60+ end user speakers will share their expertise at Delivery of Things World USA. We are working on getting the most innovative and forward thinking end users and solution providers to offer you real case studies and hands on world café workshops on how DevOps is changing the business world as we know it.
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60+ end user speakers will share their expertise at Delivery of Things World USA. We are working on getting the most innovative and forward thinking end users and solution providers to offer you real case studies and hands on world café workshops on how DevOps is changing the business world as we know it.
Do you have a case study you want to share with the community?
is an event created from real DevOps experts for everyone who needs to understand how DevOps can benefit their business and output rate.
The highly interactive program has been designed to ensure maximum learning and knowledge exchange! Get the most out of your invested time!
is an event created from real DevOps experts for everyone who needs to understand how DevOps can benefit their business and output rate.
The highly interactive program has been designed to ensure maximum learning and knowledge exchange! Get the most out of your invested time!
Real World DevOps
I'm helping Cox Automotive continuously enhance product offerings and get products to market as fast and reliable as possible. Through increased maturity in our Production Engineering discipline, we are helping our brands respond to ever-changing market conditions and continue leading the market.
I'm helping Cox Automotive continuously enhance product offerings and get products to market as fast and reliable as possible. Through increased maturity in our Production Engineering discipline, we are helping our brands respond to ever-changing market conditions and continue leading the market.
Digital Transformation - Impact on innovation to create radical efficiencies to achieve step change performance
Rustom holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Finance. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. USA.
He holds 18 patents and is the author of over 75 articles, technical presentations and publications. He has won numerous Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation. In all, he has more than 35 years of experience in drilling, completion and production
Rustom is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), American Association of Drilling Engineers, International Association of Drilling Engineers (IADC), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves on various sub-committees of all three organizations. He serves on the Board of Advisors at the following Universities and Industry organizations:
Recently he was appointed to serve on the advisory board of Council on Competitiveness Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative - Washington DC.
Rustom holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Finance. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. USA.
He holds 18 patents and is the author of over 75 articles, technical presentations and publications. He has won numerous Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation. In all, he has more than 35 years of experience in drilling, completion and production
Rustom is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), American Association of Drilling Engineers, International Association of Drilling Engineers (IADC), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves on various sub-committees of all three organizations. He serves on the Board of Advisors at the following Universities and Industry organizations:
Recently he was appointed to serve on the advisory board of Council on Competitiveness Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative - Washington DC.
Baker Hughes, a GE company is utilizing passion and experience to take on the industry’s hardest oil and gas challenges. Our commitment is incomparable and is at the foundation of how we work. We cover every segment of the oil and gas industry as a fullstream company, including upstream, midstream, and downstream solutions. We think beyond traditional limits to revolutionize and collaborate with our customers. We are building a new energy industry by connecting equipment, data, and insights to unleash new levels of performance. Our digital industrial focus sets us apart and a digital breakthrough will help bring safer, more affordable energy to our planet. Our customers get consistent, high quality service and access to the latest, most effective technology. We navigate new markets and leverage global scale. We get better insights to make smarter decisions, improve manufacturing, and streamline supply chain for better performance. We are the game-changers with a legacy in revolutionizing the industry.
Building an industry disruptive app with 20 seconds left
Keith Elder is the Senior Technology Evangelist at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI. He is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek. He has spoken throughout the United States at major technical conferences on topics ranging from various new technologies, software architectures and soft skills. For over 12 years he lead the Engineering Tools team as the Director of Software Engineering within Quicken Loans. When not sitting in front of a computer he spends the majority of his time as captain of the vessel Sea Sharp navigating the waters in the Gulf of Mexico in search of large pelagic fish. You can read more about Keith’s interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/keithelder.
You can click the button above to read my blog. If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to say hello through any of the social links below.
Also, if you are in the market for a new home or looking to refinance, here is a special link that will save you $500 on your closing costs with Quicken Loans just go here and start the loan process http://tinyurl.com/rocketmortgage . Enjoy!
Keith Elder is the Senior Technology Evangelist at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI. He is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek. He has spoken throughout the United States at major technical conferences on topics ranging from various new technologies, software architectures and soft skills. For over 12 years he lead the Engineering Tools team as the Director of Software Engineering within Quicken Loans. When not sitting in front of a computer he spends the majority of his time as captain of the vessel Sea Sharp navigating the waters in the Gulf of Mexico in search of large pelagic fish. You can read more about Keith’s interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/keithelder.
You can click the button above to read my blog. If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to say hello through any of the social links below.
Also, if you are in the market for a new home or looking to refinance, here is a special link that will save you $500 on your closing costs with Quicken Loans just go here and start the loan process http://tinyurl.com/rocketmortgage . Enjoy!
Quicken Loans, the nation’s #1 online and second largest retail home mortgage lender. Here, culture propels everything we do. We revolutionized the fintech industry with the introduction of Rocket Mortgage, the world’s first completely online mortgage experience. What will our next revolutionary idea be? Well, that’s up to you. We’re much more than a group of people working together to advance the goals of our company. We are a powerful force revolutionizing the way people work together to make a difference – for our companies, our communities and each other. Our movement is Powered by Purpose, Driven by You, Insistently Different and Distinctly Detroit. We believe exceptional team members deserve exceptional benefits. It’s why we’ve been named Computerworld’s “Best Place to Work in IT” four years in a row.
Specialties
Home Loans, Mortgages, Refinance, Home Buying, Mortgage Rates, Mortgage Calculators, Fixed-rate Mortgages, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, YOURgage, FHA Loans, VA Loans, Rocket Mortgage, Technology, and FinTech
Is DevOps a new religion?
Received her MSC degree in 1996 from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Joined Ericsson 1998 and worked with system design for radio telecom networks. During 15 years she was responsible for software development and system development organizations driving change to obtain organizations characterized of efficiency and effectiveness by introducing agile methods and continuous practices. Moved on to being responsible for infrastructure and service development of Ericsson’s new business segment, ICT centers. Since 2016 working on Ericsson DevOps strategy. In her spare time she enjoys skiing with her family and renovating their home and summer house.
She starts every work day with 2 hours in the gym/SPA to prepare herself for any possible situation at work.
She spends most of her spare time (& money) supporting her son reaching his goal of competing in the world champs in downhill skiing. Especially now that he undergoes leukemia treatment.
Received her MSC degree in 1996 from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Joined Ericsson 1998 and worked with system design for radio telecom networks. During 15 years she was responsible for software development and system development organizations driving change to obtain organizations characterized of efficiency and effectiveness by introducing agile methods and continuous practices. Moved on to being responsible for infrastructure and service development of Ericsson’s new business segment, ICT centers. Since 2016 working on Ericsson DevOps strategy. In her spare time she enjoys skiing with her family and renovating their home and summer house.
She starts every work day with 2 hours in the gym/SPA to prepare herself for any possible situation at work.
She spends most of her spare time (& money) supporting her son reaching his goal of competing in the world champs in downhill skiing. Especially now that he undergoes leukemia treatment.
Over the past 140 years, Ericsson has been at the forefront of communications technology. Today, we are committed to maximizing customer value by continuously evolving our business portfolio and leading the ICT industry.
DevOps and beyond – Changing dynamics of application hosting
A seasoned IT professional having 20+ years of experience who has a good understanding of various facets of IT business i.e. Technology, Product, Architecture, customer relations & Business goals. Currently leading a group of cloud automation professionals to plan & implement application migration solutions to target cloud using Infrastructure as a Code process. I am involved in building migration strategy to a leading financial organization which has a highly controlled IT environment.
A seasoned IT professional having 20+ years of experience who has a good understanding of various facets of IT business i.e. Technology, Product, Architecture, customer relations & Business goals. Currently leading a group of cloud automation professionals to plan & implement application migration solutions to target cloud using Infrastructure as a Code process. I am involved in building migration strategy to a leading financial organization which has a highly controlled IT environment.
DevOps – An integration approach
Patrick Lurlay is a senior-level security professional combining an MBA with over 20 years of multi-industry experience in enterprise scale software development projects.
Patrick Lurlay is a senior-level security professional combining an MBA with over 20 years of multi-industry experience in enterprise scale software development projects.
A^3 by Airbus is the Silicon Valley outpost of Airbus, a global leader in aviation and aerospace innovation. We believe that the future is created through episodic disruption with intervening periods of incremental innovation. Our mission is to build the future of flight now. We solve big problems by employing world-class experts and by developing fertile partnerships. Our projects are built on rigorous analysis, novel insights, and commitment to unreasonable goals. Exploration is unsettling, and only when we disrupt Airbus, its competitors, and the entire industry will we consider our goals achieved and our mission a success. Join us on our bold voyage.
Etsy: A learning culture in practice
Nishan is a Senior Engineer on the Search Ranking team. He either spends his time running experiments to improve the user’s experience, or bridging the gap between the theory and practice of organizational culture and learning at Etsy. He is an active member of the PostMortem Facilitators’ group and teaches a course on Event Investigation.
Nishan is a Senior Engineer on the Search Ranking team. He either spends his time running experiments to improve the user’s experience, or bridging the gap between the theory and practice of organizational culture and learning at Etsy. He is an active member of the PostMortem Facilitators’ group and teaches a course on Event Investigation.
Etsy is a marketplace where people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell and buy unique goods. The heart and soul of Etsy is our global community: the creative entrepreneurs who use Etsy to sell what they make or curate, the shoppers looking for things they can’t find anywhere else, the manufacturers who partner with Etsy sellers to help them grow, and the Etsy employees who maintain and nurture our marketplace.
Unleashing Co-Development Across All Functions Companywide
As the Director of Innovation Programs and Strategy at Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovation Group, Alex Goryachev leads a team responsible for driving co-innovation through the company’s ecosystem of its Cisco Innovation Center Program, entrepreneur partner community, and company employees. In addition, Mr. Goryachev is responsible for driving Cisco’s global Innovation Grand Challenges and overseeing Cisco Technology Radar, which identifies emerging technology transitions to shape internal and external innovation strategies.
Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Goryachev was Director of the Cisco Innovation Center Program, an initiative he launched in 2013 and that has grown it into nine development hubs in major cities worldwide. At these hubs, Cisco brings together customers, partners, startups, accelerators, governments, research communities and universities in a lab setting to discover, develop and implement game-changing, outcome-based solutions in vertical markets.
Since joining Cisco in 2004, Mr. Goryachev has also held key roles in defining and operationalizing several high-profile Cisco initiatives, such as development of the company’s Country Transformation plan, which included leading the Country Transformation plan for Cisco in Russia. He also held senior roles in development, marketing, finance and channels organizations at Cisco.
Prior to Cisco, Mr. Goryachev had a successful consulting career with extended assignments at Napster, Liquid Audio, IBM Global Services and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
Alex Goryachev holds a masters degree in international economics from the Moscow Institute of Social Sciences. His awards include the IDC Award for Best Practices in Marketing Dashboard Development.
As the Director of Innovation Programs and Strategy at Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovation Group, Alex Goryachev leads a team responsible for driving co-innovation through the company’s ecosystem of its Cisco Innovation Center Program, entrepreneur partner community, and company employees. In addition, Mr. Goryachev is responsible for driving Cisco’s global Innovation Grand Challenges and overseeing Cisco Technology Radar, which identifies emerging technology transitions to shape internal and external innovation strategies.
Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Goryachev was Director of the Cisco Innovation Center Program, an initiative he launched in 2013 and that has grown it into nine development hubs in major cities worldwide. At these hubs, Cisco brings together customers, partners, startups, accelerators, governments, research communities and universities in a lab setting to discover, develop and implement game-changing, outcome-based solutions in vertical markets.
Since joining Cisco in 2004, Mr. Goryachev has also held key roles in defining and operationalizing several high-profile Cisco initiatives, such as development of the company’s Country Transformation plan, which included leading the Country Transformation plan for Cisco in Russia. He also held senior roles in development, marketing, finance and channels organizations at Cisco.
Prior to Cisco, Mr. Goryachev had a successful consulting career with extended assignments at Napster, Liquid Audio, IBM Global Services and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
Alex Goryachev holds a masters degree in international economics from the Moscow Institute of Social Sciences. His awards include the IDC Award for Best Practices in Marketing Dashboard Development.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services.
IT Executive specialized in Enterprise Service Management, Portfolio Governance, Portfolio/Project Management, and Technology Business Management. Donna is experienced in developing high performing teams in technology delivery operations, with a focus on dynamic team collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement. Donna has worked with large scale enterprises including The Home Depot, Autotrader.com, and Cox Automotive, Inc..
Cox Automotive, Inc. provides digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale, and e-commerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers, and the automotive ecosystem worldwide. The company offers wholesale vehicle inspection services online; used car valuations for dealers and consumers online; dealer management system, fixed operation, CRM, sales and F&I, and registration and titling solutions; vehicle remarketing services; transportation and logistics solutions; client relationship management software solutions; buyer and seller guarantees and risk-avoidance services; and a suite of inventory management solutions.
