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
Does a frog have scorpion nature: Crisis Engineering Unfortunately not about how to engineer a crisis, which would be very fun, but about how to leverage a crisis as one of the rare moments where a company is actually open to change.
Ctrl Alt Defense: Mikey Dickerson How large organizations often fail to respond properly to a crisis, and how those moments can be used as an opportunity for lasting transformation.
BCG Henderson Institute: Crisis Engineering with Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson Weaver and Mikey argue that organizational crises are not problems to be survived but are rare windows in which rapid, directed transformation becomes possible within days rather than years.
McKinsey Author Talks: Marina Nitze How to succeed when systems fail.
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.