Go Live 2026 · Oct 6–7
The Agenda
Two days of mainstage keynotes, deep-dive breakouts, and the kind of networking that actually moves the needle. Plus a few surprises.
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Come get your badge, grab some swag, and say hi to the Pantheon crew. You know the drill!
A program for our agency partners, focused 100% on driving agency growth. Pantheon’s VP of Partnerships, Mike Sanchez will share the partner roadmap and walk through details of our new partner program. We’ll host a partner panel and a lively discussion about go-to-market strategy, so you can hear how your peers are adapting to the new way of working on the web. Partner awards will be announced Wednesday to the general conference to close out /GoLive.
Join us on the Americana Lawn, surrounded by lush gardens, the stunning pool, and steps from the beach for some cocktails and appetizers as we kick off /GoLive in style!
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Sameer Kazi and Josh Koenig welcome you, provide opening remarks, and prepare you for this remarkable customer event.
Speakers:
Josh Koenig
Co-Founder
Pantheon
Sameer Kazi
CEO
Pantheon
/GoLive opens with a look at how AI is rewriting the rules for everyone who builds, publishes, or depends on the web. Drawing on his daily “most interesting thing in tech” dispatches, Nicholas unpacks what’s actually changing in media, in software, in the way audiences find and trust information, and what it means to keep up without losing the plot.
Speaker:
Nicholas Thompson
CEO
The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of WIRED
We now build the web with AI. Agents now read, summarize, and act on the web as much as people do. And the threat surface explodes. So what happens to sites, search, and the economics of content? Leaders from the infrastructure, AI, and enterprise worlds debate where traffic, trust, and value move next, and what builders should do about it now.
Speakers:
Matthew Duncan
Former Head of Future of Work & AI
Microsoft
Stephanie Cohen
Chief Strategy Officer
Cloudflare
Chris Yates
SVP of Product, Design, and Engineering
Pantheon
Moderated by:
Nicholas Thompson
CEO
The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of WIRED
Pantheon’s leadership team and special guests unveil what’s next for the platform. You don’t want to miss this. Instead of a feature tour, the story is told through customers who are already building behind the scenes, showing how teams ship in this new era of the internet.
Speakers:
Chris Elkjar
Creative Director
Cellar Door
Chris Teitzel
Founder
Cellar Door
Chris Yates
SVP, Product, Design & Engineering
Pantheon
Danny Pfeiffer
Principal, Emerging Product Strategy and Adoption
Pantheon
Josh Koenig
Co-Founder
Pantheon
Sameer Kazi
CEO
Pantheon
Bring your burning questions to a Pantheon expert, see features more in depth, and get a real feel for what building looks like in this new era of the web.
An opportunity for higher education attendees to network and discuss the most pertinent web topics facing higher ed today. This is reserved for higher ed attendees only. Location: Meal Room, look for the reserved table signs.
You now build the web for two audiences: Humans and agents. The LLMs and bots that crawl your content have vastly different needs. This session explores what the data says about how LLMs think about the web, and how to balance building the web for people AND machines.
Speaker:
Andrew Crestodina
Co-founder and CMO
Orbit Media Studios
This session examines how the failure surface changes when teams can build features at AI speed, covering stories of how enterprise teams are thinking about observability, resilience, security decision-making, and how enterprises can move quickly without losing control of what they ship.
Speaker:
Tanya Faddoul
VP, Product & Technology
Cisco
Moderated by:
Kevin Shively
Vice President, Marketing
Pantheon
Most teams treat a major launch like a controlled explosion. The Biltmore treats it like any other deploy. That discipline is what let Biltmore ship a full 700-page rebrand, keep production running throughout, and launch on deadline with zero incidents; all while recovering from Hurricane Helene shutting the estate down for months. This is a workflow retrospective for teams who want deploys to be boring: how Biltmore has run a WordPress site built in 2018 without a full rebuild, maintained it through years of continuous delivery, and reached the point where a major launch is just another merge.
Speakers:
Chad Evans
Senior Development Manager
Biltmore
Leena Flood
Full-Stack Software Developer
Biltmore
Bring your burning questions to a Pantheon expert, see features more in depth, and get a real feel for what building looks like in this new era of the web.
