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Presenters Paul Schultz Hope Hadfield Heikki Hellgren Peter Macdonald Aramis Sennyey Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Building a Thriving Backstage Plugin Ecosystem: Insights from the Experts! 🚀 Hello, fellow tech enthusiasts and platform engineers! I just wrapped up an incredible panel discussion at my first Backstage Con, and let me tell you, the energy was electric! Moderated by the brilliant Hope Hadfield from Red Hat, our panel dove deep into the heart of what makes Backstage so powerful: its vibrant plugin ecosystem. As this ecosystem matures, new questions emerge around sustainability, governance, and quality. Today, we unpack the burning questions and discover how we can collectively build an even healthier, more robust Backstage future. ...

Presenters Sander Boumeester Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Leveling Up Developer Experience: Building a Thriving Internal Developer Portal at Adyen 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever wondered how global financial tech giants like Adyen keep their development engine humming with speed and quality? Sander Boumeester, an engineer at Adyen for the past two and a half years, shared some incredible insights into their journey of transforming their internal developer portal, aptly named “Launchpad,” from a little-used tool to a vital hub for over a thousand developers. ...

Presenters Thuan Pham Travis Source The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast From Boat Person to Tech Titan: Tuan Pham’s Epic Journey Through Uber’s Hypergrowth and Beyond 🚀💡 Ever wondered what it’s like to build a tech giant from the ground up, navigating chaos, impossible deadlines, and unprecedented scale? Our latest conversation with Tuan Pham, a legendary figure in the tech world and former CTO of Uber, pulls back the curtain on this incredible journey. From fleeing Vietnam as a child to leading one of the most complex engineering organizations ever built, Tuan’s story is a masterclass in resilience, innovation, and leadership. ...

Presenters Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Diya Jolly Source Product School podcast 🚀 The Future of SaaS: From Clicking Buttons to Conversational Insights In the rapidly evolving world of software, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how humans interact with technology. According to Diya Jolly, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero, the era of clicking buttons all over a dashboard is ending. Instead, SaaS is transforming into a space where users primarily review insights and engage in natural conversations with their data. ...

Presenters Shweta Vohra Joseph Stein Source InfoQ podcast 🚀 Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Building the Next-Gen AI Operating Model If your team has AI running in a proof of concept but struggles to deploy it reliably in production, you are navigating the most critical gap in modern engineering. In this episode of the Next Generation Playbook for AI, Shweta Vohra sits down with industry veteran Joseph Stein to decode how we move from simple chatbots to autonomous agentic systems without descending into architectural chaos. ...