GITKON 2025

9:05am

The biggest productivity gains from AI don’t come from individual developers using AI—they come when entire teams share context and eliminate handoffs. This session shows how Zapier’s engineering, product, and design teams use AI to blur traditional role boundaries, make faster decisions, and ship features that are actually informed by customer data patterns.

SPEAKERS
Chris Geoghegan, VP Product at Zapier

9:25am

This session breaks down how we’re embedding AI into GitKraken Desktop and GitLens to actually reduce Git friction (not add more tabs, clicks, or guesswork). From smarter commits to conflict resolution, we’ll unpack the thinking behind what we’ve shipped and where we’re headed next.

SPEAKERS
Justin Roberts, Sr. Director of Product at GitKraken

9:40am

GitKraken MCP gives AI agents the repo context they’ve been missing, unlocking faster and smarter Git workflows right now. We’ll dig into how MCPs are evolving and why they’re poised to become a foundational layer of tomorrow’s developer tools.

SPEAKERS
Eric Amodio, CTO at GitKraken
Melese Michael, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at GitKraken

10:10 am

Code reviewing is an art. It takes understanding of the impact it can have on your codebase and your peers. Come learn why it’s important to prioritize code reviewing as a way to not only potentially catch issues, but to also learn how to be a better coder.

SPEAKERS
Shashi Lo, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

10:25 am

Engineers are caught in the new metrics crossfire: exec dashboards, AI hype, and real human output. This panel brings together engineering leads, VPs, and senior devs to explore what actually matters when teams are being measured, and how to manage up without selling your soul.

SPEAKERS
Jordan Wallet, Engineering Lead at GitKraken
Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva, VP of Engineering at GitKraken
Brittany Ellich, Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Marino Wijay, Staff Solutions Architect at Kong Inc.
Dillon Mulroy, Principal Engineer at Cloudflare

11:00am

Think you know Git? Think once more! This session reveals underrated Git commands that save time, reduce pain, and make you look way smarter in a pinch.

SPEAKERS
Jonathan Silva, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at GitKraken

11:20am

Go beyond the commit with advanced GitKraken workflows designed to streamline how you ship. From AI-generated commits and PRs to conflict resolution, worktrees, and clean history management, this session delivers practical Git mastery for real-world projects.

SPEAKERS
Kevin Bost, Sr. Senior Software Architect at IntelliTect

11:40am

AI coding assistants are great at completing small tasks or features. However, what do you do when you are working with more complex code bases, and you need to build in-depth features that need upfront planning?

This talk explores spec-driven development as a solution to this problem. I’ll show you how modern AI coding assistants (like Kiro) can help break down complex tasks into three distinct phases. We’ll look at the real-world tradeoffs of this approach, and most importantly and how you can use it in your own projects right away.

SPEAKERS
Erik Hanchett, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

11:55am

Game developers ship fast, but traditional security scanning breaks their flow with manual reviews and enterprise processes built for IT teams, not creative studios. This session shows how we built tooling that removes security as a blocker. Using the Maester framework and GitHub Actions, we created an automated system that runs 49 identity security checks across all our Entra ID tenants without developers leaving their workflow. We integrated scanning directly into GitHub Actions, built custom PowerShell scripts for gaming environments, and automated real-time compliance monitoring. The result: 100% adoption, faster shipping, and zero security incidents. Learn how we turned enterprise security requirements into developer-friendly automation that protects critical game assets without compromising velocity.

SPEAKERS
Audrey Long, Sr. Gaming Cloud Security Architect at Microsoft

12:10pm

The rise of AI is transforming not just how we code — but how we grow. In this candid discussion, developer leaders and educators Leon Noel, Quincy Larson, Dmitry Fonarev, and Danny Thompson explore how developers at any stage can intentionally craft their careers amid rapid technological change. From building essential soft and technical skills, to recognizing when to step into leadership, to understanding what hiring managers look for in an AI-shaped world.
Whether you’re a junior developer, a seasoned engineer, or a team lead navigating the shift to AI-powered workflows, you’ll leave with tangible insights to take the next step in your journey.

SPEAKERS
Danny Thompson, Director Of Technology at DThompsonDev
Leon Noel, Managing Director, Engineering at Resilient Coders & 100Devs
Dmitry Fonarev, CEO at Testkube
Maggie Hutter, Recruiting at GitKraken

12:35pm

As teams increasingly rely on GenAI for code, configurations, and entire feature slices, traditional testing pipelines are buckling under the surge of changes.

Traditional CI/CD pipelines quickly become a bottleneck, slowing releases and hindering velocity gains.
This talk explores what it takes to stay ahead of quality issues in an AI-accelerated world. We’ll look at how to modernize your quality gates, redesign your testing strategy, and build pipelines that scale with AI-generated output. You’ll learn a holistic approach that shifts testing both left and right, integrates quality signals throughout the delivery process, and supports teams aiming to maintain (or increase) velocity all the way into production.

SPEAKERS
Ole Lensmar, CTO at Testkube

12:55pm

AI agents are getting all the attention, but as McKinsey framed it, “it’s not about the agent, it’s about the workflow.” This session cuts through the hype to explore what’s truly required for agentic API consumption at scale: predictability, discoverability, and deterministic execution. Frank Kilcommins, co-author of the Arazzo Specification, shows how Arazzo enables safe, reliable, and observable AI workflows built on today’s API standards.

SPEAKERS
Frank Kilcommins, Head of Enterprise Architecture at Jentic

1:15pm

The votes are in. The finalists have been decided. Now it’s time to reveal who turned Git into gameplay.
Join us as we showcase the top three projects from the GitKon 2025 Game Jam and announce the grand prize winner. Watch demos of games and developer tools that made merge conflicts fun, rebasing playable, and version control actually entertaining. See what happens when developers get creative with Git workflows, and find out who’s taking home $2500, $1000 & $500.

1:20pm

GitKraken 2025 Wrapped is your catch-up on the biggest updates we shipped this year across GitLens, GitKraken Desktop, and more. We’ll cover the standout releases like GitKraken MCP and Commit Composer, and give a preview of what’s coming next.