AI Engineering

The New Rules of Software Delivery

with Moritz Plassnig & AJ Aitken

Thursday 24 September 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM Tech Leaders Stage

About This Session

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.

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Speakers

Moritz Plassnig

CEO · CloudBees

CEO of CloudBees

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Moritz Plassnig is the Chief Executive Officer of CloudBees. Moritz is an entrepreneur, technologist, and product leader with deep expertise in developer tools, software delivery, and data governance. He co-founded Codeship, a cloud-based CI/CD platform that was acquired by CloudBees in 2018. Following the acquisition, he held several senior roles at CloudBees, including SVP of Operations & Corporate Development and GM of the company’s cloud/SaaS business. Most recently, Moritz served as Chief Product Officer at Immuta, where he scaled the company’s data security and governance business, overseeing product and go-to-market strategy across engineering, product management, customer success, and marketing. He is also an angel investor in developer, data, and security startups, including Ona, an AI-native developer environment platform, and DX, a developer intelligence platforms, and served on the board of CloudSkiff prior to its acquisition by Snyk. Moritz is based in Boulder, Colorado with his family.
AJ Aitken

Senior VP Infrastructure and Platform Engineering · Datavant

Senior VP Infrastructure and Platform Engineering at Datavant

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AJ Aitken is Senior Vice President of Infrastructure & Platform Engineering at Datavant, the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. He leads an organization spanning cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, data and machine learning platforms, enterprise engineering, and AI enablement. His teams build the secure, resilient foundations behind Datavant's platform and lead major infrastructure and organizational transformation initiatives across the company. AJ has spent his career at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Before Datavant, he spent 14 years at Apixio, ultimately serving as Senior Vice President of Engineering and helping scale the technology behind its AI-powered healthcare analytics platform. Earlier in his career, he led healthcare IT initiatives at TSPi and worked in medical imaging at Topcon Medical Systems. An operator at heart, AJ focuses on building platforms and teams that balance reliability, security, and regulatory rigor with the speed needed to innovate. He is particularly interested in how AI is transforming healthcare, infrastructure, and the way engineering organizations work. AJ grew up in Australia, holds a degree from Griffith University, and is based in San Diego.