Upcoming IaCConf Event Explores How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Infrastructure as Code

Virtual Event Examines Practical Use Cases, Risks and Governance Considerations for AI-Driven Infrastructure

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 13, 2026 What:
Following the continued growth of IaCConf, Spacelift and the IaC community are producing IaCConf Spotlight: AI in IaC, a free, virtual event focused on the rapidly expanding role of artificial intelligence in Infrastructure as Code. This deep-dive event will explore how AI is being applied across infrastructure provisioning, policy enforcement, drift detection and operational decision-making, along with the new risks and governance challenges it introduces.

Expert-led sessions will examine real-world use cases, emerging best practices, and how teams can responsibly adopt AI-driven automation without sacrificing trust, security or control.

What's New:
As AI capabilities move quickly from experimentation to production use, infrastructure teams are being asked to rely on systems that can act autonomously and at scale. This Spotlight responds to growing demand from practitioners for clearer guidance on where AI adds real value in IaC workflows, where human oversight remains essential, and how organizations can govern AI-assisted infrastructure with confidence.

Agenda Highlights
     ●  Conversational IaC with AWS MCP Servers, presented by Jakub Gaj of Danske Bank
     ●  The AI Decision Trust Framework: Preparing for Safe AI Infrastructure, presented by Karthi Palanisamy of Addepar
     ●  Increasing IaC Module Adoption with AI-Powered Prompts, presented by Sumanth Mothkuri of Equifax
     ●  Founders Panel Session including Marcin Wyszynski from Spacelift, Ganesh Datta from Cortex, and Chris Evans from Incident.io, with Emily Freeman from Freeman+Forest as moderator.

How to Participate:
● Registration is free: https://events.iacconf.com/spotlight-ai-iac-january-2026/

Who Will Attend:
● Platform engineers
● DevOps and infrastructure architects
● Cloud and infrastructure leaders
● Security, risk and governance professionals
● Teams operating IaC in production environments

When & Where:
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (virtual)

Why It Matters:
AI has the potential to dramatically reduce toil in infrastructure operations, but it also raises critical questions about explainability, trust and accountability. This event will explore actionable strategies to:
● Apply AI responsibly within IaC pipelines
● Balance automation with policy, guardrails, and human intent
● Govern AI-driven infrastructure decisions at scale

About Spacelift
Spacelift, via the Spacelift Infrastructure Orchestration Platform, manages the entire infrastructure lifecycle – provisioning, configuration and governance. Spacelift integrates with existing infrastructure tooling (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible) to provide a single integrated workflow to deliver secure, cost-effective and resilient infrastructure, fast. Spacelift is redefining how infrastructure is provisioned and governed with Spacelift Intent, the first open source, agentic, natural language model for cloud infrastructure. Intent allows developers to provision resources instantly without writing HCL, while DevOps and Platform teams maintain full visibility, policy control, and auditability. Built on Terraform providers, Intent creates a new path for agility, complementing IaC and GitOps by making fast, low-ceremony provisioning safe and governed. Sign up for a demo or a free trial at spacelift.io.

Media Contact:
Cristin Connelly
Cathey Communications for Spacelift
[email protected]

SOURCE Spacelift