Chris Kelly
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Harness2 talks
- 2025Augment Code2 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- QCon
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2026 | QCon San Francisco 2026 | QCon | speaker | Drawing the Rest of the Owl: A Blueprint for Your Software Factory as Harness Software factories have an image problem. To some they’re a dirty word, an invitation to slop, to incidents, to developers reduced to prompt pushers. To others…Show lessSoftware factories have an image problem. To some they’re a dirty word, an invitation to slop, to incidents, to developers reduced to prompt pushers. To others they’re the future, the answer to shipping more and the new shape of teams. Neither is wrong. | |
| Dec 16, 2025 | QCon AI New York 2025 | QCon | speaker | Vibes Won't Cut It: Agentic Engineering in Production as Augment Code If you think AI agents code like junior engineers that's because you set it up to code like a junior engineer. AI is a tool, not a magic wand, and like any tool…Show lessIf you think AI agents code like junior engineers that's because you set it up to code like a junior engineer. AI is a tool, not a magic wand, and like any tool you need to take time to learn and sharpen it. | |
| Nov 17, 2025 | QCon San Francisco 2025 | QCon | speaker | Vibes Won't Cut It: Agentic Engineering in Production as Harness If you think AI agents code like junior engineers that's because you set it up to code like a junior engineer. AI is a tool, not a magic wand, and like any tool…Show lessIf you think AI agents code like junior engineers that's because you set it up to code like a junior engineer. AI is a tool, not a magic wand, and like any tool you need to take time to learn and sharpen it. | |
| Jun 3, 2025 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | expo session | Vibes won't cut it as Augment Code What's the role of vibe coding in a production-grade applications? Join Augment Code's Chris Kelly as he talks about the role of context in software…Show lessWhat's the role of vibe coding in a production-grade applications? Join Augment Code's Chris Kelly as he talks about the role of context in software engineering, not code. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anirban Chatterjee | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Gwen Shapira | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Joseph Lynch | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jyothi Nookula | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Laurie Voss | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Mallika Rao | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Vanessa Huerta Granda | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Erickson | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Itamar Friedman | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Meryem Arik | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Robert Brennan | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Sepehr Khosravi | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Tyler Jewell | 2 | — | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.