AI Heroes
A Triple-Header in Italy’s Innovation Hubs
7 May
29 June
6 November
The Agentic Era and Beyond
Shaping the Future of AI-Driven Engineering
The era of AI as a simple coding assistant is over. We have entered a new phase where Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
The software industry is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation shift. AI is no longer a feature you add. It is becoming a new layer of the engineering stack, changing how we think, design, build, ship, and operate software.
AI Heroes is the international conference on AI for developers, by developers. A place where builders compare notes, share battle-tested patterns, and shape what “AI-native engineering” really means.


Our Audience
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Our Mission
AI Heroes is built for people who actually ship. Expect deep technical sessions and best practices you can debate, test, and take back to your team. You will leave with concrete moves for what you are building next.
We provide real-world experience, enterprise case studies, and ‘lessons learned’ patterns, and playbooks you can apply the next day.
We also tackle the human side of the shift: how teams evolve when agents join the delivery chain, how to upskill senior engineers, how product discovery changes in an AI-native world, and how to move fast without sacrificing craftsmanship.
A new format
Morning
Hands-on Workshop Sessions (Deep dive). Two ~90′ Workshops. Maximum capacity 30 people
€139, afternoon conference included.
Afternoon
Strategic Conference Program (Case histories & Vision). Four or five 30’/40′ sessions.
Only 30€, networking aperitif included.
Evening
Networking Aperitif & Community Building.
Included in all tickets.
Speakers
29 June Workshops announced

Building AI apps with the Google ecosystem
The way we build software has changed. Today, the most successful developers aren’t just writing code, they are orchestrating AI tools to build better and faster. This hands-on session is a deep dive into this modern “Builder Stack”, where you will learn how to build with with Google tools like Stitch, Firebase, and Gemini.Antigravity, Stitch, Firebase and Google Cloud.
Come to this session if you want to spend less time configuring and more time creating.
We’ll guide you through a complete development lifecycle, from prototyping an idea, to generating a beautiful UI, building AI features, and integrating a secure, scalable backend.

Edge Intelligence: Building with Apple Foundation Models on iOS
ViewModels are at the heart of modern Android and KMP apps, and they come with hidden performance traps most teams discover too late. Lifecycle mismanagement, scope leaks, bad memory patterns, dependency resolution overhead: these issues are hard to trace in production, and AI-assisted development makes them worse. More code ships faster, abstractions multiply, and ViewModel problems become invisible until users are already impacted.
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll debug real ViewModel performance scenarios together, using Koin and Kotzilla to detect issues at the component level without manual instrumentation. You’ll see how DI-based observability gives AI agents the architectural context they need to go from code generator to diagnostic partner.
Agenda:
Intro (10 min) — The ViewModel performance trap: what AI-assisted development changes and why
Lab 1 (20 min) — Spot common issues in a sample app: scope leaks, lifecycle mismanagement, resolution overhead
Lab 2 (25 min) — Instrument with Koin + Kotzilla: component-level detection, no manual logging
Lab 3 (25 min) — Bring AI into the loop: architectural context as a diagnostic lever
Wrap-up (10 min) — Patterns to take home, Q&A
Arnaud Giuliani
Arnaud Giuliani is co-founder and CTPO of Kotzilla, and creator of Koin, a dependency injection framework for Kotlin used by millions of developers and 25% of native Android applications worldwide. He has been exploring the intersection of software architecture and developer experience throughout an eighteen-year career, and is a member of the Kotlin Foundation. A seasoned speaker with 50+ talks delivered across Europe and the US since 2016, he recently published “The Next Software Crisis Won’t Be About Writing Code,” tracing thirty years of software engineering crises to argue that architecture and design matter more than ever in the age of AI.
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