Dr. Suzette Johnson works for Northrop Grumman Information Systems near Baltimore, Maryland. As a Certified Scrum Coach and SAFe Program Consultant, she has an interest and passion for promoting and implementing Agile engineering in large-scale systems environments. Her initial experience with Agile-related practices began over 15 years ago with product development for a commercial company focused on financial and enterprise management systems where rapid delivery was the norm. Working as a systems engineer she has spent over 15 years focused on streamlining systems engineering and product development practices at the team, program, and organizational levels. She has led large project teams in their transition from traditional engineering approaches to more adaptive practices and has worked with teams and organizations seeking to build a DevOps environment.
Suzette enjoys leading, mentoring, and working with programs, customers, and organizations as they seek to provide regular delivery of value to their users. She leads Northrop Grumman’s Agile Center of Excellence, speaks at multiple conference engagements each year, and provides Agile and DevOps related workshops.
She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focus on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and agile engineering environments. Certifications include SPC, CSM, CSP, CEC, and PMP.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (Northrop Grumman), incorporated on August 4, 2010, is a global security company. The Company provides systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems; cyber; command, control, communications and computers (C4), intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR); strike aircraft, and logistics and modernization to Government and commercial customers across the world. The Company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Technical Services. It offers a portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable it to deliver systems and solutions for applications. The Company participates in defense and government programs in the United States and abroad. The Company conducts business with the United States Government, the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community. The Company also conducts business with local, state and foreign Governments, and domestic and international commercial customers.
Robin Yeman works for Lockheed Martin (LM) in Northern Virginia as a Lockheed Martin Fellow and an Agile Champion. She has over 20 years of experience in software and IT, across multiple business areas building everything from Satellites to Submarines. She has been actively supporting and leading Agile programs at Scale both domestically and internationally for the last 13 years with multiple certifications including SPC, CSM, CSP, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP, INCOSE CSEP, and ITIL Practitioner. Robin has been actively driving DevOps into Lockheed Programs for the last 3 years and recently collaborated across all lines of business to develop and integrated delivery pipeline toolset known as Sparta to give new programs a jumpstart. She actively coaches and trains teams through in person coaching, Agile workshops, virtual training classes. She leads the Lockheed Martin's Agile Community of Practice and Center of Excellence, speaks at multiple conference engagements each year. Robin received her Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, incorporated on August 29, 1994, is a global security and aerospace company. The Company is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Aeronautics; Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS); Missiles and Fire Control (MFC); Mission Systems and Training (MST), and Space Systems. The Company provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistics and information services. The Company's areas of focus are in defense, space, intelligence, homeland security and information technology, including cyber security. It serves customers, including military services, the United States Navy and various government agencies of the United States and other countries, as well as commercial and other customers.
Eric Chinchilla is currently the finance partner to the VPs across the J&J enterprise platforms, applications and big data strategies. He has been with J&J since 1994, with his SAP experience beginning in 2004. His hold a baccalaureate in accounting and has been part of J&J finance, or IT supporting finance, through 2012, holding roles in: supply chain finance; financial reporting, planning and analysis; and business intelligence (OLAP). His prior roles have spanned all business processes (e.g. plan, source, make, quality, deliver, and finance), as well as driving system architectures and landscapes to support the business.
Johnson & Johnson, incorporated on November 10, 1887, is a holding company. The Company and its subsidiaries are engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. The Company's segments include Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices. The Company's primary focus is on products related to human health and well-being. The Company's subsidiaries operate over 120 manufacturing facilities. The Company's research facilities are located in the United States, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company has over 250 operating companies, which conduct business around the world.
I'm helping Cox Automotive continuously enhance product offerings and get products to market as fast and reliable as possible. Through increased maturity in our Production Engineering discipline, we are helping our brands respond to ever-changing market conditions and continue leading the market.
Cox Automotive, Inc. provides digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale, and e-commerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers, and the automotive ecosystem worldwide. The company offers wholesale vehicle inspection services online; used car valuations for dealers and consumers online; dealer management system, fixed operation, CRM, sales and F&I, and registration and titling solutions; vehicle remarketing services; transportation and logistics solutions; client relationship management software solutions; buyer and seller guarantees and risk-avoidance services; and a suite of inventory management solutions.
IT Executive specialized in Enterprise Service Management, Portfolio Governance, Portfolio/Project Management, and Technology Business Management. Donna is experienced in developing high performing teams in technology delivery operations, with a focus on dynamic team collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement. Donna has worked with large scale enterprises including The Home Depot, Autotrader.com, and Cox Automotive, Inc.
Cox Automotive, Inc. provides digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale, and e-commerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers, and the automotive ecosystem worldwide. The company offers wholesale vehicle inspection services online; used car valuations for dealers and consumers online; dealer management system, fixed operation, CRM, sales and F&I, and registration and titling solutions; vehicle remarketing services; transportation and logistics solutions; client relationship management software solutions; buyer and seller guarantees and risk-avoidance services; and a suite of inventory management solutions.
Eric Chinchilla is currently the finance partner to the VPs across the J&J enterprise platforms, applications and big data strategies. He has been with J&J since 1994, with his SAP experience beginning in 2004. His hold a baccalaureate in accounting and has been part of J&J finance, or IT supporting finance, through 2012, holding roles in: supply chain finance; financial reporting, planning and analysis; and business intelligence (OLAP). His prior roles have spanned all business processes (e.g. plan, source, make, quality, deliver, and finance), as well as driving system architectures and landscapes to support the business.
Johnson & Johnson, incorporated on November 10, 1887, is a holding company. The Company and its subsidiaries are engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. The Company's segments include Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices. The Company's primary focus is on products related to human health and well-being. The Company's subsidiaries operate over 120 manufacturing facilities. The Company's research facilities are located in the United States, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company has over 250 operating companies, which conduct business around the world.
Shashi Kiran, Technology Strategy and GTM - Shashi Kiran works at Quali in Santa Clara, CA as their CMO. Quali is the leader in sandbox software that offers up on-demand, self-service environments on any cloud. He has 20+ years of experience in the datacenter, cloud, security and software space working for large-scale publicly traded corporations and startups. Quali’s automation and orchestration software – CloudShell - is in over 300+ customers globally including public cloud providers, telcos, large enterprises and technology vendors. CloudShell increases cloud and DevOps agility with higher quality and lower costs and is architected to work in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment.
Quali is the leading provider of Cloud Sandboxes for automating the DevOps lifecycle. We give innovators control over their world by enabling them to create personalized replicas of complex production environments. The Global 100 depend on Quali to help them deliver their products and services faster to market with better quality. Led by an experienced management team, employing a cutting-edge R&D team, and backed by world-class investors, Quali is devoted to delighting its customers and empowering lasting DevOps automation success.
Experienced Global Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Project Management, Software Management, Software Methodologies, Agile Methodologies, LTE, WiMAX, Embedded Systems, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), and Global System for Mobile Communcations (GSM). Strong engineering professional with a BS focused in Math and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and Project Management Professional (PMP)
I look forward to my work everyday based on the excitement our team sees for being able to finally bring software to the market on a regular/monthly basis. After 20+ years of being burdened with year long software release cycles, we are eagerly preparing for and anticipating the freedom of DevOps with open arms. When Customers, Account Teams, Business Development, Product Managers, Project Managements and R&D teams all work synchronized hand in hand, the future with DevOps is truly bright!
To expand the human possibilities of the connected world.
Nokia is a global leader in creating the technologies at the heart of our connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing. From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of technology to transform the human experience. A truly global company, we are 160 nationalities working in more than 100 countries.
Nishan is a Senior Engineer on the Search Ranking team. He either spends his time running experiments to improve the user’s experience, or bridging the gap between the theory and practice of organizational culture and learning at Etsy. He is an active member of the PostMortem Facilitators’ group and teaches a course on Event Investigation.
Etsy is a marketplace where people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell and buy unique goods. The heart and soul of Etsy is our global community: the creative entrepreneurs who use Etsy to sell what they make or curate, the shoppers looking for things they can’t find anywhere else, the manufacturers who partner with Etsy sellers to help them grow, and the Etsy employees who maintain and nurture our marketplace.
As the Director of Innovation Programs and Strategy at Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovation Group, Alex Goryachev leads a team responsible for driving co-innovation through the company’s ecosystem of its Cisco Innovation Center Program, entrepreneur partner community, and company employees. In addition, Mr. Goryachev is responsible for driving Cisco’s global Innovation Grand Challenges and overseeing Cisco Technology Radar, which identifies emerging technology transitions to shape internal and external innovation strategies.
Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Goryachev was Director of the Cisco Innovation Center Program, an initiative he launched in 2013 and that has grown it into nine development hubs in major cities worldwide. At these hubs, Cisco brings together customers, partners, startups, accelerators, governments, research communities and universities in a lab setting to discover, develop and implement game-changing, outcome-based solutions in vertical markets.
Since joining Cisco in 2004, Mr. Goryachev has also held key roles in defining and operationalizing several high-profile Cisco initiatives, such as development of the company’s Country Transformation plan, which included leading the Country Transformation plan for Cisco in Russia. He also held senior roles in development, marketing, finance and channels organizations at Cisco.
Prior to Cisco, Mr. Goryachev had a successful consulting career with extended assignments at Napster, Liquid Audio, IBM Global Services and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
Alex Goryachev holds a masters degree in international economics from the Moscow Institute of Social Sciences. His awards include the IDC Award for Best Practices in Marketing Dashboard Development.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services.
Susan Nelson has been a technology leader for over 25 years commercializing complex software and systems solutions across several industries. Industries include Government; Information Technology; Finance, Automobile, and Publishing. Over 10 years’ experience in business leadership, finance and operations. She is currently a Sr. Technical Manager of Software Engineering, corporate R&D at 3M. Her interests are in quality assurance and process improvement.
Specialties: Project Management, Product Commercialization, Software Quality Assurance, Software Architecture & Design, Off-shore outsourcing, Acquisition Strategy, Six Sigma, Standards Development.
A Global Innovation Company
3M is a global innovation company that never stops inventing. Over the years, our innovations have improved daily life for hundreds of millions of people all over the world. We have made driving at night easier, made buildings safer, and made consumer electronics lighter, less energy-intensive and less harmful to the environment. We even helped put a man on the moon. Every day at 3M, one idea always leads to the next, igniting momentum to make progress possible around the world.
3M touches virtually every part of your life. Our people and technology make the impossible, possible. Every day we apply our science to enhance people’s lives. This is 3M Science. Applied to Life.
Received her MSC degree in 1996 from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Joined Ericsson 1998 and worked with system design for radio telecom networks. During 15 years she was responsible for software development and system development organizations driving change to obtain organizations characterized of efficiency and effectiveness by introducing agile methods and continuous practices. Moved on to being responsible for infrastructure and service development of Ericsson’s new business segment, ICT centers. Since 2016 working on Ericsson DevOps strategy. In her spare time she enjoys skiing with her family and renovating their home and summer house.
She starts every work day with 2 hours in the gym/SPA to prepare herself for any possible situation at work.
She spends most of her spare time (& money) supporting her son reaching his goal of competing in the world champs in downhill skiing. Especially now that he undergoes leukemia treatment.
Over the past 140 years, Ericsson has been at the forefront of communications technology. Today, we are committed to maximizing customer value by continuously evolving our business portfolio and leading the ICT industry.
Carlos Rojas has over 20 years of experience implementing Agile practices, driving initiatives, and global programs across Technology, Financial, Telecom, Government, and Health IT firms. In his current role as Director of Operations and Technology (O&T) at Fannie Mae, he is focused on organizational strategy, Agile cultural transformation, automation and operational savings.
As the Director of DevOps at Ipreo, Lee Eason is serious about high-performing teams. As his responsibilities changed over his career from a hands on developer into a director, he saw first-hand the waste and drop in quality that results from siloed organizations. This led to him committing his career to enabling teams to own their applications end to end. You can read Lee’s articles on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter at @leejeason.
Ipreo is a leading global provider of financial services technology, data and analytics. We support all participants in the capital-raising process including banks, public and private companies, institutional and individual investors, as well as research, asset management and wealth management firms. Our unique, cross-asset class solutions equip our clients with the information and tools they need for more effective decision-making and a more efficient workflow. Ipreo is private-equity held by Blackstone and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, and has more than 1200 employees serving clients in every major financial hub around the world.
Keith Elder is the Senior Technology Evangelist at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI. He is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek. He has spoken throughout the United States at major technical conferences on topics ranging from various new technologies, software architectures and soft skills. For over 12 years he lead the Engineering Tools team as the Director of Software Engineering within Quicken Loans. When not sitting in front of a computer he spends the majority of his time as captain of the vessel Sea Sharp navigating the waters in the Gulf of Mexico in search of large pelagic fish. You can read more about Keith’s interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/ and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/keithelder.
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Dr. Tonya M. Peterson, PfMP, PMP, LSSGB, CSM is a change facilitator, leader, and process improvement specialist within US Bancorp. She has over 20-years of experience within the public and private sectors in the Information Systems area. Her expertise encompasses PMO operations, portfolio, program, and project management, continuous improvement, quality direction, productivity metrics, instruction, leadership techniques, management practices, methodology alignment, and organizational efficiency. She is proficient in capacity planning, technical guidance, strategic planning, resource management, and outsourcing. Tonya is also an International Speaker, Author, Mentor, Consultant, Coach, and Instructor.
