Agenda
Thursday 20 August 2026
We look forward to hosting you at the Sofitel Darling Harbour for an immersive day of learning, networking, and what’s driving the future of the web.
Agenda may be subject to change.
Time
Subject
Events
Breakfast & Registration
A platform for the always-on economy
Kip Compton, CEO | Fastly
In this session, Kip will highlight how our platform helps companies meet the demands of an always-on economy—from accelerating and securing digital experiences to powering AI-driven applications. He will be joined by a customer guest speaker who will share how Fastly’s flexible, developer-first platform supports the way their teams build, operate, and innovate while delivering measurable bottom-line results for their business.
Building a foundation for the AI era
Tyler McMullen, Co-Founder and Engineering Fellow | Fastly
[Abstract coming soon]
Evolving our platform for what’s next
Liam Mayron, Director of Product Management | Fastly
Fastly’s platform powers always-on digital businesses, delivering resilience, reliability, and agility at global scale. In this roadmap session, Director of Product Management Liam Mayron will share how we’re evolving our platform to help customers adapt to a rapidly changing technological and global market landscape. Liam will cover key roadmap updates while illustrating how we partner with customers to co-innovate and anticipate emerging needs. He’ll also highlight how we help customers translate Fastly technical outcomes into clear business impacts.
Break & Networking
Time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations
How Stan reliably delivers performance at scale with Fastly
Simon Wistow, Founder & VP of Strategic Initiatives | Fastly
John Hogan, CTO | Stan
[Abstract coming soon]
Lunch
“Birds of a feather” discussion tables + time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations
Building resilience at the edge: New Relic's journey with Fastly Compute
Kay Sawada, Sr. Enterprise Serverless Architect | Fastly
Caige Nichols, Lead Software Engineer | New Relic
[Abstract coming soon]
Intrepid Travel’s strategy for managing AI bots
Guy Brown, Staff Enterprise Security Architect | Fastly
Sean Hamlin, Principal Architect | amazee.io
[Abstract coming soon]
Break
Time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations
When agents meet infrastructure: Security, sovereignty, and resilience
Justin Odum, VP Fleet Operations & Production Eng. | Fastly
Join Justin as he explores how Fastly builds for resilience and security at scale. He’ll share how we learn from outages while accelerating responses to rare infrastructure failures, and how we leverage AI to supercharge software analysis and assess AI-developed code before deployment. Finally, in a growing regulatory environment, he’ll cover how we use regionalisation to support jurisdictional mandates and ongoing efforts to partition infrastructure to better meet compliance requirements.
Panel: How AI is driving the next era of digital business
Moderator: Maha Pula, VP Global Sales Engineering | Fastly
Panelists:
Goran Stefkovski, CTO | Kogan
[additional panelists coming soon]
[Abstract coming soon]
Wrap Up & Survey
Cocktail Hour & Networking