Momentum Developer Conference | October 16th

A special thank you to all of the sponsors that make Momentum possible!

Shadow AI is one of the things Eliassen Group has been writing about lately, alongside AI governance, and it is the kind of problem that lands on an engineering lead months before anyone in the org has a policy for it.

We are excited to welcome Afidence back for 2026! Afidence helps technology leaders assess risk, align priorities, and confidently execute across cybersecurity, application development, infrastructure and AI.

This year, Western and Southern Financial Groups very own Wanda Hayes is joining us for our Thought Leadership sessions: Building an Enterprise AI Quality Engineering Capability

MAX is helping expand access to tech careers through Ohio’s IMAP program, which provides eligible Ohio residents with fully funded technical training in approved career pathways. Learn more about the available training pathways and eligibility at maxtrain.com/imap.

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Pramod Polkampalli, Director of Emerging Technology at Eliassen Group, uses a real engineering constitution to show how his team questioned each process from first principles, and what it took to get both humans and agents to follow the rules that stayed.

AI can write a Playwright test in seconds. Getting that test ready for production is the harder part. Charles Cedrone, Enterprise Sales Engineer at Leapwork, on taking AI-assisted Playwright testing from first generation to automation teams can run at scale.

Thank you to Kroger, an Experience sponsor of Momentum DevCon 2026.

We’re excited to welcome DocuSOR as the Exclusive After Party Sponsor for Momentum 2026! After a full day of sessions, conversations, and connections, join us as we keep the networking going and wrap up the day together. A huge thank you to DocuSOR!

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During his session, "stop watching from the sidelines: a practical playbook for your ai-era career ", Taylor will discuss how tech hiring isn't dead, it just demands more of you.

Thank you to TQL, an Experience sponsor of Momentum DevCon 2026.

Cincinnati’s developer community, in one room, for one day. Will we see you there? If you haven't grabbed your ticket: whova.com/portal/regis...

Thank you to Fifth Third Bank, a Thought Leadership sponsor of Momentum DevCon 2026.

Join us on October 15th for Mike Walkers Keynote: The AI Reckoning: Five Survival Imperatives Every Technologist Must Master Before It’s Too Late"

Thank you to Leapwork, a Thought Leadership sponsor of Momentum DevCon 2026.

AI is now in every stage of the SDLC. Traditional testing alone no longer covers it. Wanda Hayes, IT Director of SQA Automation at Western & Southern, on building an enterprise AI Quality Engineering capability. Presented by Western & Southern.

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The tidal wave of AI is becoming the fabric of modern business, and competitive advantage is being redistributed fast. The organizations that wait find out what it costs. Cincinnati's own Mike J. Walker keynotes Momentum with The AI Reckoning.

When the code was not written by a human, who is accountable for it? Christine Eichhold leads three Fifth Third Bank engineering leaders through that question at Momentum, Oct 15. Justin Behymer, Eric Rolf, and Chris Van Dyke on the panel.

AI can write a Playwright test in seconds. Trusting it is another problem. Clint Sprauve of Leapwork brings From Generated Tests to Trusted Tests to Momentum, Oct 15. Where AI helps, where it falls short, and why human judgment still matters.

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The Krebs Cycle turns glucose into energy. CI/CD turns code into deployments. Both fail without oxygen, or tests. Sophia Solomon (Elastic) lightning talk at Momentum DevCon 2026 comparing cellular respiration to DevOps pipelines. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

The feed is all layoffs and AI coming for your job. The anxiety is hard to switch off. Chris Perrin's lightning talk at Momentum DevCon 2026: "Developers Don't Need Fear an Agentic Future." Jevons Paradox says we'll need more devs, not fewer. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

"Other duties as assigned" is filler in every job description. Chad Green built a career on it. His lightning talk at Momentum DevCon 2026, "Other Duties as Assigned," on unasked work becoming the defining work. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

