating AI Like Magic Infrastructure

AI is a workload, not magic infrastructure. Once you treat it that way, the operational disciplines SREs already know apply directly: observability, FinOps, and governance. Uğur Basak shares his expertise and walks through what it looks like to bring AI systems under the same platform disciplines we've spent fifteen years building for everything else, and why skipping that step is where most AI rollouts quietly fall apart.
• Exploring why AI gets treated as magic infrastructure, and the operational blind spots that creates at scale
• Placing LLMs and agents on the same Golden Paths your services already use
• Identifying the three disciplines that make it real: observability so you know what it's doing, FinOps so you know what it costs, and governance so you know who owns the decisions

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Uğur.

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