DevOps Summit Day 2 Keynote
By Victoria Livschitz

Software is eating the world. Companies that were not previously in the technology space now find themselves competing with Google and Amazon on speed of innovation. As the innovation cycle accelerates, companies must embrace rapid and constant change to both applications and their infrastructure, and find a way to deliver speed and agility of development without sacrificing reliability or efficiency of operations. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Victoria is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and trailblazer. She founded Qubell to enable online retailers to win in rapidly changing markets by transforming their software development and operations organizations to agile software factories. Prior to Qubell, she founded Grid Dynamics, a successful and provider of innovative technology solutions for digital retailers. Grid Dynamics has pioneered the use of the cloud to accelerate application development and improve software quality for tier-1 retailers. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Victoria has spent ten years at Sun as principal scientist and chief architect; she has received numerous patents in distributed systems and technology achievement awards. [continued]

Public and Private Cloud: Not Two Competing Worlds but Two Dimensions in the Same World
By Marten Mickos

The industry is heated with debates on whether adopting private or public cloud is the smartest, best, cheapest, you name it choice. But this debate is missing the mark. Businesses shouldn't be discussing public vs. private, but rather how can they make the two work together to their greatest advantage. The ideal is to merge on-premise and off-premise into a seamless environment that can be managed as a single entity. A forward-looking stance that will eventually see major adoption. But as of late 2013, hybrid cloud was still "rare," noted Gartner analyst Tom Bittman. In this discussion, Marten will talk about how public clouds need on-premise satellites to win and conversely, how on-premise environments cannot be really powerful unless they are connected to the public cloud. It's not two competing worlds. It's two dimensions of the same world. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Marten Mickos builds global disruptive businesses. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB for $1bn, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group. [continued]

Join Mike D. Kail Yahoo! CIO at DevOps Summit Silicon Valley Session!
By Mike D. Kail

Having just joined a large technology company with 20 years of history, it would be suicidal to believe that I can immediately move the entire organization to the DevOps mindset and model. For those not familiar with the term, "Eventual Consistency" is a model used in distributed computing to ensure high availability. In this context, it's a model for replicating best practices and automation across IT teams and business units. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Mike D. Kail is CIO and SVP, Infrastructure, at Yahoo! He has more than 23 years of IT operations experience, with a focus on highly scalable architectures. Most recently, he served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix. Prior to that, Mike was VP of IT Operations at Attensity, where he was responsible for the Americas data center operations team, including managing various big data systems including their Hadoop cluster, HBase, and MongoDB components. In addition, he serves as a Customer Advisory Board member for Box, SumoLogic, One LogIn, and Context Relevant. Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. [continued]

High Tempo, High Consequences
By Tom Lounibos

We live in a time when seconds - even milliseconds - can have a dramatic economic impact on your company's future. With technology being the primary conduit for consumer interaction, the user experience is at center stage. User experience will be a deciding factor in separating the future winners from the losers. By building more speed and agility into the application delivery process, DevOps promises great rewards. However, with this promise, also come significant ramifications for failure. Tom Lounibos will explore both the benefits and the sometimes unintended consequences of implementing a high tempo DevOps environment. You will also learn what you need to focus on to mitigate the consequences of failure as you move to high tempo DevOps. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, oversees the company's operations, sales and marketing arms and is responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy. He brings more than 30 years of experience in building early stage software companies, leading two companies to successful IPOs. Most recently, Lounibos was CEO of Dorado Corporation. Previous to Dorado, he was EVP for Sagent Technology through its 1999 IPO, entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosspoint Venture Partners, and held executive positions at Digitalk Corporation, Knowledgeware (KWI), and Encore Financial Services. He has also served on several Boards in the Silicon Valley. [continued]

The State of IoT
By Mike Kavis

IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In this session we will discuss the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. The presentation will also discuss how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics to discuss are barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. He has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. A pioneer in cloud computing, Mike led a team that built the world's first high speed transaction network in Amazon's public cloud and won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge. An expert in cloud security, he is the author of "Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)" from Wiley Publishing. [continued]

Searching For The Missing Link: DevOps and IoT
By Rachel Chalmers

Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding to privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed without the kinds of agile software development and infrastructure approaches pioneered by the DevOps movement. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Rachel Chalmers joined Ignition as a principal in 2013. She sources deals in enterprise and cloud infrastructure, "big data" and the "Internet of Things"; advises portfolio companies and provides counsel on industry trends. [continued]

