Program

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All times are in US Eastern Time
08:00 - 08:30
Registration, Breakfast
08:30 - 08:40
Opening Remarks
08:40 - 09:10
Chris Short - Open Source Survival Guide: Rules to Keep You Sane in the Open Source World
09:10 - 09:15
Sponsor Remarks
09:15 - 09:45
Shannon Ryan - From Code to Leadership: Navigating the Tech Landscape as a Woman
09:45 - 09:55
Break
09:55 - 10:25
Peter Zaitsev - 17 Things Developers Need to Know About Databases
10:25 - 10:30
Sponsor Remarks and Open Space Topic Assignment
10:30 - 11:00
Open Spaces
11:00 - 11:10
Break
11:10 - 11:40
Leon Adato - Alerts Don't Suck. YOUR Alerts Suck!
11:40 - 12:10
Joel Tosi - The Fundamentals of Strategy
12:10 - 13:10
Lunch
13:10 - 13:15
Welcome back Ignite Explanation + Karaoke
13:15 - 13:40
Ignites
13:40 - 14:00
Ignite Karaoke
14:00 - 14:30
Open Spaces
14:30 - 14:40
Break
14:40 - 16:10
Jeanne McClure, PhD - Hands-On LLMOps: Build an Observable AI System in 90 Minutes
14:40 - 16:10
Catherine Louis - Breaking Down Silos: Overcoming Upper Management Behaviors That Hinder Team Collaboration
14:40 - 16:10
Suresh Kumar Palus - Cross Platform Streaming Video QoE Validation in CI/CD Pipelines
16:10 - 16:20
Break
16:20 - 16:50
Shilpi Yadav - Zero-Downtime Deployment Patterns: Lessons from Large, Regulated Hybrid Enterprises
16:50 - 17:00
Day One Closing and Sponsor Remarks
17:00 - 19:00
Happy Hour
08:00 - 08:30
Registration, Breakfast
08:30 - 08:40
Opening Remarks
08:40 - 09:10
Dan McKinley - Egoless Engineering
09:10 - 09:15
Sponsor Remarks
09:15 - 09:45
Steven Diamante - Your Teams Need Learning Time, Not More AI Tools
09:45 - 09:50
Break
09:50 - 10:20
Open Spaces
10:20 - 11:50
- The Hidden Cost of Picking Up the Pieces
10:20 - 11:50
Velu Natarajan with Krishnakumar Mohanram - FinOps for Snowflake AI
10:20 - 11:50
Kapil Patel - Burnout to Brilliance for DevOps Teams: The G.P.S. for Happiness at Work™ Playbook
11:50 - 12:50
Lunch
12:50 - 12:55
Welcome back Ignite Explanation + Karaoke
12:55 - 13:25
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13:25 - 13:55
Open Spaces
13:55 - 14:05
Break
14:05 - 14:35
Seth Eliot - Beyond Backups, Building a Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy that Works
14:35 - 15:05
Jeremy Meiss - Developer Experience != Developer Productivity
15:05 - 15:20
Closing Remarks, Raffle, & Prizes