Jeff Van Fleet
President & CEO | Lighthouse Technologies
About
Co-author of The Coach and the Geek: Building a Kick Butt Culture. After spending 17 years managing, developing, and deploying complex software/hardware systems for both commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) applications, Jeff founded Lighthouse Technologies in 2000. Their mission is to empower software teams to improve productivity and quality while improving work/life balance. Armed with a deep knowledge of culture building and motivational leadership tactics and a wealth of expertise in software engineering and quality assurance, he’s both a hands-on company leader and the primary architect of Lighthouse’s celebrated workplace culture. When not at work, Jeff loves spending time with his family, baking bread, cheering for Penn State, and hiking.
Scott Boyd
Chief Operating Officer | Lighthouse Technologies
About
After more than 25 years leading large-scale digital transformation — most notably at Capgemini, serving Fortune 500 clients across financial services, insurance, healthcare, and retail — Scott joined Lighthouse Technologies as Chief Operating Officer to help enterprises solve their most complex business and technology challenges. A U.S. Army veteran, Scott brings the same discipline and commitment to his work that he learned in uniform. He is both a hands-on delivery leader and a genuine partner to the clients and teams he serves. Outside of work, Scott enjoys spending time with his family, cheering on Ohio State, diving into research, chasing the perfect photograph, volunteering with Veterans Associations and the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, and pursuing a lifelong passion for learning.
If AI is Writing the Code, Who’s Guarding the Quality?
Description
AI is helping teams rapidly transform the software development lifecycle—from requirements and design to coding and testing. While AI tools offer faster delivery and greater productivity, they also introduce new and often overlooked quality risks.
Without the right processes and culture in place, AI can amplify existing challenges—leading to increased rework, wasted resources, team burnout, and a loss of trust in delivery outcomes.
In this interactive session, Jeff Van Fleet and Scott Boyd break down how AI is reshaping the SDLC, where it can introduce hidden risks, and how QA teams can mitigate those risks.
You’ll assess where your team sits on an AI maturity model, see what the data show about how teams like yours are performing at each stage, and leave with concrete next steps — not theory, but something you can act on tomorrow:
How AI is impacting each phase of the SDLC—and where it creates the most risk
The most common quality issues introduced by AI-generated code
How to build reciprocal feedback loops where your team’s domain expertise ensures outputs are repeatable, high-quality, and continuously improved upon by both humans and AI