DevOps Experience 2021

"...Alec Ross is one of those very rare people who can see patterns in the chaos and provide guidance for the road forward." — Eric Schmidt, Alphabet Chairman, Former CEO, Google

Alec Ross

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Leading Expert on Geopolitics, Markets, and Innovation

Alec Ross is the author of New York Times best-seller The Industries of the Future (translated into 24 languages and was a best-seller on 5 continents). In September 2021, he presented his new book

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People and the Fight for Our Future

Tom Arthur

CEO

Dianomic

Tracy Bannon

Senior Principal

The MITRE Corporation

Helen Beal

Chief Ambassador

DevOps Institute

Shlomi Ben Haim

Co-Founder and CEO

JFrog

Jabe Bloom

Sr. Director of Global Transformation

Red Hat

Donovan Brown

Partner Program Manager

Microsoft

Heidi Cox

CIO

HKS, Inc.

Jessica Deen

Principle Cloud Advocate

Microsoft

Loris Degioanni

Founder & CTO, Co-creator of Wireshark

Sysdig

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate

Upbound

Tracey Francis

Senior Vice President of Technology

Bottle Rocket

Jayne Groll

CSO

Techstrong Group

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Co-CEO, Launchable, Inc. Creator of Jenkins.

Launchable, Inc.

Thomas Krane

Principle

Insight Partners

Maciej Mazur

Product Strategy Manager

Canonical

John Morello

VP, Product Management

Prisma Cloud

E.G. Nadhan

Chief Architect and Strategist

Red Hat

Charlene O'Hanlon

CCO

Techstrong Group

Andrew Clay Shafer

Vice President Transformation

Red Hat

Cat Swetel

Director Of Engineering

Nubank

Gertrude G. Van Horn

Senior Vice President and the Chief Information Officer

NCH Corporation

John Willis

Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office

Red Hat

Caroline Wong

Chief Strategy Officer

Cobalt

Stefania Chaplin

CEO of DevStefOps

DevStefOps

Lebin Cheng

Head of API Security, Office of the CTO

Imperva

Bernard Golden

Cloud-native Field CTO

VMware

Scott Graffius

Founder, CEO, and Principal Consultant

Exceptional Agility, a division of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions

Jason Karnes

Network Strategy Architect

VMware

Geeta Kulkarni

Staff Engineer

VMware

BMK Lakshminarayanan

Value Stream Architect

BNZ

Daniel Linsley

Staff Engineer

VMware

Steve Pereira

CEO

Visible

Tracy Ragan

CEO

DeployHub, Inc.

Bob Reselman

Software Development | Technology Writer on Software Architecture, Development, Tools, Open Source | Author

Techstrong Research

Sagi Rodin

CEO

Frontegg

Sven Ruppert

Developer Advocate

JFrog

Manuel Schuller

DevOps-ologist

Independent

Lou Senko

Chief Availability Officer (CAO)

