CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Early Morning Sessions
Day 1 Sessions
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration & BreakfastDay 1 Sessions
8:45 am - 9:00 am Opening Chair RemarksDay 1 Sessions
9:00 am - 9:30 am Opening Panel: Platforms as Products: Perspectives from Engineering, Product and Leadership Leo Bardelli - Global Head of Product Engineering, Saint-GobainJean Burellier - Principal Software Engineer, Sanofi
Treating the platform like a product is reshaping the way teams collaborate, measure success and define value. This discussion will bring together leaders who have adopted this mindset and observed how it changes expectations across the organisation.
• Balancing user needs, business priorities and technical realities
• Applying product practices to internal services with measurable outcomes
• Evolving platforms based on surveys, usage patterns and long-term strategy
Day 1 Sessions
9:30 am - 10:00 am Presentation: Industrialising Dev Ex, Cloud Provisioning and CI/CD, How Lloyds went from 77 Days to less than an hour Andrew Page - Lab Technical Product Owner, LloydsTony Phillips - DevOps Engineering Lead, Lloyds
Modern engineering teams can only move as fast as the platforms beneath them, and at Lloyds this meant unifying infrastructure, pipelines and security into one internal developer platform capable of supporting 1000's of engineers. As expectations rise across financial services for faster delivery, stronger controls and consistent developer experience, Lloyds' multi-year journey offers a powerful model for how large organisations can scale safely and confidently.
• Significantly reducing the zero to hero time for on-boarding, provisioning infrastructure, deploying applications using standard CI/CD pipelines
• Providing standardised Tooling, developer device & access model, a Catalogue of reusable assets & Golden Paths to put all the common templates at the Developer's finger tips
• Strengthening security and compliance by consolidating controls, aligning cloud workflows and creating one bank grade entry point for all developers
Day 1 Sessions
10:00 am - 10:30 am Presentation: SEB's Developer Portal Revolution: Golden Paths for Speed, Safety and Simplicity Joachim Karlsson - Head of Developer Experience, SEBWith over 2,000 developers navigating legacy systems, heavy regulation and complex environments, SEB is building a powerful internal developer portal to cut friction, standardise workflows and help engineers ship faster with greater confidence. In this session, Joachim Karlsson reveals how SEB is defining golden paths, reducing choices and embedding compliance directly into the developer journey, creating a modern, streamlined experience.
• Creating golden paths that simplify decisions and accelerate delivery across legacy heavy teams
• Building a central portal that unifies tooling, speeds access and strengthens compliance by design
• Supporting safe AI adoption as usage increases, ensuring speed without compromising security
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Roundtable Discussion: Moving Faster Without Breaking Things — Risk in AI Accelerated Engineering
Parthiban Rajasekaran -
Principal Engineer,
Capital One
AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude are accelerating delivery speed, but many teams are seeing reliability incidents rise alongside velocity. This workshop examines why AI assisted development exposes new failure modes and how platform teams can introduce safeguards that preserve reliability without slowing progress. Drawing on examples from regulated FinTech environments, the session focuses on observability gaps, risk signals and quality first practices that help teams recognise when speed becomes unsafe.
• Observability gaps introduced by AI generated and AI assisted code
• Signals that indicate when velocity has crossed into unsustainable risk
• Quality first patterns that protect reliability without creating bottlenecks
Morning Speed Networking and Coffee
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Morning Spead Networking and Coffee
Late Morning Sessions
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Presentation: When 70% of Your UI Is AI Generated: Re Architecting Frontends for Control, Trust and Scale
Vikesh Mittal -
Executive Director,
TBA
As LLMs, autonomous agents, and AI-assisted development tools reshape user interfaces, traditional frontend architectures are buckling under the weight of runtime assembly, probabilistic flows and unclear governance. Drawing on deep architectural research and practical system design, Vikesh Mittal explores what changes when large portions of the UI are composed dynamically by AI, and why existing component driven models are no longer sufficient. This session introduces a new way of thinking about frontend platforms as controlled orchestration layers, where intent, capability and policy guide AI generated experiences without sacrificing usability, accessibility, security or trust.
• Redesigning frontend platforms to support AI generated and agent driven interfaces safely at runtime
• Separating intent, capability and presentation to give AI flexibility without losing control
• Embedding governance, observability and human in the loop safeguards directly into the UI layer
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Cutting Through the AI Noise: Choosing the Right Tools Without Falling for the Hype
Ionel Condor -
Director of Engineering,
RWS
Mark O'Brien - Director of Product, Shutterstock
Michael Solan - Senior Product Manager, SBB CCF FFS
Mark O'Brien - Director of Product, Shutterstock
Michael Solan - Senior Product Manager, SBB CCF FFS
The AI landscape is moving at breakneck speed, with new tools appearing faster than enterprises can effectively evaluate them. Leaders are now facing the challenge of separating genuinely transformative capabilities from expensive distractions. This session explores the different perspectives on how to build a clear selection strategy that prioritises value, governance and long term impact.
