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Speaking
I talk about portable systems, contract-driven AI development, and what it actually takes to restructure software for the age of AI agents. Every talk is drawn directly from published books, white papers, and shipped tooling.
Write Once, Run Where It Makes Sense
Architecture and platform engineering
The same business logic gets rewritten four or five times across browser, backend, edge, and AI pipelines. Most architectures assume the environment too early and teams pay that cost forever. This talk covers the architecture of portable business logic with WebAssembly and Universal Microservices Architecture, what it means to separate logic from execution, and why it matters more now than ever.
Contract-Driven AI Development
AI engineering and developer tooling
AI coding tools can describe what software does but not why it does it. They automate structure, not understanding. This talk introduces contract-driven AI development, how verifiable contracts, automated reasoning, and hybrid governance change how we build AI-assisted systems. The difference between a specification and a contract is the difference between automation and trust.
The Day After: Restructuring Software for the Age of AI Agents
Engineering leadership and CTO tracks
Most codebases are not navigable by AI agents because the intent was never declared. The tribal knowledge is locked in people's heads and there is no map. This talk covers practical patterns for making software organizations legible to AI agents without throwing everything away, role by role, capability by capability.
About the speaker
Enrico Piovesan is a platform architect and author who builds frameworks for software that runs anywhere and codebases that AI agents can actually navigate. After years building products across startups in travel, education, and payments, he developed Universal Microservices Architecture, a portable, contract-driven execution model for distributed systems. His first book on UMA is published by Apress. He is a Platform Software Architect at Autodesk, an active open source builder, and publishes on architecture and AI-native systems every week on Medium. He is based in Golden, BC, Canada.
Availability
Currently accepting CFP invitations for architecture, WASM, and AI engineering tracks.