Tonya is goal-oriented individual who seeks to ensure value, benefits, and purpose are derived from investments and initiatives. Tonya addresses improvement and innovation with through data driven decisions. Tonya is excited to be here as she is driven to make a difference with each interaction
Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $446 billion in assets, is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, the 5th largest commercial bank in the United States. The company operates 3,106 banking offices in 25 states and 4,842 ATMS and provides a comprehensive line of banking, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.
Melissa Koehler is a leader in the CNN Digital technology team at Turner. As Senior Director of Technology Portfolio Management and Delivery she is responsible for the successful technical implementation of the CNN Digital product portfolio from a resource, financial, scope, schedule, and quality assurance standpoint. The portfolio comprises approximately 70 projects in flight at any point in time. She manages a technology budget of approximately $20 million; including both dedicated labor and 3rd party relationships. Her team of implementation managers, business analysts, program and project managers, and QA analysts totals approx. 60 resources.
Melissa has her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and an Executive MBA both from Kennesaw State University. In addition, she holds an IT Management certification from Georgia Tech. She is dedicated to helping women and this shows through her volunteer contributions with elementary girls and Ladies in Tech @ Turner which she is a co-founder.
What you really need to know about Melissa is her unique style that she brings into every situation. She is passionate about helping others, finding creative and collaborative solutions, continous learning, and most of all to show kindness and empathy to problem solving. Her management style is “The Golden Rule” and she likes to remind her team that we “work to live not live to work”. To that end, she is blissfully married for 14 years to her hero of a husband Kevin (who is a fire fighter) and they have two very active boys, Jacob (11) and Joshua (8).
Solid global experience in Healthcare and Technology industry of more than 15 years leading cross functional global teams from vision (kickoff) to proven outcomes (sustenance) on new business changes like DevOps for lean organizations, supporting cloud based product infrastructure and supporting product deployments for traditional as well as Cloud based applications.
Specialties: Global teams, introduce new cultural changes, DevOps culture, Virtualization, Cloud infrastructures, Software Development, Budget Management, Supporting Regulatory Requirements/FDA (Medical Device Design controls)
Varian Medical Systems’ mission is to focus energy on saving lives. To meet this challenge, we equip the world with new tools for fighting cancer. Since the 1950s we have been producing tools that harness the power of X-ray energy to benefit humankind. Our history is one of pioneering developments in the fields of radiotherapy, radiosurgery, X-ray tube technology, digital image detectors, cargo screening, and non-destructive testing. Today, we have a robust product portfolio and long-standing relationships with many of the world’s leading clinicians. As Varian continues to grow, our staff of over 6,500 people in 70 sales and support offices around the globe is developing innovative, cost-effective solutions that help make the world a healthier place.
As a Distinguished Engineer, I am an individual contributor who is positioned within technology leadership to lead by influence on matters of standardization, innovation, technical strategy, implementation and quality assurance efforts. I act in a technical advisory role to senior leadership and am responsible for managing and maintaining the integrity of Choice Hotel systems by applying knowledge of enterprise IT needs to design improved processes, ensuring functional requirements and non-functional requirements work together to create stable, scalable, and secure products.
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the world's largest lodging companies. With more than 6,500 hotels franchised in more than 40 countries and territories, Choice Hotels International represents more than 500,000 rooms around the globe. As of December 31, 2016, 775 hotels were in our development pipeline. Our company's Ascend Hotel Collection®, Cambria® hotels & suites, Comfort Inn®, Comfort Suites®, Sleep Inn®, Quality®, Clarion®, MainStay Suites®, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel®, Econo Lodge®, Rodeway Inn®, and Vacation Rentals by Choice Hotels™ brands provide a spectrum of lodging choices to meet guests' needs. With more than 30 million members and counting, our Choice Privileges® rewards program enhances every trip a guest takes, with benefits ranging from instant, every day rewards to exceptional experiences, starting right when they join. All hotels and vacation rentals are independently owned and operated. Visit us at www.choicehotels.com for more information.
I currently manage the SCM function and Release Management function. Responsibilities include managing source code repositories (TFS and subversion), software build services (Jenkins and TFS), software release automation using IBM Urbancode Deploy, and SCM metrics / key performance indicators.
Established automated application deployment methodologies to transform inconsistent manual deployments into a Continuous Delivery pipeline. Our team was instrumental in setting up "Infrastructure as Code" for Windows/Linux platforms as well as providing a platform for DevOps style collaboration.
My team is responsible for the delivery of 300+ heterogeneous applications (Windows and Linux) across multiple environments (DEV, QA, STG, PROD). Through the use of automation, we experienced a 90% reduction in the average deployment time. With limited staff, the implementation of a Continuous Delivery pipeline has resulted in 5x the number of production releases with a 99+% success rate. In addition to automation, we introduced a self-service model to allow Developers and QA to execute their own deployments, with a click of a button, increasing velocity to deliver and validate applications.
My team does 700 automated deployments a month to non-production (Dev, QA, STG) for both Linux and Windows. 90% are WCF Windows services. Additionally, we do 150 automated deployments a month to production.
Collaboration has been the key to accomplish the automation from end to end delivery (DevOps). I’ve developed the key partnerships across Software Development, Software Quality Assurance, Change management, and Core Operations to enable the partnerships to deliver this. Requested by IBM to present our Bridgepoint DevOps story at the Innovate 2014 IBM Technical Summit conference. The session was titled “Reaching a State of Deployment Nirvana at Bridgepoint Education with IBM UrbandCode Deploy” and was presented to 90 individuals.
Keep up with engineering technologies and working with development teams to implement continuous delivery pipelines for their applications. Love coaching sports specifically soccer, and spending time with family.
Willis Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
Passionate leader dedicated to implementing DevOps in organizations from building out the functional team(s) to implementing the delivery pipelines for applications. With over 13 years’ experience in SCM and DevOps roles. Currently responsible for the Devops function as part of the software development group in the Talent & Reward Operations team.
Keep up with engineering technologies and working with development teams to implement continuous delivery pipelines for their applications. Love coaching sports specifically soccer, and spending time with family.
Willis Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
Chef is changing how companies build and deliver applications, services and infrastructure. Born with the DevOps movement, Chef has distilled the experiences of successful web innovators into patterns that characterize the DevOps workflow. These patterns have been incorporated into the Chef automation platform, making Chef your partner on the journey to DevOps. Alaska Airlines, Bloomberg, Facebook, Intuit, Microsoft, Standard Bank, and Yahoo are among hundreds of commercial customers worldwide using Chef to safely deliver applications, compliance policies, and infrastructure at velocity. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations.
Birender is a senior IT professional with extensive experience in leading all aspects of software product development including solution design and development, product management, project management, change management and team building. He is recognized organization wide for successful Agile and DevOps transformation with focus on automation.
In 10+ years of employment at Ryder, he has led design and development of several business critical web and scan (RF) applications. These applications have been built using Enterprise Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design (DDD), Test Driven Development (TDD) and SOA. He also has extensive experience in migration of legacy applications, upgrading technology stack and addressing technical debt. He was nominated for Ryder CIO leadership award, which recognizes achievements which go above and beyond. He is an engineer with MBA in Finance.
My passion is Continuous improvement. We continuously refactor applications for improving built in quality and maintainability.
Ryder is a FORTUNE 500® commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions company. Ryder’s stock (NYSE:R) is a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Ryder has been named among FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies, and has been recognized for its industry-leading practices in third-party logistics, environmentally-friendly fleet and supply chain solutions, and world-class safety and security programs. The Company is a proud member of the American Red Cross Disaster Responder Program, supporting national and local disaster preparedness and response efforts. For more information, visit www.ryder.com, and follow us on our Online Newsroom, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube.
Brennan Cropper is currently leading technology teams in the home loans space at Capital One that are building out cloud-based apps and services which are enabling the delivery of awesome customer experiences. Before joining Capital One, Brennan served as an architect and technical leader at Intuit building out API’s and apps that powered one of Intuit’s business units. Prior to that, Brennan grew up as an engineer in the real-time embedded arena, working in telecommunications and aerospace, where one of his most rewarding projects was working on one of the probes that is now on the surface of Mars.
Tim is Cloud Advisor at SICK helping the company with the Industry 4.0 shift focusing both on the topic itself as well on building up the corresponding organisation. Before he has worked for more than 15 years for 1&1, one of the biggest ISPs in europe in engineering and management. He started right after it went out of startup-mode and followed closely the transition to a global player in the hosting economy. In his last position he was responsible for the development of the first cloud solution hosting millions of customers.
During the years his focus shifted away from technology to collaboration topics and became an agile & devops enthusiast along this path.
SICK is one of the world’s leading producers of sensors and sensor solutions for industrial applications. Founded in 1946 by Dr.-Ing. h. c. Erwin Sick, the company with headquarters in Waldkirch/Germany ranks among the technological market leaders. With more than 50 subsidiaries and equity investments as well as numerous agencies, SICK maintains a presence all around the globe. In the fiscal year 2015, SICK had more than 7,400 employees worldwide and achieved Group sales of just under EUR 1.3 billion. From factory automation to logistics automation and process automation, SICK is one of the leading producers of sensors. As a technology and market leader, SICK’s sensors and application solutions for industrial use create the perfect basis for reliable and efficient control of processes, for protecting people from accidents, and for preventing environmental damage.
Adam is software engineer, consultant and team lead since 8 years in Germany. His passions include technology, improving organisational culture, sharpening mindset and giving talks about his interests.
Currently Adam helps SICK, a successful traditional German hardware manufacturer, to do the shift with Industry 4.0. He is focusing on both the topic itself as well as building up the appropriate organisation.
Prior to SICK he worked for 1&1, one of the biggest ISPs in Europe, where he was responsible for the topic Order Management. Adam was significantly involved to switch to a new platform and introduced DevOps in that area.
SICK is one of the world’s leading producers of sensors and sensor solutions for industrial applications. Founded in 1946 by Dr.-Ing. h. c. Erwin Sick, the company with headquarters in Waldkirch/Germany ranks among the technological market leaders. With more than 50 subsidiaries and equity investments as well as numerous agencies, SICK maintains a presence all around the globe. In the fiscal year 2015, SICK had more than 7,400 employees worldwide and achieved Group sales of just under EUR 1.3 billion. From factory automation to logistics automation and process automation, SICK is one of the leading producers of sensors. As a technology and market leader, SICK’s sensors and application solutions for industrial use create the perfect basis for reliable and efficient control of processes, for protecting people from accidents, and for preventing environmental damage.
Meredith Courtemanche is the senior site editor for SearchITOperations, exploring DevOps, systems management and IT monitoring and management topics. She edits tips and other content for the site, writes news stories and creates editorial guides. Meredith has spoken at events including AFCOM and Red Hat Summit. She also manages SearchWindowsServer with site editor Tomas Walat. Meredith joined TechTarget in 2012, covering virtualization and data center technologies for diverse sites. She previously covered semiconductor and photovoltaic cell manufacturing for PennWell. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Boston University.
Meredith's unofficial motto is that any project can become a big project. As an editor, her goal is to help IT pros work better. When she's not in the office, she trains dogs and rides her very headstrong horse.
TechTarget is the global leader in purchase intent-driven marketing and sales services that deliver business impact for enterprise technology companies. By creating abundant, high-quality editorial content across more than 140 highly targeted technology-specific websites, TechTarget attracts and nurtures communities of technology buyers researching their companies’ information technology needs.
Tracy has lived and breathed Application Lifecycle Management, what is now referred to as DevOps, for over 20 years. She began her career as a software programmer for Wall Street in the late 1980s working with OS/2, and Sun Workstations. Even though agile was not yet a topic, working with end users who were ‘traders’ taught her the importance of getting a new feature delivered quickly. To the end user, it equated to big dollars. Tracy co-founded OpenMake Software with Steve Taylor with the goal of standardizing and automating the software release process from build through deploy.
Tracy likes order and finds the chaos of software development a fascinating challenge. She has devoted most of her professional career to helping organizations define improved software development procedures, even before Agile and DevOps were in vogue. Tracy has a black belt in Shotokan and enjoys her free time with her dogs and horses.
OpenMake Software is a group of software engineers who build scalable Agile DevOps solutions that solve continuous delivery problems. Nothing drives us more than helping customers dramatically accelerate software release cycles from continuous build through continuous deployment.
Rustom K. Mody, P.E., is VP–Technical Excellence - Enterprise Technology for Baker Hughes Inc.
Rustom holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Finance. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. USA.
He holds 18 patents and is the author of over 75 articles, technical presentations and publications. He has won numerous Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation. In all, he has more than 35 years of experience in drilling, completion and production
Rustom is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), American Association of Drilling Engineers, International Association of Drilling Engineers (IADC), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves on various sub-committees of all three organizations. He serves on the Board of Advisors at the following Universities and Industry organizations:
Recently he was appointed to serve on the advisory board of Council on Competitiveness Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative - Washington DC.
