Nixo

Hosted by Nixo · San Francisco · Oct 1, 2026

The FDE Conference III

One day for the engineers who ship where the customer is. Practitioners only, one track, and it's free.

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2026-10-01 The Foundry, SoMa 300 seats $0

01 · The room

The field, in one room.

You don't work at headquarters. You work in the customer's war room, in their codebase, on their deadline. The FDE Conference is the one day a year the field comes home to compare notes.

No vendor pitches from the main stage. Every talk is a practitioner telling you exactly how they shipped something hard inside someone else's company — what worked, what blew up, and what they'd do differently.

Editions I and II sold out in under three weeks. The third is our biggest room yet, and it stays a single track: everyone in one room, all day.

02 · Speakers

Practitioners only.

  • Talk 01

    Mara Okafor

    Head of Forward Deployment, Parallax

    Discovery to deployed in five days

  • Talk 02

    Daniel Voss

    Founding FDE, Hatchline

    Being employee #4 and account #1

  • Talk 03

    Priya Raghavan

    FDE Lead, Brightloop

    Scaling yourself across nine accounts

  • Talk 04

    Jonah Cade

    Deployed Engineering, Cobalt Systems

    Reading a codebase you'll never own

  • Panel

    Lena Torres

    Field Engineering Manager, Fieldnote

    Hiring FDEs when nobody agrees what one is

  • Keynote

    Adam Keller

    Solutions & Deployment, Northbeam Labs

    The demo that closed a nine-figure renewal

18 more speakers announced weekly until the doors open.

03 · Agenda

One track. No fluff.

  1. 1:00

    Arrival, lunch, and informal networking

  2. 1:45

    Opening + first fireside chat: the state of FDE

  3. 2:30

    Tactical breakout sessions or small roundtables

  4. 3:30

    Second fireside chat: building and scaling FDE teams

  5. 4:15

    FDE hiring fair / company showcase

  6. 5:30–7:00

    Happy hour

04 · Venue

The Foundry, SoMa.

A converted machine shop at 3rd & Brannan with one enormous room, real daylight, and enough power strips for a conference full of people who refuse to close their laptops.

Doors open 1:00 PM. Badge pickup is in the lobby; happy hour runs 5:30–7:00.

Address
660 3rd Street, San Francisco
BART
12 min walk — Montgomery St
Caltrain
6 min walk — 4th & King
Hotels
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05 · Register

Free. All of it.

Firesides, roundtables, lunch, and the happy hour — $0. The only cost is a seat, and there are 300 of them. Editions I and II filled in under three weeks.

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