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Chris Con 2026

Speakers

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Aisha Bello
Developer Advocate · Hexagon Cloud
Aisha is a developer advocate at Hexagon Cloud and a recovering technical writer. She has opinions about sidebars and she's right about all of them.
AI in Production: Beyond the DemoDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 15:00–15:45 · Main Stage
Docs as Code: Building a Developer Portal Your Team Will Actually UseDay 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 13:00–14:30 · Workshop Studio
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Ravi Chandran
Mobile Lead · Papercrane
Ravi leads mobile engineering at Papercrane. He has shipped over 200 app releases and still checks the crash dashboard before breakfast.
Mobile Release Trains That Don't DerailDay 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 13:00–13:30 · Main Stage
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Diego Fuentes
Platform Engineer · Sundial
Diego builds the job infrastructure at Sundial. He has strong opinions about at-least-once delivery, mostly formed at 3 a.m.
From Cron to Queues: Evolving Background JobsDay 3 · Thu, Dec 3 · 9:00–9:30 · Main Stage
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Omar Haddad
Data Engineer · Meridian Grid
Omar is a data engineer at Meridian Grid. He's moved the same events through four different systems and finally has opinions worth sharing.
Streaming Data Without the Ops HangoverDay 4 · Fri, Dec 4 · 9:30–10:00 · Main Stage
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Marcus Hill
Principal Consultant · Hillside Security
Marcus helps engineering teams build security habits that survive contact with deadlines. He's run threat-modeling sessions with over a hundred teams, from two-person startups to public companies.
Threat Modeling for Busy Teams: A Hands-On WorkshopDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 13:00–14:30 · Workshop Studio
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Nadia Karim
VP Engineering · Cobalt Systems
Nadia runs engineering at Cobalt Systems and has been on-call, in some form, for eighteen years. She cares about reliability, sustainable teams, and retiring services gracefully.
The Boring Revolution: Why Reliability Is the Most Exciting Problem in TechDay 4 · Fri, Dec 4 · 10:15–11:00 · Main Stage
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Tomas Lindqvist
Security Researcher · Norwind Labs
Tomas researches software supply-chain security at Norwind Labs and maintains tooling for dependency auditing. He has responsibly disclosed more typosquats than he'd like to count.
Lessons from the Lockfile: Defending Your Dependency ChainDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 13:45–14:30 · River Hall
AI in Production: Beyond the DemoDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 15:00–15:45 · Main Stage
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Sofia Marchetti
Frontend Architect · Tidepool
Sofia is a frontend architect at Tidepool. She's been shipping web UI since jQuery was cool the first time, and she's very glad the platform caught up.
View Transitions in the Wild: Case Studies from ProductionDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 13:00–13:30 · Main Stage
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Kenji Mori
Engineering Manager · Papercrane
Kenji manages the data platform team at Papercrane. He has strong feelings about connection pooling and a tattoo that is definitely not the Postgres elephant.
Postgres at the Edge: Patterns for Global DataDay 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 15:45–16:30 · Main Stage
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Liam O'Donnell
SRE Lead · Quayside
Liam leads the SRE team at Quayside. He believes the best incident response starts long before the incident, preferably with everyone asleep.
On-Call Without Burnout: Humane Incident ResponseDay 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 10:00–10:30 · River Hall
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Maya Okonkwo
Principal Engineer · Lattice & Loom
Maya leads applied ML infrastructure at Lattice & Loom and has spent the last decade shipping machine learning systems at scale. She writes and speaks about the unglamorous, practical side of AI adoption.
Building with Reasoning Machines: The Next Decade of SoftwareDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 10:15–11:00 · Main Stage
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Grace Park
CTO · Fernwood Robotics
Grace is CTO at Fernwood Robotics, where she took the engineering org from a single room to four continents. Before that she ran platform engineering at two startups that made it and one that very much didn't.
Engineering Culture at Scale: Lessons from a Decade of GrowthDay 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 9:00–9:45 · Main Stage
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Ana Petrova
Staff Software Engineer · Meridian Grid
Ana is a staff engineer at Meridian Grid working across the stack. She likes her contracts typed, her APIs versioned, and her deploys uneventful.
Typed End-to-End: Sharing Contracts Between Client and ServerDay 3 · Thu, Dec 3 · 9:45–10:15 · Main Stage
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Priya Raman
Head of Platform · Cobalt Systems
Priya leads platform engineering at Cobalt Systems, where she owns the deploy pipeline and the pager that comes with it.
Kill Your Staging EnvironmentDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 11:30–12:00 · Lakeview Room
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Daniel Reyes
Staff Engineer · Brightpath Software
Daniel works on edge networking at Brightpath Software. He reads RFCs for fun and apologizes for nothing.
HTTP/3 Is Here: What It Means for Your StackDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 11:30–12:00 · River Hall
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Ingrid Solberg
Product Engineer · Fjord Analytics
Ingrid is a product engineer at Fjord Analytics who cares about the boring infrastructure that makes shipping fast feel safe.
Feature Flags Are Tech Debt (and That's Okay)Day 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 10:00–10:30 · Lakeview Room
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Chris V.
Conference Chair · Chris Con
Conference chair and host of Chris Con. Builds developer tools, runs the program team, and answers every email — say hi at the registration desk.
Welcome & Opening RemarksDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 9:30–10:00 · Main Stage
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Elena Vasquez
Accessibility Lead · Tidepool
Elena leads accessibility at Tidepool, where she turned an audit backlog into a design-system roadmap. She believes the fastest route to accessible products is making the accessible thing the default thing.
The Accessibility Wins Hiding in Your Design SystemDay 3 · Thu, Dec 3 · 9:00–9:30 · River Hall
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Hannah Weiss
ML Engineer · Lattice & Loom
Hannah works on inference infrastructure at Lattice & Loom. She spends her days making GPUs do more with less and her evenings explaining the bill.
AI in Production: Beyond the DemoDay 1 · Tue, Dec 1 · 15:00–15:45 · Main Stage
Inside the Token Budget: Serving LLMs Without Burning MoneyDay 2 · Wed, Dec 2 · 10:45–11:30 · Main Stage