SEAM #20 - The importance of Platforms and Continuous Integration

At SEAM #20 we'll be bringing together Value Engineering and DevOps Engineering with 2 great talks focusing on Platforms and Continuous Integration.

6:30 - 7:00 pm - Opening networking and pizza
7:00 - 7:30 pm - Martijn Moerbeek (L&G) - "The importance of Platforms"
7:30 - 8:10 pm - Angel Rivera (CircleCI) - "The importance of CI - Building CI/CD Pipelines with CircleCI & Docker"
8:10 - 8:15 pm - Q & A
8:15 - 9:00 pm - Networking, Close

Summary of Presentations:

7:00 - 7:30 pm - Martijn Moerbeek - "The importance of Platforms"

Digital disruption is fundamentally changing customer’s expectations and bargaining power, and service is increasingly becoming the only differentiator.

Indeed, it is often said that companies that own the customer data and the customer experience will be the winners of the future. In this context, incumbents would be wise to choose a “platform play” and to create two-way data flows between them and the customers that enable the creation of truly disruptive ecosystems.

However, less than 20% of companies have taken steps to reinvent themselves and make the most of the opportunity that digital disruption provides them. How do you leverage the power of platforms?

Martijn Moerbeek bio –

Martijn is a group director at Legal & General, a FTSE 50 financial services company, advisory board member for technology houses and start-ups, and a keynote speaker. He has a blended skill-set of corporate strategy, innovation design and business architecture, bridging all aspects of change. Martijn has spent his career architecting and driving large-scale digital transformations in companies with revenues of up to £44bn. More recently, he has focussed on establishing engines for business growth by realising the potential for disruption at the cross-over between the corporate and start-up worlds.

7:30 - 8:10 pm - Angel Rivera (CircleCI) - "The importance of CI - Building CI/CD Pipelines with CircleCI & Docker"

The ascendance of Docker has helped bring about about a new focus on some software development values that are dear to our heart at CircleCI—consistency, automation, and continuity; that is, developing software within a consistent build environment, testing it in an automated fashion, and deploying it with a focus on continuous delivery of new code.

We released CircleCI 2.0 with these values in mind, placing Docker at the core of our Continuous Integration platform and allowing customers to build projects on CircleCI using any combination of Docker images as build environments.

CircleCI’s images for popular languages + services have over 38M+ pulls on DockerHub. Docker images are an incredible asset for ensuring that your dev and production environments are mirrors.

In this session, CircleCI Developer Advocate Angel Rivera will use Docker & CircleCI to demonstrate how developers can easily integrate CI/CD pipelines into their projects and securely, build, test, release & deploy production ready Docker images.

Angel Rivera bio:

Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he discovered his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes military/space lift operations, software engineering, SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security and management.

Angel’s passions are positive disruption, learning, teaching, mentoring but most of all inspiring all forms of technologists & building awesome tech communities.

Note the different location - Thanks to NewDay for hosting us at the conference facility in Kings Cross

The first 20 people through the door will get a copy of Barry O'Reilly's new book "Unlearn"