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Presentation: When Incidents Refuse to End

Vanessa Huerta Granda — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:30:00 GMT

Vanessa Huerta Granda explains how marathon incidents expose the gap between work as imagined and work as done. Drawing from real-world scenarios, she shares how complex outages reveal organizational fragility, human limits, and system interdependencies—and why incident response requires structured endurance, humane rotations, and holistic cross-functional coordination.

By Vanessa Huerta Granda

Presentation: How to Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not to

Ross McFarlane, Kevin Holditch — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ross McFarlane and Kevin Holditch discuss Form3's evolution from a single-cloud setup to a triple active multi-cloud architecture. They share key engineering strategies for cross-cloud networking, distributed databases with CockroachDB and NATS, custom Kubernetes operators, and navigating distinct regional disaster recovery expectations across the UK, Europe, and US financial markets.

By Ross McFarlane, Kevin Holditch

Presentation: Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Felipe Huici — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Felipe Huici explains how Unikraft achieves millisecond cold boots, stateful scale-to-zero, and extreme density for sandboxing AI workloads. He discusses isolation primitives, Linux kernel optimizations, and snapshotting tricks, demonstrating how to maintain sub-10ms performance at scale while integrating seamlessly into Kubernetes environments with hardware-level security.

By Felipe Huici

Presentation: Platform Engineering in the Age of AI

Stéphane Di Cesare, Davide de Paolis, Stephen Cihak, Camila Macedo, Renato Losio — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

The panelists explain how platform teams adapt to support AI-assisted engineering, highlighting which capabilities belong in the platform. They discuss trade-offs between standardization and developer autonomy, while sharing strategies to manage AI tooling, security guardrails, and shifting workflows.

By Stéphane Di Cesare, Davide de Paolis, Stephen Cihak, Camila Macedo, Renato Losio