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The cost of writing code is going to zero. The cost of everything else is going up. As agents handle more of the execution, engineers move up the stack to design and operate the systems that produce software.
The organizations who win will be the ones who build the operational infrastructure to run it all at scale.
That's the AI software factory. EVOLVE 2026 is about how you build one.
2025 numbers at a glance
250+
Attendees
24
Roundtables
10+
Sessions
The teams responsible for making engineering better every day.
Engineering Leaders
Define what the AI software factory looks like at your org, and build the operational system to make it a reality.
Engineering Operations Teams
Build the connective tissue between AI tooling, standards, and delivery to make the factory run.
SREs & Platform Engineers
AI amplifies output and risk. Build the reliability infrastructure that keeps the factory running when code ships at 10x.
DevOps & DevEx Teams
Design the golden paths that let humans and agents move fast without breaking things.
Anish Dhar
Co-Founder & CEO
Anish is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex, helping engineering teams drive adoption of best practices, improve visibility into services and infrastructure, and accelerate productivity.
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Anish Dhar
Co-Founder & CEO
Anish is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex, helping engineering teams drive adoption of best practices, improve visibility into services and infrastructure, and accelerate productivity.
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Anish is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cortex, helping engineering teams drive adoption of best practices, improve visibility into services and infrastructure, and accelerate productivity.
Ganesh Datta
Co-Founder & CTO
Ganesh is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cortex, building the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams clarity into their services, standards, and overall health.
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Ganesh Datta
Co-Founder & CTO
Ganesh is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cortex, building the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams clarity into their services, standards, and overall health.
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Ganesh is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cortex, building the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams clarity into their services, standards, and overall health.
Nathen Harvey
DORA Lead & Developer Advocate
Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA enables teams and organizations to thrive by making industry-shaping research accessible and actionable.
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Nathen Harvey
DORA Lead & Developer Advocate
Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA enables teams and organizations to thrive by making industry-shaping research accessible and actionable.
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Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA enables teams and organizations to thrive by making industry-shaping research accessible and actionable.
Roshni Sondhi
Vice President, Customer Experience
Roshni Sondhi is a customer experience leader currently serving as VP of Customer Experience at Cortex, where she leads Customer Success, Delivery, Education and Customer Engineering. A Georgia Tech engineering grad turned customer success veteran, she built her career through roles at RightNow Technologies, Oracle, Zendesk, and Grafana Labs before joining Cortex.
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Roshni Sondhi
Vice President, Customer Experience
Roshni Sondhi is a customer experience leader currently serving as VP of Customer Experience at Cortex, where she leads Customer Success, Delivery, Education and Customer Engineering. A Georgia Tech engineering grad turned customer success veteran, she built her career through roles at RightNow Technologies, Oracle, Zendesk, and Grafana Labs before joining Cortex.
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Roshni Sondhi is a customer experience leader currently serving as VP of Customer Experience at Cortex, where she leads Customer Success, Delivery, Education and Customer Engineering. A Georgia Tech engineering grad turned customer success veteran, she built her career through roles at RightNow Technologies, Oracle, Zendesk, and Grafana Labs before joining Cortex.
Larry Advey
AI Economics Director
Larry Advey is Director, AI Economics at CloudZero, where he leads the practice of measuring the economic return on AI and technology investment. He serves on the FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council, maintains FOCUS — the open-source data standard adopted by all major cloud providers, and has mentored a generation of practitioners from operator into architect. As a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, he authored Implementing FinOps Strategies, which launched June 1, 2026.
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Larry Advey
AI Economics Director
Larry Advey is Director, AI Economics at CloudZero, where he leads the practice of measuring the economic return on AI and technology investment. He serves on the FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council, maintains FOCUS — the open-source data standard adopted by all major cloud providers, and has mentored a generation of practitioners from operator into architect. As a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, he authored Implementing FinOps Strategies, which launched June 1, 2026.
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Larry Advey is Director, AI Economics at CloudZero, where he leads the practice of measuring the economic return on AI and technology investment. He serves on the FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council, maintains FOCUS — the open-source data standard adopted by all major cloud providers, and has mentored a generation of practitioners from operator into architect. As a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, he authored Implementing FinOps Strategies, which launched June 1, 2026.
Ramandeep Singh
VP Engineering
Ramandeep is an accomplished technology leader with deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise cloud platforms, developing modern operating models, and driving secure digital transformation. Experienced in cloud infrastructure, application security, distributed identity and access management, and API development, integration, and security, with a track record of delivering resilient, scalable solutions for complex enterprise environments.
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Ramandeep Singh
VP Engineering
Ramandeep is an accomplished technology leader with deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise cloud platforms, developing modern operating models, and driving secure digital transformation. Experienced in cloud infrastructure, application security, distributed identity and access management, and API development, integration, and security, with a track record of delivering resilient, scalable solutions for complex enterprise environments.
