Jeffrey Namnum

Managing Partner at Touchlab

Jeff is the Managing Partner at Touchlab and currently sits on the board of the Kotlin Foundation. 30+ years ago, at Thomson Reuters, Jeff discovered a knack for building bridges between engineering and business. That led to him building and leading their first formal software QA organization (and, of course, saving the world from Y2K). Today, leading Touchlab, he advises CTOs and VPs on scalable mobile delivery, dev productivity, and next-gen practices like Kotlin Multiplatform and pragmatic agentic approaches to mobile dev. He also regrets to announce that he is no longer taking requests to sing on the internet.

AI Developer Productivity Tooling: Beyond the Hype and Hyperbole. What's Working? What's Not

AI coding assistants have been hyped as game-changers for software engineering, but how effective are they in practice? This session provides a reality check on current AI coding tools, analyzing what works, what doesn’t, and how these tools impact software development workflows. You'll get a chance to discuss best practices, challenges, and the future trajectory of GenAI in software development with your peers and examine: > What is the current state of AI coding assistants? >How are AI coding assistants improving developer productivity? > What AI tools are effective for software development today, which ones are disappointing? > What are the future trends and implications of AI-driven software development? > What are the implications for cross-platform development?