IDC DevOps Conference Connected DevOps for Digital Business

In-Person Event | London | September 29, 2022

Overview

With its ability to deliver higher quality results more rapidly, DevOps is the linchpin of the digital enterprise. UK teams practicing accelerated app delivery and DevOps are in a better position to use software innovation and agility to impact their organizations response to the ongoing covid 19 pandemic. As more organizations start to operate like software companies scaling and automating DevOps practices is vital to continued competitiveness. DevOps means an iterative process of continuous improvement, so as software engineering teams scale quickly organizations must focus on the right tactics to manage, empower, and drive growth at scale.


2022 sees the pressure to deliver software-based digital innovation fuel the appetite to overcome friction points in the enterprise-scale adoption of DevOps. However, managing tool proliferation, growing complexity of the application estate, and the explosion of data that needs monitoring and analysing for continuous improvement holds back progress and impedes digital innovation efforts for one in five UK organizations. With Application environments increasing in both size and complexity this puts pressure on existing DevOps teams. So, focus must shift to change and evolve the way that teams collaborate through automation. At the core of software innovation sits a highly iterative, small-yet-fast release cycle; implementing an organizational architecture that moves the business towards such an operating model is hard. Augmenting security, compliance, and governance capabilities to provide the right "team" guardrails is a necessity as is that need for visibility across the entire DevOps tool chain. Connected DevOps is the requirement for fast and secure delivery of digital products and services.

Join us on 29th September to discuss the below topics:

  • DevOps at Scale
  • Leadership & Culture
  • Business Outcome Based Metrics
  • Continuous Delivery Behaviour
  • DevOps Pipeline Security
  • Low Code DevOps
  • Data-Driven DevOps
  • GitOps Automation
  • DevOps Change Management

Event Highlights


We would like to thank all the delegates and the partners who participated at this event.

A selected group of IT and business leaders came together to network and learn from IDCs analysts, inspiring speakers and dedicated advisory board members, who were at the forefront of the lively and interactive discussion.

If you missed the event or if you would like more information on any of the topics we discussed, click the button below to watch a recording or access the post-event content.


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General Information

 

The Tower Hotel

 

September 29

 

08:30 - 17:00

 

Agenda

Time Event & Speakers
8:30

Registration and Coffee

9:30

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Duncan Brown

Vice President, European Enterprise Research, IDC
9:35

IDC Keynote: Connected DevOps for Digital Business

Jennifer Thomson

Associate Vice President, Services, AccAD and Cloud, European Region
10:05

Diamond Keynote: Speed in DevOps

Bernard Klemm

Partner Sales Solution Architect EMEA, Tricentis

Using NoCode and LowCode in software testing to accelerate software delivery

10:35

End User Keynote: Moving to the Cloud Securely with DevSecOps

Vince King

Head of DevSecOps - Bank of England

Cloud technologies can bring great advantages from cost savings, to resilience, but these benefits can come at a cost if we aren't careful. With products, services, and projects being pushed to the Cloud efforts must be made to use Cloud carefully and in the correct way. From lifting-and-shifting to using Cloud-native resources, we'll talk about:

 

• DevSecOps - how it is, and how it should be

• Go, Move, Shift - Dealing with project pressures

• Can we move at speed and stay secure?

 

10:55

Platinum Keynote: Digital Transformation: Why the Database must be included

Steve Jones

Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Redgate

The IT organisation has adopted DevOps practices to facilitate faster, higher quality, and more consistent software delivery but often has not included the database. The database is vital for DevOps to deliver digital products and services faster and more efficiently than ever before.

In this session, we explore key challenges impeding technical innovation. Learn why digital innovation programmes that leave out the database, risk compounding existing problems and why you should integrate database development practices into your transformation initiatives for greater innovation and compliance

 

11:15

Networking Coffee Break ¦ One-To-One Meetings

11:45

Platinum Keynote: To be, or not to be (secure), that is the question

Gerald Pfeifer

Chief Technology Officer, SUSE

Whether 'tis nobler to get out of the way, let devs be devs, and live with the risk,

or to take arms and aim at least to keep data safe and production undisturbed.

