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# The New Rules of Software Delivery


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 10:20–10:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

DevOps practices are the plumbing of modern software delivery - how code gets built, tested, shipped, and operated in production. The way software is made is now shifting faster than the practices around it: AI writes and deploys a growing share of it, systems change quicker than teams can review, and production keeps growing in scale and complexity. What this shift means for companies building and operating software at scale - how best practices are changing, and what teams need to know to keep delivery fast and reliable.

## Speakers

### [AJ Aitken](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@aj-aitken)

Datavant, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering 
### [Moritz Plassnig](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@moritz-plassnig)

Chief Executive Officer of CloudBees


## Related talks at this congress

- [The New Bottleneck in Software Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1821-the-new-bottleneck) — Aditya Jayaprakash
- [Keeping Code Quality at AI Speed](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1860-keeping-code-quality) — Daksh Gupta, Arthur Hicken, Brian Mann
- [Architecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1826-architecting-the) — Ranjan Parthasarathy
- [Running AI-Written Software in Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1879-running-ai-written) — Anurag Goel, Ivan Burazin, Milin Desai

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