SREcon26 Americas Evening Events

Monday, March 23

Welcome Get-Together

Grand Foyer
Sponsored by BigPanda
5:00 pm–7:00 pm

Enjoy snacks and beverages while connecting with new colleagues and familiar faces from the SRE community.


Tuesday, March 24

Conference Reception at the Sponsor Showcase

Grand Foyer
5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Sponsored by IBM

Network with other attendees and visit our exhibitors at the Conference Reception and enjoy some great food and drinks!

Sponsor Event: Google Prodcast

St. Helens Room
7:00 pm–8:00 pm

The hosts of The Prodcast, Google’s podcast on site reliability engineering and production software, will be recording informal interviews at SREcon! We invite you to join us — we want to hear about your experiences with reliability topics, and to share what you do with our audience.

You can find The Prodcast at https://sre.google/prodcast.

Sponsor Event: Lightrun Game Night

Olympic Room
7:00 pm–9:00 pm

Join Lightrun for a fun evening of games and networking, while enjoying food and beverages.


Wednesday, March 25

Lightning Talks

Grand Ballroom II
5:45 pm–7:00 pm

Join us for a session of short talks on various topics related to the practice of Site Reliability Engineering. Each lightning talk is 4 minutes long and should have exactly 16 slides, auto-advancing to the next slide every 15 seconds. The strict time limit allows each speaker to focus on one core idea during their talk.

Sponsor Event: incident.io

St. Helens Room
7:00 pm–9:00 pm

Join incident.io and the Resilience in Software Foundation (RISF) for an evening of great conversations, networking, and insights into the future of resilience engineering.

This intimate happy hour brings together a diverse, multi-disciplinary group of engineers, SREs, and leaders who are passionate about building more resilient systems. Whether you're deep into resilience engineering or attending SREcon and interested to learn more, this is a chance to connect with like-minded professionals, share experiences, and discuss the latest trends shaping the industry—all over drinks and good company.

Enjoy food and beverages during the event.


Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)

Tuesday, March 24, 7:00 pm–10:00 pm
Wednesday, March 25, 7:00 pm–10:00 pm

Attendees may schedule Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) and reserve meeting rooms for them via the BoFs schedule grid posted outside the badge pickup area.