26 - 28 OCT 2026 Utrecht Netherlands

Quality in the Agentic Era: Keeping Engineering Standards at AI Speed

Room 7Wed 28 Oct • 09:45–10:45AI & AgentsIntermediate
AI assistance is increasing the pace and volume of code changes. That creates a practical quality problem: code can follow common industry patterns and still miss the standards your organization relies on, such as architecture boundaries, testing expectations, observability, security practices, or product conventions. This session looks at how to make those standards visible and usable across the development workflow. The goal is not to replace engineering judgment with a score or a bot. It is to decide which standards should be automated, which should be reviewed by humans, and which parts of quality depend on the team’s taste and context. You will leave with a practical model for combining Copilot, Copilot code review, and GitHub Code Quality so AI-generated and human-written code are held to the same expectations: easier to maintain, easier to trust, and more consistent with how your organization actually builds software.

About the speakers

Josh Johanning

Josh Johanning is a Senior DevOps Architect on the GitHub FastTrack team. He has extensive experience promoting DevOps principles to companies large and small as his time as a consultant with 10th Magnitude and now with GitHub. He is very passionate about accelerating teams' cloud journey with GitHub and GitHub Actions. In his off time, Josh enjoys home improvement projects, travelling to new places, mixing craft cocktails, and spending time with his wife and cats. You can follow more of his work via his blog at: https://josh-ops.com

Tiago Pascoal

Tiago Pascoal is a DevOps Architect in the Microsoft's DevOps Customer Advisory team and has been an ALM | DevOps Ranger since 2008. With over 18 years' experience in the software development field., started his career on an ISV developing a web application server on multi-platform systems, enabling people to write software that worked on both Un*x and Windows platforms. Before joining Microsoft, Tiago was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in Visual Studio and Development Technologies category for ten consecutive years and worked both as a consultant and as managing partner in several companies. Most of his career was spent in the financial, telecommunications industries and public sector.