# Builder's Day: full site > Builder's Day is a one-day AI developer conference in San Francisco, hosted by Prisma. Spend a day with the people building the next era of software. Source: https://builders.day/llms.txt --- # Builder's Day AI developer conference, hosted by Prisma. ## Build the next era of software with the people defining it Spend a day with them. Hear how they think, what they're betting on, and where they see AI heading next. Then stay for ping pong and drinks with the people who'll build it alongside you. - When: October 26, 2026, doors 8:30 AM - Where: SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom St #100, San Francisco - Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## Hear it from the people building it Meet the first 8 speakers, with more to be announced soon. They've founded and sold companies, led teams at the biggest names in tech, and maintained open source tools developers use every day. Today they're at the frontier of AI, building the agents and infrastructure the rest of the industry will build on. - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## What you'll leave with Builder's Day has a single stage, so you'll never miss a talk. Everyone hears the same sessions and walks into every break with plenty to talk about. - **Lessons from real projects**: Hear how experienced builders design, ship, and operate AI agents. Speakers walk through what they built, what went wrong, and what they would do again. - **A room full of builders**: Spend the day with engineers, founders, and product people building with AI in San Francisco. Everyone in the room is working through the same problems you are, so conversations start easily. - **Ping pong, drinks, and good company**: The day takes place at SPIN, a ping pong bar in SoMa. Grab a paddle between talks, then wind down at the afterparty with food and drinks. ## Schedule Doors at 8:30 AM, talks and lightning rounds through 4:00 PM, then an afterparty with food and drinks. Full agenda: https://builders.day/schedule ## Venue We're taking over SPIN San Francisco for the day. It's an open, relaxed space with plenty of room to hang out between talks. Details: https://builders.day/venue ## Tickets Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## Links - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - Speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Venue: https://builders.day/venue --- # Speakers October 26, 2026 · San Francisco. Meet the founders, engineering leaders, and open source maintainers taking the stage on October 26. More speakers will be announced soon. ## [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer) Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash (https://swirls.ai) **Talk:** Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations How to take an agent from “roughly follow these instructions” to a declarative operational system with typed contracts, scoped tools, and human approval points. Most agent workflows can begin as a Markdown file: instructions, examples, a few tools, and a desired outcome. That is useful and often the right place to start. But a business cannot run on “roughly follow these instructions.” Once an agent touches customer data, sends emails, updates systems of record, or triggers work for a team, operational builders need to answer harder questions. What inputs are allowed? What outputs are guaranteed? Which actions can the agent take? What happens when something fails? Where does a human approve? This talk makes the case that the path from an agent prompt to an operational system is declarative. Make the agent’s inputs, outputs, tools, permissions, triggers, workflows, and approval points explicit. Then the system becomes inspectable, versionable, testable, and deployable. In engineering terms, we are bringing a familiar idea into agentic development: constrain the variable reasoning layer inside a defined contract. We’ll walk through how an inbox-to-CRM agent evolves from a Markdown instruction into a production-ready workflow with typed inputs and outputs, deterministic tool calls, scoped authority, durable execution, and human review. The thesis: businesses will increasingly run day-to-day through agents. The teams that succeed will not treat those agents as prompts. They will treat them as declarative operational systems. **Bio:** CJ Brewer is a systems-thinking builder. He has spent 12 years at VC-backed companies running solutions engineering teams and operations, and 15 years writing software that pulled him toward system design. He is currently VP of Operations at CipherStash and a co-founder of Swirls, where he works on agent and system infrastructure. Links: https://x.com/zcjbb, https://www.linkedin.com/in/brewercj/, https://github.com/calvinbrewer ## [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas) Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute (https://papercompute.com) **Talk:** Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions Most teams shipping agents have plenty of records and almost no memory. Every session produces a full trace. The next session starts cold. The lesson that would have saved 8,000 turns, or 8,000 dollars, lives in a transcript nobody rereads. **Bio:** Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Paper Compute Co., building distributed systems primitives for AI agents. Paper Compute’s products include tapes (agent