Quality & Reliability

Shipping with Confidence: Observability and Quality at Scale

with Mirko Novakovic & Prince Kohli & Daniel Gebler & Christian Heilmann

Thursday 9 July 16:50 – 17:20 Mainstage

About This Session

As systems grow more complex, shipping reliably stops being about heroics and starts being about how teams work. This panel brings together engineering leaders to talk about what it really takes to ship with confidence at scale. A practical conversation about keeping quality high as complexity grows.

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Speakers

Mirko Novakovic

CEO and Co-founder · Dash0

CEO and Co-founder of Dash0

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Mirko Novakovic is the CEO and co-founder of Dash0, an observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and AI. Previously, he co-founded Instana, a leading application performance monitoring company acquired by IBM, and codecentric. As an active angel investor, he has backed more than 70 B2B SaaS startups. Mirko is passionate about building developer-first products and shaping the future of observability in the age of AI
Prince Kohli

President and CEO · Sauce Labs

President and CEO of Sauce Labs

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Prince Kohli is a distinguished technology executive and visionary leader with three decades of experience in building, scaling, and transforming solutions across critical sectors, including enterprise software, cloud computing, telecoms, and security. As the current Chief Executive Officer of Sauce Labs, he spearheads an AI-driven end- to-end continuous quality platform trusted by a distinguished list of large enterprise clients. For the past decade, Mr. Kohli's focus has been at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence platforms, including the development of one of the industry's first agentic platforms. Throughout his career, he has cultivated a strong reputation for operational excellence and for building high-performing, globally distributed teams within companies of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. His entrepreneurial background includes co-founding a successful, VC-backed company. Committed to responsible innovation, he is also a valued member of the Ethical AI Governance Group, collaborating with practitioners who share similar values. Mr. Kohli holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India.
Daniel Gebler

CTO · Picnic

CTO of Picnic

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Daniel Gebler is CTO of Picnic, the world’s fastest growing online supermarket that makes grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable for everyone. Previously, he was Director R&D of Fredhopper, responsible for the product and technology roadmap, and led engineering teams located in Amsterdam and Sofia. Daniel holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA. He published papers, edited journals, and chaired international workshops on software correctness.
Christian Heilmann

VP Developer Relations · WeAreDevelopers

VP Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers

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Former Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft. JavaScript and Accessibility expert. Worked on Chromium Developer Tools. Author of the Developer Advocacy Handbook, LinkedIn Learning and Skillshare Trainer. Cinephile.