DevOps and Cloud: Tips and Techniques to Revolutionize Your SDLC
By Andi Mann

Cloud computing started a technology revolution; now DevOps is driving that revolution forward. By enabling new approaches to service delivery, cloud and DevOps together are delivering even greater speed, agility, and efficiency. No wonder leading innovators are adopting DevOps and cloud together! This session will explore the synergies in these two approaches, with practical tips, techniques, research data, war stories, case studies, and recommendations on how to: [continued]

Speaker Bio: Andi Mann, Vice President of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies, has over 20 years global experience within IT departments, with software vendors, and as a leading industry analyst. He has been widely published in the New York Times, USA Today, CIO, Computerworld, and more. He has presented worldwide on virtualization, cloud, automation, and IT management. He is a co-author of the popular handbook, Visible Ops – Private Cloud. [continued]

Cloud Foundry Deployment: Bosh vs JuJu
By Andrei Yurkevich

This talk will provide an overview of all the benefits and opportunities, as well as drawbacks of deploying Cloud Foundry PaaS with Juju and will compare it to BOSH. Attendees will discover the features that overlap, and will learn to understand what Juju Charm is, what it is not, where you use one or the other or where you use both BOSH and Juju Charms together. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Andrei Yurkevich is Cloud Foundry protagonist and CTO at Altoros. Under his supervision, Altoros engineering team has grown from zero to more than 250 specialists across seven global locations. Currently, Andrei is responsible for technology alliances in Platform-as-a-Service, Big Data, and Cloud Automation. [continued]

Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Integrating Development and Operations for Peace, Harmony, and Agility
By Bart Copeland

All too many discussions about DevOps conclude that the solution is an all-purpose player: developer and operations guru, complete with pager for round-the-clock duty. For most organizations that is not the way forward. This session will discuss how to achieve the agility and speed of end-to-end automation without requiring an organization stocked with Supermen and Superwomen. [continued]

Speaker Bio: As ActiveState Software's President and CEO since 2006, Bart Copeland brings more than twenty-three years of leadership, management, finance, and technology business experience to his role. With a passion for technologies that help people lead more productive and enjoyable lives, Bart is currently focused on Stackato, ActiveState's private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. [continued]

How Directory As A Service Can Accelerate Your Ability For Continuous Delivery
By Rajat Bhargava

Today, almost every company has a directory that needs to be managed. Spending valuable company time monitoring servers, provisioning and deprovisioning users, auditing, and assessing security concerns takes away from the core competency of the team - building product and delivering to customers quickly. DaaS takes on the burden of those tasks, and allows the team to focus on what they do best. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Rajat currently serves as co-founder, Chairman, and President & CEO of JumpCloud. As President & CEO, he provides strategic direction for the company as well as an intense focus on execution. He is an eight-time entrepreneur with five exits (two IPOs and three trade sales) and three companies still private. [continued]

How Docker Quickly Advanced Development of an IoT Application
By Aater Suleman

Collecting data in the field and configuring multitudes of unique devices is a time-consuming, labor-intensive process that can stretch IT resources. Horan & Bird [H&B;], Australia's fifth-largest Solar Panel Installer, wanted to automate sensor data collection and monitoring from its solar panels and integrate the data with its business and marketing systems. After data was collected and structured, two major areas needed to be addressed: improving developer workflows and extending access to a business application to multiple users (multi-tenancy). [continued]

Speaker Bio: Aater Suleman, CEO and Co-Founder at Flux7, is an industry veteran in delivering cloud migration, application development and process optimization solutions using DevOps-based approaches. Mr. Suleman earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also currently teaches computer systems design and architecture. [continued]

Microservices, DevOps and PaaS
By John Wetherill

The old monolithic style of building enterprise applications just isn't cutting it any more. It results in applications and teams both that are complex, inefficient, and inflexible, with considerable communication overhead and long change cycles. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Originally from Canada, John has spent much of his career designing and building software at a handful of startups, at Sun Microsystems, NeXT Inc., and more recently in the smart grid and energy space. His biggest passion is for developer tools, or more generally any tool, language, process, or system that improves developer productivity and quality of life. Without question, Stackato is one such tool and the reason why he is here. [continued]

Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
By Monish Sharma

Achieve continuous delivery of applications by leveraging ElasticBox and Jenkins. In this session, Monish will demonstrate how you can achieve the following using ElasticBox and the ElasticBox Jenkins Plugin: [continued]

Speaker Bio: Monish Sharma is VP of Customer Success at ElasticBox. He is a senior techno functional leader who is passionate about mapping technology solutions - people, process and product to business needs with a focus on engineering excellence. He has 17 years' experience in high tech, Fortune 100 and venture-backed technology startups. [continued]

