Agenda:
• 6:00 PM – Check-in and hang out
• 6:30 PM – Announcements and presentations
• 7:15 PM – Chat with old and new friends

Talk #1
“Accelerating Data Delivery across Modern Architectures with DataOps”
A unified DataOps strategy is critical for organizations to accelerate application delivery and cloud adoption. The reason why many companies struggle to achieve a high velocity of innovation is that often a single application needs to access data from multiple heterogeneous data sources across multiple locations. The development and testing cycles for even for the simplest of applications often get stretched over time as developers and testers often wait weeks for data to be delivered and refreshed across those multiple data sources and environments. The complexity of feeding data into critical business initiatives becomes a bottleneck for success. During this session, participants will learn more about DataOps.

Bio:
Murat Guvenc has over 15 years of sales leadership, business development and technology consultancy experience working with a broad range of clients across Canada, US, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, with competitive knowledge with a wide range of Cloud technologies, DevOps, DataOps, Application Modernization, Design Thinking and Agile development.

Talks #2
“Competing With Speed (Continuous Delivery Explained)”
Many organizations ask for continuous delivery and yet, it is one of the most misunderstood concepts in our industry.
Companies that haven’t experienced it see risk and disruption. Companies that have already invested in implementing it are looking for ways to get there faster. All the while, so much learning has taken place in the industry on what it is and how to get there. Our thoughts have evolved from the core meaning of it all the way to how to implement it in the different layers of an organization. If you see it as a tech-only problem, you are missing so many pieces of the puzzle.
Ardita and Cheezy have been working in the continuous delivery space since before it had a name. They bring a wealth of experiences and stories from the trenches where they are helping companies satisfy their customers, through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

Bio:
Jeff Morgan (Cheezy) & Ardita Karaj

Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Industrial Logic Canada, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan has been coaching teams and teaching classes on Agile and Lean development techniques since early 2000.
As Founder and CTO of startups, he brings leadership experience for agile organizations that aim to have awesome employees and awesome clients. He has authored several popular Ruby gems used by software testers and is the author of the book, Cucumber & Cheese.
You can meet him in many conference stages around USA, Canada and Europe

Ardita is a passionate coach, trainer and change agent, experienced in Product Management, Business improvement and Lean Startup. Starting her career as a software engineer, she worked with teams that pushed edges of technology and won awards. Taking the mentor and leader stance, she found that success came when business and technology worked closer together.
Ardita has 20 years of experience working with many organization of different types (from startup to government), different markets (insurance, banking, retail, entertainment, etc) and different sizes.
With a vision for using technology as a competitive advantage, and understanding the need for organizations to become leaders by disrupting markets, she founded Industrial Logic Canada offering professional services with focus on continuous delivery.
Ardita shares her experiences by organizing and speaking in several conferences around the world every year.

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