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25 June 2026

The age of AI runs on Platform Engineering

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Legendary speakers

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer & Developer Advocate

Mallory Haigh

Principal Platform Therapist, Platform Engineering

Caroline Wong

Director of Security, Teradata

Luca Galante

Core contributor, Platform Engineering

Rickey Zachary

Global Lead of Platform Engineering, Thoughtworks

Jay Moran

SVP of Platform Engineering, Fiserv

André Alfter

Executive Principal, Bechtle

Seth Shelnutt

VP of Engineering, Coder

Matthew Sweeney

Co-Founder and CTO, Gomboc AI

Oved Lourie

CTO, env zero

Join leading enterprise teams

Agenda: a full day of platform engineering

Full agenda

Agenda at a glance

09:00

-

10:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Thinking in platforms: Thrive in the agentic era

Luca Galante

Managing Director & Senior Analyst, Weave Intelligence

Kaspar von Grünberg

Author

10:00

-

11:00

EDT

Training

Platform Pitt

Platform Clinic for the age of AI

Ajay Chankramath

CTO, Platform Engineering Consulting

10:00

-

10:30

EDT

Panel

Main Stage

The vulnerability apocalypse: AI broke the security playbook

Mandi Walls

Developer Advocate, PagerDuty

John Willis

AICIO

Ian Amit

CEO and Co-Founder, Gomboc.ai

Drew Gutstein

GS.works

Moderator

Alan Shimel

CEO, Techstrong Group

10:00

-

11:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

Kill the slack queue: Governed cloud self-service with Google Project Factory

Artem Artyunov

Director of Solutions Architecture, env zero

10:00

-

11:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Control and velocity: Platform governance that accelerates teams

Derry Bradley

Senior Field Engineer, CircleCI

10:30

-

11:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Leadership in AI-assisted engineering

Justin Reock

Deputy CTO, DX

11:00

-

11:30

EDT

Break

Morning Break ☕

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Roundtable

Platform Therapy

Managing cost in the age of AI

Joe Benincasa

Head of Product, ProsperOps

Kaspar von Grünberg

Author

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Making observability a first-class platform concern

Julia Morgado

Principal Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

From alert to fix: A hands-on framework for security remediation that actually closes the loop

Shawn Chakravarty

Sr. Director of Active Defense and SANS Certified Instructor, Upwork

Matthew Sweeney

Co-Founder and CTO, Gomboc AI

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Workshop

Platform Pitt

Designing high-throughput LLM inference pipelines with NVIDIA Dynamo

Mayank Debnath

Director, Developer Relations

11:30

-

12:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

Kelsey Hightower

Retired Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud. Author, Investor, and Technical Advisor

12:00

-

12:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Scaling agentic AI: From infrastructure to enterprise outcomes

Duncan Ng

Vice President Solutions Engineering, Vultr

12:30

-

14:00

EDT

Break

Lunch and networking 🥗

14:00

-

15:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

5 prompting techniques every platform team should standardize before their next AI rollout

Justin Reock

Deputy CTO, DX

14:00

-

15:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Pitt

Stop copy-pasting pipelines: Build reusable deployments with Octopus

Ryan Rousseau

Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Octopus Deploy

14:00

-

15:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Secure AI-assisted development: Hands-on patterns for working safely with coding agents

Greg Hoelzer

Partner Sales Engineer, Coder

Vinod Shukla

Principal Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services

14:00

-

14:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Security by design for agentic AI: How CISOs stay in control of autonomous systems

Caroline Wong

Chief Strategy Officer, Axari

14:30

-

15:00

EDT

Panel

Main Stage

Securing the platform: Hard-won lessons from the teams who’ve been breached, scaled, and survived

Caroline Wong

Chief Strategy Officer, Axari

Dilpreet Bindra

Sr. Director of Engineering, Broadcom

Seth Shelnutt

VP of Engineering, Coder

Moderator

André Alfter

Senior Director, Bechtle

15:00

-

15:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Architecting Agentic Development Platforms

Mallory Haigh

Head of Platform Education, Platform Engineering Consulting

Ajay Chankramath

CTO, Platform Engineering Consulting

15:30

-

16:00

EDT

Break

Afternoon Break ☕

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Roundtable

Platform Therapy

Designing the Agentic Development Platform

Duncan Ng

Vice President Solutions Engineering, Vultr

Kaspar von Grünberg

Author

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Pitt

From 500K to 27K tokens: context engineering for production AI agents

Andre Elizondo

Director of Innovation, Mezmo

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Your AI Agent can read your API keys: How to prevent credential exfiltration

Jake Hulberg

Developer Advocate, Infisical

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

Hands-on workshop: Building and scaling AWS SCPs for platform governance

Nigel Sood

Cloud Security Research Analyst, Sonrai Security

16:00

-

16:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Navigating regulated scale: How Fiserv hones golden paths for 7,500 developers

Jay Moran

SVP of Platform Engineering, Fiserv

16:30

-

17:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

API context Is the new contract for an agent-native SDLC

Harry Mower

Field CTO, Postman

17:00

-

17:30

EDT

Panel

Main Stage

Closing panel: The future of platform engineering and what to build next

Oved Lourie

CTO, env zero

Mallory Haigh

Head of Platform Education, Platform Engineering Consulting

Todd Rizley

Solutions Engineering Leader. Port

Moderator

Rickey Zachary

Global Engineering Platforms Lead, Thoughtworks

17:30

-

19:00

EDT

Break

Booth crawl and drinks 🍸

19:00

EDT

HOK

House of Kube

Lavan Chelsea. 541 W 25th St, New York, 10001

Details

Agenda: a full day of platform engineering

Full agenda

Agenda at a glance

09:00

-

10:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Thinking in platforms: Thrive in the agentic era

