Agenda
Our agenda is designed to inspire, challenge, and connect. From keynote sessions with industry leaders to interactive workshops and networking opportunities, each part of the event is built to spark ideas and provide practical insights. Explore the schedule and start planning your experience.
Tuesday, October 1
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DevOps Summit
One day event
Registration and Coffee
Chair’s Opening Remarks
IDC Keynote: Value-Driven DevOps and App Engineering in the AI Everywhere Era
Jennifer Thomson | IDC
Associate Vice President, Services, AccAD and Cloud, European Region
Jennifer Thomson
Jen Thomson has more than 20 years’ experience advising IT Vendors, senior IT, and business execs on their digital business optimization and transformation strategies. She leads European Research for Accelerated App Delivery, Cloud, and Services. Her core goal is to drive synergies and growth across these research areas, with a central focus on thought leadership.
She specializes in providing insights on the investment strategies and decisions of European enterprises as they transition to modern application architectures. Her research explores app dev and delivery capabilities required to operate in a digital economy, and how this impacts enterprise organizational structures, culture, processes, tools, and skill sets. She leads the Future of Digital Innovation research for IDC Europe, exploring software innovation strategies and what this means in terms of end-user strategies, investment priorities, software sourcing, and KPIs. Thomson’s core research also explores enterprise maturity and strategies towards enterprise scale and empowered DevOps.
She is responsible for the execution of a broad range of consulting and advisory projects. As IDC’s European expert on application development and delivery strategies, Thomson is an experienced public speaker and regularly presents at conferences and IDC partner and end-user events.
She started her career at Compaq Computer EMEA as a senior research analyst. She has a bachelor’s degree in international business with German from Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom) and Pforzheim Fachhochschule (Germany).
Event Sessions
Tuesday, October 1 2024 3:30 pm | Location:
End User Panel: DevSecOps in the AI Era: From Security to Value Creation
Tuesday, October 1 2024 9:35 am | Location:
IDC Keynote: Value-Driven DevOps and App Engineering in the AI Everywhere Era
End User Presentation: Creating an App-Centric Engineering Culture
Using her experience as CIO at American Airlines, Maya describes their journey towards becoming an app-centric engineering organization. Through examples of successes and setbacks she shows how their journey evolved, how they measured progress, and how they worked to adopt a culture to help reduce silos and create better, value-driven applications
Maya Leibman
CIO, American Airlines
Gold Sponsor Keynote: Skills Sourcing and Capabilities
End User Panel: AI-Powered DevOps: Accelerating Possibilities
Marvi Cotone
Deputy Director Digital Delivery and Architecture, Homes England
Kevin Foley
Head Of Capability- DevOps and Applications, Admiral Group
Maria Stefanova
Head of Agile PMO – Artificial Intelligence, SPC, IAG
George Mironescu
Associate Research Director, App Development and Delivery, Europe, IDC
Networking Coffee Break
End User Panel: Unlocking the Potential: Driving Value-Driven DevOps
Vince King
Head of DevSecOps, Bank of England
Sanmat Jhanjhari
DevOps Lead, Nationwide Building Society
Lauren Dally
Director of Application Delivery, Ardonagh Advisory
Archana Venkatraman
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC
Square Peg in a Round Hole – Putting the Sec in DevSecOps
Matthew Torkington
Senior Sales Engineer, Checkmarx
End User Panel: Amplifying Delivery Productivity and Experience through Platform Engineering
Jennifer Pickard
Head of Engineering, Legal & General
Marc van Niekerk
Engineering Manager, Checkatrade
Teresa Wu
VP of Software Engineering, JPMorgan Chase & Co
George Mironescu
Associate Research Director, App Development and Delivery, Europe, IDC
Beyond Monitoring: The Crucial Role of Observability in Kubernetes
In the dynamic world of Kubernetes, achieving high performance and reliability goes beyond traditional monitoring. This talk explores the pivotal role of observability in Kubernetes, highlighting how it transcends basic monitoring to provide deeper, actionable insights into your containerized applications and infrastructure. Also, discover how adopting a robust observability strategy in Kubernetes can lead to more reliable systems, faster development cycles, and strategic business advantages.
Jain Joseph
Solutions Architect, SUSE
Networking Lunch
Connect Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Connect Session 1
Trust and Engagement in DevSecOps
Connect Session 2
Fortifying Kubernetes : The Importance of Zero-Trust
Connect Session 3
Who's In The Driver's Seat For DevSecFinOps?
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC
Connect Session 4
Skills & Competencies – The Human Side of DevOps
Research Manager, European Skills and Cloud Strategies, IDC
Connect Session 5
Cultural Shifts for Value-Driven DevSecFinOps
Associate Vice President, Services, AccAD and Cloud, European Region, IDC
Connect Session 6
Amplifying Delivery Productivity Through Platform Engineering
Associate Research Director, App Development and Delivery, Europe, IDC
Networking Coffee Break
End User Panel: DevSecOps in the AI Era: From Security to Value Creation
Julia Khromova
DevSecOps Excellence Lead, PepsiCo
Eric Okoh
Security Lead,
Jennifer Thomson
Associate Vice President, Services, AccAD and Cloud, European Region, IDC
IDC Research Insight: Is Observability the Starting Point for Cloud Governance/FinOps?
Archana Venkatraman
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC
IDC’s Future Predictions and Key Takeaways
Chair’s Last Comments
End of Conference
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