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Wednesday, February 11 Thursday, February 12
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
8:00am-7:00pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Expo Hall B)
Registration Counters Open
  
9:30am
Tuesday - 2/10/26
10:00-10:45am
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Room 253A)
The GenAI Scaling Strategy: Turning Ad-Hoc Pilots into Enterprise Power
GAI-01
Founder
Mindflare AI
CEO
Meibel
Senior Solution Architect
IBM
CEO and co-founder
Lanai
Your businesses can’t afford to have AI pilots and trials turn into nothing. This session is a masterclass on achieving repeatable, governed, and measurable value from Generative AI and how to scale ad-hoc projects to durable platforms. The focus will be building a durable GenAI platform and defining a governance model that keeps projects moving while managing enterprise risk. Attendees will leave knowing how to quantify ROI, including time-to-market gains, hard cost reduction, and the verifiable financial impact of reduced error rates.

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11:00-11:30am
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Room 253A)
All Flash, No Score: GenAI Can’t Win without Enterprise Data
GAI-02
Executive Chairman
GigaSpaces
GenAI is everywhere – but ROI is still missing for most enterprises. It’s not because the technology failed, but because AI isn’t connected to the data that actually runs your business. Ultimately, models don’t create value – business data does. Until GenAI is plugged into your operational, structured, real-time data, it remains stuck in pilot mode, leading to impressive demos, but zero scoreboard impact. In this session, we’ll show how leading organizations turn GenAI into a revenue engine by connecting it directly to the systems where decisions are made and money is earned. You’ll see how enterprise data transforms AI from experimentation into execution, driving growth, reducing cost, and controlling risk. We’ll also show how GigaSpaces lowers the burden of AI adoption: No massive data projects, no re-platforming – and no multi-year timelines.

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11:45am-12:30pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Room 253A)
Enterprise Data Readiness: From Messy Terabytes to Model Fuel
GAI-03
Solution Architect
General Motors
Chief Technology Evangelist Accure.AI, Cybersecurity Advisor
Lionfish Tech Advisors
Sr. Engineering Manager
Nordstrom
Great models fail on poor data. This data-engineering-focused session maps a pragmatic path to preparing terabytes of enterprise data. Speakers will cover the necessary steps – from cleaning, labeling, and PII handling to anonymization and vectorization – to transform disparate corporate data into a usable asset for generative models, designed for RAG and agentic workloads.

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12:30pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Sandpiper Ballroom)
Conference Luncheon - Diamond, Enterprise, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders
  
12:45pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynote Presentation by Ignite Tech: AI: The Future Is in Your Hands—Or Is It?
K-01
Eric Vaughan
CEO
IgniteTech
We’ve been handed an extraordinary gift. The question isn’t whether to use AI anymore; if you’re still asking that, you’re about to get run over from behind. The real question is what you’re doing with it. Too many organizations are running AI projects that look impressive in board decks but accomplish nothing. They’re entertaining themselves with experiments while competitors are erasing them from the map. A different breed of company is rewriting entire industries in months, not years. They’re not coming for your market share, they’re making your entire business model obsolete. The pace of change has become almost incomprehensible. Developers are now building in hours what took teams weeks or months just a year ago. Hyper-coding tools are turning software engineering into something closer to orchestration. Companies that don’t grasp this aren’t just falling behind, they’re becoming irrelevant in real time. At IgniteTech, we decided we weren’t going to squander this moment. In the past year, we’ve launched MyPersonas to clone human expertise and Eloquens to handle email with genuine intelligence. But we’re not stopping there. During this keynote, I’ll announce our third brand-new product built from scratch that leverages AI to fundamentally change something that everyone does almost every day. This isn’t about incremental improvement. It’s about moving mountains. Changing lives. Taking the gift we’ve been given and doing something that actually matters with it. The future is in your hands. The only question is whether you’ll seize it or watch it slip through your fingers while someone else changes the world.

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  Keynote Presentation
1:30-2:15pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Room 253A)
Optimizing Data Pipeline Architectures for AI and Machine Learning
GAI-04
Senior Data Engineer
CVS Health
As organizations rely more on data-driven insights, ensuring the efficiency and scalability of data pipelines is essential. A key strategy is implementing modular architectures; by decoupling data sources, transformation processes, and storage solutions, organizations can easily adapt to changing data needs without overhauling the entire system. This session explains how cloud-based solutions provide scalability and flexibility, enabling dynamic resource allocation and cost management, while also allowing security and governance to be prioritized with encryption, access controls, and compliance frameworks safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring regulatory compliance. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how a combination of modular design, efficient ingestion, robust processing frameworks, and strong security measures drive innovation.

