After the Vibe Code: How AI-built software becomes production software

A Seattle AI Week community event, hosted by Chapter2 Consulting AI has made it astonishingly easy to build something. But what does it take to make that ‘something’ secure, tested, integrated, observable, scalable, and trusted at scale? Join engineering and technology leaders who have led and worked in both startups and enterprise-class engineering teams. This will be a candid conversation about what happens after the prototype, by startup engineering leaders who have also worked in extreme scale and complexity. From AI-generated code and autonomous agents to architecture, verification, infrastructure, and reliability, we'll explore how software engineering is changing—and what it takes to build systems with AI tooling that businesses can actually trust. Agenda 9:00 AM — Panel discussion Audience Q&A Networking with panelists and Seattle's engineering community Who should attend: Software engineers, engineering managers, CTOs, technical founders, product leaders, and anyone building or operating AI-powered software. Featuring Ward Vuillemot — CTO & Founding Engineer at numerous AI startups AI startup technology leader and hands-on engineer, consulting with multiple non-technical founders on AI & vibe-coded codebases along with contracting on numerous stealth AI startups through his company Monsterorange.com. Former CTO, current technical advisor at Lium.ai & Shifthealth.ai; former CTO at RealSelf and Varsity Tutors, earlier engineering and product roles at Microsoft (Xbox) and Amazon. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wwvuillemot/ Heather Gearreald — Founder, Hertect Engineering executive and founder of Hertect: https://hertect.com/, a Seattle technology consultancy working on platform architecture, infrastructure, and AI systems in production. Former Head of Infrastructure Engineering at Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, Senior Director of Automation at Take Two Interactive and 2K, and Director of Quality Engineering at Microsoft. https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-gearreald-4b47377b/ Hatem Ayad — CTO, Clarvos AI startup engineering leader and technology exec. CTO of Clarvos: https://www.clarvos.com/. Former SVP of AI Engineering & Data Science at WebMD, SVP of Data Science & Engineering at Verizon Media, VP of Engineering at GoDaddy, and engineering leader at Microsoft. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hatimaiad/ Robert Neer — Co-founder, Goods Ventures (Moderator) Product and technology leader, co-founder of Goods Ventures: https://goodscompany.io/, and committed to transforming the way organizations approach product innovation and customer experience. Current EIR at UW’s Product Management Leadership Accelerator. Former VP of Product at Walgreens, VP of Product & Engineering at Best Buy, and Principal Product Manager at Amazon https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertneer/ Details Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · 9:00 AM PDT SURF Incubator999 3rd Ave, Suite 700Seattle, WA 98104 Generating code is getting increasingly easier. Trust is increasingly valuable. A Seattle AI Week community event, hosted by Chapter2 Consulting