James Bayer leads the product team at Flox. James has experience as a co-founder and helped grow HashiCorp and Pivotal to IPOs. James’s career has been centered around enterprise middleware and open source. He earned a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

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Engineering at Ludicrous Speed: How AI Is Reshaping Infra and Engineering

What happens when open source, cloud infrastructure, and AI collide? Join Kelsey Hightower, Stormy Peters (AWS), James Bayer (Flox, Ex-Hashicorp), and Ron Efroni (Flox & NixOS, Ex-Meta) to hear what the fastest-moving engineering teams are doing today and what that means for the rest of us. From infra to developer tools to OSS contribution patterns, this panel will surface the real shifts happening across engineering velocity, team structure, and software delivery.

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Reproducibility as a Social Contract

Join Stormy Peters (Head of Open Source Marketing and Strategy, AWS) and James Bayer (Product Leader, Flox) for a conversation on reproducibility as a social contract—the shared expectations that let teams and communities collaborate without re-litigating environments or “works on my machine.” They’ll explore what it takes to make reproducibility the norm, the tradeoffs involved, and why it matters in both enterprises and open source. As automation produces more of what we ship, they’ll ask whether reproducibility is now non-negotiable—and what it means for humans and machines alike.

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