About
Niko KiveläConference host
Niko is a technology leader with over three decades of experience in technology and two decades of working with teams, having built his career by helping others succeed. He's an engineer by heart who has been at the center of digital transformations at several industry-leading companies while dedicating extensive time to community building.
Beyond his corporate work, he co-organizes conferences, advises as an AWS Community Builder, and mentors women in tech startups. Since the emergence of mainstream AI tools, he has been exploring how AI transforms workplace productivity and sharing these insights through international conferences. 2025, he gave his first TEDx talk, "How Can One Developer Save Women in Tech?" in Helsinki, Finland.
Hosting on the day
Keynote09:00–09:40 · Auditorium
Software Engineering in 2030: AI, Tiny Teams, Agents and BeyondKeynote09:40–10:20 · Auditorium
AI-Native Software Engineering: What We Know, What We Assume, and What We Are GuessingSession10:30–11:00 · Auditorium
Scaling from fragmented AI use to AI-native teams — Lessons from real transformation casesLightning talk12:05–12:15 · Auditorium
Documents that update themselvesLightning talk12:15–12:25 · Auditorium
MobbAingLightning talk12:25–12:35 · Auditorium
Making entrepreneurial ideas into reality with AILightning talk12:35–12:45 · Auditorium
When Software Starts Consuming AI: Cheaper Tokens, Bigger BillsSession13:00–13:30 · Auditorium
Building a Performance Testing Framework with AI Agents: Lessons LearnedSession13:30–14:00 · Auditorium
Agents & Harnesses - What's Behind the AI That Writes Your CodeSession14:30–15:00 · Auditorium
Onboarding a Teammate with Amnesia — context engineering with Claude Code on a production banking appSession15:00–15:30 · Auditorium
Scaling AI in organisations with Platform EngineeringSession15:30–16:00 · Auditorium
Speed, quality and control: an AI-native lifecycle that survives the audit