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Presentation: Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI

Michael Hausenblas, Sujana Sooreddy, Noam Levi, Renato Losio — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The panelists discuss how production operations are evolving with AI, turning operational data into actionable insights for incident response. They explain how automation and new architectural practices help engineering teams build more understandable systems, while exploring how AI reshapes software delivery and changes the historically deterministic nature of production applications.

By Michael Hausenblas, Sujana Sooreddy, Noam Levi, Renato Losio

Presentation: Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos

Dhruva Juloori — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:33:00 GMT

Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue uses binary speculation trees, conflict analysis, and machine learning models to predict build success and execution times. Dhruva shares how bypassing large diffs slashed CI resource usage by 53% while accelerating PR landing times by 37%.

By Dhruva Juloori

Presentation: Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineering leaders to reliably scale AI coding agents, maintain control over non-deterministic outputs, and build long-term organizational knowledge.

By Patrick Debois

Presentation: From Staff Platform Engineer to a16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:14:00 GMT

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using their "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). They share hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoiding co-founder drama, and evaluating internal platforms as commercial ventures in a post-ZIRP environment.

By Gonzalo Maldonado

Presentation: From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in 2 Weeks

Ben Maraney — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ben Maraney shares how Forter demystified AI agent creation for technical and non-technical staff. He discusses leveraging custom MCP servers, combining no-code and code-based platforms, sidestepping complex RAG setups, and aligning security and legal teams to accelerate internal agent adoption across R&D.

By Ben Maraney

Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design

Mallika Rao — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Mallika Rao explains that the true complexity of adaptive recommendation systems lies outside model architecture. She discusses how real-time feedback loops, retrieval freshness, multi-stage orchestration, and end-to-end latency budgeting enable systems to continuously learn and evolve in production under real-world operational constraints like latency, cost, and observability.

By Mallika Rao

Presentation: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model communication via OCapN, and petname systems. Discover how Spritely leverages Scheme, WebAssembly (Hoot), and local-first CRDTs to build secure, peer-to-peer applications without central servers.

By Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson

Presentation: Designing Fast, Delightful UX with LLMs for Mobile Frontends

Balakrishnan Ramdoss — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:24:00 GMT

Balakrishnan Ramdoss discusses how to architect production-grade, AI-powered conversational apps at scale. He explains how to overcome model latency, leverage server-driven UI and Backend-for-Frontend patterns to dynamically render multi-modal interfaces, optimize prompts for UI selection, and integrate low-latency, privacy-first on-device AI for mobile applications.

By Balakrishnan Ramdoss

Presentation: APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era

Jim Gough, Andreea Niculcea — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea explain how Morgan Stanley uses Architecture as Code with CALM to modernize its API program. They demonstrate integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communications, enforcing automated governance through deployment gates, and executing zero-downtime platform upgrades to safely scale enterprise AI and agentic workflows.

By Jim Gough, Andreea Niculcea

Presentation: Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering

David Gudeman — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:04:00 GMT

David Gudeman discusses battle-tested architectural patterns for resource-constrained engineering teams. Drawing from over a decade of startup experience, he explains how pairing GCP, Firebase, and Cloud Run accelerates product-market fit. Learn how to eliminate redundant frontend state, structure event-driven backends, and maintain lean DevOps while building for long-term scalability.

By David Gudeman

Presentation: The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents

Vinoth Govindarajan — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

OpenAI’s Vinoth Govindarajan discusses why production AI agents fail beyond model hallucination. Using real-world case studies like OpenClaw, he explains the key principles of reliable agent harnesses: establishing explicit state ownership, serializing concurrent state mutations, scoping execution authority, and validating actions at the user-visible edge.

By Vinoth Govindarajan