AI Won’t Fix Your Engineering Culture
AI doesn't fix broken systems. It amplifies them. And right now, most organizations are learning that the hard way. This talk reframes the conversation: engineering culture is the real constraint, not...
A chronological collection of Julia Kordick's public conference talks, podcast appearances, and speaking events.

AI doesn't fix broken systems. It amplifies them. And right now, most organizations are learning that the hard way. This talk reframes the conversation: engineering culture is the real constraint, not...
Your pipelines automate the predictable. But what about triaging issues, reviewing PRs, responding to incidents, and coordinating across tools? See what's new in GitHub Actions and how it's becoming t...
Everyone talks about modernizing legacy systems. Few people actually open a COBOL codebase and do it. In this session, I will. Using real mainframe applications, I'll walk through how GitHub Copilot's...
Session at WeAreDevelopers World Congress.
Agentic AI is moving fast from hype to hands on reality. But most teams still struggle with the same questions: - How do I prompt agents effectively? - How do I control context and tools? - And how do...
AI doesn't fix broken systems. It amplifies them. And right now, most organizations are learning that the hard way. This talk reframes the conversation: engineering culture is the real constraint, not...
KI im Software‑Lifecycle einsetzen, Workflows automatisieren und Entwicklerproduktivität steigern.
KI‑gestützte Entwicklung entlang des gesamten Software‑Lifecycles – von der ersten Codezeile bis zur produktiven Anwendung.

Agentic AI verspricht grenzenlose Produktivität in der Softwareentwicklung. In der Praxis scheitert sie jedoch oft an fehlendem Vertrauen, überdrehten Sales-Narrativen und, ja, unserem eigenen Entwick...
How platform engineering and DevEx enable developers and agentic AI on scale.
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we're joined by Microsoft Senior Software Global Black Belt Julia Kordick to discuss all the ways you can modernise older codebases and build new ones with ag...
This week’s guest is Julia Kordick! Join us on March 18 as we explore spec-driven AI development and what “SpeculAItions” might mean for the future of building software, plus more of our favorite web...
This year, GitHub introduced the agent mode for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. In this talk, w...
Viele Unternehmen beklagen den Fachkräftemangel und suchen händeringend nach Entwicklerinnen. Doch die eigentliche Herausforderung beginnt erst nach der Einstellung: Wie halten wir Frauen in der IT? U...
See how GitHub Copilot exhibits agent-like behavior in real dev workflows, planning, executing multi-step tasks, and integrating deeply into engineering processes. Go beyond autocomplete with practica...
Agentic AI is reshaping how we build software, but we are far from the fully autonomous developer utopias that keynote slides love to promise. This talk takes a reality check on where we actually are....
Coding-Agenten wie GitHub Copilot und der Agentic Mode unterstützen Entwickler:innen im Alltag. Warum aber nicht die reine Codegenerierung, sondern vor allem der richtige Kontext über ihren Erfolg ent...

Modernizing applications is less about rewriting and more about understanding, refactoring, and changing code safely.
In this talk we will show how GitHub Copilot supports real-world modernization wo...
In dieser Session werden wir zeigen, wie sich GitHub Copilot von einem reinen Completion-Tool in der Entwicklungsumgebung zu einem tief integrierterten Agenten in der GitHub Plattform entwickelt hat....
In dieser Session schauen uns wir genau diesen Moment an und machen daraus eine Deployment-Story – ganz ohne Copy-Paste von IaC und ohne fragwürdige Bash-Skripte. Stattdessen: ein GitHub-Repo, KI-unte...
This year, GitHub introduced the agent mode for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. In this talk, w...

Join us for a live stream with Julia Kordick, Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft, as she demonstrates how AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot and autonomous agents are transforming large-scale...
On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE, we're joined by Julia Kordick, Global Black Belt at Microsoft, to discuss how her team has been migrating COBOL to the cloud, legacy codebases and working with...
Wie kommunizieren KI-Modelle effizient mit Services, APIs oder Backends? Im Workshop lernst du das Model Context Protocol (MCP) kennen – einen offenen Kommunikationsstandard, der Struktur und Klarheit...
This year, Github introduced the agent mode for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. In this talk, w...
COBOL still underpins many mission-critical systems—but traditional modernization approaches often come with high risk, cost, and complexity. In this session, we’ll explore how AI-assisted development...

Join us at this development-focused talk designed to supercharge your developer productivity. If you want to learn how to tackle the unique challenges of developer velocity in large organizations, thi...
This year, Github introduced the agent mode for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. In this talk, w...
In Folge 10 (DANKE!) nehmen Chris und Matthias dich mit auf gleich zwei Global Azure 2025 Events: den Community-Day im Microsoft Office Köln und das Bootcamp in Bergisch Gladbach.
Gemeinsam mit Julia...
In this session I'll use a simplified example of COBOL - one of the oldest programming languages still in use - to finally put to rest the age-old question: can you modernize your legacy systems? Answ...
In this session, we’ll explore how GitHub Copilot’s latest features can revolutionize your development workflow across IntelliJ, VS Code, and Eclipse. Learn how agent mode enables Copilot to not only...
In this session I'll use a simplified example of COBOL - one of the oldest programming languages still in use - to finally put to rest the age-old question: can you modernize your legacy systems? Answ...
In this session I'll use a simplified example of COBOL - one of the oldest programming languages still in use - to finally put to rest the age-old question: can you modernize your legacy systems? Answ...
This keynote delves into the transformative influence of AI tools on the daily operations of software developers, potentially augmenting their productivity. We will examine the shifts in the cultural...
In diesem Talk gehen wir direkt in die Praxis: Welche Möglichkeiten habe ich auf der Azure-Plattform, wenn ich sogenannte “intelligente Applikationen” entwickeln möchte? Welche Modelle kann ich für me...
