DirectorPlus (SF): How to Build Your Software Factory

Sorry - at capacity :( ONLY for Directors, VPs, CTOs and Platform/DevEx leaders at companies with 50+ engineers. DirectorPlus is an invite only community for engineering leaders navigating the shift to AI-augmented development. It is a Gather.dev community, curated by Peter Bell. The Bay Area events would not be possible without the amazing support of Randy Shoup, Kumar Kandaswamy and Sam McAfee! Join our community of DirectorPlus engineering leaders on Wednesday April 29th at 6pm in SoMa(between Embarcadero and Salesforce transit center) as we discuss how to build (and scale) a software factory. In this event, we’ll break down what it takes to build a software factory: the orchestration, context, verification, clean-up and compounding/learning/dreaming elements required to ship a flexible set of software factories for delivering high quality code more quickly. We’ll then look at what it takes to scale adoption and usage of a software factory across a team, an org or an enterprise. Agenda 6:00pm Arrival, food/drink & networking 6:30pm Introduction - What makes a good software factory? Patterns and practices that work. Peter Bell, Founder, Gather.dev 6:45pm The evolution of agentic coding workflows. Page Bailey, AI DevRel lead, Google DeepMind 7:05pm Agentic Experience and refining the Ralph loop - balancing agency and security in your coding agents. Chetan Conikee CEO/Founder at Modiqo (Previous companies acquired by HP, Nutanix & Harness) 7:20pm Agentic Persistence Tim Sehn, Founder/CEO DoltHub 7:30pm Networking/discussions 7:50pm Baseline DevOps infrastructure for agentic engineers - Charity Majors, CTO Honeycomb 8:10pm Wrap/next steps 8:15pm Networking/discussions 9:00pm End of event Food and drink provided. We're grateful to our partners at Chainguard and Vapi for supporting this conversation.