Join an exclusive gathering of thought, business and IT leaders for meaningful exchanges around the truth behind the buzzword of DevOps – and the various tools and methodologies that turn it into a key competitive edge. This lean and agile approach to software and application development and deployment has been hailed as the “gold standards” for IT and the way to go for the future.

The first day of the forum will kick-start with sessions exploring a look at how higher software delivery performance can generate powerful business outcomes and dos and don’ts for successful adoption of DevOps principles at your organization. The subsequent roundtable discussion will focus on DevOps tools to supercharge high-quality and timely software release. Leading organizations will also share their success in leveraging continuous integration and test automation in DevOps.

These will inspire delegates to push past the status quo and envision future transformative road-maps towards greater digitization and automation.
Day one of the forum also explores emerging disruptive IT innovations like virtualization, AI-accelerated DevOps and cloud computing. Through these sessions, delegates will be able to gain insights and be empowered with the tools needed to prepare their organizations for the impending digital disruptions.

• How DevOps serves as a powerful driver of value in a world where speed, agility, security and stability are business imperatives
• The progress the industry has made over the years and the work that still lies ahead
• Breaking new grounds on IT excellence – prescriptive steps to help you progress further in this journey

• Explore different deployment patterns for API Gateways, including: the centralized edge gateway, the multi-layer gateway, and the Microgateways, sidecars & service mesh
• Discuss how the implementation and consumption of APIs can (and should) influence the selection of the most appropriate API gateway pattern when ti comes to production deployment, irregardless of the platform being used: On-premise, cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud
• How the differences between API traffic and regular web traffic influences application and API delivery infrastructure

• What successful adoption of DevOps looks like for an organization
• Common misconceptions and pitfalls around DevOps and its implementation
• Why getting DevOps and a deployment pipeline is only the beginning
• The importance of ensuring that your developers are up to date with the latest technologies and methods

• Avoiding merge conflicts, bugs, diverging code strategies and duplicated concerts in your development process
• Helping your developers’ team to cultivate the habit of continuously integrating their changes with the rest of the team’s code base
• Steps and best practices to master continuous integration and pave the way for the subsequent stages

• Unique Journeys To Modern Application Delivery
  • Whether in monolith or in microservices, keeping pace or getting ahead of your users’ application delivery requirements
  • APIs: your journey to automation, visibility, and security
  • Challenge in managing your DevOps toolchain to deliver a seamless modern application infrastructure

• Containers & Microservices: The Evolution Of Delivery Pipelines Due To Microservices And Hybrid Environments

• The Future Of Change Management In Highly-Regulated Environments

• Quality In The Intelligent Enterprise

• How To Reduce Software Development Cycle Time
• Accelerate Software Innovation To Deliver Value To Your Customer As High Speed

• Processing vast amounts of information and helping perform menial tasks, freeing the IT staff to do more targeted work
  
• AI capable of learning patterns, anticipating problems and suggesting solutions
  
• AI and ML smoothing out some of the tensions between Dev and Ops and unifying them for common business goals

Champagne Networking Session

Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

Winning In Today’s Modern Software Factory

As DevOps continues its path of domination, key industry players and vendors are tackling questions of security, AI and machine learning as ways to advance the industry and provide further offerings for companies to leverage from this growing market.

Day two of the forum will further discuss strategies to leverage on disruptive technologies like AI, DevSecOps, Advanced Analytics and DevOps Automation to boost productivity, enhance efficiency and achieve continuous insights and improvements. The following sessions will then continue discussing leading local and global examples of organizations that have jumped on these bandwagons and reaped massive rewards in their IT journeys. These sessions allow delegates to learn from our top-notch speakers and tap into exclusive insights, case studies and solutions to create effective agile transformation plans.

Day two of the forum will then proceed with a series of exciting panels and keynote sessions, engaging and guiding delegates in maximising their investment in DevOps and gaining top management buy-in. The last session in the event on the evolving technology landscape of DevOps will benefit delegates by ensuring that they are well-equipped to handle the impediments to new business and operating models and derive long term and sustainable benefits.

• Cross-team sharing as the key to scaling DevOps success – how collaboration and knowledge sharing are the foundational practices that impact across the entire DevOps evolutionary journey
• Helping organizations to spread their DevOps success enterprise-wide and progress to higher levels of automation and self-service
• Letting the business impact of your DevOps success be felt where it matters

• Why you cannot apply DevOps sustainably without addressing application security along the way
• Avoiding a buildup of hidden “technical debt” in the form of unidentified security defects and vulnerabilities in your applications
• Honoring the crucial trust among your development, operations and security teams to motive them to work collaboratively to rapidly deliver business value

• What is DevSecOps and why it matters
• Wrapping security into every step of development to safely deliver products
• Preparing your organization for previously unprecedented collaboration between release engineers and security teams and cultivating a “Security as Code” Culture

• Deep-dive into the security layers fundamental in our API economy without sacrificing agility, scalability, and efficiency in a multi-cloud environment
  
• Explore ways to secure fast changing APIs with distributed gateway deployment patterns and automation.
  
• Security best practices that matter

• The importance of picking trusted sources for Open Source Software (OSS) components and tips on free tools to begin checking for issues in components
• Automate your OSS security, from 25 days of manual work, down to 5 minutes.
• Live demo including Google hacking to find vulnerable frameworks on public websites, how to exploit vulnerable Apache Struts framework (Java/Maven) plus remediation workflow and release automation

• How cloud and DevOps work together to help businesses achieve their transformation goals
• Cloud computing for speeding developer productivity and efficiency through automating the process of building, managing and provisioning the codes
• Massive benefits of marrying cloud and DevOps: Speeding the development process, eliminating human error, achieving shorter time to market and establishing repeatability

• Enabling developers to build modern applications with increased agility and lower total cost of ownership
• Eliminating infrastructure management tasks such as server or cluster provisioning, patching, operating system maintenance, and capacity provisioning
• Allowing developers to focus on the core product, reclaim time and energy to channel towards developing great and reliable products with scale

• Why automating security policy configurations is mission-critical to reaching the highest levels of DevOps evolution
• Key tactics and techniques for achieving tangible security in your DevOps environment
• Improved application security tricks, and also the growing need to secure your entire DevOps production system across the “full stack”

• How Agile and DevOps fit together and the culture change required in organizations and development teams
• Understanding the complementariness between Agile and DevOps principles
• Gene Kim’s “Three Ways” – Flow, Feedback, and Continuous Learning: Keys to successful adoption and implementation of DevOps

Networking Luncheon

Workshop B: My Code , My Environment and Yes, My Data – Empower The Developer With Data