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The word ‘governance’ can strike fear in the bravest of hearts - or bore us to sleep. But in a world where we are more digital than ever, cybercrime and identity fraud are hitting their highest levels, how we protect our Crown Jewels, our data assets, and ensure we are following our regulators’ guidance is critical. In IT Revolution's Investments Unlimited, the authors transport the reader into the boardroom and corridors of a finance organization facing extreme peril at the hands of their regulator. Learning that DevOps has not solved all their problems, the employees embark on a journey to discover how to right their wrongs and get themselves back in their auditors’ good books. In this talk, Helen will reflect on the genesis of the book, its key lessons and what it teaches us about thriving in the digital age.

Chapter 1: Ready to Fight: Jenkins Reborn.

People have relied on Jenkins for years. It's been the open-source go-to tool for continuous integration and delivery for years.  In this session, you’ll learn more about the biggest performance and scalability update for Jenkins in a decade.  Jenkins has been working out.  It’s ready to move fast and go big.  Jenkins is a new kind of hero for a new age.  It’s trained, conditioned, and ready to take on this new era of challenges without losing the Jenkins functionality you know and love.  Jenkins is ready to rumble. Are you?

Chapter 2: YES Is The Answer 

What if you could support developer autonomy and choice of tooling without compromising productivity, governance, security, and scalability?  What if you had the DevSecOps platform that let you say YES to all of it?  

CloudBees is ready to deliver that platform, so you can say YES to going fast while also staying safe.  You can say YES to creating your finest code while also keeping teams consistent. You can create the golden paths that set developers free.  

Say YES to having your cake and eating it too. Say YES.   

Meet the authors and claim your signed copy of Investment Unlimited

This talk will discuss intersectionality, while uncovering the different types of intersectionality which are often overlooked by organizations. We shall also discuss tips, advice and best practices for tech professionals hoping to implement intersectional goals and make tangible changes within their organizations. Focusing the lens on internationality as a whole Embracing cultural identities – and what means for an organization Tokenism and ways to overcome this Systemic changes in recruitment practices The mindset required to manage an intersectional team How to get started and maintain DEIB goals

Shift Left was supposed to empower developers and speed delivery. Instead, verifying security and compliance is complex, time-consuming, and slows release velocity. Requiring developers to wade through alert storms from more tools isn’t empowering and products are certainly not getting to market faster.  Fortunately, there are better approaches.This panel will cover the following topics:

• “Shift Security Everywhere” maps better to DevOps philosophies
• How to move from checklists to risk-based decisions
• Effecting change that connects security, risk, and operations to value

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Arm is a fairly large company, globally distributed, with different departments, groups and teams working on hardware and software technologies. In such an organization it is quite common to have different teams reinventing the wheel. Continuous Integration, and automation in general are paramount for any technology company, and Arm is no different. There are a few CI tools used in the company, Jenkins being one of them (among the most popular). Not uncommonly, each team within Arm manages its own Jenkins instances. One and a half years ago Arm decided to invest in providing a sort of "Jenkins as a Service" in a centralised manner, by setting up a platform team behind it. Moving to CloudBees CI seemed the straightforward logical choice. This talk is about Arm's journey from Jenkins OSS to CloudBees CI, a journey very much at the beginning, but with big expectations from both Arm and CloudBees and a partnership which will benefit both parties, as well as CloudBees CI customers around the world.

What is a developer platform?   Who are the developer platform’s users?  What is a good user experience for the developer platform’s users?

These are some of the questions we set out to answer. Our aim was to create a platform that provided such a positive developer experience that developers would want to use it – that developer advocacy would bring the momentum to drive adoption.  Trimming seconds off your pipeline won’t save millions, but if you can get buy-in from developers and build an ecosystem around it, then you open yourself many advantages including:

• - Faster feedback loop for developers means faster time to market 
• - Free from lock-in to particular technology
• - Consistency across technology estate without mandating choices
• - Ability to innovate quickly and safely

In this talk we will give you some insights on building developer platforms, show you the guiding principles, standards, ways of working that led us to deliver a successful and much loved platform.

The reality in many companies: 

• Marketing: we need more generative artificial intelligence (AI)
• Engineering: hold my beer

In this emerging field of generative AI, prompt engineering and large language models, we are bombarded with new ideas and it's hard to separate mere ideas from reality. These deceivingly simple applications make it look soooo easy. Engineering, how hard can it be?! 

This talk will walk you through the steps to bring your dreams to production: We will address both business and technical aspects as we provide examples of the journey from taking it from dev to ops with a dash of security.

The key takeaways from this talk are:

• Understanding the transformation journey you are on
• The tools landscape available to us
• The business considerations to make

To conclude, we reflect on the implications of these advancements and their significance in the ever-evolving landscape of technology. Can't wait to share and can't wait to learn from your journey too!

The need for your infrastructure to scale up and down to meet customer demands in a competitive marketplace is critically important; but scalability doesn’t mean a thing if your system isn’t reliable. Does a “magic formula” for reliability exist; and if so, what does it look like?   Join Ger McMahon, Head of ALM Tools and Platforms at Fidelity Investments, as he explores the answers to these important questions. Ger will share about the continuous learning and evolution of Fidelity’s cloud and platform strategy that continue to make Fidelity and its customers successful in an ever-changing marketplace. You will gain insight into Fidelity’s key learnings over the years, including real-world contextual examples encountered along the way and how these continuously evolve the so-called “magic” formula. Ger will also discuss how challenges in the financial sector parallel problems in just about every other industry.

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This presentation discusses the importance of DevSecOps, tech stack design, and team function segregation in enhancing corporate development efficiency. It highlights how continuous changes in technology, methodology, and team collaboration have influenced DevOps and led to the emergence of DevSecOps. The talk explains the role of a tech stack and toolchain in building and running software applications and their impact on performance, scalability, and maintainability. It underscores the need for informed decisions in selecting the most suitable tech stack and toolchain based on project needs and team expertise. Further, it delves into the benefits of separating team functions in the product design process, enabling parallel work and utilizing different competencies within a team. The presentation concludes that the right choice of toolchain and working methodology can significantly influence an organization's success.

Many malicious attacks have led to today’s all-out barrage on the software industry - leading to significantly more vulnerabilities in production applications. In this session, we will dissect the relationship between enterprise developers and security teams. You’ll learn how you can truly make shift left happen and what this means for enabling developers to protect their software pipelines, their company and the many people depending on them for a seamless software experience.

DZ BANK embarked on a DevOps journey to enhance operational efficiency and reduce time-to-market. This transition, however, presented major technology challenges like integrating legacy systems with modern DevOps tools, implementing process-wide automation, and ensuring secure coding in a fast-paced environment. The cultural change was equally challenging, with resistance from teams accustomed to traditional work methods and the need to instill a sense of shared responsibility and a learning culture.

Despite these hurdles, the DevOps adoption has been rewarding, leading to improved collaboration, productivity, and customer satisfaction. We discovered that changing mindsets is harder than changing processes. Our journey provides valuable insights for others planning their own DevOps transition, especially when they want to automate the entire stack.

Stay for the Happy Hour and build on the day's learnings. Engage in informative discussions with peers, enjoy mouth-watering snacks, and refreshing drinks, all while relaxing and unwinding. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to network, exchange insights, and enhance your career growth!