Chicago 2015 - Program

Platinum sponsors

Tuesday, August 25th and Wednesday, August 26th

Videos and slides will be posted in the coming week!


If you are new to the Open Space concept you may want to read some more details.

The Schedule

Tuesday, August 25th

08:00-09:00
Registration, Breakfast, and Sponsor Booths Open
09:00-9:15
Opening Welcome
09:15-09:50
State of the DevOps
John Willis



09:50-09:55
Sponsors
09:55-10:30
Enabling Microservices @ Orbitz
Steve Hoffman
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-11:20
Building World Class Ops Teams
Charity Majors
11:20-11:25
Sponsors
11:25-12:00
Brainstorming Failure
Jeff Smith
12:00-13:10
Catered Lunch
13:10-13:40
Ignites

13:40-13:45
Sponsors
13:45-14:15
Open Space Voting
Open Space Introduction & Voting
14:30-15:15
Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #1 Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #1
~15:00
Afternoon Snacks
in the sponsor area
15:30-16:15
Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #2 Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #2
16:30-17:15
Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #3 Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #3
17:20-17:30
Close Day & Logistics
18:30-21:30
Evening Event
@ Headquarters Beercade River North
213 W. Institute
Chicago, IL 60610
We'll have fun and games in a private space at HQ for at least 3 hours, but we may have fun for longer. :)

Wednesday, August 26th

08:00-09:00
Venue, Breakfast, and Sponsor Booths Open
09:00-9:15
Logistics
09:15-09:50
It's More Than Feature Toggles: Enabling Applications for Continuous Delivery
Dan Piessens
09:50-09:55
Sponsors
09:55-10:30
Frameworks for Feedback
Rebecca Miller-Webster
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-11:20
The DevOps Pipeline
Steve Pereira

11:20-11:25
Sponsors
11:25-12:00
Day of the Donkey
Coté
12:00-13:10
Catered Lunch
13:10-13:40
Ignites
13:40-13:45
Sponsors
13:45-14:15
Open Space Voting
Open Space Voting

14:30-15:15
Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #1 Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #1
~15:00
Afternoon Snacks
in the sponsor area
15:30-16:15
Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #2 Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #2
16:30-17:15
Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #3 Open Space (Open Space)
Open Space #3
17:15-17:30
Close Day & Farewell
18:30
Farewell Toast?
Details TBD...
CHEF


Gold sponsors

10th Magnitude New Relic Elastic DRW Trading HP Puppet Labs ServerCentral Moogsoft PagerDuty Sysdig AlertOps Docker SaltStack Visual Studio Pivotal Slalom Consulting


Silver sponsors

VictorOps CloudPassage Neptune.io Sumo Logic Ansible Rackspace OpinionLab Quint Wellington Redwood Column Technologies IBM


Bronze sponsors

DigitalOcean


Media sponsors

O'Reilly Media Arrested DevOps Blacks in Technology Women Who Code Write/Speak/Code


Evening sponsors

New Relic PagerDuty

Wifi sponsor

HP