The Best Bits From AI Native DevCon Spring 2025

The best bits from AI Native DevCon Spring 2025

Last week, we wrapped up one of the most exhilarating events of the year, AI Native DevCon Spring 2025, and what a fun experience! We were very fortunate to call upon many friends and partners, and had a very healthy response to our CFP that we launched earlier in the year to put together a great program of speakers for the event. A few standout names and sessions included:

• Mathias Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, delivered a powerful keynote on the importance of agentic experience for our future dev workflows.

• Guy Podjarny, Founder and CEO of Tessl, shares his vision on the evolution of existing AI tools and the shift toward AI Native development practices.

• Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom, in a fireside chat that explored how production-ready agentic AI is, discussed Intercom’s agentic tool, Fin.

• Danny Allan, CTO at Snyk, dove into the role of security in a world where AI has accelerated how much code, and as a result, vulnerabilities can now be generated so quickly.

• Gene Kim, author and researcher, introduced the powerful concept of Chat-Oriented Programming and its implications for future software delivery models.

• Annie Vella, Distinguished Engineer at Westpac New Zealand, tackled one of the big questions on everyone’s mind: What happens to developer jobs in a world of AI-first workflows?

• Josh Long, Developer Advocate at Broadcom, gives an educational and entertaining session on using Spring AI to create a pet adoption application and an MCP Server!

To view all the session replays, please check out the playlist on YouTube.

With almost 3,500 registrants, 30 incredible speakers, and 26 sessions across 3 curated tracks, the energy, insight, and community spirit were just what we hoped for.

The conference was designed to include a mix of sessions that interested developers and technical leaders, ranging from AI adoption strategy and dev tool industry insights to deep and detailed live coding and practical AI implementation techniques. It celebrated how developers are embracing AI today and reimagining their craft tomorrow.

The vibe was real, both on stage and off!

During the event, attendees shared a bunch of love over the chat as well as on social media:

During the break, I had the absolute pleasure of running a live vibe-coding session with Petra Evans, who helped behind the scenes during the conference and runs the People team at Tessl.

One of my most interesting moments was coding the classic game Snake live. We tried on both BASE44 and Bolt.new, and Petra, a teammate who had never written code before, had that “Aha” moment when we got the game to run after some back-and-forth prompting. The “it’s working!” reaction was pure gold. It reminded me of the same spark we as developers feel when we hit that magical moment of success after hours spent in a messy codebase or log. Hmmm, maybe I just mean my code!

It’s fun to see these experiences enjoyed by people who are creators, but not usually through software. We’re in an age where we can make software development more accessible and more joyful to many more people.

Until Next Time…

Thanks to all our speakers, hosts, panelists, and attendees for making this event unforgettable. The future of development is AI Native, and with this community, it’s looking brighter than ever.

Watch your favorite sessions again here, or catch those you’ve missed, since they’re all up on YouTube now!

Stay tuned for more. We hope to share news of our next event soon!