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May 6, 2021
As always, our goal is to out-program the previous conference, and this year we’ve done it again. See for yourself by checking out what we’ve got planned below, and see you at DevOps Enterprise Summit.
Note: Along with this post, it’s recommended to open the full conference agenda in order to see talk titles and descriptions.
I’m so excited that we have the most senior leaders speaking at this conference—this shows that the work being done in this community matters, to people who matter. And we have experts who will teach us things that I believe every technology leader needs to know.
First, let’s talk about the experience reports —
Alfredo V. Colás; Senior Vice President IT – Procter & GambleOlimpia Nitti; Vice President, CIO Global Baby Care – Procter & Gamble
So I met Alfredo V. Colás last year and was blown away by the work he and his teams have been doing elevating the state of the practice at Procter & Gamble. I was also so excited by Olimpia Nitti’s work modernizing the Pampers.com website, which is so familiar to expectant parents around the world, and will describe how they were able to better achieve their brand goals.
Ben Conrad; Head of Agile Delivery – HMRCMatt Hyatt; Technical Delivery Manager – Equal Experts
Every citizen in the UK will likely know someone whose lives were impacted when the UK government dispersed hundreds of billions of dollars directly into citizens’ pockets. Many call it one of the most successful government services ever. Hear how it happened.
Fernando Cornago; VP, Platform Engineering – adidasVikalp Yadav; Senior Director – Head of Digital SRE Operations – adidasAndreia Otto; Senior Platform Engineer – adidas
How adidas, during a global pandemic, went from a period of controlling costs to doubling down on technology, specifically choosing which markets to compete in and to dominate in. They will describe the adidas strategy, how technology enables it, some challenges they’ve experienced along the way, and specific lessons learned.
Jakob Knutsson; Product Area Lead Engineer – Infra Platform Engineering – H&M GroupDaniel Claesson; Chief Product Officer – H&M Group
After seeing Jakob Knutsson present on the amazing DevOps journey at H&M, I was delighted to find out that there was so much more to the story. He told me about an audacious effort to move technology into the four key parts of the business, and elevate developer productivity to better achieve business goals. He will be presenting with Daniel Claesson on their goals, and what they were able to achieve during the global pandemic.
Jason Cox; Director, Platform & Systems Reliability Engineering – The Walt Disney CompanyPlus, several members of Disney’s Technology Management Rotation program.
I’m so delighted that Jason Cox will talk more about the amazing Technology Management Rotation program, which finds technology leaders and puts them in four assignments over a two-year period. Their mission is to help transform the business by shipping guest-delighting content, experiences and products in ways that are better, faster, safer and happier. Hear from Jason and several members of Disney’s Technology Management Rotation program.
Julia Harrison; Head of Product – UK Government Digital Service
I was amazed by how the Government as a Platform service is helping product teams across the UK government, and how the agency helped so many UK citizens during the pandemic. Earlier this year, I spoke with Julia Harrison and learned about how the capabilities that her group created has helped ensure the safety and health of UK citizens, including some of their most vulnerable populations, during the global pandemic. I am so delighted that she’s going to tell that story!
Leanne Bridges; Risk CoE Lead and Chief Product Owner for Intelligent Control – Nationwide Building SocietyMark Rendell; DevOps Consultant – Nationwide Building Society
An interesting talk about compliance and control?! Absolutely! Leanne Bridges describes the horrendous obstacles and hurdles that every product delivery team faces, which can stretch out over a year, and what she and her team are doing about it. As Chief Product Owner of Intelligent Control, she and Mark Rendell describe their aspirations and achievements helping teams be more compliant and secure, with less effort than ever. This is a fantastic talk that shows that compliance controls way beyond traditional continuous deployment pipelines.
Pieter Jordaan; CTO – TUI Group (The largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world)
How TUI used a global pandemic, which caused a 98% reduction in revenue, to reengineer their core platforms and reorganize their business around functional capabilities. It’s one of the most exciting and momentous transformation stories I’ve seen, and I suspect this will be studied for the next decade as people think about how they must change their organization to respond to the digital disruption.
Corey Quinn; Chief Cloud Economist – The Duckbill Group
You may know Corey Quinn from the snark that he delivers in his newsletter, his podcast, and on Twitter. However, I think he has some of the most insightful, provocative observations about what companies are doing wrong in the cloud. He’ll be presenting some startling advice.
Nora Jones; Founder & CEO – Jeli
Nora Jones, among many things, studies resilience engineering, and how organizations learn from incidences. She’ll be sharing a bunch of learnings from her time at Jet.com, Netflix, and Slack, that will resonate with every technology leader.
Dr. Ron Westrum; Emeritus Professor of Sociology – Eastern Michigan University
Anyone who’s read the State of DevOps research will likely recognize Dr. Westrum, author of Westrum Organizational Typology Model. If you’re like me, you’ve read his works, including Sidewinder: Creative Missile Design at China Lake, but have never heard him speak. I’m so delighted that he’ll be teaching us about information flows and technical maestros, something every technology leader should know about.