Containerization Is More Than The New Virtualization
By Jerome Petazzoni

Docker offers a new, lightweight approach to application portability. Applications are shipped using a common container format, and managed with a high-level API. Their processes run within isolated namespaces which abstract the operating environment, independently of the distribution, versions, network setup, and other details of this environment. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Jerome Petazzoni is a senior engineer at Docker, where he helps others to containerize all the things. In another life he built and operated Xen clouds when EC2 was just the name of a plane, developed a GIS to deploy fiber interconnects through the French subway, managed commando deployments of large-scale video streaming systems in bandwidth-constrained environments such as conference centers, operated and scale the dotCloud PAAS, and various other feats of technical wizardry. When annoyed, he threatens to replace things with a very small shell script. [continued]

Elastic DevOps Resourcing and the DevOps Outsourcing Movement
By Prashanth Chandrasekar

The impact of DevOps in the Cloud era is potentially profound. DevOps helps businesses deliver new features continuously, reduce cycle time and achieve sustained innovation by applying agile and lean principles to assist all stakeholders in an organization that develop, operate, or benefit from the business' lifecycle. This seminar is an examination of whether / how companies can work with external DevOps specialists to achieve "DevOps elasticity" and DevOps expertise at scale while internally focusing on writing code / development. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Prashanth Chandrasekar has over a decade of leadership and management experience across multiple functions in the technology sector. Currently, he is the General Manager of Rackspace's DevOps business segment focused on service delivery for high growth, born-in-the Cloud customers. He previously worked as a Vice President at Barclays Capital, an Engagement Manager at Capgemini Consulting and a Software Engineer at Texas Instruments and CA Technologies. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine. [continued]

Building The Pillars of Modern Enterprise Using Open Source
By Krishnan Subramanian

The recent trends like cloud computing, social, mobile and Internet of Things are forcing enterprises to modernize in order to compete in the competitive globalized markets. However, enterprises are approaching newer technologies with a more silo-ed way gaining only sub optimal benefits. Modern Enterprise model is presented as a newer way to think of enterprise IT which takes a more holistic approach to embracing modern technologies. This model makes use of Composable Enterprise framework put forward by Jonathan Murray of WMG. In this presentation, I will use an extended composable enterprise framework to talk about how a Modern Enterprise Platform can be built and put forward strong arguments about why Open Source is critical in building such a platform. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Krishnan Subramanian is currently employed as Director, OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat. He is a strong advocate of Modern Enterprise Model which helps enterprises modernize their IT and future proof their organizations to fast evolving technology advances. Prior to Red Hat, he founded an analyst firm by name Rishidot Research. He is named by Forbes, Huffington Post, Business Insider and other prominent tech and business publications as one of the top experts in cloud computing. He has organized industry conferences like Deploycon and Cloud 2020. He is also a regular speaker in major technology conferences including Cloud Connect. [continued]

Swiss Private School Chooses OpenStack for Security and Sovereignty
By Myles Steinhauser

Leysin American School in Switzerland (http://www.las.ch/) is an exclusive, private boarding school located in Leysin, Switzerland. Leysin selected an OpenStack-powered, private cloud as a service to manage multiple applications and provide development environments for students across the institution. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, Myles Steinhauser is addicted to uptime. Focused on designing, implementing and operationalizing OpenStack-powered hosted private clouds at Blue Box, Myles knows how to make configurating, scaling, and maintaining OpenStack clusters less painful. [continued]

What Manufacturing Teaches Us About DevOps
By Gordon Haff

Software development, like manufacturing, is a craft that requires the application of creative approaches to solve problems given a wide range of constraints. However, while engineering design may be craftwork, the production of most designed objects relies on a standardized and automated manufacturing process. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Gordon Haff is senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes and was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, as well as advising clients on product and marketing strategies. He also has many years of hands-on experience with both IT software and hardware. [continued]

Application Workload Portability for DevOps on Hybrid Cloud Environments
By Sanjeev Sharma

In a world of ever-accelerating business cycles and fast-changing client expectations, the cloud increasingly serves as a growth engine and a path to new business models. Dynamic clouds enable businesses to continuously reinvent themselves, adapting their business processes, their service and software delivery and their operations to achieve speed-to-market and quick response to customer feedback. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Sanjeev is a 20-year veteran of the software industry. For the past 18 years he has been a solution architect with Rational Software, an IBM brand. His areas of expertise include DevOps, Mobile Development and UX, Lean and Agile Transformation, Application Lifecycle Management and Software Supply Chains. He is a DevOps Thought Leader at IBM and currently leads IBM's Worldwide Technical Sales team for DevOps. He speaks regularly at conferences and has written several papers. He is also the author of the DevOps For Dummies book. [continued]

