2025 Sessions

Explore last year’s sessions

Last year we brought together over 250 engineering
leaders and platform teams to solve the friction in the SDLC.

The Future of IDPs in an AI-First World

AI is transforming how software is written, operated, and understood. But as development accelerates, visibility and governance often fall behind.

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Anish Dhar

CEO & Co-founder
at Cortex

Ganesh Datta

CTO & Co-founder
at Cortex

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

Leaders from MONY Group, Skyscanner, Canva, and Apollo Global Management share how they’re rolling out AI across their organizations.

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Alex Williams

Principal Software Engineer
at Skyscanner

Jonty Bale

Head of Technology -
Platforms at Mony Group

Sage Choi

Distinguished Engineer
at Appolo

Tyler Davis

Senior Software Engineer
at Canva

Unifying Governance with a Lightweight
Framework for Engineering Excellence

Alex Williams, Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner, shares how the team used Cortex to build a lightweight governance framework that scales.

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Alex Williams

Principal Software Engineer
at Skyscanner

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

Engineering leaders from Versant, Etsy, and Stoxx share how they prepare their teams, tooling, and infrastructure for the moments that matter most.

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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

Senior Software 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, DevEx & ProdEng at Paxos

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 at Bank of
America

Solomon Park

Senior Engineering Manager
at Capital One

Don’t just watch the evolution. Lead it.

EVOLVE 2026 is where the world’s leading engineering teams shift from managing disparate slices of the SDLC to operating their entire stack as one.

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 better every day.