Orkes User Conference

Orkes Shift ’26

The Agentic Orchestration Conference for engineers building production systems.

October 15, 2026 Convene, Union Square, San Francisco

Why Attend?

Learn From Real Production Systems

Hear how leading engineering teams design, deploy, and operate mission-critical workflows at enterprise scale, on the same open-source engine that started at Netflix.

Solve Hard Orchestration Challenges

Gain practical approaches to durable execution: long-running processes, distributed failures, retries, state, and human approvals that take days.

Build Reliable Agentic Systems

Discover how deterministic orchestration and built-in explainability make AI-powered processes safer to run, easier to debug, and ready for production.

Meet the People Operating at Scale

Connect with engineers and architects who have built, migrated, and operated workflows at the scale Conductor runs today: 1B+ executions a day.

Trusted by
Foxtel
Netflix
Tesla
Bumble
LinkedIn
Stonex
Florida Blue
Normalyze
VMware
United Wholesale Mortgage
American Express
Swiggy
JP Morgan
Coupang
Redfin
Payoneer
Foxtel
Netflix
Tesla
Bumble
LinkedIn
Stonex
Florida Blue
Normalyze
VMware
United Wholesale Mortgage
American Express
Swiggy
JP Morgan
Coupang
Redfin
Payoneer

Agenda

  • 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    60 mins

    Registration, Breakfast, and Networking

  • 11:00 am - 11:30 am

    30 mins

    Opening Keynote

  • 11:30 am - 12:00 pm

    30 mins

    Rebuilding a Monolith - Journey from Choreography to Orchestration

  • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

    60 mins

    Lunch

  • 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

    30 mins

    Scaling Automation: How Orkes Conductor is Powering Our Agent Platform

  • 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

    30 mins

    The realities of running agents in production

  • 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

    30 mins

    Afternoon Break

  • 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

    30 mins

    Customer Engagement at Twilio Segment: From Batch to Realtime and Batch Again

  • 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    30 mins

    Stop Babysitting Your AI Coding Agents

  • 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

    30 mins

    Fireside Chat: with Geo Varkey

  • 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    120 mins

    Orkes Shift Happy Hour at Convene

Speakers

Paul Vander Griend
Paul Vander Griend

Executive Technology Leader

Bumble
Obi Azogu
Obi Azogu

Engineering Leader

LinkedIn
Joe Yan
Joe Yan

Staff Software Engineer

Twilio
Calvin Lei
Calvin Lei

Sr. Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn
Yangchen Situ
Yangchen Situ

Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn
Geo Varkey
Geo Varkey

Engineering Leader

Google
Nick Lotz
Nick Lotz

Content Engineer

Orkes
The Essentials

Mark your calendar

When
Oct 15, 2026
Morning through happy hour
Where
San Francisco
Convene, 100 Stockton, Union Square
Who
Builders
Developers, architects, and heads of engineering
Limited Capacity

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Origin Story

Conductor OSS was born at Netflix to keep one of the world’s largest streaming platforms running reliably at massive scale. Ten years and a billion daily workflow executions later, it’s the backbone of production AI, orchestrating agents, workflows, and everything in between for teams who can’t afford to fail quietly.

Netflix Conductor: The Next Chapter
Netflix Technology Blog

Netflix Conductor : The Next Chapter

How Netflix rebuilt the orchestration engine behind its studio, ads, and games pipelines.

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How we got here

  1. 2016
    Origin

    Built at Netflix to orchestrate microservices at a scale most companies never see.

  2. Open Source
    Conductor OSS

    Released to the world. Adopted by thousands of engineering teams, in every language.

  3. Enterprise
    Orkes

    Hardened for governance, durability, and observability at Fortune 500 scale.

  4. 2026
    Agentic Era

    The world's most battle-tested agentic workflow platform.