DevOps Inspires a New Era of Software Quality Assurance
By Anne Hungate

High performing enterprise Software Quality Assurance (SQA) teams validate systems are ready for use – getting most actively involved as components integrate and form complete systems. These teams catch and report on defects, making sure the customer gets the best software possible. SQA teams have leveraged automation and virtualization to execute more thorough testing in less time – bringing Dev and Ops together, ensuring production readiness. [continued]

Speaker Bio:With over twenty years' experience delivering technology solutions; Anne Hungate's passion is engineering systems with the user experience in mind. Anne is a Senior Director of Software Quality at DIRECTV where she drives capability improvement so that customers get better products and features faster. Helping her teams embrace the new methods is the challenge and the fun. Anne earned her MBA at Case Western Reserve University and holds CSQA and PMP designations. [continued]

Join Andrew Miklas PagerDuty CTO at DevOps Summit Silicon Valley Session!
By Andrew Miklas

Andrew Miklas is CTO and Co-Founder of PagerDuty. He is responsible for the overall management of the engineering group, including team buildout. He designed PagerDuty's highly available alert dispatch system, and co-created and designed the initial version of PagerDuty. [continued]

Opening Keynote | A New State of the Art
By John Michelsen

Enterprises build applications with the latest tools, people and processes yet failures riddle the headlines. If state of the art fails us, it means we need a "New State of the Art". DevOps hopes to instill a new culture that defines the new way of managing application delivery. It's time Enterprise IT learns from every other industry and begins to use simulation, supply chain governance, continuous delivery and feedback loops to build better products. [continued]

Speaker Bio: John Michelsen, CTO CA Technologies. As the Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies, John is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company's technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value. [continued]

Alice In Wonderland - Is the Network the Next Frontier for DevOps?
By John Willis

Around 6 years ago I started working with some tools that focused on software engineering collaboration and automation for operations.

At the time products like CFEngine and Puppet were the two main tools promoting this new way of sharing within operations and software development.

A year later Chef was born and I was fortunate enough to join Opscode as the 9th employee as an evangelist preaching this disruptive form of collaboration and automation. At the time a majority of IT infrastructure was managed by what I called the "Bob's" of the world. Bob's scripts, Bob's directories and Bob to death do us part. Trying to explain to Bob the benefits of collaboration and software engineering principles was a hard fought battle over the years.

One of the compelling events that helped propel these ideas (what we now call DevOps) was cloud computing. Fast forward to 2014 and these infrastructure automation and collaboration battles still exist but the battles are far less bloody.

Now a new battle is emerging in the network operations and networking engineering space. The arguments for network operations adopting these principles is the same as system ops; however, now the new compelling events are the virtualization and softwarization of the network.

Software Defined Networks SDN/SDDC is all the buzz, but the reality is that many network operations and engineering groups are dealing with an influx of highly virtualized tooling like OpenVswitch and Openflow and projects lie OpenDaylight, Contrail and NSX.

Configuration tools are starting to get more sophisticated on these virtualized systems doing things like automated os hardening, switch configuration, vlan and port mapping, and high order overlay orchestration. Products like Chef and Puppet both have introduced primitives supporting platforms like Arista, Juniper and Cumulus Networks.

Please join me to help me start the discussion of what DevOps in the Network really means. [continued]

Speaker Bio: John Willis is the VP of Customer Enablement for Stateless Networks. Willis, a 30-year systems management veteran, joined Stateless Networks from Dell where he was Chief DevOps evangelist.

Willis, a noted expert on agile philosophies in systems management, came to Dell as part of their Enstratius acquisition. At Enstratius, Willis was the VP of Customer Enablement responsible for product support and services for the multi-cloud management platform. During his career, he has held positions at Opscode and also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner specializing in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise.

Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Prior to joining enStratus, Willis was the VP of Solutions for DTO Solutions where he led the transition to a new suite of automated infrastructure and DevOps solutions.

Prior to DTO Solutions. Willis was the Vice President of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise.

