Time: 9:00 AM
Room: ASC B
A Conversation with your Architecture
Software and architecture diagrams are critical tools as they help developers and stakeholders understand complex systems. What if you could have a conversation with your diagrams? This session explores how generative AI can facilitate meaningful conversations with your architecture to gain deeper insights, make decisions, generate diagrams, and even generate infrastructure code. Leave with both a theoretical understanding and practical implementation guidance for using generative AI in architecture documentation and analysis.
Kevin Hakanson
Sr. Solutions Architect
AWS
Kevin Hakanson is an experienced Software Architect focused on highly scalable web applications, especially the JavaScript and security aspects. His background includes both .NET and Java, but he is most nostalgic about Lotus Notes. He has been developing professionally since 1994 and holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering. When not staring at a computer screen, he is probably staring at another screen, either watching TV or playing video games with his family.
Jenna Pederson
Staff Developer Advocate
Pinecone
Jenna Pederson is a Staff Developer Advocate for Pinecone with two decades of software engineering experience and a passion for community and equity-building. She works to empower developers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to bring their idea to life through technology.