2026 Schedule

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ClueCon

Lunch

Lunch

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12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
Nightly Activities

Join us for the annual welcome dinner at Giordano's, home of Chicago's original deep dish pizza. Dinner starts at 6:00pm CT.

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Kapil Kumar Reddy Poreddy

Kapil Kumar Reddy Poreddy: Beyond Observability. Teaching AI Agents to Reason About Failures at Retail Scale

Modern retail platforms operate at a scale where traditional observability—metrics, logs, and alerts—is necessary but no longer sufficient. At Walmart Global Tech, our checkout platform processes millions of real-time transactions daily, where even brief degradation translates directly into customer impact and lost revenue. In such environments, engineers don’t just need visibility—they need reasoning. This talk explores how agentic AI systems can move beyond passive observability to actively reason about failures in large-scale, highly distributed retail systems. Instead of alert floods and manual triage, we apply AI agents that correlate signals across dependencies, deployments, traffic patterns, and historical incidents to infer why a failure is happening—and what to do next. Drawing from real production lessons and my open-source work on Dependency-OPS-Sentinel (DOS)—an AI-driven DevOps intelligence system adopted by teams and featured in the PySpark community—I will demonstrate how failure reasoning can be modeled as a graph problem, not a dashboard problem. AI agents traverse dependency graphs, evaluate blast radius, detect change-induced instability, and recommend mitigations such as rollback, traffic shaping, or graceful degradation. Attendees will learn: Why observability breaks down at extreme scale and high availability targets How agentic AI differs from rule-based automation in incident response Architectural patterns for AI-assisted failure reasoning using telemetry and dependency graphs Guardrails for building deterministic, trustworthy AI agents in mission-critical systems Practical lessons from deploying these ideas in global retail environments This session is aimed at architects, SREs, and platform engineers building real-time, highly available systems, and looking to evolve from reactive monitoring to self-reasoning operational intelligence.

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11:15 am
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11:45 am
ClueCon

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12:15 pm
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1:45 pm
Nightly Activities

Take a break from the technical intensity and dive into ClueCon's most beloved social tradition, the Gigabit Reception! This beloved networking event starts at 8:00pm CT in the SignalWire Lounge.

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ClueCon

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Lunch

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12:15 pm
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1:45 pm
Joao Santos

Lunch and Lunch-n-Learn: The new SignalWire SDK changes how you build real-time apps

Grab some lunch and join the SignalWire Lunch-n-Learn: Session abstract: The new SignalWire SDK changes how you build real-time apps — less wiring up event handlers, more describing what you want and reacting to state as it changes. This session is a working tour of it, from first import to a call with multiple participants and a working device picker. We'll start with the shape of the SDK and the mental model behind it, then move through the pieces you'll touch in every project: authenticating properly, addressing the thing you want to reach, managing a call and the people in it, and dealing with the messy reality of microphones and cameras. Bring a laptop if you want to follow along.Agenda: SDK Overview — what's in the package, what changed, and the mental model to hold onto while you use it. Observable State — the SDK surfaces state as observable streams instead of scattered callbacks. Why that's a better fit for real-time, and how to consume it without fighting the grain. Authentication — how tokens work, what your backend is responsible for, and the mistakes that bite people in production. Using Addresses — addresses as the unit of "the thing I want to reach." Looking them up, listing them, and dialing them. Calls and Participants — starting a call and handling the participant lifecycle: joins, leaves, mutes, and everything that happens out of order. Device Management — enumerating mics, cameras, and speakers, switching mid-call, and surviving permissions and hot-plugging.

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1:00 pm
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1:30 pm
Nightly Activities

Join us for a casual night out at Brando’s Karaoke & Cocktails for a taste of Chicago's nightlife. 7:00 PM CT.

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ClueCon

Lunch

Lunch

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12:30 pm
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1:45 pm