Enterprise DevOps After Party Event at AKQA with Gene Kim & Ignites

Join us for an after party for the excellent DevOps Enterprise (http://devopsenterprise.io/)event that will be taking place at the AKQA (http://www.akqa.com/) offices who have generously offered to host the party.

Buses will be leaving from the DevOps Enterprise event following Gene Kim's closing keynote address that is scheduled to begin at 5:40 PM. (Sign up for transportation from the venue here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19gXP1Uu5ArFHMjwRYOLRVteaalyE9JisxFITCckVK1U/viewform)).

For those who haven't registered yet - YOU SHOULD! It'll be excellent...they're pretty much sold out, but you can register with this code, exclusive to our group (so please don't pass it on).

https://devopsenterprise.eventbrite.com/?discount=DEVOPSMEETUP30

Pizzas, beers & a great time are assured - so come on out!

On the agenda:

• State of the DevOps Union Talk by the real Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project, and founder of ITRevolution (http://itrevolution.com/) | @realgenekim (http://www.twitter.com/realgenekim) on Twitter

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• Ignite by Uri Cohen, Head of Product, GigaSpaces

• Ignite Talk by Evan Powell, StackStorm

• Ignite Talk by David Hayes, Lead Product Manager, PagerDuty

Special thanks to the event sponsors: GigaSpaces (http://www.gigaspaces.com), StackStorm (http://www.stackstorm.com) and PagerDuty (http://www.pagerduty.com)

Speaker bios:

Uri Cohen, GigaSpaces

Uri leads the product team at GigaSpaces, and is interested in everything cloud, scalability and devops. He’s a spare time coder and proud father of 3. During the weekend, Uri masquerades as an all-mountain and occasionally downhill bicycle rider, trying his best to keep his body in one piece. Find him on Twitter: @uri1803 (http://www.twitter.com/uri1803)

Evan Powell, StackStorm

Evan Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of StackStorm which is an open source software company focused on operations automation with a particular focus on closed loop automation. With 15+ years experience in infrastructure software, Evan was previously the founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, where he helped create the software defined storage market. Find him on twitter @epowell101 (http://www.twitter.com/epowell101).

David Hayes, PagerDuty

David Hayes is the lead product manager at PagerDuty, the leading platform for operations performance -- and the most recognized automated voice in DevOps. Before working at PagerDuty, David was a program manager for SharePoint at Microsoft. He has appeared on NPR's On-Point with Tom Ashbrook and Bloomberg News.

Company Sponsors:

AKQA is the ideas and innovation company that uses the imaginative application of art and science to create ideas, products and services. Visit http://www.akqa.com

GigaSpaces Technologies provides management and scaling of mission-critical applications on cloud environments through two main product lines, XAP In-Memory Computing (http://www.gigaspaces.com/xap-in-memory-computing-event-processing/Meet-XAP) and Cloudify (http://www.gigaspaces.com/cloudify-devops-cloud-application-management/meet-cloudify). Hundreds of Tier-1 organizations worldwide leverage GigaSpaces’ technology to enhance IT efficiency and performance, from top financial firms, e-commerce companies, online gaming providers, healthcare organizations and telecom carriers. Visit http://www.gigaspaces.com .

PagerDuty’s operations performance platform helps companies increase reliability. By connecting people, systems and data in a single view, PagerDuty delivers visibility and actionable intelligence across global operations for effective incident resolution management. PagerDuty has over 80 platform partners, and is trusted by Fortune 500 companies and startups alike, including Microsoft, National Instruments, Electronic Arts, Adobe, Rackspace, Etsy, Square and Github. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Ignition Partners and others. Try PagerDuty for free, or to get more information, visit www.pagerduty.com (http://www.pagerduty.com/)

StackStorm is leading the third wave of operations automation. We work hard to deliver the 10-100x productivity improvements of highly automated DevOps environments to the broader market. We want operations automations to be more powerful, easier to author, fully transparent, and self-learning. Visit http://www.stackstorm.com