10:25 AM - 10:55 AM

Pioneers of the Instant Internet: Lessons from Spotify and Fastly

Artur Bergman, Founder and CTO | Fastly

Niklas Gustavsson, Chief Architect and VP, Engineering | Spotify

Moderator: Kate Stephens, Key Account Manager | Fastly

What happens when two companies obsess over milliseconds? Spotify and Fastly were born out of a major technical challenge – latency reduction – and turned it into a foundation for global impact. In this fireside chat, Spotify's Chief Architect and VP, Engineering, Niklas Gustavsson and Fastly's Founder and CTO Artur Bergman share how future-proof architecture, data-driven development, and relentless focus on customer experience enabled them to transform not just their products, but entire industries. Together they'll explore how innovation at scale, and a shared pursuit of speed shaped an internet that feels instant – and what lessons any company can take away to build for the future.

10:55 AM - 11:10 AM

A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly

Maha Pula, VP, Global Sales Engineering | Fastly

Building a better internet begins with our platform. In this session, Maha will dive into how Fastly’s instant, global network fuels exceptional experiences across our platform and services. Whether you’re building, delivering, scaling, or securing modern apps and services, get ready for the latest insights on how Fastly’s portfolio can supercharge your projects. Plus - exclusively for Xcelerate attendees - we’ve got a sneak peek into the exciting highlights of our upcoming product roadmap!

11:45 AM - 12:15 AM

Accelerating AI at the edge with Google and Fastly

Alexander Percivall, Senior Partner Engineer | Google Cloud

Google’s Gemini delivers groundbreaking AI capabilities, but to truly unlock its potential for every user, everywhere, speed is key. Fastly's AI Accelerator, a semantic caching solution, amplifies Gemini's power by delivering responses at lightning speed. In this talk, Alexander will dive into how this seamless integration creates an unparalleled user experience, reducing latency and bandwidth costs. Plus, discover how layering Fastly's edge caching with Google's context caching creates an AI delivery powerhouse.

12:15 PM - 12:45 AM

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deploying at the Edge

Christian Ek, Senior Web Developer | Strawberry

Faced with a massive DDoS attack that threatened a "mitigation gap" of apocalyptic proportions, Strawberry Hotel chose to stop worrying and embrace a new defense doctrine. This presentation, featuring Strawberry’s Senior Developer and SRE Christian Ek, details how they built their own automated "Doomsday Machine" for defense on the Fastly platform. Discover how their integrated system is designed to automatically detect and neutralize threats with terrifying efficiency, preserving their precious digital presence and maintaining the purity of their systems' essence.

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Unlocking developer innovation with the right platform: A Bonnier News success story

Kailan Blanks, Sr. Software Engineer, Developer Experience | Fastly
Fabian Seitz, Head of Digital Platform | Bonnier News
Niklas Wretstrom, DevOps Specialist | Bonnier News

In the fast-paced world of digital news, speed isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. With over 100 brands under its umbrella, Bonnier News set out to move faster and scale smarter by streamlining its engineering release cycles. To meet these demands, the team made a bold shift—from Akamai to Fastly. In this session, Fabian and Niklas will share how Fastly’s developer-first platform sparked innovation, broke down silos, and enabled real collaboration across teams. They’ll be joined by Kailan, who will demo recent enhancements to Fastly’s developer platform.

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Preparing for the unexpected: Fastly’s seven pillars of network resilience

Dennis Martensson, Senior Director of Engineering | Fastly

No cloud vendor is immune to outages, but when you're managing a massive, globally distributed network that customers rely on, preparation is everything. Whether it’s unexpected internet outages, sophisticated DDoS attacks or infrastructure failures, resilience is essential to maintain availability. Join Dennis, as he walks through Fastly’s seven pillars of resilience, with real-world examples that show how we address the availability challenge. He’ll also highlight how our approach to resiliency sets us apart when it comes to DDoS protection.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Serving 600M Users: Why Spotify is excited about CDN

Matthias Grüter, Engineering Lead for Compute and Networking | Spotify

Learn how Spotify leverages Fastly CDN to deliver audio to 600M users globally, examining its high-level architecture and the crucial role of CDN in achieving scale and low latency. This talk will explore Spotify's approach to platform engineering, building successful vendor relationships, and a glimpse into future challenges and opportunities in content delivery.

Session will end with an audience Q&A.

11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

Fastly, Festool and the power of a platform

Artur Bergman, Founder and CTO | Fastly

What do Fastly and Festool have in common? Performance. We’re proud of our instant global network, powering many of the world’s biggest internet experiences. Festool is proud of their high performance power tools for woodworking. But, performance alone isn’t enough. To unleash innovation at scale, everything must work together seamlessly. Join Artur as he takes us on a fun parallel journey with Fastly and Festool and find out how this inspired the many platform enhancements we’ve been working on recently.

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10:25 AM - 10:55 AM

Pioneers of the Instant Internet: Lessons from Spotify and Fastly

Artur Bergman, Founder and CTO | Fastly

Niklas Gustavsson, Chief Architect and VP, Engineering | Spotify

10:55 AM - 11:10 AM

A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly

Maha Pula, VP, Global Sales Engineering | Fastly

11:45 AM - 12:15 AM

Accelerating AI at the edge with Google and Fastly

Alexander Percivall, Senior Partner Engineer | Google Cloud

12:15 PM - 12:45 AM

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deploying at the Edge

Christian Ek, Senior Web Developer | Strawberry

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Unlocking developer innovation with the right platform: A Bonnier News success story

Kailan Blanks, Sr. Software Engineer, Developer Experience | FastlyFabian Seitz, Head of Digital Platform | Bonnier NewsNiklas Wretstrom, DevOps Specialist | Bonnier News

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Preparing for the unexpected: Fastly’s seven pillars of network resilience

Dennis Martensson, Senior Director of Engineering | Fastly

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Serving 600M Users: Why Spotify is excited about CDN

Matthias Grüter, Engineering Lead for Compute and Networking | Spotify

11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

Fastly, Festool and the power of a platform

Artur Bergman, Founder and CTO | Fastly

Kailan Blanks, Sr. Software Engineer, Developer Experience | Fastly
Fabian Seitz, Head of Digital Platform | Bonnier News
Niklas Wretstrom, DevOps Specialist | Bonnier News