Tracks

Five tracks, each curated by a host who has done the job. Every session belongs to one, and wears its colour across the site.

Applied AI

Talks from teams running models in production. How they test them, what they cost, where they fail and how the product around them changes once the demo is over and real users arrive.

Evaluating models in production
Cost, latency and the bill at scale
Designing interfaces people can correct
Retrieval, data quality and drift
When not to use a model

Hosted by

Zara Haddad

7 sessions

How design teams do their best work inside software companies. Research that changes decisions, design systems that survive a reorganisation, accessibility done early, and the craft that makes a product feel considered.

Research that changes a roadmap
Design systems at scale
Accessibility from the first sketch
Interaction craft and motion
Working closely with engineering

Hosted by

Anika Sharma

6 sessions

Engineering

Architecture decisions and what they cost later, reliability work that kept a product up, migrations that finished, and the tools and habits that help a team ship often without breaking things.

Architecture and its long tail
Reliability and incident learning
Migrations that actually finish
Developer experience and tooling
Performance on real devices

Hosted by

Daniel Reis

6 sessions

Product

Product management as it is practised. Discovery that shapes decisions, pricing and packaging, metrics a team can act on, and launches planned with engineering, design and support from the start.

Discovery and customer research
Pricing and packaging
Metrics that drive decisions
Planning launches across teams

Hosted by

Grace Liu

7 sessions

Leadership

For people who lead teams that build software. Hiring and onboarding, team structure, giving feedback that lands, growing senior people, and making difficult decisions in the open.