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<span class="badge">10th Annual · Denver, Colorado</span>
<h1 class="hero-title">DevOps<span>Days</span><br />Rockies 2026</h1>
<p class="lede" style="margin-top:18px;">Two days of talks and open spaces for engineers, SREs, and platform
teams across the Rocky Mountain region — back in Denver for a milestone tenth year. Speakers are confirmed
and the schedule is live.</p>
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<div class="value">Tue–Wed, Sept 22–23, 2026</div>
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<div class="keynote-eyebrow">Opening Keynote</div>
<h2>Brent Chapman</h2>
<p class="keynote-bio">Brent is Principal at Great Circle Associates, where he helps engineering
organizations build calmer, more capable incident management programs. He led incident response
for Slack's entire engineering org, building the company's incident management program essentially
from scratch and scaling it for over three years. Before that, as part of Google's SRE organization,
he created the Incident Management at Google (IMAG) system and helped shape Google's postmortem
practice — both still in use today. He's also worked with engineering teams at Apple, Salesforce,
Atlassian, Netflix, and others on strengthening how they prepare for and learn from incidents.</p>
<p class="keynote-bio">Outside of tech, Brent brings an unusual second career to how he thinks about
emergencies: he's a former air search-and-rescue pilot and incident commander, an emergency
dispatcher and dispatch supervisor for major arts and music festivals, and a longtime CERT member
and instructor. He's also co-author of the O'Reilly book <em>Building Internet Firewalls</em>.</p>
<div class="keynote-talk"><a href="#program">When Production Burns, You're the Fire Department (and the Fire Marshal, Too) →</a></div>
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<h2 class="section-title">A community conference,<br />built by volunteers</h2>
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<p>DevOpsDays Rockies is part of the global DevOpsDays series — a community-run, non-profit
conference for anyone working on IT improvement: engineers, SREs, platform teams, managers,
and everyone adjacent to how software actually ships.</p>
<p>The format mixes curated talks with <strong>open spaces</strong>, the DevOpsDays signature: unscheduled
time where attendees propose and lead the sessions they actually want to have. Some of the best
conversations of the event happen in slots that didn't exist on the printed schedule.</p>
<p>2026 marks our <strong>10th year</strong> bringing this event to Denver. We're a volunteer-run,
all-nonprofit operation — ticket and sponsorship revenue goes straight back into running the event.</p>
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<h3>At a glance</h3>
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<li><strong>When:</strong> Tuesday–Wednesday, September 22–23, 2026</li>
<li><strong>Where:</strong> Bierstadt Lagerhaus, Downtown Denver</li>
<li><strong>Doors:</strong> 8:00 AM both days, for breakfast</li>
<li><strong>Format:</strong> Single-track talks + open spaces</li>
<li><strong>Who:</strong> Engineers, SREs, platform & infra teams</li>
<li><strong>Org:</strong> Volunteer-run, all-nonprofit</li>
<li><a href="#conduct-note">Code of Conduct</a> applies to all attendees, speakers, and sponsors</li>
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<h3>Getting there</h3>
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<li>Parking at the venue is extremely limited — nearby street parking is available.</li>
<li>Free attendee parking at LAZ Parking, Coors Field Garage, 2701 Blake St — one block away. A parking QR code goes out the night before.</li>
<li>Bierstadt is a 10–15 minute walk from several transit stations — carpooling or transit is encouraged.</li>
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<h3>The venue</h3>
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<li><a href="https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-denver/location" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bierstadt Lagerhaus</a>, 2875 Blake St, Denver, CO 80205</li>
<li>Downtown Denver, walking distance from Coors Field</li>
<li>Full address and directions on the official location page (linked above)</li>
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<div class="eyebrow">The schedule</div>
<h2 class="section-title">The full schedule</h2>
<p class="lede">Times below are Mountain Time, rounded for readability. The event runs single-track —
everyone sees the same talks. Talk titles link to more detail; speaker names link to speaker profiles.</p>
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<h3>Day One</h3>
<span class="date-sub">Tuesday · September 22</span>
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<div class="time">8:00 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Registration, breakfast & sponsor expo open</div></div>
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<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">9:00 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Day 1 Kickoff</div></div>
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<div class="time">9:15 AM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HA9EMA/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HA9EMA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Keynote: When Production Burns, You're the Fire Department (and the Fire Marshal, Too)</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/K7DFWF/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brent Chapman · 60 min</a>
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</div>
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<div class="time">10:15 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Coffee break</div></div>
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<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:00 AM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/FDTEUK/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/FDTEUK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Most SLOs Fail</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/DNJETH/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amin Astaneh · 30 min</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">11:30 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Ignite Talks (5 min each)</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:30</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ZEQ839/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ZEQ839/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When AI Agents Touch Real Infrastructure: Five War Stories and a Framework</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/GGTLAN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Gordon Bell</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:35</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/UKQQRK/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/UKQQRK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Question