You used to build personal apps for fun. Then distributed systems got too costly, so you stopped. Sean C Davis (Netlify) lightning talk at Momentum DevCon 2026 on over-engineering a personal platform. An audience of one is reason enough. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Software powers world-changing breakthroughs. It also asks us to cut corners, and we feel too small to push back. John Konecny's lightning talk at Momentum DevCon 2026, "The Life Behind The Data," on an ethical call at a cancer hospital. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

For you if you default to heads-down, leave conferences with notes but no connections, or want sharper people around you. Brian Cerchio (Encore) with a lightning talk at Momentum DevCon 2026: "Don't Build Alone." The best work isn't solo. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Your pipeline ran clean for months. Then schema changed, volume grew, the builder left, and it fails at 3am. Chris Birie at Momentum DevCon 2026 on data pipelines that don't hate you six months later: schema evolution, idempotency, observability. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Dijkstra's shortest path: 1956. Union-Find: 1964. The FFT: 1965. Not museum pieces, but ways of thinking you'll use this year. Sarah Matta at Momentum DevCon 2026 on algorithmic archaeology, mining classics for problem-solving patterns. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

The pitch: AI makes you faster. The part nobody dwells on: what happens when it's confidently wrong. Anna Chernova (Ingage) at Momentum DevCon 2026 with real stories of AI inventing APIs and writing tests that catch nothing. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

For you if your UI tests fail and you can't tell why, you've been blocked by a flaky test, or you maintain CI tooling. Ryan Wires (Kroger) at Momentum DevCon 2026 on automated UI test auditing for CI stability. No SaaS to sell you. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Meetings, docs, voice memos, shower thoughts, scattered across ten tools. AI only adds to the pile. Taylor MacDonald (Ample) at Momentum DevCon 2026 on a queryable digital brain that captures everything and answers in plain language. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

A model you evaluated 3 months ago is behind. A best practice from last quarter is wrong. New tool every week. Matt Reed (London Computer Systems) at Momentum DevCon 2026 on keeping up with AI without burning out. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

AI helps you write code faster. But if your workflows haven't caught up, speed just means messier PRs. Avindra Fernando at Momentum DevCon 2026 on the AI-first developer stack: tools, workflows, and the patterns that hold it together. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Better displays, more compute, slicker design systems than ever. So why does software feel worse to use than 10 years ago? Brandon Bruno (Sitecore) at Momentum DevCon 2026 on reviving HCI fundamentals: "Modern UX Sucks!" 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Most cloud services follow the same patterns. Yet engineers still hand-assemble Terraform for each. Chad Green (Jasper Engines) at Momentum DevCon 2026 turns documented architecture into a contract AI translates to Terraform. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Another round of layoffs, and the same question: am I next? Sho Soboyejo at Momentum DevCon 2026 on six skills that still matter in the age of AI, and where to invest now. What's the one skill you're betting still matters in five years? 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Everyone's racing to use AI to write more code faster. Stephen Shary says that's the boring use. The ACV Auctions engineer at Momentum DevCon 2026 on agentic strategies for quality, not volume. Old techniques, now affordable. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

The past 12 months: one high-profile npm package compromise after another. If you have a node_modules folder, you're in the supply chain. Jared Smith (Kroger) at Momentum DevCon 2026 on surviving the npm apocalypse. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Every headline says tech hiring is dead. A 15-year recruiter says that's mostly noise, but late is coming. Taylor Desseyn (Torc) at Momentum DevCon 2026 with a playbook for your AI-era career: use AI, build in public, find your people. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

Downstream services firing 500s. Database going under. Gateway lost in timeouts. And you find out in production. Victor Frye at Momentum DevCon 2026 on chaos engineering for .NET with Polly. Engineer the storm on purpose. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com

The common wisdom: move up when the right role opens. So you do great work and wait. The title rarely shows up. Sarah Trimble-Oliver (Michelman) at Momentum DevCon 2026 on going IC to leader by building credibility first. 🎟 momentumdevcon.com