Baker Hughes, a GE company is utilizing passion and experience to take on the industry’s hardest oil and gas challenges. Our commitment is incomparable and is at the foundation of how we work. We cover every segment of the oil and gas industry as a fullstream company, including upstream, midstream, and downstream solutions. We think beyond traditional limits to revolutionize and collaborate with our customers. We are building a new energy industry by connecting equipment, data, and insights to unleash new levels of performance. Our digital industrial focus sets us apart and a digital breakthrough will help bring safer, more affordable energy to our planet. Our customers get consistent, high quality service and access to the latest, most effective technology. We navigate new markets and leverage global scale. We get better insights to make smarter decisions, improve manufacturing, and streamline supply chain for better performance. We are the game-changers with a legacy in revolutionizing the industry.
Michael Harris is the Chief Technology Officer and a Fellow for GlobalMed and is responsible for the software, hardware and industrial design teams that develop their telehealth and telemedicine suite of products.
Harris has earned acclaim for his award-winning product designs and research coverage of the video software industries and holds multiple patents in light polarization.
Michael Harris has been in the camera and video conferencing industry for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding GlobalMed in 2002, Harris was the Chief Technology Officer for PAR Technologies where he lead the charge in mobile video developments and software suite, and in 1995 was President and Chief Operation Officer for iREZ Research where he managed over the Sales, Marketing and DevOps of the company’s mobile video camera and h.324 video conferencing software technologies. Harris was also the Director of Marketing and Digital technologies at VideoLabs during a successful IPO in 1992.
GlobalMed designs and creates a wide range of systems, solutions and software that enables evidence-based telemedicine. GlobalMed solutions allow clinicians to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients through connected devices and remotely using store-and-forward technology and real-time video conferencing. Remote healthcare practitioners can capture and transmit medical data to share with peers and medical specialists across town or around the globe.
GlobalMed solutions are deployed in more than 55 countries around the world. Partnering with leading medical groups, healthcare enterprises and government agencies has led to the company’s unparalleled expertise in designing sustainable, integrated connected health programs that deliver best-in-class patient care.
GlobalMed is transforming healthcare globally™ by reducing healthcare costs, increasing healthcare access and most importantly, saving lives. Plus, GlobalMed's full spectrum of healthcare solutions cover acute, chronic and well-being healthcare needs.
Mr. Forney is the Chief Security Architect for Schneider Electric and Technical Chair of the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) which develops the conformance specifications to the ISA 99/IEC 62443 ICS cyber security standard. He has held the Co-chair position for the Research and Development Sub-group of the Department of Homeland Security Industrial Control System Joint Working Group and is an active contributor in the ISA99 WG4 TG6 committee developing the IEC 62443-4-1 standard for secure software development. Paul has been a guest speaker on the subject of SDL and incident response in industrial control and cyber physical systems at national and international conferences for Microsoft, Gartner, SANS, ICSJWG, RCMP, S4, Codnomicon and Public Safety Canada. Paul works closely with the ICS-CERT organization on ICS cyber vulnerabilities and also with cyber researchers around the globe. Mr. Forney has been awarded eleven international patents for Internet Portal design and areas such as failure prediction for upstream Oil and Gas and collaboration technologies for the Power grid. For twenty-six years he has been involved in the design, security and implementation of SCADA, Event Driven/Service Oriented Architecture (EDA/SOA) and distributed control software and systems for industrial automation. Paul is an active member of the Microsoft Advisory Board for Azure Active Directory and Azure Service Bus. He is certified Information Systems Security Professional –Information System Security Architect (CISSP-ISSAP), a certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) and an accomplished jazz musician.
Schneider Electric is the global specialist in energy management and automation. With revenues of €26.6 billion in FY2015, our 185,000 employees serve customers in over 100 countries, helping them to manage their energy and process in ways that are safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable. From the simplest of switches to complex operational systems, our technology, software and services improve the way our customers manage and automate their operations. Our connected technologies will reshape industries, transform cities and enrich lives. At Schneider Electric, we call this Life Is On.
Rajesh Wunnava is Senior Director of Product Management, Video Personalization for Gracenote – A Nielsen Company and the worldwide leader in entertainment data and Auto Content Recognition (ACR) technology working with the biggest TV providers, music services, CE manufacturers and automakers on the planet. In this role, he is responsible for product strategy, development and business planning related to Gracenote’s video personalization data products
Prior to joining Gracenote, Rajesh was Senior Director, Product Management at Warner Music Group where he owned responsibility for global product data driving product distribution and monetization. He played a key role in the company’s $750M acquisition of EMI Parlophone in Europe by leading product acquisition, integration and the global go-to-market execution. During his career, Rajesh has also worked and consulted for major brand advertisers and agencies including Procter & Gamble, Unilever and J. Walter Thompson/Mindshare handling multi-million dollar media planning and buying budgets.
Rajesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India in addition to an MBA from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business where he also serves as an adjunct professor. He is a regular contributor to The Enterprisers Project, a collaboration between CIO Magazine, Harvard Business Review and Red Hat which brings together business and technology leaders to discuss how to create products that drive value in the digital world.
Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is the world leader in entertainment data and services. Whether you know it or not, Gracenote plays a big role in your digital lifestyle, powering the most popular music, movie and TV, and sports services on the planet. At its core, Gracenote helps connect people with the digital entertainment they love. We do this by offering the largest database for music, sports, movies and TV shows, and creating best in class services and technologies, all on a highly scalable platform.
Patrick Lurlay is a senior-level security professional combining an MBA with over 20 years of multi-industry experience in enterprise scale software development projects
A^3 by Airbus is the Silicon Valley outpost of Airbus, a global leader in aviation and aerospace innovation. We believe that the future is created through episodic disruption with intervening periods of incremental innovation. Our mission is to build the future of flight now. We solve big problems by employing world-class experts and by developing fertile partnerships. Our projects are built on rigorous analysis, novel insights, and commitment to unreasonable goals. Exploration is unsettling, and only when we disrupt Airbus, its competitors, and the entire industry will we consider our goals achieved and our mission a success. Join us on our bold voyage.
A seasoned IT professional having 20+ years of experience who has a good understanding of various facets of IT business i.e. Technology, Product, Architecture, customer relations & Business goals. Currently leading a group of cloud automation professionals to plan & implement application migration solutions to target cloud using Infrastructure as a Code process. I am involved in building migration strategy to a leading financial organization which has a highly controlled IT environment.
Lee Jennings is UPS Director of Information Technology. In her role, Lee has responsibility for leading large scale technology programs that are powering UPS’ Smart Logistics Network via new and emerging technologies.
Lee joined UPS in 1986 as a Driver Service provider and has held various roles within UPS Package Operations and Information Technology organizations. In 2013, Lee Joined the UPS Information Technology Operations Technology Group leading the systems development for UPS Hub Modernization strategy. In 2016, Lee took on responsibility for the UPS Strategic Operations Technology Group where she currently has responsibility for critical technology initiatives that support UPS Global Small Package and Customer Brokerage Operations.
Lee earned her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Louisville, Speed Scientific School. She has also been a member of the Institute of Industrial and System Engineers.
Active in UPS’ Diversity and Inclusion program, Lee currently chairs the UPS Information Technology Women’s Business Resource Group. In this role, she leads a number of programs both internal and external to UPS that promote diversity and inclusion.
United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a broad range of solutions including the transportation of packages and freight, the facilitation of international trade, and the deployment of advanced technology to manage the world of business more efficiently. Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. The company can be found on the Web at UPS.com and its corporate blog can be found at longitudes.ups.com. The company is also active among other social media channels including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. To receive UPS news direct, visit pressroom.UPS.com.
Rosalind Radcliffe is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM. She is Chief Architect for DevOps and CLM for Enterprise Systems. She is responsible for driving the DevOps for multi-platform architecture. This includes z Systems and Power Systems. In addition she is responsible for the architecture for the Collaborative Management capability for Enterprise solutions. This includes UrbanCode Deploy and Rational Team Concert’s support for standard Mainframe development activities. Rosalind also works with clients on their cultural transformation to DevOps as well as their adoption of different tools in support of the transformation. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Master Inventor. Prior to Rational, she was in Tivoli responsible for the SOA Management Strategy for IBM. Rosalind has recently published the Mobile to Mainframe Dummies book and has many blogs written on DevOps and Enterprise Modernization.
In today’s era of digital disruption, enterprise organizations need to increase the pace of innovation while ensuring the stability of core business systems. IBM DevOps offers tools and practices so planning, development, testing and operation of quality software across multiple platforms, becomes faster, more efficient and cost-effective.
Robin Yeman works for Lockheed Martin (LM) in Northern Virginia as a Lockheed Martin Fellow and an Agile Champion. She has over 20 years of experience in software and IT, across multiple business areas building everything from Satellites to Submarines. She has been actively supporting and leading Agile programs at Scale both domestically and internationally for the last 13 years with multiple certifications including SPC, CSM, CSP, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP, INCOSE CSEP, and ITIL Practitioner. Robin has been actively driving DevOps into Lockheed Programs for the last 3 years and recently collaborated across all lines of business to develop and integrated delivery pipeline toolset known as Sparta to give new programs a jumpstart. She actively coaches and trains teams through in person coaching, Agile workshops, virtual training classes. She leads the Lockheed Martin's Agile Community of Practice and Center of Excellence, speaks at multiple conference engagements each year. Robin received her Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, incorporated on August 29, 1994, is a global security and aerospace company. The Company is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Aeronautics; Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS); Missiles and Fire Control (MFC); Mission Systems and Training (MST), and Space Systems. The Company provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistics and information services. The Company's areas of focus are in defense, space, intelligence, homeland security and information technology, including cyber security. It serves customers, including military services, the United States Navy and various government agencies of the United States and other countries, as well as commercial and other customers.
Ashish is responsible for driving the global transformation and growth of the Oracle Cloud Platform portfolio including IaaS, PaaS, Mobile, Security, Big Data, Management and Business Analytics. Prior to Oracle, he was General Manager for the technology incubator at Bertram Capital, a private equity firm, where he incubated and launched four Cloud startups focused on DevOps. Ashish was also the Chief Marketing Officer at NuoDB, a cloud database company. He has also held various product and marketing leadership roles at Symantec, BEA Systems, Calico Commerce and Trilogy.
The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Nicholas is a technology enthusiast currently serving as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Here Technologies. His focus is working with development teams to automate infrastructure, build delivery pipelines, and break down silos. He is passionate about driving initiatives that automate engineering operations, while maintaining high technical standards, security, and innovation as top priority.
HERE, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. HERE is backed by a consortium of shareholders including Audi, BMW, Daimler and Intel. To learn more about HERE, including our new generation of cloud-based location platform services, visit http://360.here.com and www.here.com
I am Enterprise Architect within is Industrielle Alliance acting as IT advisor on compagny omnichannel strategy, responsible to define technical roadmap and to orchestrate IT building blocks projects and initiatives that sustain the strategy. I have over that 20-years of experience with-in high regulated environments private sectors as Medical Health and Financial in IT research & development. My expertise encompasses design thinking, portfolio, program and project management, development, continuous improvement, organizational efficiency. I am efficient in construct, promote and articulate visions that align business current and future needs with technologies and companies’ capabilities.
iA Financial Group
Founded in 1892, iA Financial Group offers a comprehensive range of life and health insurance products, savings and retirement plans (RRSP, TFSA, etc.), mutual and segregated funds, securities, auto and home insurance, mortgages and car loans as well as a host of other financial products and services.
Responsible for the administration and management of over $132.2 billion in assets, our publicly-listed company ranks among Canada’s largest and most prominent insurance companies. Thanks to our conservative investment policy, wise capital management practices and solid risk management culture, iA Financial Group enjoys financial stability and flexibility, which allows it to grow and withstand any potential economic shocks.
Patrick McClory has helped to shape organizations from end-to-end as a consultant, product leader and executive for the past 8 years in the cloud and DevOps space. From his time at AWS, as co-founder and COO of the strategic technology consulting firm DualSpark to his product leadership roles today, Patrick has both hands-on and personal experience navigating the variety of concerns from engineering to the executive suite but has also coached and consulted for hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of successfully deployed workloads.
For over a decade, Bob Ready has never strayed far from technology in both career and education. Working in both consumer and enterprise IT environments and focusing on biological data science, his life has revolved around using technology to find the next, better way to do … anything. Currently the head of a DevOps team at INTL FCStone in Des Moines, Iowa, Bob focuses on pursuit of process improvement and ruthless elimination of the parts of IT jobs that suck. Late-night phone calls, marathon update weekends, war rooms for massive deployments … why wouldn’t we try to figure out how to avoid this stuff?
Dave has been in the IT industry for 33 years. Currently he leads a DevOps group in the Financial Crimes area of U.S. Bank. He has been with U.S. Bank for 22 years. Most of this time has been spent in the application development area overseeing groups in the Commercial, Consumer, Trust, Check Processing, Branch, and Indirect Lending domains along with some time in Enterprise Architecture. Prior this he spent 11 years with IBM as a systems engineer and consultant for national clients in the areas of application development tools, process re-engineering, and knowledge systems.
Arneh Eskandari has been a Technical Engineer with Redgate for over six years. During this time, he has worked with hundreds of organizations from fintech start-ups to large financial institutions within the Fortune 100. He specializes in supporting clients with Database DevOps and improving their overall database change management process. His experience in the financial services industry in particular, includes helping leading organizations overcome complex legacy databases, integrate new tools and processes across multiple teams, and deliver proof of concepts to senior executives.