 

What may look as a choice at first, really is not. We need to be agile, responding to customer needs. AND maintain privacy and integrity of our data and security of our operations. AND be efficient, supporting our own teams to pull all of that of.

 

In this keynote, Dr. Gerald Pfeifer will discuss include shifting left, supply chain security, automated learning, and zero trust environments.

 

12:05

PLatinum Keynote: How to Build a Database that can't be killed without killing the people who build it

Tim Veil

Head of Sales Engineering, Cockroach Labs
12:25

Panel Discussion

12:50

Case Study Slot

13:00

IDC Research Insight

John O'Brien

Research Director, European Application Services, IDC UK
13:10

Networking Lunch ¦ VIP Lunch ¦ One-To-One Meetings

14:10

IDC Connect (Parallel Sessions)

IDC Connect 1

14:10 - 15:10

Application Leaders - Is Improving Speed and Quality the Key to Achieving Top Business Goals?

Bernard Klemm

Partner Sales Solution Architect EMEA, Tricentis

IDC Connect 2

14:10 - 15:10

What I Wish I’d Known: Cloud Migration

Steve Jones

Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Redgate

IDC Connect 3

14:10 - 15:10

Data-Driven DevOps, Observability and Security

Ryan Sheldrake

Field CTO EMEA, Lacework

IDC Connect 4

14:10 - 15:10

How to Achieve Cloud-Native Application Production at Scale?

Dr. Gerald Pfeifer

CTO, SUSE

IDC Connect 5

14:10 - 15:10

Avoid Cloud-Stupid: Keep your Security Fears from Being Realized in the cloud

Nick Coleman

Cloud Security Engineer, Orca Security

IDC Connect 6

14:10 - 15:10

Evolving DevOps - Using VSM to Guarantee Software Delivery Quality

Adam Hawthorne

Regional Director, Digital.ai

IDC Connect 7

14:10 - 15:10

Low Code DevOps and Testing

Michael Barwick

Program Architect, Copado

IDC Connect 8

14:10 - 15:10

Building Next Gen Applications for Scale & Resilience

Tim Veil

Head of Sales Engineering, Cockroach Labs
IDC Connect 1
14:10 - 15:10

Application Leaders - Is Improving Speed and Quality the Key to Achieving Top Business Goals?

IDC Connect 2
14:10 - 15:10

What I Wish I’d Known: Cloud Migration

IDC Connect 3
14:10 - 15:10

Data-Driven DevOps, Observability and Security

IDC Connect 4
14:10 - 15:10

How to Achieve Cloud-Native Application Production at Scale?

IDC Connect 5
14:10 - 15:10

Avoid Cloud-Stupid: Keep your Security Fears from Being Realized in the cloud

IDC Connect 6
14:10 - 15:10

Evolving DevOps - Using VSM to Guarantee Software Delivery Quality

IDC Connect 7
14:10 - 15:10

Low Code DevOps and Testing

IDC Connect 8
14:10 - 15:10

Building Next Gen Applications for Scale & Resilience

15:10

IDC Connect – Feedback Session

15:35

Platinum Keynote: DevOps: Why People are the Code

Michael Barwick

Program Architect, Copado

DevOps initiatives often focus on what tools are best positioned to deliver success, but is there enough consideration for the people that are delivering value & consuming your products and services?In this session we will identify what is commonly thought about at the mention of ‘DevOps’, and why it is important to consider an often overlooked aspect that may just unlock the extra value you need to ensure your transformation investment is a success.

15:55

Networking Coffee Break ¦ One-To-One Meetings

16:15

IDC’s Future Predictions and Key Takeaways

16:25

Chair’s Last Comments and Prize Draw

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Contact Us

Hannah Dowie

Event Manager IDC UK

+442089877169

Helena Chappell

Senior Business Development Director, European Event Sales, IDC UK

+44(0)208 987 7161

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