London DevOps #89 - AutogenAI

Join us on Thursday, March 27th for a London DevOps meetup at AutogenAI's King's Cross office. We're excited to feature Sarah Wells, a seasoned technology leader and author of Enabling Microservice Success. Sarah will delve into Nudge Theory, exploring how subtle prompts can guide empowered teams toward beneficial behaviours without enforcing compliance. Meanwhile, Ethan Sumner, Head of Cloud & AI at Synyega, will be speaking to us about Cloud modernisation and AI.

6:00pm - Arrival

6:45pm - Introductions

7:00pm - The Talks

Unlocking a Clear Path to Production: Cloud Modernization & AI Readiness - Ethan Sumner

Getting workloads to production efficiently is a significant challenge for organisations. This talk explores a Cloud Modernization Pathway, combining FinOps, GreenOps, and AI-driven automation to streamline migrations and optimise cloud operations.

Ethan Sumner is Head of Cloud & AI Development at Synyega, a leading FinOps, GreenOps & ITAM consultancy, where he focuses on consulting and alliance strategy. With experience across startups and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), he specialises in Developer Relations, Cloud Architecture, and FinOps, helping businesses optimise cloud and community strategies.

A passionate community leader, Ethan runs Yorkshire DevOps, Yorkshire Azure User Group, AWS Sheffield, and GenAI UK, advising over 40 user groups and regularly speaking at domestic and international events. He also sits on the Barnsley College Risk and Advisory Board and chairs the Yorkshire Digital Community Alliance, driving regional collaboration and innovation.

Nudge theory and influencing empowered teams to do the things that matter - Sarah Wells

“You build it, you run it” is a fine principle, but it means you need to let your teams make their own choices. But you still have things you want all teams to do, and you need to balance the benefits of the right technologies for each team against the costs of running multiple data stores, deployment platforms, languages, etc.

Nudge theory is an idea from behavioural economics, that you can use nudges to influence behaviour in a particular direction, rather than having to enforce compliance.

Sarah explores what nudge theory can teach us about making it easy and attractive for empowered teams to follow a common path, to the benefit of the organisation as a whole.

Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and DevOps. She has over 20 years of experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and DevOps teams. She is the author of the O’Reilly book Enabling Microservice Success: Managing Technical, Organizational and Cultural Challenges.

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