Measuring AI Boost: Value, Metrics and Scale
AI coding assistants are everywhere. As engineering leaders roll out expensive AI tools, one question keeps coming back: is developer productivity really improving? The truth is, most leaders don’t have a clear answer yet—the data is messy, and the metrics are still evolving.
This panel takes on that challenge head-on. We’ll explore how engineering leaders are harnessing these tools to drive real production impact, what metrics actually matter, and the hidden hurdles to scaling adoption. You’ll walk away with practical insights on efficiency gains, cultural shifts, and strategies for accelerating AI adoption—plus real-world case studies of where AI assistants deliver outsized returns, and where they fall short. This conversation will challenge assumptions and equip you with actionable steps to make AI a force multiplier for your teams.
Hersh Tapadia
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
ALLSTACKS
Hersh Tapadia is the co-founder and CEO of Allstacks, the first software engineering intelligence and predictive forecasting platform for software development. Allstacks leverages AI Deep Research models to identify key sources of software delivery risk and prescribes key actions that keep your teams on track. He has spent his career leading product and software engineering teams in various disciplines, including SaaS, Pharma, Medical Devices, and Supply Chain. Previously, he co-founded several ventures, including Ravioli Labs, an ML-driven software consulting firm, CertiRx, an AI powered anti-counterfeiting solution for supply chain, and medCount, a medical device for infectious disease diagnostics. Hersh is a native of Raleigh, NC, and is an Electrical and Biomedical Engineer with degrees from NC State and Duke.
Swati Raju
VP OF ENGINEERING
SERVICENOW
Swati Raju is a VP of Engineering at ServiceNow, where she shapes the AI strategy and engineering roadmap powering transformative IT workflows in asset management, industrial operations, and strategic portfolio management.
She previously led engineering for Confluence Cloud and Rovo at Atlassian, and has held senior leadership roles including CTO at Traveling Spoon, and engineering leadership positions at Groupon’s mobile team and Yahoo! Search. An inventor with nine patents in user interaction and information retrieval, Swati holds an MS in Design Knowledge and Computation from Arizona State University.
Lakshmi Dixit
VP OF ENGINEERING AND OPS
ZILLOW
Vrushali Channapattan
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
OKTA
Vrushali Channapattan is the Director of Engineering at Okta, where she leads Data and AI initiatives with a strong focus on Responsible AI. With over 20 years of experience, she has shaped large-scale data systems and contributed to open source as a Committer for Apache Hadoop. Before Okta, she spent nearly a decade at Twitter, helping drive its growth from startup to public company.
She has shared her expertise at global conferences including IEEE CAI 2025, IEEE CISOSE, UC Berkeley’s AI & Cybercrime Workshop, Google Next, Hadoop Summit and DataWorks Summit. Vrushali holds a Master’s in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University, is an inventor on multiple patents in AI, identity, and distributed systems, and has published in IEEE journals as well as industry blogs.