The Jagged Horizon: Software Engineering on the Road to AGI
The session combines leading research with practical insights from Expleo's experience supporting organisations on their AI and digital transformation journeys.
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping software engineering at an unprecedented pace. While AI capabilities continue to accelerate, organisations are still grappling with how to translate these advances into measurable business value.
This session explores what recent research, industry experience and emerging trends tell us about the future of software development, the path towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the practical implications for engineering leaders and technology teams today.
Learning Outcomes
By attending this session, participants will discover:
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The Reality of AI in Software Engineering
- What has changed over the last 12 months
- The gap between AI capability and business value
- Lessons from real-world adoption
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Understanding AGI
- What AGI means in practice
- Why AI progress is unlikely to be linear
- What software engineering can tell us about the broader AI journey
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The Rise of Agentic Development
- From coding assistants to autonomous agents
- How engineering roles and workflows are evolving
- The growing importance of specification, orchestration and verification
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The Wider Impact
- How AI may reshape technology careers and talent pipelines
- Economic and societal implications of increasingly capable AI systems
- What business and technology leaders should be preparing for now
Target Audience:
Attendees will leave with:
- A balanced, evidence-based view of AI's impact on software engineering
- An understanding of emerging agentic development approaches
- Insight into how engineering roles and skills are likely to evolve
- Practical considerations for preparing teams and organisations for the next wave of AI-driven change
This masterclass is part of our ‘Member Masterclass’ series delivered by our member organisations on a monthly basis. If you or your organisation would like to run your own masterclass for the benefit of our community, please get in touch.
