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Conference Talks

  1. Your Agile Performance Testing Checklist: MultiMechanize, Bees with Machine Guns, PageSpeed and AppDynamics - Dustin Whittle
  2. Unchaining Development Agility - Anand Rudrabhatla
  3. The IT Culture Cocktail Party – DevOps, ITSM, Agile and Technology - Jayne Groll
  4. The Devops Journey that Transformed REA - Javier Turegano
  5. The DevOps Pay Raise: Quantifying Your Value to Move Up the Ladder - Dustin Whittle
  6. Testing as a Service - How we used OpenStack to automate our entire dev and testing environment - Nati Shalom
  7. Test Kitchen 1.0 - A Config Management-Neutral Integration Testing Tool - Fletcher Nichol
  8. Test Driven Deployment - Mat Schaffer
  9. Strategies for introducing agile software development practices in operations - Ranjib Dey
  10. Strategies for Pushing DevOps - Nate Johnson
  11. Start Social Ops - David Mytton
  12. Managerial Mindset: Change It or Game Over! - John Esser
  13. Make Ned Scale! How Private PaaS Can Scale Management in a World of Limitless Virtualization - John Wetherill
  14. Looking for Trouble: How to rapidly diagnose and solve crazy problems when time matters - Geoff White
  15. Leveling Up a New Engineer in a Devops Culture; Healthy Sustainability - Gary Foster
  16. Leading the Horses to Drink: A Practical Guide to Gaining Support and Initiating a DevOps Transformation - Damon Edwards
  17. Is Your Team Instrument Rated (or: Deploying 89,000 times a day) - J. Paul Reed
  18. How Application Defined Networking (ADN) Remediates Cloud Performance Challenges - Pascale Vicat-Blanc
  19. Enhance your agile and CD practices with key analytics to meet enterprise needs - Raziel Tabib
  20. Enabling DevOps Collaboration with Application deep-dive Monitoring - Debu Panda
  21. Economics vs. Technology: Testing on replicas of production - Geert Jansen
  22. Don’t build it yourself: Leveraging AWS services to allow focus on differentiating work - Sudhindra Rao
  23. Distributed DevOps what can possibly go wrong with having teams all over the planet - John Martinez
  24. DevOps+Agile=Business Transformation - Jesse Robbins
  25. DevOps in Outer Space?! - John Tangney
  26. DevOps for Security: Automation is your only hope to protect Cloud IaaS - Andrew Hay
  27. DevOps Isn’t Enough - John Esser
  28. Desired State Configuration and Microsoft Windows - Jeffrey Snover
  29. Continuously deploying Mingle on the cloud - a showcase - Sheroy Marker
  30. Continuous integration enabled by freebies - Chrissie Cui
  31. Continuous Quality: What DevOps Means for QA - Jeff Sussna
  32. Continuous Integration with Packages - A Not So Scary Deployment Model - Brett Gailey
  33. Continuous Deployment with ansible - Tim Gerla
  34. Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and Cloudify (FastConnect) - Uri Cohen
  35. Coming to Terms with Chef: A Support Group for the Weary and Downtrodden Admin - Joan Touzet
  36. Clusters, developers, and the complexity in Infrastructure Automation - Antoni Batchelli
  37. Chef Resources and Providers - Miah Johnson
  38. Chef - The easy way - Mat Schaffer
  39. Building your own OpsWorks with Chef and Cloudify - Nati Shalom
  40. Building cross region and cross cloud high availability into your app - Uri Cohen
  41. Building a Culture of Operational Excellence - Arup Chakrabarti
  42. Bring Devs Closer to Production - Pete Hodgson
  43. Beyond Pretty Charts…. Analytics for the rest of us - Toufic Boubez
  44. Beyond DevOps: User-Centered IT - Jeff Sussna
  45. Before you trust your code, make it run the Gauntlt! - James Wickett
  46. Automating Infrastructure Testing - Barry Jaspan
  47. Arm your DevOps Team with Big Data - Christian Beedgen
  48. Analysis techniques for identifying waste in your build pipeline - Scott Turnquest

Ignite Talks

  1. The Positive Powers of Negative Thinking - David Hatten
  2. Systems theory for successful enjoyment of AWS - Philip Jacob
  3. Selling devops to product developers - Karthik Gaekwad
  4. Running Cassandra on AWS - Philip Jacob
  5. OopsOps - Benjamin Arent
  6. How to hire engineers that get devops - Philip Jacob
  7. How companies are using AWS - Philip Jacob
  8. Going All-In with Vagrant - Jeff Sussna
  9. Gitnite Your Deployment - Juan Delgado
  10. Getting Started with CloudScript - Nick Peterson
  11. From Monitoring, With Love - Peco Karayanev
  12. DevOps and the CIA - Karthik Gaekwad
  13. DevOps Do's and Don'ts - Dave Mangot
  14. Beer, Pineapples and Bottlenecks - Adrian Cockcroft
  15. Applying devops methodologies to traditional IT - Serge Bery
  16. 8 mistakes that prevent DevOps success - Jonathan Thorpe
  17. 5 Compelling Actions You Can Start To Implement Tomorrow To Improve Communications & Collaboration - David Ratcliffe
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Special sponsors

Pagerduty Citrix Itsmacademy

Gold sponsors

Boundary Librato Sumologic Stackdriver Stormpath Activestate CloudMunch Ca Technologies Riverbed Logicmonitor Saltstack Vmware Cumulus Networks

Silver sponsors

Serena Software Salesforce AnsibleWorks Dyn New Relic Electric-Cloud Enstratius Xebialabs 10gen Mozilla

Media sponsors

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