Platform Engineering Meets AI: The New Developer Experience

Platform engineering has already reshaped how modern software teams build and ship applications — but the arrival of AI is accelerating that transformation at a staggering pace. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, automate routine workflows, and push toward self service everything, internal developer platforms (IDPs) are becoming the foundation for a smarter, more intuitive engineering ecosystem.

“Platform Engineering Meets AI: The New Developer Experience” brings together platform architects, DevOps leaders, and AI innovators to explore how AI is redefining the role of the platform team. This session examines how AI powered workflows, intelligent automation, and context aware tooling are creating a developer experience that is faster, more consistent, and dramatically more productive.

Attendees will learn how leading organizations are integrating AI into their platforms — from automated environment provisioning and policy enforcement to AI assisted troubleshooting, documentation, and golden path creation. The result is a new era of developer experience where cognitive load drops, delivery accelerates, and platform teams become strategic enablers of innovation.

Johan Kowall

SVP Product and Design - Spacelift

Jonah Kowall is Senior Vice President of Product and Design at Spacelift, where he leads product strategy for the company's infrastructure orchestration platform. A computer scientist and longtime open source advocate, he serves on the founding team and technical leadership committee for OpenSearch, maintains the CNCF-graduated Jaeger distributed tracing project, and contributes to OpenTelemetry. He previously led product and design at Paessler, held leadership roles at Aiven, Logz.io, Kentik, AppDynamics, and Cisco, and led IT operations and monitoring research at Gartner. He holds CISSP and CISA certifications.

Jesse Suen

Argo CD & Kargo Creator, Akuity Co-Founder & CTO - Akuity

Jesse Suen is the CTO and co-founder of Akuity, and co-creator and a project lead on the Argo project. Prior to founding Akuity, Jesse was a Principal Software Engineer and technical lead for the Argo team at Intuit, leading design and architecture for Workflows, CD, and Rollouts. Founding engineer at Applatix. B.A. Computer Science & Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley.

Guy Currier

Analyst - The Futurum Group

Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.

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