What engineers can expect

Juliette van der Laarse of the AI Flower Foundation on how fast AI is changing engineering work, and what engineers can expect from their work.

Juliette van der Laarse, Founding Director, AI Flower Foundation · with Luca Berton

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Juliette van der Laarse is Founding Director of the AI Flower Foundation, which is in formation, and created the AI Flower, an open capability architecture for AI-native engineering.

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Why this conversation

Juliette van der Laarse gave the Friday keynote at Open Source Summit Europe 2026, “From a Thousand Private Agents to One Open Garden”. At 11:20, after it, she recorded with the show. The AI Flower Foundation, which is in formation, started as her way to make sense of how fast AI was changing engineering work, and the conversation is about what engineers can expect from their work.

When it comes out

The episode is recorded and in the edit. Like every episode it goes out on YouTube first, then on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. The story of the week it was filmed is in Open Source Summit Europe 2026: who we met.

About Juliette van der Laarse

Juliette van der Laarse is Founding Director of the AI Flower Foundation, which is in formation, and created the AI Flower, an open capability architecture for AI-native engineering.

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