Unconference: Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience
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From Autocomplete to Agents: AI Coding State of Play
Monday Apr 7 / 02:45PM BST
After almost 2 years of intense attention givent to coding assistants, at the beginning of 2025, many organizations were disappointed by the measurable results. The recent arrival of coding assistance agents though has stirred up and reset expectations and the hype.

Birgitta Böckeler
Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery @Thoughtworks, Software Developer, Architect, and Technical Leader, 20 Years Experience in Technology
Achieve Optimal Efficiency for your Developer Experience Teams
Monday Apr 7 / 01:35PM BST
Developer Experience teams are quite popular these days as organisations understand the value of optimising for developers productivity.

Fabien Deshayes
Engineering Manager - Platform & Developer Experience @Monzo, Previously @Spotify
Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun
Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST
Developer satisfaction, developer joy, and business results are strongly correlated. Developer productivity frameworks like SPACE recognize this, with Satisfaction being a key metric. And yet - our jobs are frustrating, filled with mindless work, and free of joy. How do we fix that?

Holly Cummins
Full Stack Engineer, Building Quarkus @Red Hat, Former Lead Consultant

Trisha Gee
Developer Champion and Author of "Head First Java" (3rd Ed), "97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know", and "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"
Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway
Monday Apr 7 / 11:45AM BST
In the autumn of 2021, SpareBank 1, one of the largest savings banks in Norway, decided to take a new direction by significantly increasing how often we deployed to production, going from daily to hourly frequency.

Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom
Senior Software Developer @SpareBank 1 Utvikling, Previously Worked @Bouvet, @FINN, and @TietoEVRY, 19+ Years in Software Development

Ola Hast
Senior Software Developer @Sparebank1 Utvikling, 15 Years in Software Development
Your Platform is Not an Island: Embracing Evolution in Your Ecosystem
Monday Apr 7 / 03:55PM BST
As with most forms of engineering it is easy to talk about theory in the abstract, but typically more nuanced to implement. Platform engineering is no exception. While the term has become increasingly popular over the last few years, it is a concept that is organically evolving within industry.

Rachael Wonnacott
Associate Director for Container Platform Engineering @Fidelity International