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TailscaleUp 2026

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TailscaleUp 2026 ran on Aug 26, 2026 at SFJazz Center in San Francisco, United States. It is a Networking conference. ConferenceGrid lists 43 speakers and 38 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Last verified May 6, 2026

TailscaleUp 2026 is the flagship conference for engineering, security, and IT leaders shaping the future of secure connectivity across all teams, infrastructure, services, workloads, and devices. The event features workshops, labs, and sessions focusing on developer velocity, security, AI systems, modern CI/CD workflows, and more. Attendees can preview Tails…

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43Speakers
0Sponsors
38Sessions
22Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at TailscaleUp, in alphabetical order.

Adam Simpson
Staff Software Engineer · Grafana Labs
Adriano Sela Aviles
Member of Technical Staff · Tailscale
Akshita Gupta
Software Engineer MTS · Salesforce
Alex Kretzschmar
Head of Developer
Relations · Tailscale
Alex Olivier
Co-founder & CPO · Cerbos
Andree Toonk
Director of Engineering · Tailscale
Anthony Ghilarducci
Staff Software Engineer · Verrus Data
Artem Leshchev
DevTools Team Lead · Avride
Avery Pennarun
Co-Founder and CEO · Tailscale
Bogdan Tanasie
Security Engineer · GitHub
Cameron Stokes
Solutions Architect · Tailscale
Carlos Catalan
Solutions Engineer · Tailscale
Chandan Chowdhury
Senior Security Infrastructure Engineer · Corelight
Darien Hirotsu
Lead Network Engineer · Verrus Data
Ella Chung
Solutions Engineer · Tailscale
Jakub Tomasek
Engineering Director · Kabam Robotics
John Downey
Chief Information Security Officer · GoFundMe
Justin Garrison
Field CTO · Sidero Labs
Kabir Sikand
Product Manager · Tailscale
Karl Jacob W
Network Engineering Lead · HiTech
Kartik Ram Bharath
Solutions Engineer · Tailscale
Lealem Amedie
Software Engineer · wolfSSL

Agenda

Selected from 38 sessions.

  • 10:50 AM PDT Hands-on Room August 26

    Demos: Latest Product and Feature Releases

    Excited about the latest features and product announcements for Tailscale? Join us for live demos to see them for yourself and get all your questions answered by Tailscale experts.

  • 11:00 AM PDT Stage 1 August 26

    Tailscale VPN Part 1: From Homelab to US-East-1

    Tailscale has an interesting go-to-market motion: win over the homelab crowd and let them bring it to work. That's exactly what happened at GoFundMe. When it came time to replace o…

    Security Track
  • 11:00 AM PDT Stage 2 August 26

    Physical AI with Zero Trust: Secure Interoperability for Robots and Agents on Tailscale

    This talk explores how Tailscale enables secure, zero-trust interoperability for robots, agents, and physical infrastructure. By creating a secure mesh layer, autonomous systems c…

    Connectivity Track
  • 1:10 PM PDT Hands-on Room August 26

    Power Up Your Policy File

    You rolled out Tailscale to the entire company, and you’re starting to miss the VPN complaints. But how do you know your network is really secure? In this workshop, you’ll learn ho…

    Security Track
  • 1:10 PM PDT Stage 2 August 26

    Tailscale in Practice: Multiple Tailnets, Automated Operations, and Production Exit Nodes

    This is a practical talk for teams who've adopted Tailscale and want to take it further. It covers when to choose multiple tailnets for environment isolation, a reusable pattern fo…

    Security Track
  • 11:20 AM PDT Stage 2 August 26

    Kill the Tags: Programmatic ACL Generation for Just-in-Time Autonomous Fleet Access

    In this talk, we share how we generate ACL rules on demand with our ACL Syncer. We will walk through the architecture of this AWS Lambda-based service, which evaluates real-time se…

    Connectivity Track
  • 11:25 AM PDT Stage 1 August 26

    Tailscale VPN Part 2: Customer Panel

    Join us for a moderated panel where companies share how they use Tailscale as a business VPN solution. This panel will cover real-world deployments, security improvements, and less…

    Security Track
  • 11:40 AM PDT Stage 2 August 26

    Island Mode: Techniques to Keep Tailscale Running with Intermittent Internet Connectivity

    This talk covers ways to help Tailscale clients stay connected within a multi-tailnet environment when internet connectivity is disrupted. We’ll cover using peer relays with direct…

    Connectivity Track
  • 1:15 PM PDT Stage 1 August 26

    Everything Tailscale at GitHub

    GitHub has built its Tailscale deployment across three internal projects: a Go-based control plane for provisioning and managing our tailnet, a Kubernetes operator deployed across …

    Connectivity Track

Quick answers

When is TailscaleUp 2026?
TailscaleUp 2026 ran on Aug 26, 2026 at SFJazz Center in San Francisco, United States.
Where is TailscaleUp 2026 held?
TailscaleUp 2026 was held at SFJazz Center in San Francisco, United States.
Who is speaking at TailscaleUp 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 43 speakers, including Adam Simpson (Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs), Adriano Sela Aviles (Member of Technical Staff, Tailscale) and Akshita Gupta (Software Engineer MTS, Salesforce).
Company intelligence

An audience of 22 companies, parsed from the program.

22 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
0Sponsoringsponsor only
22Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

28% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite512%
  • VP-level25%
  • Director / Head of512%
  • Manager / Lead1228%
  • Product37%
  • Engineer · IC1433%
  • Other roles25%

Of 43 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Tailscale18
2Corelight2
3Grafana Labs2
4Replit2
5Verrus Data2
6Apollo Research1
7Avride1
8AWS1
9Cerbos1
10Cleric1
11Dexory1
12eBay1
13Gaudiy1
14GitHub1
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.