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Happy Hour Sponsored by Epsilon ASI
Sep
22
Day One

Happy Hour Sponsored by Epsilon ASI

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 5:30 PM 8:30 PM
  • @ Bierstadt Lagerhaus (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Sponsored by

Happy Hour sponsored by Epsilon ASI kicks off right after the last Open Spaces session. Grab a drink, keep that conversation going, and settle in for board games, video games, karaoke, and the kind of networking that actually happens when nobody's watching the clock.

Some of the best parts of DevOpsDays have never been on a schedule. This is one of them!

After a fun filled night, get home safely thanks to our sponsor Mezmo. Use lyft code DEVOPSDAYSROX26 anytime between 6PM - 9:30PM. Your ride must be called within a 1 mile radius of Bierstadt Lagerhaus. Then we’ll see you bright and early for breakfast and another great lineup tomorrow!

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Open Spaces: Session 4
Sep
22
Day One

Open Spaces: Session 4

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
  • @ VARIOUS (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

OPEN SPACES: SESSION 4

Topics will be selected live at the event. Once selection is complete, this page will be updated with the topics by location.

If you would like to submit a topic, you can do so with a post-it at the Open Spaces board between the Main Stage and the Sponsors area or you can submit digitally at https://forms.gle/qtzRiNafRFWmmF2s5

New to Open Spaces?
“Open Spaces” is a DevOpsDays-specialty for self-organized conversations. It follows the Law of mobility. In practical terms, the law says that if you’re neither contributing nor getting value where you are, use your available form of mobility and go somewhere where you can. It is also a reminder to stand up for your passion. From the law flow four principles:

  • Whoever comes is the right people

  • Whatever happens is the only thing that could have

  • Whenever it starts is the right time

  • When it’s over, it’s over

You can learn more about the Open Spaces format here.


TOPICS BY LOCATION

MAIN STAGE: Why we need more tech unions

TROLLEY: Best Practices: techniques & challenges in a data & AI world

UPSTAIRS: FinOps/DevOps cost management — what works?

 
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Open Spaces: Session 3
Sep
22
Day One

Open Spaces: Session 3

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
  • @ VARIOUS (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

OPEN SPACES: SESSION 3

Topics will be selected live at the event. Once selection is complete, this page will be updated with the topics by location.

If you would like to submit a topic, you can do so with a post-it at the Open Spaces board between the Main Stage and the Sponsors area or you can submit digitally at https://forms.gle/qtzRiNafRFWmmF2s5

New to Open Spaces?
“Open Spaces” is a DevOpsDays-specialty for self-organized conversations. It follows the Law of mobility. In practical terms, the law says that if you’re neither contributing nor getting value where you are, use your available form of mobility and go somewhere where you can. It is also a reminder to stand up for your passion. From the law flow four principles:

  • Whoever comes is the right people

  • Whatever happens is the only thing that could have

  • Whenever it starts is the right time

  • When it’s over, it’s over

You can learn more about the Open Spaces format here.


TOPICS BY LOCATION

MAIN STAGE: Self-hosting LLMs

TROLLEY: AI guardrail frameworks

UPSTAIRS: Homelabs/single-node clusters

 
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Open Spaces: Session 2
Sep
22
Day One

Open Spaces: Session 2

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
  • @ VARIOUS (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

OPEN SPACES: SESSION 2

Topics will be selected live at the event. Once selection is complete, this page will be updated with the topics by location.

If you would like to submit a topic, you can do so with a post-it at the Open Spaces board between the Main Stage and the Sponsors area or you can submit digitally at https://forms.gle/qtzRiNafRFWmmF2s5

New to Open Spaces?
“Open Spaces” is a DevOpsDays-specialty for self-organized conversations. It follows the Law of mobility. In practical terms, the law says that if you’re neither contributing nor getting value where you are, use your available form of mobility and go somewhere where you can. It is also a reminder to stand up for your passion. From the law flow four principles:

  • Whoever comes is the right people

  • Whatever happens is the only thing that could have

  • Whenever it starts is the right time

  • When it’s over, it’s over

You can learn more about the Open Spaces format here.


TOPICS BY LOCATION

MAIN STAGE: Anxiousness and uncertainty with AI

TROLLEY: Is staff even a real level?

UPSTAIRS: When to go to k8s

 
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Pay Talk
Sep
22
Day One

Pay Talk

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
  • @ MAIN STAGE (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Andy Suderman

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AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate
Sep
22
Day One

AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 2:00 PM 2:30 PM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Sylvain Kalache

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What We Learned Standardizing Kubernetes Across 4 Clouds
Sep
22
Day One

What We Learned Standardizing Kubernetes Across 4 Clouds

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 1:30 PM 2:00 PM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Marcello Ozzetti & Fernando “Fish” Carvalho

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No Runbook Provided: Observability for Real‑World DevOps
Sep
22
Day One

No Runbook Provided: Observability for Real‑World DevOps

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 12:30 PM 1:15 PM
  • @ UPSTAIRS, WORKSHOP AREA (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Mandy Swinton & AM Grobelny
*This workshop runs during Lunch

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Lunch
Sep
22
Day One

Lunch

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 12:00 PM 1:30 PM
  • @ GROUND FLOOR & UPSTAIRS (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Sponsored by CloudBees

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Salvage Title Software: How Engineering Teams Ship to Themselves
Sep
22
Day One

Salvage Title Software: How Engineering Teams Ship to Themselves

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 11:50 AM 11:55 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Morgan Helton

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Your CI/CD Pipeline Is About to Meet AI — Here's What It Doesn't Know
Sep
22
Day One

Your CI/CD Pipeline Is About to Meet AI — Here's What It Doesn't Know

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 11:45 AM 11:50 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Saideep Navakoti

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For Want of a Clearly Written Sentence
Sep
22
Day One

For Want of a Clearly Written Sentence

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 11:40 AM 11:45 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Matt “Kelly” Williams

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Your Pipeline Is Fast… But Is Your System Right? From Spec-First to Simulation-Driven Software Engineering
Sep
22
Day One

Your Pipeline Is Fast… But Is Your System Right? From Spec-First to Simulation-Driven Software Engineering

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 11:35 AM 11:40 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Marc Hornbeek

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When AI Agents Touch Real Infrastructure: Five War Stories and a Framework
Sep
22
Day One

When AI Agents Touch Real Infrastructure: Five War Stories and a Framework

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 11:30 AM 11:35 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Adam Gordon Bell

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Why Most SLOs Fail
Sep
22
Day One

Why Most SLOs Fail

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Amin Astaneh

Most teams will tell you they have SLOs. Most of them are doomed to fail. Not because their metrics are bad or their tooling is wrong, but because reliability has no seat at the table. SLOs are useless unless they inform your roadmap. If error budget exhaustion doesn't change what gets built next sprint, you don't have an SLO program. You have an expensive monitoring system.

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When Production Burns, You're the Fire Department (and the Fire Marshal, Too)
Sep
22
Day One

When Production Burns, You're the Fire Department (and the Fire Marshal, Too)

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 9:15 AM 10:15 AM
  • @ Main Stage (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

with Brent Chapman

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Sep
22
Day One

> Kick-Off

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 9:00 AM 9:15 AM
  • @ MAIN STAGE (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Grab a seat at the Main Stage and get ready for Day One!

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Breakfast
Sep
22
Day One

Breakfast

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  • 8:00 AM 9:00 AM
  • @ Ground Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Sponsored by Focused

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