A leading infrastructure management architect in the enterprise systems management category, Willis has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

John is known internationally for his IT Management and Cloud blog, JohnMWillis.com, and is the co-host of Redmonk's IT Management Guys podcast series as "Cloud Cafe". Willis is also an organizer of the wildly successful CloudCamp & OpsCamp unconference movements. [continued]

Are We Doing DevOps Right?
By Jeff Sussna

How do we know if we're doing DevOps right? Is there a checklist of tools we should deploy, meetings we should schedule, org charts we should implement? DevOps first and foremost involves cultural transformation. But what does that really mean? How do we know if we have a healthy DevOps culture? How does cultural transformation relate to and guide tools and practices? [continued]

Speaker Bio: Jeff Sussna is Founder and Principal of Ingineering.IT, a boutique consulting firm that facilitates Adaptive IT through teaching, coaching, and strategic design. Jeff has more than 20 years of IT experience, and has led high-performance teams across the Dev/QA/Ops spectrum.He has a track record of driving project quality improvements through practical innovation. Jeff has done work for diverse organizations.[continued]

IT-as-a-Service and DevOps: Competitive or Cooperative Concepts?
By JP Morgenthal

It's the age old battle of top-down or bottom-up. IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) is clearly being driven from the top down in organizations. Large vendors and consultants are working with their executive counterparts to change expectations for how IT provides services to the enterprise. DevOps, on the other hand, is the traditional bottom-up grassroots movement that like Linux and virtualization has disrupted the status quo and changed forever how IT services can be delivered. In this case, both efforts are working toward a common goal of agility and speed. So, will one effort supercede the other? Will they merge and deliver together? This session will explore the factors that contribute to dissension as well as union of these two efforts and what proponents from each camp should be doing to ensure success regardless. [continued]

Speaker Bio: JP Morgenthal is best described as "the voice of Enterprise IT" bringing insight to the application of technology and the real world complexity of delivering for large and mid-sized enterprises. He is a recognized thought-leader on cloud, enterprise architecture, SOA & XML. JP is a senior information technology executive with more than twenty-five years experience and a unique combination of strong business acumen complemented by technical depth and breadth that advises C-level executives on IT direction. He is the author of four books spanning everything from XML-based integration to risk management in cloud computing. [continued]

Is Orchestration the Next Big Thing in DevOps?
By Nati Shalom

DevOps processes (such as continuous deployment and delivery) often involve writing many custom scripts that are triggered by the build system. With that approach, it is relatively hard to trace the deployment process and troubleshoot when something goes wrong. Additionally, custom scripts are often not written in an easily understood manner. In this session we will walk through specific DevOps workflows (such as install, update, etc) using Riemann as the framework in subject and see the steps required to automate those processes. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO at GigaSpaces, is a thought leader in Cloud-Computing and Big-Data Technologies. Shalom was recently recognized as a Top Cloud Computing Blogger for CIO's by The CIO Magazine and his blog listed as an excellent blog by *technical founders* by YCombinator. Shalom is also the founder of the IGTCloud, and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. [continued]

DevOp w/Me – Changing Culture to Continuously Deliver
By Nathen Harvey

What the heck is DevOps and why should you care? At its core, DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that aims to get Development and Operations working together toward a common goal, namely, to create delightful customer experiences. Although it sounds simple, it can actually be incredibly difficult to do right and involves significant cultural, tooling, and operational change within IT organizations. 'DevOp with Me' will define exactly what DevOps is, share strategies of organizations that have successfully implemented DevOps, DevOps' role in continuous delivery, and how DevOps creates the environment necessary for a more agile, healthy, and innovative business that's awesome to work for. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Nathen Harvey is the Director of Community and #learnchef at Chef. Before joining Chef, Nathen spent several years managing operations and infrastructure for a number of web applications. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps. Working with and as a part of the Chef Community, Nathen has been spreading the word about DevOps for quite a while. In 2013, Nathen was awarded Engine Yard's DevOps Innovator award. [continued]

The Dawning of Continuous Support
By Todd Vernon

Development teams have a tendency to think that once they push the deploy button, the release is done. But with DevOps, it's quite the opposite now. More software changes, and more deploys, make every production release a new piece of code with new idiosyncrasies. This has made what has historically been a more static production environment now highly dynamic. Teams have responded by layering in a lot of new monitoring and performance technologies, which has caused even more information overload. Continuous Deployment makes it easier to push code to production, and it has created an additional priority within the company - the need to provide Continuous Support. Continuous Support addresses the human side of how to harness your team in more effective ways, using new methodologies to adapt to a much different world. In this session, DevOps expert Todd Vernon, CEO of VictorOps, will outline best practices for implementing - and sustaining - Continuous Support. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Todd H. Vernon Founded VictorOps Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Vernon has been Executive Vice President of Technology at Federated Media Publishing, Inc. since October 2011. Mr. Vernon Founded Lijit Networks, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He serves as a Mentor at TechStars, LLC. Mr. Vernon served as the Product Architect and Lead Developer at Rogue Wave Software, where he was responsible for the design and development. [continued]

