Enterprise AI Summit Spring 2026
2026-04-09..2026-04-10
San Jose, United States
as the organisers put it
All 27 talks from the Enterprise AI Summit in San Jose (April 9–10, 2026) — leaders from OpenAI, John Deere, Adobe, Amazon and more on shipping AI in the enterprise. Watch on demand.
who it's for
engineering leaders, machine learning engineers, platform engineers, developer tooling engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers, security and compliance engineers, data engineers
topics
agent fleet orchestration; agent plan verification with SMT; token efficiency metrics (Big-T Notation); vibe coding workflows; multi-agent software development; ai-native organization design; versioned databases for audit and rollback; retrieval-augmented generation caching; productionizing small-team platform replacements; developer AI adoption and productivity studies; agentification of business workflows
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Return of the Theorem | Dr. Erik Meijer | 23m |
Claims that AI agents must be treated guilty until proven safe and that every proposed action is deferred until a verifier proves it fits formal business… | ||
| From Vibe Code to Fleet Mode: The Agentic Pivot Nobody’s Ready For | Steve Yegge | 23m |
Argues the industry is pivoting from agentic coding to running businesses with fleets of autonomous agents, claims most orgs are unready because of siloed… | ||
| Architecting AI-Native Organizations: How to Redesign Work at Scale | Joe Beutler | 25m |
OpenAI reorganizes teams so function leaders own outcomes, embedding engineers inside finance, sales and GTM to turn experiments into production; finance uses… | ||
| Building an AI Native Engineering Org | Angie Jones | 24m |
Block builds an internal coding agent Goose and pilots it with 50 handpicked AI champions to convert 3,500 engineers from IDE helpers to orchestrators of… | ||
| The Specialisation Trap | Annie Vella | 20m |
A mixed‑methods six‑month study uses two questionnaires and 158 eligible responses across 28 countries to claim that self‑efficacy predicts >10x higher… | ||
| Features Versus Futures | Kent Beck | 26m |
Argues that every new feature burns optionality (called "futures") so teams must deliberately alternate shipping with refactoring, tests, and design to restore… | ||
| Lessons from Transforming Teams to AI Native Workflows | Tim Cochran | 19m |
Work with about 15 pilot teams inside a 100,000-developer environment finds four reproducible lessons: agents remove low-value coding but coding isn't the only… | ||
| Big‑T Notation: Engineering for Token Efficiency in the Age of Enterprise AI | Dan Neff, Brian Scott | 18m |
Introduces Big‑T Notation as a practical metric decomposition — requests × models per request × agent depth — and shows concrete wins: database views and… | ||
| Modernizing Our Oldest, Scariest Code with AI | Edith Harbaugh, Zach Davis | 21m |
LaunchDarkly uses agentic development patterns to modernize a 66,000-line React targeting system under a six-week timeline with a $10,000 inference budget and… | ||
| Are We Ready for the AI Transformation? | Amy Willard | 25m |
John Deere is driving companywide AI by giving every employee agent access, embedding assistants in daily apps, and running continuous training tracks from… | ||
| Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit | Adrian Cockcroft | 25m |
Directs how teams of AI agents actually build software: uses GasTown/Roof Flow for multi-agent specialization (testing, architecting, researching), bakes… | ||
| Opening Remarks Day 1 | Gene Kim | 16m |
Argues that vibe coding will reshape organizations 100x scale and speed, backed by pair programming sessions with Steve Yegge, a foreword from Dario Amodei… | ||
| From Analytics to Agentic Apps | Tisson Mathew | 25m |
Company pivots from dashboards to production agentic apps, shipping 20+ AI-coded apps in one quarter across ~1,100 healthcare locations and replacing ~100… | ||
| What Handcrafted Servers Taught Us About Handcrafted Code | Charity Majors | 28m |
Argues that maintenance cost, not creation, defines software value and that mutability is the enemy of understanding; claims disposable AI‑generated snippets… | ||
| Making Vibe Coding a Core Skill | Ben Grinnell, Tom Kilcommons | 26m |
Newton runs eight company hackathons that get ~40% of staff actively vibe coding, moving Excel-first operations people into reproducible code using dev… | ||
| GenAI at Sea for Naval Surface Forces | CDR Collin Fox | 27m |
Task Force Hopper runs three concrete pilots: an on‑prem RAG sidekick — a standalone laptop (prosumer GPU like an RTX 5090, 24 GB) running an open‑source… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Tapabrata "Topo" Pal | 20m |
Argues that current engineering plumbing fails under AI accelerated output: Git merge workflows slow or unusable with 10x code churn, CI/CD pipelines and… | ||
| Closing Remarks (Day 2) | Gene Kim | 04m |
Event measures success by high learning, high network, high impact and reports those goals were met; session videos go to the IT Revolution library in days not… | ||
| Enabling Everyone to be Builders with AI | Max Reele, Austen Bruhn | 25m |
Ship Summit runs three days with 200+ employees, partners, and customers and produces more than 3,000 pushes to production while consuming 102 million Claude… | ||
| Edge of the Present: Pursuing AI’s Frontier in the Enterprise | Devlin McConnell | 14m |
An enterprise team builds Mobius, an evolutionary prompting system that mutates prompts with LLMs, evaluates each generation against clear product and… | ||
| Production › Prototype: How a Small Team Replaced a Core Platform in 90 Days | Dustin Warner | 30m |
A two-engineer team pulls a core survey platform out of a third-party black box in 90 days, replacing roughly 75–80% of its functionality that relied on… | ||
| Our Journey to Agentification | John Rauser | 26m |
A mandate forces 100 engineering leaders to ship a feature in one quarter and Cisco measures outcomes with a post-challenge survey: surprising result — former… | ||
| The Surplus Problem: What Happens When Vibe Coding Succeeds? | Ryan Martens, Melissa Reeve | 27m |
Vibe coding delivers 10x to 50x productivity and the hard decision is what to do with that surplus: harvest to margin, reinvest in wiring, or squander it… | ||
| In Pursuit of Good Vibes: I'm Not Sure Where We're Going, but I'm Happy We’re Going There Together | Cat Swetel | 25m |
Nubank recounts a three‑year AI journey from failed 2023 experiments to a 2025 AI‑first declaration and a 130 million customer platform. A product operations… | ||
| Opening Remarks Day 2 | Gene Kim | 13m |
Argues that AI productivity differences are organizational not technical, supported by DORA research spanning 36,000 respondents showing high performers… | ||
| Closing Remarks (Day 1) | Gene Kim | 06m |
A decades-old 1992 taxicab battle inspires a live BattleBot-style game night where attendees build and deploy AI-powered bots in real time, iterating across… | ||
| Nothing. | Matt Jones | 16m |
Claims CEO-level involvement is non-negotiable and AI forces orgs to be rewired, not just cost-cut. A vibe coding workshop turns a two‑hour interview into a… | ||
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