Everything: How Curiosity Strengthens Security</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/QEMPXJ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amanda Aguayo</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:40</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/VAQDC3/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/VAQDC3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">For Want of a Clearly Written Sentence</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/VBJZHW/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt "Kelly" Williams</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:45</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/Z8DCQ8/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/Z8DCQ8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your CI/CD Pipeline Is About to Meet AI — Here's What It Doesn't Know</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/CAZDWM/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saideep Navakoti</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:50</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BKR3TS/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BKR3TS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salvage Title Software: How Engineering Teams Ship to Themselves</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/PJMXH7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morgan Helton</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">12:00 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Lunch</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">1:30 PM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/KZLNKA/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/KZLNKA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What We Learned Standardizing Kubernetes Across 4 Clouds</a>
<div class="session-speaker">
<a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/C3LCAE/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcello Ozzetti</a> &
<a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/MLVNVF/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fernando Carvalho</a> · 30 min
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">2:00 PM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HKGHAN/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HKGHAN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/KWGDQH/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvain Kalache · 30 min</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">2:30 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Open Spaces introduction</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">3:00 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Snack break</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">3:30 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Open Spaces — pitch round</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">4:00 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Open Spaces sessions</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">5:30 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Happy hour & snacks</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-day">
<h3>Day Two</h3>
<span class="date-sub">Wednesday · September 23</span>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">8:00 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Registration, breakfast & sponsor expo open</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">9:00 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Day 2 Kickoff</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">9:15 AM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ARPBKK/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ARPBKK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Systems That Respect Attention: Redesigning Ops for Human Limits</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/3YZCRK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Malson · 30 min</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">9:45 AM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/SXSXDJ/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/SXSXDJ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Context Engineering: The Next Frontier of Your Relationship with Jarvis</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/EUKWGS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rainu Ittycheriah · 30 min</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">10:15 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Coffee break</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">11:00 AM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Ignite Talks (5 min each)</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:00</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DFZH3R/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DFZH3R/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Recipe: Blending the DevOps Infinite Loop and the New ITIL Diamond Tiles</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/H78XTY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine Bordinat</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:05</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BZZTJ8/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BZZTJ8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our Terraform Plan Output Is Lying to You (By Omission)</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/E8WQS3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sudarshan Bhagvan</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:10</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/WK7EER/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/WK7EER/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The DevOps Metabolism: How CI/CD Is Like the Krebs Cycle</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/ZV97N3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sophia Solomon</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:15</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/CWCSVS/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/CWCSVS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Context Validation: Doc Testing and the Missing AI Infrastructure Layer</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/QJ3LCB/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omari Gaskins Jr.</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:20</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DBHC79/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DBHC79/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lashed to the Mast: A Platform Engineer's Odyssey</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/L8GLQJ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luke Philips</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">11:30 AM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/3CDUSJ/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/3CDUSJ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From Practice to Profession: DevOps in the AI-Native Era</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/XQCFLT/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marc Hornbeek · 30 min</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">12:00 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Lunch</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">1:00 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Talk announcements</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item">
