Theory is great, but what about getting your hands dirty with some real problem-solving? Lets build your own AI Operating System that you'll take home and use immediately. Join Melissa Benua and Ryan Lee for a hands-on session where you'll construct a personalized AI toolkit that solves YOUR specific testing problems, regardless of your coding background. We'll start by deconstructing the modern software development lifecycle used by all tech companies to safely ship software solutions to their customers, and show you exactly where AI accelerates each phase. Then we'll prove a critical...
Melissa Benua
CTO & Co-founder
Vega
Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role - dev, test, DevOps, and engineering leadership - at companies ranging from Boeing and Microsoft to gaming startups and hypergrowth data platforms. She's built and scaled high-availability services for Bing, Cortana, Xbox, and PlayFab, and led the engineering teams that generated millions of lines of AI-written code per week at mParticle and Rokt while cutting bug escape rates by 20%. Today she serves as CTO at Vega and as a tech advisor through queenofcode.dev, helping founders from pre-Seed through Series A build and ship production software. Melissa speaks on engineering fundamentals in the agentic era: the planning, testing, CI, and observability disciplines that don't just survive AI velocity, but enable it. Her thesis - safety isn't the opposite of speed. It's the engine.