What does it take to build reliable software?

Find out on April 3-4, 2025 at a limited-seat tech conference at Yours Truly Hotel in Washington, D.C., organized by Antithesis. Industry legends will share their insights on building reliable software during DC's cherry blossom season.

The conference covers multiple aspects of building software that stands the test of time, including Testing, Formal Methods, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, and Infrastructure.

We're sold out for 2025, but let us know at bugbash@antithesis.com if you'd like to be the first to know about next year!

Featured speakers

speaker photo Ankush Desai
Principal Applied Scientist
AWS logo
speaker photo Zac Hatfield-Dodds
Technical Staff
Anthropic logo
speaker photo Kyle Kingsbury
Principal
Jepsen logo
speaker photo Stephanie Wang
Founding Engineer
MotherDuck logo
speaker photo Ben Eggers
Technical Staff
OpenAI logo
speaker photo Ryan Worl
Director of Engineering
Confluent logo
speaker photo Mike Curtiss
Technical Staff
Autonomo logo
speaker photo Jonathan Hays
Product Lead
Stripe logo
speaker photo Will Wilson
Co-Founder
Antithesis logo

Lightning talk speakers

speaker photo Felicitas Pojtinger
Head of R&D
Loophole Labs logo
speaker photo William Schultz
Staff Research Engineer
MongoDB logo
speaker photo Marco Primi
Distributed System SWE
Synadia logo
speaker photo Andrew Werner
Co-founder
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speaker photo Alex Pshenichkin
Principal SWE
Antithesis logo
speaker photo JP Kadarkarai
Founder
FizzBee logo
speaker photo L. Jordan Miller
Staff Engineer
NuBank logo

Panelists

speaker photo Mohd Irtefa
Co-founder
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speaker photo Sunny Bains
Software Architect
PingCAP logo

Schedule

April 2nd, Wednesday
πŸ“‹ Pre-registration in the Yours Truly Lobby
🍸 Reception and party at Mercy Me
April 3rd, Thursday
β˜• Catered breakfast
Registration opens
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Will Wilson
Co-Founder of Antithesis
πŸ‘Ύ Break
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Stephanie Wang
Reliability lessons from building a cloud data warehouse from 0 to 1
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Ben Eggers
You should test in prod
🍲 Catered lunch
The Yours Truly will lay on a buffet
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Kyle Kingsbury
Jepsen 17: ACID jazz
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Ryan Worl
The Multi-Tenant Bill of Rights: observability for all
🐞 Break
πŸ’€ Break
Get some rest before dinner
πŸ₯˜ Dinner at Balos
April 4th, Friday
β˜• Catered breakfast
Registration opens
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Autonomous testing masterclass
How to succeed in software testing without really trying (or, a guide to autonomous testing)
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Jonathan Hays
To scale software, you need to sell at scale! Stripe’s approach to building flexible billing solutions
πŸͺ² Break
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Mike Curtiss
Building a reliable autonomous driving system for a billion miles
🌯 Catered Lunch
Right at the venue
⚑ Lightning talks πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
L. Jordan Miller: Simplicity scales, complexity fails
Felicitas Pojtinger: Commoditize your CI compute
William Schultz: Interactive formal specifications
Jayaprabhakar Kadarkarai: Modeling distributed systems
Marco Primi: The traveling anteater
Andrew Werner: From RAM to rows
Alex Pshenichkin: Logs!!
🀩 State of Reliability panel discussion
🎀 Closing ceremony & BugBash song

Food

Breakfast and lunch on both days will be provided on site.

Breakfast

Dinner is on us!

At the crossroads of legendary hospitality and unmatched culinary expertise, you'll find Balos: an energized dining experience built on the freshest, most vibrant Mediterranean dishes the city has to offer.

Michelin just added Balos to its DC Dining Guide.

Lodging

We reserved rooms at the Yours Truly Hotel, so you can book a room with a special price.
Email bugbash@antithesis.com for any support.

The conference rate is available only for April 2nd and 3rd. Regular price rooms are available on other days.

The closest airport is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

Alternative hotels

  • 🏨 West End Washington by Hilton
  • 🏒 Washington Marriott Georgetown
  • πŸ›ŽοΈ Hyatt Place Washington DC
  • 🏨 Hilton Garden Inn
  • 🏩 The Ritz-Carlton
  • Washington, D.C. is a great place to visit because of its history, monuments, museums, and cultural attractions

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