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Chicago

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September 15, 2026

The Dalcy, 302 N Green Street, 3rd Floor

CT

10:00 AM

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10:30 AM

30 Min

Registration and Check-In

10:30 AM

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12:15 PM

1 HR 45 MIN

Opening Keynote:

The Agentic Shift: The Rise of Autonomous Software Delivery

Every engineering team is already generating code with AI. The harder problem is knowing how much of it should ship without a person "in the loop".  Most organizations are still deciding that case by case, with no real system behind it. In this keynote, we'll explore what that system could look like: an agentic framework that scales autonomy to the risk of each AI-generated change, not a blanket policy that treats them all the same. You'll see it in real demos, backed by customers already running it at production scale.

Jyoti Bansal
Jyoti Bansal
CEO
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Harness
Nick Durkin
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
,
Harness

12:15 PM

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1:40 PM

1 HR 25 MIN

Lunch

1:40 PM

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2:10 PM

30 min

Panel Session:

AI Cost Management: Token Maxxing to Outcome Maxxing

Token optimization got you here. It won't get you to what's next. AI is a load-bearing infrastructure and the teams pulling ahead aren't the ones squeezing costs, they're the ones redefining what value looks like. Walk through the shift from token-level thinking to outcome-driven AI investment: how to measure it, operationalize it, and make the case internally.

Jay Patel
Jay Patel
Director of Engineering
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Donnelley Financial
Tim Curless
Tim Curless
Principal Engineer
,
AHEAD
Carlos Delatorre
Carlos Delatorre
President, Go To Market
,
Harness
Matt Dimich
Matt Dimich
Head of Enterprise Architecture, Community & Governance
,
S&P Global

2:10 PM

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2:35 PM

25 min

Security at AI Speed

Security practices have evolved to match the pace of AI-assisted development and automated deployments. Learn about real-time threat detection, automated security testing that keeps up with rapid release cycles, and how enterprise security teams are leveraging AI to identify vulnerabilities faster than developers can introduce them.

Daniel Mayer
Daniel Mayer
CISO
,
Morningstar
Adam Arellano
Adam Arellano
Field CTO
,
Harness
Damon Sorrentino
Damon Sorrentino
Solutions Engineer
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Kong

2:35 PM

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3:00 PM

25 min

Panel Session:

Surfing the Agentic Tidal Wave: DevOps in the AI Coding Era

AI is becoming the primary author of code — and that changes everything downstream. This session explores what DevSecOps looks like when your developers are orchestrating agents instead of writing every line themselves: new quality gates, new security considerations, new questions about ownership and accountability, and what it means to ship with confidence when the code came from a model.

Daniel Knauf
Daniel Knauf
Chief Technology Officer
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Merkle
Nick Durkin
Nick Durkin
Field CTO
,
Harness
Jealene McKnight-Porter
Jealene McKnight-Porter
AVP - Platform Engineering and Enablement
,
UWM

3:00 PM

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3:30 PM

30 min

Panel Session:

From Chaos to Common Ground: Standardizing DevOps Across the Enterprise

Any enterprise with enough history has the same problem: teams picked their own tools for years, and no one reconciled them. This session tackles that mess, aligning independent business units on shared standards, and getting past the inevitable "that's how we've always done it."

Tim Fisher
Tim Fisher
Manager, Platform Engineering
,
Transamerica
Derek Meinen
Derek Meinen
Lead DevOps Engineer
,
Transamerica
Ruchira Bajaj
Ruchira Bajaj
Director, Technical Program Management
,
Harness
Phil Halvorson
Phil Halvorson
VP, Technology Enablement
,
RGA

3:30 PM

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30 min

Panel Session:

Beyond the Bottlenecks: How Machine Intelligence Is Reshaping DevOps Constraints

AI has shifted where teams spend their time — but it hasn't eliminated friction, it's moved it. This session explores the new bottlenecks in AI-augmented workflows: where productivity gains stall, how organizations measure developer experience beyond velocity, and what platform engineering looks like when AI is doing more of the work.

Kyle Binns
Kyle Binns
Director of Platform Engineering
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Morningstar
Sugato Bose
Sugato Bose
Chief Architect & Sr. Director
,
Medline Industries
Jignesh Patel
Jignesh Patel
Field CTO
,
Harness
Jason De Lorme
Jason De Lorme
Customer Engineering
,
Google

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4:00 PM

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5:00 PM

1 hr

Happy Hour