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Understand the platform engineering landscape. See what’s out there and learn how to best combine tools into a platform that works for your organization.

Upcoming Events

Connect with fellow platform practitioners at our events, anywhere in the world.

Virtual
Backstage + Crossplane + Kyverno for the ultimate platform magic

How can integrating Backstage, Crossplane and Kyverno create a powerful developer platform? Join Scott Rosenberg to find out how to enhance Backstage’s extensibility with Crossplane’s flexibility.

October 21, 2025
7:00 pm
CEST
45min
Scott Rosenberg

Lead Architect, CTO Office @ TeraSky

Virtual
How platforms are foundational to AI: Platform engineering exec roundtable

Platform engineering emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native, but it’s greatest value however is as the foundation of driving the future of AI in the enterprise.

October 23, 2025
7:00 pm
CEST
45min
Kaspar von Grünberg

CEO @ Humanitec

Rickey Zachary

Global Engineering Platforms Lead @ Thoughtworks

Virtual
Scaling evaluation systems for agentic platforms from prototype to prod

This webinar looks to develop strategies for mastering cost-effective AI agent evaluation at scale using stratified sampling, risk-based testing, and multi-stage screening to cut costs while maintaining enterprise-grade quality control.

October 30, 2025
7:00 pm
CET
45min
Glyn Darkin

Global Head of Delivery @ ClearRoute

Virtual
How to scale automated testing beyond CI/CD pipelines

Discover why CI/CD pipelines weren’t built for today’s testing realities. As AI-driven development accelerates release cycles, traditional CI/CD pipelines are buckling under the weight of automated testing, leading to slower feedback, brittle environments, and rising infrastructure costs.

November 4, 2025
7:00 pm
CET
45min
Ole Lensmar

CTO @ Testkube

In-person
Platform Engineering Executive Roundtable during KubeCon, Atlanta

Platform engineering emerged in response to the growing complexity of cloud native, but it’s greatest value however is as the foundation of driving the future of AI in the enterprise.

November 11, 2025
4:00 pm
ET
2 hrs
Sam Barlien

Head of Ecosystem @ Platform Engineering

Rickey Zachary

Global Engineering Platforms Lead @ Thoughtworks

In-person
AI agents + Platform Engineering: Can you ship securely at scale?

AI coding agents promise speed, but without strong platform engineering they can create chaos. In this networking event, learn why governance, golden paths, and platform adoption aren’t nice-to-haves; they’re essential for securely shipping AI workloads and making “platforms for AI” the real enterprise advantage.

November 17, 2025
5:00 pm
PST
2 hrs
Sam Barlien

Head of Ecosystem @ Platform Engineering

Virtual
Generating high-quality synthetic test data with agentic AI

Agentic AI for test data generation has arrived - but what does the ideal process look like and how will it fit within your workflows? Join synthetic data pioneer Mark Brocato as he spotlights the latest capabilities of Tonic Fabricate and speaks candidly on the potential and pitfalls of AI-driven data generation. With the right tools in place, the test data you need is just an AI conversation away.

December 4, 2025
7:00 pm
CET
45min
Mark Brocato

Head of Engineering @ Tonic.ai

The first ever platform engineering certification is finally here!

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