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# Itamar Friedman
Machine learning researcher and Qodo CEO building code quality tools for the AI era.

## About

Itamar Friedman builds tools to help engineering teams govern code at the speed of AI. As the co-founder and CEO of Qodo, he focuses on maintaining software standards when humans are no longer writing every line.

He has spent two decades working in machine learning. Before Qodo, he directed machine vision research at Alibaba and won multiple programming competitions. His talks explore what it actually takes to trust machine-written software, detailing the limits of human review and where current testing methods fall short.


## Upcoming Sessions

### World Congress 2026 North America · September 23, 2026
San José, CA
- [How to Trust Code You Didn't Write](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1779-how-to-trust-code) · 30 min