Agentic Engineering & ToolingDeep Dive180min
From Autocomplete to Autopilot: How AI Is Changing the Developer Experience
This talk explores the rise of agentic workflows and context engineering in AI-assisted development. Using GitHub Copilot’s latest tools, it shows how teams delegate end-to-end tasks, from architecture scaffolding to PRs, and how developers, SREs, DevOps, and PMs shift from writing code to expressing intent.
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Tugdual GrallGitHub
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Monday, October 5, 09:30-12:30
TBA 5
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For most developers, AI assistance started as "smart autocomplete." That story has changed completely.
Today, GitHub Copilot can take a request in plain language and carry it out for you — in your editor, terminal, desktop application or in the cloud while you focus on something else. We've moved from autocomplete to autopilot.
This 3-hours deep dive is built around live demos and real projects. Step by step, we'll see the many places where AI can help across your workflow: writing and understanding code in the IDE, CLI, and in the Copilot App — then moving into the software delivery lifecycle with PR review, feature creation using cloud agents, and security.
You'll also learn how to customize Copilot for your own projects and needs, using Skills, Agents, and MCP to connect it to your tools, data, and conventions — and how to automate real work with agentic workflows in plain language, across several languages and tools.
You'll leave with more than a "wow": concrete techniques to improve quality, control cost, and set the right guardrails, administration, and governance. Expect many demonstrations and plenty of Q&A.
What you'll learn:
Today, GitHub Copilot can take a request in plain language and carry it out for you — in your editor, terminal, desktop application or in the cloud while you focus on something else. We've moved from autocomplete to autopilot.
This 3-hours deep dive is built around live demos and real projects. Step by step, we'll see the many places where AI can help across your workflow: writing and understanding code in the IDE, CLI, and in the Copilot App — then moving into the software delivery lifecycle with PR review, feature creation using cloud agents, and security.
You'll also learn how to customize Copilot for your own projects and needs, using Skills, Agents, and MCP to connect it to your tools, data, and conventions — and how to automate real work with agentic workflows in plain language, across several languages and tools.
You'll leave with more than a "wow": concrete techniques to improve quality, control cost, and set the right guardrails, administration, and governance. Expect many demonstrations and plenty of Q&A.
What you'll learn:
- Using Copilot across the IDE, CLI, App and cloud
- AI in the SDLC: PR review, cloud agents, and security
- Customizing with agents, skills, and custom instructions
- Automating tasks with agentic workflows
- Improving quality and controlling cost
- Guardrails, administration, and governance for teams
Tugdual Grall
Tug helps organisations across the EMEA region unlock the full potential of AI-powered development.
Tug is passionate about bringing GitHub Copilot, since 2021, to developer communities — from enterprise teams to local meetups. He regularly speaks, runs hands-on workshops and assist teams on the adoption of GitHub Copilot and AI Based SDLC.
Before joining GitHub, "Tug" built an extensive career in the tech ecosystem, including roles as, DevRel at Redis,
Technical Evangelist at MapR, MongoDB, and Couchbase, Product Manager & Developer on Oracle's JavaEE platform
Deeply committed to the developer community, Tugdual is also the co-founder of the Nantes JUG (Java User Group), which has gathered developers and architects in the Nantes region monthly since 2008.
Tug is passionate about bringing GitHub Copilot, since 2021, to developer communities — from enterprise teams to local meetups. He regularly speaks, runs hands-on workshops and assist teams on the adoption of GitHub Copilot and AI Based SDLC.
Before joining GitHub, "Tug" built an extensive career in the tech ecosystem, including roles as, DevRel at Redis,
Technical Evangelist at MapR, MongoDB, and Couchbase, Product Manager & Developer on Oracle's JavaEE platform
Deeply committed to the developer community, Tugdual is also the co-founder of the Nantes JUG (Java User Group), which has gathered developers and architects in the Nantes region monthly since 2008.