Keynote Addresses:
Jacob Beningo – The Embedded Renaissance: 7 Steps to Reinvent Your Software Practices
This talk presents a proven, 7-step roadmap for transforming your embedded software practices, designed for both strategic decision-makers and hands-on developers. Discover how to establish a metrics-driven scoreboard to measure progress, adopt modern, modular architectures to streamline delivery, and integrate DevOps pipelines that enhance speed and consistency. Learn how to standardize build systems, embrace test-driven development and simulation for earlier feedback, and incorporate AI/ML capabilities that propel you ahead of market trends.
James Grenning – The Engineering Side of Agile
In this keynote, we’ll cut through the noise to uncover why Technical Excellence is the cornerstone of successful Agile teams. You’ll discover how XP practices like test-driven development, refactoring, and automation can address the hidden challenges of Agile and set your team on the path to true agility.
Philip Koopman – Understanding Embedded System Safety
Most embedded systems have some aspect of safety or mission criticality involved in their design. All embedded developers need to know the safety basics. But this is not a typical safety talk that crawls through the various parts of some specific safety standard. Instead, we will discuss what makes safety engineering processes different from other types of engineering activities, how to think about safety when the loss event is less dramatic than an airplane falling out of the sky, and how to determine how much and what kind of safety engineering you need for your system.
