Presenters Matar Peles Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 From Quarters to Minutes: Building a Production-Ready IDP with AI 🚀 How long does it take to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for an Internal Developer Portal (IDP)? If you ask most platform engineers, you will hear a range of answers: one month, six months, or even a full year. Matan Peles, Field CTO at Port.io, has seen this struggle firsthand while working with giants like GitHub, PwC, and CyberArk. He argues that if you do not approach the problem correctly, building a portal can consume quarters of your roadmap. ...

Presenters Ekansh Gupta Shivay Lamba Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Unlocking Deeper Insights: Supercharging Backstage with OpenTelemetry 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 After a much-needed lunch break, we’re diving back into the exciting world of developer platforms. Today, we’re joined by Ekansh Gupta and Shivay Lamba, who are here to illuminate how you can supercharge your Backstage instance with the power of OpenTelemetry. Get ready to explore how to go beyond the surface and truly understand what’s happening under the hood of your complex infrastructure! ...

Presenters Sam Nixon Roadie Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 🤖 Beyond the UI: Welcome to the Age of the Agentic Backstage In the world of internal developer portals, we’ve spent years obsessing over the user interface. We’ve built beautiful dashboards, complex plugins, and intuitive search bars to help humans navigate the software wilderness. But according to Sam Nixon from Roadie, the tide has turned. We are no longer building just for humans. We are building for agents. ...

Presenters David Festal Jon Koops Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 🚀 Stop Rebuilding Your Backstage App: The Power of Dynamic Runtime Plugins In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage stands as the industry titan. However, anyone who has managed a large-scale instance knows the “banana and the rainforest” problem: you want a simple plugin, but you end up pulling in a massive web of transitive dependencies that bloat your build and slow your CI/CD pipeline to a crawl. ...

Presenters Debabrata Panigrahi Parseable Inc. Jenil Jain Harness Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Beyond Plugins: Building a Self-Healing, Dynamic Service Catalog 🚀 In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage is often hailed as the “one place to find every service, API, and piece of infrastructure.” For many teams, the initial launch is a triumph. Developers register services, YAML files are written, and leadership is impressed. But then comes Month Six. ...