telemetry and skill capture) and cassettes (portable, on-prem enterprise compute units for AI agent workflows). Previously, Brian founded Open Sauced, which joined the Linux Foundation in 2024. He also led Developer Advocacy at GitHub, fostering early adopters through conversations with top open-source maintainers. Links: https://x.com/bdougieYO, https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianldouglas/, https://github.com/bdougie ## [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines) Founder at Conversion Factory (https://conversionfactory.co) **Talk:** How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools **Bio:** Corey Haines is the founder of Conversion Factory, a marketing agency for B2B SaaS, and the creator of Marketing Skills, an open-source AI agent toolkit for marketers. He has bootstrapped five SaaS startups and worked with more than 100 companies. Links: https://x.com/coreyhainesco ## [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield) Platform Architect at Prisma (https://prisma.io) **Talk:** Talk to be announced **Bio:** Tyler is a Platform Architect at Prisma working on architecture and platform engineering, with a focus on database infrastructure, application hosting, and AI infrastructure. He brings more than 15 years of experience across consulting, startups, and large organizations, and has spoken at Epic Web Conf, KCDC, and All Things Open. He writes on database performance, distributed systems, and how to get reliable, high-quality output when delegating work to AI agents. Links: https://x.com/rtbenfield ## [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling) Co-founder of Prisma **Talk:** Declarative Agents Agents are getting more capable, but helping them succeed still takes too much effort. A year of research at Compounding Technologies has led us to explore declarative agents as a better foundation. **Bio:** Johannes Schickling co-founded Prisma and has spent years building developer tools. He is now doing AI research at Compounding Technologies to explore the building blocks of software factories. Links: https://x.com/schickling, https://bsky.app/profile/schickling.dev ## [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden) Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma (https://prisma.io) **Talk:** Talk to be announced **Bio:** Will leads the engineering team behind Prisma's open source ORM and guides its technical direction, with more than 15 years in software and an open source trail stretching back to 2008. He has appeared on podcasts including PodRocket to discuss ORM architecture and direction, and writes about ORM design, engineering leadership, and shipping software other engineers depend on. Links: https://x.com/william_ma14406, https://github.com/wmadden ## [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer) Product Lead at Prisma (https://prisma.io) **Talk:** About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents **Bio:** Shane is a product leader at Prisma with more than 15 years in technology, including five years prototyping new products at Google and founding a venture-backed startup of his own. He writes about product strategy, go-to-market, and building tools developers genuinely want to use. Links: https://x.com/sneub, https://github.com/sneub ## [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane) Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane (https://polylane.com) **Talk:** Talk to be announced **Bio:** Boris Tane is the founder and CEO of Coreplane Labs, the company behind Polylane: agents that read your code, watch your infra, and fix production before you wake up. He's building self-operating software on a simple premise: nobody should be on-call. Before Coreplane Labs, Boris founded Baselime, a Sequoia-backed, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for serverless architectures. Cloudflare acquired Baselime in April 2024, and Boris went on to lead the Workers Observability team, building observability for Cloudflare Workers from scratch. He has spent his career on the problem of understanding production systems, and has spoken about it at AWS re:Invent, Node Congress, SST Conf and the ClickHouse and Serverless London meetups. On his blog, boristane.com, he writes about on-call culture, observability, context engineering for AI agents, and what he learned starting, building and exiting a devtools startup. Links: https://x.com/boristane, https://github.com/boristane ## Tickets See them live on October 26. Hear them in person at SPIN San Francisco. More speakers will be announced soon. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## Links - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 --- # CJ Brewer, Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash CJ Brewer is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Swirls AI (https://swirls.ai). Also: VP Ops, CipherStash (https://cipherstash.com). ## The talk Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations How to take an agent from “roughly follow these instructions” to a declarative operational system with typed contracts, scoped tools, and human approval points. Most agent workflows can begin as a Markdown file: instructions, examples, a few tools, and a desired outcome. That is useful and often the right place to start. But a business cannot run on “roughly follow these instructions.” Once an agent touches customer