<div class="time">1:45 PM</div>
<div class="what">
<a class="session-title talk-link" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HMEDVS/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HMEDVS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scaling Engineering Teams across Continents</a>
<a class="session-speaker" href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/NBACZ3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ludovic Toison · 30 min</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">2:15 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Open Spaces introduction</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">2:45 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Snack break</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">3:15 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Open Spaces sessions</div></div>
</div>
<div class="agenda-item is-break">
<div class="time">4:30 PM</div>
<div class="what"><div class="session-title">Day 2 closing & farewell</div></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="schedule-note">Talk times and durations above are pulled directly from each speaker's
published session on the official schedule tool. Break/open-space timing between talks is estimated
to fill the gaps — see the
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for anything last-minute.</div>
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</section>
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<div class="eyebrow">Speakers</div>
<h2 class="section-title">Meet this year's speakers</h2>
<p class="lede">Our call for proposals closed May 31, 2026. Here's the full confirmed lineup — Talks run
30–60 minutes on the main schedule, Ignite Talks are fast 5-minute lightning sessions. Names and talk
titles link to the full session details on our schedule tool.</p>
<div class="speaker-grid">
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/ZYFGYM_IlChibp_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Brent Chapman" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/K7DFWF/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brent Chapman</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HA9EMA/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HA9EMA/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Production Burns, You're the Fire Department (and the Fire Marshal, Too)</a></div>
<div class="bio">Three decades building and scaling incident management at Google, Slack, and beyond. Created Google's IMAG protocol and coauthored <em>Building Internet Firewalls</em>.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/A8CVG9_GoeZf4Q_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Amin Astaneh" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/DNJETH/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amin Astaneh</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/FDTEUK/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/FDTEUK/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Most SLOs Fail</a></div>
<div class="bio">Founder of Certo Modo and host of the Reliability Rebels podcast, with two decades scaling production systems from startups to Big Tech.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/EZBBCS_8ij1iHQ_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Adam Gordon Bell" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/GGTLAN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Gordon Bell</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ZEQ839/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ZEQ839/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When AI Agents Touch Real Infrastructure: Five War Stories and a Framework</a></div>
<div class="bio">20 years in infrastructure (Tenable, Earthly, Pulumi) and host of the CoRecursive podcast.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/JYSYZR_Y8kMK22_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Amanda Aguayo" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/QEMPXJ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amanda Aguayo</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/UKQQRK/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/UKQQRK/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Question Everything: How Curiosity Strengthens Security</a></div>
<div class="bio">Co-founder of Hunted Labs, focused on the security risks of foreign influence in software supply chains.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/mkelly.williams_7SV95Pn_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Matt Kelly Williams" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/VBJZHW/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt "Kelly" Williams</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/VAQDC3/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/VAQDC3/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">For Want of a Clearly Written Sentence</a></div>
<div class="bio">Founder of Making Software Greener and CEO of the Sustainable IT Manifesto Foundation.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<div class="speaker-avatar">SN</div>
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/CAZDWM/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saideep Navakoti</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/Z8DCQ8/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/Z8DCQ8/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Your CI/CD Pipeline Is About to Meet AI — Here's What It Doesn't Know</a></div>
<div class="bio">Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade building cloud-native banking infrastructure on Kubernetes, based in Atlanta.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/9WTPKS_HFUrWW3_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Morgan Helton" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/PJMXH7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morgan Helton</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BKR3TS/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BKR3TS/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salvage Title Software: How Engineering Teams Ship to Themselves</a></div>
<div class="bio">Software engineer at Flox, working on cloud infrastructure and systems reliability.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/YHDZ8W_hC7hUcF_thumbnail_default_8vdoBED.jpeg" alt="Marcello Ozzetti" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4>