Harmen VanderLinde

Senior Director – Cloud Data Platforms / Office of the CTO

VMware

Kellen Anker

CloudOps Engineer

Olive AI

Mitch Ashley

Principal

Techstrong Research

Ethan Chung

Solution Architect EMEA/APAC Team Lead

Keysight Technologies

Larry Edelstein

Solutions Engineer

Perforce Software

Matt Howard

EVP & Chief Marketing Officer

Sonatype

Timothy Johnson

Director, Product Marketing Manager

CloudBees

Justin McCarthy

CTO

strongDM

Nitay Milner

Product Manager

Epsagon

Alan Pope

Developer Advocate

InfluxData

Paul Porter

Vice President of Sales Engineering

Everbridge

Eric Robertson

SVP Strategic Advisor

ConnectALL

Dalibor Siroky

CEO, Co-Founder

Plutora

Atul Bhovan

BMC DevOps Advisor

BMC

Jimmy Caldwell

Solutions Architect

Tidelift

Colton Chojnacki

Product Manager

Beyond Identity

Peter Corless

Technical Marketing Manager

ScyllaDB

Anne Deming

Senior Director, Everbridge CEM Solutions

Everbridge

Ben Geller

Vice President

CodeLogic

Scott Gerlach

Co-founder and Chief Security Officer

StackHawk

Peter Yabsley

Head of Product Marketing

Basis Technologies

Alex Irizarry

Solutions Engineering

Quali

Jeff Keyes

VP Product Marketing

Plutora

Charles Mahler

Technical Writer

InfluxData

Dan "Pop" Papandrea

Director - Opensource Community and Ecosystem

Sysdig

Sam Quakenbush

Global SE Director

WhiteSource

Taylor Smith

Senior Product Manager

Prisma Cloud - Shift Left Security

Rachel Sweeney

Site Reliability Engineer

Fairwinds

8:45 AM - 8:55 AM (EDT)
	Speakeasy Lounge Time
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM (EDT)
Keynote Session	LIVE: Digital Transformation and the Raging 2020's Alec Ross
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Integrating SAP into DevOps pipelines: An Introduction to Why and How Peter Yabsley - Basis Technologies
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Inversion of Control: Security as an Interface Track: DevOps Sagi Rodin - Frontegg	Speed Innovation with the Distributed Cloud Track: Digital Transformation Lou Senko - Q2
Featured Session	Building Apps With Time Series Data the Easy Way Alan Pope - InfluxData
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	5 Things to Help Your Team Succeed at Kubernetes Rachel Sweeney - Fairwinds
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Full-Stack, Code-to-Cloud security with Prisma Cloud Taylor Smith - Prisma Cloud - Shift Left Security
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Building Data Analytics Platforms in Minutes Using Deployment Blueprints Track: Digital Transformation Geeta Kulkarni - VMware Harmen VanderLinde - VMware
Featured Session	State of DevOps - Now, Next and Beyond Paul Porter - Everbridge
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	A Better Way to Manage the Open Source Software Supply Chain Jimmy Caldwell - Tidelift
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	How the SRE fits into the DevSecOps World? Track: Digital Transformation Sven Ruppert - JFrog
Featured Session	The Minefield of Open Source: Research and Guidance for Seeing Clearly, Keeping Current, and Staying Secure Matt Howard - Sonatype
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Accelerating DevOps Evolution Helen Beal - DevOps Institute Jayne Groll - Techstrong Group
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Cross the DevOps Plateau with Value Stream Management Jeff Keyes - Plutora
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	A Developer's Perspective on the Impact of Man-Made Climate Change: Issues and Remedies Track: Digital Transformation Bob Reselman - Techstrong Research
Featured Session	Getting to One-Click On-boarding Kellen Anker - Olive AI Justin McCarthy - strongDM
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Ten Steps to True Mainframe Agility – A Phased Approach to Cross-Platform DevOps Success Atul Bhovan - BMC
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	DevSecOps of the Future, an Increasingly Evolving Landscape Track: DevOps Stefania Chaplin - DevStefOps
Featured Session	From Bare-Metal Monitoring to Full-Stack Observability Nitay Milner - Epsagon
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Kubernetes: What's next? DevOps in a post-kube world? Donovan Brown - Microsoft Alan Shimel - Techstrong Group Jessica Deen - Microsoft
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Engineering the Digital Transformation Track: Digital Transformation gary gruver - gruver consulting
Featured Session	How I Avoided Being Too SAFe by Flying into the Danger Zone with Value Streams and OKRs Eric Robertson - ConnectALL
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Why Wait? Find Cloud Risks and Threats in Real Time with Stream Detection Loris Degioanni - Sysdig
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM (EDT)
	AWS BugBust: The World's First Competition for Java and Python Developers Werner Vogels - Amazon Web Services
2:40 PM - 2:45 PM (EDT)
	NextRoll Debuts AWS BugBust to Eliminate Software Bugs
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	5 Tips for navigating API security noise Track: Digital Transformation Lebin Cheng - Imperva	The Journey to Happier and More Productive DevOps Teams Track: DevOps Scott Graffius - Exceptional Agility, a division of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	CLOSING KEYNOTE: The Primordial Soup of DevOps – How Heterogeneity Across IT Environments and Tooling has Catalyzed Market Opportunities for New Vendors Thomas Krane - Insight Partners Alan Shimel - Techstrong Group

