https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Leadership feed https://www.infoq.com/presentations/sociotechnical-staff-engineer-architecture/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Leadership <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/sociotechnical-staff-engineer-architecture/en/mediumimage/medium-1792066457983.jpg"/><p>Vanessa Formicola shares how technical leaders can move beyond "wishful architecture" by practicing holistic socio-technical engineering. She discusses why engineering leaders must account for organizational maturity, reward structures, geopolitical climate, and team dynamics, framing the staff-plus role as designing the conditions for technology to thrive rather than just picking tools.</p> <i>By Vanessa Formicola</i> Strategy Sociotechnical Architecture Leadership Architecture Transcripts Staff Plus Management Culture QCon London 2026 Culture & Methods Architecture & Design Development presentation Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/sociotechnical-staff-engineer-architecture/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Leadership Vanessa Formicola 2026-11-06T11:00:00Z /presentations/sociotechnical-staff-engineer-architecture/en https://www.infoq.com/presentations/canvas-ai-agents/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Leadership <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/canvas-ai-agents/en/mediumimage/nimisha-asthagiri-medium-1792655073821.jpg"/><p>Nimisha Asthagiri shares how applying proven product engineering and architecture principles creates a bounded canvas for AI agents. She explains how this model provides agents with bounded autonomy, continuous drift detection, and decision records to scale software development resiliently.</p> <i>By Nimisha Asthagiri</i> QCon AI Boston 2026 Leadership Metrics AI Harness Architecture Transcripts Context Engineering Agents Evolutionary Architecture Architecture & Design Development AI, ML & Data Engineering presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/canvas-ai-agents/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Leadership Nimisha Asthagiri 2026-11-03T11:00:00Z /presentations/canvas-ai-agents/en https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-software-engineering-pipeline/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Leadership <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/ai-software-engineering-pipeline/en/mediumimage/alasdair-allan-medium-1791451156021.jpeg"/><p>Alasdair Allan discusses empirical research from METR and Anthropic on AI coding adoption. He explains the "supervision paradox," where reliance on AI tools disrupts junior skill development, risks institutional context loss, and threatens the long-term engineering pipeline needed to oversee autonomous systems effectively.</p> <i>By Alasdair Allan</i> Careers Leadership Code Reviews Productivity Transcripts Context Engineering Anthropic Claude AI Coding QCon London 2026 Culture & Methods Architecture & Design Development AI, ML & Data Engineering presentation Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-software-engineering-pipeline/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Leadership Alasdair Allan 2026-10-30T11:00:00Z /presentations/ai-software-engineering-pipeline/en