Mike Massimino
Former NASA Astronaut, NYT Best-Selling Author
Leadership under pressure
KeynoteResilience
FLOCK ’26 · The Autonomous Ops Summit by NeuBird
Where signal finds its flock.
FLOCK is NeuBird’s annual thought-leadership summit: a single day where the people building agentic production operations compare notes, on stage and off. In person in San Francisco.
Reserve your seat
October 14 · San Francisco · Limited seating
Featuring
Mike Massimino
Former NASA Astronaut & New York Times Best-Selling Author
A veteran of two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions, Mike Massimino has traveled at Mach 26, orbited 350 miles above Earth, and performed the most intricate repair ever attempted in space. He was the first person to tweet from space, has a recurring role as himself on The Big Bang Theory, and is the author of the bestseller “Spaceman” and his latest, “Moonshot.”
- Leadership Under Pressure
- Teamwork & Innovation
- Resilience in Times of Change
- Following Dreams & Never Giving Up
- The Future of Spaceflight
Closing Keynote
Ramesh Raskar
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab & Director, Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar directs the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab and leads work on Networked AI Agents to build the Internet of AI Agents. A prolific inventor with 100+ US patents, his breakthroughs include cameras that see around corners, femto-photography, and privacy-aware machine learning. He is a recipient of the Lemelson Award and the ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award.
- Internet of AI Agents
- Decentralized AI
- Computational Imaging
- AI for Impact
- Health & Sustainability
Why FLOCK
Ideas in formation.
The era of self-running production systems is here, and it’s changing the conversation, from dashboards-and-runbooks to autonomous detection, root-cause analysis, and continuous optimization.
FLOCK gathers the practitioners and leaders defining that shift: separate voices flying together. No vendor pitches on the main stage. Practitioner-first, every session.
Built for SREs, platform & infrastructure engineers, heads of reliability, and the CTOs and CISOs backing them.
Flock ’26 · In Person
The summit for the autonomous-ops era.
October 14 · Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco
We’re gathering atop the landmark Merchants Exchange, in a Beaux-Arts ballroom designed by the legendary Julia Morgan. One focused day of mainstage talks, hands-on breakouts, and the kind of hallway conversations you can’t stream, set in one of the City’s most storied rooms. Seating is limited and curated.
- Beaux-Arts landmark
- 15th-floor skyline views
- Downtown San Francisco
What to expect
Mainstage program
Keynotes and panels from the operators and engineers defining autonomous production.
Hands-on breakouts
Small-group sessions with practitioners. Go deep on the problems that matter to you.
Curated networking
Limited seating means every conversation is signal, not noise. Hallway track included.
Landmark venue
A Beaux-Arts ballroom on the 15th floor of the Merchants Exchange, one of the City’s most storied rooms.
October 14
Registration is closed.
Speakers
The flock takes the stage.
Run of show
One focused day, one stage.
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 · Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco. A high-level look at how the day unfolds.
Main stage
- 8:00
Registration & coffee
Badges, pastries & early networking as the flock gathers.
- 9:00
Welcome & opening remarks
RemarksDaniel Day — CMO, NeuBird · Emcee
- 9:05Morning keynoteKeynote
The Ultimate Co-Pilot: What Repairing the Hubble Taught Me About the Future of Autonomous Operations
Mike Massimino — Former NASA astronaut
- 10:00Co-founder keynoteKeynote
From Alert Noise to Autonomous Ops: NeuBird’s ARC and the Road Ahead
Goutham Rao — Co-founder & CEO, NeuBird
- 10:10Mainstage sessionSession
Your Next User Is an Agent: Rethinking How We Build, and How We Measure
Cameron Stewart — GitHub
- 10:35Mainstage sessionSession
Before the Context Window: Shaping Telemetry for High-Signal, Deterministic AI Triage
Greg Coleman — Cribl
- 11:00Fireside chatFireside
From Firefighting to Governed Resilience: The Next Era of Production Operations
Erik Loen — GM, AWS · Venkat Ramakrishnan — COO, NeuBird
- 11:25Technical panelPanel
Agents on Call: Trust, Teams, and the End of the Single Pane of Glass
Grant Griffiths — NeuBird · Camden Swita — New Relic · Rached Blili — Fabrix.ai · Pratul Chakre — AWS · Kumar Chivukula — Opsera
- 12:00
Lunch & the hallway track
The best conversations rarely happen on a schedule.
- 1:00Fireside chatFireside
Architecture, Edge Reality, and Enterprise Ops
Nagesh Bidhurakanthu — RH · Francois Martel — NeuBird
- 1:20Lightning talkSession
Scale Without the Pager: How Greenlight Keeps Fintech Reliable
Prabhath Karanth — Greenlight · Andrea Denise Sy — NeuBird
- 1:30Customer panelPanel
Reliability Where Data Meets Money
Francois Martel — NeuBird · Moderator
Practitioners from Reltio, Greenlight & Everpure.
- 1:50
Afternoon break
- 2:00Fireside chatFireside
Transforming How Business Is Done: High-Stakes AI in Real World Healthcare
Madhu Jahagirdar — DeepHealth · Daniel Day — CMO, NeuBird
- 2:30
- 2:55Fireside chatFireside
The Lean Production Engine: Scaling Ops and Smarter RCA with Autonomous AI
Vinod Jayaraman — NeuBird · Navdip Bhachech — DemandTec
- 3:15Fireside chatFireside
Inception to Iconic: The Anatomy of Generational Bets in the AI Era
Navin Chaddha — Mayfield · Krystal Hu — Reuters · Moderator
- 3:45Closing sessionKeynote
Safer AI Models Won’t Make AI Safe — NANDA: Internet of AI Agents
Ramesh Raskar — MIT Media Lab
- 4:20
Cocktail reception
Food & drinks on the same floor, to close the day.
Technical breakouts
Deep-dive sessions that run alongside the main stage.
- 10:10–10:45
- 1:00–1:35
Times & speakers are subject to change. More speaker bios go live as they’re confirmed.
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Backed by the builders.
FLOCK is made possible by the teams building the tools and platforms behind autonomous production operations.
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FAQ
Good questions.
Call for Papers · Closed
Thank you for your interest in speaking at FLOCK ’26.
Submissions are now closed. Thank you to the platform engineers, SREs, and operators who proposed a talk — our program committee is reviewing every submission and will be in touch by email.
Submissions Closed · August 31, 2026
Find your flock.
One day, on stage and off, with the people building the autonomous-ops era. Join us in San Francisco.