Summary
What happens to the org chart when AI and agents sit at the center of every team?
The assumptions behind how we structure engineering - ownership, layers, headcount, even the EM/TL split - are being challenged in real time.
A few leaders are already redesigning. Many aren’t.
This session is for engineering leaders navigating that shift. We’ll dig into what’s breaking and what’s replacing it: smaller, more senior teams, agent-driven execution, and new models of ownership when humans aren’t the only ones shipping.
Bring your org chart and your sharpest questions to this highly interactive session.
Host
Matteo Palvarini
Forward Deployed CTO @ Tribe AI
Matteo is the Forward Deployed CTO at Tribe AI, where he helps AI diffuse from the labs into the enterprise.
He's currently building a new SF-based engineering team (and hiring).
Previously, he was Sr. Director of Engineering at Spring Health, co-founder and CTO of Curio (mental health tech), and an Engineering Manager and Staff SWE at LinkedIn. Ask him about startups, AI, healthcare, cycling, or meditation.
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