How Engineering Teams Can Use AI to Improve Productivity
Summary
Generative AI is the "it" productivity tool of the moment, but we're still at the very early stages of incorporating it into everyday workflows. In this session, Shailesh Kumar, SVP of Engineering at ClickUp, and Kelly Ehret, Latitude, will contemplate how engineering teams can take advantage of the "Era of AI" and use it to optimize and accelerate their work. Specifically, Shailesh can share his own experience as an engineering lead at ClickUp, offering anecdotes and advice on how generative AI has helped his team work more collaboratively across departments. He will also share his perspective on encouraging more AI adoption across teams and how to measure success. Listeners will walk away from this session with a tactical understanding of how to motivate engineers to use AI in their day-to-day to achieve meaningful productivity gains.
Speakers
Shailesh Kumar is the Sr. Vice President of Engineering at ClickUp, leading the Engineering, Security and IT operations for the company. He has more than 18 years of experience in building large scale organizations and cloud platforms for high-growth enterprise companies, including his role as VP of Engineering at Mulesoft (and Salesforce post-acquisition) and Head of Data Platform and Server teams at Tableau.
Seasoned leader turned professional coach, drawing on over 23 years of applied technology and senior executive leadership experience leading full stack engineering, platform and data analytics organizations within unicorn startups and publicly traded companies. Perennial growth and leadership student, people developer and culture curator with a passion for building high performing, connected, collaborative and empowered teams, grounded in an ethos of shared purpose, authenticity and inclusion. Leadership embodiment and somatic awareness facilitator. Conscious leadership evangelist and certified Integral Coach.
