Agenda
Breakfast & Registration
08:30
Opening Session
09:30
Building an IDP Using Lego Principles
Building an IDP (Internal Development Platform) is what every DevOps/Platform engineer does - even without intending to explicitly. The organization’s processes, architecture, and culture are strongly coupled with the internal platform that is built and designed from the ground up. Based on our experience with many companies, we want to share which principles to use in order to create your platform using Lego principles, thinking about each technology choice in a modular and composable way that can help you make the right decisions at the right technical intersections.
We’ll wrap up with a real-world example using common OSS tooling so you can see this applied from theory to practice with Backstage, Helm/Kubernetes, and Grafana for visibility. You’ll go away with a better plan for building your own stack-specific IDP for your engineering organization.
Talk will be delivered in English.
Guy Menahem
CNCF Ambassador & Solutions Architect, AWS
Udi Hofesh
Developer Relations & Product Marketing, Komodor
09:45
From Silos to Synergy: How Platform Engineering Bridges Teams with AI
In many organizations, teams often work in silos, leading to inefficiencies, miscommunication, and delays in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). This talk explores how platform engineering, powered by Generative AI, can break down these silos and create a culture of collaboration and shared ownership.
Using real-world examples, we’ll demonstrate how our AI-driven platform enables seamless cross-functional collaboration by integrating tools like ALM systems, IDEs, and chat interfaces. Attendees will learn how to cultivate a platform-first mindset, reduce technical debt, and align development, operations, and security teams for faster, more efficient delivery.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
10:15
No More Dev Environment Headaches: Building Self-Service Development Platforms
In today's cloud-native landscape, maintaining consistent development environments is crucial for productivity. This session demonstrates how to build a one-command solution for provisioning complete dev environments using CNCF ecosystem tools. We'll explore architecting a dev environment automation pipeline using Terraform for infrastructure, GitOps with ArgoCD for platform components, and Crossplane for AWS resources. Learn how to create reproducible environments with secure secret management, just-in-time IAM roles, network config, Kubernetes clusters, and essential services. The solution optimizes costs through on-demand environment creation and cleanup.
Through practical examples and demos, discover how to implement this in your organization, enabling developers to spin up secure environments in seconds while ensuring production consistency. Walk away with actionable insights for streamlining development workflows using open source tools.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Crossing Planes: Backstage + Crossplane for the Ultimate Platform Magic
Unlock the potential of your developer platform by integrating Backstage and Crossplane to create the ultimate developer experience. In this talk, we’ll explore how custom Backstage plugins can seamlessly bridge the gap between intuitive user interfaces and the powerful orchestration capabilities of Crossplane. Learn how to enable a self-maintained and dynamically updated service catalog that evolves with your infrastructure, offering a centralized hub for all your services and resources.
We'll demonstrate how to leverage Backstage’s rich UI capabilities to provide developers with user-friendly, form-driven access to custom Crossplane APIs—empowering teams to provision resources effortlessly while adhering to GitOps best practices. By combining Backstage’s extensibility with Crossplane’s flexibility, you can achieve a platform that’s not only scalable and customizable but also fosters self-service, reduces operational overhead, and accelerates development velocity.
Talk will be delivered in English.
11:30
Elevating Developer Efficiency with Developer Portal
As platform engineers our goal is to empower developers by simplifying complex workflows and enabling self-service capabilities. In this session, we will share how our team designed and implemented a developer portal using Port. We will explore how we crafted our golden paths, providing developers with clear, automated workflows for deploying services to production while accessing real-time deployment metrics and insights. Additionally, we will discuss how these paths streamline testing environment management with built-in FinOps transparency.
The session will highlight the technical backbone of these capabilities, including the use of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Env0) for blueprint management and the seamless integration of diverse tools into a unified developer experience. This session will also address the challenges we encountered while implementing the developer portal, such as aligning with diverse team requirements, driving adoption, and managing technical complexities.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
12:00
From Chaos to Clarity: Reducing Context Switching & Unplanned Work Through Platform Engineering
Join us for actionable strategies to reduce chaos, foster collaboration, and enhance the developer experience.
In fast-paced R&D environments, unstructured requests, constant interruptions, and dependency bottlenecks can cripple developer productivity and infrastructure stability. At Yotpo, we embraced a platform-first strategy to tackle these challenges head-on. By leveraging data-driven experiments, integrating self-service solutions, and streamlining workflows, we reduced DevOps requests by 50%, improved developer focus, and significantly accelerated our R&D velocity.
This talk offers a deep dive into how we built scalable, developer-centric solutions using tools like Backstage, enjo.ai, and Jira. We’ll share lessons learned, including stories on successes and failures, and discuss how self-service platforms can empower R&D teams while enabling Platform Engineers to focus on critical infrastructure development.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
12:30
From Friction to Adoption: Hacking Human Psychology for Platform Success
You’ve launched your first Platform! Hooray! But adoption is slow, and early adopters are frustrated and pushing back on onboarding. The platform is too strict, or the outcome isn’t production grade, or worst of all - your users are just “not smart enough” to use it.
