Northern DevOps & Platform Leaders Conf

Tickets £50 + VAT using code YD50

Join Yorkshire DevOps and Yorkshire Azure User Group (YAG) for the DevOps & Platform Leaders Summit, hosted in partnership with Accenture on Tuesday 20th October in Leeds.

Following May's Northern DevOps & Platform Conference, this is a smaller, senior-focused summit for platform, DevOps and engineering leaders.

Places are capped at 75. Find the Full Agenda Here

Venue: Accenture, Aspley House, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 2EQ (5 min walk from Leeds station)
Time: 09:45 to 16:30
Food, drink and CAKE will be provided.

Speakers and Sessions:
Matthew Rowe-Macleod, Head of Platform Engineering Practice, Accenture Opening Keynote

Aidan Connor, Head of Architecture, Digital and Data, Card Factory

Keith Moyo, Senior Technical Specialist, NHS & Andy Shepherd, Senior Cloud Architect, Microsoft: Building a Future-Ready Cloud Centre of Excellence

Sam Cunliffe, Head of Cloud Engineering & Architecture, Howden Insurance: AI in Engineering

Kate Gawron, Principal Data Solution Architect, DoiT Supabase: Stop Building the Database Platform, Start Using It

Ian Watson, Director of DevOps, ArisGlobal Who Owns the AI Bill? Rethinking FinOps and DevOps Together

Ignite Talks:
Will Dewhurst, Connells Group: Forget IDP. We're in the Era of ADP.
Suzie Rasnak, Howden: Apprentice 101
Jessica Parkinson, Skipton Building Society: Women in Tech Mythbuster

Closing Panel: Building Technical Careers Where Women Thrive
Practical actions organisations, managers and colleagues can take to attract, support and retain women in tech, from first application through to senior leadership. Moderated by Ethan Sumner, Founder & CEO, Community Stack; Jessica Parkinson, Cloud Engineer, Skipton Building Society; Suzie Rasnak, Associate Cloud Engineer, Howden; Anna Broadhurst, Co-founder, T5 Digital; Matthew Coney, Director, Ada Meher

Tickets:

Community tickets: £50 + VAT using code YD50

Register here: https://ti.to/communitystack/devops-platform-leaders

If your organisation can fund your place, please select an organisation-funded ticket to help keep our event accessible and allow us to offer free tickets to those who need them. If you need support to attend, email ethan.sumner@communitystack.io for a free ticket.

The same address works for any other enquiries. We'd like to thank Accenture as headline partner, Colibri Digital as headline Data & AI ecosystem sponsor, CGI, Ada Meher, Overmind, Digital Endeavours, Searchability and Skipton Building Society as platinum sponsors, and Nearform as our AI Native sponsor.