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# There’s No Such Thing as Vibe Strategy, Vibe Security, or Vibe Scale


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 12:15–12:45 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Across enterprises, a similar experiment seems to be playing out: developers are shipping at accelerating speed with AI-assisted tools, and that speed is real and worth preserving. But “vibing” something — coding, security, strategy, tax prep, take your pick — can works because someone isn’t deep enough in it to know what they may be missing, and that can work well for a proof point, but may not translate to what runs the business. This session is about the line leadership teams have to hold: how you let builders iterate and prove ideas fast without letting ungoverned experiments quietly become production systems. PwC's technology specialists will share how they've built the controls, telemetry, and enterprise-grade guardrails — going beyond what frontier AI companies can provide — to turn fast iteration into durable, scaled engineering output.

## Speakers

### [Scott Likens](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@scott-likens)

Global Chief AI Engineer, Principal at PwC US 
### [Ussama Baggili](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ussama-baggli)

Principal, App Modernization & Development, Cloud Engineering & Data Analytics | Anthropic Alliance CTO
### [Matt Hobbs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@matt-hobbs)

US and Global Head of Cloud, Engineering, Data, and AI at PwC
### [Meghna Sha](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@meghna-sha)

Principal of Engineering and AI practice at PwC


## Related talks at this congress

- [Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1900-beyond-the-vibe) — Ussama Baggili
- [Don’t kill my Vibes - Simple Steps to Stay Secure when Vibe Coding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1413-don-t-kill-my-vibes) — Isaac Evans
- [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
- [Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1721-beyond-vibe-coding) — Ron Veen

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