Luca is the core contributor to PlatformEngineering.org, the world’s largest platform engineering community with more than 30,000 members. He routinely speaks to dozens of engineering teams every month, and summarizes his learnings and takeaways from hundreds of setups into crisp, insightful content for everyone in the industry, from beginner-Ops to cloud experts. He is the host of PlatformCon, the world’s largest platform engineering event, and writes to more than 100,000 engineers every Friday in his newsletter, Platform Weekly.

As chief product officer at CloudBees, Shawn Ahmed embodies the nexus of product engineering and marketing. With a firm hand on the reins of the CloudBees product portfolio, Shawn meticulously crafts product and solution delivery, pricing, strategic planning, competitive landscape analysis, and market management. Shawn joined CloudBees in 2018 and has held various leadership positions before stepping into the CPO role. Shawn has catalyzed a transformative shift, evolving the company’s culture and operations into a buyer-centric, value-focused DevOps leader.

Tracy is an expert in software supply chain management and pipeline DevOps practices with a hyper-focus on microservices and cloud-native architecture. She has served on the OpenSSF Governing Board (2022-23) as a General Member Representative, the OpenSSF Governing Board Committee, and the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) Technology Oversite Committee. She previously served as a founding board member of the CDF and the Eclipse Foundation.  She is the Executive Director of the Ortelius Open Source project, an open-source security evidence store.

Tracy is recognized by TechBeacon as one of the top 100 DevOps visionaries and speaks at many professional events such as CDCon, Open Source Summit, and CloudBees DevOps World. She also hosts TechStrong Women TV, where she celebrates amazing technologists who happen to be women.

Garima is a thought leader for broad range of technologies, spanning from DevOps, Cloud, Data Science & AI technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada. She leads the ambassador program for Continuous Delivery Foundation. She has over two decades of experience leading large-scale multi-billion dollar R&D initiatives with a variety of teams and has helped them adapt technologies, achieve explosive market growth for new products in Telco domain. Furthermore, she has delivered many international conference talks, written several technical blog posts, and published white papers.

• Author (Book) - Strategizing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
• Author (Book) - CI/CD Design Patterns
• Author (Book) - Mastering Secure Software (Coming soon)
• Author/Blogger - DevOps.com, devmio, InfoQ

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development and IT leader, with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. Mitch comes to The Futurum Group through the acquisition of Techstrong Group (devops.com, securityboulevard.com, and techstrong.tv), where he serves as CTO and founder of Techstrong Research.

As a Chief Technology Advisor, CTO, CIO, and head of engineering, Mitch led the creation of award-winning cybersecurity products utilized in the private and public sectors, including the U.S. Department of Defense and all military branches. Mitch also led managed PKI services for broadband, Wi-Fi, IoT, energy management and 5G industries, product certification test labs, an online SaaS (93m transactions annually), the development of video-on-demand and Internet cable services, and a national broadband network. He began his career creating large banking and telecom applications and building AI expert systems.

Having led his first of three introductions of DevOps in 2014 and the modernization of three IT organizations, Mitch shares his experiences as an analyst, keynote and conference speaker, panelist, host, moderator, and expert interviewer. His talks cover some of the most in-demand topics, including CIO/CTO leadership, product and software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, container orchestration, AI/ML/GenAI, platform engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity. He publishes his research on FuturumGroup.com/ and TechstrongResearch.com/resources. He hosts multiple award-winning video and podcast series, including DevOps Unbound, CISO Talk, and Techstrong Gang.

As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media, Techstrong Live, Techstrong Research, Devops.com, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV, and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation.

With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.

Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, TechStrong TV and Digital Anarchist audio and video appearances are widely followed.

Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.

Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Sanjeev Sharma is a globally recognized technology executive, author, and former IBM Distinguished Engineer specializing in enterprise-scale AI, DevOps, Cloud, and Data Engineering transformations. As Founder and Principal at Data Capital Labs, he partners with Fortune 100 companies and innovative startups to accelerate and operationalize AI strategies for real business impact. With a proven track record at Dell Technologies, IBM, Truist Financial, and Delphix, Sanjeev is also the bestselling author of The DevOps Adoption Playbook and a popular industry blogger and podcaster. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Villanova University and lives in Virginia with his family.

I am the Governing Board Chair of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (Linux sub-foundation), Spinnaker.io TOC member, and lead a team of engineers at Apple dedicated to improving the Continuous Deployment experience for our internal teams and the open source community. Our contributions are focused on extending scalability and multi-tenant capabilities in the Continuous Deployment space. For the last eleven years at Apple, I have been focused on improving developers' experience in cloud computing and beyond.

Paul Davis is a seasoned IT security executive boasting over two decades of experience in crafting secure solutions and services for organizations worldwide. His career is marked by pivotal roles, including that of a CISO for a Fortune 100 company, CSO for critical infrastructure, leader of global incident response teams, and a strategic advisor to global organizations, IT operations, s/w houses, and governmental agencies. As CISO, Americas, at JFrog, Paul leverages his extensive expertise to guide enterprises in fortifying their software supply chains, ensuring robust security from the ground up.

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