Despite what you may have heard to the contrary, not everything that happens in Vegas should stay there. Take the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (DOES18), for example: The three-day event attracted the best and brightest in the DevOps world—and me—to discuss all things DevOps. Some of those great conversations were captured in a series of […]
DOES18: Challenges and Enablers for DevOps Success
“What happens in Vegas, doesn”t stay in Vegas” … a great quote to end the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (DOES18) in Las Vegas, urging attendees to take and share the new insights and knowledge gained. This article is an attempt at sharing my discoveries. This article contains a summary of the challenges that delegates […]
DOES 2018: DevOps Providing Greater Business Outcomes, Yet Challenges Remain
The DevOps Enterprise Summit turned 4 years old this year, and what a difference four years makes: At the inaugural summit, perhaps a few hundred attendees participated. This year, there were roughly 2,000, according to the organizers. The energy at the first year’s event felt like that of a skunkworks team that knew they were […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 Conference Agenda Set, Final Speakers Announced by IT Revolution
Conference agenda now available featuring business and technology leaders from AGCO, Google, Intel, Lloyds Banking Group, Target, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Verizon and more PORTLAND, Ore., August 28, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the final round of speakers to be added to the DevOps Enterprise […]
IT Revolution Announces Third Round of Speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018
Organizers reveal a powerful lineup of business and technology leaders from Walmart, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, American Express, Lockheed Martin, Jaguar Land Rover, Delta Airlines and more PORTLAND, Ore., Aug.15, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced the third round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas […]
IT Revolution Announces Next Round of Speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018
Program expands to next generation IT operations and how to span the business and tech divide, features prominent domain experts and leaders from Nike, IBM, CSG International and more PORTLAND, Ore., July 25, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its next round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise […]
IT Revolution Announces First Round of Speakers, Early Bird Registration for DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018
World-class speaker lineup features technology leaders, DevOps practitioners and subject matter experts from Hearst, The Walt Disney Company, Nike, Capital One, Microsoft and more PORTLAND, Ore., June 14, 2018 – IT Revolution (http://itrevolution.com), the industry leader for advancing DevOps, today announced its first round of speakers for the DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2018 (https://events.itrevolution.com/us/). […]
The DevOps Cha-Cha from DOES San Francisco
The 4th annual DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) in San Francisco this week was, in my opinion, the best one yet. Lots to report about, but I wanted to call out a new trend I am seeing that I call the DevOps Cha-Cha. You remember the Cha-Cha: three steps forward, two steps back, cha-cha-cha. Actually besides […]
Gene Kim, DOES17 Speakers Discuss the Deployment Age
In a special episode of Electric Cloud’s Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), Gene Kim and speakers from the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco (DOES17) discussed the deployment age, and how DevOps practices and automation can unburden teams and boost productivity. The panel included: Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop; Robin Yeman, fellow at Lockheed Martin; Courtney Kissler, […]
Career Lessons Learned from Top Tech Leaders
In the technology world, we are in a time of incredible disruption and innovation. Many years ago, my friend and “DevOps Handbook” co-author John Willis predicted that a decade from now, academics will call this period the “Cambrian explosion” — it was an incredibly vibrant 25-million year period that resulted in an incredible diversification of […]






