PlatformCon is going worldwide
2026-03-13
PlatformCon is going worldwide
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PlatformCon is going worldwide
I am extremely excited to announce that PlatformCon is launching Live Days in 2026 in both Sydney, and Sao Paulo!
In 2022, Platform first started in the depths of the pandemic with a fully virtual way for 7,000 of us to come together online and discuss this new frontier of platform engineering. Things were murky and vague then. We were still defining (arguing about) terminology, and best practices were entirely theoretical.
In 2024, we did our first in-person day with 330 people in London to get a real sense of what it means to talk platform engineering in person. There was an energy there that felt like this sweet release of tension at finally getting to talk in-person about this discipline we’re all so focused on.
In 2025, we went bigger. 700 people in London, 500 in Paris, and 450 in New York - not to mention just over 40,000 people joining the virtual content across talks, panels and workshops. It was honestly one of the best weeks of my life. It felt truly like the culmination of years of work and industry growth. No longer were panels about “What is platform engineering?”, they were about “How do we do ‘great’ platform engineering?”
2026 is going to be another step change. I’m talking about thousands of platform engineers coming together across:
Live Day London on June 23rd
Live Day New York on June 25th
Live Day Paris on September 24th
Live Day Sydney on… well that we still need to reveal!
Live Day Sao Paulo on November 7th
Live Day… where next? You let us know;)
Platform engineering is at an inflection point in the software universe. More and more data from our own surveys, to DORA, to Google Cloud reveal that platform engineering is the fundamental layer to successful AI. And at the same time, platform engineering has grown to absorb more and more domains, and we discover that the core principles of the discipline drive incredible value in the realms of security, observability, FinOps, data and more.
That means there is a greater need than ever for us to come together, debate best practice, learn from each other and take that learning out to the world.
And I'm so grateful to be on this journey with you. Stay tuned for more deets, CfPs, ticket information and everything else. Let’s goooo!!
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