Sasa Sekulic

CTO at Develhope

Sasa Sekulic is the CTO and Co-founder of Develhope, an edtech company empowering students across Europe and Africa with practical software development skills. With almost three decades of experience in software development, Sasa has led technical teams across startups and enterprises, focusing on scalable architecture and impactful product delivery. He is passionate about building technology that drives social change through education.

AI for Devs: Friend or Foe?

As AI tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and code-generation models rapidly evolve, developers across the experience spectrum are grappling with how their roles will change. Will AI be the ultimate coding companion, or will it disrupt the craft of software engineering? This roundtable invites developers, team leads, and technologists to share how they’re currently using AI, where they see it helping or harming the development process, and what skills or roles might become more (or less) important in an AI-augmented future. How has AI already changed your day-to-day development workflow, if at all? Do you see AI as more helpful to junior developers or senior engineers—and why? Should developers be worried about job displacement, or is AI just another tool to master? What tasks or responsibilities should developers stop doing now that AI can help? What skills will be most valuable for a developer in an AI-augmented world?