The Agile + DevOps Virtual Attendee Experience
Amp Up Your Software with the Latest in Agile, DevOps, and AI/ML
This is not just any software engineering conference. Join us virtually and get solutions to solve existing agile or DevOps roadblocks and tackle new challenges in the upcoming year with knowledge from our keynotes, sessions, industry technical presentations (ITPs), and live virtual training classes.
Powerhouse Experts
Our virtual conference is filled with experts ready to help you grow your career and company.
Leading Industry Topics
From Agile & DevOps Practices + Tools to Transformations + AI/ML, you’ll learn ideas and strategies from leading experts and innovators.
On-Demand
We’re all busy (welcome to tech!), that’s why our virtual content will be available on-demand after the conference.
Explore the Agile + DevOps USA 2024 Virtual Schedule
* Content is Exclusive to the Virtual Pass
Wednesday, October 16
6:45 AM ET
Yoga
Morning Yoga
8:30 AM ET
K1
Nathan Hamiel
Kudelski Security
KEYNOTE | Everything Old Is New Again: Using What We Already Know for a Safer Future
Our world is filled with complexities and unknowns, and when these collide with emerging technologies, the resulting risk seems insurmountable. We accept this increased risk as a cost of using the new technology, assuming that previous lessons learned don’t apply and that a blank slate is required to gain the most benefit. However, this never turns out to be true. Time and time again, we realize that much of what we already know is still relevant to these emerging technologies, regardless of how advanced or paradigm-shifting they are. This is good news for reducing the risk in innovation because it means that we never really start from scratch. We begin our journey by examining how technological ghosts haunted previous technologies, showing the relevancy of already-known lessons. The journey continues to the current age of generative AI, examining the risks and challenges and how employing what we already know can lead to safer, more reliable systems and applications. In the end, we’ll see that by applying hard-won lessons to new technologies, we can ensure a safer, more reliable future.
9:45 AM ET
Break in the Expo - Play the Amazing Race Game
10:30 AM ET
W2
Cloud Engineering*
Clean Your Cloud with Cloud Custodian
Gene Gotimer, Praeses, LLC
W4
AI/ML*
From Vision to Velocity: Accelerating Agile Testing with Generative AI
Philip Daye, EMARKETER
ITP1
Industry Technical Presentation
AI-Driven Testing: Boosting Software Quality and Speed
Mason Henry, OpenText
11:45 AM ET
W6
Agile & DevOps Testing*
Enhancing Agile and DevOps Practices: Leveraging Postman API Software for Enhanced Testing Efficiency in Tackling Real-World Challenges
Patrick Gladney, US Army Corps of Engineers
ITP3
Industry Technical Presentation
Bringing Back Test Design Thinking in Agile Development
Sai Sasidhar & Ravi Krishna, Muffins
12:45 PM ET
Break in the Expo - Play the Amazing Race Game
1:45 PM ET
K2
Jen Krieger
GitHub
KEYNOTE | AI & The Impact on How We Work
Our industry has been transformed by new technologies, radically changing how we work. Thirty years ago, deployment cycles took 3-5 years; today, they happen in seconds. This rapid pace is largely due to our focus on investing in tools that boost developer productivity. We're still driven to create tools that simplify developers' work and make it easier for others to join the field. Many companies are heavily invested in enhancing productivity. However, the abundance of productivity tools doesn't automatically lead to increased productivity. Companies need to examine and adapt their internal systems and processes, especially in decision-making and information sharing. This is where many companies stumble. They heavily invest in areas where developers are coding but neglect other crucial areas. The impact of these changes is significant for enterprise businesses, often with failure indicators appearing too late for recovery. Join Jen Krieger as she delves into these topics and prepares for the future of software development in an era of unprecedented speed.
3:00 PM ET
W14
AI/ML*
Gen AI: A Co-Pilot to Better Value Sooner, Safer, and Happier in Digital Transformation
Paromita Sarkar, Voya Financials
W15
Architecture & Design*
Maximizing Observability in Cloud-Native Architecture: The Role of OpenTelemetry
Monalisha Singh, NetApp, Inc.
4:00 PM ET
Break in the Expo - Play the Amazing Race Game
4:30 PM ET
K3
Alison Wade
TechWell
KEYNOTE | Lightning Strikes the Keynotes
Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the Agile + DevOps conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period. Lightning Talks are the opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation. And now, lightning has struck the Agile + DevOps keynotes. Some of the best-known experts in software engineering will step up to the podium and give you their best shot of lightning. Get multiple keynote presentations for the price of one—and have some fun at the same time.
Thursday, October 17
6:45 AM ET
Yoga
Morning Yoga
8:30 AM ET
K4
Carlos Kidman
Qualiti
KEYNOTE | MLOps for Responsible AI: Techniques for Ensuring AI Quality
With the rapid adoption of generative AI, more and more companies are infusing AI models and services into their products. However, many of these companies are likely to lose business and valuable revenue due to their lack of investment in MLOps. Typically, organizations developing AI systems have relied on training metrics like accuracy, precision and recall, but software quality goes beyond that. Now that the barrier to entry for AI tools is smaller, we need to set quality standards, test practices, and think about AI ethics and safety. Ensuring the quality of AI goes beyond traditional metrics into attributes like usability and fairness, which need to be tested and measured using both manual exploratory and automated test strategies. Join Carlos Kidman as he covers the AI risks and biases that can happen throughout the development pipeline, demonstrate a few techniques to test a model's behaviors, security robustness, and fairness, and apply them against some real-world scenarios and state-of-the-art models. Come and learn new ideas for defining and testing responsible AI systems using quality attributes that resonate from a customer's perspective.
9:45 AM ET
Break in the Expo - Play the Amazing Race Game
10:15 AM ET
T1
Agile Implementation*
Designing Agile Plays in a Complex Organization
Desiree Lorell, United States Space Force
T2
Leadership*
5 Tools for Navigating Regulatory and Risk Mitigation in Agile Processes
Jennifer Wilhelmi & Natalia Kuzmina, S&P Global
11:15 AM ET
Break in the Expo - Play the Amazing Race Game
11:45 AM ET
T7
Leadership*
Top 10 Lessons I Learned for Leading Agile Teams
Chris Knobbe, Edward Jones
T8
DevOps Practices*
Containerization and Orchestration: Transforming Healthcare Apps with DevOps Automation
Sindhu Gandavarapu, Clareto
12:45 PM ET
Break in the Expo - Play the Amazing Race Game
1:45 PM ET
T11
Agile Implementation*
Scaling Agile at Visa: Navigating the Highs and Lows of Transforming a Financial Giant
Sannette Coetzee, Acolar, Inc.
T12
Leadership*
Reluctance to Relishing—Rolling Out DORA Metrics to Skeptical Teams
Kendra Schmid, WillowTree, a Telus Intl Company
ITP11
Industry Technical Presentation
AI-Assisted Development: Using GitHub Copilot and Other Tools to Accelerate Delivery
Jeffery Payne, Coveros