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Talks for teams making the leap to AI-native
I speak candidly about what it actually takes to make an engineering team AI-native — from someone doing it in production, not from the sidelines. Conference keynotes, leadership offsites, and team workshops.
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Going AI-native is a team problem, not a tooling problem
Why dropping Claude Code into an old process fails, and how to redesign the way a team plans, builds, reviews, and ships around AI.
Shipping at outsized scale with a tiny team
How a 5-person engineering org operates at the pace of a much larger one — the workflows, orchestration, and trade-offs that make it real.
Agile vs. meetings vs. AI agents
The rituals that survive the AI shift, the ones that don't, and how to keep humans in the loop without drowning the team in process.
Staying hands-on as a leader in the AI era
Why technical leaders should still ship code — and how AI changes what 'hands-on' even means.
Speaker bio
Ed Shadi is a hands-on CTO with 20+ years building and scaling engineering teams (Typeform, CoLearn) and is now running WOW AI, an AI-native product company where a 5-person team ships at the pace of organizations many times larger. He speaks candidly about what it actually takes to make a team AI-native — beyond the demos.