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All times are in US Central Time
August 13, 2025
07:30 - 08:45
Registration, Breakfast, Sponsors
08:45 - 09:00
Opening Welcome
09:00 - 09:30
George Westwater - Evolution of a Configuration Management Legend: The Chef Journey
09:30 - 10:00
Kyle Jenkins - Beyond Automation: How DevOps Principles Foster Trust and Collaboration
10:00 - 10:30
Sponsors, Break
10:30 - 11:00
JJ Asghar - Introduction to Leveraging AI for Your Enterprise
11:00 - 11:30
Nicolas Fränkel - Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing
11:30 - 12:00
Mandi Walls - Managing Vendor Incidents
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:30
Ignites
Ed LeGault - “DevOps Person” - I write YAML and yell at people
Garo Yeriazarian - Getting Started Getting Started with Containerization
Peter O'Neill - Demystifying PKI: Everything Engineers Need to Know About Certificates and X.509
Caleb Sutton - How many ways can I deploy a web application to the cloud?
Russell Rutledge - Getting An Absolutely Shredded Product
13:30 - 14:00
Michael Stahnke - Measuring the Impact: Unveiling the ROI of AI in Engineering Workflows
14:00 - 14:30
Rhia Dixon - Debt or Deliver? The Art of Choosing Refactoring Battles Wisely
14:30 - 14:50
Sponsors, Break
14:50 - 15:00
Open Spaces Kickoff
15:00 - 16:15
Open Spaces
16:15 - 16:30
Sponsors, Break
16:30 - 17:00
Nathan Loding - Orchestrate the chaos: Process automation in modern architectures
17:00 - 17:30
Carl Chesser - Mind Hacks for Incident Analysis
17:30 - 17:45
Closing
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