Attendees of this event gained guidance and best practices from crisis engineer and author Marina Nitze, partner at Layer Aleph and former Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Matthew Weaver, partner at Layer Aleph, founding member of the United States Digital Service, and founding member of Site Reliability Engineering at Google. Attendees saw how restructuring technical systems and organizational functions in emergency situations can have both immediate and lasting positive impacts on government agencies and teams of all sizes.