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Don't take anything for granted

Submissions are closed. Have a look at the program.

Over the five years, we've come a long way: we get a lot of submissions that are refinements and/or testimonials of the traditional devops topics: infrastructure as code, kanban, large enterprise, continuous delivery ... Obviously we value these topics very much. But, this would not be the anniversary edition, if we want to give this a new twist: we want you to expand yours and other people's minds by suggesting speakers/topics are not traditionally suggested. We especially welcome suggestions with relation to other scientific fields.

In short blow our brains aways by suggesting something radically new.

Besides the suggest a speaker/topic we also have the traditional ways to propose a session:

1. A proposal for a talk/panel during the conference part : these are 30 minute slots that will have all people's full attention as everybody will be in that one room.
2. An Ignite talk that will be presented during the Ignite sessions: these are 5 minutes slots with slides changing every 15 seconds (20 slides total) also presented to all attendees in one room
3. Openspace session : even without a prepared presentation we welcome the discussion and interaction by having people propose a session on the fly during the openspace opening. Check the openspace format for more information

Speaker selection

The selection is done by the complete organization team over a discussion. We take into account comments/remarkts done at the bottom of each proposal. Once selection is done, we will notify both selected and non selected speakers. Optionally we will tell people they are a runner up or ask them to propose the same subject as an Ignite talk.

Suggest a speaker, topic

Come on, don't be shy. We know you've always wanted a person to give their own view on a specific subject. Now's your chance and we might make it happen.

Suggestions so far:

1. Martin Parker: Organizational Culture and Identity: Unity and Division at Work - suggested by Brice Figureau
2. Ken Baskin - Author of Corporate DNA - suggested by Brice Figureau
3. How to Run a Post-Mortem With Humans (Not Robots) - suggested by Tim Brown
4. Henry Mintzberg - author of The Structuring of Organizations - suggested by Niek Bartholomeus
5. Elisa Mattarelli - researcher of Remote Virtual Teams - suggested by Brice Figureau

Talks so far:

1. Why you can't buy DevOps in a box - Dustin Whittle
2. Why open source is to free software what automation is to devops - Jonathan Clarke
3. The elephant in the room - how do I actually attract, build and retain my DevOps team? - Tony Chapman
4. The Self-Steering Organization: From Cybernetics to DevOps and Beyond - Jeff Sussna
5. The Death of Devops: A Premortem - Dave Zwieback
6. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: You're a DevOps Natural - Dave Mangot
7. Tackling Performance, Debugging and Development in Agile Production Environments - Theo Schlossnagle
8. Simple Solutions Should be your Strategy - Jan-Joost Bouwman & Robin Teurlings
9. Security, Logs and the ELK Stack - Kurt Hurtado
10. SDN, not just for big greenfield networks - Frank Louwers
11. Running a fully self-organizing/self-managing team (or company) - Dave Zwieback
12. Repository as an deployment artifact - Inny So
13. Quantifying the value of DevOps - Dustin Whittle
14. Perfect is the enemy of good - Michael Brunton-Spall
15. NetDevOps: No Compromises - John Deatherage
16. Mesos: Your datacenter as one computer - Nils De Moor
17. Let's get serious about culture - Kevin Behr
18. Keeping your team in shape and minimize silos as your team grows - Bastian Widmer
19. Innovating at speed with Devops - Eric Cattoir
20. In tests we trust - Seb Rose
21. ITIL and DevOps, straight from the horse's mouth - Karu Kaimar
22. IT Operations - Delivering successful transformation in a DevOps World - Volker Will
23. Governing the commons of DevOps - Sandy Flath
24. From Strategy to Deployment... and everything in between - Marcelo Ancelmo
25. Faster Releases - Automated Tests Are Your First Line Of Defense - Emanuil Slavov
26. Engineering Ethos - Khushil Dep
27. Docker in Production: Successes and Pitfalls - Aaron Huslage
28. Devops patterns using the Pattern Language - Daniel Cukier
29. DevOps@Enterprise - Lessons from the Trenches - Marcelo Ancelmo
30. DevOps: A local optimization - Andrew Clay Shafer
31. DevOps, The Next Five Years - Chris Jackson
32. DevOps – the next phase for new adopters - Heather Mickman
33. DevOps and the Database - Is this a Tale of the Forgotten Service? - Chip Childers
34. DevOps - Practices, Techniques and Tools for Continuous Delivery - Marcelo Ancelmo
35. Configuration Management in a Distributed World - David Lutterkort
36. Cognitive Biases in Tech: Awareness of our own bugs in decision making - Nigel Kersten
37. ChatOps: Practices, Patterns, and Antipatterns - Eric Sigler
38. ChatOps: A trojan horse to sneak DevOps ideas into other parts of your organization - Eric Sigler
39. Ceci n'est pas #devops - Bridget Kromhout
40. Building Top-Down Support for DevOps - Andi Mann
41. Automation with Humans in Mind: Making Complex Systems Predictable, Reliable and Humane - Brian Troutwine
42. Automating OpenStack In The Microsoft World - Don Schenk
43. 5 years of metrics and monitoring - Lindsay Holmwood
44. "DevOps" in a Post-DevOps World - J. Paul Reed

Ignites so far:

1. The ultimate DevOps test - Marta Paciorkowska
2. The Art of Cooking – Grandma’s DevOps practices – or how to compete with her in your environment - Sandy Flath
3. Repository as an deployment artifact - Inny So
4. Introducing ncf: an intuitive and powerful configuration language - Jonathan Clarke
5. Devops Weekly, the first 200 issues - Gareth Rushgrove
6. Are you passionate? - Seb Rose