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EVOLVE (fka IDPCON) where the world’s leading engineering teams move from managing disparate slices of the SDLC to running a unified approach to operational excellence. . Last year, we brought together over 250 engineering leaders and platform teams to solve the friction in the SDLC.

Keynote: The Future of IDPs in an AI-first world

AI is transforming how developers build, ship, and scale software — but for most engineering leaders, there’s still no playbook for doing it right.

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Ganesh Datta

CTO & Co-founder
at Cortex

Anish Dhar

CEO & Co-founder
at Cortex

Shaping the Wave: How Engineering Teams are Defining AI’s Role

AI is transforming how developers build, ship, and scale software — but for most engineering leaders, there’s still no playbook for doing it right.

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Sage Choi

Distinguished Engineer
at Appolo

Jonty Bale

Head of Technology
at Mony Group

Tyler Davis

Distinguished Engineer
at Canva

Alex Williams

Principal Software Engineer
at Skyscanner

Unifying Governance with a Lightweight Framework for Engineering Excellence

Many engineering orgs struggle with overlapping “excellence” programs — operational, security, data, reliability — each measured differently and enforced ad hoc.

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Alex Williams

Principal Software Engineer
at Skyscanner

Ready for Primetime: How Top Teams Prepare for High-Stakes Moments

Whether it’s tax season, Black Friday, peak travel, or a global live broadcast, high-stakes moments test every part of your platform — from your systems to your people.

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Corey Samuels

Senior Engineering Manager
at Etsy

Mit Saru

Senior Director Platform Engineering
at STOXX

Tom Yang

Director of Engineering at
Versant (An NBCUniversal Company)

How Canva Cultivates
Operational Excellence

In tech, outages that make headlines often get more recognition than the ones that never happen — but that cultural imbalance can be dangerous.

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Tyler Davis

Distinguished Engineer
at Canva

Level Up Your Developer Experience with Smart Automation and Initiatives

Great developer experience doesn’t happen by accident — it’s built with intention.

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Hariprasad Babu

Manager Technology
at H&R Block

Beyond the Portal: Navigating the Human Challenges of IDP Adoption

Building an Internal Developer Portal is just the start — the real challenge (and value) lies in getting developers to actually use it.

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Pragya Jaiswal

Engineering Manager
at DevEx & ProdEng

Banking on Velocity: How the World’s Leading
Financial Institutions Confidently Move Fast

The world’s leading financial institutions don’t get to “move fast and break things.” They move fast — and break nothing.

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Fred Mare

Principal Engineer
at Xero

Purva Sawant

Principal Engineer, Bank
at America

Solomon Park

Senior Engineering Manager
at Capital One

Don’t just watch the evolution. Lead It.

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EVOLVE 2026 is where the world’s leading engineering teams move from managing disparate slices of the SDLC to running a unified approach to operational excellence.

Whether you want to learn from the experts reducing incidents by 30% or you have a story to tell about mastering reliability, there is a seat for you in NYC.

Join us on September 24 to build the systems that make engineering 1% better every day.

Join us at EVOLVE 2026

Register now to explore the new era of engineering operations.

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