Join a select group of senior engineering executives for an invite-only dinner hosted by Harness and EngineeringX, an exclusive community of engineering leaders focused on accelerating innovation, sharing ideas, and shaping the future of software delivery.

This intimate evening will spark meaningful conversations, foster peer connections, and explore strategies for building elite engineering organizations.

You'll be joined by:

Jignesh Patel
Field CTO, Harness
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Jignesh brings deep expertise from helping engineering orgs scale with speed and reliability. He will guide thoughtful group discussions around the future of software delivery, engineering metrics, and developer experience.

Strategic Platform Leadership for Velocity, Security, and Reliability in the Front Range.

Detroits’s ecosystem spans SaaS, Financial Services, Telecom & Media, and the public sector. Senior leaders face a strategic mandate: architect operating models that accelerate delivery, embed security, and ensure reliability without increasing organizational drag. This roundtable focuses on executive-level decisions that reshape culture, governance, and platform leverage to turn engineering into a durable competitive advantage.

Discussion Topics:

1) The Impact of Generative AI in Software Development

Examine how generative AI fundamentally reshapes software development velocity, security posture, and operational resilience across Denver’s diverse industry landscape. This discussion will explore practical implementation strategies for AI-driven development, analyze the organizational and cultural shifts required to maximize AI’s potential, and address the governance challenges that emerge when AI generates up to 25% of code in modern enterprises. Providing opportunity to share experiences on balancing AI acceleration with quality assurance, managing the transition from traditional development workflows, and establishing new metrics for AI-enhanced delivery performance.

2) Modernizing Platform Engineering for AI-Driven Scale and Governance

As AI transforms the volume and velocity of software delivery, platform engineering becomes the critical foundation for sustainable innovation. This session will focus on designing platform architectures that support AI-accelerated development while maintaining security, compliance, and operational excellence. Discussion will cover strategies for implementing comprehensive DevSecOps platforms, establishing automated governance frameworks, and creating self-service capabilities that reduce organizational friction while ensuring enterprise-grade controls. Leaders will explore how modern platform thinking enables rapid experimentation and rigorous production readiness.

Key Takeaways

✅ How leading organizations integrate generative AI into their software delivery lifecycles while maintaining security and quality standards, including specific strategies for managing the 4x increase in code volume that AI can generate.

✅ Practical approaches to building resilient platform engineering capabilities that scale with AI-driven development demands, focusing on automated governance, integrated security, and sustainable engineering practices that align with industry maturity models.

✅ Executive-level strategies for balancing innovation velocity with operational stability, including how to implement comprehensive visibility and control mechanisms that turn engineering capabilities into measurable competitive advantages while managing cloud costs and engineering efficiency.

This event isn’t about slides—it’s about sharing experiences. We’re gathering a small group to keep things engaging and high-impact. Expect great food, sharp minds, and honest discussions.

Let us know if you have any dietary restrictions — we’ll make sure you're well taken care of.

Spots are limited. RSVP now to reserve your seat!