London · Friday 23 October 2026
We’re speaking at TechLead Conf London
TechLead Conf is GitNation’s conference for engineering leads, and this edition is about AI in organisations. Albert Franquesa gives a lightning talk on leading teams when AI writes the code, and we’re at stand G1 all day.
TechLead Conf London 2026
Venue
The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD
Find us at stand G1
Friday 23 October, from 08:00
Albert’s lightning talk: 15:00 to 15:30 BST
Albert’s lightning talk
How tech leads keep control when AI writes the code
Friday 23 October · 15:00 BST · Lightning Talks
Most review processes were built for human authors. In seven minutes, Albert sets out a simple model for tech leads: enforce your standards before code is written, measure what AI gets right and wrong, and use that evidence to decide where agents can do more.
Sneak peek
Humans don’t leave the loop. They move up it.
Writing code got cheap, but reviewing it didn’t: GitHub now merges around 4 million pull requests a day. Albert walks through five levels of the loop, where an agent writes, something checks and it fixes, and shows how the tech lead’s job changes at each one, from reading every line to reading the record instead of the diff.
The speaker
Albert Franquesa
Chief of Strategy and Board Member at Quality Clouds. Albert started as a developer at IBM and went on to lead delivery at GFT, so he has watched code reach production from both sides. Today he works on what happens when AI-written code lands in production at scale.
Digital goodie bag
Three months of Norma free, and a £100 draw
Everyone who signs up to Norma gets three months of the paid plan, on us. Run one scan and you’re also in the draw for a £100 Amazon gift card. Entries close at 24:00 UK time on Friday 23 October, and we’ll pick the winner at random three days after the event.
The day
Where to find us
TechLead is a one-day conference. The stand is open from registration until the last coffee break, and Albert speaks in the afternoon lightning talks.
08:00
Doors open
Registration starts and the stand is open.
09:00
Talks begin
The main programme runs until 17:00.
12:40
Lunch
Served in the expo room, so come and find us.
15:00
Lightning talks
Albert is on stage in the 15:00 to 15:30 block.
19:00
Afterparty
A pub quiz in the same room as the stands.
At stand G1
What we’ll show you
Inside the agent loop
Norma’s MCP server runs over OAuth in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Replit, or anything else that speaks MCP. The agent checks its own work against your rules before you read the diff.
Across the whole repository
The GitHub App reviews pull requests and posts what it finds as a review comment, so code that never went near an agent gets the same treatment.
The record
Every check and every finding is stored, including which client made the request. That is what answers who checked this, when, and what they did about it.
Come and find us at stand G1
We’re at The Brewery all day on Friday 23 October. Bring a repository and a rule you care about, and we’ll run the check in front of you.