The Great Debate: DevOps from the C-Suite to the Weeds
By Rajat Bhargava

With its heavy focus on automation and increased production speeds, the emerging DevOps paradigm draws very real parallels to the industrial revolution, only in the new modern era of tech production. In this presentation I will aim to first define the transformative DevOps movement from the unique, dual vantage points that I've grown to know very well over the course of my career – as a tech CEO and an investor of tech companies. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Rajat Bhargava currently serves as co-founder and CEO of JumpCloud Inc., a provider of server management and security tools for DevOps and IT professionals. An MIT graduate with two decades of experience in industries including cloud, security, networking and IT, Mr. Bhargava is an eight-time entrepreneur with five exits including two IPOs, three trade sales and three companies still private. [continued]

Velocity and Volume (or Speed Wins)
By Adrian Cockcroft

As organizations and projects scale up, the patterns that seemed helpful at small scale start to get in the way and velocity suffers. To deliver at high velocity requires four things: first, a culture of innovation that can see and respond to opportunities; second, the data and analytics to evaluate alternatives; third, a culture that can make decisions and assign resources quickly; and fourth, agile development and self-service deployment. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology. He's always been fascinated by what comes next, and he writes and speaks extensively on a range of subjects. At Battery, he advises the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence. [continued]

Science, Engineering, and Synthetic Thinking How to Use Three Different Viewpoints to Make Devops Work for Your Mission!
By Kevin Behr

In this session, Kevin will show how three different types of thinking can deliver value when used together as part of your DevOps approach. This session is based on extensive empirical research about how high reliability organizations out-accelerate the rest of the pack. How can this work for you? [continued]

Speaker Bio: Kevin Behr is the founder of the Information Technology Process Institute (ITPI) and the Chief Strategist for the CIO and Board Advisory Practice at Assemblage Pointe, where Kevin has built a unique consulting practice that mentors and coaches IT organizations to increase their business effectiveness and competitive advantage now and over the long term through the application of improvement sciences. [continued]

Stop Hiring Devops Experts (And Start Growing Them)
By Jez Humble

Everyone is putting "devops" on their LinkedIn profile, and everyone is trying to hire them. In this talk, Jez will argue this is not a recruitment problem but an organizations failure. This talk discusses how to grow great people and great organizations, and how the two problems are connected. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Jez Humble is a principal at ThoughtWorks, a lecturer at UC Berkeley, and co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler's Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010), and the forthcoming Lean Enterprise, in Eric Ries' Lean series. [continued]

DevOps Pay Raise: Quantifying the value of DevOps
By Dustin Whittle

DevOps, when done right, usually goes unnoticed. It's only when something breaks that all eyes turn to IT. If your boss only sees you when the app is down, however, that's not really doing your career any favors. In this session we'll talk about how to prove your value to the organization by looking at the positive side – that is, how much money you've saved your company. We'll take a look at how you can use tools like Chef, Puppet, Sensu and Logstash to quantify your value to your company. After this session, you'll be able to walk into a meeting with your boss ready to talk about your value to the company (and to ask for a raise). [continued]

Speaker Bio: Dustin Whittle is a Developer Evangelist at AppDynamics where he focuses on helping organizations manage application performance. Before joining AppDynamics, Dustin was CTO at Kwarter, a consultant at SensioLabs, and developer evangelist at Yahoo!. He has experience building and leading engineering teams and working with developers and partners to scale to meet demand. When Dustin isn't working he enjoys flying, sailing, diving, golfing, and travelling around the world. [continued]

Pets vs. Cattle: How to Think About HW in a Web-scale IT world
By Randy Bias

If you want to bring the new kind of elastic cloud infrastructure revolutionised by leading public clouds or web-scale companies like FB, Google and Twitter, you have to change your thinking about a few key things: hardware, failure and scalability.

