20th: Closing the Year with DevOps & Agile on 19th of December

Greetings, esteemed members of the DevOps and Agile community!
As the world outside transforms into a winter wonderland, we invite you to join us for a special gathering that promises to ignite warmth within. Embrace the spirit of collaboration and innovation at the culminating event of the year, our DevOps & Agile Meetup, hosted at the vibrant Workland offices in the heart of Rīga (Audēju iela 15)!

Join us for an evening filled with knowledge exchange, networking opportunities, and a celebration of the collective achievements of our dynamic community. As we gather to reflect on the year gone by, let's usher in the holiday season with the warmth of shared ideas and the promise of continued growth in the realm of DevOps and Agile philosophies.

Thank you to our Event sponsors - Amazon Web Services, Arvato, and Workland offices.

We will have a plentiful lineup of beloved speakers from previous events who have prepared many captivating lightning talks:

• André Nitzschmann (Driver at EdTech Latvia) - "Snowflakes Factory"
• Anita Gaile (Leadership and career development coach) - "Embrace your futures!"
• Andrey Adamovich (DevOps Trainer, Field CTO) - "The story of package managers"
• Darja Odorovska (IT Process Efficiency Trainer & Agile Coach) & Anna Zalucka (Agile Coach, Gestalt Practitioner & Therapist in Training) - "Mindful agility: What are seven negative psychological states we tend to get into at work, and how do we overcome them?"
• Andris Aišpurs (Efficiency leader / Professional Certified Coach) - "How few decisions sunk the Titanic"
• Ankit Nigam (Senior Solution Architect AWS) - "AWS re:invent 2023 Recap"
• Gundega Dekena (DevOps Associate Manager) - "Corporate Skies, Skeptical Minds: Pairing GitHub Copilot with Big Enterprise Developers"
• Ebrahim Ramadan (Cloud Architect) - "Kubernetes Cost"
• Harles Paesüld (Head of Cloud Services, Mooncascade) - "5 Keys to Dodging Financial Pitfalls in the Public Cloud"
• Raina Dūrēja-Dombrovska (Leadership Strategy Coach) - "How to debug the most complex system we work with every day: our brain"
• Jānis Orlovs (PlatformOps and DevOps Principal Consultant) - "GenAI Techniques for DevOps Practitioner"
• Vladimirs Ivanovs (OptimusPrime of the agiletransformer.com) - "Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy"
• Jelena Sobolevska (Team Lead at Accenture Baltics) is still keeping it a secret
• and a few more from the core team

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Please make sure that you arrive early because we’ll be checking in people at the counter. There’s simply no other way to forecast how much beer and pizzas we should buy 😊.
We will be happy if you join us on-site, but for those who can't make it - you are welcome to watch the live stream on our YouTube channel.
And for async digital communications please use the Techies of Baltics Slack channels at https://devops.lv/slack/
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See you at the Workland! Check-in at 18:00, and presentations start at 18:30. As always, your presence and active participation make our community vibrant and inspiring. To secure your spot, RSVP on our Meetup.com page. Let's continue our mission of fostering innovation, learning, and collaboration in the ever-evolving landscapes of DevOps, Agile, and technology.
If your plans change, could you please cancel your registration? It would be a pity to lose you as a community member.
See you there!

*Please note that photographs and footage will be taken throughout this event without a warning. These can be used by the Community for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media, or any third-party publication.