Developer?! Builder?! 10xer?!
Join us for another epic live event of the "לא טכני ולא במקרה" podcast, this time hosted at Connecteam's offices! 🎊
Developer? Builder? 10xer? — what are you, really? Everyone talks about "the new developer," but the truth is we don't even know what to call ourselves anymore.
Is every developer a builder? Is every builder a developer? What does it actually mean to be a "builder" vs a "developer"?
Should a modern engineer specialize deep in one craft, or go wide — into product, marketing, everywhere? And in a world where AI handles the execution, do the old labels even make sense?
In this meetup, we're not just defining the new developer -we're questioning the categories themselves.
Our first session features Neta Dror - solo founder with 15+ years across product, marketing, and engineering, running 3 bootstrapped SaaS apps and leading Builderiot, the Hebrew-speaking community for Israeli female technical solo founders. We'll talk about how should a developer specialize today? Where does depth still matter, and where does breadth become the differentiator? The specialist vs generalist tension plays out right here, in the craft itself. Second, How far should a developer stretch into these territories without losing their technical edge? And how does the new "builder" mindset challenge the traditional developer to adapt?
Then, a rare inside look at Connecteam's own transformation — a story in two acts:
🐺 Asaf Niv, Gen AI Lead at Connecteam, leads and builds AI products that change how 1.8 million people manage their work every day. He's a builder who's not a traditional developer — and he'll share how he carved a space for himself inside R&D, how he earned the mandate to ship agentic products, and the organizational shifts he's driving from the inside.
🎯 Eliran Goldsteine, VP R&D at Connecteam (ex-Melio), draws the new chessboard. Developer or builder — when do you hire one vs the other? Why do you need both at all? Will these roles disappear or merge? He manages people who manage people who manage agents, and he'll share what the org chart of the future actually looks like — and how he thinks about building teams when the old job descriptions don't fit anymore.
This meetup is for any developer who's ever asked themselves "What am I, really?" — and for any engineering leader trying to figure out who to hire when the old labels no longer apply.
Expect honest questions, real stories, and a room full of people asking the same thing you are.
🎉 We’re proud to partner with EventHandler and reward the winner of our networking challenge with a special gift - a ticket to the AI Dev TLV conference.
Schedule:
18:00 — 🍕 Pizza, Beers & Mingling
18:30 — Welcome & Podcast intro
18:45 — Neta Dror: Granularity of The New Developer
19:45 — Break & Networking Challenge 🏆
20:00 — Connecteam Case Study: Asaf Niv (Building Your Way In) x Eliran Goldsteine (The New Chessboard)
21:00 — Raffle & Challenge winner
21:15 — Event ends