In this presentation Randy Bias, Founder & CEO of Cloudscaling outlines the key design principles and challenges involved with building these new kinds of clouds [continued]

Speaker Bio: Randy Bias is Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudscaling. His provocative views on the cloud computing disruption have made Randy Bias one of the industry's most influential voices. He has inspired organizations to embrace cloud to transform business processes and position for success in a new world where computing resources are ubiquitous, inexpensive, instantly scalable, and highly available. [continued]

Devops and Sigma Shifts : Business transformation goes Greek (not a typo, the "r" is struck through on purpose ;-))
By Lori MacVittie

It's time to play a game of connect the dots by diving into devops and how the big picture is really about people and processes and transformation through technology. While it's awesome fun treating infrastructure as code, there's a method to our madness that has the potential for greater IT and business transformation if we're able to look at the big picture: process improvement. We'll dive into how you quantify improvements wrought by your all night infrastructure hackathons and turn them into measurable proof of the awesome power of Devops. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5's entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. She currently focuses on cloud computing, infrastructure, devops, data center architecture, and security-related topics. MacVittie has extensive development and technical architecture experience in both high-tech and enterprise organizations, in addition to network and systems administration expertise. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine. [continued]

Managing Drift and Cross-Silo Collaboration - The Keys to DevOps Success
By Rob Reiner & Cass Bishop

Automation tools are central to DevOps transformation, but what is the intelligence driving your automations and how do you ensure the right people are informed when automations are added, changed, or removed? Collaboration is also essential to DevOps, so how do you effectively communicate changing requirements, engage the right team members on release and deployment plans, and keep environments in sync? In this session, we will demonstrate a breakthrough approach that significantly improves cross-team engagement and configuration visibility across the DevOps lifecycle -- so you can improve business agility while ensuring release quality and operational stability. [continued]

Speaker Bios: Rob Reiner is co-founder and CTO of ITinvolve. Cass Bishop is Director of Consulting Services for ITinvolve. [continued]

Seamless Innovation: A New Cloud Reality for App Development
By Ravi Srivastav

A major reason for innovation sluggishness is friction and misalignment in the dev/ops process. What we'll speak to today is a whole new world of simplified, modular application development. ElasticBox is pioneering service-based application development, whereby fully configured components of an application architecture are encapsulated as "Boxes" and made available to developers as a service. Now, developers simply 1) Select the resources/boxes they require, 2) Stack their boxes to create the application architecture, and 3) Deploy the App. Because the boxes are fully encapsulated, they are reusable, can be versioned and updated, and are fully mobile across all major cloud environments. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Ravi brings over fifteen years of experience in software development, product and program management, and startup incubation. He has held senior engineering and product management positions at large enterprises like Microsoft and IBM, as well as in several successful software startups. Ravi's experience spans software infrastructure, developer platforms, and applications for enterprise and social networking segments. [continued]

DevOps Gold: What the Olympics teaches us about agile development and release
By Dave Roberts

At the recent winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, we saw athletes from all over the world striving for excellence. Some turned in the best performance of their lives and came home with a gold medal. Others, some favorites, struggled and saw their dreams slip away. In this session, we'll see how DevOps done right is a lot like the Olympics. If you set reasonable goals, train hard, and execute well, you'll reach DevOps Gold, too. But if you take your releases for granted, you may end up with failure. This session is for developers and operations personnel working toward implementing a DevOps process. You'll learn best practices for achieving DevOps success and how to best implement them in your own company. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Dave Roberts brings 25 years of technology experience to his role of Sr. Director for Marketing for DevOps and Cloud Computing at BMC Software. A thought leader in agile IT and IT transformation, Dave routinely speaks at conferences around the world. Dave is a member of the Twitter #clouderati and regularly blogs at Leverhawk.com. He holds a dozen patents and has written three books on computer programming and data communications technology. [continued]

The Internet of Things - Application centricity is the only way forward
By Wesley Pullen

There has been a revolution in application release scheduling in recent years as the nature of applications has evolved and development methodologies shift. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Wesley is the Vice President of the Emerging Solutions Group within Automic Software. This department is responsible for the Application Release and Deployment portfolio of solutions along with Automic's Cloud solution portfolio as well. [continued]

TheDevOps: The Last Best Hope for Security?
By Alan Shimel

While at the RSA Conference this past year I was amazed at the mindshare and enthusiasm that the security industry was giving to DevOps. It seemed that security pros were eager to flock and embrace DevOps. This got me to thinking. I asked my friend Gene Kim about it. Gene said DevOps represented something of an "escape hatch" to security pros. [continued]

Speaker Bio: As Editor-in-chief of DevOps.com, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology. Alan has founded and helped several technology ventures, including StillSecure, where he guided the company in bringing innovative and effective networking and security solutions to the marketplace. Shimel [continued]

General Session | Today Businesses Run On Applications. Tomorrow Applications Will Be the Business
By Dennis McGuire

