Amara Diallo is VP of Engineering at Northbeam Software, where she built the platform org from 4 to 60 engineers. She writes about treating internal platforms as products.
SESSIONS · 2
9:00–9:45
THU · MAY 13
MAIN STAGE
Platform Teams Are Product Teams
Platform & Infra·Keynote (45 min)
Keynote. Internal platforms fail when they're run as cost centers and succeed when they're run as products. Amara Diallo on user research for engineers, roadmaps that say no, and the adoption curve of a platform people actually want.
15:15–16:00
THU · MAY 13
MAIN STAGE
Ask the Platform Teams
Platform & Infra·Panel (45 min)·with Kofi Mensah, Carmen Ruiz
Panel. Open Q&A with three platform leaders. Bring the question you can't ask at your own company — adoption fights, funding fights, and the projects they killed.