devopsdays Vancouver - program

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The Schedule

Day 1

08:00-09:00
Registration, Breakfast, and Sponsor Booths Open
09:00-9:15
Opening Welcome
09:15-09:45
Capacity Planning at Demonware
Dmytro Dyachuk
Capacity Planning engineer, Demonware
Max Eisenbraun
Capacity Planning engineer, Demonware
09:45-10:15
What do the recent CVEs tell us about Container Security compliance?
Diógenes Rettori, @rettori
Product Manager, Redhat OpenShift
10:15-10:20
Message from Gold Sponsors
10:20-10:30
Break
10:30-11:00
Empathy is a core engineering skill
Matthew Smillie
Software Engineer, Joyent
11:00-11:30
Gender in organizations: From fixing the women to liberating the men
Dr. Jennifer Berdahl
11:30-12:00
Ignites

  1. Data Pipelines for the Lazy - Kyle Young, @ksgyoung
    Systems Engineer, Mobify
  2. Improve the impact of DevOps–driven application delivery with machine data insights - Stela Udovicic, @stela_udo
    Senior Product Marketing Manager, Splunk
  3. Consul for QA - integration testing a monitoring tool by simulating distributed systems. - Rob Salmond
    QA Engineer, AppNeta
  4. Docker Provides Convenience with Hidden Complexity - How Can We Cope? - Manfred Moser, @simpligility
    Founder/Owner, Simpligility Technologies Inc.
  5. Up and Running with ELK (Or: the 5 minute ELK install) - Ryan MacLean, @ryan_maclean
    Senior Engineer, Samsung
  6. Being an introvert and at a conference, not as hellish as you think it is - JJ Asghar, @jjasghar
    Sr Partner Engineer, Openstack at Chef
12:00-13:00
Lunch (catered)
13:00-14:15
Open Space Opening
14:15-15:15
Open Space #1
15:15-16:15
Open Space #2
16:15-17:15
Open Space #3
17:15-17:45
Close Day & Logistics
18:00-late
Evening Event

Day 2

08:00-09:00
Registration, Breakfast, and Sponsor Booths Open
09:00-9:15
Opening Welcome
09:15-09:45
Scaling out Continuous Delivery
John Arthorne
Production Engineering, Shopify
09:45-10:15
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: You’re a DevOps Natural
Dave Mangot, @davemangot
Director of Operations, Papertrail and Librato
10:15-10:20
Message from Gold Sponsors
10:20-10:30
Break
10:30-11:00
System Testing with pytest and docker-py
Christie Wilson, @bobcatwilson
Software Engineer at Demonware
Michael Tom-Wing, @mtomwing
Software Engineer at Demonware
11:00-11:30
Improved Resilience by Testing in Production
Kenneth Rose, @klprose
Principal Engineer, PagerDuty
11:30-12:00
Ignites

  1. Leveling Up Deployment Infrastructure - Jan Ulrich
    DevOps team manager and developer, Salesforce Pardot
  2. Infrastructure drift detection using Terraform - Payam Moghaddam, @payammoghaddam
    Infrastructure Engineer, ACL
  3. Keep Calm And Do A Load Test - Julien Stroheker
    Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
  4. Lambda: Run Code, Not Servers - Michael Towbin, @michaeltowbin
    Senior DevOps Engineer, Slalom Consulting
    Jeremy Dyche, @JD892011
    Senior DevOps Engineer, Slalom Consulting
  5. Building Two Pizza Teams - Krish Subramanian, @krishnan
    SVP Products and Strategy, CloudMunch
  6. So You Want to Choose a new CI Tool... without being a dictator! - Elise McCallum, @ekmccallum
    Senior Consultant and Applications Developer, ThoughtWorks
12:00-13:00
Lunch (catered)
13:00-13:30
Making Single Page Applications (SPA) faster
Boris Livshutz
Senior Enterprise Architect, Advanced Solutions and Services, Akamai Technologies
Manuel Alvarez
Enterprise Architect, Advanced Solutions and Services, Akamai Technologies
13:30-14:00
Utilizing DevOps for effective IoT and User Telemetry correlation-based Data Analytics
Hubert Duan
Manpreet Randhawa
Alex Torres
Boeing Canada Ltd – AeroInfo Systems
14:00-15:15
Open Space Opening
15:15-16:15
Open Space #4
16:15-17:15
Open Space #5
17:15-17:45
Close Day & Farewell