The AI Engineering Night for Leaders in tech

A high-signal evening summit for Founders, Engineering Leaders, CTOs and Product leaders shaping how engineering Teams become next.

📍Lisbon, Devoteam Auditorium🕣 17:00–22:00👥 70 attendees (invite only)

Programming:

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Panels: Organisational changes and Re-building workflows in the AI era.

  • 19:00 - 20:30 Masterminds Roundtables based on Panel Topics

  • 20:30 - 22:00 LeaderSips: network & connect with peers.

Speakers & Lineup:

Master of Ceremonies by Milica Aleksic

  • Rijk van Zanten, CTO & Co-Founder at Directus

  • Pedro Afonso, VP Engineering at Engine AI

  • Gina Schinkel, Founder Driftawave

  • More to be announced soon..

Topics:

18:00 - 19:00 Fireside & Panel:

🎤 What CTOs Are Actually Changing in the AI-Era Engineering Organisation🎤 Re-building Engineering Workflows around AI

19:00 - 20:00 Masterminds Roundtables:

Area 1 topic: What Actually Changes

⚡ Junior Hiring Challenges: If AI does entry-level work, how do you hire, onboard and grow juniors, and where do your future seniors come from?

⚡ Proving the ROI: What are you actually measuring, and how do you explain AI productivity to your CEO, CFO or board without made-up numbers?

⚡ Reshaping the organisation: Team sizes, EM-to-engineer ratios, new roles (AI enablement, platform), and what the engineering manager's job looks like now.

Area 2 topic: How We Rebuilt Our Workflow

⚡ Quality and ownership: Code review, tech debt and security when much of the code was generated. Who is accountable for code nobody fully wrote?

⚡ Rollout and governance: Getting adoption past the enthusiasts, handling resistance, tool sprawl, cost control and usage policies.

⚡ Beyond autocomplete: Agents picking up tickets, writing tests, triaging incidents. What actually works in production, and where do humans stay in the loop?

Join fellow leaders for

💡 Unique insights, sessions & education sharing💡 1-on-1 networking with peers & Industry Leaders💡 ​Curated startup demos