Redgate has specialized in database software for 17 years and is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform. Our products are used by over 800,000 IT professionals, in more than 100,000 companies worldwide, including 91 of the Fortune 100. Redgate’s Database DevOps solution helps organizations extend DevOps practices to SQL Server databases, optimizing productivity, agility, and performance across the full database lifecycle.
Wilmar Minke heads up two IT departments with DevOps Teams that develop and maintain global online banking solutions for ING Wholesale Bank.
As such Wilmar is responsible for building capability, professional development, work force planning, talent acquisition and staff management of two departments, together comprising ~70 highly professional and experienced Engineers in Amsterdam, Germany, Poland and also in Asia.
Before that, within ING Domestic Bank, Wilmar used to manage the department that develops and maintains the ING Core Bank Loans software systems, maintains all Environments for the entire Core Bank (Loans, Savings and Current Accounts), started development of API's as connectivity solutions for the Core Bank system to ING Channels (My ING, Mobile, etc) and provides Continuous Integration as well as Continuous Delivery solutions to the Core Bank.
Before joining ING, Wilmar has worked for Capgemini, the first 10 years in The Netherlands and from 2007 until early 2011 in Australia, where he became Service Line Manager Application Development & Integration for Capgemini, which made him responsible for professional development, strategy, forecasting and staff management of ~75 Project Managers, Business Analysts, System Analysts, Designers, Developers and Testers in Australia and ~25 in India.
Ting Cosper is leading the DevOps journey at Freedom Mortgage Co. Long before continuous integration was a hot topic, he was designing and building both Microsoft and Novell networks. He was an innovator in the computer systems validation field at Bristol Myers Squibb and eventually moved into the operational space at TD Bank, where he focused on Internet Banking and Enterprise Availability. Nowadays he leads Enterprise Change Management, DevOps, Enterprise Monitoring, Performance Testing and Operational Test Automation teams and is a go-to guy for delivering enterprise solutions.
Siqi Zhang is a member of Aladdin Product Group at BlackRock Inc, the world's biggest Asset Management company. She has worked on a various products on the Aladdin platform including Reporting Tools, Workflow, Dashboard and multiple servers. Ms Zhang has a focus on Business Operations and product strategy on the framework. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a Master Degree of Computer Networks.
Having joined almost straight out of college, Karan is now the Lead Developer of the Accounting Services and Price Valuation division at Putnam Investments. A product development enthusiast passionate about technology in the financial services industry, he helped set up the first AI assisted product at the company. He enjoys participating in events in the FinTech space and collaborating with fellow enthusiasts. In his free time, Karan is a soccer enthusiast and an active volunteer with Boston Partners in Education and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
Brandon Every is a software engineer who works for Klarna focused on consumer facing products. Brandon is passionate about web development and collaborative work environments that empower teams to make great products. Before starting at Klarna, Brandon was a lead developer for Victoria's Secret and before that a consultant at Sogeti USA. Brandon holds a Bachelor of Science in Game and Simulation Programming from DeVry University and an Associates of Applied Science in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology from Zane State College.
I Graduated with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC San Diego. For the past 20 years I have worked in software engineering with many technology and financial companies in the San Francisco Bay Area; including Charles Schwab, VMWare, Electronic Arts and BlackRock. For the past 10 years I have worked several different roles within BlackRock. I lead projects to develop IT applications used by developer and managers, authentication systems, applications to secure documents. I am currently working in retail tech to build financial web based applications used by financial professionals.
As part of Scotiabank's Digital Transformation Strategy, I have spent the last 5 months helping kick-off our Digital Factory in Colombia. The people I have met are very motivated and ready to take on this challenge! My role has been to support to Head of Digital Factory in a variety of activities such as: recruitment, training, setting up global communities of practice, and enabling faster results.
And recently, I was given the role of Agile Lead supporting a team of three Scrum Masters and one Agile Lead and it has been a tremendous learning experience.
Dr. Tonya M. Peterson, PfMP, PMP, LSSGB, CSM is a Sr. Project Portfolio Manager for the enterprise technology team within US Bancorp responsible for strategic leadership, portfolio management, process improvement, methodology direction, resource management, and project management. Tonya is also a Mentor, Consultant, Coach, and Instructor. She has over 20-years of experience within the public and private sectors in the Information Systems area. Her expertise encompasses PMO operations, portfolio, program, and project management, continuous improvement, quality direction, productivity metrics, instruction, and organizational efficiency. She is proficient in capacity planning, technical guidance, strategic planning, and outsourcing. Tonya is writing her first two manuscripts on influencing project success and building a leadership organization
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We work to meet our customers’ business and personal banking needs with competitive products and services, convenient access to their accounts, and proven stability backed by industry-leading financial metrics. With more than 4,800 ATMS, 3,114 branch locations, 24-hour phone support and mobile and online banking, we make it easy for our customers to manage their money any time.
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Leading a high performing team of ~50 DevOps Engineers, SDET’s, Scum Masters and Agile Coaches in the adoption of SAFe agile practices across multiple Operation and Technology portfolios driving transformation of application development teams to automation engineers. Engaged directly with executive business and IT leadership team members to define strategic goals and objectives across the enterprise. Managed operating budget of $10M annually.
As Director of Technology at Fannie Mae I lead a Tribe of DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, Testers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, and Portfolio Managers focused on delivering high quality software and technology services to our business partners in the Capital Markets, Finance, Treasury Services and Loan Conduit communities. I help our executive leaders take advantage of Agile and DevOps practices to drive down time to market, increase quality, and enable flexibility.
Griffin is the Director of Engineering at Enova International. He is responsible for the engineering organization, handling all aspect of software development including recruiting, staffing, allocation and people management across the organization. While supporting 6 Global Lending Brands, generating >$750m in revenue, he ensures a clear technology vision across the organization. Previously his frank attitude and know-how have served him well as consulting CTO for more than 20 different companies. He is the founder of the Chicago CTO forum and several other meet-up activity groups that help software professionals in the Chicago area to network and trade ideas.
Shaun Childers has over 20 years of experience in product and software development. A veteran consultant with deep technical knowledge and experience, Shaun knows what it takes for a company to survive in today's ultra-competitive world, one where organizations struggle with issues related to the strategic management as well as the tactical execution of product development. Having expertise in organization design, team organization, Agile, Lean, and product development, Shaun understands that business and enterprise agility demands change at the team and organization levels, leadership development and coaching, a new operating model, a new funding model, changes to the organization structure, a new approach to demand management (demand and capacity planning), a focus on products and product development, a new Business and IT relationship, and a new culture. Today Shaun spends his time as a product development leader and coach, helping USAA implement a mature, industry-based product development and management practice.
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I have been working in financial services for the past 22 years in the debt collections space. My background is in software engineering, specifically as a full stack Java and .NET software engineer. I have managed organizations ranging from Solution Architecture, Software Development, DevOps and vendor management. I am currently responsible for the global DevOps team at Encore Capital Group. DevOps at Encore is comprised of the Middleware Integration Systems and the Application Lifecycle Management teams which are located in the US, India and Costa Rica. My passion is in automation and working smarter, not harder. DevOps teams are in a unique position right now to push new innovations, and I am excited to be on the forefront of that!
Throughout her career Angela has held various roles starting as a junior developer in the industry and moving into different roles as a development lead, project manager, development manager and managing director. Angela has owned 13 different core platforms in banking including a payments gateway, ATM’s and Business Banking websites. Angela led the wires rewrite program at BMO which was awarded the Best Corporate Payments System/Service Initiative at the 2016 Banking Technology Awards.
Angela’s current focus is on leading the Agile Centre of Excellence along with enabling the DevOps capabilities for BMO, which will enables BMO to digitize their SDLC.
Bank of Montreal is one of the top 5 banks in Canada and employs 7,000 resources within technology. A 200-year old bank trying to transform technology.
Patricia Srebrnic has worked for TD Bank Financial group for over 20 years having held various and progressively more senior positions. For the last several years Patricia has held the position of Senior Manager Strategic Change Delivery and Management. Mrs. Srebrnic received her undergraduate degree from Western University. Mrs. Srebrnic is a Payments and Central Market Infrastructure subject matter expert as such attends and represents the TD Bank as a delegate at various Canadian Banking Industry meetings and forums. Patricia is a certified facilitator for Taking the Stage (Judith Humphrey's group) which is part of TD's Women in Leadership initiative. Patricia has delivered this course extensively in Canada, USA, London and Singapore. Patricia is a mentor with TRIEC-Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, a member of Women in Capital Markets and Women in Payments. Patricia is also an active participant in Women in Leadership at TD Bank.
Heading Developer Experience at PayPal, responsible for full stack and micro-services in java and node. Envisioned and delivered several engineering tools including: application life cycle management, CI, build, compilers, dev-test environments for numerous engineering productivity initiatives, which reduced engineering waste time by 30-40% while modernizing the technology stack for public and private clouds by leveraging micro services, cloud functions, mesos, docker, container-based deployments, and CI/CD rail
Alison Kuo Sullivan brings over 15 years of big data product management, analytic solution sales and go-to-market expertise. As a visionary strategist who identifies, develops, and delivers analytical solutions to market for organic sales pipeline growth and optimized revenue, she is a trusted partner and resource to company and customer executives. Leading process, planning, and infrastructure to sustain focus on customer and market requirements throughout the product life cycle, she enables the rapid growth of sales pipelines to deliver sustainable growth. From her insights, strategies, and guidance, Alison led the development of numerous repeatable cross-vertical and global solutions, along with go-to-market and channel partner strategies, that resulted in initial $50MM+ pipelines, account for 100MM+ in annual revenue, and position the company as a thought leader.
Alison is Elevada’s CMO and heads up marketing and sales. She.is a loyal and forever optimistic Golden Bear’s alum and fan. She later completed her MBA and MHA degrees from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business and Institute of Health Administration. Alison is committed to community service where she serves on a variety of charitable organizations. She lives in San Diego with her husband and three children.
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Business analysts are consumed with data wrangling tasks and “coding” data fixes within desktop applications like MS Excel. Organizations are faced with increasing needs to automate and audit business logic integral to preparing usable data sets for analysis, reporting and analytics. Elevada provides business-intuitive and automated data prep tools (in the cloud) to reduce data curation time and ultimately speeding up data analysis, business analytics and reporting development timelines. Elevada serves as an intermediary, collaboration service between IT environments and business so that data can be accessed, transformed and merged into consistent usable formats without creating risk to the integrity of the enterprise data. For more information, visit us at www.elevada.com.
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Daniel Tobin has over 15 years of experience in the creation and deployment of solutions protecting networks, systems and information assets with a focus on providing the best value from solutions deployed. Daniel has a Masters of Science in Networking and Telecommunications from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the Director of InfraOps at Addepar overseeing Security, DevOps and IT. Twitter:@dant24
Denis Gachet, I am Enterprise Architect within is Industrielle Alliance acting as IT advisor on compagny omnichannel strategy, responsible to define technical roadmap and to orchestrate IT building blocks projects and initiatives that sustain the strategy. I have over that 20-years of experience with-in high regulated environments private sectors as Medical Health and Financial in IT research & development. My expertise encompasses design thinking, portfolio, program and project management, development, continuous improvement, organizational efficiency. I am efficient in construct, promote and articulate visions that align business current and future needs with technologies and companies’ capabilities.
Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and recently, a published author. He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater. Often cited as the Father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell introduced videogames to the masses with “Pong” and many other legendary games, as well as the home videogame console system with multiple game cartridges.
Over the past four decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur, founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system, which allowed customers to order and pay for product from kiosks. In the process, he pioneered many of the workplace innovations that have long made Silicon Valley a magnet for creative talent.
With his latest startup, BrainRush, he is intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to “addict” students to learning.
Nolan famously was also the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had when he worked at Atari. In Walter Isaacson’s book “Steve Jobs”, Nolan is described as one of the most important mentors and influences in Steve’s life. Nolan published his first book in 2013, “Finding the Next Steve Jobs”. In it he explains how to find, hire and nurture creative people.
Visa Inc., incorporated on May 25, 2007, is a payments technology company. The Company and its subsidiaries, including Visa U.S.A. Inc. (Visa U.S.A.), Visa International Service Association (Visa International), Visa Worldwide Pte. Limited, Visa Canada Corporation, Inovant LLC and CyberSource Corporation (CyberSource), operate a processing network, VisaNet, which facilitates authorization, clearing and settlement of payment transactions around the world. The Company also offers fraud protection for account holders and rapid payment for merchants. The Company provides its services to consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in over 200 countries and territories for electronic payments. The Company provides a range of payment solutions that support payment products that issuers can offer to their account holders, including pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid or pay later with credit products. It also offers a suite of digital, e-commerce, person-to-person payments, and mobile products and services. These services facilitate transactions on its network among account holders, merchants, financial institutions and governments.
Ben is a security engineer at Etsy where he protects the yarn from evil doers. He's previously been an operations engineer (or sysadmin to those who've been in the industry more than 10 years) at Puppet Labs working on automation software, a network engineer so knows how to battle through Cisco's product catalogue. He learnt about systems security by the generosity of other people's insecure systems in the 90s.