Well, it’s only partially you - Years of evolution taught us how to avoid lions in the Savana through psychological biases and heuristics which have now evolved to help you avoid Platforms in Tech corporates.
Through my personal experience with early adopting organizational platforms, you’ll learn how we can make the onboarding process as easy and painless as possible.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
14:00
Panel - The Platform Engineering Revolution: Empowering Developers Through Self-Service
Empower your developers for creation without bottlenecks. Free DevOps for more meaningful activities. Boost organization velocity.
Join us for an exciting panel where we'll discuss how this magic can happen.
The panel will be held in Hebrew.
14:15
How to Create a Platform People Want to Use, Not Have To
Platform or Infrastructure in many companies are a synonym for bureaucracy and red tape: it's something the R&D have to use, isn't really grounded with reality and always comes with loads of ego. We've completely reversed the balance of power: The R&D can CHOOSE whether or not they work with the platform groups and use their infrastructure.
In this talk we'll describe how we shifted the way our platform teams work, how we measure ourselves, what's our mode of operation and how eventually even though they don't have to, the vast majority of the R&D chooses to use us and come to us for joint work.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
14:45
The IaC Tooling Multiverse and the Future of Platform Engineering
With Infrastructure as Code becoming the de facto way we manage our infrastructure today, a lot of excellent tools have become widely adopted that each have a different set of strengths. In this talk we'd like to take a look at the evolution of the IaC landscape over the past decade, and how it impacts platform engineering directly.
We'll examine some of the biggest Ops challenges - DevOps / SRE with an emphasis on Platform engineering, through the lens of IaC including disaster recovery, security, cost, performance and even where complexity factors in when choosing your tooling of choice.
While many of us have already chosen our tooling, we may also like to consider migration and integration of multiple tools for different use cases and stacks. In this interactive talk, we'll allow you to decide which tools we explore - from CDK to Pulumi, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, ArgoCD to learn about how they stack up versus modern cloud native challenges for platform teams.
Talk will be delivered in English.
15:00
Coffee Break
15:15
Engineering Culture First: The Journey to Building Sphera, monday.com's IDP
How do you scale engineering practices in a fast-growing company without losing sight of your core values? Join us on our journey from a small startup to a thriving engineering organization, as we share the challenges we faced and how we tackled them through Sphera, our custom-built Internal Developer Portal.
In this session, we’ll explore how we broke down a monolith, streamlined CI/CD processes, enhanced production monitoring, and maintained transparency and visibility across teams—all while empowering developers with greater ownership over their projects. Learn how Sphera became the one-stop shop for managing services, deployments, and incident response, tailored specifically to align with our engineering culture.
If you're curious about balancing growth with developer autonomy, fostering collaboration, and building tools that truly resonate with your organization’s ethos, this talk is for you. Let us inspire you to create an IDP that reflects your culture, not compromises it.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
15:30
Put On Your Product Hat When Championing an Internal Tool
You might tell yourself that integrating an internal tool or platform into the day-to-day work of your colleagues will be easy. After all, you know how developers work - you are one. But this is a pitfall, teams don't tend to adopt tools easily. Changing habits is a hard task. That's why you gotta stop thinking like a developer and put on your Product Manager hat. Yup buddy, that's a product in your hands and you must treat your colleagues as potential clients.
In this lecture I'll discuss the reasoning and dos & don'ts when introducing an internal development tool to your peers.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
15:45
Building Platforms Through Customer Value: Yes, You Can
Building a robust platform while continuously delivering customer value is a challenge every platform team faces. This talk unveils a pragmatic approach to platform engineering that aligns technical evolution with continuous business value delivery. Through real-world examples from both data and product platforms, we'll explore how to craft golden paths that enable teams to build engineering foundations while delivering business value.
During this talk, you will learn how to transform the challenging "replace the engine while the bus is driving" scenario into a structured, value-driven journey that keeps both engineering teams and business stakeholders engaged & aligned.
Talk will be delivered in Hebrew.
16:00
Augmenting Platform Engineering: Leveraging AI to Enhance DevEx & Operational Efficiency
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are vital for speeding up workflows and delivery times. You want it to help build smarter & more efficient development ecosystems, without adding more complexity. How can you make sure your IDP keeps its promises?
Drawing on real-world experiences, i.e. NYTimes implementation of the OSS CNCF CNOE framework & the capabilities of CNCF platforms, we'll examine the characteristics of effective platforms and how they can be enhanced with AI capabilities. This includes improving DevEx through AI-driven pair programming tools, no-code interfaces, and self-service provisioning, as well as addressing complex security & compliance challenges to mitigate risk. Ultimately, this leads to more robust and efficient platforms overall.
Whether you're new to IDPs or looking to enhance an existing platform, you'll leave with insights to build an AI-augmented IDP that boosts productivity, streamlines governance & keeps pace with evolving software development demands.
Talk will be delivered in English.
16:15
Closing Session
16:45
Lunch
12:45