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Wed Dec 9 · 5:00 PM SESSION #53256

AI Enablement in the SDLC: A Strategy Sampler

Travis Gosselin
Travis Gosselin
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, GITHUB
01 / ABOUT THIS SESSION

AI enablement isn’t buying Copilot and calling it done; it’s a system upgrade for the entire SDLC. Code completion helps, but the real bottlenecks live in reviews, testing, releases, documentation, governance, and knowledge flow. Achieving meaningful impact requires an operating model: guardrails, workflows, metrics, and change management; not a single tool.

This session shares field notes: stories, failures, and working theories from enabling AI across teams. You’ll get a sampler of adaptable patterns and anti-patterns spanning productivity, systems integration, guardrails, golden repositories, capturing tribal knowledge, API design, platform engineering, and internal developer portals. Come for practical menus you can pilot next week, and stay to compare strategies with peers.

02 / SESSION DETAILS
FORMAT
90-minute session
All signal.
Zero fluff.
DECEMBER 7 - 10, 2026 · OPAL SANDS RESORT · CLEARWATER, FL