SPEAKER · CHRIS CON 2026

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.

SESSIONS · 1

9:00–9:45

WED · DEC 2

MAIN STAGE

Engineering Culture at Scale: Lessons from a Decade of Growth

Developer Experience·Keynote (45 min)

Fernwood Robotics grew from 12 engineers to 400 without losing the things that made it work: small teams, written decisions, and a healthy on-call. This keynote is an honest tour of what scaled, what broke, and the three cultural bets that mattered more than any org chart.