AI Native DevCon is BACK and bigger than ever. After building momentum with our fully virtual gatherings, we’re adding an in-person experience this fall. On November 18–19, 2025, we’ll take over Industry City in Brooklyn, New York, and for the first time, the global community of AI-native developers will come together in person.
This isn’t just another developer conference. DevCon is the only event dedicated to spec-driven, AI-native software development where coding agents, next-gen dev tools, and forward-looking practices aren’t side tracks, they’re the main stage.
Don’t expect endless demos of vibe-coding. Instead, listen to the emerging AI-native developer topics as practiced by engineers in the field such as:
- Using specs to declare the intent and requirements for the coding agents
- Extended Code Gen - from RAG, MCP, and agentics, to parallel execution with swarms
- Review at scale – Ensuring quality and security aspects of the generated code
- Agent Knowledge management – Continuous human & agent improvement
- Stories – Engineering lessons learned and future experimental thinking
Speakers who are shaping the AI-native future
The first wave of speakers has just been announced, and it’s already looking incredible:
- Guy Podjarny (Founder & CEO, Tessl): Exploring how Spec Driven Development scales from teams to ecosystems.
- Chris Messina (product designer, strategist, and investor known for inventing the hashtag): Code as commodity: how to thrive with the medium of generative AI.
- Robert Brennan (CEO, All Hands AI): Managing fleets of coding agents with OpenHands.
- Neal Ford (Software Architect, Thoughtworks): Showing how agentic AI can reshape architectural governance.
- Al Harris, (Tech Lead, Kiro): Evolving specs in Kiro to deliver incremental features faster, safer.
- Nnenna Ndukwe (Principal Developer Advocate, Qodo AI): Spec-Driven Code Quality in Action with Tessl MCP and Qodo CLI.
- Baruch Sadogursky & Viktor Gamov (RoboCoders): Judgment Day – AI Spec-Driven tools face-off.
- Liran Tal (Director of Developer Advocacy, Snyk): Live demos of real MCP server exploits, and how to secure against them.
- Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate, Broadcom) & James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate, AWS): Bringing their trademark energy to building MCP-enabled AI agents with Spring.
- René Brandel (CEO, Casco, YC X25): How his team hacked half of the YC Spring batch’s AI agents, and what we can learn.
- Jennifer Sand & Brandy Pielech (Codential.ai): Beyond tests: What to verify in AI-generated code.
- João Moura (CEO, CrewAI): Practical strategies for deploying and scaling agents in production.
- Shrey Shah (Cursor Ambassador, Senior Software engineer at Vivun): Testing and Securing AI generated code with Cursor
And that’s just the beginning. Check out the full speaker line up, across tracks ranging from Now (AI tools ready to use today) to Edge (the experiments that could define the future) .
What’s new this year
Your DevCon ticket includes two full days of hands-on learning, conference sessions, and networking, plus breakfast pastries, lunch, tea & coffee, an evening party with drinks and bites, and exclusive event swag.
Workshops + 101 training (Nov 18)
Day 1 is all about hands-on learning: workshops, an unconference, and a hackathon. It’s your chance to roll up your sleeves, experiment, and connect with peers in smaller, practitioner-led settings.
Full conference + keynotes (Nov 19)
Day 2 is where the big stage comes alive. Keynotes, live demos, and sessions from the people building the AI-native future, capped off with a conference party so the conversations can continue well past the talks.
Hybrid access
We know not everyone can make it to Brooklyn, so we’re still live-streaming the keynote stage on Day 2, making it easy for devs around the world to plug in.
Why you shouldn’t miss it
- Be with like-minded people. Meet other AI-native devs, swap ideas, and make connections you’ll actually keep.
- Learn from practitioners. Real-world use cases, live demos, and hard-won lessons.
- Hear voices from the field. What’s working (and what’s not) in AI-native workflows.
- Perks for days. Good food, drinks, and hallway conversations worth losing track of time for.
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When: November 18–19, 2025
Where: Industry City, Brooklyn, New York
How: Get your pass, Early Bird tickets are available now.
This fall, the AI-native dev community goes from virtual to in-person. We can’t wait to see you there.
