This past year has been a whiplash for infrastructure and software teams. AI-native workflows are upending everything from provisioning to CI/CD, and open source communities are scrambling to catch up. But under the noise, there are real patterns emerging and the highest velocity teams are already rewriting the playbook.
This panel brings together leaders from across the industry and the broader open source world to explore what’s really happening under the hood.
We’ll cover:
- What’s actually changing in how the fastest engineering teams operate
- How AI tooling is reshaping developer workflows (and where it’s still falling short)
- What infra patterns are breaking and what’s replacing them
- How open source is adapting (or not) to the speed of AI and agentic development
- Lessons learned from building infra platforms at companies like AWS, HashiCorp, and Flox
Panelists:
- Stormy Peters – Head of Open Source Strategy & Marketing, AWS
- Kelsey Hightower – Advisor @ Flox, Open Source Technologist, formerly Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud
- James Bayer – Product @ Flox, previously SVP Product at HashiCorp
- Ron Efroni Rotman – CEO & Co-founder of Flox, President of the NixOS Foundation
Whether you're an engineer, maintainer, or platform lead, this session offers a front-row seat to what the next wave of infrastructure and software development will look like, straight from the people shaping it.
