Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the SWE

The effect that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are having on our lives cannot be ignored. As developers, we see these effects more starkly than most; AI and ML influence not only how we write software but also what that software is. 

In this opening keynote for QCon London, Rob Harrop (CEO of Skipjaq and Co-Founder of SpringSource) discusses how organisations, teams and individual developers can best equip themselves for this changing world. 

The DevOps revolution showed us the error of enforcing a stark divide between Development and Operations. Without a concerted effort we're at risk of creating a similar divide between Development and ML teams. To avoid a world in which disenfranchised Data Scientists chuck their models over the proverbial wall to Software Engineers forced to integrate and support code they had no hand in creating, we must move beyond black-box thinking and embrace AI/ML as a core skill for Software Engineering. 

Rob describes both his own journey from traditional Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer, and his experience building a development team with ML at the heart. 

If you're wondering how AI/ML fit into your organisation, worried about the impact on your team or simply thinking about your own future where AI is king, this is the session for you.