On April 26, 1986, four reactors exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine. The amount of radioactive radiation emitted is about 200 times higher than the total emission from the atomic bombs that fell over Nagasaki and Hiroshima. A fateful day in the human history. We walk through series of events that happened on that fateful day at Chernobyl and try to look at these events from two perspectives: an incident management perspective and an observability perspective. We go on together in this journey and address the elephant in the room and literally “elephant foot” at Chernobyl. But most importantly, what if we could go back to the future and prevent it, what if? We analyse and try preventing it together using best practices we are using at ING. The focus of the topic covers the technology, practices, processes as well as cultural perspectives during these crisis's. We look at how the best practices should come together to avoid crisis in our day to day life, work for ourselves and our customers. The focus group is engineers, major incident management managers and leadership.

Anand is a Global Practice Lead (Observability) at ING Bank. Before this stint, I was Head of Engineering at Atradius for Shared Services. I have been writing code and doing things around code for almost 15 years now. My mantra in life: keep three women in life happy: mother, wife and daughter. Prior to joining Atradius, I was a IT Area Lead/Head of Engineering in Channels at ING Bank N.V. leading the Technology practice and transformation for its Omnichannel department. Throughout my consulting years I served banks in Europe, North America and Asia and was primarily focused on digital business building, technology, strategy, and enterprise operating model transformations. I have a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering from Army Institute of Technology, Pune, India. I love reading, writing and gardening in my free time.