On-Demand Webcast|1 hour

Archived: The Future of Software Engineering in the Age of AI

Join Snyk, the leader in AI Trust and Developer Security, for a wide-ranging discussion of the future of software development, including:

  • How will developer experience (DevEx) evolve in response to trends like “vibe coding” and the rapid adoption of AI-based development environments?
  • What happens to role definitions in the software engineering space, now that the ability to build software is uncoupled from the skillset of writing code?
  • Why should tomorrow’s AI-powered software engineers continue to prioritize security, and how must AppSec evolve to meet the new demands?
  • Are legacy methods of security training and education still valid in the AI era, or do we need a new approach for enabling software builders to understand risk?
  • What skills and experience should the software engineers of today prioritize to remain competitive as AI increasingly reshapes the market?
Sponsored by:

Registration Closed

This event is no longer accepting registrations, but there’s plenty more to explore! Check out all our upcoming and available events.

Browse Events

Over the past few years, since the introduction of LLM-based coding assistants into software development workflows, the practice of software development has been experiencing a significant revolution. Like the combination of DevOps, cloud computing, and agile development which radically changed the craft over the last two decades, the age of AI is yet again reinventing what it means to be a software builder.

The story is more complex, however, than simply predicting that software development jobs will be replaced with AI agents. The history of innovation has shown that these warnings are almost always exaggerated. What's just as clearly true, however, is that roles will evolve as technologists move up the value chain and replace toilsome tasks with higher-productivity workflows.

In addition, the prevalence of AI-based code generators ensures that the complexity of software will continue to increase, and therefore so will its risks, particularly given the poor security track record of AI-generated software thus far.

Event Speakers

Neil Gerard
Cyber Security Manager at Deloitte

Neil Gerard, CISSP is an application security professional with over 18 years of experience across software engineering, product security, DevSecOps, and vulnerability management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Cybersecurity. Neil began his career in computer science and software development, with a focus towards developing information security systems and leading small teams of software developers and systems engineers. He spent over a decade as a software engineer for a boutique email security company leading product security and gained experience in vulnerability management, secure development practices, security architecture, data protection, Public Key Infrastructure, and encryption/digital signatures.

Currently serving as an Advisory Manager in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk services in their DevSecOps practice, Neil has advised several Fortune 100 organizations across multiple cyber domains. Recent projects include conducting software assurance maturity assessments, developing software vulnerability prioritization and remediation frameworks, building out secure SDLC policy, developing API Security policy and technical standards, assessing and improving their API security programs.

Clinton Herget
Field CTO at Snyk

Clinton Herget is Field CTO at Snyk, the leader in Developer Security, where he focuses on crafting and evangelizing our strategic vision for the evolution of DevSecOps. A seasoned technologist, Clinton spent his 20-year career prior to Snyk as a web software developer, DevOps consultant, cloud solutions architect, and engineering director. Clinton is passionate about empowering software engineers to do their best work in the chaotic cloud-native world, and is a frequent conference speaker, developer advocate, and technical thought leader.

Mike Shema
Host at Application Security Weekly

Mike Shema hosts the Application Security Weekly podcast.