THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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THU MAY 7 • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Platform Panel

This panel will bring together Platform Teams, architects, and engineering leads to discuss how to adopt and scale Temporal successfully across organizations. The panelists include speakers from Netflix, Nordstrom, Redis, and Apollo Global Management, who have extensive, hands-on experience building Temporal platforms. Topics covered will include how to get buy-in for Temporal from your leadership and how to enable your internal customers to be successful with Temporal. The discussion will be moderated by Cornelia Davis, Senior Staff Developer Advocate for Temporal, who has spent a career at the forefront of technological innovation, including more than a decade working in cloud-native software and DevOps platforms.

Cornelia has spent a career at the forefront of technological innovation, starting with image processing algorithm development, moving to web-centric computing in the late 1990s, and then more than a decade working in cloud-native software and DevOps platforms. As a Developer Advocate for Temporal, she is now helping to drive the expansion of the “durable execution” distributed systems paradigm, in AI and beyond. She is the author of Cloud Native Patterns: Designing change tolerant software.
Jack Burns is a Staff Software Engineer at Nordstrom where he gets to play with distributed systems and workflow orchestration. He's been in the Temporal ecosystem since the Cadence days at Uber and has stuck around as both a user and contributor ever since. These days, Jack leads Nordstrom's Temporal Platform and spends a lot of time thinking about how AI and orchestration can work better together.
Software Engineer at Netflix working on the Netflix Temporal Platform and Infrastructure Management in general.
I’m a Software Architect with 30 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in designing, building, and evolving large-scale distributed systems. Over my career, I’ve worked across multiple technology stacks and environments, focusing on system architecture, scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. I bring a pragmatic, experience-driven approach to engineering decisions and enjoy discussing architectural trade-offs, system design patterns, and lessons learned from production systems. I’m married and a father of three.