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Opening Keynote: The Infrastructure Decade

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

Where we are in the cloud-native maturity curve — and what the next five years look like for the teams building the infrastructure that everything else runs on. A keynote grounded in real data from 1,400 engineering organizations.

Kubernetes at 10: What We Learned the Hard Way

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM

A decade of Kubernetes in production. This session catalogs the failure modes that still catch teams off guard — noisy neighbors, node affinity misconfigurations, PodDisruptionBudgets that silently fail, and the upgrade path that never gets easier. Includes a live walkthrough of a real incident postmortem.

Platform Engineering 101: Building Your First IDP

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Internal developer platforms don't have to be a multi-year initiative. This session walks through building a minimal, useful IDP starting from a Backstage skeleton — what to build first, what to buy, and what to ignore. Live demo included.

eBPF in Production: Observability Without the Overhead

6:00 PM – 6:50 PM

How eBPF changes what's possible in observability without requiring kernel changes, sidecar injection, or application instrumentation. Real numbers on overhead, a comparison of current tooling (Cilium, Pixie, Falco), and a live demo of zero-instrumentation distributed tracing.

Zero-Trust Networking for Microservices

6:00 PM – 6:50 PM

Perimeter security is dead — but most microservices architectures still rely on it by default. This session shows how to layer mutual TLS, service-to-service authorization policies, and ambient mesh into an existing architecture without a full rewrite.

Multi-Region Active-Active on AWS: Real Numbers

8:00 PM – 8:50 PM

Theory is easy. Running globally distributed systems at 99.999% availability is not. A detailed post-mortem of migrating a high-throughput payment system to multi-region active-active — what we got wrong, what the latency actually looked like, and the Global Accelerator decision we almost regret.

LLM Inference at Scale: Serving 10M Requests a Day

8:00 PM – 8:50 PM

The operational reality of running large language models in production: batching strategies, KV cache management, speculative decoding, quantization trade-offs, and the GPU scheduling decisions that most teams get wrong. Includes a detailed cost breakdown.

The IDP Maturity Model: Where Does Your Org Fall?

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

A framework for honestly assessing where your platform engineering practice sits — and what the highest-leverage investments are at each stage. Built from analysis of 200+ engineering organizations across industries.

FinOps: Cutting Your Cloud Bill Without Slowing Down

10:00 PM – 10:50 PM

The teams spending the most on cloud aren't always the ones building the most. How to identify waste systematically, use Spot Instances and Savings Plans without operational pain, and build a culture of cost ownership without bean-counting.

Day 2 Keynote: Platform Engineering at Human Scale

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

Why the best developer platforms in the world aren't the most technically sophisticated ones — they're the ones that actually get used. A keynote on the organizational and UX principles behind platforms that engineers love.

GitOps at Scale: Managing 500+ Repositories

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM

What GitOps looks like when you're beyond the happy-path documentation — multi-cluster fleet management with ArgoCD, drift detection that doesn't create alert fatigue, and the monorepo vs. polyrepo decision at 500+ microservices.

Vector Databases: Architecture and Tradeoffs in 2026

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM

A neutral comparison of the current vector database landscape — Pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and Chroma — with benchmarks across indexing time, query latency, recall rate, and operational complexity. When to use each, and when to reach for none of them.

Supply Chain Security: SLSA Level 3 in Practice

6:00 PM – 6:50 PM

Software supply chain attacks are up 700% in three years. SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) provides a framework for hardening your pipeline — this session shows what achieving Level 3 compliance actually looks like in a real CI/CD environment.

Service Mesh Showdown: Istio vs. Cilium in 2026

8:00 PM – 8:50 PM

A head-to-head comparison built on real migration experience, not documentation. Control-plane overhead, mTLS handshake latency, observability depth, operational toil, and the upgrade experience that neither vendor advertises honestly.

Closing Panel: The Next 10 Years of Infrastructure

10:00 PM – 10:50 PM

All five speakers on stage. What gets commoditized, what gets harder, and what skills infrastructure engineers should be building right now. Audience Q&A for the final 20 minutes.