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EVENT DESCRIPTION
The conference brings together technology leaders through all stages of their technology transformations, from the brink of large-scale change to seasoned veterans who are looking to share their stories and inspire others along their way.
20 August 9:25am PDT
Azure Ballroom
Speakers: Ben Manning, VP Services Engineering – SiriusXM
Rachel Yhrig, Vice President Software Engineering – SiriusXM
Carol Gastal, Engagement Manager – Equal Experts
Summary: Benjamin, Rachel, and Carol will share how SiriusXM transformed its flagship subscription service for 34 million subscribers into a next-gen streaming platform in just 12 months. They will discuss their leadership approach, the successes and lessons learned, and how they ramped up a distributed engineering organization. Learn how they built a cloud technology architecture from scratch, enhanced their culture with observability as code, chaos testing, and engineering scorecards, ensured technical alignment with maximum autonomy, and improved cross-team collaboration.
20 August 10:25am PDT
Azure Ballroom
Speaker: Steve Smith, Global VP of Technology at Scale – Equal Experts
Summary: Steve Smith will delve into common pitfalls in platform engineering and how to avoid them. Drawing from his extensive experience, Steve will cover three major screw-ups: “power tools,” “technology anarchy,” and “teams as tickets,” tracing them to the core issue of treating platforms as projects, not products. Gain insights on building efficient, scalable internal engineering platforms.
21 August 6:45-7:30pm PDT
Azure Ballroom
Join us at the book signing event, where our team will be in attendance. Stop by to say hello, catch up, and ensure you secure your invitation to our exclusive after-party!
