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Philip Camilleri

Codistry.com

Founder
Philip Camilleri is a software engineer with over 30 years of experience across web, mobile development, telecoms, investment banking and startups. Born and raised in Malta, he co-founded SmartAsset in New York City in 2011, scaling it from zero to over 100 million users per month, becoming the first Maltese founder at Y Combinator, and raising over $150 million in venture capital at a unicorn valuation. Following SmartAsset, he joined Bitkraft Ventures as CTO, where he led a full rebuild of internal systems using 100% AI-generated code. Seeing the scale of the shift firsthand, he went on to found Codistry earlier this year, focused on upskilling engineers and non-engineers into AI-first builders. His work now targets the seismic shift in how software is built: AI coding agents deliver production-grade systems exponentially faster than human developers, and Codistry's goal is to equip anyone to harness these skills at full scale.
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Growth Stage
Jun 4, 2026
12:30 PM12:55 PM

Scaling Talent and the Rise of Technical Entrepreneurship

Philip CamilleriNacho Sánchez
Description
A growing share of high-growth companies are being built by technical talent, reshaping how teams are formed and how companies scale. This session will explore how the future of work is evolving, with a focus on upskilling talent and the increasing importance of technical profiles in entrepreneurship. It will examine how access to technical expertise influences innovation speed, product development, and company-building, as well as what ecosystems must do to attract, develop, and retain the talent needed for the next wave of global startups.
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