Liz Fong-Jones
Employers on the program
- 2023–2026Honeycomb5 talks
Upcoming appearances
Who’s booked ahead? →Event dates shown; only events starting today or later count. 3 upcoming events.
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QCon San Francisco 2026 – · San Francisco, United States
- Making Production Legible to Agents: Lessons From Building an Observability MCP speaker Program source ↗
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AWS re:Invent 2026 – · Las Vegas, United States
- Lambda for every scale and workload shape breakout Program source ↗
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QCon AI New York 2026 – · Jersey City, United States
- Reflections on the 2x Initiative at Honeycomb speaker Program source ↗
No upcoming appearances are currently recorded.
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
- QCon
- PyCon (national Python conferences)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2026 | QCon AI New York 2026 | QCon | speaker | Reflections on the 2x Initiative at Honeycomb as honeycomb.io | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Lambda for every scale and workload shape as honeycomb.io Honeycomb spends millions of dollars a year on Lambda. Every cold query runs through a map-reduce backend that used to mean one tier, Lambda Functions,…Show lessHoneycomb spends millions of dollars a year on Lambda. Every cold query runs through a map-reduce backend that used to mean one tier, Lambda Functions, regardless of shape. | |
| Nov 16, 2026 | QCon San Francisco 2026 | QCon | speaker | Making Production Legible to Agents: Lessons From Building an Observability MCP as Honeycomb.io An agent that can query production telemetry can test its own hypotheses against reality, rather than hallucinate fictions. Observability tooling allows our…Show lessAn agent that can query production telemetry can test its own hypotheses against reality, rather than hallucinate fictions. Observability tooling allows our agents to close the loop and benefit from production wisdom. | |
| Aug 26, 2026 | PyCon AU 2026 | PyCon (national Python conferences) | keynote | 30 to 70 PRs a day: How we managed to not wreck our systemsBetween early 2025 and April 2026, peak weekday PR merges to Honeycomb's monorepo went from about 30 to about 74. Most of the delta came in the form of PRs that…Show lessBetween early 2025 and April 2026, peak weekday PR merges to Honeycomb's monorepo went from about 30 to about 74. Most of the delta came in the form of PRs that we could prove AI touched. This talk is the honest report-out from eighteen months of AI-assisted engineering: the calibration behind... | Video |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Optimizing performance and cost with AWS Graviton as honeycomb.io Hear how Honeycomb ported its workload to run on AWS Graviton and benefited from generational improvements of Graviton-based instance families. The session…Show lessHear how Honeycomb ported its workload to run on AWS Graviton and benefited from generational improvements of Graviton-based instance families. The session focuses on Amazon EKS orchestration using Amazon EC2 instances, but it also covers AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. | Video |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Seamless observability with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry as honeycomb.io In the past, collecting data from your applications running on AWS could be challenging. AWS support of OpenTelemetry (OTel) via APIs and AWS Distro for…Show lessIn the past, collecting data from your applications running on AWS could be challenging. AWS support of OpenTelemetry (OTel) via APIs and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) has dramatically simplified the developer experience for observability. | Video |
| Mar 4, 2019 | QCon London 2019 | QCon | speaker | Cultivating Production Excellence - Taming Complex Distributed Systems | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Chen | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Sempf | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Abbas Mooraj | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Abhisheikh Lahoti | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Pandey | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Sharma | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Srivastav | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Achraf Souk | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Hill | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Adam Palmer | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Addy Upreti | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Aditi Garg | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Aditya Challa | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Aditya Samant | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Adnan Bilwani | 3 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.