data, sends emails, updates systems of record, or triggers work for a team, operational builders need to answer harder questions. What inputs are allowed? What outputs are guaranteed? Which actions can the agent take? What happens when something fails? Where does a human approve? This talk makes the case that the path from an agent prompt to an operational system is declarative. Make the agent’s inputs, outputs, tools, permissions, triggers, workflows, and approval points explicit. Then the system becomes inspectable, versionable, testable, and deployable. In engineering terms, we are bringing a familiar idea into agentic development: constrain the variable reasoning layer inside a defined contract. We’ll walk through how an inbox-to-CRM agent evolves from a Markdown instruction into a production-ready workflow with typed inputs and outputs, deterministic tool calls, scoped authority, durable execution, and human review. The thesis: businesses will increasingly run day-to-day through agents. The teams that succeed will not treat those agents as prompts. They will treat them as declarative operational systems. ## About CJ Brewer CJ Brewer is a systems-thinking builder. He has spent 12 years at VC-backed companies running solutions engineering teams and operations, and 15 years writing software that pulled him toward system design. He is currently VP of Operations at CipherStash and a co-founder of Swirls, where he works on agent and system infrastructure. ## See CJ live on October 26 Join CJ and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/zcjbb - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brewercj/ - https://github.com/calvinbrewer --- # Brian Douglas, Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute Brian Douglas is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Paper Compute (https://papercompute.com). ## The talk Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions Most teams shipping agents have plenty of records and almost no memory. Every session produces a full trace. The next session starts cold. The lesson that would have saved 8,000 turns, or 8,000 dollars, lives in a transcript nobody rereads. ## About Brian Douglas Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Paper Compute Co., building distributed systems primitives for AI agents. Paper Compute’s products include tapes (agent telemetry and skill capture) and cassettes (portable, on-prem enterprise compute units for AI agent workflows). Previously, Brian founded Open Sauced, which joined the Linux Foundation in 2024. He also led Developer Advocacy at GitHub, fostering early adopters through conversations with top open-source maintainers. ## See Brian live on October 26 Join Brian and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/bdougieYO - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianldouglas/ - https://github.com/bdougie --- # Corey Haines, Founder at Conversion Factory Corey Haines is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Conversion Factory (https://conversionfactory.co). ## The talk How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools ## About Corey Haines Corey Haines is the founder of Conversion Factory, a marketing agency for B2B SaaS, and the creator of Marketing Skills, an open-source AI agent toolkit for marketers. He has bootstrapped five SaaS startups and worked with more than 100 companies. ## See Corey live on October 26 Join Corey and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/coreyhainesco --- # Tyler Benfield, Platform Architect at Prisma Tyler Benfield is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Prisma (https://prisma.io). ## Talk title Talk to be announced Tyler is confirmed for the stage. The talk title and details will be announced soon. ## About Tyler Benfield Tyler is a Platform Architect at Prisma working on architecture and platform engineering, with a focus on database infrastructure, application hosting, and AI infrastructure. He brings more than 15 years of experience across consulting, startups, and large organizations, and has spoken at Epic Web Conf, KCDC, and All Things Open. He writes on database performance, distributed systems, and how to get reliable, high-quality output when delegating work to AI agents. ## See Tyler live on October 26 Join Tyler and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/rtbenfield --- # Johannes Schickling, Co-founder of Prisma Johannes Schickling is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. ## The talk Declarative Agents Agents are getting more capable, but helping them succeed still takes too much effort. A year of research at Compounding Technologies has led us to explore declarative agents as a better foundation. ## About Johannes Schickling Johannes Schickling co-founded Prisma and has spent years building developer tools. He is now doing AI research at Compounding Technologies to explore the building blocks of software factories. ## See Johannes live on October 26 Join Johannes and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/schickling - https://bsky.app/profile/schickling.dev --- # Will Madden, Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma Will Madden is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Prisma (https://prisma.io). ## Talk title Talk to be announced Will is confirmed for the stage. The talk title and details will be announced soon. ## About Will Madden Will leads the