Tech Summit 2026: Full Schedule

1:45pm CDT

How planning projects helped plan my wedding

Thursday September 3, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT

Applying work skills to real-life projects

Speakers

Lindsay Ladewig

Lindsay is a Software Engineer Tech Lead I on the Platform Services team. She works remotely from her home in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago. Her work from home coworkers include her dog, Moby, and her two cats, Shrimp and Ebi. Outside of work, Lindsay enjoys playing video... Read More →

Thursday September 3, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT
Marquee East

Lightning Talk

1:45pm CDT

Now that we have AI, can we do a Ruby upgrade?

Thursday September 3, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT

Marquee West

AI and LLMs are rapidly transforming engineering workflows and exposing vulnerabilities in the open-source codebases we rely on. I’ll share my ongoing experiments to streamline Enova's Ruby upgrade process using AI. It will cover where LLMs can be useful, where they fall short, and actionable best practices that all Enova SE teams can apply to their own workflows.

Speakers

Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom is a Software Engineer with 15 years in tech; 7 of them at Enova. Professionally, Tom has an interest in developing agentic workflows to build quality software at a faster pace. Unprofessionally, Tom is an amateur potter, snowboarder, dabbles in game dev, and spends more time... Read More →

Thursday September 3, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT
Marquee West

Lightning Talk

1:45pm CDT

Prompt Engineering & Potty Training: A Survival Guide

Thursday September 3, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT

Airmail

How talking to AI is surprisingly similar to reasoning with a two-year-old.

Speakers

Prerit Mahajan

Prerit has spent 3.5 years at Enova, where he now leads the SMB SRE team: basically, he's the guy who tells the systems to calm down. Born in Mumbai, raised near Philadelphia and now 14 years deep in Chicago, he still hasn't found a Midwest substitute for Wawa and has quietly accepted... Read More →

Thursday September 3, 2026 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT
Airmail

Lightning Talk

2:20pm CDT

Outside the Context Window: The Real Price Tag of Everyday AI

Thursday September 3, 2026 2:20pm - 2:35pm CDT

Marquee East

From a developer who has fully embraced it in his day-to-day work. I will be touching on token costs, cognitive debt and technical skill atrophy, and the environmental price tag of AI

Speakers

Sam Ciucci

Sam has worked at Enova for just over a year in the SMB division, first on the Headway team and now on X-men. When he’s not working, you’ll find him running marathons, playing tennis, and competing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments.

Thursday September 3, 2026 2:20pm - 2:35pm CDT
Marquee East

Lightning Talk

2:20pm CDT

Salesforce meets CI/CD: Integrating with Enova's standard pipeline

Thursday September 3, 2026 2:20pm - 2:35pm CDT

Marquee West

Salesforce meets CI/CD: Integrating with Enova's standard pipeline

Speakers

Priya Viswanathan

I specialize in designing scalable Salesforce solutions, managing complex projects from end to end, and aligning technical execution with strategic business goals. I pride myself on my ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders, translating complex... Read More →

Thursday September 3, 2026 2:20pm - 2:35pm CDT
Marquee West

Lightning Talk

2:20pm CDT

Tame the Beast Within

Thursday September 3, 2026 2:20pm - 2:35pm CDT

Airmail

"Lucid Coding," the practice of using AI not just to write code but to actively probe and problem-solve around AI's own limitations—collaboratively identifying constraints and working with the AI to circumvent or adapt to them.

Speakers

Andrew Kerr

Andrew joined Enova five years ago fresh to the field, barely understanding what a megabyte is. Now he even knows what gigabytes and terabytes are, but today he’ll be sharing some insight from his life before software development.

Thursday September 3, 2026 2:20pm - 2:35pm CDT
Airmail

Lightning Talk

Tech Summit 2026

1:45pm CDT

Lindsay Ladewig

1:45pm CDT

Tom Fitzpatrick

1:45pm CDT

Prerit Mahajan

2:20pm CDT

Sam Ciucci

2:20pm CDT

Priya Viswanathan

2:20pm CDT

Andrew Kerr

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