8:45 AM - 8:55 AM (EDT)
	Music time with Arnt Arntzen Arnt Arnt Arntzen - https://arntmusic.com/
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM (EDT)
Keynote Session	DevOps Dangerously Jabe Bloom - Red Hat Andrew Clay Shafer - Red Hat Cat Swetel - Nubank John Willis - Red Hat
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Use Open Source Freely and Fearlessly Sam Quakenbush - WhiteSource
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	DevOps Missing Link: Data Track: DevOps Tracy Bannon - The MITRE Corporation
Featured Session	Unlock the power of DevOps with Value Stream Management Helen Beal - DevOps Institute Dalibor Siroky - Plutora
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Intro to Building Applications with InfluxDB Charles Mahler - InfluxData
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Simplify, Speed and Scale Application Delivery with Torque Alex Irizarry - Quali
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Overcoming the Enterprise Disconnect Track: Digital Transformation BMK Lakshminarayanan - BNZ	Tomorrow’s DevOps Pipeline -a Radical Shift Track: DevOps Tracy Ragan - DeployHub, Inc.
Featured Session	How Do We Go Fast and Go Safe In The Next Digital Transformation? Timothy Johnson - CloudBees
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	Automated Application Security Testing with StackHawk Scott Gerlach - StackHawk
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Achieving Application Resiliency with Service Mesh Track: Digital Transformation Jason Karnes - VMware Daniel Linsley - VMware	Flow Engineering - Boost Velocity, Quality and Happiness Through Your Entire Value Stream Track: DevOps Steve Pereira - Visible
Featured Session	Best Practices: Actionable Steps for Secure Software Development Larry Edelstein - Perforce Software
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Continuous Delivery and Edge Computing Shlomi Ben Haim - JFrog Maciej Mazur - Canonical Charlene O'Hanlon - Techstrong Group Tom Arthur - Dianomic
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	What we Learned About Application Resiliency When the Data Center Burned Down Peter Corless - ScyllaDB
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
Featured Session	True End-to-End Testing: Unified Cross Platform and Application Testing Ethan Chung - Keysight Technologies
Keynote Session	The State of the Art in Tackling Flaky Tests Track: Digital Transformation Kohsuke Kawaguchi - Launchable, Inc.
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	DevOps in the World of Critical Event Management Anne Deming - Everbridge
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	6 Reasons to Map Your Application Code Ben Geller - CodeLogic
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Software BoM at the time of DevOps (and DevSecOps and VSM ) Track: DevOps Manuel Schuller - Independent
Featured Session	The Evolution of DevSecOps Rich Hancock - GitLab
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
Spotlight Session	How You Can Secure Development / Build Vulnerabilities Colton Chojnacki - Beyond Identity
1:00 PM - 1:25 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	The Future Is Above Clouds Viktor Farcic - Upbound
1:20 PM - 1:25 PM (EDT)
	AWS BugBust: The World's First Competition for Java and Python Developers Werner Vogels - Amazon Web Services
1:25 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
	NextRoll Debuts AWS BugBust to Eliminate Software Bugs
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
Enlightening Insight Session	Why Cloud Means Cloud-Native Track: Digital Transformation Bernard Golden - VMware
Featured Session	DevOps Won’t Be DevOps Anymore Mitch Ashley - Techstrong Research
Spotlight Session	LIVE: I Know What You did in Your Last Container / Cloud Dan "Pop" Papandrea - Sysdig
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Fireside Chat: The Opportunities (and challenges) of Security in Cloud-Native John Morello - Prisma Cloud Alan Shimel - Techstrong Group
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Stepping on the Shards: Breaking the Glass Ceiling Track: Digital Transformation Tracy Bannon - The MITRE Corporation Charlene O'Hanlon - Techstrong Group Caroline Wong - Cobalt
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
Keynote Session	Creating a Frictionless Customer Experience Through Technology Heidi Cox - HKS, Inc. Tracey Francis - Bottle Rocket E.G. Nadhan - Red Hat Gertrude G. Van Horn - NCH Corporation