Tel Aviv AI Conference Draws About 1,200 Developers to Discuss Autonomous Software

About 1,200 developers attended the Evolve to AI conference at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, November 4, according to organizer Geektime's account of the completed event. Held at the university's Smolarz Auditorium, the conference examined how autonomous artificial intelligence agents are changing software development and the controls needed around their work. The program brought together engineers and researchers from companies including Upwind, Cognition, Google Cloud, Red Hat and Intuit. Cognition engineer Gilad Samuels described his experience building agent-based engineering workflows with Devin, telling participants, in a translated remark, "I work only from my phone." Other presentations addressed how teams coordinate agents and decide which tasks still require human judgment or approval. Security and infrastructure featured alongside coding. Upwind's Moshe Hassan presented an autonomous defensive agent, while Google Cloud's Or Brookman discussed controlling agents' access to untrusted material, sensitive information and outbound communication. Red Hat engineer Yuval Luria presented Neural Navigator, describing infrastructure that converts natural-language needs into technical requirements and compares models and hardware by accuracy, cost and latency. These were capabilities described in the presentations. The later sessions considered the work that remains after software is generated. Brandlight's Aviv Zaken discussed dividing responsibility between people, human checkpoints and agents. Maish Saidel-Keesing closed the event with the maintenance demands and technical debt associated with agent-generated code, including monitoring, testing and debugging. The organizer published its recap on Wednesday afternoon after the conference ended.