The room where it gets built
An independent, single-track conference for people who actually ship. Twenty-four talks, no vendor booths, and a room small enough to find the person you came for.
- Northbeam
- Formwork
- Lattice Systems
- Runway Labs
- Cadence AI
- Foundry Cloud
Built to be worth your two days
One track
Every talk in the same room. No hallway FOMO, no schedule spreadsheet — just show up.
A room that stays small
Capped at 400 seats on purpose. Small enough that you actually meet the person you came for.
Zero vendor booths
No badge scans, no sales floor. Sponsors show up in the program, not in your path to the coffee.
Real Q&A, on stage
Ten minutes after every talk, live, unedited — the part most conferences cut first.
Two days. One room.
Twenty-four talks split across two days, every one of them in Main Hall. Pick a day below to see what's on.
Full schedule & session detail- Doors + coffeeMain Hall
- The cost of a good decisionAmara Okonkwo
- Designing systems people can argue withKenji Watanabe
- LunchMain Hall
- What we got wrong about platform teamsRuth Vandermeer
Plenary is the only conference I've been to where I actually remember who I sat next to. One track means you're never hiding in the hallway — you're in the room, every time.
Priya ChandrasekaranStaff Engineer, Mercator · attended 2024 & 2025
The Foundry, Chicago
A converted 1920s ironworks two blocks from the river — exposed steel, real acoustics, and a green room that used to be a boiler house. Fifteen minutes from O'Hare by train.
Venue & travelTickets, plainly
One price, everything included, no upgrade path hidden behind a bigger badge. Prices step up on the date shown, not when a countdown says so.
Get in the room
Early bird pricing steps up soon. Bring three colleagues and the fourth seat is on us.