Milo Carter
Runtime engineerIncoming transmission
Your mission starts here
Accept the build. Cross the city. Meet the maintainers who keep critical systems understandable when the stakes get strange.
The event and venue
Meet at the frontier
We’re gathering in a restored downtown theater with two stages, quiet working rooms, and enough hallway for the conversations between talks.
The speakers
Voices from the system
This year’s roster pairs long-time maintainers with designers, educators, and operators solving the difficult middle of software work.
Anika Rao
Design systems leadJon Bell
Open-source stewardSora Kim
Product engineerMateo Silva
Database architectLeila Brooks
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Reveal incomingThe schedule
Two routes through
Talks, workshops, food, and enough blank space for the conversations that change the plan.
Day oneFriday
Opening signal
Systems that survive teams
Designing the difficult middle
Maintainer roundtable
Day twoSaturday
Practical performance budgets
Small tools, long lives
Teaching through code review
Closing the loop
The sponsors
Backers of the expedition
Platinum
Northstar CloudRelay Works
Gold
Tighten LoopFoundry DBStatic Mill
Community
BugtrailWhimEmberline
Framework Frontier VIIBuilt in Los Angeles by Lantern District · 2027