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The biggest week in platform engineering

We’re now less than 4 weeks away from PlatformCon 2025, the world’s largest platform engineering event.

In terms of pure numbers, it’s bigger than ever.

We’re on track for 40,000 virtual attendees, 1000+ in-person, and more partners and speakers than ever. But the most important thing (as always) is the content.

PlatformCon 2025 will have:

• 75 hours of virtual talks from speakers like Gregor Hohpe, Patrick Debois, Nicki Watt, and hundreds of other platform engineering experts from leaders to practitioners
• 80 hours of hands-on workshops covering everything from building your IDP with k0rdent and Backstage, to Hackathon starter packs & Terraform orchestration.
• Speakers like Kelsey Hightower and Camille Fournier live in NYC, and Gregor Hohpe, and Nicki Watt in London. Plus a dozen other super inspiring platform engineering thinkers and leaders from across the industry.

Not to mention the many amazing panels that have yet to be announced, and the first-ever PlatformCon x House of Kube official closing party.

If that wasn’t enough I’ll be at both events doing my two favourite things of all - talking to other platform nerds and teaching platform engineering!

I’m super excited to lead two in-person platform engineering trainings focused on Platform as a Product, and building and selling your Minimum Viable Platform.

I better see you there!