engineering team behind Prisma's open source ORM and guides its technical direction, with more than 15 years in software and an open source trail stretching back to 2008. He has appeared on podcasts including PodRocket to discuss ORM architecture and direction, and writes about ORM design, engineering leadership, and shipping software other engineers depend on. ## See Will live on October 26 Join Will and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/william_ma14406 - https://github.com/wmadden --- # Shane Neubauer, Product Lead at Prisma Shane Neubauer is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Prisma (https://prisma.io). ## The talk About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents ## About Shane Neubauer Shane is a product leader at Prisma with more than 15 years in technology, including five years prototyping new products at Google and founding a venture-backed startup of his own. He writes about product strategy, go-to-market, and building tools developers genuinely want to use. ## See Shane live on October 26 Join Shane and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/sneub - https://github.com/sneub --- # Boris Tane, Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane Boris Tane is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Polylane (https://polylane.com). ## Lightning talk Talk to be announced Boris is confirmed for the stage. The talk title and details will be announced soon. ## About Boris Tane Boris Tane is the founder and CEO of Coreplane Labs, the company behind Polylane: agents that read your code, watch your infra, and fix production before you wake up. He's building self-operating software on a simple premise: nobody should be on-call. Before Coreplane Labs, Boris founded Baselime, a Sequoia-backed, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for serverless architectures. Cloudflare acquired Baselime in April 2024, and Boris went on to lead the Workers Observability team, building observability for Cloudflare Workers from scratch. He has spent his career on the problem of understanding production systems, and has spoken about it at AWS re:Invent, Node Congress, SST Conf and the ClickHouse and Serverless London meetups. On his blog, boristane.com, he writes about on-call culture, observability, context engineering for AI agents, and what he learned starting, building and exiting a devtools startup. ## See Boris live on October 26 Join Boris and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 ## More speakers - [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations - [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions - [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools - [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents - [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced - [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents ## Links - All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 - https://x.com/boristane - https://github.com/boristane --- # Schedule October 26, 2026 · San Francisco. Talks run from morning to late afternoon, with breaks for lunch and ping pong in between. The day wraps with an afterparty. We'll add speakers to their slots as the lineup is announced. Meet the first 8 speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - **08:30** Doors open & check-in - **09:00** Welcome + keynote (Speaker TBA) - **09:30** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **10:00** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **10:30** Break: Light snacks available - **10:50** Lightning talk (Speaker TBA) - **11:00** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **11:30** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **12:00** Lunch: Explore the neighborhood - **13:00** Ping pong & vibes - **14:00** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **14:30** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **15:00** Lightning talk (Speaker TBA) - **15:10** Break: Light snacks available - **15:30** Talk (Speaker TBA) - **16:00** Closing keynote (Speaker TBA) - **16:30** Networking & afterparty: Finger foods and drinks - **19:00** Doors close Save your seat for a day with the people shaping what comes next. ## Links - Speakers: https://builders.day/speakers - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 --- # SPIN San Francisco October 26, 2026 · San Francisco. We're taking over SPIN San Francisco for the day. It's not your typical conference hall. Expect a space built for hanging out, sharing stories, and settling debates over ping pong. Talks are broadcast throughout the venue with audio and video, so you can grab a seat anywhere and relax. We'll have traditional seating too, if that's more your style. Address: 690 Folsom St #100, San Francisco, CA 94107 ## Photos - Ping pong tables beside lounge seating and wall art in the main hall at SPIN San Francisco - The open main floor at SPIN San Francisco with a glowing centerpiece table and lounge seating - A row of ping pong tables stretching past the bar and lounge at SPIN San Francisco - The covered patio at SPIN San Francisco with astroturf, a mural, and a ping pong table ## Links - Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8 --- # Speak at Builder's Day October 26, 2026 · San Francisco. Submissions are closed. Thanks to everyone who applied. We're reviewing proposals and will follow up with each speaker we select.