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Wed, April 28AI-Assisted Software Engineering
Software has long been gatekept by syntax. Today, those barriers are disappearing, opening software creation to a much wider group of people. What does that mean for the next generation of builders, and for the engineers who have spent years developing their craft?
In this keynote, you will explore the democratisation of software and the question many engineers are asking: what happens to my job? Drawing on real-world examples, science, and history, the session examines what this shift means for new builders and existing software engineers alike.
What You Will Learn
How the barriers to building software are changing
What the democratisation of software means for new builders and existing engineers
How real-world examples, science, and history can help us think about the changing role of software engineers
Who Should Attend
Software Developers, Engineers, Technical Leads, Engineering Managers, and anyone interested in how software creation and engineering roles are changing.
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Tejas Kumar is an AI Engineer at IBM, based in Berlin, Germany. He has been building on the web for over 25 years, and before IBM he worked at Spotify, G2i, Vercel, Xata as Director of Developer Relations, and DataStax, which IBM acquired. He is the best selling author of Fluent React, published by O'Reilly (ISBN 9781098138714), a book about how React works internally. He hosts ConTejas Code, a weekly long form podcast with 98 episodes. He has given 80 recorded talks at 64 events, starting with a TEDxYouth talk in Doha in 2012 called "Papercuts Can Kill" and speaking at conferences since 2018. He is also an angel investor and advisor to early stage startups, 3 of the 6 he has backed since acquired, by CoreWeave, the Linux Foundation and Supabase, and he backs early stage founders with money, with advice, or with both.
