A week of platform engineering

SIXT has been a leader in platform engineering. As AI spreads across the company, the Platform Team is focused on enabling 800 engineers, data scientists, and AI operators to build and run AI workloads efficiently and securely.

Building internal platforms isn't just assembling tools: success requires people, process, and aligned business outcomes. Join us to learn how a hackathon can drive innovation, platform adoption, and create a platform using Backstage and Kratix.

in this session, Boyan Dimitrov, CTO of SIXT, will share the journey of transforming SIXT's global tech organization over the past decade. He will highlight the key lessons learned in scaling platform engineering, focusing on how it addressed challenges in scalability, standardization, and security while delivering tangible business impact.

This session offers 15 actionable tips to help optimize cloud CI/CD pipelines, reduce costs, and improve performance without sacrificing speed, flexibility, or developer experience.

This talk uncovers lesser-known features of Tailscale, including how to share files with Taildrop, turn your Apple TV into an exit node, and connect securely to anything - anywhere.

Join this talk with Pia Nilsson from Spotify to learn more about the history and future of Backstage.

This session explores the technical evolution and organizational lessons learned over eight years of building and operating Kubernetes platforms at scale. Fabián Sellés Rosa, Tech Lead at Adevinta, shares what worked, what didn’t, and what teams should consider when managing Kubernetes infrastructure across regions and developer teams.

This session presents a proven approach to transforming e-commerce websites into SEO-optimized, cost-effective solutions using a monorepo micro-frontend architecture powered by Next.js Nx and Server Side Rendering (SSR) on Kubernetes (K8s) OpenShift Cloud Platform.

AI coding agents can boost—or break—developer productivity. Learn three strategies for scaling them safely, based on real-world lessons, experiments, and examples of what worked, what didn’t, and how to deploy agents that truly help your teams.

Cloud-native transformed software development with containers and microservices. Now, AI is set to spark an even greater shift, ushering in new software paradigms, architectures, and collaboration models. This talk will explore AI-native, the next evolution following cloud-native.

Stop chasing vulnerabilities. Start preventing them—right where code happens. Checkmarx unites ASPM and Agentic AI to turn security from a bottleneck into a business enabler.

Putting an LLM in production does not mean you have an agent. Having it make a decision gets you closer. However, the real test is if that LLM is part of an orchestrative workflow that allows for multiple iterations. In this session, we look into the key components that make up this emerging pattern.

This session will explore how agile methodologies can be applied to platform engineering, transforming platform development with faster iteration, improved collaboration, and a more responsive approach to complex challenges. Attendees will learn how agile principles can optimize platform engineering and drive impactful, user-centric development.

This session will examine the bold and high-stakes migration of a major banking platform from Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid, executed without involving customers or causing disruption. It offers insight into the strategy, tooling, and automation required to modernize legacy infrastructure at scale.

This session explores how organizations can prepare for and respond to high-impact vulnerabilities like Log4Shell, with practical strategies for strengthening software supply chain security and CI/CD pipelines.

Explore how to integrate third-party registries seamlessly and optimize upstream package management. This talk will cover strategies to reduce latency, ensure reliability, and accelerate developer workflows.

This session will explore how AI is transforming cloud infrastructure from reactive incident response to proactive, self-healing systems. Attendees will gain insights into building resilient and autonomous platforms through AI-driven automation and optimization.

This session showcases powerful, lesser-known Docker features, including the newly released Docker Bake, to help platform engineers streamline builds, boost security, and automate development workflows.

Learn the NBA's platform engineering playbook that boosted developer velocity by 400%. Our CI/CD, IaC modules, cloud frameworks, shift-left security and AI tools enable developers to deliver basketball innovations to millions of fans in record time.

This session explores the challenges of building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for data scientists and quants. Attendees will learn how a clean power company is overcoming the tension between speed and governance by leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and workflow orchestration tools.

This session explores how platform engineering teams can move beyond reactive cybersecurity approaches by embedding proactive defense strategies and intelligent automation into platform design and operations.

Platform engineers have a unique opportunity to shape their organization’s culture. In this session, Madeline Van Der Paelt will explore how platform engineers can leverage their role to drive meaningful change beyond just the technical tools they manage, becoming influential agents of organizational transformation.

In this session, Rohit Srivastava, Ipuvi Mishra, and Akash Srivastava will explore how their AI-powered Internal Developer Portal (IDP) streamlines workflows, automates processes, and provides intelligent insights, saving developers approximately 15 hours per month. By reducing friction and enhancing collaboration, the IDP enables teams to focus on innovation rather than overhead.

Developer Experience (DevEx) drives productivity and efficiency. This talk explores how a Cloud Development Environment (CDE) eliminates setup bottlenecks, enhances collaboration, and ensures a secure, scalable workflow. Learn how adopting a CDE can streamline your development lifecycle.

Learn why adopting regular password rotation should be a standard security practice in your organization. This talk presents golden paths for automation and a reference architecture to demonstrate automatic database password rotation.

