Roundtable: Balancing Revenue Growth Projects with Run The Software Projects

Every org wrestles with the same trade-off: deliver the next growth driver — without letting reliability, performance, or platform health slip.

How do you protect “run the software” capacity when the business needs features yesterday?

In this candid, small-group roundtable, engineering leaders will share how they balance growth bets with operational excellence — the models, metrics, and conversations that actually work in practice.

You’ll talk with peers who’ve:

1. Built portfolio splits that flex with business priorities
2. Turned “run” work into visible, defensible roadmap items
3. Made reliability, quality, and platform work speak the language of ARR

Because growth that breaks under its own weight isn’t growth.

Pull up a seat, compare notes, and leave with sharper ways to balance speed, stability, and trust across your org.

Hosted by: Cary Hoddy, VP of Engineering @ Ancestry Cary leads cross-cutting initiatives that power 60+ development teams — from availability, performance, and quality to SRE, observability, and cloud cost governance. A 21-year Ancestry veteran, he started as a Java developer and still loves building systems (and teams) that last.