Leading in the Agentic Era
Every leader on this stage now has to decide something their predecessors never faced: not just how to manage work, but where an agent belongs in a workflow in the first place. That's a shift from management to orchestration, deciding what runs autonomously, what needs a human hand, and how those pieces fit together, not just assigning tasks and checking in. The line blurring here runs in both directions: as agents help engineering move faster, the line between building well and deciding what to build gets blurry, and getting a team genuinely business-aware without quietly stepping into Product's job is its own discipline. But the same line is blurring the other way too, product managers, designers, and other non-engineers can now produce real, shippable technical work, which raises new questions about what Product's role even is, and who owns usability and accessibility when the person building the interface was never trained to think about either. Underneath all of this sits a single, harder problem: trust and accountability aren't separate questions anymore. Verifying what got built, and by whom, is the same act as determining who's responsible when it doesn't hold up. This panel gets concrete about all of it, in real time, on real teams.
MJ Burk Chun
VP Product & Design
MJ Burk Chun is VP of Product & Design and Co-Founder at Serve Robotics, where she leads the product strategy behind autonomous sidewalk delivery robots that help expand local commerce while reducing traffic and emissions in cities. Previously, she served as Director of Product Management at Postmates X, where she helped develop socially aware delivery robotics, and held product leadership roles at Anki and BigCommerce. Earlier in her career, she spent a decade at Electronic Arts leading product and live services for The Sims franchise. MJ brings more than 17 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing products, marketplaces, and connected devices, with a focus on product-market fit and building high-performing product teams.
Annie Cheng
VP Engineering
Annie Cheng is a VP of Engineering at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world’s most trusted driver. Prior to joining Waymo, Annie served as VP of Engineering at Nauto, an AI startup dedicated to enabling safer fleets and ensuring safer roads for everyone. Before Nauto, she was VP of engineering at Yahoo, where she oversaw the multi-billion-dollar Web Search and Search Advertising business. Annie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sweta Tiwary
Sr Director Software Eng
Sweta Tiwary is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Capital One, where she leads the document management domain, which includes enterprise platforms responsible for composing, delivering, and storing critical customer servicing documents and related insights at scale. With over two decades of global IT strategy and delivery experience, Sweta specializes in large-scale digital transformations, modern cloud architectures, DevOps, and building high-performing engineering teams. More recently she has been leading the AI-native work transformation for her organization.
Prior to Capital One, Sweta served as Vice President of Engineering at Optum, digitizing core enterprise member data platforms, and held leadership roles at Cognizant Technology Solutions managing global IT delivery portfolios. A dedicated advocate for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, she has been an Accountable Executive for Capital One's Allies in Tech Symposium, part of People Leader Council, and is leading associate empowerment initiatives. Her community impact includes mentoring, leading Girls Who Code sessions, and pioneering neurodiversity hiring programs. Sweta holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra.