Buy the Hands, Own the Conscience: Governing AI Agents That Ship Enterprise Software

What happens when AI agents can write enterprise software faster than your team can trust it? That gap between speed and accountability is exactly where most coding-agent demos collapse on contact with regulated, mission-critical systems. In this talk, I'll show how to move past the copilot demo to governed, full-lifecycle agentic delivery — building, migrating, modernizing, and supporting real production code. Using real engagements that modernized decades-old systems across financial services, healthcare, and insurance, I'll walk through a deterministic-first architecture where intelligent agents do the engineering while automated verification and human oversight keep every change accountable and traceable. You'll leave with a practical framework for what to automate, what to verify, and how to prove correctness — plus an honest look at where agents excel and where they fail. If you're working to get agent-built software into production you can actually trust, this is your blueprint.