The world wins with happy developers

I just spent the last couple of days at the We Are Developers World Conference in Berlin with my team. Not surprisingly agentic AI was a big topic especially how the software development life cycle is being redefined along with the job of software development itself, what is worth measuring and what is not, and how different companies are tackling similar challenges.

My aim in this conference was not to gather technical details, but rather to look for inspiration to become a better manager, therefore several of the talks I decided to attend were about creating high performance teams, removing friction and improving developer experience. Time well spent.

Plus there is the possibility to watch all other talks online. In that sense, zero FOMO during the conference knowing everything will be available. Kudos to the organisers.

First published in LinkedIn

Civil ET&S Award 2025

Posted in LinkedIn earlier this week

What a great way to finish the year, really honoured to be part of the team which has received the Civil ET&S Award in the Engineering Excellence category.

Nice example of how collaboration across Services, Digital & Engineering working as one team towards a common objective really makes a difference.

Kimon Abu-Taa, Theodora Tzortzoglou, Christian Otterbach, Oguzhan Bozkurt, Theresa Robinson, Łukasz Więckowski, Alberto Bava, José Manuel Sarrión Navarro, Luca Fontana, Pasquale D'Urso

Business trip to India

I posted this in LinkedIn a few days ago

Kristian Harder and I visited Tata Consultancy Services in Bangalore and Pune two weeks ago, and I would like to thank the whole team for making us feel truly welcome, specially our hosts Anil Gangolli, Ronney Samuel and Sneha Sikchi (Malpani).

Our teams have been working together for several years and there is a strong foundation to continue our collaboration, based on our common commitment to deliver high quality data and software products. Thanks for letting us take part in your townhall meetings to provide context on Business Aviation and how we use data to drive decisions and enable value.

On a more personal note, playing cricket for the first time and doing it in India will be a cherished memory.