As organizations embrace AI-driven operations, a critical question emerges: how do we ensure technology serves people—not the other way around? In this keynote, Sebastian Kister presents a bold, people-first perspective on enterprise transformation, where agentic AI becomes an enabler of human-centered platform engineering.

 

Drawing on hands-on experience at AUDI and in the CNCF community, Sebastian explores how autonomous AI agents can empower teams—rather than replace them—by offloading operational complexity and enabling a culture of trust, creativity, and ownership. He argues that true transformation happens when culture and architecture evolve together, with AI acting as a collaborative force rather than a compliance mechanism.

Attendees will learn:

 

• How agentic AI reshapes roles, workflows, and decision-making in platform teams

• What a people-first engineering culture looks like in practice—and how to build it

• Why rethinking governance, autonomy, and trust is essential in AI-augmented environments

This session is for anyone building the future of cloud-native platforms, DevOps, or internal developer platforms—where transformation is not just technical, but cultural and deeply human.