Most conversations about AI in engineering focus on automation. This one doesn't.

In this fireside chat, Janis Vavere sits down with Neel Shah, a systems engineering leader who has scaled complex programs at Lucid Motors and Jaguar Land Rover, to talk about what is actually changing, what is being oversold, and where engineering teams are quietly getting it wrong.

This is a practitioner conversation, not a vendor pitch. Neel brings a point of view shaped by real programs, real tradeoffs, and a belief that most teams are solving the wrong problems with the wrong tools.

We will cover:

• What is genuinely shifting in systems engineering and what is mostly noise
• Where AI creates real leverage in the requirements process and where it does not
• Why requirements remain the most underutilized control point in modern engineering
• What a modern requirements workflow actually looks like when you build it for today, not for ten years ago
• How to think about tooling and process when your team is scaling under pressure

If you are a systems engineer or engineering leader trying to cut through the hype and figure out what to actually do differently, this is the conversation for you.

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