The Second Act : Keynote with Michael Lopp (Rands in Repose)
About the event
The 1.0 is the fun part. Small team, no process, nobody watching, and every ship feels like you're getting away with something. Then it works. Congratulations. Everything about your job just changed.
Now there's a question staring at your roadmap: what do you build next without breaking the thing that got you here? That's the Second Act. It's where products, teams, and careers actually get built. It's much harder than the first act, and nobody warns you. Michael is going to explain why, what it takes to get through it, and (it's 2026) what changes now that the robots have shown up to help.
Michael Lopp has lived more second acts than most humans: Slack, Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, Apple. He writes about leadership and humans at Rands in Repose.
Bring questions. He likes questions.
When: Wednesday, September 3rd Where: Adyen, West Loop, Chicago More on Michael: https://randsinrepose.com/speaking/
