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Event

Developer Experience, Automated


September 25, 2025 • 18:00 - 20:30 GMT
The Chapel at WeWork Aviation House - 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6NH



Join PagerDuty and Backstage by Spotify for an evening of knowledge sharing, exploring how modern engineering teams can achieve peak performance through seamless integration of developer productivity and incident response.

As organizations strive to deliver seamless digital experiences, developer productivity and service reliability are more critical than ever. That's why the partnership between PagerDuty and Spotify Backstage is transforming the way engineering teams operate. We spoke with leaders from both organizations to explore how bringing PagerDuty's real-time incident response directly into Backstage's unified developer portal is helping customers streamline workflows, reduce context switching, and empower teams to resolve issues faster—so they can focus on delivering innovation.


Agenda:

  • 18:00: Check-in
  • 18:30: Mandi Walls (Senior Developer Advocate, PagerDuty) Welcome Keynotes: Community announcements, giveaway activity, PD Plugin for Backstage
  • 18:45: Justyn Roberts (Principal Solutions Consultant, PagerDuty) & Martin Van Son (Automation Specialist & Strategic Solution Advisor, PagerDuty) Self-Service & Event-Driven Automation: Learn how PagerDuty enables self-service automation and check out best practices for integrating into Backstage
  • 19:15: Stuart Clark (Senior Developer Advocate, Spotify) Scale or Fail as Spotify's Growth Exposed the Abstraction Paradox: The talk explores how complexity-hiding approaches backfire during hyper-growth through real infrastructure examples
  • 19:30 - 20:30: Pizza & Beer!
Why Attend?

  • ➡️ Hear the story of how Backstage by Spotify came to life
  • ➡️ Discover self-service automation strategies that actually scale
  • ➡️ Connect with like-minded engineers sharing similar platform challenges
  • ➡️ Food for thought: Enter our raffle for cool swag while enjoying free pizza, beers, and great conversations

This event is designed for engineering professionals of all levels, including but not limited to leaders, managers, and individual contributors in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security.
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