May 14–16, 2026

Conference Schedule

Three days of sessions spanning engineering, leadership, AI, and collaborative modernization. Session rooms named after deprecated Google products in honor of their contributions to the ecosystem.

Rooms: 🔴 Main Stage 🔵 Stadia Hall 🟢 Google Wave Room 🟡 Inbox by Gmail Theater 🟣 Google+ Pavilion
⚠️ Opening keynote delayed 20 minutes due to ongoing roadmap synchronization. Please use this time to connect asynchronously with fellow attendees.
8:00 AM
All Venues
Registration & Beverage Optimization
Sponsored by LaCroix
9:20 AM
+20 min delay
🔴 Main Stage
Opening Keynote: Continuity in an Era of Rotational Impermanence
R5 Summit Founding Steering Committee
10:30 AM
Atrium
Networking Break & Strategic Mingling
11:00 AM
🔵 Stadia Hall
Beyond Ownership: Designing Services Nobody Maintains
M. Chen · Former Interim Lead, CloudMesh Labs
11:00 AM
🟢 Google Wave Room
Term Limits as a Service (TLaaS)
P. Nakamura · Former Interim Lead, OpenVelocity Foundation
11:00 AM
🟡 Inbox by Gmail Theater
Prompt Engineering for Executive Summaries Nobody Reads
D. Okonkwo · Former Interim Lead, Synaptiv
12:00 PM
Dining Hall
Lunch — Pending Procurement Alignment
1:30 PM
🔵 Stadia Hall
Event-Driven Accountability in Legacy-Optional Systems
A. Reyes · Former Interim Lead, Vector Harbor
1:30 PM
🟢 Google Wave Room
Psychological Safety in High-Visibility Calendar Environments
T. Bergström · Former Interim Lead, DevBridge Collective
1:30 PM
🟡 Inbox by Gmail Theater
Responsible AI and the Ethics of Synthetic Consensus
Y. Osei · Former Interim Lead, NextAxis Runtime
2:30 PM
Atrium
Break — Wi-Fi Password Rotation (see signage)
3:00 PM
🔴 Main Stage
Horizontal Scaling for Vertically Integrated Teams
L. Vasquez · Former Interim Lead, MetaStack Systems
4:00 PM
🟣 Google+ Pavilion
Birds of a Feather: Maintaining Tribal Knowledge After Organizational Realignment
Open discussion · No facilitator confirmed at time of printing
5:00 PM
All Venues
Day 1 Close · Evening Social (venue TBD, pending vendor alignment)
8:30 AM
Atrium
Morning Coffee & Beverage Optimization
Sponsored by LaCroix
9:00 AM
🔴 Main Stage
Keynote: Distributed Institutional Memory and the Post-Merger Knowledge Residue Problem
R. Holloway · Principal Systems Liaison, Synaptiv
10:15 AM
Atrium
Break
10:45 AM
🔵 Stadia Hall
Microservices and the Human Cost of Remembering Where Things Are
B. Farooqi · Former Interim Lead, CloudMesh Labs
10:45 AM
🟢 Google Wave Room
Stakeholder-Centric Offboarding
C. Lindqvist · Former Interim Lead, DevBridge Collective
10:45 AM
🟡 Inbox by Gmail Theater
Leveraging LLMs for Scalable Meeting Recaps
N. Ahmadi · Former Interim Lead, NextAxis Runtime
12:00 PM
Dining Hall
Lunch — Pending Procurement Alignment
1:30 PM
🔵 Stadia Hall
Toward Zero-Touch Documentation
S. Oduya · Former Interim Lead, Vector Harbor
1:30 PM
🟢 Google Wave Room
Building Resilient Teams Through Continuous Reorganization
F. Tanaka · Former Interim Lead, MetaStack Systems
1:30 PM
🟡 Inbox by Gmail Theater
Agentic Workflows in Permission-Unclear Environments
W. Abernathy · Former Interim Lead, Synaptiv
3:00 PM
🔵 Stadia Hall
Maintaining Velocity During Strategic Directional Reassessment
J. Mbeki · Former Interim Lead, OpenVelocity Foundation
3:00 PM
🟣 Google+ Pavilion
Workshop: Scalable Leadership Succession Modeling (Hands-On)
Facilitated session · Bring your own org chart
5:00 PM
All Venues
Day 2 Close
9:00 AM
🔴 Main Stage
Closing Keynote: What Migration Means When You Don't Know What Migrated
R5 Summit Organizing Committee
10:30 AM
🔵 Stadia Hall
Kubernetes After Meaning
E. Okonkwo · Former Interim Lead, CloudMesh Labs
10:30 AM
🟢 Google Wave Room
The Future of Mentorship Without Mentors
G. Halvorsen · Former Interim Lead, DevBridge Collective
10:30 AM
🟡 Inbox by Gmail Theater
Responsible AI and the Ethics of Synthetic Consensus (Reprise)
Due to high demand. Same content, different room energy.
12:00 PM
Dining Hall
Final Lunch — Procurement Alignment Achieved
1:30 PM
🔴 Main Stage
Panel: What Does R5 Actually Stand For?
Five panelists. Five answers. No consensus anticipated.
2:30 PM
🟣 Google+ Pavilion
Closing Birds of a Feather: Post-Conference Alignment Debrief
Bring frameworks. Leave assumptions.
4:00 PM
🔴 Main Stage
Ceremony: Transition of Institutional Memory to Next Year's Committee
Duration: Until alignment is achieved or the venue closes.