WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Building the Next Generation of Software

Des Traynor

Facing obsolescence by ChatGPT, Intercom pivoted 90% of its workforce to AI. Discover how this radical gamble spurred a $3.6B acquisition and tripled their engineering velocity.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 4 min

Adapting enterprise software strategy for the AI era

Recognizing existential market threats demands an aggressive business pivot over iterative feature updates.

#2 about 5 min

Redefining digital product boundaries through AI workflow convergence

The transition to generative task automation dissolves traditional limits of distinct SaaS solutions.

#3 about 5 min

Shifting from graphical interfaces to dynamic generative interaction models

Intent-driven automated actions replace static navigation menus and specific functional screens.

#4 about 6 min

Resolving compound reliability challenges in AI product development

Continuous empirical evaluation and sophisticated post-training frameworks replace traditional deterministic software methodologies.

#5 about 6 min

Accelerating engineering productivity and design autonomy with generative code

Equipping product teams with advanced code generation dramatically decreases backlog processing times.

#6 about 2 min

Recognizing shipping speed as the primary competitive industry moat

Rapid deployment overtakes unique interfaces and proprietary functionality as the foremost market advantage.

#7 about 5 min

Balancing predictive intent processing with deterministic system execution

Achieving structural confidence relies on post-trained smaller models rather than frontier general intelligence architectures.

Matching moments

5:14 min

Intercom's strategic pivot to an AI-first software company

Brian Scanlan Brian Scanlan · World Congress 2026 Europe

4:08 min

Transitioning software engineering teams to AI-native development workflows

Florian Deter Florian Deter +4 · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:47 min

The growing necessity of orchestrating AI in software teams

Vera Slavnić Vera Slavnić · Europe 2026 Virtual

3:47 min

Redesigning cross-functional teams for AI-driven software development

Avani Prabhakar Avani Prabhakar +3 · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:01 min

Adapting team structures and agile workflows for agentic tools

Clemens Wasner Clemens Wasner +4 · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:55 min

Shifting developer workloads and realistic AI productivity gains

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

More from World Congress 2026 Europe

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA) thumbnail
29:17
2 months ago

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)

Michael Kagan, Sead Ahmetović

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote thumbnail
19:41
2 months ago

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote

Christian Heilmann

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend thumbnail
32:06
2 months ago

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend

David vonThenen

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes thumbnail
35:13
2 months ago

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes

Irina Branovic

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬 thumbnail
24:23
2 months ago

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬

Jeremy Murray

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat thumbnail
30:26
2 months ago

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat

Axel Ebert, Karin Krobath

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Mainstage

Building AI Products vs. Building With AI

Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici

Aparna Dhinakaran
Rukmini Reddy
Tamar Bercovici
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:10–11:15

Outdoor Stage

Architecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery

Ranjan Parthasarathy

Founder, CPTO/CEO at AXIOMSTUDIO.AI

Ranjan Parthasarathy
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Outdoor Stage

Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development

Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth

Staff Technical Program Manager at Google

Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 1

The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up

Tomislav Tipurić

Chief Technology Officer, Nephos

Tomislav Tipurić
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30

Stage 7

AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit

Bharat Patel

Lead Software Engineer at Intuit

Bharat Patel
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 6

The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises

Priyanka Vergadia

Cloud and AI expert @Microsoft, previously lead Devrel @Google

Priyanka Vergadia

Related videos

The End of Software as we know it thumbnail
26:25
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

The End of Software as we know it

Paul Adams

How building with AI can double the throughput of your engineering team thumbnail
30:50
World Congress 2026 Europe • 2 months ago

How building with AI can double the throughput of your engineering team

Brian Scanlan

The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next thumbnail
28:33
World Congress 2026 Europe • 2 months ago

The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next

Taroon Mandhana, Sebastian Kister

Designing high quality software with AI thumbnail
30:46
World Congress 2026 Europe • 2 months ago

Designing high quality software with AI

Brian Lovin

Developer Experience in the Age of AI thumbnail
21:56
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

Developer Experience in the Age of AI

Rajeev Rajan

What Production Knows: Closing the Loop Between AI Agents and the Systems They Build thumbnail
26:33
World Congress 2026 Europe • 2 months ago

What Production Knows: Closing the Loop Between AI Agents and the Systems They Build

May Walter

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.