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Ramandeep is an accomplished technology leader with deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise cloud platforms, developing modern operating models, and driving secure digital transformation. Experienced in cloud infrastructure, application security, distributed identity and access management, and API development, integration, and security, with a track record of delivering resilient, scalable solutions for complex enterprise environments.
Corey Samuels
Senior Engineering Manager
Corey is the Initiative Lead for Etsy’s Platform & Tooling group, and the Senior Engineering Manager for the Etsy’s Service Platform team. Since joining Etsy in 2019, he has managed several infrastructure and SRE teams. Prior to that, he held leadership and software architecture/engineering roles at several technology focused companies including SayForExample/iGain (Vindale), Kaplan, and Concrete Media. He holds a B. Eng in Computer Engineering from McGill University, and is also a composer alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
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Corey Samuels
Senior Engineering Manager
Corey is the Initiative Lead for Etsy’s Platform & Tooling group, and the Senior Engineering Manager for the Etsy’s Service Platform team. Since joining Etsy in 2019, he has managed several infrastructure and SRE teams. Prior to that, he held leadership and software architecture/engineering roles at several technology focused companies including SayForExample/iGain (Vindale), Kaplan, and Concrete Media. He holds a B. Eng in Computer Engineering from McGill University, and is also a composer alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
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Corey is the Initiative Lead for Etsy’s Platform & Tooling group, and the Senior Engineering Manager for the Etsy’s Service Platform team. Since joining Etsy in 2019, he has managed several infrastructure and SRE teams. Prior to that, he held leadership and software architecture/engineering roles at several technology focused companies including SayForExample/iGain (Vindale), Kaplan, and Concrete Media. He holds a B. Eng in Computer Engineering from McGill University, and is also a composer alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
Prerit Munjal
Senior Technical Product Manager
Prerit is a Cloud-Native Platform Leader with extensive experience designing and scaling secure, resilient cloud infrastructures. As the former CTO of KubeCloud, he built no-code solutions bridging Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, leading the company to a successful acquisition. Currently, he drives cloud-native, observability, CI/CD, and AI initiatives as a technical leader at Groupon.
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Prerit Munjal
Senior Technical Product Manager
Prerit is a Cloud-Native Platform Leader with extensive experience designing and scaling secure, resilient cloud infrastructures. As the former CTO of KubeCloud, he built no-code solutions bridging Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, leading the company to a successful acquisition. Currently, he drives cloud-native, observability, CI/CD, and AI initiatives as a technical leader at Groupon.
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Prerit is a Cloud-Native Platform Leader with extensive experience designing and scaling secure, resilient cloud infrastructures. As the former CTO of KubeCloud, he built no-code solutions bridging Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, leading the company to a successful acquisition. Currently, he drives cloud-native, observability, CI/CD, and AI initiatives as a technical leader at Groupon.
Steve Evans
VP Engineering
Steve Evans is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Aeries Software, an EdTech company serving millions of students with the vision of improving student outcomes. While his teams remind him he doesn't do "real work" anymore, they still come to him when they need help with Excel.
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Steve Evans
VP Engineering
Steve Evans is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Aeries Software, an EdTech company serving millions of students with the vision of improving student outcomes. While his teams remind him he doesn't do "real work" anymore, they still come to him when they need help with Excel.
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Steve Evans is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Aeries Software, an EdTech company serving millions of students with the vision of improving student outcomes. While his teams remind him he doesn't do "real work" anymore, they still come to him when they need help with Excel.
James Griffith
Global Head of Product / Engineering
James Griffith is one of the Engineering Executive Leaders at Archer, a PE-owned independent software vendor of Risk and Compliance management solutions running in the cloud. Prior to working with Archer, James held positions with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, PA Consulting Group in London and smaller regional firms in the UK. James holds a degree in Earth Science from the University of Oxford.
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James Griffith
Global Head of Product / Engineering
James Griffith is one of the Engineering Executive Leaders at Archer, a PE-owned independent software vendor of Risk and Compliance management solutions running in the cloud. Prior to working with Archer, James held positions with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, PA Consulting Group in London and smaller regional firms in the UK. James holds a degree in Earth Science from the University of Oxford.
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James Griffith is one of the Engineering Executive Leaders at Archer, a PE-owned independent software vendor of Risk and Compliance management solutions running in the cloud. Prior to working with Archer, James held positions with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, PA Consulting Group in London and smaller regional firms in the UK. James holds a degree in Earth Science from the University of Oxford.
Mit Saru
Executive Director - Platform Engineering
Mit has been working in tech since the 1990's, always at the forefront of best practice. Currently at Stoxx and fresh from implementing a brand new cloud operating model to go with a greenfield migration to GCP, he is now building the next generation AI platform that will power his organisation's AI transformation.
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Mit Saru
Executive Director - Platform Engineering
Mit has been working in tech since the 1990's, always at the forefront of best practice. Currently at Stoxx and fresh from implementing a brand new cloud operating model to go with a greenfield migration to GCP, he is now building the next generation AI platform that will power his organisation's AI transformation.
