SPEAKER
Guy Podjarny
Founder & CEO of Tessl
Guy Podjarny is the founder of Tessl, and previously founded Snyk. Tessl is reimagining software development for the AI era, helping shape AI Native Development. Snyk created and leads the Developer Security category, and is now a multi-billion dollar company with over 1,000 employees. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai (following its acquisition of his first startup), is an active angel investor, and co-hosts of the AI Native Dev podcast.
Upcoming sessions
See complete program3 November
9:20 AM · 30 min
Building a software factory you can trust.
Building a software factory isn’t the hard part — trusting it is. As AI systems take on more of the development lifecycle, the real bottleneck shifts from capability to confidence and control.
In this talk, we’ll explore a practical path from skills, to loops, to a software factory: building up autonomy in stages, with the structure, feedback, and guardrails needed to trust each step. We’ll look at what makes that factory trustworthy, and how our role shifts from writing every line to steering a system we can genuinely rely on.
Skills are the new CodeOn demand
1 June, 9:20 AM · 30 min Keynote
Past sessions
1 June
9:20 AM · 30 min
Skills are the new Code
Software development has always revolved around the instructions we give the machine - punch cards, then assembly, then code. As agentic development takes hold, agent skills are becoming our unit of software - but we're not treating them this way
In this keynote, I'll make the case that agent skills deserve the same rigour we've spent decades applying to code. Crafted with intention. Tested against real behaviour. Versioned and maintained in step with the project around them. Treating skills as an afterthought isn't just technical debt, it's the difference between AI that ships and AI that drifts.
