Spacelift Backs IaCConf 2026 as Infrastructure Teams Race to Keep Up With AI-Fueled Developer Velocity

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Spacelift is using IaCConf 2026, its second annual virtual Infrastructure as Code conference, to position its orchestration platform at the center of a key tension in modern engineering: AI-driven code velocity versus infrastructure, governance, and control. The free half-day event, held May 14, 2026, targets platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, and cloud architects who must keep production reliable and compliant as developers ship faster with AI-assisted tooling.

By sponsoring and organizing IaCConf under its own banner, Spacelift is deepening its role as a thought leader for organizations scaling both traditional and AI-provisioned infrastructure. The conference agenda emphasizes practical patterns for closing the “velocity gap,” featuring sessions on managing 10x operational risk, AI-written Terraform, and policy automation, all of which align with Spacelift’s focus on secure, governed infrastructure workflows.

The company is framing the event as a response to mounting operational pressure on platform teams who remain accountable for reliability, security, and governance while development accelerates. Content is explicitly grounded in real-world production experience, giving Spacelift access to practitioner feedback and live use cases that can inform its roadmap, particularly for Spacelift Intelligence, its AI layer for natural language provisioning and diagnostics.

IaCConf’s first year drew more than 2,800 registrants from nearly 1,000 companies, and the community has since expanded to over 6,000 members through ongoing virtual and in-person events. This growing audience provides Spacelift with a qualified funnel of infrastructure decision-makers, strengthening brand visibility among enterprise adopters of tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible.

For executives evaluating Spacelift, the conference underscores the company’s strategic bet on AI-accelerated infrastructure orchestration and its efforts to shape governance and risk-management practices at scale. The event extends Spacelift’s influence beyond product features into policy, patterns, and best practices for operating complex, AI-impacted cloud environments, potentially increasing customer stickiness and supporting expansion into larger, governance-sensitive accounts.