Name: Yorkshire DevOps #32 - November 2025 - Accenture - Leeds
Start: 2025-11-13T18:00:00Z
End: 2025-11-13T20:00:00Z
Location: Accenture - Apsley House

Accenture will host Yorkshire DevOps at their November 2025 event in the Leeds office.

You can find our code of conduct over at [yorkshiredevops.dev](https://yorkshiredevops.dev/)

Speakers:
**Speaker -** Alam Ahmed - Managed Services Support Analyst, Lloyds Boxxe
**Talk -** Defending the Cloud-Native Frontier: Security as Code with Terraform & OPA
**Description -** This talk will explore a practical "Security as Code" approach, demonstrating how to proactively build defense-in-depth into your infrastructure using powerful open-source tools. We will dive into how **Terraform** serves as the first line of defense, allowing you to define and enforce secure baseline configurations for cloud resources like AWS EKS clusters and S3 buckets directly at the point of creation.
But what about those complex, organizational policies that Terraform can't easily express? This is where **Open Policy Agent (OPA)** and its dedicated Terraform tool, **Conftest**, come in. We will see how OPA acts as a powerful guardrail, automatically validating Terraform plans against custom security policies to prevent misconfigurations—such as ensuring all EBS volumes are encrypted or that no security groups are left open to the world—before a single resource is ever provisioned.

**Speaker -** Ikechukwu Emmanuel Arum - Product and Project Manager, Severn Trent & Founder at Hokfam
**Talk:** Building with Purpose: Lessons from DevOps Technology, Innovation, and Product Development
**Description:** In this talk, Ikechukwu will share insights from his journey building products, leading projects, and fostering partnerships across tech and education. He’ll discuss the challenges of turning ideas into impactful solutions, what it takes to align innovation with real-world needs, and the leadership lessons learned along the way. Attendees will gain practical takeaways on managing products and projects, balancing innovation with strategy, and creating technology that drives meaningful change.

**Speaker:** Oliver Mannion - IoT Penetration Tester Intern.
**Talk:** Why more companies should include a Bug Bounty Program
**Description:** In this talk, Oliver explores his experience participating in bug bounty programs and why organisations should set up their own.

**Sponsors:**
Thank you to Accenture for hosting the meetup and Ada Meher for being our long-term sponsors.

**Timings (approx):**
17:45 - Arrivals and Networking
18:25 - Welcome and introductions
18:30 -Talk 1
19:00 - Break
19:10 - Talk 2
19:55 - Close
20:15 - Venue closes

Jared Holgate

Ethan Sumner

Zuzanna

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Open Source

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New Technology

Web Development

New Product Development: Software & Tech

Cloud Computing

Amazon Web Services

Computer Programming

DevOps

Technology Startups

Virtualization

Startup Businesses

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

Linux

System Administration

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