Google SRE NYC Tech Talk

Google SRE NYC proudly announces our first Google SRE NYC Tech Talk for 2026.

This event is co-sponsored by rootly.ai . Thank you Rootly for your continuing partnership!

I can’t promise snow-free weather (this winter has been unusual), but I can guarantee high quality, impactful SRE/DevOps focused content and a very fancy event venue 🙂. That’s right, we’re back in Pier 57! If you’re one of our many repeat attendees, pls take note of the change in venue address (see "how to find us" section)

As always the event will include an opportunity to mingle with the speakers and attendees over some light snacks and beverages after the talks.

The Meetup will take place on Tuesday, 10th of March 2026 at our Pier 57 events complex in NYC. The doors will open at 5:30 pm and talks will start at 6 pm. Pls RSVP only if you're able to attend in-person, there will be no live streaming.
When RSVP'ing to this event, please make sure to enter your full name exactly as it appears on your government issued ID. You will be required to present your ID at check in.

Agenda:
Sylvain Kalache - AI + Reliability Labs Lead, rootly.io
On-call burnout, the science behind responder overload
On-call burnout doesn't happen overnight. It creeps in with more after-hours pages, heavier incident loads, shorter recovery windows, until unsustainable patterns feel normal. In this talk, Sylvain will break down the science behind responder overload, what signals to look for in your operational data, and how to catch risk early. He'll also live-demo On-Call Health (plugged into OpenClaw), a free, open-source tool that spots incident responders' overload, and show how an engineering manager can use it to rebalance a rotation before burnout hits.
Sylvain leads AI Labs at Rootly, where he explores the future of reliability engineering in the age of AI. Before that, he was a Senior SRE at LinkedIn, where he co-designed a patented self-healing infrastructure system, and co-founded Holberton School, a software engineering school whose graduates went on to become SREs at companies like NVIDIA, Tesla, and Facebook. Outside of work, he likes to run, scuba dive, and learn how to be a good beekeeper.

Albert Chang - Site Reliability Engineer, Google
Production Agent, AI Agent assisted incident troubleshooting and mitigations
In this talk Albert will share how SREs at Google are utilizing Gemini-powered production agent in realtime to assist incident troubleshooting and investigations.
Albert is currently a member of BATS (Build and Test Services) SRE team. In his spare time, he's been training for the 2026 NYC Marathon. He also still enjoys personal programming projects.

Alexa Griffith (Senior Software Engineer) and Sal Furino (Customer Reliability Engineer), Bloomberg
Dashboards & Dragons: Reliability Magic for AI Platforms
Scaling a generative AI platform is no fairy tale. Instead, it’s an epic battle through dungeons spanning training workloads, inference services, and infrastructure. GenAI has introduced a whole new level of complexity for infrastructure, bringing heavier resource demands, new requirements for the scaling of token-based patterns, and questions about how to monitor and manage it all. Building GenAI systems is hard, but keeping it reliable is even harder.
In this talk, we’ll recount our journey taming the complexity of multi-cluster AI platforms using actionable SLOs as our compass. Whether you’re building your first AI platform or defending the reliability of a cluster, you’ll complete your quest equipped with practical, open source-friendly strategies to help make your systems observable, debuggable, and resilient.
Alexa Griffith is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg. She works on building Bloomberg’s AI Inference Platform and the open source KServe & Envoy AI Gateway projects. She enjoys solving engineering challenges at scale, working in open source, and speaking about AI, as well as engaging with the community through her personal podcast, Alexa’s Input.
Sal Furino is a Customer Reliability Engineer at Bloomberg. During his career he’s worked as a TPM, SRE, Developer, Sys Admin, and in IT support. When not working, he enjoys cooking, gaming, and traveling. Sal lives in Queens and has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Marist College.

Our Tech Talks series are for professional development and networking: no recruiters, sales or press please! Google is committed to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone, and all participants must follow our Event Community Guidelines. The event will be photographed and video recorded.
Event space is limited! A reservation is required to attend. Reserve your spot today and share the event details with your SRE/DevOps friends 🙂