Mike Massimino
Former NASA Astronaut, NYT Best-Selling Author
Leadership under pressure
KeynoteResilience
FLOCK ’26 · The Autonomous-Ops Summit by NeuBird AI
Where signal finds its flock.
FLOCK is NeuBird AI’s annual thought-leadership summit: a single day where the people building autonomous production operations compare notes, on stage and off. In person in San Francisco.
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
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.
Reserve your seat
Request your invitation
Seating is limited and curated. Fill out the form below and we’ll be in touch with your invitation as the event approaches.
Speakers
The flock takes the stage.
Goutham Rao
Co-founder & CEO, NeuBird AI
The autonomous SRE era
KeynoteAI Ops
Andrea Denise Sy
Director of Product Marketing, NeuBird AI
Telling the autonomous ops story
GTM
Andrew Lee
Technical Marketing Engineer, NeuBird AI
Turning AI Ops into action
AI Ops
Grant Griffiths
Founding Engineer, NeuBird AI
Building the autonomous platform
Platform
What to expect
One day, one flock.
We're still building the schedule and actively reviewing talk proposals, but here's the shape of the day you can count on.
Morning
Arrive & settle in
Kick off with coffee and conversation before we open the day together with a welcome to set the tone.
Keynotes
Big ideas on the mainstage
Hear from voices shaping the autonomous-ops era with talks built to challenge how you think about running modern systems.
Sessions
Deep dives & real stories
Practitioner-led sessions on detection, incident response, and the tooling behind resilient teams.
Midday
Lunch & the hallway track
Break to eat, compare notes, and meet the people behind the work. The best conversations rarely happen on a schedule.
Afternoon
Panels & perspectives
Candid discussions and lessons learned from leaders who have shipped, scaled, and recovered in the real world.
Evening
Find your flock
Close the day with reflections and a reception to keep the momentum and the connections going.
We're still accepting speaking slots. Have a story worth sharing? We'd love to hear from you.
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Backed by the builders.
FLOCK is made possible by the teams building the tools and platforms behind autonomous production operations.
Want your team in front of the flock?
FAQ
Good questions.
Call for Papers · Now Open
Take the stage at FLOCK ’26.
Share how you’re engineering the next generation of autonomous operations. We’re looking for mainstage talks and hands-on breakouts from the platform engineers, SREs, and operators building the autonomous-ops era.
Submission Deadline · 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.