The #DevExSummit Journey So Far

We launched the Developer Experience Summit in October 2024, alongside the Observability Summit - it came out of the same research process. We’d originally been looking into a QA-focused event, but in speaking with developer and engineering teams, a broader theme kept coming up - developer experience.

Teams were struggling with slow delivery, clunky toolchains, unclear processes, and not enough time to focus on actual coding. The conversation quickly moved beyond testing. It was about how work got done, and how to make it easier.

At the same time, more companies were building out internal dev platforms, hiring for DX roles, and trying to remove friction from their software delivery. With so many businesses becoming more reliant on technology, making sure engineers could work efficiently had become a key priority - not just for retention, but also for value creation.

We built the event specifically for enterprise teams. Most developer conferences include a lot of startups or open-source, but the challenges inside large organisations are different. This was designed to reflect that.

173 engineering leaders joined us for the first edition in London, with sponsors including Sentry, Honeycomb, Datadog and Red Hat. In 2025, we’re adding Platform Engineering as a third co-located event, to give more space to a topic that’s becoming increasingly central to how teams scale and deliver.

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