PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026

PowerShell 7.6 delivers a strong iteration of the platform, focused on quality, security, performance, and the refinements that come from steady, community-driven development. In this year's State of the Shell, the PowerShell Team will walk through what’s landing in 7.6 LTS, highlight meaningful changes across the engine, modules, and ecosystem, and share how ongoing investments in DSC v3, the AI-enhanced experience, and cross-platform reliability are shaping the next phase of PowerShell.
 
This session is equal parts roadmap, reveal, and open conversation. If you want to understand where PowerShell is headed—and influence what comes next—this is the room to be in. Your questions, scenarios, and critiques directly shape the future of the shell. Join us and help drive the next generation of PowerShell.

Corporate dysfunction is a fact of life. We see it in: siloed teams, keynote-driven projects that are abandoned after announcement, promotion-focused developers delivering checkbox features and ignoring admin needs. 
I tried to fix those problems but knew that I would fail, so I also designed PowerShell to route around the damage.
This is a case study in pragmatic design. I'll show how PowerShell's core architecture directly attacks these predictable failures. You'll see how the Adaptive Type System normalizes the 'Not-Invented-Here' data problem, how pipeline binding-by-property-name bridges the silos created by Conway's Law, and how deep extensibility empowers the community to finish the job the corporation won't. This is the story of designing for the world we have, not the one we wish we had.