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Laura Nolan
Laura Nolan is a Principal Engineer at Stanza Systems, a veteran Site Reliability Engineer, and one of tech's most credible voices on autonomous weapons ethics. After five years at Google - where she contributed to the seminal O'Reilly SRE book and resigned over Project Maven - and seven years at Slack as Senior Staff Engineer, she brings deep technical authority to both the reliability engineering world and the global debate over killer robots. Based in rural Ireland, she speaks at SREcon, QCon, and TED stages alike, writes the Responsible Computing newsletter on Substack, and holds seats on the USENIX Board and the SREcon Steering Committee.
Lorin Hochstein
Lorin Hochstein is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in reliability at Airbnb, and one of the most respected voices in incident analysis and resilience engineering. Known for rewriting Chaos Monkey at Netflix, co-authoring the O'Reilly book 'Ansible: Up and Running', and contributing to the 'Learning from Incidents' community, he bridges the gap between academic complexity theory and real-world software operations. His blog 'Surfing Complexity' and conference talks challenge engineers to think more deeply about why systems fail and how humans make sense of them.