Friday June 25, 2010
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Registration, Coffee, Networking
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM DevOps Day! (with drinks at a local establishment afterwards)

DevOps Day US  is a single-track conference organized around a series of panels where open discussion amongst all conference participants is encouraged. We’ll continuously update this page we get closer to the event, but the currently confirmed panels and panelists are:

1. Your mileage may vary: Experiences and lessons learned facing DevOps problems in the IT trenches (even if they weren’t calling it DevOps!). The good, the bad, the surprises, and ideas for the future.
   • Stefan Apitz – LinkedIn
   • Ernest Muller – National Instruments
   • Dan Nemec – SilverPop
   • Burzin Engineer – Shopzilla
   • Kevin Rae – PowerReviews
   • moderator: Andrew Shafer
2. Infrastructure as code: Automation is essential to DevOps. The infrastructure as code concept drives many of today’s cutting edge automaton techniques. What is it all about? Where are its limitations?
   • Theo Schlossnagle – OmniTI
   • Luke Kanies – Puppet Labs
   • Adam Jacob – Opscode
   • Erik Troan – rPath
   • moderator: Patrick Debois
3. Changing culture to enable DevOps: Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and processes. How can we cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems?
   • John Allspaw – Etsy
   • Lee Thompson – DTO Solutions
   • Israel Gat – The Agile Executive
   • Lloyd Taylor – Netelder Associates
   • moderator: Andrew Shafer
4. Does the Cloud needs DevOps? Does DevOps need the Cloud?: Examining the role that cloud technologies can play in solving DevOps problems and the role that DevOps solutions can play in getting the most out of cloud technologies.
   • James Urquhart – Cisco
   • Adrian Cole – Jclouds
   • Justin Dean – Shopzilla
   • Joe Arnold – Cloudscaling
   • moderator: John Willis
5. DevOps requires visibility: monitoring, testing, and performance : Examining the (often overlooked) role of monitoring and testing techniques in solving DevOps problems.
   • Jyoti Bansal – AppDynamics
   • Gareth Bowles – Appscio
   • John Willis – Opscode
   • Eishay Smith – kaChing
   • Javier Soltero – SpringSource
   • moderator: Damon Edwards
6. DevOps outside of Web Operations: Much of the public discussion about DevOps focuses on Web Operations. This panel is about taking the lessons of DevOps to other types of IT.
   • Adam Fletcher - ITA Software
   • Gene Kim – Tripwire
   • Michael Stahnke -
   • James Turnbull – Puppet Labs
   • moderator: Patrick Debois
7. Making the business case: We know that solving DevOps problems improves your business operations and improves the bottom line, but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions?
   • Kurt Milne – IT Process Institute
   • Jay Lyman – The 451 Group
   • Rolf Andrew Russell – ThoughtWorks
   • Jody Mulkey – Shopzilla
   • moderator: Damon Edwards

In addition to the panels, there will be lightning talks on a variety of topics. The lightning talks will be using the “ignite” format (the only rule is that they are 5 minute talks using 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds). The lightning talk slots are filling up fast, so if you’d like to participate send an email proposal to proposals-us-2010@devopsdays.org