Your tech career in the AI age (Q&A w/ a recruiter)

Hosted by Brian Pedersen and Doug Turnbull

Thu, Apr 2, 2026

6:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Navigating your tech career in the agentic age

Hear from a recruiter on where tech candidates go wrong - learn from AI expert on the new tech career ladder

Hear from an active tech recruiter

Bring your questions! Get insights and feedback on what hiring managers want when looking at candidates

Create a plan for skills development

Hear from AI experts on where your tech career path might be the same (or different) from years past

Why this topic matters

It's scary out there. Skills we thought would be timeless are being brought into question. We're all being asked to relearn our career as agentic coding continues to eat software development. Come participate in a discussion with Brian Pedersen and AI expert Doug Turnbull on what the new tech career path looks like and how to navigate a very difficult time in the software profession.

You'll learn from

Brian Pedersen

Principal, "The Search Bar" (AI Search Hiring Firm)

As the leader of a search and AI hiring firm, Brian interacts regularly with hiring managers seeking to grow teams. As part of this, Brian represents search and AI talent to startups and the fortune 500 at his company The Search Bar. The Search Bar places AI & Search professionals for direct hire and freelance roles.

Doug Turnbull

Principal Engineer - Reddit + Shopify

In 2012, Doug got bit by the search bug and he's still trying to keep up. He's acted as search teams at Reddit and Shopify, helping build search tools that drove their early AI startups. Doug's had a front row seat to how AI transforms organizations. Now bitten by the AI coding bug, he spends his days teaching on Maven and developing search+RAG solutions for clients.

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