success is a poor teacher – the most profound lessons aren’t learned during a flawless deployment; they’re earned at 3:00am when the systems implode, the CTO’s magic fails, and you’re knee-deep in logs trying to save the day.

at bit summit 2026, we’re leaving the polished success stories at home. we are looking for speakers who aren’t afraid to get real:

• what was the actual root cause of your biggest outage?
• which ‘pragmatic’ architectural choice came back to haunt you years later?
• where exactly did the theory of microservices fail against the reality of legacy code?

we don’t want hero epics. we want technical truth.
if you’ve survived the fire and have the scars to prove it, our stage is yours.