Luca Galante

Managing Director & Senior Analyst, Weave Intelligence

Kaspar von Grünberg

Author

10:00

-

11:00

EDT

Training

Platform Pitt

Platform Clinic for the age of AI

Ajay Chankramath

CTO, Platform Engineering Consulting

10:00

-

10:30

EDT

Panel

Main Stage

The vulnerability apocalypse: AI broke the security playbook

Mandi Walls

Developer Advocate, PagerDuty

John Willis

AICIO

Ian Amit

CEO and Co-Founder, Gomboc.ai

Drew Gutstein

GS.works

Moderator

Alan Shimel

CEO, Techstrong Group

10:00

-

11:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

Kill the slack queue: Governed cloud self-service with Google Project Factory

Artem Artyunov

Director of Solutions Architecture, env zero

10:00

-

11:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Control and velocity: Platform governance that accelerates teams

Derry Bradley

Senior Field Engineer, CircleCI

10:30

-

11:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Leadership in AI-assisted engineering

Justin Reock

Deputy CTO, DX

11:00

-

11:30

EDT

Break

Morning Break ☕

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Roundtable

Platform Therapy

Managing cost in the age of AI

Joe Benincasa

Head of Product, ProsperOps

Kaspar von Grünberg

Author

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Making observability a first-class platform concern

Julia Morgado

Principal Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

From alert to fix: A hands-on framework for security remediation that actually closes the loop

Shawn Chakravarty

Sr. Director of Active Defense and SANS Certified Instructor, Upwork

Matthew Sweeney

Co-Founder and CTO, Gomboc AI

11:30

-

12:30

EDT

Workshop

Platform Pitt

Designing high-throughput LLM inference pipelines with NVIDIA Dynamo

Mayank Debnath

Director, Developer Relations

11:30

-

12:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

Kelsey Hightower

Retired Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud. Author, Investor, and Technical Advisor

12:00

-

12:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Scaling agentic AI: From infrastructure to enterprise outcomes

Duncan Ng

Vice President Solutions Engineering, Vultr

12:30

-

14:00

EDT

Break

Lunch and networking 🥗

14:00

-

15:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

5 prompting techniques every platform team should standardize before their next AI rollout

Justin Reock

Deputy CTO, DX

14:00

-

15:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Pitt

Stop copy-pasting pipelines: Build reusable deployments with Octopus

Ryan Rousseau

Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Octopus Deploy

14:00

-

15:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Secure AI-assisted development: Hands-on patterns for working safely with coding agents

Greg Hoelzer

Partner Sales Engineer, Coder

Vinod Shukla

Principal Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services

14:00

-

14:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Security by design for agentic AI: How CISOs stay in control of autonomous systems

Caroline Wong

Chief Strategy Officer, Axari

14:30

-

15:00

EDT

Panel

Main Stage

Securing the platform: Hard-won lessons from the teams who’ve been breached, scaled, and survived

Caroline Wong

Chief Strategy Officer, Axari

Dilpreet Bindra

Sr. Director of Engineering, Broadcom

Seth Shelnutt

VP of Engineering, Coder

Moderator

André Alfter

Senior Director, Bechtle

15:00

-

15:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Architecting Agentic Development Platforms

Mallory Haigh

Head of Platform Education, Platform Engineering Consulting

Ajay Chankramath

CTO, Platform Engineering Consulting

15:30

-

16:00

EDT

Break

Afternoon Break ☕

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Roundtable

Platform Therapy

Designing the Agentic Development Platform

Duncan Ng

Vice President Solutions Engineering, Vultr

Kaspar von Grünberg

Author

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Pitt

From 500K to 27K tokens: context engineering for production AI agents

Andre Elizondo

Director of Innovation, Mezmo

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Garage

Your AI Agent can read your API keys: How to prevent credential exfiltration

Jake Hulberg

Developer Advocate, Infisical

16:00

-

17:00

EDT

Workshop

Platform Dojo

Hands-on workshop: Building and scaling AWS SCPs for platform governance

Nigel Sood

Cloud Security Research Analyst, Sonrai Security

16:00

-

16:30

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

Navigating regulated scale: How Fiserv hones golden paths for 7,500 developers

Jay Moran

SVP of Platform Engineering, Fiserv

16:30

-

17:00

EDT

Talk

Main Stage

API context Is the new contract for an agent-native SDLC

Harry Mower

Field CTO, Postman

17:00

-

17:30

EDT

Panel

Main Stage

Closing panel: The future of platform engineering and what to build next

Oved Lourie

CTO, env zero

Mallory Haigh

Head of Platform Education, Platform Engineering Consulting

Todd Rizley

Solutions Engineering Leader. Port

Moderator

Rickey Zachary

Global Engineering Platforms Lead, Thoughtworks

17:30

-

19:00

EDT

Break

Booth crawl and drinks 🍸

19:00

EDT

HOK

House of Kube

Lavan Chelsea. 541 W 25th St, New York, 10001

Details

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