Digital.ai, which helps the world’s most complex organizations deliver trusted software at AI speed, today announced that CEO Derek Holt will join a panel at Ai4 2026 to discuss how coding automation is reshaping enterprise software strategy in the AI era. The panel, “Coding Automation is Here: How Leaders Are Rethinking Software Strategy,” takes place on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at the Venetian, Las Vegas. Holt will be joined by technology leaders from eXp Realty, Piper Sandler and Axiom Partners.

THE AI4 PANEL

Holt will push the conversation beyond speed and toward a harder question: as AI removes the speed limit on writing code, can organizations actually see, secure, and govern what’s being built? He’ll also raise a dimension often left out of the AI-in-software-development conversation — that the same efficiencies benefiting developers are available to attackers, changing the underlying economics of hacking itself.

“Everyone’s optimizing for speed right now. That’s exactly backwards – AI doesn’t just make it cheaper to build software, it makes it cheaper to attack too,” said Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai. “In the AI era, governance is the difference between companies that scale safely and companies that get hacked or outpaced. If your AI coding agent introduces a vulnerability, can you actually see the risk before it ships? Or are you trusting a black box and hoping code review catches it? The question among software leaders has shifted from ‘How do we adopt AI?’ to ‘How do we adopt it responsibly?’ That is the new fast.”

THE AI4 WORKSHOP

Earlier in the week, Digital.ai software engineering leaders Ankur Trivedi and Anil Anaberumutt will host the hands-on workshop, “From Idea to Production: Governing Agentic AI with Adaptive Orchestration,” on Monday, August 3. Attendees will learn how to connect business intent to software delivery, apply governance throughout the development lifecycle, and unify deployment automation, testing, application protection and compliance into a single AI-enabled delivery process.

BLACK HAT USA 2026

Holt and Digital.ai executives will also be in attendance at Black Hat USA 2026 in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, where they will meet with customers, partners, and media to discuss building secure software that protects enterprise applications from today’s evolving threats while accelerating software delivery with AI.

To schedule a meeting with Holt or other Digital.ai executives during Ai4 2026 (booth 1518) or Black Hat USA 2026 (booth 8008), please connect with us here.

ABOUT DEREK HOLT

Derek Holt is CEO of Digital.ai and a leading voice on how AI is transforming software delivery and enterprise operating models. He leads the shift from coding-centric AI to agentic AI applied across the full software delivery lifecycle — what he calls the Fourth Wave, where AI becomes an active participant, not just a faster way to write code. Holt is known for pushing leaders to separate AI activity from AI value: real advantage comes from AI that’s governed and secure, not just AI that’s used. To hear more from Derek and other industry leaders, check out his podcast, Released: The Story Behind the Software, available on Apple Podcasts and all major platforms.

ABOUT DIGITAL.AI

Digital.ai enables the world’s most complex organizations to deliver trusted software at AI speed. By applying agentic AI across the critical stages of software delivery — from planning through security, testing, and delivery — Digital.ai helps enterprises remove bottlenecks, reduce risk, and improve the flow of software value to production. Its solutions integrate into existing environments, allowing organizations to transform to AI-first without disruption. Today, 53% of the Fortune 100 trust Digital.ai to make that happen.

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