DirectorPlus(SF): How can you trust your agentic engineers?
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 an agentic SDLC. 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 Tuesday June 24th at 6pm in SoMa as we discuss how to verify the code coming out of your software factory.
In April we broke down the elements of a software factory: orchestration, context, verification, clean-up, and compounding. This time we are going one layer deeper into the hardest of those: verification.
What is good software, and how do we know whether our agentic swarms are generating it? Can we test for functional correctness, performance, security and maintainability consistently across engineers, repos and teams? And what about maintaining architectural elegance?
I'll be sharing some of the patterns that are working from CTOs that have successfully scaled agentic development that I'm interviewing for the upcoming O'Reilly book on Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering.
We'll also have an interview with Dana Lawson, CTO of Netlify, on how she runs a 14 million user product with 39 engineers, and what verification looks like when your team has fully embraced agentic development.
And there will also be a couple of very fun surprise guests we'll announce closer to the date.
Agenda
6:00pm Arrival, food/drink & networking
6:30pm Introduction. Randy Shoup, Executive Community Lead (SF Bay Area), Gather.dev
6:35pm How to trust your agentic swarm: Peter Bell, Founder Gather.dev
6:45pm Fireside chat: Agentic verification: Dana Lawson, CTO, Netlify
7:10pm Networking/discussions
7:40pm Surprise guest #1
7:55pm Rob Zuber, CTO CircleCI
8:10pm Wrap/next steps
8:15pm Networking/discussions
9:00pm End of event
Food and drink provided.
We’re grateful to our hosts at Netlify for supporting this conversation.