DevOps Porto #23: Agile vs|& DevOps

Welcome to our 23th meetup about DevOps and it's culture, values and practices. For this Christmas season we team up with Agile Connect (https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Connect-Porto) to bring you a different format: a discussion panel. This meetup will be held at Polo Zero facilities.

Based on the question “Agile vs DevOps or Agile & DevOps?” we organized a discussion panel around the topics that unite (or divide) us.

Our painel will have 4 invited speakers and 2 moderators that will debate questions coming from the moderators and from the audience. Yes, you will be able to propose your on questions!

Agenda:
• Welcome
• 1st round of debates
• Coffee/Networking break
• 2nd round of debates
• Conclusions
• Closing

Our speakers:

Pedro Almeida (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfsalmeida/)
Having the crazy motto “Changing the world every day” I’m passionate about teams, its people and its interactions. Passionated about agility and engineering I've started working in Telecommunication area as a developer with amazing teams from Maisis, PT Inovação, Nokia. And the last 4 years being an Agile Coach at Farfetch and now at Talkdesk - the most amazing call center product of the world!

Eduardo Piairo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardopiairo/)
DevOps Whisperer, Community Builder, always ready to learn SC, CI and CD for databases, applications and infrastructure. The deployment pipeline it's my favorite technical and cultural tool.
DevOps Coach @ Natixis with automation, collaboration and communication as priorities.

Ricardo Castro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-castro-9a039126/)
DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer at Uphold building highly performant, reliable and scalable systems. Strong believer in culture and team work.
Open source passionate, taekwondo amateur and metal lover.

Nuno Rafael Gomes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nrgomes/)
With +20 year's experience playing and learning with different people, teams, and business challenges, Nuno works for IOSAE, a professional services company specializing in organizational agility for clients in sectors as diverse as Education, E-commerce, Manufacturing, and Telecommunications. Nuno is the founder of Agile Connect, one of its amazing Facilitators, and also an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), and an eduScrum Trainer & Coach.

Our moderators:

Marta Torneiro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martatorneiro/)
I’ve worked for more than 4 years in the Quality Assurance area and in the last 2 and a half years of those, as a manager of 2 different QA teams in two different companies. I’m currently working as a Delivery Manager @Blip and loving it!
Passionate and enthusiast about continuous improvement, people, Agile and DevOps cultures and everything in between.

Suleander Zahn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/suleander/)
Always curious about people and their interactions, constant learner of culture and behaviour. Currently Agile Coach @Prozis, fostering the creation and sustainability of a work environment based on trust, collaboration, transparency, inspection and adaptation, so the best solutions may emerge for the benefit of our customers.