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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Five things in tech that matter and we have to make work

Christian Heilmann

Hackers are weaponizing AI hallucinations to trick developers into downloading malicious payloads via phantom dependencies. Discover five crucial tech shifts we must make work to secure the engineering future.

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