• Establishing decision frameworks to assess AI tools objectively
• Avoiding hype-driven adoption by focusing on measurable outcomes
• Building responsible governance to ensure scalable, sustainable choices
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Presentation: Leading Talent in the AI Era: Unlocking the New Potential of Junior Engineers
Rick Clegg -
Developer Experience Lead,
Wise
AI is rapidly reshaping how teams build software, forcing engineering leaders to rethink how junior talent is trained, supported and integrated into modern workflows. In this session, Rick Clegg from Wise shares how the WiseStart programme is evolving early career development to include AI aware skills, architectural thinking and safer, more structured workflows. He shares how these shifts help teams stay fast, confident and high quality as automation increases.
• Developing junior engineers with AI adjacent skills and clearer learning pathways
• Designing workflows with human in the loop checks and safe AI practices
• Measuring progress with simple metrics such as innovation ratio, output tokens and structured feedback
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: User Centric SLOs and Resilience Testing: Measuring What Really Matters
Chris Skaaning -
Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer,
JP MorganChase
Grounded in a decade of applying DevOps and SRE principles in real engineering environments, this roundtable brings together engineering leaders to discuss how to define SLOs that truly reflect user impact. The session focuses on designing user journey specific SLOs, selecting the right indicators, and testing assumptions through active resilience (chaos) testing, helping teams better understand, monitor, and own the reliability of their applications.
• Designing user journey driven SLOs that capture real customer impact when things go wrong
• Selecting meaningful indicators and signals that help teams understand and own their application behaviour
• Using active resilience (chaos) testing to validate SLOs, strengthen monitoring, and expose blind spots before incidents occur
Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
Early Afternoon Sessions
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Presentation: From Tickets to Tracks: How Platforms Keep Sweden Moving
Michael Solan -
Senior Product Manager,
SBB CCF FFS
The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) operate a diverse digital landscape, ranging from marketing and passenger services to rail operations and safety-critical infrastructure supporting over a million journeys daily. This talk outlines how this environment is evolving into a coherent platform ecosystem with the challenge of supporting very different needs – from long-lived, safety-critical systems to short-lived campaign applications – and how platform engineering enables both
• Aligning teams around shared platforms and workflows to scale delivery
• Applying AI to remove friction and improve efficiency where it delivers clear value
• Maintaining high service quality by strengthening coordination, visibility and platform consistency
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Presentation: Engineering the Future: IKEA’s Evolution into a Platform of Platforms
Maj-Britt Christensen -
Director of Platform Engineering,
IKEA
Björn Ramberg - Vice President of Platform Engineering, IKEA
As modern practices and not least AI, reshapes the engineering landscape, the role of a central organisation is no longer just about providing tools - it's about architecting a "Platform of Platforms". This unified ecosystem bridges the gap between infrastructure and innovation, ensuring that capabilities serve not as add-ons, but as foundational layers of the developer experience and user journeys.
To get those journeys right, we need the right context and the data quality, we explore the necessity of data liquidity and quality, ensuring that the right data is accessible, secure, and structured to power next-generation AI augmentation.
• Shifting from fragmented entry points to a centralised platform core
• Embedding AI as a foundational layer of the developer experience rather than an add on
• Offloading complexity to the platform so developers can focus on delivering business value
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Presentation: Operationalising AI and Tooling for Enterprise Grade Maturity
Jean Burellier -
Principal Software Engineer,
Sanofi
Early AI tools and emerging platforms often show promise in isolated pilots, but the real breakthrough happens when organisations transform them into hardened, production ready capabilities. This session dives into the architecture patterns, automation layers and governance controls that turn experimental tech into high reliability, high throughput platforms capable of powering complex enterprise environments.
• Implementing maturity models that define reliability, observability and compliance thresholds
• Hardening AI and platform tooling with versioning, security controls and operational guardrails
• Standardising integration pathways so new technologies can scale without destabilising core systems
Late Afternoon Session
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Presentation: Making the Developer Experience Pay - Turning Engineering Effort into Business Value
Leo Bardelli -
Global Head of Product Engineering,
Saint-Gobain
Developer experience has become a priority across enterprises, but too often it's discussed in isolation from cost, funding and commercial reality. This session cuts through the noise, focusing on how DevEx initiatives can be shaped, measured and prioritised so they meet financial targets. Leo Bardelli, Head of Product Engineering at Saint Gobain & Author of the book Bridging the Gap: Turning Agile and DevOps Initiatives into Board-Level Wins explores how teams can move beyond buzzwords, apply the right metrics and strike a practical balance between innovation and viability, turning developer experience into something leadership is willing to invest in and scale.
• Translating developer experience improvements into outcomes the business will fund
• Measuring value using delivery, stability and cost reduction indicators
• Balancing innovation with financial feasibility in DevEx and platform initiatives
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Proving Platform ROI: Metrics That Matter and How to Use Them
Elcio Abrahao -
Platform Director,
Syngenta
Uğur Başak - Director of Engineering, TomTom
Carlos Costa - Global Director of Data & AI Foundations, Adidas
It's no longer enough to say a platform "improves developer experience", leaders need quantifiable evidence of impact on delivery speed, reliability and cost. This panel unpacks how organisations define, measure and communicate platform ROI using hard metrics that resonate with technical and business audiences.
• Selecting performance indicators that correlate engineering activity with business value
• Measuring the impact of platform adoption on velocity, reliability and unit economics
• Communicating ROI effectively to secure long term investment and organisational buy in