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2:30-3:00pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Room 253A)
The AI ROI Hiding in Plain Sight
GAI-05
CEO and co-founder
Lanai
Your best AI strategy already exists. You just don't know about it yet, and what you don't know, you can't scale, govern, or monetize. The fact is that AI adoption is happening with or without IT's involvement. The question is whether you're governing that adoption or just reacting to it. The companies that figure out visibility, measurement, and smart governance will have significant competitive advantage. Not because they blocked AI—because they built the infrastructure to understand it, scale what works, and manage what doesn't. The companies that don't will face an impossible choice: ungoverned proliferation or restrictive lockdown. Neither delivers business value. This session will give attendees an action plan for discovering the AI already delivering value in your organization and how to find the ROI it’s delivering.

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3:15-4:00pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(Room 253A)
The CIO’s AI Manifesto: Balancing Radical Innovation with Enterprise Risk
GAI-06
VP of Technology
MRINetwork
IT Consultant
CIO
ODP
Managing Partner /Fractional CIO
Taffet Associates
While the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence has reached a fever pitch, the responsibility of turning that potential into a secure, scalable reality falls largely on the shoulders of the CIO. The fact is that it is no longer a question of if AI will be integrated, but how it can be deployed to drive meaningful business value without compromising the enterprise. In this high-level panel discussion, join visionary CIOs from leading organizations as they pull back the curtain on their current AI journeys. Moving past the marketing gloss, this discussion will our panelists will share the battle-tested strategies they have used to drive successful AI projects in production environments. We’ll cover use cases that have produced tangible ROI; how to manage data privacy, ethical biases, and the rising costs of compute; strategies for handling the cultural shift inherent with AI adoption; AI model/platform selection; and more. Attendees will leave with the knowledge to effectively evaluate their own AI opportunities and a clearer understanding of the pitfalls to avoid to ensure success.

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4:15pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynotes & Cocktails Presentation: Real-World Consequences of Cybercrime - WARNING Audience Discretion Advised
K-02
Reese Bess
Founder, President, Threat Researcher
AP2T Labs
Jesse Tuttle
Co-founder, Chief Hacking Officer, Threat Specialist
AP2T Labs
Cybercrime is no longer just a technical problem, a financial risk, or a line item on a balance sheet. It is a human crisis. Behind every breached account, every stolen identity, and every successful scam is a real person and, increasingly, a devastating chain of harm that does not stop at financial loss. In this keynote, Reese Tuttle, cyber threat researcher and founder of AP2T Labs, and Jesse Tuttle, aka Hackah Jak, a former world’s most-wanted hacker and now an ethical threat actor, expose the realities of modern cybercrime that most organizations never see, and which many are not prepared to confront. Today’s attacks are not isolated events; they are multi-stage operations fueled by data leaks, social engineering, psychological manipulation, and dark-market ecosystems that monetize human vulnerability at scale. The consequences ripple outward: Families financially ruined, victims pushed into despair, and criminal profits quietly funding organized exploitation and human suffering far beyond the screen. Drawing from real cases and firsthand experience, this keynote reveals the unspoken truths that will challenge the way you view cybersecurity. This keynote is intended for anyone who influences security strategy, training, leadership decisions, or the way we communicate risk to others, because stopping cybercrime is no longer just about protecting systems – it is about protecting people and, in many cases, saving lives. WARNING Audience Discretion Advised: This keynote contains disturbing real-world subject matter, including psychological manipulation, exploitation, and the severe human consequences of cybercrime. Content may be emotionally intense and is intended for mature audiences.