Today businesses run on applications. Tomorrow applications will be the business. The Internet of Things promises to revolutionize the way we live work and play. Yet as the autonomous age of FitBits, Nike Fuel Bands and contextual technology begins, CIOs are left with a headache - their enterprise applications were built for a different age ¬ the on¬premise age. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Dennis McGuire is Head of Application Release Automation (ARA) at Automic. Dennis is responsible for the development of the ARA strategy, as well as building and executing the organisation's industry capabilities and programs. [continued]

How Service Virtualization is Making Enterprise DevOps a Reality
By Deven Shah

Today's hyper competitive environment defined by unreasonable demands for speed and high expectations for quality and usability has forced companies to differentiate based on their technology. Every company is a software company where customers' demands for features and functions are more relentless than ever. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Deven Shah is a Global technology management executive with 20+ years of Delivery & Account Management experience driving business-technology alignment & enabling high performing motivated innovative teams. [continued]

HowDeliver Your Applications without a Hitch through Automated Change Validation
By Ian Kelly

Maintaining lower development environments can become an unbearable headache. Changes to an application, service or API are seldom completely testable, only leaving us to discover broken code when it's too late. This lack of visibility into application dependencies severely limits early code validation, having a direct impact on delivery cycles. While traditional methods of Change Management, Test Data Management and Test Scheduling has failed, there's now an opportunity to finally deliver on the vision of always available, always configured and always verifiable. The "software defined enterprise" through proper virtual services and API management now provides the building blocks to realize automated change validation. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Ian Kelly is Senior Director of Product Management at CA Technologies. [continued]

Private PaaS in 25 Minutes, App Deployment in 25 Seconds.
By Troy Topnik

Hosted PaaS providers have given independent developers and startups huge advantages in efficiency and reduced time to market over their more process-bound counterparts in enterprises. Software frameworks are now available which allow enterprise IT departments to provide these same advantages for developers in their own organization. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Troy Topnik is ActiveState's technical writer. After joining ActiveState in 2001 as a "Customer Relationship Representative" (AKA Tech Support), Troy went on to lead the PureMessage Enterprise Support team before moving on to a technical writing role in 2004. [continued]

The Value of DevOps in the Enterprise
By Mike Kavis

DevOps is a hot topic these days despite the fact that the term is broadly misunderstood. DevOps is not a person or a bunch of systems administrators writing Chef scripts, and it's definitely not just another software methodology. In this session we will explore how to derive the greatest value from DevOps and how it should be used in an enterprise context to deliver high-quality software, better, faster and cheaper. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. He has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. [continued]

High Tempo, High Consequences
By Tom Lounibos

We live in a time when seconds - even milliseconds, can have a dramatic economic impact on your company's future.

With technology being the primary conduit for consumer interaction, the user experience is at center stage. User experience will be a deciding factor in separating the future winners from the losers. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, oversees the company's operations, sales and marketing arms and is responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy. He brings more than 30 years of experience in building early stage software companies, leading two companies to successful IPOs. [continued]

Toll Gates, Pot Holes, Grid Lock - Roadblocks to DevOps
By Vasu Sankhavaram

This breakout session will discuss strategic and tactical challenges for DevOps adoption - how to get buy-in for and implement DevOps. [continued]

Speaker Bio:Vasu Sankhavaram is Chief Strategist of DevOps and Cross Portfolio Architecture Alignment within HP Software. He has been working in the area of DevOps and Continuous Delivery since 2009. Earlier, he provided product management leadership and strategy within HP's Cloud Automation portfolio, with a focus on application release and deployment, and hybrid cloud automation. With extensive experience in all aspects of product and solution development, he brings a unique set of business, technical and people skills to product management and strategy roles. [continued]

National Australia Bank (NAB) : How We Used APM in Our App Development to Improve Transaction Response Time by 75%
By Aruna Ravichandran & Peter Tsatsaronis

Users are becoming increasingly impatient with new apps that don't work. Often, you get one shot to get it right. But, new applications are being rolled out all the time, and being accessed from all sorts of devices. Operations need to provide developers with real-world production data to help them identify performance issues before applications go into production. This Application Lifecycle Optimization (or DevOps) is key for businesses to reduce the risk of faulty application rollouts. [continued]

Speaker Bio: Aruna Ravichandran is Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing, Application Performance Management and DevOps for CA Technologies. In this role, Aruna leads the Go to Market for CA's Application Performance Management products and is also responsible for DevOps solution marketing.

Peter is responsible for software delivery across the entire SDLC for API and Customer Portal assets. In his current role Peter has championed the Agile methodology is and is an advocate of bridging the gap between the Development and Operations teams via the adoption of DevOps and Continuous Integration processes. [continued]