Call for Speakers
PlatformCon Live Day San Francisco
24 Feb 2027
Convene San Francisco, California, United States
sanfrancisco.platformcon.com/
PlatformCon, the world's largest platform engineering conference, makes its San Francisco debut on February 24, 2027. Following stops in Paris, Sydney, London, and New York, the World Tour brings 300+ practitioners to Convene, 100 Stockton.
The program centers on the craft the discipline was built on: designing golden paths, building and running Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), and scaling them without losing the plot.
Talks will cover platform strategy and product thinking, security and FinOps run as platform capabilities, and how AI and agent workflows are landing on platforms initially built for humans. This evolution from IDPs to Agentic Development Platforms (ADPs) will be another focus area.
Talks about running agents in production at scale and the underlying agent infrastructure (incl. harness, governance, and models) belong at AgenticCon, our dedicated Day 2 stage. We may move your proposal there if the topic seems better suited for Day 2.
Sessions will also explore the business and human side of the work: securing stakeholder buy-in, driving genuine adoption, measuring ROI, and the outcomes that matter: faster delivery enabled by self-service, reduced cognitive load, and engineering organizations that scale without breaking.
Every session is practitioner-led, with content shaped around the platform challenges facing enterprise organizations in finance, cloud and SaaS, e-commerce, and healthcare technology — and the wider Bay Area and North American enterprise landscape.
Whether you're architecting your first platform or evolving one for thousands of engineers, PlatformCon Live Day San Francisco is where the Bay Area's platform engineering community meets.
Call for Speakers
20 Aug 2026
04 Oct 2026
This CfP closes on October 4th. Speaker notifications will be sent by October 20th. This CfP is for the PlatformCon San Francisco Live Day (Day 1, February 24, 2027) only. Speaking about agents in production and underlying infrastructure (harness, governance, models)? That's AgenticCon, see our Day 2.
What we're looking for
PlatformCon San Francisco is a 25-minute talk format, in front of 300+ platform engineers from enterprise organizations across the Bay Area and North America.
We are primarily looking for thought leadership talks and enterprise case studies. Real implementations at named organizations. What you built, what broke, what you'd do differently, and what the outcomes were. The more specific, the better.
This CfP is for practitioners only. If your company is a vendor or sponsor, separate sponsorship opportunities are available. Please reach out here.
How to submit a strong proposal
- Check the PlatformCon San Francisco Live Day CfP page first
- Write a title that tells us exactly what the talk is about (max 90 characters; 70 is optimal)
- Write a short description summarising your idea (max 250 characters)
- Write an abstract that expands on your description and makes the case for why this talk belongs at PlatformCon San Francisco (max 800 characters). Use third person: "In this talk, Jane Doe covers..." not "In this talk, I cover..."
- Bullet points in the abstract are welcome. Use them to spell out what the audience will take away
- Your title, description, and abstract will be published on the website as-is. Proofread carefully. Submissions with errors will be rejected without review.
- You can submit multiple proposals, but focus on the one you're most passionate about.
Please note: we do not cover speaker expenses. For questions, contact speakers@platformengineering.org.
Please note we do not provide expenses coverage
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