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Learn from the leaders behind the platform engineering revolution
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10:30 am
Jun 26
The Platform Engineer
The Platform Engineer
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11:00 am
Jun 26
Fireside chat
Fireside chat
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12:00 pm
Jun 26
Two sides of the platform coin with operator’s and customer’s voices
Two sides of the platform coin with operator’s and customer’s voices
This session offers a dual perspective on platform engineering, exploring how close collaboration between platform operators and their customers can unlock real organizational value and accelerate innovation.

Effective platform engineering goes beyond tooling—it’s about building a shared foundation between those who create the platform and those who rely on it to deliver value. In this talk, Ahmed Bebars and Sarah Duncan reflect on their experience navigating both sides of the platform journey: Bebars from the operator’s viewpoint, architecting with open-source tools like Kubernetes, and Duncan from the customer side, using those platforms to drive outcomes.

Together, they highlight the importance of collaboration, feedback loops, and a product mindset in fostering adoption and delivering results. The session explores how standardization, open-source solutions, and continuous iteration lead to scalable platforms that empower teams and accelerate product development. Attendees will walk away with practical insights into aligning operator and user needs, improving platform usability, and understanding the broader impact of platform engineering within an organization.

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2:30 pm
Jun 26
Shift down: A practical guide to platform engineering
Shift down: A practical guide to platform engineering
Practical insights and observations from Google’s internal platform engineering journey.

Leveraging years of experience building internal platforms at Google, this session offers actionable insights for customers on creating effective development ecosystems. Learn how to prioritize safety, efficiency, and reliability through the interplay of platform engineering, feature development, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Whether you’re a seasoned cloud native or new to platform engineering, this talk can help you optimize software delivery, operations, and achieve your business goals.

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3:30 pm
Jun 26
Common platform team mistakes and how to avoid them
Common platform team mistakes and how to avoid them
This talk will cover some of the common mistakes I have seen platform teams make, how to avoid them and recover from making them to ensure long-term team success.

This talk will cover content from my book, and specifically speak to common anti-patterns I've seen platform team leaders make. Some of the topics will include:

Mistake: Not writing code

Mistake: Not supporting critical systems

Mistake: Not doing customer and market research for new initiatives

Mistake: Building v2 instead of evolving from v1

Mistake: Failing to communicate your strategy, progress, and impact effectively to customers and stakeholders

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Jun 26
Fostering developer autonomy: Culture-driven platform engineering
Fostering developer autonomy: Culture-driven platform engineering
Preeti Somal, SVP of Engineering at Temporal, reveals how engineering culture impacts platform success. Drawing from her 30+ years at HashiCorp, Yahoo!, and VMware, she'll share how to build platforms that truly empower developers.

In today's tech landscape, platforms fail when they ignore engineering culture. Drawing from 30+ years leading engineering teams at Temporal, HashiCorp, Yahoo!, and Oracle, Preeti Somal shares how cultural considerations should drive platform design.

This talk explores the often-overlooked human side of platform engineering – beyond tools and tech. Preeti will reveal practical strategies for fostering a culture where platforms enhance developer autonomy rather than restrict it. She'll discuss how to balance standardization with flexibility, measure platform success through developer happiness, and create feedback loops that continuously improve developer experience.

Learn how to build platforms that engineers truly want to use, boosting productivity and innovation across your organization.

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Jun 26
Reduce costly security vulnerabilities by validating before deployment
Reduce costly security vulnerabilities by validating before deployment
Explore how you can use GitHub Actions to test your WAF configuration before deployment via Terraform. Helping eliminate costly security gaps and potential high rates of false positives.

This session will explore how GitHub and GitHub Actions can contribute to smoother building, managing and deploying a consistent and tested WAF policy across your infrastructure. We’ll begin by covering the fundamentals of GitActions, Fastly NGWAF and deployment models. We’ll examine how to create a simple WAF rule and use a local deployment to test the rule to ensure that you security settings are valid.

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Solving service ownership once-and-for-all
Solving service ownership once-and-for-all
Learn to define, automate, and validate ownership for complete visibility, continuous improvement, and a consistent developer experience.

Ownership is the foundation for Engineering Excellence and making progress against your goals. When service ownership isn’t clearly defined or always-up-to-date, vulnerabilities may never reach the right teams, incidents can cascade through downstream services, and strategic initiatives stall. In this interactive workshop, you’ll dive deep into the art and science of ownership. Learn how to accurately define ownership, leverage automation to discover and verify current owners, and establish robust validation processes. We will also introduce Scorecards and Initiatives as a tool to monitor and enhance ownership practices over time, ensuring that you always know who owns what. Join us to build a resilient framework that accelerates incident response and drives sustained progress.