He's spoken at conferences in Berlin, London, Toronto, Austin, Portland, Minneapolis and Silicon Valley, previously spoken primarily on security with nods to continuous integration, devops and what that means, logging and auditing, packaging and hair care.
Etsy is a marketplace where people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell and buy unique goods.
The heart and soul of Etsy is our global community: the creative entrepreneurs who use Etsy to sell what they make or curate, the shoppers looking for things they can’t find anywhere else, the manufacturers who partner with Etsy sellers to help them grow, and the Etsy employees who maintain and nurture our marketplace.
Tapabrata Pal has 20 years of IT experience in various technology roles (developer, operations engineer, and architect) in the retail, healthcare, and finance industries. Over the last five years, Tapabrata has served as director of Capital One’s Enterprise Architecture group, and led the company’s DevOpsSec initiatives. He is currently director and individual contributor focusing on next-generation infrastructure. Tapabrata is also the community manager and a core committer of an Open Source project “Hygieia” that won “Open Source Rookie of the Year” for 2015.
Previously, Tapabrata spent some time in academics doing doctoral and post-doctoral research in the field of solid state physics.
Adopting a security attitude in DevOps via DevOpsSec
DevOps is all about delivering high quality software faster. While the industry as a whole has seen some amazing progress towards speeding up the software delivery part, security is often missed out to be an integrated part of the delivery lifecycle. As the delivery cycle gets faster and fine-tuned, it is critical to ensure that security is considered a subset of quality.
It is always challenging to embed security in the delivery pipeline. Applying DevOps principles of “Shift-left”, “Automate Everything” and “Rapid Feedback” to Security concerns can help implementing a secured delivery pipeline.
In this session, I will present how a strong partnership between Development, Quality Engineer, Operations and Information Security organization can lead to a successful implementation of secured continuous delivery pipeline in a large financial organization. I will also present some of the challenges, roadblocks and gaps that were faced and how they were handled.
Security is a growing concern and will become a bigger player within the deployment pipeline. In order to miss out in future headlines, better start embracing DevOpsSec right now.
Netflix, Inc. (Netflix), incorporated on August 29, 1997, is a provider of Internet television network. The Company has over 57 million streaming members in over 50 countries. The Company's members can watch more than two billion hours of television (TV) shows and movies per month, including original series, documentaries and feature films in Internet-connected screen. The Company has three operating segments: Domestic streaming, International streaming and Domestic DVD. The Domestic and International streaming segments derive revenues from monthly membership fees for services consisting of streaming content. The Domestic DVD segment derives revenues from monthly membership fees for services consisting of DVD-by-mail. Netflix's members can watch TV shows and movies directly on their TVs, computers and mobile devices. The Company offers streaming service both domestically and internationally.
The Company's International streaming segment offers streaming service in Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Its members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Additionally, in the United States, Netflix's members can receive DVDs to their homes.
Mr. Roach is considered a Subject Matter Expert and Raytheon IIS innovator in Agile and DevOps methodologies and advanced software techniques. He provides strategic and technology direction across Raytheon IIS and has applied Agile and DevOps technologies across multiple domains both tactically and strategically. His active mentoring has extended knowledge across multiple programs and mission areas in the IIS business and has advanced the application of Agile and DevOps across the IIS engineering enterprise. Ron received a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Purdue University.
Raytheon Company is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. Founded in 1922, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, capabilities in C5I (command, control, communications, computing, cyber and intelligence), sensing, effects and mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Michael Harris is the Chief Technology Officer and a Fellow for GlobalMed and is responsible for the software, hardware and industrial design teams that develop their telehealth and telemedicine suite of products.
Harris has earned acclaim for his award-winning product designs and research coverage of the video software industries and holds multiple patents in light polarization.
Michael Harris has been in the camera and video conferencing industry for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding GlobalMed in 2002, Harris was the Chief Technology Officer for PAR Technologies where he lead the charge in mobile video developments and software suite, and in 1995 was President and Chief Operation Officer for iREZ Research where he managed over the Sales, Marketing and DevOps of the company’s mobile video camera and h.324 video conferencing software technologies. Harris was also the Director of Marketing and Digital technologies at VideoLabs during a successful IPO in 1992.
Tim leads the department “Development Webhosting Infrastructure and Content” and has a 14 year long history of developing software and managing teams at 1&1. He started at the company right after it went out of startup-mode and followed closely the transition to a global player in the hosting economy. During the years his focus shifted away from technology to collaboration topics and became an agile&devops-enthusiast along this path.
1&1 Internet, founded in 1988 is a web hosting company owned by United Internet, a German Internet company. Its CEO is Robert Hoffmann. The company is one of the world's largest web hosting companies, with data centers in Europe and in Lenexa, Kansas.
Adam Urban is leader of the team Order Management Development at 1&1. He is responsible for the ordering ways that are processed after the "Order" button in the frontend systems. Adam has studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). During the first time in the "real world" he was engaged as software engineer and consultant until he started at 1&1 (in between there was a short period in the research sector). On all stations he has met a lot of international teams in different industries and learned many approaches, bad and best practices. Thereby he has a good idea about how software engineering and company collaboration in today's world should look like.
1&1 Internet, founded in 1988 is a web hosting company owned by United Internet, a German Internet company. Its CEO is Robert Hoffmann. The company is one of the world's largest web hosting companies, with data centers in Europe and in Lenexa, Kansas.
Andrew Couch is one of the founders of Candy Lab, an Orange County based company building revolutionary tools for the mobile digital marketer of tomorrow. In a marketing climate where speed is currency, the Augmented Reality tools Candy Lab provides lets digital marketers leverage powerful, real-time and location based strategies through this new medium within their respective markets.
Andrew and his team bring years of experience immersed in the field of Augmented Reality, marketing and a history of success. In his Delivery of Things World USA presentation, he will share insights about how to effectively get from repeatability to automation.
Candy Lab has developed proprietary GPS Augmented Reality and iBeacon location technologies that pair with intuitive iOS and Android apps with a user-friendly dashboard management system, and analytics. The toolset has the potential to turn even the rapidly changing world of mobile marketing on its head with something significantly better, more customizable and completely scalable. More importantly, Candy Lab’s approach takes the risk out of this new medium, simplifying and streamlining to support the marketing industry with relevant, engaging and easy mobile marketing.
Accomplished, experienced and energetic leader in technology with a solid history of results and innovation with expertise in diverse range of technologies and products. Track record of achieving exceptional results in a fast paced environment, development of modern applications, change leadership and talent development. Leading teams that deliver innovative and best in class products is in my DNA.
From our first account in Paterson, N.J., to the more than 610,000 clients we serve around the world today, ADP helps organizations of all types and sizes unlock their business potential. For 60 years, we’ve led the way in defining the future of business outsourcing solutions. And we remain one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and admired companies to work for today.
We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration, and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics and compliance expertise. Our unmatched experience, deep insights, and cutting-edge technology have transformed human resources from a back-office administrative function to a strategic business advantage.
Shannon Brooks is the Managing Director of Operations for Pivotal Home Solutions, a non-regulate business that offers a variety of warranty products and services to customers within 17 states. Shannon is responsible for all aspects of field operations including workload, 3rd party contractor management and claim support processing.
Shannon has 18 years of extensive experience in business operations, analytics and project management and has lead cross-functional project teams through some of the most complex strategic initiatives for business and IT. Projects including system consolidations, system decommissions, department/division divesting, facility relocation and field automation just to name a few of her contributions. Shannon regularly provides strategic input and serves as a mentor to Project Managers responsible for executing Pivotal’s growth and technical objectives. Her leadership not only develops, but motivates teams to deliver solutions while managing change effectively. Shannon has also held positions in the gas utility industry in the areas of Operations, Workload Administration and Procurement.
Pivotal Home Solutions, an Illinois-based AGL resources company that provides homeowners with peace of mind and added financial stability regarding their energy service delivery, systems and appliances through a suite of home protection products and services.
Pivotal has an award-winning J.D. Power Certified Call Center in Naperville that provides customers, who hold approximately 1.2 million service agreements, with the right home protection solutions to fit their lifestyle and budget. The company also oversees relationships with a network of highly-trained, professional service providers across 17 states and operates a wholly-owned HVAC business out of Illinois.
Dr. Tonya M. Peterson, PMP, CSM is a Sr. Project Manager for the enterprise technology team within US Bancorp responsible for strategic leadership, portfolio management, process improvement, methodology direction, resource management, and project management. Tonya is also a Mentor, Consultant, Coach, and Instructor. She has over 20-years of experience within the public and private sectors in the Information Systems area. Her expertise encompasses PMO operations, portfolio, program, and project management, continuous improvement, quality direction, productivity metrics, instruction, and organizational efficiency. She is proficient in capacity planning, technical guidance, strategic planning, and outsourcing. Tonya is writing her first two manuscripts on influencing project success and building a leadership organization.
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U.S. Bancorp is a diversified financial services holding company and parent company of U.S. Bank National Association,(U.S. Bank). Recognized for its strong financial performance, prudent risk management, capital generation and product quality, U.S. Bancorp provides a wide range of financial services for consumers, businesses, government entities and other financial institutions. U.S. Bank’s branch network serves 25 states, and we offer regional consumer and business banking and wealth management services, national wholesale and trust services and global payments services to over 17.4 million customers. Founded in 1863 under national Charter #24, U.S. Bank is the nation’s second oldest bank operating under its original charter. U.S. Bancorp employs 66,000 people.
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Professional technologist with 15+ years experience spanning virtually the entire range of computing, with a particular emphasis on open source tools and technologies. From system architecture to software engineering to virtualization, database administration, and network security, you name it, there's a good chance that I've either done it, done something like it, or have a sufficiently nontrivial exposure to it such that I can fill in the gaps in short order should the need arise. My background thus far has spanned much of the project development lifecycle, from idea and proposal to build-out, deployment, and post-production support.
I am particularly interested in projects with substantial cross-discipline potential, working on "the next great thing", whatever and wherever it may be, and solving problems that others call impossible.
Specialties: HA/HPC Linux infrastructure design, multi-tier applications, end-to-end system architecture, network engineering, process automation, MySQL, NoSQL, Perl, Delphi, Cisco, cloud/grid computing and virtualization.
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Nate Loomis manages the Automated Configuration Engineering team at Wells Fargo, which is part of the Private Cloud organization. He has a passion for DevOps principles and for supporting positive, healthy ecosystems and corporate culture. Nate is currently interested in learning systems that can push automation boundaries and establish new feedback loops based on patterns and metrics. He has been programming since the age of seven and specifically working with deployment automation and configuration for the last ten or so. He has been a developer, an architect, and many roles in between. Nate lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two kids. Nate enjoys volunteering in his community and stepping up to challenges.
Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores and more than 12,000 ATMs and the Internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and internationally. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, but decentralized so every local Wells Fargo store is a headquarters for satisfying all our customers’ financial needs and helping them succeed financially. One in three households in America does business with Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo has $1.3 trillion in assets and 265,000 team members in more than 35 countries across our 80+ businesses. Wells Fargo & Company is ranked fourth in assets and first in market value of our stock among our U.S. peers, and second in market value of our stock among financial services companies in the U.S., and third, in the world, as of June 30, 2012.
Mark Stuart is a JavaScript hacker & Open-source contributor & Conference speaker. Currently working as a Lead Engineer of PayPal Checkout, a node.js application that serves tens of millions of users every day. Responsible for architecture, scalability, performance and security of Checkout applications. Advocate for DevOps best practices, lean engineering and hacker culture.
Feb 2015 – Present PayPal Principal Software Engineer / Architect
Nov 2013 – Feb 2015 PayPal Staff Software Engineer / Lead Engineer
Apr 2013 – Nov 2013 QPlay Senior Front-end Engineer
July 2012 – Apr 2013 PayPal Senior Front-end Engineer
May 2007 – July 2012 State Farm Mobile Web Developer
PayPal allows any business or individual with an email address to securely, conveniently and cost-effectively send and receive payments online. Our network builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards to create a global, real-time payment solution. We deliver a product ideally suited for small businesses, online merchants, individuals and others currently underserved by traditional payment mechanisms.
The size of our network and widening acceptance of our product have helped us become one of the leading payment networks for online auction websites. PayPal is also being increasingly used on other ecommerce sites for the sale of goods such as electronics and household items, the sale of services such as web design and travel, and the sale of digital content. Offline businesses, including lawyers, contractors and doctors, have increasingly begun to receive payments online through PayPal. PayPal's service, which lets users send payments for free, can be used from computers or web-enabled mobile phones.
PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. is duly licenced as a Luxembourg credit institution in the sense of Article 2 of the law of 5 April 1993 on the financial sector as amended and is under the prudential supervision of the Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, with registered office in L-1150 Luxembourg.
Vinay holds significant expertise in leading large scale transformation initiatives, and holds 16+ years of experience in managing distributed teams of DevOps and Automation Engineers delivering strong technical solutions with a proven record of making outcome-based decisions that drive business process improvements in delivering high-quality and dependable systems.
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Making sound judgments for the long term. Maintaining the long-term health and stability of our company will always be one of the most important responsibilities we have to our customers.
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Acting in good faith and taking pride in getting things just right. The commitment each of us makes to go the extra mile for our customers and put their interests before our own is a big part of what makes Fidelity special.