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  Keynote Presentation
4:45pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynotes & Cocktails Presentation by Cisco: Your Network is Your Advantage in the AI Era
K-03
Anderson Tomaiz
Director, Solutions Engineering, SMB, Mid-Market and Virtual Sales Americas
Cisco
  Keynote Presentation
5:15pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynotes & Cocktails Presentation by Telarus: Adapt or Get Left Behind: Becoming a Modern Technology Advisor
K-04
Tim Basa
SVP of Sales
Telarus
The technology channel is evolving faster than ever, success is no longer about what you sell—it’s about how you think, how you position yourself, and how quickly you adapt. In this keynote, Basa brings more than three decades of in-the-trenches sales, and marketing experience to the ITEXPO 2026 stage, breaking down what it truly takes to win as a modern technology advisor. From the rise of cloud, cybersecurity, and AI to shifting buyer expectations and margin pressure, Basa connects the dots between today’s megatrends and tomorrow’s opportunities. Drawing on lessons learned since 1994, Basa challenges advisors to move beyond transactional selling and step fully into the role of strategic collaborator. Attendees will gain practical insights on how to sharpen their value proposition, build confidence in complex conversations, and create real momentum heading into 2026. Whether you’re a tenured advisor navigating reinvention or a rising professional looking to accelerate your growth, this session delivers clear thinking, real-world perspective, and a roadmap for staying relevant in a channel that rewards those who evolve—and leaves the rest behind.

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  Keynote Presentation
6:00pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
(2nd Floor, East Building)
Join us for a fun happy hour and networking event at the ITEXPO! The Alliance of Channel Women is teaming up with the Channel Marketing Association to bring you THE pre-party event at the ITEXPO this year! We'll be at the 2nd Floor Waterfront Concourse for two hours before the Expo's #TECHSUPERSHOW Networking Live! party at 8pm. Pre-registration is required and space is limited, be sure to get your ticket today! Tickets are complimentary and include light refreshments and a complimentary first drink at the bar. ITEXPO show badge REQUIRED for entry. We hope you'll join us!

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8:00-10:00pm
Tuesday - 2/10/26
Special Networking Event (Waterfront Councourse, 3rd Floor, East Building)
NEW DAY! #TECHSUPERSHOW Networking LIVE Party - Sponsored by Akamai, Aura Business, Avant, C3 Complete, CloudIBR, IONOS, Kaseya, Telarus
  Special Networking Event
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
7:30am-5:00pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Expo Hall B)
Registration Counters Open
  
8:30am
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Room 251B)
Continental Breakfast Served
  
9:00-9:45am
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Room 253A)
Standards in Generative AI: Unlocking Innovation and Competitive Advantage
GAI-07
CEO
Nexight
Director
ASCET Center of Excellence, ASTM International
As Generative AI continues to evolve into a mainstream technology, standards are more than just technical specifications – they are a strategic blueprint for global competitiveness. This interactive session explores how active engagement in the AI standardization process accelerates innovation, streamlines development, and reduces risk across the technology lifecycle. We will move beyond the "compliance" mindset to show how standards drive market access and supply-chain interoperability. Participants will engage in a real-time assessment of their organization's "Standards Readiness" and discuss strategies for empowering early-career professionals and executives alike to lead in international standardization efforts. Attendees will learn why engagement in standardization activities functions as a catalyst for commercialization and market expansion; understand the link between standardization and responsible AI growth; and be able to contribute to an industry benchmark on barriers to standards engagement.

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10:00-10:45am
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Room 253A)
From Hallucination to Truth: Architecting RAG for Accurate Enterprise AI
GAI-08
AVP Solution Architects
GigaSpaces
Principal AI Engineer, AI
Cisco CX
Stop building agents that hallucinate. This practical session demystifies Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the foundational technique for ensuring your GenAI is accurate and grounded in your proprietary data. Discussion will focus on an architectural and implementation blueprint that will prove and maintain the precision and data freshness of your critical AI deployments.

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11:00am
Wednesday - 2/11/26
Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynote Presentation by NinjaOne: Stop Managing the Past: Why Legacy Tools are Failing Modern IT
K-05
Paul Redding
Head of MSP Partnerships
NinjaOne
Many IT professionals think their tools are “good enough” until their techs tell a different story. Frustration with tools leads to slower response times, higher risk, and stalled growth. This session explores why IT teams are rethinking their operations – starting with the fragmented, legacy tools in their employ – and what technicians actually need to manage today’s endpoint sprawl at scale. Expect unfiltered insights, real-world lessons, and a fresh look at what modern IT needs to mitigate risk, improve efficiency, and drive better business outcomes by modernizing endpoint management and unifying IT operations at scale.

