San Francisco
September 23, 2025
Call for speakers
Incident management in the AI era
Submit your talk
By June 27th, 2025
SEV0 is back
This year, we’re exploring what it means to build incident processes in a world of AI acceleration and agentic responders, all without losing the human touch. From practical lessons to provocative ideas, expect a day of learning, connection, and fresh insights.
Location options
When submitting your proposal, you'll be able to indicate your preferred location
London
October 23, 2025
Or both!
London + San Francisco
What we're looking for
We're seeking talks from leaders and ICs in engineering, SRE, product, and operations. Anyone with a perspective and experience on how teams are managing and evolving incident response in this new era.
As a speaker for the event, we'd also offer you:
- A free ticket to the conference
- 2 nights' accommodation at the hotel
- Travel expenses
- Dedicated support from our tam at all stages
Suggested topics
Whilst the theme of the day is AI (it's 2025, after all), we're very open to submissions for adjacent topics. Here's a few of the themes we're exploring:
Humans, machines, and the future of incident response
- How AI impacts the incident lifecycle
- When more automation leads to more incidents
- AI responders: benefits, blind spots and boundaries
- Future of automated incident response
- Predictive incidents and anomaly detection
Cultivating a healthy culture
- Building a blameless culture
- Psychological safety in high-pressure environments
- Postmortems and investigations that drive real change
- War stories and what they taught you
Making on-call suck less
- Modernizing on-call (and retiring legacy tools)
- Making the experience more human
What's next for incident management?
- Roadmapping incident management
- Building with customers
- Data and metrics that matter
Session formats
We're organizing a mix of session types
Presentation
Fireside chat
Panel discussion
Submit your talk
By June 27th, 2025
When submitting your proposal, please include:
- Title + short description
- Key takeaways for the audience
- Preferred format
- Location(s): London, SF, or both
Questions?
Not sure if your idea is the right fit? Reach out to adrienne.lichten@incident.io We'd love to help shape your proposal.