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May 28, 2020
Our first virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit is coming up in four weeks — and despite it being virtual, we are putting on a conference that is more than just a bunch of talks, and our goal is to keep you excited and engaged, just like we would at our physical events.
Great physical conferences are magical. You learn from incredible talks, you’re exhilarated by being surrounded by the best in the game, you find fellow travelers who share similar goals and experience similar struggles that you hope to conquer together, and so much more. The connections you make at conferences often lead to lifelong friendships and can maybe even change your career.
This is what we’re aspiring to do for DevOps Enterprise Summit London Virtual — it’s our first virtual event, and we’ve all been studying online events for months, trying to understand what makes the great ones great, and why the worst ones make you feel like you’re stuck on the worst, multiple-day video conference call ever.
As I wrote in my “Love Letter to Conferences” blog post, great conferences are so, so much more than just a bunch of talks. But the talks are the most visible part of a conference, because they display the achievements of the community. Resembling previous years, here are the focus areas for the conference:
This year, I’d like to try a different way of describing what to expect — I’ll describe the amazing program we’ve put together for you, first by the general session (i.e., plenary sessions) and then the breakout sessions (i.e., track sessions).
And of course, because a conference is more than just the talks, I’ll also describe the structured and unstructured networking formats we’ll be offering, and some of my advice on how to make the best use of them.
PS: you can find more information on the thought process behind how we’re constructing our first virtual event in a 7,000 word blog post here.
As I describe in the “Love Letter to Conferences” post, at DevOps Enterprise Summit, we tend to put two types of talks in the general session:
To use Brian Eno’s “scenius” language, 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.
The general session is the portion of the conference where the “Dungeon Master (DM)” controls the campaign, sets the stage and makes sure all the players hear and experience the same thing. I take enormous pride in the fact that in previous years we’ve brought to you some incredible talks in the general session, which I feel have helped move our industry forward.
With no further ado, here are the general session talks that I’m so excited about!
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DevOps Enterprise Summit London – Virtual23-25 June 2020 (British Summer Time)
3-day conference passes include exclusive, on-demand access to all presentation recordings (not available to public until after October).
We have one of the best lineups of breakout talks we’ve ever had!
Over the years, one of the biggest changes we made to the conference was to create time in the middle of each day with no talks, so that attendees could connect with each other. I’ve written already at length about how important these serendipitous interactions are—this is often referred to as the “hallway track.”
For years, we had various networking formats, such as Lean Coffee and Birds of a Feather sessions, but we put them alongside the breakout talks. The result was, for a variety of reasons, they weren’t as well attended as we hoped they would be. Our hypothesis was that people had “FOMO” (fear of missing out) from good talks, and would attend talks rather than network.
The feedback from creating a dedicated time for networking from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive. This is likely even more important now, where we all crave social interactions outside of our daily work grind of endless Zoom calls.
In addition to all the wonderful talk tracks and exciting presentations above, the conference program creates a forum for different ways to “get together and go faster.”
I’ve said this before, but it is so important for the organizers of DevOps Enterprise Summit to help attendees achieve their desired outcomes. One of the most special experiences at DevOps Enterprise Summit comes from meaningful 1:1 interactions with your fellow attendees.
To that end, and together with my friend and IT Revolution advisor, Jeff Gallimore, we have established different ways for people to learn, ask and answer as many questions as possible. Because the quality of the audience is one aspect that we think separates the DevOps Enterprise Summit from all the rest, the more spontaneous conversations and interactions we can nurture onsite, the better for all.
As you can see, there’s a lot that is getting me excited for the conference this year, and I hope to see you there!
To preview event and learn more about the conference, please watch previous videos of our past presentations, download the past speakers’ slide decks, and view photos from all past events.
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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