AUSTIN — October 8, 2026 — Sonar, the global leader in agentic code verification and governance, will be front and center at AI Engineer New York, October 12-14, 2026, with five talks, including a keynote from Sonar CEO, Tariq Shaukat, about how enterprises can build software factories that ship what their agents create with confidence.
Tariq’s keynote, “The Machine that Changed the World, vAI,” will examine how code confidence, not model capability, is the defining constraint of agentic development. Drawing lessons from the factories that transformed modern manufacturing, he will outline Sonar’s code confidence formula: intent x guiderails x independent verification x auditable evidence. Each piece is crucial; if any term is zero then so is confidence. It must hold on every change, at any volume and at agent speed.
AI agents are evolving the economics of development by increasing the volume and velocity of code creation with software factories. The challenge for enterprises has shifted from generating code to instilling confidence in code, as agents produce changes faster than traditional review can absorb. To scale without trading speed for risk, teams need clear intent, guiderails that guide and govern agents, independent verification of every change, and auditable evidence that lets teams stand behind what their agents build.
Where to see Sonar at AI Engineer New York
Sonar will lead the following sessions:
- “Hands On Gitar: SonarQube’s AI Code Verification Agent,” Killian Carlsen-Phelan and Taylor Lutterll-Williams, Sonar — Monday, Oct. 12, 1:15-2:15 p.m. EDT (Shannon Room)
- “Who verifies the software factory?” Manish Kapur, Sonar, and Addy Osmani, Anthropic — Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2:05-2:23 p.m. EDT (Sutton Room)
- “The Machine that Changed the World, vAI,” Tariq Shaukat, CEO, Sonar — Wednesday, Oct. 14, 9:18-9:36 a.m. EDT (Simons Room)
- “Hunt before you're hunted: SonarQube Hunter Agent in action,” Taylor Luttrell-Williams, Sonar — Wednesday, Oct. 14, 11:30-11:48 a.m. EDT (Sutton Room)
- “Catch your coding agent's mistakes before the PR,” Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar — Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1:40-1:58 p.m. EDT (Sutton Room)
Attendees can also visit Sonar at Booth 8 to see live demonstrations of its AI code verification and governance platform, including its agentic capabilities Sonar Vortex, SonarQube Hunter Agent and SonarQube Remediation Agent, as well as its cutting-edge solutions such as SonarQube Advanced Security and Gitar, its recently acquired AI code review solution.
Continue the conversation at SonarQube World Tour New York
Join Sonar at the end of the week for its SonarQube World Tour New York event on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 12:00–6:00 p.m. at Convene, 360 Madison Avenue. The event is the only U.S. stop on the 2026 World Tour and an official AI Engineer New York side event.
Attendees can see Sonar’s latest capabilities in action, hear the product roadmap, take part in hands-on breakout labs and connect with peers over a closing happy hour. Register for SonarQube World Tour New York here: https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/events/world-tour/new-york-city/
About Sonar
Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Trusted by 75% of the Fortune 100, Sonar reduces outages, improves security, and lowers the cost and risk of agentic software development. SonarQube, Sonar's core platform, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, catching bugs, vulnerabilities, and architectural flaws before they reach production. Sonar is relied on for AI code verification and governance by 7M+ developers globally, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company. A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader¹, Sonar is the essential trust layer for the enterprise agentic software factory.
To learn more about Sonar, please visit sonar.com.
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