Two Buzzwords Finally Meet! How should we manage AI in large organizations? What are the "services" developers need to add AI to enterprise apps, and what role do platform engineers take? Where do data scientists fit in? How does MCP, A2A, and whatever the latest AI API is fit in? There are so many questions because the field of managing AI in enterprises barely exists. We need to figure it out quickly however, before we see a repeat of a past patterns, like shadow AI and unmanageable apps in production. Based on real-world examples, this talk will go over what we currently know about using platform engineering to help developers use AI.

Michael Cote studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck_ cover these topics. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.