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IncidentFest'26

Incident response in the age of AI
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“Incidents are where engineers are made.”

— Vanessa Huerta Granda
Sneak preview

WHAT'S ON AT THE FESTIVAL?

Headliners

Main Stage

The big show. Live keynotes, by industry leaders, all focused on the role of human expertise in the age of AI.




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AMA

AMA Marquee

Ask anything. Get answered by John Allspaw, former CTO at Etsy, plus special guests.

win a prize

Prize Booth

Play an incident drill for the chance to win vouchers, swag and premium prizes

Schedule

MAIN STAGE
Session
BST (UTC+1)
EST (UTC-5)
PST (UTC-8)
Beth Adele LongWelcome to Incident Fest
4:00–4:10pm
11:00–11:10am
8:00–8:10am
Stuart RimellThe Left-Over Principle: Incident Response in the Age of AI
4:10–4:40pm
11:10–11:40am
8:10–8:40am
J Paul ReedTBC
5:00–5:30pm
12:00–12:30am
9:00–9:30am
Sylvain KalacheMore Code, More Incidents? Staying Reliable When AI Writes the Code
6:00–6:30pm
13:00–13:30pm
10:00–10:30am
AMA MARQUEE
Session
BST (UTC+1)
EST (UTC-5)
PST (UTC-8)
John Allspaw & Beth Adele LongQuestions answered live
4:30–6:30pm
11:30am–13:30pm
8:30–10:30am

Speakers

John Allspaw
John Allspaw has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over twenty years in many different environments. John’s publications include the books The Art of Capacity Planning (2009) and Web Operations (2010) as well as the forward to “The DevOps Handbook.” His 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation” helped start the DevOps movement. John served as CTO at Etsy, and holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.
Beth Adele Long
Beth Adele Long has held engineering and product roles at New Relic, Jeli.io, and Gruntwork, and now coaches individuals and organizations in incident response and analysis, adaptive delivery, and regenerative practices for operational work. She is co-author of “Building and revising adaptive capacity sharing for technical incident response: A case of resilience engineering” with Dr. Richard Cook.
Stuart Rimell
Stuart is a product & technology leader at Uptime Labs. He previously led IG’s largest efficiency program, optimising client services, and built enterprise architecture, agile frameworks, and real-time trading platforms. He also advises startups on product management, specialising in fintech and high-performance systems.
J. Paul Reed
J. Paul analyzes complex software delivery and operational systems, providing unique business insight to technology leaders. He started his career as a build/release and productivity engineer, working with such storied organizations VMware, Mozilla, and Netflix. Today, J. Paul is an internationally recognized speaker and author on software delivery, DevOps, incident response and management, and applied Resilience Engineering, and spend his days taming incidents at Chime
Sylvain Kalache
Sylvain Kalache is a technologist and strategic communicator with two decades of experience at the intersection of engineering, public relations, and developer advocacy. He leads AI Labs at Rootly, developing AI-driven open-source reliability tools and prototypes, sponsored by Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Google Cloud.

featuring an all-star lineup of incident response classics.


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Questions, asked & answered

FAQ.

If your question's not in here, ask it in the AMA Marquee — that's literally what it's for.

How much does it cost?

Nothing. Zero. Free. We've never charged for Incident Fest and we're not going to start now. Uptime Labs pays for the bandwidth.

Do I have to attend live?

Technically no as the talks will be recorded and the prize & poll booths will stay open afterwards. But we encourage live attendance to ask questions at the AMA and talks.

What's the AI angle, really?

AI-assisted development is increasing (and will continue to increase) the rate at which software is created. AI will also continue to be rolled out across parts of incident response. What’s unknown is its effect on the volume, frequency and complexity of incidents. That’s the context which this festival aims to explore.

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