This session will explore the transition from legacy virtualization platforms like VMware and oVirt to KubeVirt, highlighting how this shift represents a pivotal move toward cloud-native infrastructure. Fabrizio Sgura will discuss how KubeVirt offers a scalable solution for modernizing infrastructure and managing hybrid workloads.

This session will explore how platform engineers can streamline observability experiences for developers, addressing the challenges of tool sprawl and inconsistent instrumentation. Kasper Borg Nissen will discuss how PlatEnG can leverage OpenTelemetry to reduce complexity and enhance developer productivity.

This session will explore how to streamline and standardize software development with a unified platform, speeding up delivery, ensuring consistency, and enhancing collaboration across teams.

Stop wrestling with observability data. Learn how to build responsive pipelines and gain hands-on experience with Mezmo to manage your OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces effectively for any of your observability tools.

Building an internal developer ecosystem on top of k0rdent and Kubernetes using the Backstage framework to simplify and accelerate developer onboarding.

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.

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.

Managing 7000+ microservices across 150+ teams presents significant challenges. This session explores how Trendyol Builder Platform (TBP) streamlines application and infrastructure management, enhances developer productivity, and boosts DORA metrics using KubeVela, OAM, and integrated tools.

This session details how ECMWF Sites leverages Kubernetes to offer automated, secure, and scalable web hosting. Manuel Martins will explore the platform’s architecture, the challenges faced during its development, and how it empowers users to easily create and manage customized websites with minimal overhead.

Explore how WebAssembly transforms serverless platforms, boosting developer velocity. Learn to build efficient, scalable, and secure applications with languages familiar to developers like Rust, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript.

This session examines how structured feedback loops and a psychologically safe environment enable platform engineering teams to iterate faster, embrace experimentation, and turn setbacks into organizational learning.

This session explores how open-source tools can create a self-service data platform while significantly reducing costs. Amaresh Bingumalla shares a real-world case study of transitioning from SaaS solutions to custom platforms, empowering engineering teams and saving over $1M annually.

This session explores how standardizing CI/CD pipelines can drive frictionless deployments, improve developer productivity, and create a unified, scalable delivery ecosystem.

This session will provide a step-by-step guide to building a platform engineering team that truly empowers developers. Attendees will learn how to define scope, create a platform that developers want to use, and ensure adoption within their organization.

Let’s build an AI platform together in this workshop. Explore how to apply guardrails, governance, and sanitization to prompts sent to LLMs and MCP servers using AI gateways.

Build an agentic insurance claim app inspired by the Avengers! Learn how to bring together multiple LLMs, human tasks, and dynamic logic using a workflow orchestrator

In this talk, Karl Goeltner (Software Engineer, Orkes) builds an agentic workflow that simulates a full software engineering interview using Orkes Conductor, OpenAI, Google Docs, and SendGrid.

Learn to build an open-source AI Slackbot that leverages your platform team's knowledge base and integrates with Firefly to provide real-time cloud infrastructure insights, automations, and policy compliance information.

Sam Gabrail will demonstrate how platform engineering teams can use Backstage, Crossplane, ArgoCD, and vClusters to build a highly efficient and cost-effective Internal Developer Platform (IDP). Attendees will learn how to streamline Kubernetes cluster management, automate workflows, and improve developer productivity.

This session will explore how to drive platform adoption using a shared responsibility model. The talk focuses on how platform teams, SREs, and developers can collaborate to create flexible, reliable platforms that meet diverse needs and encourage team collaboration.

Rohit Ghumare will demonstrate how to leverage vCluster to create lightweight virtual Kubernetes clusters for IoT edge deployments, enabling secure multi-tenancy and optimized resource usage.

This session explores how Netflix evolved its Data Mesh architecture to meet the demands of real-time analytics at massive scale. Learn how the team scaled a system that processes trillions of events per day and transformed it into a powerful stream processing platform.

Event-driven architectures (EDA) are crucial for creating responsive and scalable systems. However, deploying and managing Kafka clusters on Kubernetes remains complex. This session will demonstrate how to achieve a robust EDA platform using the Strimzi open-source project.

This session explores how the team at Temporal used durable execution - a new programming paradigm for building resilient applications - to power the control plane of Temporal Cloud.

This session explores how Temporal simplifies workflow management, error handling, and state tracking to improve system reliability and streamline development cycles.

In this session, Manasa Hari will discuss how to transform machine learning prototypes into scalable, production-grade pipelines. Attendees will learn essential engineering practices to automate, test, and deploy ML pipelines that seamlessly integrate with platform workflows, maximizing the impact of data science.

Discover how New Relic’s suite of tools can simplify workflows, from error tracking to dynamic dashboards, and help platform engineers improve performance monitoring and alerting.

Learn to leverage self-service developer platforms that eliminate provisioning bottlenecks. This hands-on workshop demonstrates how Terraform and templated CI/CD create secure "paved roads" for rapid project bootstrapping while maintaining organizational control.