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Treating every moment as an opportunity to improve people's lives even as they make complex, difficult decisions about their future. We have an obligation to do everything in our power to help our customers, as well as our employees and the communities where we live and work.
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Using our insights to drive confidence, clarity, and results. Whether we are serving our clients or our communities, Fidelity's commitment to applying our expertise to solve complex challenges is a source of pride for our associates.
Dana Fleur is Senior Director of Software Engineering at NBCUniversal where she leads the application development of media and news content APIs. Dana is also responsible for the architecture and development of a multi-platform publishing system that serves NBCUniversal’s networks’ websites and streaming video apps. Dana has been an evangelist for breaking down the walls between Engineering and Operations since before knowing that there might be a buzzword for it.
NBCUniversal Media, LLC, a media and entertainment company, develops, produces, and distributes entertainment, news and information, sports, and other content for audiences worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Cable Networks, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks. The Cable Networks segment offers a portfolio of cable television networks, including national cable entertainment networks, such as USA Network, Syfy, E!, Bravo, Oxygen, Esquire Network, Sprout, Chiller, Universal HD, and Cloo; national cable news and information networks comprising MSNBC, CNBC, and CNBC World; and national cable sports networks consisting of Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network, as well as regional sports and news networks, international cable networks, and related digital media properties.
Completed B.S. in Sciences and Math from India. Completed Exec MBA from University of Lincoln (UK) and LLM (International Business) from Staffordshire University (UK). Worked in India, Malaysia, United States and business travel included about 20 countries with various assignments and talks on innovation and also individual success. Obtained various awards from different organizations reputed personalities.
International Game Technology PLC designs, develops, manufactures and distributes computerized gaming equipment, software and network systems. The Company's products consist of slot machines, social gaming platforms and other interactive gaming machines. International Games also provides maintenance services.
Joshua is the Technical Lead for the Software Infrastructure team within Under Armour Connected Fitness. He joined MapMyFitness as a Software Developer and has been along for the ride as the original „Operations“ team of two turned into a team of six Software Infrastructure Developers working with six Site Reliability Engineers. Over the last 24 months Under Armour Connected Fitness has been transitioning from monolith to SOA and at the same time shifting from traditional Operations to Devops. For every benefit of these migrations there has been a cost associated.
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Phillip has been innovating with computers since 1981, taking a brief hiatus to earn his BA and MA in Jurisprudence from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Over the past two decades, he has worked on ERP implementations (SAP & PeopleSoft), large-scale infrastructure technology deployments and software development. Phillip is relentless in the pursuit of efficiency through automation, and is an evangelist for utilizing compute-capacity in the cloud. Through a career spanning biotech, healthcare, manufacturing and retail, with significant focus on information security, Phillip brings perspective to finding the sweet spot for securing new and emerging technologies.
Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. retails apparel and accessories for women, men, and kids. The company offers dress shirts, sport shirts, ties, blazers, suits, outerwear, sport coats and vests, sweaters, formalwear, dress trousers, casual pants, polos, rugby shirts and tees, shorts, underwear and socks, sleepwear, and swimwear; and non-iron dress shirts, dresses, blouses, knits, jackets, pants, skirts, and petites. It also provides shoes, belts, wallets and small accessories, briefcases and luggage bags, watches, hats, scarves and gloves, pocket squares and handkerchiefs, tie and collar accessories, jewelry, belts, hosiery, cuff links, fragrance products, pens and stationery products, gifts, sunglasses, umbrellas, golf products, and books and music products; and bedding, home decoration, and bath products. The company offers its products through its stores in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It also sells products online. Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. was formerly known as Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. and changed its name to Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. in September 2011. Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. was founded in 1818 and is based in Enfield, Connecticut.
IT Executive specialized in Enterprise Service Management, Portfolio Governance, Portfolio/Project Management, and Technology Business Management. Donna is experienced in developing high performing teams in technology delivery operations, with a focus on dynamic team collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement. Donna has worked with large scale enterprises including The Home Depot, Autotrader.com, and Cox Automotive, Inc..
Cox Automotive, Inc. provides digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale, and e-commerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers, and the automotive ecosystem worldwide. The company offers wholesale vehicle inspection services online; used car valuations for dealers and consumers online; dealer management system, fixed operation, CRM, sales and F&I, and registration and titling solutions; vehicle remarketing services; transportation and logistics solutions; client relationship management software solutions; buyer and seller guarantees and risk-avoidance services; and a suite of inventory management solutions.
Dr. Suzette Johnson works for Northrop Grumman Information Systems near Baltimore, Maryland. As a Certified Scrum Coach and SAFe Program Consultant, she has an interest and passion for promoting and implementing Agile engineering in large-scale systems environments. Her initial experience with Agile-related practices began over 15 years ago with product development for a commercial company focused on financial and enterprise management systems where rapid delivery was the norm. Working as a systems engineer she has spent over 15 years focused on streamlining systems engineering and product development practices at the team, program, and organizational levels. She has led large project teams in their transition from traditional engineering approaches to more adaptive practices and has worked with teams and organizations seeking to build a DevOps environment.
Suzette enjoys leading, mentoring, and working with programs, customers, and organizations as they seek to provide regular delivery of value to their users. She leads Northrop Grumman’s Agile Center of Excellence, speaks at multiple conference engagements each year, and provides Agile and DevOps related workshops.
She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focus on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and agile engineering environments. Certifications include SPC, CSM, CSP, CEC, and PMP.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (Northrop Grumman), incorporated on August 4, 2010, is a global security company. The Company provides systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems; cyber; command, control, communications and computers (C4), intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR); strike aircraft, and logistics and modernization to Government and commercial customers across the world. The Company operates through four segments: Aerospace Systems, Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Technical Services. It offers a portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable it to deliver systems and solutions for applications. The Company participates in defense and government programs in the United States and abroad. The Company conducts business with the United States Government, the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community. The Company also conducts business with local, state and foreign Governments, and domestic and international commercial customers.
Robin Yeman works for Lockheed Martin (LM) in Northern Virginia as a Lockheed Martin Fellow and an Agile Champion. She has over 20 years of experience in software and IT, across multiple business areas building everything from Satellites to Submarines. She has been actively supporting and leading Agile programs at Scale both domestically and internationally for the last 13 years with multiple certifications including SPC, CSM, CSP, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP, INCOSE CSEP, and ITIL Practitioner. Robin has been actively driving DevOps into Lockheed Programs for the last 3 years and recently collaborated across all lines of business to develop and integrated delivery pipeline toolset known as Sparta to give new programs a jumpstart. She actively coaches and trains teams through in person coaching, Agile workshops, virtual training classes. She leads the Lockheed Martin's Agile Community of Practice and Center of Excellence, speaks at multiple conference engagements each year. Robin received her Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, incorporated on August 29, 1994, is a global security and aerospace company. The Company is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Aeronautics; Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS); Missiles and Fire Control (MFC); Mission Systems and Training (MST), and Space Systems. The Company provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistics and information services. The Company's areas of focus are in defense, space, intelligence, homeland security and information technology, including cyber security. It serves customers, including military services, the United States Navy and various government agencies of the United States and other countries, as well as commercial and other customers.
John is a DevOps enthusiast with a passion for helping business grow, scale, and mature their technology infrastructure. Currently John leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers at GrubHub.com where they hack on wicked cool technologies to help people be less hangry.
Grubhub Inc. (Grubhub), incorporated on May 10, 2013, is a provider of an online and mobile platform for restaurant pick-up and delivery orders. The Company connects more than 40,000 local restaurants with diners in more than 1,000 cities across the United States. For restaurants, Grubhub generates higher margin takeout orders at full menu prices. The Company's target market is primarily consists of independent restaurants. In certain markets, the Company also provides delivery services to restaurants on its platform that do not have their own delivery operations. The Company provides diners on the platform with a personalized platform that helps them search for local restaurants and then place an order from an Internet-connected device. It also provides diners with information about their orders and status. In addition, the Company enables re-ordering by storing previous orders, preferences and payment information.
Daniel Parry has spent many years continuously driving DevOps integration forward, firstly at the University of Cambridge, delivering projects that received national news coverage and then at the UK's leading provider of online self service knowledge solutions. He now works as a sysadmin in the core infrastructure team at Planet Earth's #1 accommodation site, striving to make DevOps work in a hugely challenging and stimulating environment.
Booking.com B.V., part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the world leader in booking accommodation online.
Booking.com on average books 1,100,000 room nights every 24 hours. The Booking.com website and apps attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.
Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. guarantees the best prices for every type of property, from small, family-run bed and breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. Self-catered properties are also specifically a focus of Villas.com, a sister site recently launched by Booking.com. Truly international, Booking.com is available in 42 languages, and offers over 900,000 active properties in over 220 countries and territories.
Dave McKinstry is a Developer Technology Strategist for Microsoft and currently helps enterprise customer understand and apply modern practices to streamline their development. With over 25 years of experience, Dave has played all roles in the development lifecycle: Scrum master, project manager, coach, tester, operations, architect, and primarily developer. Although he assists customers in many areas of modern development, from languages and platforms to cloud and mobile, much of his efforts today focus on DevOps and process optimization.
The Microsoft DevOps solution enables organizations to shorten cycle times while improving software quality by streamlining the entire development workflow, from the backlog, through build and test, all the way into production, with real-time monitoring for availability and performance as well as user analytics to help inform the business on what to focus on next. With support for on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid infrastructure, the Microsoft DevOps solution is the only comprehensive set of best-in-class tools and technologies that help you increase agility, improve quality, and save time and money in the process. Take a tour behind the scenes on how Microsoft’s Cloud + Enterprise division transformed in adopting DevOps.
Don LeBert is the Director of Security Engineering and Operations for GoDaddy.com Inc. He has been working with hosting providers for more than 10 years filling various security roles. He currently holds over eleven security patents ranging from DDoS to website security systems.
GoDaddy Inc., incorporated on May 28, 2014, is a technology provider to small businesses, Web design professionals and individuals. The Company delivers cloud-based products and personalized customer care. The Company operates a domain marketplace, where its customers can find the digital real estate that matches their idea. It provides Website building, hosting and security tools to help customers construct and protect online presence. It provides applications that enable connecting to customers and managing businesses. The Company provides search, discovery and recommendation tools, as well as a selection of domain name for ventures. The Company provides productivity tools, such as domain-specific e-mail, online storage, invoicing, bookkeeping and payment solutions to run ventures, as well as marketing products.
Technology leader who enjoys working on scaling engineering practices, software products and teams in high-growth environment. Kinshuk specializes in building internet consumer applications and has worked in various product domains like e-commerce, travel, gaming, digital content and entertainment. As a technologist he has experience working on high volume and highly available distributed systems, several class of data science problems ranging from user-personalization to different kinds of optimizations. Lately he has been excited about all the developments in several emerging platforms. As one of the early Spotify engineers in the US, Kinshuk has helped scale the Spotify engineering efforts in the US. In his free time Kinshuk loves running and programming legos, though not doing both at the same time.
Ken Male is currently Sr VP and General Manager, TechTarget Research, where he oversees research design, production, and go-to-market strategies. He has over 25 years IT industry experience working for market research companies and technology providers. He has successfully built and run syndicated research models, including the highly popular annual StorageWave service as well as the widely recognized Technology Heat Index, Vendor Vulnerability Index, Customer Experience Matrix, and Matrix Window of Vendor Ratings. Before joining TechTarget, he was VP Benchmarking/Data Strategy at Applio, a provider of analytics applications. He has been Founder/CEO at TheInfoPro, Sr VP Global Sales at Jupiter Research, Managing Director at Giga Information Group, and Strategic Account Manager at Gartner. He has been a regular speaker at key industry events and has been quoted in many business and trade press outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, Information Week, Business Week, Barron’s, ComputerWorld, and CIO Magazine. He holds a BS in Marketing from Boston College.
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Jim Hong is a Security Group Technical Program Manager at Adobe. In his current role, Jim leads the evolution and implementation of the Security Product Lifecycle process (SPLC) and governance program for web services at Adobe Systems and works with many of the major products and operations groups to implement both proactive security process and guidance as well as monitoring and response plans across the company. Jim also works with the engineering teams to provide application level security guidance that spans multiple products and services across the company.
Adobe Systems Incorporated, incorporated on May 9, 1997, is a software company. The Company offers a line of products and services used by professionals, marketers, knowledge workers, application developers, enterprises and consumers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing and engaging with compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. The Company operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Print and Publishing. The Company markets and licenses its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force and to end users through application stores and its own Website at www.adobe.com. It offers various products through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model or a managed services model (both of which are referred to as a hosted or cloud-based model), as well as through term subscription and pay-per-use models.
The Company distributes certain products and services through a network of distributors, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), retailers, software developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In addition, it licenses its technology to hardware manufacturers, software developers and service providers for use in their products and solutions. The Company's products run on personal and server-based computers, as well as on smartphones, tablets and other devices, depending on the product. It operates in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
Rajesh Wunnava is Director of Product Management, Personalization and Insights for Gracenote responsible for all product strategy, development and business planning related to the company’s addressable advertising and mobile initiatives.