Gene Kim; Founder and Author – IT RevolutionDr. Steve Spear; Principal – HVE LLC
This is a teaser for what we’ve got planned…
These are some of my favorite presentations from the Vegas 2020 conference.
Maya Leibman; Executive VP and CIO – American AirlinesRoss Clanton; Managing Director, Chief Architect of Technology Transformation – American Airlines
I was so delighted to learn that our longtime friend Ross Clanton was joining American Airlines, to work for CIO Maya Leibman, who I met in 2016. They presented together about the amazing American Airlines journey, sharing how they are changing how technology work is performed, and why it’s so important now.
Eileen M. Uchitelle; Staff Software Engineer – GitHub
Eileen Uchitelle tells the amazing, heroic seven-year journey to migrate from Rails 2 to Rails 5, and the increasingly dire problems that made it so urgent. She describes the amazing benefits that resulted, and she gives advice that every technology needs to hear about the hidden cost of not staying up-to-date on open source dependencies, and what is required to stay current.
Admiral John Richardson; Former Chief of Naval Operations for the US Navy
He’ll be sharing his learnings from leadership development, what it is, how organizations aren’t doing enough of it, and the benefits he was realizing in the US Navy. Since his retirement in August 2019, he has joined the boards of several major corporations and other organizations, including Boeing and Exelon, a Fortune 100 company that operates the largest fleet of nuclear plants in America and delivers power to over 10 million customers.
Dr. Chris Strear; Director, Patient Flow – Northwest Acute Care Specialists
Dr. Mik Kersten; Founder & CEO – Tasktop
Jon Smart; Founder, Business Agility Coach and Leader – Sooner Safer Happier
Courtney Kissler; CTO – Zulily & Suzette Johnson; Senior Fellow – Lockheed Martin
At DevOps Enterprise Summit, we focus on two types of talks in the general session:
The general session is where we celebrate successes in the community through experience reports, rapidly disseminate winning tools and techniques and ways of thinking, share anonymized stories of what ideas or practices didn’t work or resulted in outright failures (“DevOps Confessions”), and bring in the best experts for the problems identified by the community.
Vodafone UK — Driving Cultural Revolution with OKRs at Vodafone UK
Sainsbury’s — The Sainsbury’s Story
FedEx — Getting Business Results Faster With FedEx DevSecOps Fast Lane
Siemens Healthineers — “DevOps to the Metal”: Achieving “Flow” in a Large Organization and in Cyber-physical Systems
NAV — From 4 Releases A Year, To Once Every Other Minute, In The Public Sector
John Lewis & Partners – Operability and You Build It You Run It at John Lewis & Partners
CROZ — Building a Successful Platform Team
Honeywell — Trials And Tribulations Of A DevOps Transformation In A Large Company
Vanguard — Iterative Enterprise SRE Transformation
Infosys — Mission Live Enterprise: Distributed Agile and DevSecOps Automation At Scale Through Platform Approach
Visma — Security + DevOps + Ambidexteriety = Fun
adidas — Scaling Data Analytics Delivery Model with DevOps Practices
Contino — How Can FinOps Save Your Cloud Programme from Extinction
DevOps Institute — Engineering ITSM through Site Reliability Engineering
Business Benefits of GitOps
DevSecOps – The Broken or Blurred Lines of Defense
T-Mobile — Retain Software Talent with Empowering Systems
IBM — COVID-19 sent you home now what?
TUI Group — Digital Transformation When Goliath Is Not A Competitor But A Global Pandemic
Cornerstone — D&I and DevOps – A match made in heaven. How addressing Diversity & Inclusion can accelerate DevOps adoption.
Nationwide Building Society — Nationwide Building Society: The Ways of Working Award Goes to….
AWS — IT’s Role in Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)
Continental Tires — Industrializing Your Data Science Capabilities
Nationwide Insurance — DevOps and Internal Audit: A Great Partnership (Part 2)
Nationwide Insurance — Identity and Access Management: How The Infrastructure Product Model Accelerated Delivery and Transparency To Drive Outcomes and Increase Engagement
Splunk — Beyond Firemen vs. Safety Matches – Growing the DevSecOps Talent Pipeline
BYJU’S — Scaling Enterprise BizOps By Automating DevOps Practices
One important lesson we’ve learned is that perhaps the most important feature of any conference is to have opportunities for attendees to connect with, and learn from, one another and the presenters.
Having speakers available for Q&A on Slack while their talks aired opened up a new form of interaction that is only available in a virtual format.
To that end, my friend Jeff Gallimore and I have established different ways for people to learn, and ask/answer as many questions as possible. We believe the quality of the audience is something that separates DevOps Enterprise Summit from other conferences, and the more we can incentivize interactions amongst attendees, the better.
Here are the formats you can take advantage of during the three-day event:
To preview DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual – Europe, and learn more about the conference, please watch previous videos of our presentations and download the slide decks in the Video Library.
And of course, check out the full conference agenda.
As a thank you for taking the time to read this article, use code EUR21PREVIEW for $150 off when you register.
Cheers!Gene
Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies—he is the WSJ bestselling author of Wiring the Winning Organization, The Unicorn Project, and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit (now Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
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