Join Pantheon customers and partners for a grounded conversation about the operational reality of Next.js: architecture, production delivery, agency/customer collaboration, and what it takes to move beyond framework enthusiasm into durable enterprise practice, through real stories from the field of sites they’ve deployed on Next.js and what to consider as you debate headless for yours.
Speakers:
Alex Jones
Drupal Architect
Americaneagle.com
Daniel Kinney
Drupal Technical Architect
Americaneagle.com
Sandeep Mehta
CTO
Planeteria Media
Moderator:
Miriam Goldman
Next.js SE
Pantheon
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Urban Insight have built a technical partnership where the line between client and agency moves depending on the work. LACMA’s Bruce Wyman and Urban Insight CTO Mark Dischler will unpack how that model works across Drupal, Pantheon, and the museum’s recent Collections Online rebuild, where responsibilities shifted dramatically between the two teams. They’ll look at what makes that flexibility possible, where it gets complicated, and how to decide which parts of a system each organization is actually equipped to own.
Speakers:
Bruce Wyman
Principal, USD Design
MACH Consulting
Mark Dischler
CTO
Urban Insight
Large institutions have a mandate to manage many sites with consistent governance, shared operating models, automation, and portfolio-level control rather than treating every site as a separate project. In this session, hear from higher ed web leaders who are managing hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of sites.
Speakers:
Cameron Green
Assistant Director, Arizona Web Services
The University of Arizona
Joe Parsons
Web Architect and Technical Lead
University of Arizona
Kyle Fondren
Executive Director, University Web Strategy
The University of Alabama
Moderator:
Christa Watson
Sr. Director of Customer Marketing
Pantheon
Wrap up the day with some final thoughts and a call to action.
Speaker:
Richard Jones
Chief Commercial Officer
Pantheon
Join us for a first-class dinner on the stunning poolside lawn. We’ll break bread, raise glasses, and unwind, Miami Beach style.
After dinner, we’ll cut loose. Join us for music, bites, and some fun surprises from Pantheon and our partners. You don’t want to miss this. Yes, there will be a theme. No, we’re not going to tell you what it is yet…let the suspense build.
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A flexible, forward-looking tour of the rapidly changing martech landscape: where new capabilities are emerging, what happens when the constraint shifts from what teams can build to what organizations can absorb, and how marketers can harness the flood without drowning in it.
Speaker:
Scott Brinker
Analyst and Advisor, Chief Martec, “The Godfather of Martech”
Anyone can vibe code a website. But what happens to the web itself when anyone can? Is the standalone website dead in an AI-first world, or more important than ever? Will brands be built by agents or by humans? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
In this no-holds-barred session, four marketing leaders square off, high school debate style, on the biggest questions facing the web. Two teams. Opposing positions. Timed arguments, rebuttals, and a winner decided by you, the audience.
Speakers:
Carmen Villafane
CMO
Genexa
Kyle Lacy
CMO
Docebo
Tara Robertson
CMO
Bitly
Richard Jones
Chief Commercial Officer
Pantheon
Host:
Kevin Shively
VP of Marketing
Pantheon
A practical customer-led look at standardizing local development, governance, and deployment across a large institutional web portfolio, using automation and organizational guardrails without relying on a traditional multisite implementation.
Speaker:
Paul Babin
Web Systems Manager
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA / UCLA Health
I asked our SVP of Product, Design, and Engineering what I could share about this one. He just stared at me until I left his office. Apparently we can’t give EVERYTHING away ahead of time. Trust me…you don’t want to miss this.
Explore how modern product and development teams can use LLMs without giving up human judgment, design quality, accountability, or control over the resulting web experience.
Speaker:
Tammie Lister
Chief Product Officer
Convesio
Closing time. Join the Pantheon team for a final farewell, a heartfelt thank you, and some recognition of the customers and partners who have made an impact this year.
Speakers:
Josh Koenig
Co-Founder
Pantheon
Mike Sanchez
VP of Partnerships
Pantheon