"Agentic Teams, Human Organisations: Engineering Leadership in the Age of AI"

Engineering Leadership Summit Munich | 6. October 2026

We’re thrilled to invite you to the second Engineering Leadership Summit Munich, an evening for engineering and technology leaders to connect, exchange experiences, and explore what AI transformation looks like beyond the hype.

This year, we’ll examine AI’s impact from two complementary perspectives. At the engineering-team level, we’ll explore the realities of working in a fully agentic setup—from evolving workflows and measurable improvements to stubborn debugging challenges and the limits of promised 10× productivity. At the organisational level, we’ll look at how AI exposes ineffective processes, misaligned leadership, and cultures that struggle to change.

Together, the two talks offer an honest and practical view of what it takes to make AI work—for our teams, our organisations, and the people within them. Alongside the presentations, there will be plenty of time to continue the conversation, share challenges, and connect with fellow engineering leaders.

We’ll also share a first preview of our emerging Developer Productivity Playbook—a practical resource for engineering leaders looking to improve how their teams build, collaborate, and deliver. Explore it during the breaks, exchange ideas with its contributors, and help shape what comes next.


Event Details:

  • Date: 6 October 2026
  • Time: 18.00
  • Location: Netlight GmbH, Prannerstr. 4, München

Netlight proudly hosts the Engineering Leadership Summit Munich. Join us for an evening of concrete insights, meaningful discussions, new connections, and, of course, delicious food and refreshing drinks.

The event is open to engineering leaders at all levels, but tickets are limited. Reserve your spot and become part of the conversation shaping the future of engineering leadership.

Please RSVP by 2 October 2026 to secure your spot.

If you have any questions or need further details, please feel free to contact us.

Speakers

Christian Balazs & Marco Klein
Agentic Team Clash of Worlds - How to fully enable your Agents with Humans

Product Owner @ Bridgemaker / Engineering Lead @ Netlight


Context: We have been working a fully agentic setup for the last months with five people. Noone writes code by hand anymore. Yet, we are building a highly critical on-premise system.


Prompt: Please create a good sounding description and title for an engineering leadership summit from Bridgemaker & Netlight.


Content:

- How we got from no agentic workflow “ad-hoc” to a research-plan-implement to a more elaborate agentic workflow to reach more team alignment and improve our delivered code.
- Why we still spent three days with three engineers debugging a specific audio feature.
- How we improved our refactoring metrics from an initial 40% to just 20%.
- Why our PO is working with Opencode and GitHub now.
- Why we killed sprint refinements and got them more or less back.
- Concrete examples including screenshots of our agent sessions and code.
- Why 10x development speed is a lie, yet.


Please make it sound cool and concrete.

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Kevin Husell & Florian Meier
Organisational Incompetence & Artificial Intelligence

AI Strategy Consultants @ Netlight

Why fixing your organisation is the thing that matters the most to amplify AI


AI doesn’t create broken organisations. It exposes them. While many companies are rushing to adopt AI, the ones failing aren’t failing because of the technology. They’re failing because of idle processes, misaligned leadership, and cultures that can’t change fast enough.


Drawing on real client experience and survey data, we’ll cover how to honestly assess where your organisation stands and what real change looks like when AI is the forcing function.


You’ll leave with a clear framework for measuring AI maturity and permission to embrace your imperfections as the starting point, not the obstacle

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Schedule:

18:00 – Doors open; mingling over food and drinks

18:30 – Welcome & agenda

18:45 – Talk: Agentic Teams: Clash of Worlds — How to Fully Enable Agents and Humans

19:30 – Break

20:00 – Talk: Organisational Incompetence & Artificial Intelligence

20:30 – Mingling & discussions

21:15 – Event concludes

All you need to know

WHEN? Tuesday, October 6th, 18:00-21:15 pm

WHO? Technology Leaders from different organisations based in Munich

HOW? Sign up through this website. Once you have registered, you will receive an email as a confirmation and a quick reminder before the event. Due to limited seating, please wait for your spot to be confirmed via e-mail.

Will there be drinks and food? Yes. We got you covered.

Organized by

Andreas Seibold
andreas.seibold@netlight.com

Manager at Netlight

Arda Özdere
arda.oezdere@netlight.com

Associate Manager at Netlight

Philipp Kopp
philipp.kopp@netlight.com

Associate Manager at Netlight

Yoana Dimova
yoana.dimova@netlight.com

Associate Manager at Netlight