London Platform User Group (LOPUG), Wednesday 27th November, 6.30pm onwards

For our last meetup for 2024, we will be back at the Accurx offices.
We'll have two fantastic speakers, the agenda will be:

• 6:30pm - arrive, drinks, food, networking
• 7:00pm - Talk 1: Protecting your supply chain with Trusty and Minder

This talk will focus on how Stacklok projects Trusty and Minder, can protect your software supply chain from common attacks. Stacklok is a startup founded by Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie and Luke Hinds, the founder of the sigstore project. They are focused on solving the problems in the software supply chain, by building community centric tools and platforms.

Speaker: Luke Hinds, CTO, Stacklok
Luke, a former distinguished engineer at Red Hat, where he led the engineering team creating projects such as enarx and keylime. He founded Sigstore to simplify digital signatures on software, and is now chairing its technical steering committee. Luke is among one of the founding members of OpenSSF, where he served on its Governing Board, he was previously on the Technical Advisory Council. Luke managed Kubernetes' bug bounty program. Luke is a recognized figure in open source supply chain security, often speaking at industry events like RSA Conference and Kubecon/CloudNativeCon.

• 7.30pm - more drinks & networking
• 7.45pm - Talk 2: Systems Thinking for Dev Organisations

Systems thinking has been a hot button topic inside and outside the tech industry, as it promises a straightforward and structured approach to make sense of the world and its complexities. By looking at systems in terms of elements and their relationships, Systems Thinkers can understand and predict behaviours, as well as affect long-lasting change.
Understanding that tech organisations, dev teams and their individual members are themselves systems, following their own purposes and structures, can help us better support developers in their goals.
In this talk, we will learn about the basics and mechanisms that inform systems thinking. We will look at examples from the real world to understand why systems behave the way they do and how we can enable change. Finally, we will adapt what we learned to development organizations and discuss how systems thinking can help us improve developer efficiency and happiness.

Speaker: Lian Li, Cloud Native Human
Lian always wanted to save the world. After dropping out of law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending and speaking at tech events, and soon fell in love with the tech community. In her roles as Developer, Consultant and Developer Advocate, Lian combined technical knowledge with an understanding of the human condition.
Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam, where she works as an independent Cloud Consultant and serves as Co-Chair for the CNCF TAG app-delivery. She can also be seen on stage at various English-speaking musical theatre productions, doing standup comedy and improv theatre.

• 8.15pm onwards - drinks and networking.

So, please come and join us, we look forward to seeing you there.
The LOPUG team.

• Food and drinks provided
• Good time will be had by all