Agenda

Platform engineering has emerged as an essential discipline for empowering application development and DevOps teams to deliver better software faster, while seamlessly addressing security and compliance requirements. In this keynote, Sanjeev Sharma, SVP of Platform Engineering for Dell Technologies, will share how his business delivers a comprehensive, automated platform for its teams. He’ll give an update on their progress and achievements, while addressing the most challenging roadblocks they’ve faced along the way. He will also share his playbook for platform engineering, providing a practical takeaway that can help others improve productivity and developer experience while mitigating risks.

Never before have the promises and perils of enterprise innovation been so great. An entire class of innovation built on AI creates enormous potential for delighting customers, igniting productivity and launching new offerings. But these opportunities are coupled with evolving risks, while mature enterprises must manage a broad portfolio of systems and applications. How will your DevOps teams quickly capitalize on the promises while mitigating new risks and tending to a more complex technology landscape? In this session, you’ll hear from Perforce’s CEO, Jim Cassens, and his product leaders on Perforce’s vision and roadmap for creating a competitive edge with DevOps that’s built for speed, quality and integrity while embracing the complexity of today’s enterprises.

Many businesses are struggling with the large mass of investments, complexity and technical debt of their IT estates. How can IT leaders create velocity and agility in this reality? In this executive panel, our session moderator, will lead a discussion with other IT leaders on how they’re employing modern practices, data and tools to embrace complexity and move faster without attempting impractical, failure-prone changes to the way they operate. You’ll learn proven practices for moving faster, just when your business needs it the most.

As corporate boards contend with more technology-related issues than ever before, technology leaders are being challenged to translate and explain complex concepts into strategic action. What are the best tactics CIOs and their teams can use to understand board members' concerns? And how can they flex their strategic muscle in board meetings? In this Boardroom session, we'll learn the answers from two acclaimed CIOs-turned-board members. You will walk away with actionable insights that will impact not only your board presentations, but also how you execute and communicate your key strategies. 

With the rising stakes for security and compliance and the growing size and complexity of enterprise software solutions, ensuring software integrity is paramount. In this panel discussion, we will delve into the critical role of Quality Engineering (QE) in maintaining software integrity throughout the development lifecycle. The panel will discuss how modern QE practices contribute to the correctness, security, and reliability of software systems. We will explore QE strategies that safeguard software integrity against evolving threats and challenges.

Join Jed Yueh, Founder of Avamar, Delphix and SustainableIT.org, as he shares his personal entrepreneurial CEO journey and the pivotal strategies that shaped his leadership approach. In this session, Jed will offer insights from his experiences building transformative technology organizations and provide actionable advice for IT leaders. He will focus on how to think big about enhancing customer experiences and driving competitive differentiation to build a lasting impact in today’s dynamic business environment.

As shown by many studies, such as Puppet’s 2024 State of DevOps report, security and compliance are playing a vital role in DevOps. Fortunately, DevOps also presents many opportunities to enforce good security and compliance, starting with the development and testing environments themselves. In this session, you’ll see how to employ automation with infrastructure-as-code and data-as-code to improve data protection and privacy while ensuring compliance with standards and mandates such as GDPR, CCPA, DISA STIGs, Center for Internet Security Benchmarks, ISO 27001 and more. 

Location: Indigo Room

In an effort to drive consistency, compliance and quality at scale, many infrastructure and quality teams are delivering test data as repeatable, cost-effective shared services. They begin with defining test data management (TDM) as a service offering, clarifying its benefits for development teams (the consumers), defining a predictable pricing or costing model, and providing easier ways to request and consume the service. In this session, you learn best practices in delivering TDM to your enterprise and helping more teams improve the applications they deliver.

Location: Iris Room

Enterprises are increasingly devoting more time and attention to their development, training, and testing environments. Security is an increasingly significant concern, and teams recognize that release quality and speed depend on the availability of compliant, production-like environments. Join this session to explore how industry leaders are introducing automation across the full development stack—from code to data to infrastructure. Attendees will gain insight into how their peers are uniting platform engineering with advanced testing tools to eliminate bottlenecks, shift quality to the left, and deliver more robust software. 

Location: Indigo Room

DevOps isn’t free. It requires an investment in people, technology and processes. Businesses increasingly adopt DevOps to shrink time-to-market, improve resilience and reliability, and (increasingly) address security and compliance requirements, among many other things. But how do you justify these investments? In this session, you’ll learn how DevOps TDM and infrastructure-as-code provide proven, measurable returns and how you can capture and communicate benefits. We’ll walk through two recent studies of Delphix and Puppet to reveal how organizations are realizing greater value than ever from their DevOps-related investments.

Location: Iris Room

DevOps and its related discipline, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), emphasizes automation with the collaboration between developers and operations teams to build and deliver resilient applications and rapid recovery capabilities. In this session, see how the data virtualization and infrastructure automation capabilities used for DevOps help teams prevent outages, recover from downtime much more quickly, and achieve lower recovery time and recovery point objectives.

Location: Indigo Room

Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse are leading data platforms for data science and AI use cases. As privacy concerns about AI mount, data scientists increasingly need access to production-quality data that is free of sensitive details. In this session, join Brian Muskoff and a special guest from a large public healthcare company to learn how to safeguard sensitive information using data masking in your pipelines, protecting data privacy while maintaining data utility. Explore how data masking can be seamlessly integrated into your pipelines to keep data engineers and training models working, without costly delays or the fear of privacy violations or data compromises. 

Location: Iris Room

As the founder and technical advisor for SustainableIT.org, Perforce Software welcomes all conference attendees to stay and take part in the SustainableIT Awards Gala on the evening of Tuesday, October 15, and the SustainableIT Symposium on October 16. Join us to celebrate, share and discuss the standards, proven practices and lessons learned in advancing sustainability through information technology. To learn more, visit the SustainableIT Awards Gala and Symposium event site.