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Apr 12, 2026

The Intent Engineer: Closing the Gap Between Business & Engineering - Manuel Klein

Manuel Klein reveals how AI shifts the software development bottleneck from coding to defining requirements. Discover how Intent Engineers translate core business goals directly into scalable architecture.

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#1 about 3 min

Increased pace of technology adoption in enterprise software

How the rise of advanced artificial intelligence tools accelerates enterprise technology adoption and raises software quality expectations.

#2 about 7 min

Historical evolution of software delivery and agile methodologies

Addressing past inefficiencies in governance, agility, and software deployments to prepare organizations for shifting code development further left.

#3 about 5 min

Eliminating development bottlenecks by shifting closer to business

Leveraging rapid code generation tools to align technical creativity directly with business domain challenges instead of basic deployment hurdles.

#4 about 5 min

Reevaluating developer workloads and cognitive load distribution

Recognizing that writing code naturally accounts for minimal developer time while optimizing workflows for domain knowledge integration.

#5 about 4 min

Defining the intent engineer role for code generation

Transitioning from specific user requirements to higher-level abstraction intents to maximize language model capabilities.

#6 about 4 min

Bridging business and technology with strong technical foundations

Locating the intent engineer tightly with the business while demanding broad technical understanding to prototype feasibility.

#7 about 4 min

Integrating intent-based code generation and agent implementation

Managing the shift from immediate human code review processes to autonomous artificial intelligence agent implementations using targeted tasks.

#8 about 6 min

Identifying candidate profiles for intent engineering role transitions

Utilizing candidates with product ownership, engineering backgrounds, and high conversational competency to bridge business-to-technical workflow gaps.

#9 about 4 min

Structuring and refining engineering intent within business contexts

Formatting concrete goals and compliance needs into structured intents by leveraging contextual artificial intelligence models and documentation.

#10 about 4 min

Planning implementation to enforce enterprise architecture guidelines

Validating artificial intelligence implementation plans to align seamlessly with established organizational architecture constraints and coding standards.

#11 about 5 min

Restructuring engineering departments into highly autonomous micro teams

Scaling down collaborative squads to maximize autonomy and drastically shorten the time to deliver raw business value.

#12 about 5 min

Scaling intent engineering with specialized team topologies frameworks

Supporting newly structured intent engineering groups with cognitive guidelines, observational metrics, and specialized native generative platforms.

#13 about 5 min

Piloting enterprise technology transformations with critical stakeholder representation

Accelerating successful new platform adoption by blending technical proponents and skeptical domain experts within isolated experiment environments.

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Shifting the development lifecycle from specifications to intent

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Workflow inflection points and the evolution of engineering roles

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Accelerating AI maturity and the evolution of engineering roles

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The transforming role of developers in the AI era

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The evolving role of software engineers alongside agents

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Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 6

AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering

Manu Gurudatha

Manu Gurudatha, VP of Engineering at PagerDuty

Manu Gurudatha
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Stage 8

From Intent to Merge: A Hands-On Workshop on Code Review in the Agent Era

Lizzie Siegle, Evis Drenova

Lizzie Siegle
Evis Drenova
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 · 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

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