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Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynote Presentation - CX 2030: Key Decisions to Prepare You for the Future
K-06
Robin Gareiss
CEO & Principal Analyst
Metrigy
Henry Svendblad
President and CTO
Company Nurse powered by Lintelio
With the rapid pace of technology innovation, it’s difficult for any CX leader to determine future-proof strategies. Join Metrigy CEO Robin Gareiss and enterprise CX leaders for an enlightening conversation on the best way forward. You'll come away with research-backed guidance and real-world perspective on CX and AI technology decisions you can make today that will prepare you for 2030.

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  Keynote Presentation
  Keynote Presentation
11:00am
Wednesday - 2/11/26
Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynote Presentation by NinjaOne: Stop Managing the Past: Why Legacy Tools are Failing Modern IT
K-05
Paul Redding
Head of MSP Partnerships
NinjaOne
Many IT professionals think their tools are “good enough” until their techs tell a different story. Frustration with tools leads to slower response times, higher risk, and stalled growth. This session explores why IT teams are rethinking their operations – starting with the fragmented, legacy tools in their employ – and what technicians actually need to manage today’s endpoint sprawl at scale. Expect unfiltered insights, real-world lessons, and a fresh look at what modern IT needs to mitigate risk, improve efficiency, and drive better business outcomes by modernizing endpoint management and unifying IT operations at scale.

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Keynote Presentation (Sandpiper Ballroom)
Keynote Presentation - CX 2030: Key Decisions to Prepare You for the Future
K-06
Robin Gareiss
CEO & Principal Analyst
Metrigy
Henry Svendblad
President and CTO
Company Nurse powered by Lintelio
With the rapid pace of technology innovation, it’s difficult for any CX leader to determine future-proof strategies. Join Metrigy CEO Robin Gareiss and enterprise CX leaders for an enlightening conversation on the best way forward. You'll come away with research-backed guidance and real-world perspective on CX and AI technology decisions you can make today that will prepare you for 2030.

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  Keynote Presentation
  Keynote Presentation
12:00-5:00pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Expo Hall B)
ITEXPO #TECHSUPERSHOW Expo Hall Grand Opening
  
12:15pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
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Lunch - Diamond, Enterprise, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders
  
12:30-4:30pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Expo Hall B)
Solutions Showcase Demo Sessions: ITEXPO, MSP Expo, AIoT World Expo
  
2:00-2:45pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Room 253A)
The Human Side of AI: Driving Enterprise Adoption and Upskilling for the Copilot Era
GAI-09
Founder & Chief Servant Leader
National Academy of Leadership Development
Chief Technology Evangelist Accure.AI, Cybersecurity Advisor
Lionfish Tech Advisors
CEO
IgniteTech
Generative AI will fail if your employees don't use it, or use it poorly. This session addresses the critical change management and cultural transformation required for successful GenAI rollout across the enterprise. We will provide a playbook for overcoming the three biggest adoption hurdles: employee resistance, lack of skills, and low trust in AI outputs. Learn practical strategies for developing internal upskilling and training programs focused on "Prompt Proficiency," measuring user engagement, and integrating GenAI tools (Copilots) into daily business workflows for maximum impact. Attendees will leave with a framework for turning AI novelty into a sustainable, productivity-driving daily habit for the entire workforce.

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3:00-3:45pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
(Room 253A)
Generative AI in Software Development Lifecycles
GAI-10
Research Professor
Florida Atlantic University
Imagine a future where startup founders, solution architects, and software developers collaborate with GenAI tools to brainstorm on new ideas, create prototypes, and develop MVP to support their business proposals. Generative AI, combined with agentic systems, will act as an extension of human intelligence, handling repetitive tasks, analyzing complex data, and proposing innovative solutions. This transformation is already underway and rapid evolution promises to unlock unprecedented possibilities, such as accelerated prototyping, personalized innovation, and collaborative ecosystems. This session will provide attendees with an understanding of the future role of Generative Intelligence, Agentic Frameworks, Multi-Agent Systems, and automated Software Development Lifecycles; explore how GenAI-Multi-Agent Systems have the potential to redefine the essence of collaborative creative process, with the focus on software development but extensible to other areas of creative thinking; and investigate innovative processes and methodologies in Generative Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, and automated Solution Development.

