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.

Tyler McMullen, Co-Founder and Engineering Fellow | Fastly

[Abstract coming soon]

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.

Time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations

Simon Wistow, Founder & VP of Strategic Initiatives | Fastly

John Hogan, CTO | Stan

[Abstract coming soon]

“Birds of a feather” discussion tables + time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations

Kay Sawada, Sr. Enterprise Serverless Architect | Fastly

Caige Nichols, Lead Software Engineer | New Relic

In this session, Craig from New Relic will join Kay from Fastly to discuss how New Relic uses Fastly Compute in a multi-CDN architecture to ingest and route observability data at scale. Craig will share how close collaboration with Fastly enabled a migration from JavaScript to Rust, delivering significant performance and reliability gains. He’ll also explore how Fastly's transparency, access to engineering expertise, and platform innovations have helped New Relic solve complex technical challenges over time.

Guy Brown, Staff Enterprise Security Architect | Fastly

Sean Hamlin, Principal Architect | amazee.io

Nearly half of internet traffic is bots, scrapers, and AI crawlers, and amazee.io sees it across a large, diverse customer base on Fastly. Guy will explore how Fastly's flexible platform and real-time visibility help organizations embrace AI with confidence. Sean will then share how amazee.io built an AI teammate on OpenClaw that interrogates Fastly logs in real time for faster, more proactive issue resolution. He'll highlight several real-world examples, along with the associated business benefits.

Time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations

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.

Moderator: Maha Pula, VP Global Sales Engineering | Fastly

Panelists:

• Goran Stefkovski, CTO | Kogan

• [additional panelists coming soon]

As AI moves from experimentation into everyday production use, businesses are discovering that the real challenges emerge at scale, not in the pilot phase. Organisations must now navigate critical questions around human oversight, changing roles and culture, as well as security and compliance. This panel brings together technology leaders and AI experts to share real-world examples of how AI is reshaping digital business, exploring what's genuinely delivering value in production and what's still overhyped.