As AI agents begin contributing directly to large projects and applications, organizations are encountering a new challenge: determining what can be trusted, approved, merged, and securely deployed.
At Perforce, we call this the Merge Wall, and it’s a problem our P4 architecture is already built to handle.
In this session, we'll show you how our Perforce engineering team uses P4 for their own agentic application development. We’ll also walk you through the new questions every engineering leader needs to be asking about their own AI-driven delivery.
Join Perforce CTO leaders as they explore:
- Why uncontrolled AI execution is emerging as one of the biggest operational risks in modern software delivery
- Learn how leading enterprises are approaching AI accountability, continuous compliance, autonomous testing, and policy-driven execution
- Get an early look at Perforce’s vision for governed autonomous software delivery through Perforce Intelligence and the Perforce Agentic Gateway
Presenters
Anjali Arora
As EVP of Product and Development, Anjali is responsible for product management and development. She has 27 years of experience leading global teams in dynamic environments from private equity growth to publicly traded companies, including Oracle, Allscripts, Rocket Software, and CA Technologies (now Broadcom). A champion for women in technology, Anjali is a high-energy leader with a history of bringing innovative products to market.
Anjali holds a B.A. from St. Stephen’s College in India and a master’s in Computer Applications from the University of Delhi.
Rod Cope
As the CTO of Perforce Software, Rod Cope provides technical vision and architectural leadership for the company’s globally distributed development teams. He also influences product direction and messaging, based on his analysis of market events and trends.
Rod comes from a rich technology background, coming to Perforce from after serving as CTO for Rogue Wave Software as well as Founder/CTO of OpenLogic. He also worked at IBM, IBM Global Services, General Electric, and Anthem and led key technical teams working on mission-critical applications at Ericsson and Integral.
Over his 25+ year software career, Rod has authored insightful, research-backed thought leader (such as the 2026 State of AI and Data Security Report) and spoken on various technical and business topics at dozens of conferences around the world (including JavaOne, LinuxCon, and API World).
Rod holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville. He lives with his wife and dogs in Colorado where they all enjoy hiking and dog sports.
Deepak Giridharagopal
Deepak is CTO at Perforce, where he has helped architect and build Helix Core Cloud. Before that he was CTO at Puppet, working on one of the world's most popular open source configuration management tools. He has a love of infrastructure, distributed systems, and action cinema.