Abstract:
Many organizations fall into the "Optimisation Trap" by mistakenly focusing solely on developer productivity and code generation speed when adopting AI. However, AI holds no real value until it reaches the hands of users. This MasterClass focuses on "The Path to Live"—the critical journey between an initial idea and the moment a user experiences the final product.
In this session, we will dissect the traditional bottlenecks that slow down cross-functional teams, such as manual onboarding drag, complex governance gates, environment setup delays, and siloed handoffs between business, security, and infrastructure units. You will learn how high-performing teams leverage AI and "Intelligent Foundations" to remove this operational friction and transform their internal Developer Experience (DevEx).
Key takeaways from this MasterClass include:
- Transforming Governance: Learn how to shift architecture and security reviews from a slow, blocking mechanism to real-time, automated guidance.
- Accelerating Delivery: Discover how intelligent onboarding and agentic workload routing can reduce the lead time for changes from 20 days to less than a single day.
- Amplifying Impact: Understand how to boost component reuse rates and increase deployment frequency using natural language discovery.
- The 5-Step Transformation: Walk away with a practical roadmap to map your value stream, identify friction points, and empower your team to learn, adapt, and succeed sooner.
Ultimately, this session will demonstrate that for high-performing teams, AI matters most in the friction it removes across the delivery pipeline—not just the code it writes.
Speaker:
Jonny Williams
Chief Digital Adviser - UK Public Sector, Red Hat
