AI Code Quality & Security: Building the next generation of great software
AI is rapidly transforming software development, and we are excited to connect with the builders, founders, and developers who are shaping the future of AI-native development. This evening meetup is designed to showcase security best practices with AI coding assistants and agentic IDEs.
Join leaders from Snyk, the leader in secure AI software development, and Qodo, an Agentic Code Quality platform provider, for an evening of insightful talks and candid conversations. We’ll be taking a closer look at the critical intersection of security and agentic AI development. Key discussions will revolve around securing AI-generated code, implementing "Blue Team vs. Red Team" strategies in agentic workflows, and exploring new paradigms for continuous learning and evolving software through AI.
Program
Join us for lightning talks and networking in the Flatiron District!
6:00pm: Doors open
6:30pm: Kick off and message from our partners
6:45pm: Itamar Friedman - Code review first, please! Techniques for Context Awareness and Multi-Agent Systems
07:25pm: Liran Tal - Giving Your Agentic Coding AI a Security Brain
8:00pm Networking (Pizza and beer will be available)
9:00pm Wrap-up
About the Speakers
Meet the experts leading the conversation on secure, AI-native development:
Itamar Friedman
Co-Founder & CEO, Qodo
Itamar will be presenting with Nnenna Ndukwe on the theme of Blue Team vs. Red Team strategies.
Improving AI code review - Techniques for Context Awareness, Testing, and Multi-Agent Systems
Developers who have worked with AI for coding often find its potential impressive, but it’s clear that code gen alone isn’t always enough. Without enhancements like context awareness, the generated code can miss critical project-specific details or best practices.
In this talk, we will cover the multi-agent approach for exploiting AI for multiple orthogonal purposes, such as context-engineering and code-review, to significantly improve the overall AI-driven software development process.
Liran Tal
Director of Developer Advocacy, Snyk
Liran will share Snyk's perspective on securing AI software development.
Giving Your Agentic Coding AI a Security Brain
AI can generate a week’s worth of code before lunch and just as quickly ship SSRF, RCE, and path traversal vulnerabilities into prod. Rules and “/security-review” prompts aren’t enough: they’re costly, brittle, and non-deterministic. Run them three times, get three answers. Meanwhile, who vets hallucinated npm packages as the agent installs them? Oh you’re running the agent with “--dangerously-skip-permissions”? Color me surprised, sigh.
Well the good news is you don’t have to trade speed for security, let me show you how. This talk shows a concrete, developer-first pattern: learn how to use MCPs to give agents real security superpowers. We’ll wire in just-in-time package health checks and deterministic code reviews via a security MCP server, with clear contextually engineered details for your agent. You’ll leave with a better understanding of the security dangers relying on agentic coding tools alone and a reliable MCP-based agentic workflow to make AI coding fast and safely shippable.
Presented by
This event is brought to by Snyk, the leader in secure AI software development, and Qodo, the leading AI Code Review Platform.
🙌 Big thanks to Vine Ventures for hosting us at their NYC office and shout-out to Tessl, providers of an AI-native development framework.