The
AI
Software Delivery
Conference
2026
© 2026 Harness Inc.
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Opening Keynote
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. Read more

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Jyoti Bansal
CEO
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Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Fireside Chat
AI has crossed the threshold from helping developers write code to helping teams build entire systems. The next frontier is how enterprises architect the SDLC so they can trust what gets shipped... As agents move from autocomplete to planning, delegation, implementation, testing, and review, software leaders face a new challenge: preserving developer flow and speed while strengthening accountability, security, auditability, cost discipline, and control.
In this keynote conversation, Jyoti Bansal and Jeff Wang explore the new operating model for AI-era engineering, from the agentic developer workspace where humans and AI collaborate, to the enterprise delivery layer that verifies what is safe to release. They’ll discuss what humans should still own, where agents can safely act, what evidence should be required before, during, and after release, and how delivery data can make the next generation of AI development smarter. In the AI-native enterprise, trust is not assumed — it is continuously verified." Read more

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Jeff Wang
President, New Enterprise (Prev Windsurf CEO)

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Jyoti Bansal
CEO
Fireside Chat
As agentic AI reshapes how software gets built and shipped, platform and developer experience teams are at the center of the transformation. In this 1:1 conversation, Cindy Wang shares how Workday is evolving its CI/CD infrastructure... and developer experience at enterprise scale to keep pace with AI-driven delivery — from modernizing platform architecture to maintaining developer velocity, operational efficiency, and reliability as agentic capabilities become embedded in every stage of the SDLC. Read more

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Cindy Wang
Director, Developer Experience

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Jignesh Patel
Field CTO
Fireside Chat
Every enterprise wants to move faster with AI, but somebody still has to catch what AI gets wrong. Neil Watkins runs security, compliance, and global privacy for Burns & McDonnell, and he doesn't see security as a gate; he sees it as the windshield in a storm of AI bugs.... We'll talk about how Harness secures, governs, and standardizes software delivery at the pipeline gate, and how that removes security as a blocker to AI adoption. Read more

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Neil Watkins
Director, Technology & Security Services (CISO)

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Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Panel Session
When AI agents are writing, reviewing, and deploying code autonomously, the security assumptions that governed traditional DevSecOps no longer hold. In this session, security and engineering leaders share what it actually looks like to... secure software delivery in the agentic era, from governing what autonomous agents can do inside your pipeline, to building the trust frameworks that let teams move fast without compromising protection. Read more

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Nicole Dove
Head of Customer Value & Community

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Greg Gigon
Head of Software Engineering
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Cam Johnson
Cyber Security Manager
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Adam Arellano
Field CTO
Panel Session
Every platform engineering team is facing the same tension right now: developers want to move faster with AI, and the platform has to keep up without compromising the governance, compliance, and reliability that enterprise organizations depend on.... In this session, we explore what it looks like to navigate that tension in highly regulated environments — from rethinking golden paths and toolchains to maintaining developer trust as AI coding agents become embedded in every stage of the SDLC. What does it actually take to build a platform that enables AI-driven velocity at enterprise scale without leaving governance behind? Read more

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David Danzillo
Director of Site Reliability Engineering
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Nathen Harvey
Developer Advocate
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Stephen Cihak
Field CTO
Panel Session
AI coding tools are everywhere. But most engineering teams are seeing incremental gains when transformational results are possible. In this conversation, Martin Harrysson, Senior Partner at McKinsey, draws on the latest research to unpack... why the gap exists and what the top-performing engineering organizations are doing differently. David Pan, Field CTO at Cursor, joins to share what he sees on the front lines of AI-assisted development: how the best teams are moving beyond autocomplete to fundamentally rethinking how software gets built, reviewed, and shipped. Together they explore what engineering excellence actually looks like in the AI coding era, and what it takes to get there. Read more

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Martin Harrysson
Senior Partner

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David Pan
Field CTO

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Nick Durkin
Field CTO
Panel Session
The biggest bottleneck has become more nuanced than velocity: it's trust. As AI agents take on more of the build-deploy-secure cycle, the teams winning aren't just moving faster. They're moving with confidence.... We break down what context-native AI actually looks like in practice, and how high-performing engineering orgs have built the trust frameworks that let them ship without second-guessing every step. Read more

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Russ Memisyazici
Global Head of Reference Architecture
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Sachin Malhotra
Member of Technical Staff
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Naman Pandey
Senior Transformation Analyst
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Ruchira Bajaj
Senior Director, Customer Architecture
Panel Session
Everyone's talking about AI engineering — but most companies are nowhere close to what's actually possible. In this fireside chat, Morning Brew co-founder and Tenex Cofounder & Comanaging Partner Alex Lieberman breaks... down the concept taking over the industry in 2026: the Software Factory. Drawing from his work helping enterprises build and scale agentic engineering orgs, Alex walks through what a Software Factory actually is, why the gap between what CEOs think they have and what they actually have is enormous, and how to honestly assess where your org stands today using his five-level Software Factory Ladder — from Artisan to Autonomous. Trevor Stuart, SVP at Harness, joins to explore what it takes to climb that ladder and what the best-in-class engineering teams are doing right now. Read more

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Alex Lieberman
Entrepreneur & Co-Founder Tenex, Morning Brew and storyarb
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Trevor Stuart
SVP, General Manager