Birgitta Böckeler

Birgitta is a software developer, architect, and technical leader who is passionate about helping teams and organizations break down complexity, and find new perspectives to look at their systems. She has spent her whole professional career so far in software delivery consulting, which gave her the opportunity to see many organizations and teams succeed and fail at delivering valuable software.

Birgitta regularly speaks and writes about software-related topics, most notably architecture cultivation and governance, pair programming as a catalyst for high-performing teams, and diversity in the technology industry.

Keynote Topic: AI for teams: State of play for AI assistance beyond code

AI coding assistants are becoming more and more popular, while assistance for software delivery tasks in areas like analysis or architecture is still less explored in practice. This talk will walk through the current state of possibilities for how AI can make software teams as a whole better. How can we use AI to amplify knowledge across a team? What are the pitfalls? What is the current state of tooling? You will take away a better picture of the potential of AI assistance for software team tasks other than coding, and a better idea of what needs to be in place on a team to welcome AI as a productive team member.

Darja Smite

DARJA ŠMITE is a professor of software engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, where she leads research efforts on globally distributed software development, outsourcing, remote and hybrid work. Her research interests include WFH, virtual teams, large-scale agile software development, team performance and organisational decentralisation. In her research, Šmite works closely with software companies, including Ericsson, Spotify, Telenor, Storebrand, SONY, ABB, Tieto, and many others. Šmite is also a part time research scientist at SINTEF in Norway.

Keynote Topic: Five Years Into Remote and Hybrid Working – Has Anyone Wondered About Agile Teamwork?