London DevOps #63 - London DevSecOps Gathering special at Blueprint LDN

We are back everyone! Hope you had a good summer.

We're running our first in-person event at Blueprint LDN (https://blueprintldn.com/) on the evening of Wednesday the 22nd of September. This is a special event with the amazing people at DevSecOps London Gathering <3 (https://www.meetup.com/DevSecOps-London-Gathering/)

To gain access to the venue you can register for free at https://blueprintldn.com/register/

This event is within the Olympia London, we kindly ask everyone to follow social distancing rules and requirements by the venue.

Food for this event are sponsored by StorageOS https://storageos.com/

Please see speakers and agenda below;

6:00pm - Introductions

6:15pm - Nigel Kersten - Dev(Sec)Ops: It’s people all the way down

As technologists, it’s easy to focus entirely on the technical capabilities we’re building or deploying inside our organisations. However, tech isn’t deployed in a vacuum, it’s always part of a sociotechnical system, where tech and groups of messy humans are constantly interacting. In the 2021 State of DevOps Report we found that for most companies, organisational dynamics and social/cultural factors are the primary constraints around success at DevOps/DevSecOps silo-busting initiatives. Automation is critical, agile and lean are important, yet team identities and interactions matter the most at any non-trivial scale.

Bio:

Nigel Kersten is responsible for bringing product knowledge and a senior technical operations perspective to Puppet field teams and customers, working on services strategy and representing the customer back into the product organization. He works with many of Puppet’s largest customers on the cultural and organizational changes necessary for large scale DevOps implementations. He has been deeply involved in Puppet's DevOps initiatives, and has served in a range of executive roles at Puppet over the last ten years.

6:50pm - Panel Session

We will be talking about some of the topics covered in Nigel's talk.

Panellists:

• Jessica Cregg
• Dominique Top
• Sonya Moisset
• Ian Miell
• Alex Chircop
• Nigel Kersten

7:30pm - Socials

We'll head over to the pub!

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