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Mit has been working in tech since the 1990's, always at the forefront of best practice. Currently at Stoxx and fresh from implementing a brand new cloud operating model to go with a greenfield migration to GCP, he is now building the next generation AI platform that will power his organisation's AI transformation.
Joshua Marble
Senior Manager, Developer Experience
Joshua Marble is a Senior Manager of Developer Experience at Archer, where he leads the DevX team building the internal developer platform that powers Archer's engineering organization. With 20+ years in software spanning engineering, architecture, and people leadership, he is passionate about scaling developer productivity through platform thinking and a first-class developer experience.
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Joshua Marble
Senior Manager, Developer Experience
Joshua Marble is a Senior Manager of Developer Experience at Archer, where he leads the DevX team building the internal developer platform that powers Archer's engineering organization. With 20+ years in software spanning engineering, architecture, and people leadership, he is passionate about scaling developer productivity through platform thinking and a first-class developer experience.
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Joshua Marble is a Senior Manager of Developer Experience at Archer, where he leads the DevX team building the internal developer platform that powers Archer's engineering organization. With 20+ years in software spanning engineering, architecture, and people leadership, he is passionate about scaling developer productivity through platform thinking and a first-class developer experience.
Taylor Schmidt
Director of Customer Education and Delivery
Taylor Schmidt is Director of Customer Education & Delivery at Cortex, where she leads the team responsible for onboarding customers and helping them get the most out of the platform. She owns Cortex Academy, the company’s customer education program, building the courses and content that help customers learn the platform. She also regularly leads live trainings and workshops to help teams get the most value out of Cortex. Taylor works closely with many of Cortex’s largest accounts, translating hands-on implementation experience into practical, real-world guidance.
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Taylor Schmidt
Director of Customer Education and Delivery
Taylor Schmidt is Director of Customer Education & Delivery at Cortex, where she leads the team responsible for onboarding customers and helping them get the most out of the platform. She owns Cortex Academy, the company’s customer education program, building the courses and content that help customers learn the platform. She also regularly leads live trainings and workshops to help teams get the most value out of Cortex. Taylor works closely with many of Cortex’s largest accounts, translating hands-on implementation experience into practical, real-world guidance.
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Taylor Schmidt is Director of Customer Education & Delivery at Cortex, where she leads the team responsible for onboarding customers and helping them get the most out of the platform. She owns Cortex Academy, the company’s customer education program, building the courses and content that help customers learn the platform. She also regularly leads live trainings and workshops to help teams get the most value out of Cortex. Taylor works closely with many of Cortex’s largest accounts, translating hands-on implementation experience into practical, real-world guidance.
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Join a stage full of industry leaders and help shape the conversation at EVOLVE 2026.
2025 Winners
Hariprasad Babu
Manager Technology
Simon Irwin
Principal Software Engineer
James Simmonds
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
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Naresh Bulusu
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Trushar Shah
Full Stack Software Engineer
Leslie Brown
Full Stack Software Engineer
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Dan Willman
Staff Software Engineer
Fred Mare
Principal Engineer
Nick Raccioppi
Engineering Leader - SRE
Hariprasad Babu
Manager Technology
Simon Irwin
Principal Software Engineer
James Simmonds
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Naresh Bulusu
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Trushar Shah
Full Stack Software Engineer
Leslie Brown
Full Stack Software Engineer
Dan Willman
Staff Software Engineer
Fred Mare
Principal Engineer
Nick Raccioppi
Engineering Leader - SRE
Hariprasad Babu
Manager Technology
Simon Irwin
Principal Software Engineer
James Simmonds
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Naresh Bulusu
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Trushar Shah
Full Stack Software Engineer
Leslie Brown
Full Stack Software Engineer
Dan Willman
Staff Software Engineer
Fred Mare
Principal Engineer
Nick Raccioppi
Engineering Leader - SRE
Hariprasad Babu
Manager Technology
Simon Irwin
Principal Software Engineer
James Simmonds
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Naresh Bulusu
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Trushar Shah
Full Stack Software Engineer
Leslie Brown
Full Stack Software Engineer
Dan Willman
Staff Software Engineer
Fred Mare
Principal Engineer
Nick Raccioppi
Engineering Leader - SRE
Recognizing Innovation
Celebrate individuals who have been critical in implementing groundbreaking engineering operations solutions.
Selection Process
Finalists are evaluated by a panel of industry experts and peers, with criteria spanning innovation, technical depth, and organizational impact.
Awards Ceremony
The Engineering Excellence Awards will be presented during a special ceremony at EVOLVE 2026, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field.
Subway
Grand Central - 42nd Street Station
Metro-North & LIRR
Direct to Grand Central Madison
From the Airports
JFK ~45 min · LGA ~30 min · EWR ~50 min
EVOLVE 2026 takes place at Convene 237 Park in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, two blocks from Grand Central Station.
Convene is a modern event space built for focused, high-signal sessions. Every seat is a good one.
