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Emilie Schario

Anaconda

VP of Engineering

Emilie Schario is VP of Engineering at Anaconda and Co-Founder of Kilo Code, which was acquired by Anaconda, 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.

Talk details

Day 2 (10/1)

9:50 – 10:50
thu 1
9:50 – 10:50
Talk
Data Intermediate

The Best Engineer in the Room Doesn’t Write Code

Emilie Schario
Emilie Schario VP of Engineering at Anaconda
Agents AI Architecture Engineering LLM

AI can generate more code than ever, but more code does not automatically mean more value. In this talk, Emilie Schario explores how AI is shifting the role of the engineer from producing every artifact to designing the systems that reliably turn intent into outcomes. She’ll cover how judgment, verification, constraints, recovery, and human oversight become more important as agent-driven development scales.

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Data

Leadership

Product

AI/ML

UX/UI

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