A Serious Battle to Determine the Pinnacle of Incident Response: "PagerDuty Challenge Cup 2026" Finals to be Held on April 15 (Wed)!
PagerDuty Inc. announced that the finals of the "PagerDuty Challenge Cup 2026," an incident response competition, will be held on April 15, 2026, during the "PagerDuty Tech Day 2026" technical conference.
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PagerDuty Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Nobuyuki Yamane), a provider of incident management solutions, will hold the engineer-focused technical conference "PagerDuty Tech Day 2026" on April 15, 2026, at Tokyo Midtown Hall. As a special event within this conference, the "Challenge Cup 2026 Finals," the ultimate battle of incident response capabilities by elite teams who won the qualifying rounds held on February 25 and March 10, will also take place.
## Elite Teams Who Triumphed in Fierce Qualifiers, Finally on the Final Stage
This competition is a unique technical contest in Japan that assesses comprehensive incident response capabilities, including swift initial action, accurate judgment, and teamwork. In the qualifying rounds held on February 25 and March 10, selected members from various companies participated as teams. Amidst unexpected incidents occurring one after another, the following corporate teams demonstrated high-level technical skills and collaboration, successfully advancing to the finals on April 15.
## Companies Advancing to the Finals (in no particular order)
* Aeon Smart Technology Co., Ltd.
* NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation
* Globe Ride Co., Ltd.
* Secom Trust Systems Co., Ltd.
* Rakuten Group, Inc.
*Some company logos are displayed.
In the finals, teams will respond in real-time to incidents occurring in a simulated fault environment, utilizing PagerDuty. Not only the speed of recovery (MTTA/MTTR) but also the quality of appropriate information sharing with stakeholders, internal team communication, and post-mortem (review) will be strictly scored.
Keywords: Incident management, System failure, PagerDuty, Challenge Cup, Post-mortem, PagerDuty on Tour
## Elite Teams Who Triumphed in Fierce Qualifiers, Finally on the Final Stage
This competition is a unique technical contest in Japan that assesses comprehensive incident response capabilities, including swift initial action, accurate judgment, and teamwork. In the qualifying rounds held on February 25 and March 10, selected members from various companies participated as teams. Amidst unexpected incidents occurring one after another, the following corporate teams demonstrated high-level technical skills and collaboration, successfully advancing to the finals on April 15.
## Companies Advancing to the Finals (in no particular order)
* Aeon Smart Technology Co., Ltd.
* NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation
* Globe Ride Co., Ltd.
* Secom Trust Systems Co., Ltd.
* Rakuten Group, Inc.
*Some company logos are displayed.
In the finals, teams will respond in real-time to incidents occurring in a simulated fault environment, utilizing PagerDuty. Not only the speed of recovery (MTTA/MTTR) but also the quality of appropriate information sharing with stakeholders, internal team communication, and post-mortem (review) will be strictly scored.
Keywords: Incident management, System failure, PagerDuty, Challenge Cup, Post-mortem, PagerDuty on Tour