Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Tim Banks takes the stage at Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025 to explore the unintended consequences of cloud adoption. From runaway AWS bills to vendor lock-in and lost operational skills, Tim offers a thought-provoking look at how convenience in the cloud has come at a cost to resilience, privacy, and sustainability.

What can Super Mario teach us about platform engineering? More than you'd think! At Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Ramiro Berrelleza, founder of Okteto, draws surprising parallels between one of gaming’s most iconic series and the world of platform engineering. Learn how building familiar, reliable foundations, just like Super Mario, can empower developers, foster innovation, and avoid constantly reinventing the wheel.

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At Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Lisa Smith, from Netflix shares a fresh perspective on how tech debt can drive innovation instead of slowing teams down. Learn how to staff legacy systems, handle tricky deprecations, and evaluate the “tech debtiness” of your infrastructure to unlock growth and efficiency. Discover how to turn tech debt into a strategic advantage for your engineering team.

Observability needs to evolve. With AI reshaping IT monitoring, how can businesses leverage predictive analysis, AI-driven monitoring, and auto-remediation workflows to create more resilient infrastructures? At Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Jemiah Sius, New Relic, explores how AI is transforming observability, shifting from reactive responses to proactive, intelligent solutions.

Where is AI heading next? In this panel from Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, leading AI & ML experts explore the latest advancements, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Join Josh Mesout (Civo), Jimil Patel (Intuit), Nami Baral (Niural), Tristian Cormier (State of California), and Gaurav Bharaj (Reality Defender) as they discuss neural networks, responsible AI governance, real-world applications, and the future of human-machine collaboration.

How do you boost developer productivity without burning out your team? At Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, industry leaders discuss how engineering teams can improve workflows, ship quality code faster, and scale developer productivity. Join Benjie De Groot (Shipyard), Nathen Harvey (Google), Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians) and Solomon Hykes (Dagger, Docker) as they explore DORA metrics, DevEx, shift-left strategies, and tooling for high-impact engineering teams.

The tech industry must innovate while cutting carbon emissions and energy use. At Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, experts in AI, cloud, and sustainability tackle the challenges of energy-hungry technologies like GPUs, software efficiency, and industry-wide solutions. Join Simon Hansford (Civo), Hui Wen Chan (Crusoe), Suleiman Mirzad (Slalom), Dr. Thomas McDonald (Orbital Materials), and Dinesh Majrekar (Civo) as they explore how tech can drive a greener future.

Launching a high-impact engineering feature that reaches millions of users and drives massive revenue is no easy feat. In this talk from Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025, Ramneet Bhatia, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, shares the strategies, challenges, and key lessons from leading the Paid Sharing launch at Netflix.