Product Engineering

Presenters Penny Szeto Source ProductCon NewYork 2026 🚀 Designing the Future: Crafting Intentional AI Experiences In the rapidly evolving world of Generative AI, we often get caught up in the model—the latency, the reasoning capabilities, and the prompt engineering. But as Penny Szeto, Lead of the GenAI team at Amazon Games, recently shared at ProductCon, the real magic lies not in the code, but in the behavioral system design you build around it. ...

Presenters Eric Ries Source ProductCon NewYork 2026 🚀 The Art of Building: Why Your Next Move Should Be Incorruptible In the world of tech, we are obsessed with speed. We talk about rapid experimentation, democratized tools, and the sheer velocity of AI. But 15 years after the release of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries is here to remind us that speed without a soul—or worse, speed driven by the wrong incentives—leads to a phenomenon he calls corruption. ...

Presenters Nick David Source GrafanaCon 2026 Grafana’s CI/CD Nightmare: Lessons from a Security Incident Gone Wrong (But Ended Right!) 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Gather ‘round because we’re diving deep into a real-world security incident that reads like a thriller novel. Nick, a Principal Security Engineer at Grafana, and David, from the Security Engineering Team, shared their harrowing experience at GrafanaCON, where “almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.” But don’t worry, it all ends on a high note! 🥳 ...

Presenters Luce Carter Source MongoDB.local London 2026 AI Agents Need to Remember: Designing Powerful Memory Systems with MongoDB 🧠💾 Ever wonder why AI assistants sometimes forget what you just told them, or give you wildly different answers even when you ask the same thing? It’s a common problem, and it all boils down to memory. In the rapidly evolving world of AI, especially with the rise of AI agents, building effective memory systems isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s a must-have for delivering consistent, valuable results. ...

Presenters Genevieve Broadhead Source MongoDB.local London 2026 MongoDB Unlocks Search and Vector Search Everywhere: Your Data, Your Way! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever felt the power of a truly seamless search experience in your applications? What if you could harness that same magic, not just for text, but for understanding the meaning behind your data, all within your familiar MongoDB environment? Well, buckle up, because MongoDB is making it happen, and it’s more accessible than ever! ...