A week of platform engineering

A hands-on CI/CD workshop with JetBrains. Build and optimize a real pipeline, learn best practices, and explore developer-first workflows using TeamCity Pipelines.

This session presents a blueprint for AI-driven cloud scaling that anticipates demand using historical traffic data, enabling teams to reduce downtime, optimize costs, and improve resilience across diverse industry use cases.

This session will explore the cultural and technical aspects of adopting an internal Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS) product strategy, focusing on the shift in mindset needed to build, maintain, and operate a product for a large engineering team with a small platform team.

Manage AI sprawl? Reclaim visibility, enforce policies, and optimize costs while fostering innovation using an AI Gateway. Move beyond platform cowboy tactics to establish effective AI governance.

This session helps SREs and platform engineers understand the direct link between code changes, team activity, and platform stability, enabling you to optimize reliability, accelerate incident response, and foster a collaborative engineering culture.

This session presents proven techniques for building a user-focused, product-oriented platform team culture. Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how to cultivate innovation, drive developer engagement, and apply these practices across various team structures.

This session will explore five critical strategies for successfully integrating Generative AI into platform engineering. Ajay Chankramath will examine how to address adoption challenges, enhance developer experience, and create measurable business impact through GenAI-driven automation and predictive insights.

This session will explore how BT Group transformed its deployment process, moving from manual on-premise deployments to a highly automated, code-first platform that enables new services to go live in as little as 15 minutes, while ensuring security and operational teams remain satisfied.

This session introduces Fleeting Runners, a scalable cloud-native solution for managing diverse GitLab runner requirements. Learn how to optimize custom runner deployments, accelerate team onboarding, and meet complex DevOps demands with ease.

Open-source technologies accelerate innovation by providing customizable tools and frameworks. This session will explore how The New York Times leveraged open-source in building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to enhance productivity and operational efficiency.

This session explores how platform engineers can embed GreenOps principles into their infrastructure to improve sustainability, scalability, and system resilience, ultimately optimizing both efficiency and long-term impact.

This session explores how shifting platform teams' focus from technical providers to enablers of innovation can transform IT enablement. Roos Anneveldt, Product Manager for IT Enablement at Essent, discusses how integrating enablement practices into platform teams has become a key driver in the company's journey to becoming a tech-first organization.

This session explores the practical and architectural limits of Kubernetes cluster scale, helping teams understand when to grow a cluster—and when to split it.

This session explores how platform convergence can help enterprises streamline their technology stack, reduce redundancy, and improve efficiency. The speaker introduces a Platform Convergence Framework to tackle key challenges, cut costs, and enhance IT hygiene.

Kyle Martineau-McFarlane, Engineering Manager in Platform Engineering at The Very Group, will explore how the platform engineering function has evolved at Very, discussing the challenges faced and how the team has enabled faster, more effective value delivery for customers.

This session explores how platform engineering is reshaping Swiss government agencies, breaking down bureaucratic barriers, improving developer experience, and accelerating digital transformation. Stefano Franco will discuss the innovative approaches being used to streamline IT processes and drive technological advancements within the government.

This session will explore how platform teams can support and scale the delivery of generative AI applications across product teams, leveraging internal developer platforms. This session will include two case studies to illustrate the concepts.

For many developers, setting up CI means enabling the Jenkins k8s plugin and being on your way. But for those with exceptional requirements, it is necessary to build the system from the ground up.

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is more than just APIs or a UI: it enables true self-service for development teams. This talk explores how GitOps and vCluster help build a scalable, cost-efficient IDP using existing enterprise tools.

Led by Luca Galante, this 1hr training guides you to build & sell your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). Learn to define simple technical scope, demonstrate rapid value, and secure buy-in by translating technical improvements into compelling business outcomes.

Led by Mallory Haigh, workshop host at Platform Engineering, this 1hr training guides you to build & sell your Minimum Viable Platform (MVP). Learn to define simple technical scope, demonstrate rapid value, and secure buy-in by translating technical improvements into compelling business outcomes.

Explore practical strategies for platform engineering teams to design and deliver high-value internal platforms that drive adoption by focusing on developer needs and outcomes.

AI agents can summarize and automate but without platform standards, their impact is unpredictable. In this session, we’ll explore how to deliver secure, predictable, and repeatable developer experiences using AI-powered interactions grounded in golden paths and reference architectures..

How do you integrate AI into your DevOps toolkit while ensuring it can’t “rm -rf” your entire codebase and infra? Learn best practices to build safe AI from this talk.

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.

Your infrastructure isn’t homogeneous, nor are your automation tools or maturity. Learn how Temporal can durably orchestrate across this landscape, even when jobs are long running and involve human interaction.

Learn how to balance platform control with developer autonomy in multi-cloud environments. Discover proven shared responsibility models that enable 5x faster deployments while maintaining security and compliance, based on real implementations at Fortune 500 companies

Discover how self-service infrastructure transforms deployment speed from days to minutes. Learn key concepts behind generative IaC, shift-left security, and automation that platform teams use to eliminate bottlenecks while maintaining governance.

