Talks and Media

Talks, Articles, and Podcasts

Layer Aleph partners have written articles and appeared at conferences on a topics such as system resilience, crisis management, and technology transformation.

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2026

Defense Disrupted: Marina Nitze Marina talks about why emotional arguments don’t move bureaucracy and why crisis works instead.

Google SRE Prodcast: Crisis Engineering Mikey Dickerson discusses fixing systems under pressure.

Crisis is Your Opening Marina Nitze on the Invisible Machines podcast, discussing crisis as a window of opportunity.

Human in the Loop AI is Dangerously Misleading Mikey Dickerson writes for Defense News on the new systems failures created by AI tools.

Crisis Engineering for Public Systems Innovate(us) workshop on stabilizing public sector systems.

2025

Google SRE Prodcast: Crisis Engineering Carla Geisser discusses the factors that constitute a crisis, and why they are useful.

The Magic of Crisis Carla Geisser presents on how crisis can accellerate software changes.

2024

Crisis Engineering for Public Officials Innovate(us) workshop on building resilience in the public sector.

Teaching SRE Mikey Dickerson presents at Usenix SREcon on training the next generation of systems fixers.

Learn more

We literally wrote the book on Crisis Engineering, available everywhere books are sold on April 7.

And check out our CRISIS ENGINEERING newsletter, where we write about what we've learned—from fixing California's unemployment backlog, to SRE transformations, to breaking down what you can learn from the latest high-profile crises. If you deal with complex systems under pressure, this is for you.

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Contact us

Email team@layeraleph.com or call +1 912-999-1036. We will arrange an initial consultation in less than 48 hours.