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Engineering teams' time and money are often drained by mismatched tooling and poor habits, among other things. The Redgate Advocates share their own stories of this in reality - from a mysterious 47-second retry, to the one 'rogue' engineer who derails a team. They also discuss how to get everyone pulling in the same direction without forcing everything to be identical, and whether AI helps or hurts.

AI agents now write, review and ship code, and our supply-chain security can't tell how that code was made. A green build and a clean scan don't tell you which model or tools the agent used, whether it had your security guidelines, or whether a human actually reviewed the change. In this talk I introduce Agentic Process Evidence, a proposed open community standard. It records the AI development process as structured, signed evidence that is attached to the commit and linked back to the full agent session logs, so release policies can enforce it automatically as policy as code.

Open source models are closing in on the frontier. But is running them the same as being sovereign? David Sullivan explains why true sovereignty means owning the whole model lifecycle, and why that's where prototypes stall before production. James Faure shows how distilling small, task-specific models can slash costs. Dr Rosemary Francis argues it's ridiculous to use the most expensive model for every task, and that your harness and engineering process matter more than which model sits at the top of the leaderboard.

Why can't the UK make its own AI chips? David Sullivan argues that the biggest gap isn't chips, compute or electricity. It's trust. If people won't let AI near their finances, the best model in the world goes unused, and that's where the UK has a real chance to lead. Civo makes complexity a thing of the past.

Dave Killeen will tell you, on record, that his relationship with AI has crossed into unhealthy territory. He also says he has never felt more alive, that he is 50 and feels 30, and that he sometimes waits for his two small children to go to bed so he can start a coding session. In between, he gives Axel Sooriah the most practical answer on this show yet to the question every product team is facing: your exec says "we need AI," and you have no idea what they actually want.