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9:00am MST

BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Program Co-Chair & Avantika Iyer Community Member Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:10am MST

How to Grow Your Internal Backstage Community with Some Open-Sauce (Source) 🍝 - Djamaile Rahamat & Mitchell Hentges, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:40am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Keeping the Show Running: Backstage Maintenance from a Platform Engineer's Lens - Paul Schultz, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:55am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Future is Backstage: Building a Better Platform from the Framework Up - Tom Barkan-Benkler, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform Engineering - Ben Wilcock, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

10:10am MST

10:40am MST

Backstage in the Board Room: What Makes a Digital Portal Helpful for C-Level Executives? - Olivier Liechti, Avalia Systems Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

11:15am MST

Empowering LLMs with Backstage: Broader Insights Driven by the Developer Portal - Niall Thomson, Amazon Web Service Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

11:50am MST

Panel: Insights from Internal Developer Portal Rollouts in Large Enterprises - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Red Hat; Srinivas Peri, Adobe; Serena Chechile, JPMC; Jay Cox, American Airlines; Lilit Yenokyan, Roku Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

12:25pm MST

Lunch Break 2 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall C + Hyatt | Level 2 | South Foyer

1:30pm MST

The Lego Approach: Leveraging Reusability for a Seamless User Experience - Ashna Malhotra & Mesut Yilmazyildirim, Booking.com Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

2:05pm MST

Centralized Compliance: Automated Governance Inside of Backstage Developer Portals - Amber Beasley & Daniel Hagen, Liatrio Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

2:40pm MST

Scale the Adoption and Delivery of Backend Plugins Using the New Backstage Framework - Avantika Iyer & Emma Indal, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

3:05pm MST

3:20pm MST

DevEx and Productivity Metrics on Backstage - Do's and Don'ts - Yishai Beeri, LinearB Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

3:55pm MST

Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls - Himanshu Mishra, Harness Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

4:30pm MST

IDPs For The Rest of Us: Maximizing Impact When You Aren't a Tech Giant - Eric Irwin, Quantum Metric Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build Visualizations of Cloud-Native Applications - Will Tsai & Ryan Nowak, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Countercultural: Backstage for Consultants - Lizzie Salita, Booz Allen Hamilton Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:25pm MST

BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Bryan Landes, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:30pm MST

Evening Reception (Salt Palace) Salt Palace | Level 1 | Lower Concourse + Level 2 | Upper Mezzanine