AI promised to make software teams dramatically faster. Yet many organizations are discovering the opposite: more tools, more noise, more review cycles, and unclear ownership. In this session, we will share real lessons from implementing AI across the software delivery lifecycle, including what worked, what failed, and how developers, platform engineers, SREs, security teams, architects, product owners, and leaders are being reshaped by AI-assisted delivery.
Attendees will leave with practical experiments, patterns, metrics, and governance ideas they can apply immediately to evaluate AI beyond demos and hype. We will also introduce an AI-DLC framework designed to help organizations embed AI responsibly across discovery, coding, testing, security, operations, and continuous improvement—turning the productivity paradox into measurable engineering impact.