devopsdays Los Angeles 2026 - program

Program

March 6, 2026

08:00 - 09:00

Registration, Breakfast, Sponsors Setup, Meet & Greet

09:00 - 09:45

John Willis - When AI agents go rogue: DevOps lessons from the rise of polymorphic AI

10:00 - 10:45

Joshua Lee - DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)

11:00 - 11:45

Arthur Freyman - Build a Better Loop: A Guide to Platform Engineering

11:45 - 12:00

Open Spaces Setup

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch / Open Spaces

13:30 - 13:45

DonDiego Aponte - Barns Don't Burn Down Because of One Loose Nail, But Yours Just Might

13:45 - 14:00

Engin Diri - The Ralph Wiggum Loop: How Autonomous AI Loops Built My Serverless SaaS While I Slept

14:00 - 14:45

Dustin Kirkland - Agentic Pipelines for an OS Supply Chain

15:00 - 15:45

Scott Mabe - Gen AI for the Gen X Guy

16:00 - 16:45

Shalini Sudarsan - From DevOps to AIOps: The Next Leap in IT Operations

17:00 - 17:45

Tom Howe - How AI is Accelerating the Pace of Innovation (And Why Humans Still Matter)