BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//aiweek.boston//Schedule//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:AI Native Dev Boston: Inside the Dark Factory X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-native-dev-boston-inside-the-dark-factory@aiweek.boston DTSTAMP:20260915T192443Z SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T203000 SUMMARY:AI Native Dev Boston: Inside the Dark Factory DESCRIPTION:AI is reshaping how software gets built\, and the fastest way to keep up is a room full of people working it out in practice. For this Boston edition\, the AI Native Dev community has teamed up with the AISe cEng Community to bring together the people building with coding agents a nd the people making sure that's done safely. Expect an evening of talks on both sides of that coin\, from architecting a self-optimizing developm ent pipeline to putting agents to work fixing security bugs. Whether you' re already shipping with coding agents or just starting to fold them into your workflow\, you'll leave with ideas you can put to work and new peop le to compare notes with.\n\nAgenda\n\n6:00pm Venue opens\n6:30pm Talk 1: Building Your Dark Factory: Engineering the Future of AI-Powered Develop ment by Sahil Deshmukh\n7:00pm Talk 2: Remediation Agents Demystified: Yo ur AI Teammate for Fixing Security Bugs by Brendan Hann & Ryan McMorrow\n 7:30pm Talk 3: The Verification Layer for the Dark Factory: How Coding Ag ents Earn Trust by Max Binshtok\n8:00pm Networking\n8:30pm THE END\n\n\nB uilding Your Dark Factory: Engineering the Future of AI-Powered Developme nt\n\nHarness engineering is emerging as a new core competency for agenti c engineers. Discover how Tessl is architecting a self-optimizing develop ment pipeline\, and what it means for engineering teams everywhere.\n\nSa hil Deshmukh\, Member of Technical Staff at Tessl\n\nHi My name is Sahil. I'm currently baby sitting coding agents at Tessl.I was previously build ing things to move a bunch of data around at MongoDB.I love solving meani ngful problems\, especially through software. It’s what keeps me busy and curious. I take every opportunity I can get to learn from all the wonder fully smart and talented people around me. I’m also doing my best to shar e all the cool things I’m learning\, although I definitely need to get be tter at this!\n\n\n\n\n\nRemediation Agents Demystified: Your AI Teammate for Fixing Security Bugs\n\nMythos made it clear - finding vulnerabiliti es is easy. Fixing them? That's where the real work begins.Enter agentic remediation—the next evolution of AI in software development. But what ex actly is it? Is it just another coding assistant\, or can it actually und erstand security findings\, generate trustworthy fixes\, and help develop ers stay ahead of attackers?Join us for a fun talk where we'll unpack eve rything you need to know about remediating with agents. We'll explore why throwing the latest model at a backlog fails and talk about a different approach\; how it works under the hood\, why it’s quickly becoming an ess ential part of the secure development workflow\, where agentic remediatio n shines\, where it still struggles\, and what the future of fully autono mous remediation looks like.Of course\, theory is better with a demo\, so we'll also take a look at Snyk Remediation Agent as a real-world example . You'll see how it tackles security findings\, generates merge-ready fix es\, and fits into a developer's day-to-day workflow\n\nBrendan Hann - Se nior Product Marketing Manager\, SnykBrendan Hann is a Senior Product Mar keting Manager at Snyk\, focused on the developer experience and core ana lysis engines. He's also the lead for our newest community chapter openin g in BostonRyan McMorrow - Staff Product Manager\, SnykRyan is a Staff Pr oduct Manager at Snyk\, driving the product vision and strategy for remed iation. He focuses on empowering customers to strengthen application secu rity through both proactive and reactive fixes across Snyk's product offe rings\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Verification Layer for the Dark Factory: How Coding Agents Earn Trust\n\nAgentic development pipelines can plan\, generate\, test\, and open pull requests faster than human teams can inspect every l ine. The dangerous shortcut is allowing the same system that produced a c hange to certify it. In this session\, we'll break down a practical verif ication layer for agentic development: codebase context before execution\ , independent code review\, and inspectable evidence at the pull-request boundary. Using a concrete agent-to-PR workflow\, we'll see what can be a utomated\, what should be challenged independently\, and where human judg ment still needs to re-enter the system.\n\nMax Binshtok\, Forward-Deploy ed Engineer at Qodo.\n\nMax Binshtok is a Forward-Deployed Engineer at Qo do. He works alongside engineering teams bringing AI-assisted development into real codebases and delivery workflows\, with a focus on code qualit y\, review\, and trustworthy adoption of coding agents!\n\n\n\nThis event is brought to you as part of the AI Native Dev Community. Consider subsc ribing to the Mailing List\, Podcast\, and joining our Discord Community LOCATION:Snyk Boston office\, 100 Summer Street\, 100 Summer St\, Boston URL:https://aiweek.boston/schedule/ai-native-dev-boston-inside-the-dark-f actory BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:AI Native Dev Boston: Inside the Dark Factory TRIGGER:-P1D END:VALARM BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:AI Native Dev Boston: Inside the Dark Factory TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR