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BackstageCon 2026

BackstageCon is a one-day conference focused on all things Backstage: an open framework for building developer portals. At BackstageCon, attendees collaborate and learn in a vendor-neutral space dedicated to improving developer experience and effectiveness through open source technologies. The event is organized by members of the Backstage community and cove…

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26Speakers
1Sponsors
29On the bill · sessions
20Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at BackstageCon, in alphabetical order.
Adam
NCSC
Alain Kägi
Lewis & Clark College
Alistair Woodman
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF)
Anjana Rajan
CEO & Co-Founder · Atalanta
Bill Nguyen
UNSW Sydney
Daniel Schwyn
Neutrality
Dave Lide
Trusted Science and Technology
David Hardin
Collins Aerospace
Gernot Heiser
UNSW Sydney
Guangtao Zhu
UNSW Sydney
Ihor Kuz
Kry10
John Hatcliff
Kansas State University
Jonathan Marshall
SafeShark
June Andronick
Proofcraft and seL4 Foundation
Lesley Rossouw
UNSW Sydney
Liam Murphy
UNSW Sydney
Martin Dehnel-Wild
Chief Scientist · Kry10
Michal Podhradsky
Galois
Miki Tanaka
UNSW
Nathan Studer
Dornerworks
Nils Brand
Fraunhofer IESE
Philipp Scholl
ABB Corporate Research
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
SpotifyDiamond
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Agenda

Selected from 29 sessions on the bill.
  • Thursday 09:30 PDT

    Simplifying Microkit System Composition with Acacia

  • Thursday 10:30 PDT

    A Policy-free Boot Process for seL4

  • Thursday 11:00 PDT

    Carrels: Secure, High-performance Microservice on seL4

  • Thursday 11:30 PDT

    Single Kernel Multicore seL4

  • Thursday 11:45 PDT

    Booting Windows on an x86-64 seL4-based VMM

  • Thursday 13:30 PDT

    Rigorous Agentic Systems Engineering for seL4 using HAMR

  • Thursday 14:00 PDT

    Efficient User-level Physical Memory Management on seL4

  • Thursday 14:15 PDT

    Modeling and Performance Analysis of Ethernet on LionsOS

  • Tuesday 09:10 PDT

    Keynote: The Age of Software Understanding

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 20 companies, parsed from the program.

Twenty companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
19Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

8% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite28%
  • Other roles2492%

Of 26 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01UNSW Sydney6V
  2. 02SpotifySp·D
  3. 03Dornerworks2V
  4. 04Kry102V
  5. 05ABB Corporate Research1V
  6. 06Atalanta1V
  7. 07Collins Aerospace1V
  8. 08Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF)1V
  9. 09Fraunhofer IESE1V
  10. 10Galois1V
  11. 11Kansas State University1V
  12. 12Lewis & Clark College1V
  13. 13NCSC1V
  14. 14Neutrality1V
Sponsors by tier
diamond1
100% of 1