ConfAI - Dev Workshop

Trainers

*Trainer lineup and content may shift to stay up-to-date and of the highest value!

Yavor Belakov

Co-Founder & AI Engineer @ Team-GPT

• Founder of AI startup, 50k+ users, raised $4.5M

• 8 years of software development experience

• Founder @ AIE.F Europe (AIE.F is US’s biggest AI engineer community)

• Stack: Node, TypeScript, React, Next.js (t3 stack)

• AI Tools Presenting: Cursor, Claude Code

Milko Slavov

CTO @ IncentivAI | CTO @ NEG.BG

• 20 years dev experience, 6 at hands-on leadership roles

• Leads multiple AI-driven startups and platforms

• Industries: Cloud, AI, IoT, Social Media, Energy, Mobile

• Stack: TypeScript/Python, Next.js/Expo/FastAPI, GCP/K8s/Firebase/Supabase

• AI Tools Presenting: Cursor, Perplexity, Claude, OpenAI, Manus

Martin Kuvandzhiev

CEO @ Encorp.ai
Co-Founder @ Bitcoin Gold ($7B project)

• 12 years dev experience, 8 at hands-on leadership roles

• Forbes' Entrepreneur Under 30 (2023) & John Atanasoff Award

• Builds AI integrations and automations for top enterprises

• Stack: Swift, JS, C/C++, Python, NodeJS, React, NextJS

• AI Tools Presenting: Augment Code, Cline, Claude Code, Firebase Studio

Jemal Ahmedov

Tech Lead & Full-stack Engineer @ Checkatrade

• 10 years dev experience, 4 as tech lead

• Uses AI to ship ultra-fast. Led large-scale cloud projects

• Industries: Consulting, E-commerce, Finance & Data, Logistics, Energy, EdTech

• Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, .NET, React, React Native, GraphQL, Terraform, Cloud

• AI Tools Presenting: Cursor, Warp

About the Workshop

What is the workshop about?

A one-day, hands-on workshop focused on the effective use of the best AI tools for software engineers.

What results can you realistically expect?

An increase in your day-to-day productivity by an average of 50% to 200%, with your execution speed on some tasks improving more than 10x.

Who will be leading the workshop?

The workshop is a one-day event, divided into four separate sessions, led by proven senior software engineers from top AI companies who are power users of these AI tools.

Which tools will be the focus?

The primary focus will be on Cursor, currently the best AI development tool. Additionally, there will be a demo and comparison of Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Claude Code, Firebase Studio and Augment Code as Cursor's alternatives.

Why Cursor?

Developers overwhelmingly consider Cursor the best AI development tool. For context, in just four months, it raised $160M, hitting a $2.6B valuation - earning the title "Fastest Growing SaaS in History."

Is my data private and secure with Cursor?

Yes. Cursor takes privacy seriously:
- In Privacy Mode, your code isn’t stored on their servers and is securely encrypted in transit.
- They offer a mutual NDA for companies.
- They have zero data retention agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Who is this workshop for?

Mid to senior software developers, lead engineers, and hands-on technical executives.

What will you learn?

You will completely shift your programming paradigm from manual to AI-driven software development. You'll learn how to write/talk directly with Cursor’s AI Agent, powered by the most advanced LLMs, while your primary role becomes reviewing the changes.

How to keep your company's data private and secure without compromising the efficiency and effectiveness of the AI tools you use.

How to set up custom rules in Cursor according to your goals, so the agent performs almost exactly as you want—User Rules and Project Rules. You'll also see how power users configure their coding guidelines & coding style.

How to optimize your Cursor setup to move beyond the generic agent behavior and unlock the highest-quality results possible.

How to leverage different AI models depending on the use case.

How to use Cursor to build features for existing projects/products.

How to use Cursor to build a project from scratch.

How to architect systems in advance and have Cursor implement them.

How to automate commit messages and pull requests.

How to integrate your existing project documentation, libraries, APIs, frameworks, and SDKs into Cursor so it has the right context and provides maximum value.

How to use Cursor to speed up your workflow with the command line (many developers say this is an extremely useful AI use case).

How to set up a custom Cursor workflow, e.g., ensuring that every new feature implementation also includes Unit Tests, documentation, dev-prod logic, etc.

How to debug effectively with Cursor.

How to run Cursor’s AI to scan your entire project for bugs.

Demo and comparison of Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and other useful software development AI tools.

Training Partners