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Jun 26
Understanding Infrastructure Identity
Understanding Infrastructure Identity
Explore how Infrastructure Identity transforms trust in modern computing. This session introduces the concept and shows how Teleport eliminates secrets, unifies access, and enables Zero Trust for all infrastructure identities.

As organizations scale, identity-based attacks are rising—and traditional access controls can’t keep up. This workshop introduces Infrastructure Identity, a modern security paradigm that eliminates secrets, removes identity silos, and brings Zero Trust to all infrastructure entities: human, machine, and AI. Join us for an overview and live demo of the Teleport Infrastructure Identity platform, where you’ll learn how cryptographic identities, short-lived privileges, and dynamic access control can secure your systems at scale. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of why identity is the new perimeter—and how to protect it.

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Jun 26
Build, buy, trial or wait? Platform engineering roadmapping for AI
Build, buy, trial or wait? Platform engineering roadmapping for AI
Create an AI "technology radar" for platform engineering that classifies AI investments into adopt/trial/assess/hold categories based on business value, effort, and readiness. Leave with a customized radar and strategic decision framework.

Platform teams are under pressure to integrate AI capabilities but often lack a structured framework for evaluation. This interactive workshop provides a practical decision-making methodology.

Working in small groups, you'll learn to evaluate and prioritize AI use cases for platform engineering by creating your own "technology radar" that classifies potential investments into adopt, trial, assess, or hold categories. We'll cover evaluation criteria including business value, implementation effort, and technology readiness, with real-world examples.

By the end of the workshop, you'll have created a customized AI radar for your organization and a structured approach to making strategic AI investment decisions for your platform team.

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How to connect to anything, anywhere with Tailscale
How to connect to anything, anywhere with Tailscale
Sick of network headaches? Magically connect your devices anywhere—no confusing firewall rules needed. It creates a secure private network that just works, whether you're at home, the office, or traveling. Think VPN, but without the pain. One click setup and you're done. Connect everything, everywhere, instantly.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore advanced Tailscale capabilities to optimize your network connectivity and security. We’ll cover:

  • Eliminating SSH key management: Tailscale SSH automatically handles authentication, making secure connections instant and effortless.
  • Connect anything securely: App Connectors let you route specific traffic through your infrastructure while maintaining zero-trust security. No more VPN complexity.
  • Control with precision: Our ACL system uses human-readable rules that technical and non-technical team members can understand and audit.
  • Extend your network: Choose subnet routers when you need to access entire networks remotely, or exit nodes when you need to route all traffic through a trusted point.

By the end of this session, you’ll have a deep understanding of how to connect securely and effortlessly to anything, anywhere with Tailscale.

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Platform as a Product
Platform as a Product
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How to build and sell your MVP
How to build and sell your MVP
The Platform Engineer
Kelsey Hightower
Distinguished Engineer & Developer Advocate
Fireside chat
Kelsey Hightower
Distinguished Engineer & Developer Advocate
Kaspar von Grünberg
CEO, Humanitec
Coming soon
Common platform team mistakes and how to avoid them
Camille Fournier
CTO,  Author
Coming soon
Shift down: A practical guide to platform engineering
Leah River
Director, Product,Software Foundations Google
James Brookbank
Cloud Solutions Architect Manager,Google Cloud
Fostering developer autonomy: Culture-driven platform engineering
Preeti Somal
SVP of Engineering,  Temporal
Two sides of the platform coin with operator’s and customer’s voices
Sarah Duncan
Staff Software Engineer, The New York Times
Ahmed Bebars
Principal Engineer, The New York Times
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How to connect to anything, anywhere with Tailscale
Alex Kretzschmar
Head of Developer Relations, Tailscale
Solving service ownership once-and-for-all
Madison Unell
Lead Product Manager, Cortex
Build, buy, trial or wait? Platform engineering roadmapping for AI
Lou Bichard
Product Manager, Gitpod
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Platform as a product
Mallory Haigh
Workshop host, Platform Engineering
How to build and sell your MVP
Mallory Haigh
Workshop host, Platform Engineering

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You got it spot on, down to earth, real genuine stories, pains and successes. Try to repeat it next year, and if it grows that'll be awesome.
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The PlatformCon Live Day was one of the best conferences I've ever been to. The content was very interesting and applicable. Lots of touches like the code of conduct at the beginning, great venue and engaging speakers were really great.