Conference Companion Guide
Building the AI-Native Cloud
A chapter-by-chapter resource for conference attendees to revisit key ideas, share with teams, and turn insights into action after the session.
Chapters¶
Chapter 01
Building the AI-Native Cloud
Set the frame: this is not a Copilot demo, this is an architecture conversation.
Chapter 02
The Quiet Shift
Something already changed. Most teams haven't noticed.
Chapter 03
Three Eras, Side by Side
Give the audience a vocabulary so they can locate themselves on the map.
Chapter 04
Defining AI-Native
A definition you can hold a team accountable to.
Chapter 05
The Six-Stage Loop
Show the anatomy. This is the spine of the rest of the talk.
Chapter 06
Cloud-Native Gave Us the Substrate
Honour the audience's existing investments. AI-native rides on top of cloud-native, it doesn't replace it.
Chapter 07
New Workflows: Spec-Driven Development
The spec is the durable artifact. Code is downstream.
Chapter 08
New Workflows: Context Engineering
Context is the second-most-important investment after the spec.
Chapter 09
New Operating Model: Humans + Agents
Roles change. Headcount doesn't have to shrink. Ambition should expand.
Chapter 10
Reliability at Scale
Reliability isn't threatened by agents. It's threatened by *invisible* agents.
Chapter 11
Security at Scale
Agents are a new identity class. Treat them like one.
Chapter 12
Governance at Scale
Governance designed on day one is cheap. Governance bolted on after an incident is expensive.
Chapter 13
Seven Failure Modes
Pattern-match these now. Save yourself a quarter.
Chapter 14
One-Page Memo
Give them something they can implement on Monday.
Chapter 15
Close and Three Questions
Leave them with questions they cannot un-ask.