About speaker

Emilie Schario

Kilo

Co-founder and VP of Engineering

Emilie Schario is Co-Founder and VPE at Kilo, where she focuses on turning AI investment into real engineering output. She operates at the intersection of AI tooling, engineering org design, and the day-to-day realities of running high-performing teams, helping organizations translate innovation into measurable impact.
Emilie’s work emphasizes the unglamorous but critical side of AI adoption: building frameworks, workflows, and internal tooling that enable engineers to take ownership of outcomes, experiment effectively, and measure success without relying on traditional project management. She is passionate about autonomy, accountability, and creating systems where teams can move quickly while maintaining quality and trust.

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Data Intermediate

The Best Engineer in the Room Doesn’t Write Code

Emilie Schario
Emilie Schario Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Kilo
Agents AI Architecture Engineering LLM

As AI coding tools evolve from session-based assistants into always-on agents, the role of the engineer is changing. In this talk, Emilie Schario explores what it means to build software with agents that can act, follow up, and carry work forward without waiting to be prompted at every step.

She’ll cover what OpenClaw got right, where it falls short, and how Kilo is closing the gap with KiloClaw — along with what this shift means for the future of how software gets built.

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Data

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AI/ML

UX/UI

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