Strategic investment in technology solutions accelerates business growth, especially within the engineering space. Development work that required engineering support is now being replaced with low code/no-code software solutions. We will explore how companies are using these new tech solutions to scale their business and what this means for the future of engineering.

About the speakers:

• Charles Lamanna leads the Engineering teams for the Low Code Application Platform (LCAP) in the Digital Transformation Platform Group at Microsoft. Before that, he worked in Azure for 4 years, leading the engineering teams. Before Azure, Charles founded MetricsHub, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2013.

• Shishir Mehrotra is the Co-founder and CEO of Coda. He was formerly an executive at YouTube, where he helped grow YouTube to the world’s largest video destination. Prior to Google, Shishir spent 6 years at Microsoft, and before that, he was the founding CEO of Centrata. He is currently a board member of Spotify.

• Christian Kelly is the Managing Director of Accenture Strategy. He is currently helping clients to make better product development decisions, define what products and services to create and develop next-generation R&D practices for complex hardware-software-services combinations.

• Jessica Lessin founded The Information in 2013 and is the publication’s Editor-in-Chief. She covered Silicon Valley and the technology industry for eight years at the Wall Street Journal. Jessica graduated from Harvard University in 2005 and lives in San Francisco.