DirectorPlus (SF): How to Build Your Software Factory

​ONLY for Directors, VPs, CTOs and Platform/DevEx leaders at companies with 50+ engineers.

​DirectorPlus is an invite only community for engineering leaders navigating the shift to AI-augmented development. It is a Gather.dev community, curated by Peter Bell.

​The Bay Area events would not be possible without the amazing support of Randy Shoup, Kumar Kandaswamy and Sam McAfee!

​Join our community of DirectorPlus engineering leaders on Wednesday April 29th at 6pm in SoMa(between Embarcadero and Salesforce transit center) as we discuss how to build (and scale) a software factory.

​In this event, we’ll break down what it takes to build a software factory: the orchestration, context, verification, clean-up and compounding/learning/dreaming elements required to ship a flexible set of software factories for delivering high quality code more quickly.

​We’ll then look at what it takes to scale adoption and usage of a software factory across a team, an org or an enterprise.

​Agenda
6:00pm Arrival, food/drink & networking
6:30pm Introduction - What makes a good software factory? Patterns and practices that work. Peter Bell, Founder, Gather.dev
6:45pm The evolution of agentic coding workflows. Page Bailey, AI DevRel lead, Google DeepMind
7:05pm Agentic Experience and refining the Ralph loop - balancing agency and security in your coding agents. Chetan Conikee CEO/Founder at Modiqo (Previous companies acquired by HP, Nutanix & Harness)
7:20pm Agentic Persistence Tim Sehn, Founder/CEO DoltHub
7:30pm Networking/discussions
7:50pm Baseline DevOps infrastructure for agentic engineers - Charity Majors, CTO Honeycomb
8:10pm Wrap/next steps
8:15pm Networking/discussions
9:00pm End of event

​Food and drink provided.

​We're grateful to our partners at Chainguard and Vapi for supporting this conversation.