There are just 3 days left to submit a talk to PlatformCon 2025. Every year, I tell you we will have the best lineup, the coolest speakers, and the most interesting talks. And every year my mind gets blown away again.

We are truly in the platform engineering age. Gartner says that in 2026 80% of engineering organizations will have an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). Everyone loves an analyst prediction that confirms their bias, but it isn’t hard here to go beyond that quote and just look around at what we are seeing. Platform engineering is eating the world.

I don’t just mean what I’ve talked about before, that the community and PlatformCon are growing like crazy.

But when I look at topics and ideas in the 100s of talk submissions, we received so far, there is something different to last year. The depth that we can go now go, and the scope of what platform engineering encompasses has reached new heights.

I’m talking about things like:

• Heads of Platform & Platform Product Owners sharing their real-world multi-year experience running platforms at large enterprises.
• Platform engineering & security/compliance in regulated industries (Sexy)
• Platform engineering and agentic AI

Not to mention submissions for talks that go deeper than ever before into experiences, challenges, and lessons of Platform as a Product, Infrastructure platform engineering, or just plain adoption.

I know you’ve got a story to tell too! You’ve got until this Sunday February 23rd, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) to submit.

I want to hear from you.