24 people who actually shipped something
Every speaker at Plenary is reviewed anonymously and rehearsed live. No submitted-slides-and-forget.
“The cost of a good decision”Amara Okonkwo
VP Engineering · Northbeam
“Designing systems people can argue with”Kenji Watanabe
Design Director · Formwork
“What we got wrong about platform teams”Ruth Vandermeer
Principal Architect · Lattice Systems
“Keynote: the room where it gets built”Dev Raghunathan
Developer Advocate · Runway Labs
“Shipping under real constraints”Elena Sandoval
Staff Research Engineer · Cadence AI
“Migrations nobody notices”Priyanka Menon
Head of Platform · Foundry Cloud
“The on-call rotation that fixed itself”Marcus Webb
Distinguished Engineer · Northbeam
“Prototyping at the speed of doubt”Sophie Lindqvist
Design Engineer · Formwork
“Roadmaps as a form of honesty”Diego Fuentes
VP Product · Runway Labs
“What we broke to move faster”Mei Arai
Founding Engineer · Lattice Systems
“The last good rewrite”Oliver Strand
CTO · Cadence AI
How a talk gets on this stage
A talk, not a pitch
Anonymous review — no logos, no titles. We read the abstract, not the badge.
One slot, real tradeoffs
Twenty-four seats total. Accepting one topic often means turning down three good ones.
A rehearsal, always
Every speaker runs their talk with our program chair two weeks out. No exceptions, no surprises.
Think you've got the twenty-fifth talk?
We open the CFP again in January. Get on the list and we'll email you the day it opens.
speak@plenaryconf.com