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.
Limited seating · October 14
Reserve your seat
Seating is limited and curated. Add your name below to lock in your spot: we’ll confirm by email and share full details as the day approaches.
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Speakers
The flock takes the stage.
Andrea Denise Sy
Director of Product Marketing, NeuBird
Telling the autonomous ops story
GTM
Andrew Lee
Technical Marketing Engineer, NeuBird
Turning AI Ops into action
AI Ops
Grant Griffiths
Founding Engineer, NeuBird
Panel: Platformization, security & governance for agents
PlatformizationSecurity & Governance
Run of show
One focused day, one stage.
Tuesday, 14 October 2026 · Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco. A high-level look at how the day unfolds.
- 8:00
Registration & coffee
Badges, pastries & early networking as the flock gathers.
- 9:00
Welcome & opening remarks
RemarksDaniel Day — CMO, NeuBird · Emcee
- 9:15
Morning keynote
KeynoteMike Massimino — Former NASA astronaut
- 10:15
CEO remarks
RemarksGoutham Rao — Co-founder & CEO, NeuBird
- 10:25
Mainstage session
SessionCameron Stewart — GitHub
- 10:50
Mainstage session
SessionGreg Coleman — Cribl
- 11:15
Mainstage session
SessionMichael Wishart — AWS
- 11:40
Technical panel
PanelGrant Griffiths — Founding Engineer, NeuBird · Moderator · Camden Swita — New Relic · Kishore Vinjam — AWS
The new observability stack — NeuBird, New Relic, AWS & more.
- 12:10
Lunch & the hallway track
The best conversations rarely happen on a schedule.
- 12:45
Customer panel
PanelScaling SRE & production resiliency in the real world.
- 1:15
Fireside chat
FiresidePrabhath Karanth — Greenlight
- 1:35
Afternoon break
- 1:45
Fireside chat
FiresideDaniel Day — CMO, NeuBird · Madhu Jahagirdar — DeepHealth
- 2:15
Mainstage session
Session - 2:40
Partner panel
PanelUnifying telemetry, infrastructure & autonomous operations.
- 3:10
Fireside chat
FiresideNavin Chaddha — Mayfield
- 3:40
Closing session
KeynoteRamesh Raskar — MIT Media Lab
- 4:10
Cocktail reception
Food & drinks on the same floor, to close the day.
Times, titles & speakers are still firming up and subject to change — Mike Massimino’s keynote is locked. More speaker bios go live as they’re confirmed.
Register to attendPartners & Sponsors
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.