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3:00-5:00pm
Wednesday - 2/11/26
Special Networking Event (Expo Hall B)
Happy Two-Hour Reception in Expo Hall - Sponsored by URNET
  Special Networking Event
Thursday, February 12, 2026
7:30am-3:00pm
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Expo Hall B)
Registration Counters Open
  
8:00am
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Room 251B)
Continental Breakfast Served
  
8:30-9:15am
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Room 253A)
Beyond Indexes: How AI is Revolutionizing Database Performance at Scale
GAI-11
Sr. Database Administrator
Gartner
Database performance optimization has reached an inflection point. While traditional methods rely on manual tuning and static rules, our research demonstrates that AI-driven optimization techniques deliver significantly faster query execution and substantial resource consumption reductions across production workloads. This presentation unveils the architecture and implementation of next-generation machine learning systems that continuously analyze query patterns and automatically evolve database configurations. Drawing from case studies spanning financial services, e-commerce, and healthcare sectors, we'll examine how AI optimization frameworks have reduced DBA workloads by dozens of hours monthly while markedly improving overall system throughput. Our longitudinal analysis of 1.2 million historical queries across 78 production databases reveals that ML models can identify optimal indexing strategies with high accuracy, outperforming experienced database administrators in the majority of test scenarios. The session details practical implementation strategies for AI-driven tuning systems that learn from query logs in real-time. We'll present our framework which substantially reduced cloud database costs for enterprise clients while maintaining strict performance SLAs. Attendees will learn how to implement self-tuning database systems using modern ML techniques, understand the ROI metrics that justify AI investments in database infrastructure, and gain practical knowledge for integrating these solutions into existing data platforms. This presentation bridges theoretical advances with practical implementation guidance, providing a roadmap for organizations seeking to leverage AI for transformative database performance optimization.

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9:30-10:15am
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Room 253A)
LLMs Meet Classical Algorithms: A Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Optimization Problems
GAI-12
Senior Software Engineer (Independent researcher)
Walmart Global Tech
Pure LLM solutions are too slow and expensive for large-scale optimization. Classical algorithms fail when data is heterogeneous. What if we combine both? This talk presents a hybrid architecture for retail shelf space optimization, applicable across optimization domains. By leveraging LLMs for intelligent problem decomposition with classical algorithms for computational efficiency, we enable real-time solutions for complex allocation problems. The challenge: Traditional GCD optimization assumes homogeneous data, but real-world retail carries products from multiple vendors with varying sizes breaking mathematical assumptions. LLMs identify patterns to strategically partition problems into homogeneous subgroups. You'll learn: architecting hybrid LLM-classical systems for cloud deployment, when LLMs handle reasoning vs. computation, implementing parallel processing, performance trade-offs, and frameworks for choosing pure LLM, classical, or hybrid approaches. The three-phase pattern (LLM decomposition-> parallel optimization -> integration) extends to supply chain, finance, logistics any problem with heterogeneous data requiring near real-time cloud solutions.

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10:00am-3:00pm
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Expo Hall B)
#TECHSUPERSHOW Expo Hall Open
  
10:30-2:00pm
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Expo Hall B)
Solutions Showcase Demo Sessions: ITEXPO, MSP Expo, AIoT World Expo
  
11:45am
Thursday - 2/12/26
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Lunch - Diamond, Enterprise, Platinum, Super Pass, Exhibitor/Conference, Speaker, Press Pass Holders
  
1:00-3:00pm
Thursday - 2/12/26
Startup Pitch Networking Event (Expo Hall B)
IDEA Showcase Startup Pitches & Reception
IDEA-01
  Startup Pitch Networking Event
1:00-1:45pm
Thursday - 2/12/26
(Room 253A)
Beyond Prompts: Mastering Conversational Guidance and Vibe Coding for GenAI
GAI-14
Head of Cloud Services
Numen
President
RAD-INFO, Inc
Head of Agentic Product Experience
WaveMaker
CEO
Bumblebee
The future of software development involves moving beyond writing lines of code to conversational guidance – Vibe Coding. This session explores the shift in developer workflow, detailing how practitioners move from specific, manual instructions to iterative, high-level direction, allowing GenAI agents to handle the granular code generation. We will cover the core principles of effective Vibe Coding, distinguishing between levels of mastery: from Tactical Vibe Coding (generating simple functions and scripts) to Architectural Vibe Coding (guiding multi-module systems with high-level structural context and security requirements). Attendees will learn how to create high-fidelity "vibe contexts," rapidly debug agent logic, and leverage conversational design patterns to efficiently produce robust, enterprise-grade software and lead their teams into the next era of AI-powered development and engineering.

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