Prior to joining Gracenote, Rajesh was Senior Director, Product Management at Warner Music Group where he owned responsibility for global product data driving product distribution and monetization. He played a key role in the company’s $750M acquisition of EMI Parlophone in Europe by leading product acquisition, integration and the global go-to-market execution. During his career, Rajesh has also worked and consulted for major brand advertisers and agencies including Procter & Gamble, Unilever and J. Walter Thompson/Mindshare handling multi-million dollar media planning and buying budgets.
Connecting You With Entertainment You Love
Gracenote is the world’s leading entertainment data and technology company. We power the top music services, consumer electronics companies, automakers, media companies and cable and satellite operators on the planet. At its core, Gracenote helps connect people with the entertainment they love most.
Michael Harris is the Chief Technology Officer and a Fellow for GlobalMed and is responsible for the software, hardware and industrial design teams that develop their telehealth and telemedicine suite of products.
Harris has earned acclaim for his award-winning product designs and research coverage of the video software industries and holds multiple patents in light polarization.
Michael Harris has been in the camera and video conferencing industry for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding GlobalMed in 2002, Harris was the Chief Technology Officer for PAR Technologies where he lead the charge in mobile video developments and software suite, and in 1995 was President and Chief Operation Officer for iREZ Research where he managed over the Sales, Marketing and DevOps of the company’s mobile video camera and h.324 video conferencing software technologies. Harris was also the Director of Marketing and Digital technologies at VideoLabs during a successful IPO in 1992.
Transforming Healthcare Globally™
As the worldwide leader in telemedicine and only vertically integrated provider, GlobalMed technologies enable more than 3 million telehealth consults annually. Our evidence-based solutions include: telemedicine stations, examination cameras, connected medical devices, video conferencing and software that allow for connected care and dynamic collaboration of healthcare professionals at remote locations.
GlobalMed solutions are deployed in more than 55 countries around the world. Partnering with leading medical groups, healthcare enterprises and government agencies has led to the company’s unparalleled expertise in designing sustainable, integrated connected health programs that deliver best-in-class patient care.
As part of the ongoing effort to identify world-class organizations that better serve American Service Veterans, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Verification and Evaluation has recognized GlobalMed as a Veteran-Owned Small Business.
Ajay Rajkumar received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Dr. Rajkumar currently leads the SDN and Programmable Networks domain in Mobile Networks CTO at Nokia. Dr. Rajkumar has received Bell Labs President’s Award for Design and Prototype of Base Station Router (BSR) which was used to develop flat IP architectures across many different cellular standards deployments and has since its early days evolved into Edge Computing and Content paradigm. He has received another Bell Labs President’s Silver award for the first prototype that demonstrated seamless interworking across heterogeneous access networks for real-time applications. Dr. Rajkumar led the mobile industry to develop standards that enable ubiquitous coverage across heterogeneous access and was the Founding Chair of IEEE 802.21 for Media Independent Handover. He was also a Member of the IEEE 802 Executive Committee Board. Dr. Rajkumar has been a frequent invited speaker at research labs, universities, industry and technical panels. He has many publications and has received more than 25 patents in very diverse areas of technology.
Nokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things. Powered by the pioneering work of Nokia Bell Labs, our research and innovation division, and Nokia Technologies, we are at the forefront of creating and licensing the technologies that are increasingly at the heart of our connected lives.
We combine global leadership in mobile and fixed network infrastructure, with the software, services, and advanced technologies to transform how smart devices and sensors tap the power of connectivity. With state-of-the-art software, hardware and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned to help communication service providers, governments, and large enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the Internet of Things.
Serving customers in over 100 countries across the world, Nokia is driving the transition to smart, virtual networks and seamless connectivity by creating one, single network for all services, converging mobile and fixed broadband, IP routing and optical networks, with the software and services to manage them seamlessly. Our research scientists and engineers continue to invent and accelerate new technologies that will increasingly transform the way people and things communicate and connect: 5G, ultra broadband access, IP and software define networking, Cloud applications, IoT and security platforms, data analytics, as well as sensors and imaging.
Christi Liebe is the Chief Technology Officer for Rent-a-Center.
Rent-A-Center, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, leases household durable goods to customers on a rent-to-own basis. The company operates in four segments: Core U.S., Acceptance Now, Mexico, and Franchising. It offers durable products, such as consumer electronics, appliances, computers, furniture, and smart phones under rental purchase agreements. The company operates approximately 2,800 stores in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Puerto Rico; and approximately 2,000 Acceptance Now kiosk locations in the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as franchises approximately 200 rent-to-own stores.
Prior to joining Rent-a-Center, Ms. Liebe served as the SVP, Communication, Collaboration and Call Center Technologies for USBank, where she led the transformation strategy for the Technology & Operations teams. Prior to working at USBank, she served as the CIO for Outerwall, the owners of the Redbox and Coinstar brands. While at Outerwall, she successfully led the IT and Technology teams through explosive (600%+) growth. Prior to Outerwall, Ms. Liebe led the international teams for the Microsoft Sales & Customer Support BUIT (business Unit IT Group), headquartered in Redmond, WA.
Ms. Liebe is a graduate of the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Additionally, she earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado.
Ms. Liebe currently lives in Plano, Texas. Outside of the office she is an animal lover and passionate about breeding and raising American Quarter horses for the sport of reining on her ranch in Marietta, Oklahoma.
Our stores offer name-brand furniture, electronics, appliances and computers through flexible rental purchase agreements that allow the customer to obtain ownership of the merchandise at the conclusion of an agreed upon rental period. We offer same-day delivery, 90 days same as cash and an early purchase option. Should merchandise need repair while it is on rent, we repair it at no additional cost to the customer. We also offer our customers a product substitute to use while theirs is in service.
Rent-A-Center provides an easy, affordable way for people to furnish their homes without incurring a continuing obligation and without needing access to credit.
Josh Ricker has been a leader through unprecedented business growth, several acquisitions, and market expansion. Josh focuses on continuous improvement of IT and business processes. Josh is the Chief Information Officer for TEC Equipment, Inc. headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Josh oversees all IT Operations and Services for TEC as the West Coast’s premier truck and trailer dealership group, and the 8th largest privately-held corporation in Oregon. Josh has worked with Federal and State governments and on engagements with several Fortune 500 companies.
TEC Equipment was founded in 1976 by David Thompson. As the West’s leading multi-point, full-service truck and trailer dealership, we deliberately and consistently delight and inspire our customers every day by providing products and services with an exceptional customer experience.
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, TEC has 24 locations from Seattle to Southern California, serving thousands of customers across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona.
TEC Equipment features Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks, Hino and Isuzu medium-duty trucks, GMC light-duty commercial trucks, Wabash trailers and Cottrell auto transporters. We offer a large and desirable inventory of new Mack and Volvo trucks and all makes of used trucks. Our full-service line-up also features quality parts, state-of-the-art service, collision centers and fuel, leasing/rental, financing, and insurance. Our locations are authorized service centers for Mack, Volvo, Cummins, Meritor, Eaton and Fuller warranties. TEC truly offers the convenience of one-stop shopping for all of your trucking-related needs.
Global seasoned leader in the digital commerce and financial industries. Acknowledged for breaking ground in delivering large internet scale B2C and B2B commerce platforms generating $15B annual , and enabling enterprise financial digital platforms. Fast-paced and results-oriented visionary with ability to establish visions and strategies to create new business opportunities using effective analytics, communication, collaborative business relationship, and technical knowledge. Vast experienced in building and growing world class global organizations across multiple strategic regions leveraging global leadership and organizational skills. Passionate technologist with strong engineering background with broad experience in service oriented design, agile development, automated integration, and high velocity deployment of custom and packaged software enterprise solutions deployed on multi-devices.
At LPL Financial, we achieve success by helping our customers succeed. It’s a simple business model with a singular focus: enabling our clients to create and grow highly profitable businesses by providing them with the services and tools to meet the needs of their clients.
As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer*, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services to more than 14,000 financial advisors and approximately 700 financial institutions. We also support more than 4,000 other financial advisors with customized clearing solutions, advisory platforms, and technology.
We’ve told you what we do for our customers, but what can we do for you? We’ll provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that’s supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.
Jason Bloomberg is the leading industry analyst and globally recognized expert on agile digital transformation. He writes and speaks on how today’s disruptive enterprise technology trends support the digital professional’s business transformation goals.
He writes for Forbes, his biweekly newsletter the Cortex, and several contributed blogs. He also helps technology vendors and service providers communicate their digital transformation stories. His latest book is The Agile Architecture Revolution (Wiley, 2013).
Mr. Bloomberg has published over 750 articles, spoken at over 350 conferences, webinars, and other events, and has been quoted in the press over 1,500 times.
At SOA-focused industry analyst firm ZapThink, Mr. Bloomberg created and delivered the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA course and associated credential, certifying over 1,700 professionals worldwide. He is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, which was acquired by Dovel Technologies in 2011.
Mr. Bloomberg’s previous book, Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, coauthored with Ron Schmelzer), is recognized as the leading business book on Service Orientation. He also co-authored the books XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996).
About Intellyx
Intellyx is the first and only industry analysis, advisory, and training firm focused on agile digital transformation.
Intellyx works with enterprise digital professionals to cut through technology buzzwords and connect the dots between the customer and the technology – to provide the vision, the business case, and the architecture for agile digital transformation initiatives.
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Forbes Media is a global media, branding and technology company, with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles.
George is a career-long believer in creating automation and a wearer of many hats at Chef. A former engineer, George has worked in a variety of settings that span across the spectrum from startup to enterprise and in different verticals including finance, entertainment, and consumer goods. At Chef, he's worked with several iconoclastic customers to help transform their technology and culture. George currently leads the the technical evangelism group at Chef and most frequently spends his days building bridges between technical implementation and core business value. He enjoys his time living in the Pacific Northwest, small batch artisanal bourbon, and writing biographies in the third person.
Chef is changing how companies build and deliver applications, services and infrastructure. Born with the DevOps movement, Chef has distilled the experiences of successful web innovators into patterns that characterize the DevOps workflow. These patterns have been incorporated into the Chef automation platform, making Chef your partner on the journey to DevOps. Alaska Airlines, Bloomberg, Facebook, Intuit, Microsoft, Standard Bank, and Yahoo are among hundreds of commercial customers worldwide using Chef to safely deliver applications, compliance policies, and infrastructure at velocity. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations.
Chef is changing how companies build and deliver applications, services and infrastructure. Born with the DevOps movement, Chef has distilled the experiences of successful web innovators into patterns that characterize the DevOps workflow. These patterns have been incorporated into the Chef automation platform, making Chef your partner on the journey to DevOps. Alaska Airlines, Bloomberg, Facebook, Intuit, Microsoft, Standard Bank, and Yahoo are among hundreds of commercial customers worldwide using Chef to safely deliver applications, compliance policies, and infrastructure at velocity. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations.
Arun is a Technologist and DevOps evangelist, currently in the role of a Senior Engineering Manager at TESCO, helping the company transform development processes and bringing in cultural changes for Agile, Open-Source and DevOps adoption.
Arun began his career with Infosys in a Banking product group, before taking on engineering and project management roles at retail giants, WalMart and Tesco. Armed with 13 years of experience, he is as comfortable talking technology with a developer, as he is in managing stakeholder & leadership expectations at large enterprises. His expertise spans across multiple functions of software development in the retail and banking domains.
He hails from Bangalore, India where he has lived and worked most so far. He holds an Engineering degree and perusing a leadership programme at INSEAD School of business.
We are a team of over 470,000 people in 11 markets dedicated to serving shoppers a little better every day.
Pascal Joly has over 18 years of experience in large and small tech companies building and architecting solutions for complex infrastructure deployment in production and pre-production. He is currently a Senior Product Manager at Quali, where he is leading efforts to build the next generation of Cloud Sandbox for DevOps and BizOps.
Quali (www.quali.com) is the leading provider of Cloud Sandbox software for automating the DevOps and BizOps lifecycle. Cloud Sandboxes enable DevOps teams to create personalized replicas of complex production environments accelerating release cycles with higher quality, reduced risk and lower cost. Modern IT initiatives including digitization, application modernization, security and the move to hybrid clouds benefit from Quali solutions. The Global 100 and beyond including cloud providers, service providers, technology vendors and enterprises depend on Quali cloud sandboxes to increase agility, gain competitive advantage and improve productivity.
Julie Tsai is a DevOps automation and security leader. She has worked in Silicon Valley for 19 years in a range of technology roles for companies from seven-person startups to Fortune 1. She started in network and infrastructure and worked her way through the stack, and in the technical realm most enjoyed doing UNIX configuration management with cfengine and shell scripting. Beyond that, she is passionate about leading teams and companies through automation and business problem bottlenecks to breakthrough to next-level performance. DevOps has provided many leadership and uplift opportunities. She attended Stanford University, and heeded one professor's advice to never let school get in the way of her education.
Caring for the world, one person at a time... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.
Our Family of Companies comprises:
The world’s sixth-largest consumer health company
The world’s most comprehensive medical devices business
The world’s sixth-largest biologics company
And the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceuticals company
We have more than 265 operating companies in more than 60 countries employing approximately 126,500 people. Our worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