Have you ever seen a self-driving cloud? Because that’s what the world’s smartest platform engineers have built. They’re using AI systems to handle thousands of routine tasks — freeing up their time for more interesting work.

This session will explore how the fleet management platform transformation, which started as a cloud migration project, unintentionally evolved into a full-fledged platform engineering initiative. The talk will cover the challenges, key decisions, and lessons learned along the way.

This session explores the key considerations in productifying a platform, from branding to adoption, and how to ensure that the excitement surrounding your platform is genuine and not forced.

Join VP of Engineering and Infrastructure, Arpad Kun, and Staff Software Engineer, Julia Fodor-Horváth, for a presentation of a real-world case study of migrating thousands of compute nodes on-prem. It covers the leadership decision-making process, and offers insights into how the migration turned out after one year.

This session will delve into the complexities of managing multi-tenancy in Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs). Sai Sandeep Ogety will explore strategies to ensure secure tenant management, optimize resource usage, and achieve cost efficiency in a multi-cloud environment.

This session will follow Sanketh Balakrishna’s journey in building and growing a platform team focused on data replication at Datadog. He will share the key challenges faced and strategies used to scale the team and product.

This session explores how Banking Circle evolved its infrastructure as code (IaC) strategy—from modular templates to a streamlined API-driven approach—enabling teams to provision infrastructure through a unified configuration interface.

SONIC (Surface, Observability, Network, Integrations, Compute) is a blueprint reference architecture for building AI-ready platforms. Learn about "the agentic standard," MCP, and integrating autonomous agents with your developer workflows.

The workshop introduces participants to vCluster, demonstrating how to create and manage virtual Kubernetes environments for multiple development teams.

This session offers a unique perspective on platform leadership through the lens of drumming. Dirk Herrmann blends personal anecdotes with professional insight to explore how rhythm, coordination, and deep listening apply to effective platform engineering.

This session shares how Elia Group is transforming the developer experience for more than 400 engineers by implementing an internal developer portal to streamline workflows, reduce cognitive load, and drive cultural change across teams.

Explore the psychology and design patterns behind successful platform CLIs, showing why developers love some tools and dislike others. Through real examples, he will demonstrate how small UX improvements can transform clunky tools into developer favorites.

This session will explore how Kubernetes interacts with cloud storage and how to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at scale. Attendees will gain practical techniques for tuning storage and optimizing production workloads.

PlatformCon host Luca Galante sits down with Rickey Zachary, Mallory Haigh and James Brookbank to unpack PlatformCon 2025 stand-out talks, NYC & London Live Day highlights and the trends set to power what’s next for platform engineering.

Join Pia Nilsson (Senior Director of Engineering, Spotify), Lambros Charissis (Group Product Manager, Wise) and Chris Westerhold in a discussion moderated by Heather Joslyn (TNS) on how developer portals are rapidly evolving.

Discuss how change theory can be used to drive cyclical interventions that build healthier cultures in software teams. Learn both theory and frameworks for iterative changes as well as strategies for measuring impact and making refinements.

This session explores how large language models (LLMs) can be applied in IT and DevOps workflows using Amazon Bedrock, with practical examples of how generative AI can enhance log analysis, automate infrastructure tasks, and streamline operations.

What are the most common software delivery bottlenecks across the Route to Live? And how can resolving these increase deployment frequency by 12x and reduce production defects by 75%? 

This session will cover how LinkedIn built a loosely coupled platform using Kubernetes, Airflow, and OPA to meet modern deployment needs. Rahul Gade will discuss how the platform enables safe, reliable continuous deployments while improving developer productivity.

This session explores how platform engineering teams can leverage storytelling techniques to drive platform adoption, enhance documentation, and foster stronger engineering cultures, drawing on Ayres' experience at Figma.

This session explores how service blueprints can align platform teams with their internal developer platform (IDP) consumers by clarifying workflows, responsibilities, and dependencies early in the platform journey.

Stop chasing vanity metrics that don't move the needle! Discover the secret to connecting engineering work with real business impact. Learn battle-tested frameworks that top tech companies use to measure what actually matters and drive results.

Join Community Builder and DevRel Consultant, Oleg Nenashev, as he demonstrates how to use Localstack, WireMock, and Testcontainers together for cloud integration testing. Using Pulumi and Java/Gradle as implementation, you'll learn an approach that is portable to any technology stack.

High-performing platform teams need a strong engineering culture. This talk explores how Cloudsmith moved beyond code, overcame fire-fighting and silos, and empowered engineers through guiding principles, trust, and psychological safety.

Platform engineering doesn’t always follow a textbook path, especially within large organizations. In this session, Christopher Diaz, senior engineering leader at RVO Health, shares how platform engineering can be adapted to support a complex landscape of distinct business units and legacy systems, even without starting with a full-featured internal developer platform.