Benedikt Stemmildt

Benedikt Stemmildt is Founder & Co-CEO of hackers&wizards in Hamburg, which trains and mentors engineering and product teams in agentic engineering until every role works in tune with the others. He co-wrote Building the Agentic Software Factory with Alex Merced (Packt), hosts the Rethink Engineering podcast and chairs the program of code.talks. Before that he worked as engineer, architect and CIO at OTTO, Breuninger and BLUME2000. On stage he talks about moving teams from vibe coding to agentic engineering, architecture when AI writes more code, and developer experience as strategy.