devopsdays Wollongong

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Wollongong
Novotel Wollongong 2/14 Cliff Rd, North Wollongong NSW 2500
Devopsdays is coming to Wollongong!

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Welcome to Devopsdays Wollongong

A chance to share your skills, learn from peers, and strengthen our local tech community

Dates

Thursday, Nov 27, 2025

Friday, Nov 28, 2025

Location

Novotel Wollongong Northbeach

Wollongong, NSW Australia

Join us for a two day fest of DevOps
...with a side of beach vibes.

DevOpsDays is arriving in Wollongong - organised by the local tech community to bring together industry experts and like minded individuals to cover a range of topics - generative AI, security, org structure/culture, infra-as-code and approaches to work (and more!)

Hosted at the beautiful Novotel Wollongong Northbeach with stunning ocean and mountain views - it is conveniently located near the beach, shopping and transport.

What to expect

coffee

Fully catered event
(barista coffee)

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Afternoons with community run
open spaces

Mornings: featured talks

Fly Me to the Moon: Punch cards, Supercomputers, and Kubernetes!

Kat Cosgrove, Head of Developer Advocacy at Minimus. Kat is the Kubernetes Release Team subproject owner and SIG Docs tech lead.

Kubernetes is the sometimes-controversial darling of the tech industry. It’s indispensable in situations where it’s useful, but undeniably complex and can be difficult to use. We tend to chalk that up to its relative newness and the complexity of the problems it's solving, but exactly how new are these problems....

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AI is like Chocolate (and Observability is like Strawberries)

Liz Fong-Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb. Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).

An AI skeptic's journey to become an AI realist, the promise and pitfalls of AI adoption, and how we can effectively leverage observability and AI to make our organizations more productive and collaborative.

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Afternoons: open spaces

The afternoon part of the program leaves room for Open Spaces,where you propose the topics, the community votes, and the most exciting ideas turn into community driven breakout sessions.

To keep things flowing, we follow the four classic Open Space principles:

  • Whoever comes are the right people — The folks who show up are exactly the ones meant to be part of the conversation.
  • Whatever happens is the only thing that could have — The discussion goes where it needs to go, and that’s part of the magic.
  • Whenever it starts is the right time — Great ideas don’t wait for a strict schedule; inspiration starts when it starts.
  • When it’s over, it’s over — Once a group has gotten what it needs from a session, it’s perfectly fine to wrap up and move on.

And of course, everything is guided by the Law of Two Feet: if you’re not learning or contributing, you’re free to find a session where you will.

Thank you to our sponsors

DevOpsDays is a not-for-profit organisation - sponsorship helps us keep the ticket prices accessible to the local community.