IDPCON is the place where engineering and platform leaders come together to tackle the biggest challenges in building and scaling high-performing teams.
While many conversations highlight Internal Developer Portals, the real value extends far beyond. The talks, roundtables, and workshops explore topics like improving reliability, boosting developer velocity, cutting cloud costs, and aligning engineering with business outcomes.
Even if an IDP isn’t on your roadmap, you’ll leave with strategies and connections you can apply immediately.
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Engineering leaders: Why attend IDPCON
If you’re leading an engineering org, you’re always keeping your ear to the ground for the latest in building high-performing teams and software. At IDPCON, you’ll hear from leaders who’ve:
Elevated reliability practices by standardizing and automating production readiness reviews and embedding them into the development lifecycle.
Measured and improved velocity by automating the repetitive parts of software delivery — freeing engineers to focus on building.
Reduced risk and increased consistency by automating alignment to engineering standards — ensuring every service meets security, compliance, and reliability requirements without adding manual overhead.
You’ll hear real stories from organizations solving the same challenges you face today.
In roundtables like From Dashboards to Decisions: Driving Outcomes with Engineering Metrics, explore how engineering and platform leaders can use real-time metrics—like initiative completion and maturity tracking—to influence outcomes, prove value, and avoid dashboard fatigue. Hear from your peers, and come with your own questions or challenges.
And if you want to get your hands on new tools available to engineering leaders, check out the workshop From Metrics to Movement: Engineering Intelligence That Drives Action.
And if you can’t make it to New York City for IDPCON but want to learn more about how teams are operationalizing DORA metrics, check out the upcoming webinar:
Webinar: From Insight to Impact: Operationalizing DORA Metrics
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET)
Platform engineering: Why attend IDPCON
For platform leaders, IDPCON is a rare chance to connect with folks thinking about implementing golden paths, enhancing developer experience, and more. Expect to hear how teams are:
Driving cloud efficiency through smarter automation, resource visibility, and shared platform services.
Rolling out golden paths that guide developers toward best practices without slowing them down.
Cutting MTTR with clear ownership data, actionable service context, and automated incident workflows.
Managing org-wide initiatives like upgrades or security remediations—without endless spreadsheets or manual coordination.
Platform Leaders won’t want to miss the session The Role of Platform Engineering in a Hypergrowth Company. Chris Chiodo, VP of Platform Engineering at Klaviyo, will highlight his journey from a late-stage VC-backed unicorn through IPO and becoming a public company. Hear how the platform team scaled to support hypergrowth while helping hundreds of engineers ship faster, safer, and more autonomously.
A strategic lens
What makes IDPCON different from a typical tech conference is that it’s all about how leaders run engineering as a discipline. You’ll hear how organizations are aligning engineering initiatives with business goals, proving impact with data, and driving cultural change that sticks.
Even if IDPs aren’t on your roadmap this year, these are insights you can apply right away to improve the way your teams operate.
Build your network of peers
IDPCON gathers engineering and platform leaders from companies of all sizes and industries. The roundtables and networking sessions are designed for candid conversations about what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next. You’ll leave with connections who can serve as sounding boards long after the conference wraps.
Engineering Excellence starts here
Engineering excellence is about delivering reliable, efficient, and innovative outcomes through people, process, and culture. That’s what IDPCON is really about and why it’s worth your time, even if IDPs aren’t in your plans.
If you care about building stronger teams, reducing friction, and aligning engineering with the business, join us at IDPCON.
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