Coding is no longer the constraint: Scaling devex to teams and agents at Spotify

At Spotify, 96% of engineers now code with AI and PR frequency is up 60% — so the constraint has moved from writing code to orchestrating it. Niklas Gustavsson, Chief Architect & VP of Engineering, shares how Spotify built Honk, a background coding agent running on the Agent SDK, plugged it into their Fleetshift migration platform and Backstage software catalog, and learned that the same standardization that makes teams effective makes agents effective too. Walk away with Spotify's bets on developer experience for agents — and why firmer guardrails are accelerators, not constraints.

Details

City
London, UK
Date
19 May 2026
Time
11:15AM – 11:45AM
Speaker(s)
Niklas Gustavsson
Chief Architect and VP,
 
Spotify

Agenda

08:00AM – 09:00AM
Check-in and breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM
Opening keynote
(Main stage)
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Ami Vora, Dianne Penn, Angela Jiang, Katelyn Lesse, Cat Wu, Boris Cherny
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
10:00AM – 10:30AM
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10:30AM – 11:00AM
What's new in Claude Code
(Main stage)
Claude Code
·
Ralph Ramos
Memory and dreaming for self-learning agents
(Breakout stage)
Claude Platform
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Ravi Trivedi
Picking the right model
(Workshop)
Research
·
Lucas Smedley
11:15AM – 11:45AM
11:30AM – 12:00PM
Beyond the basics with Claude Code
(Workshop)
Claude Code
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Daisy Hollman
12:00PM – 12:30PM
How to get to production faster with Claude Managed Agents
(Main stage)
Claude Code
·
Michael Cohen
Harrison Stall
From One Person to 80: Scaling a Hypergrowth Engineering Org with Claude Code
(Breakout stage)
Claude Code
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Gabriel Grinberg
Yoav Orlev
12:30PM – 02:00PM
Lunch
afternoon sessions
12:30PM – 1:00PM
Rearchitecting workflows with the Claude Code team
(Workshop)
Claude Code
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Sid Bidasaria
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1:30PM – 2:15PM
From code to orchestration: Building with Claude in Amazon Bedrock
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Antonio Rodriguez
1:50PM – 2:20PM
How Lovable vibecodes production software at scale
(Main stage)
Claude Platform
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Fabian Hedin
The thinking lever
(Breakout stage)
Research
·
Lisa Crofoot
2:30PM – 3:15PM
2:35PM – 3:05PM
Building AI-native at enterprise scale: monday.com, Doctolib, and Delivery Hero
(Main stage)
Claude Platform
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Ruslan Semenov
Alex Kaluzny
Rodrigue Schäfer
Running an AI-native engineering org
(Breakout stage)
Claude Code
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Fiona Fung
3:20PM – 3:50PM
The capability curve
(Main stage)
Research
·
Jeremy Hadfield
3:30PM – 4:15PM
Build AI agents using Claude in Microsoft Foundry
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Lee Stott
Marlene Mhangami
4:05PM – 4:35PM
Building with Claude on Google Cloud
(Breakout stage)
Claude Platform
·
Ivan Nardini
Schneider Larbi
4:30PM – 5:15PM
Build a proactive agent workflow with Claude Code
(Workshop)
Claude Code
·
Maya Nielan
4:50PM – 5:20PM
Getting more out of the Claude Platform
(Main stage)
Claude Platform
·
Punit Shah
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Evening
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Evening reception