AI Tech Leader's Club, Q4 2025

Name: AI Tech Leader's Club, Q4 2025
Start: 2025-12-16T17:30:00.000-08:00
End: 2025-12-16T21:00:00.000-08:00
Location: Menlo Park, California

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About Event

SDLC at the age of Software Development Agents. Role of vibe-coding and co-pilots.

Speakers

Dwarak Rajagopal, Snowflake, VP and Head of AI Engineering, PyTorch Foundation Board Member, ex-{Google, Meta, Uber, Apple, AMD}
Arun Gupta, Jetbrains, VP DevEx, 3x VP, ex-{Amazon, Apple, Intel, RedHat, Oracle}
Victor D'Souza, Applied Materials, VP AI & Data
Alexander Liss, PhD, Automation Anywhere, VP AI/ML, ex-{Google, Ancestry, Aisera}

Moderator

Vlad Pavlov, PMG, Senior Director, AI & Software Engineering, 3x CTO, 2x VP, ex-{Microsoft, Intel}

Participants

Eligible attendees are current or recent (within three years) senior technology leaders, including CxOs, VPs, Heads of AI/Engineering/Product, Staff/Distinguished Engineers, AI-focused Fund GPs, and similar roles.

Approval decisions are based on attendees' LinkedIn profiles.

Format

🎤⭐ Panel Discussion with top industry experts
💡👥 Collaborative Brainstorming on how to navigate AI’s next phase
🌐🤝 High-Caliber Networking with peers from major tech companies

Food

🧀🍷 Gourmet food & drinks will be served throughout the event.

Discussion Topics

🌐🏭 Is vibe-coding already live in enterprises? Where? What have we learned so far?

🚘🧠 Self-driving cars are now safer than human-driven vehicles… Can we make vibe-code more robust than human-written code?

⚙️🧭 What does an “agentic” SDLC, org chart, and incident management process actually look like?

🏛️📌 How should companies think about vendor lock-in and platform choice for co-pilots and agents?

🧑‍💼🔍 How does vibe-coding affect hiring? Who do we hire more of? Who do we hire less of?

🧑‍💻🌱 If AI writes most of the code, how do juniors learn? What should they focus on now?

🪜⬇️ How far will vibe-coding push down the entry bar for software engineers? Who is still “expert”?

🚀🚀 We do not write or read assembly code anymore... Will humans still write or read Python in 5 or 10 years?

Agenda

5:30 - 6:00 PM
Check-in and Networking
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion: SDLC at the age of SWD Agents. Role of vibe-coding and co-pilots.
7:00 - 8:00 PM
Small Group Brainstorming: Tackling Individual Challenges
8:00 - 9:00 PM
Networking