<a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/C3LCAE/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcello Ozzetti</a> &
<a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/MLVNVF/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fernando Carvalho</a>
</h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/KZLNKA/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/KZLNKA/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What We Learned Standardizing Kubernetes Across 4 Clouds</a></div>
<div class="bio">Architecture leaders at Accenture Brazil, both focused on DevSecOps, cloud, and platform engineering for the financial sector.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/RSLTDZ_VeCinMT_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Sylvain Kalache" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/KWGDQH/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvain Kalache</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HKGHAN/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HKGHAN/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.</a></div>
<div class="bio">Head of Rootly AI Labs, former Senior SRE at LinkedIn, and co-founder of Holberton.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<div class="speaker-avatar">AM</div>
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/3YZCRK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Malson</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ARPBKK/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/ARPBKK/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Systems That Respect Attention: Redesigning Ops for Human Limits</a></div>
<div class="bio">Staff Platform Engineer and Denver local, running Ergon Automation Labs after leading platform work at Filevine.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<div class="speaker-avatar">RI</div>
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/EUKWGS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rainu Ittycheriah</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/SXSXDJ/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/SXSXDJ/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Context Engineering: The Next Frontier of Your Relationship with Jarvis</a></div>
<div class="bio">Infrastructure engineer who's worked all across the stack, currently focused on making machines and humans' lives easier.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/RHWZUG_0kPAqV1_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Catherine Bordinat" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/H78XTY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine Bordinat</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DFZH3R/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DFZH3R/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Recipe: Blending the DevOps Infinite Loop and the New ITIL Diamond Tiles</a></div>
<div class="bio">ITIL Master and DevOps trainer with experience leading large-scale banking digital transformations.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/9X9E8E_O0uJI42_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Sudarshan Bhagvan" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/E8WQS3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sudarshan Bhagvan</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BZZTJ8/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/BZZTJ8/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our Terraform Plan Output Is Lying to You (By Omission)</a></div>
<div class="bio">DevOps engineer and creator of tfdrift, an open-source Terraform drift-detection tool.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<div class="speaker-avatar">SS</div>
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/ZV97N3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sophia Solomon</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/WK7EER/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/WK7EER/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The DevOps Metabolism: How CI/CD Is Like the Krebs Cycle</a></div>
<div class="bio">Developer Advocate at Elastic with a background spanning biochemistry and real-time observability.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/AXPFWE_H44r7MZ_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Omari Gaskins Jr." loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/QJ3LCB/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omari Gaskins Jr.</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/CWCSVS/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/CWCSVS/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Context Validation: Doc Testing and the Missing AI Infrastructure Layer</a></div>
<div class="bio">Creator of DocuSOR and Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/WJCXPC_HOWID0i_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Luke Philips" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/L8GLQJ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luke Philips</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DBHC79/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/DBHC79/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lashed to the Mast: A Platform Engineer's Odyssey</a></div>
<div class="bio">Principal Engineer at FICO with a career spanning the New York Times and major telecom infrastructure.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/GFXY3P_2CqX183_thumbnail_default.webp" alt="Marc Hornbeek" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/XQCFLT/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marc Hornbeek</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/3CDUSJ/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/3CDUSJ/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From Practice to Profession: DevOps in the AI-Native Era</a></div>
<div class="bio">Senior DevOps Advisor for the DevOps Institute and author of several books on Engineering DevOps and continuous testing.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="speaker-card">
<img class="speaker-avatar" src="https://talks.devopsdays.org/media/avatars/XKNMCX_JfBp7p8_thumbnail_default.jpg" alt="Ludovic Toison" loading="lazy" />
<div class="speaker-info">
<h4><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/speaker/NBACZ3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ludovic Toison</a></h4>
<div class="talk-title"><a href="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HMEDVS/" data-url="https://talks.devopsdays.org/dodroxrox26/talk/HMEDVS/" class="talk-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scaling Engineering Teams across Continents</a></div>
<div class="bio">VP Engineering with a background in cloud-native systems and observability, focused on building high-performing, collaborative teams.</div>
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