About
Engineering organizations often shy away from ambitious, high-risk projects like migrations or rearchitectures, even when the status quo hurts like hell. At the same time, the headlong rush to AI-coding is itself ambitious and high-risk, even if we don’t think of it as such!
This session shows how these issues are tied together, and how to tackle both at once. You’ll learn how to take bigger swings and tackle projects that deliver real impact – projects like integrating AI tools into your development workflow.
Expect real talk, lessons from the field, and practical strategies you can apply in your own team.

Key Takeaways:

1. Understand why engineering teams default to safety and why AI alone doesn’t speed you up.
2. Learn how to build foundations for bold projects like AI adoption.
3. Learn how to integrate AI into your develpment safely and effectively.

When
Thursday, October 23, 2025 · 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Presenter
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Akshay Shah
Field CTO - Antithesis
Akshay Shah is a technical leader with experience at every stage of the startup lifecycle, from founding to IPO. He's built everything from distributed systems to a custom L7 network protocol, with particular depth in Go, gRPC, network proxies and streaming data.