After the Vibe Code: How AI-built software becomes production software
A Seattle AI Week community event, hosted by Chapter 2 Consulting
AI has made it astonishingly easy to build something. But what does it take to make that ‘something’ secure, tested, integrated, observable, scalable, and trusted at scale?
Join engineering and technology leaders who have led and worked in both startups and enterprise-class engineering teams. This will be a candid conversation about what happens after the prototype, by startup engineering leaders who have also worked in extreme scale and complexity. From AI-generated code and autonomous agents to architecture, verification, infrastructure, and reliability, we'll explore how software engineering is changing—and what it takes to build systems with AI tooling that businesses can actually trust.
Agenda
9:00 AM — Panel discussion
Audience Q&A
Networking with panelists and Seattle's engineering community
Who should attend: Software engineers, engineering managers, CTOs, technical founders, product leaders, and anyone building or operating AI-powered software.
Featuring
Ward Vuillemot — CTO & Founding Engineer, Lium AI
AI startup technology leader and hands-on engineer, consulting with multiple non-technical founders on AI & vibe-coded codebases. Former CTO at Lium.ai, RealSelf and Varsity Tutors, earlier engineering and product roles at Microsoft (Xbox) and Amazon.
Heather Gearreald — Head of Infrastructure Engineering
Engineering leader focused on building AI platform infrastructure and leading engineering organizations, with a focus on AI. Former engineering leadership at Wizards of the Coast, Microsoft and Nintendo
Hatem Ayad — CTO, Clarvos
AI startup engineering leader and technology exec. Former SVP of AI Engineering & Data Science at WebMD, SVP of Data Science & Engineering at Verizon Media, VP of Engineering at GoDaddy, and engineering leader at Microsoft.
Robert Neer — Founder, Goods Ventures (Moderator)
Product and technology executive and current EIR at UW’s Product Management Leadership Accelerator. Former VP of Product at Walgreens, VP of Product & Engineering at Best Buy, and Principal Product Manager at Amazon
Details
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · 9:00 AM PDT
SURF Incubator
999 3rd Ave, Suite 700
Seattle, WA 98104
Generating code is getting increasingly easier. Trust is increasingly valuable.
A Seattle AI Week community event, hosted by Chapter 2 Consulting