Amplified, Not Replaced: Staying Relevant in a World of AI
Session Overview: The people losing ground to AI are the ones competing with it. The people pulling ahead are using it as an amplifier — one person now delivering what used to take a team. This session is about making that shift
deliberately. We’ll look at the rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer: the hybrid technical role that sits with
the customer, understands the business problem, and uses AI to build and adapt working solutions in days
instead of quarters. These roles are in massive demand precisely because they combine what AI can’t do
— context, judgment, and trust — with fluent use of what AI does brilliantly. You’ll learn where AI genuinely
multiplies your output, where it quietly costs you time, and how to build the working habits that turn AI from
a novelty into leverage
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish the work where AI reliably amplifies your output from the work where it slows you down or introduces risk, so you can direct it at the right tasks.
- Describe the Forward Deployed Engineer model — what the role does, why demand is surging, and which of your existing skills already map to it.
- Build a personal amplification workflow: concrete practices, tools, and delegation patterns that measurably increase what you can deliver without adding headcount.
Speakers: Dewain Robinson, Leon Welicki
Recorded at: Community Summit NA 2026
Type: Education Session
Ability Level: 201 – Intermediate
Primary Product: Agents & Copilot
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