​BugBash 2025

​What does it take to build reliable software?

​Join us during DC's cherry blossom season, where we'll gather the brightest minds in tech to find out!

On April 3-4, 2025, Antithesis is hosting a limited-seat tech conference at the Bohemian Yours Truly Hotel in Washington, D.C. This carefully curated conference brings together industry legends to explore the multifaceted world of software reliability. The conference many aspects of what it takes to build software that stands the test of time, including Testing, Formal Methods, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, and Infrastructure.

We're completely full for 2025, but if you'd like to be on the waitlist, please drop us a line!

​Schedule

​April 2, Wednesday

• ​7:00 PM: Pre-registration opens in the lobby

• ​8:00 PM: Reception party at Mercy Me

​April 3, Thursday

• ​8:00 AM: Breakfast Buffet and registration

• ​9:00 AM: Will Wilson, CEO and Co-founder, Antithesis

• ​9:45 AM: Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Technical Staff, Anthropic

• ​10:30 AM: Break

• ​10:45 AM: Stephanie Wang, Staff Engineer, MongoDB

• ​11:30 AM: Ben Eggers, Technical Staff, OpenAI

• ​12:15 PM: Lunch Buffet at Yours Truly Hotel

• ​1:30 PM: Kyle Kingsbury, Principal, Jepsen

• ​2:15 PM: Ryan Worl, Founder of WarpStream and Director of Engineering, Confluent

• ​3:00 PM: Break

• ​3:15 PM: Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty

• ​4:00 PM: Get dressed

• ​5:00 PM: Dinner at Balos Estiatorio (a Mediterranean restaurant in the 2024 Michelin Guide)

​April 4, Friday

• ​8:00 AM: Breakfast Buffet at Yours Truly Hotel

• ​9:00 AM: Autonomous Testing Masterclass

• ​9:45 AM: Rahul Harpalani, Product Lead, Stripe

• ​10:30 AM: Break

• ​10:45 AM: Ankush Desai, Principal Applied Scientist, AWS

• ​11:30 AM: Mike Curtiss, Technical Staff, Waymo

• ​12:15 PM: Lunch Buffet at Yours Truly Hotel

• ​1:15 PM: 7 Lightning Talks

  • ​1. Jordan Miller, Staff Software Engineer, NuBank

  • ​2. Felicitas Pojtinger, Head of R&D, Loophole Labs

  • ​3. William Schultz, Staff Research Engineer, MongoDB

  • ​4. Alex Pshenichkin, Principal Software Engineer, Antithesis

  • ​5. Andrew Werner, Co-founder, Data Ex Machina

  • ​6. Marco Primi, Distributed System Software Engineer, Synadia

• ​2:30 PM: State of Reliability Panel Discussion

  • ​1. Glauber Costa, CEO, Turso

  • ​2. Mohd Irtefa, Co-founder, Jam.dev

  • ​3. Jeremy Edberg, CEO, DBOS

  • ​4. Sunny Bains, Software Architect, PingCAP

• ​3:30 PM: Closing Ceremony & BugBash Song

​Hotel Information

​We have reserved a block of rooms at the Yours Truly Hotel. Reserve your room here.

Please note that rooms will most likely sell out before the room block closing date. We encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.

​Airport Information

​The closest airport is Ronald Reagan Washington National airport (DCA). Dulles airport (IAD) is the next best option.

​Contact Information

​If you encounter any issues along the way, please contact bugbash@antithesis.com.