Version 1.8.8 May 6, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Open Space: Secret Ops for Agents / Agents for Secret Ops”.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Open Space: Perplexity Computer (Ballroom 2)” (Ballroom → Ballroom 2 - Open Spaces)
• “Open Space: N/A (Ballroom 2)” (Ballroom → Ballroom 2 - Open Spaces)
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops/AI (Ballroom 2)” (Ballroom → Ballroom 2 - Open Spaces)

Version 1.8.7 May 6, 2026

Open spaces day 2

We have new sessions!

• “Open Space: Coping with 20x pace”
• “Open Space: N/A (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops/AI (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space: Perplexity Computer (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space: Health Ops + Wearables”
• “Open Space: What's happening with new talent / development aka How can I get my kid a job?”
• “Open Space: Observability Costs $$$”
• “Open Space: Secure CI/CD for LLM code”

Version 1.8.6 May 6, 2026

Maybe this will fix JP's ignite schedule run time, even though it doesn't show a change warranting a release. :shrug:

Version 1.8.5 May 5, 2026

Open Spaces, Day 1, Slot 3

We have new sessions!

• “Open Space: Home Lab / Local AI”
• “Open Space : Document processing with docling.ai”
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops / AI”
• “Open Space: I <3 AI but it's making my BURNOUT worse!”

Version 1.8.4 May 5, 2026

Open Spaces, Day 1, Slot 2

We have new sessions!

• “Open Space: How to improve communications across teams in a large facility”
• “Open Space: Skills: Patterns and Antipatterns”
• “Open Space: AI for FinOps”
• “Open Space: What could and should we build together?”

Version 1.8.3 May 5, 2026

Updated Open Spaces Day 1, Slot 1

We have new sessions!

• “Open Space: Responsibility without authority”
• “Open Space: Benchmarking Changing AI Infrastructure”
• “Open Space: How to lock down Agents”
• “Open Space: How do you learn?”

Version 1.8.2 May 3, 2026

Updated to have JP being able to speak

We have a new session: “Context Switching is Good” by John Paul Harold.

We have moved a session around: “Most AI Slop Is a Workflow Failure, Not a Model Failure” by Patrick Robinson (May 6, 2026, 1 p.m. → May 6, 2026, 1:35 p.m.)

Version 1.8.1 May 1, 2026

We're hiding the proto-open space sessions so that they don't make the schedule so wide.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Open Space: Coping with 20x pace”
• “Open Space: Home Lab / Local AI”
• “Open Space: How do you learn?”
• “Open Space : Document processing with docling.ai”
• “Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Collaboration”
• “Open Space: Secret Ops for Agents / Agents for Secret Ops”
• “Open Space: Perplexity Computer (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space: What's happening with new talent / development aka How can I get my kid a job?”
• “Open Space: AI for FinOps”
• “Open Space: Observability Costs $$$”
• “Open Space: Secure CI/CD for LLM code”
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops/AI (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space: Skills: Patterns and Antipatterns”
• “Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Collaboration”
• “Open Space: Responsibility without authority”
• “Open Space: How to improve communications across teams in a large facility”
• “Open Space: Benchmarking Changing AI Infrastructure”
• “Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Collaboration”
• “Open Space: I <3 AI but it's making my BURNOUT worse!”
• “Open Space: Health Ops + Wearables”
• “Open Space: How to lock down Agents”
• “Open Space: What could and should we build together?”
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops / AI”
• “Open Space: N/A (Ballroom 2)”

Version 1.8 May 1, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Startup Huddle Presentations”.

Version 1.7 May 1, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 1.6 May 1, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Port - Gold Sponsor”.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Texas State University - Community Sponsor” (May 6, 2026, 1:39 p.m. → May 5, 2026, 1:37 p.m.)
• “Modicus Prime - Food Sponsor” (May 5, 2026, 1:27 p.m. → May 5, 2026, 1:35 p.m.)

Version 1.5 April 23, 2026

Moved Carl and Wicketts talk(s).

We have a new session: “Securing the Software Factory” by James Wickett.

We have moved a session around: “Pruning during a growth phase: lessons and techniques for optimizing cloud spend” by Carl Perry (May 6, 2026, 10:40 a.m. → May 5, 2026, 2:40 p.m.)

Version 1.4 April 22, 2026

We've added all of the placeholders for open spaces and all of our current sponsor pitches.

We have new sessions!

• “Open Space: Coping with 20x pace”
• “Open Space: Homelab (NOT local AI) / Self hosting hardware”
• “Open Space: Spec Driven development + Agent skills”
• “Open Space: Home Lab / Local AI”
• “Open Space : Document processing with docling.ai”
• “Texas Mutual Insurance - Coffee Bar Sponsor”
• “Open Space: Perplexity Computer (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space: What's happening with new talent / development aka How can I get my kid a job?”
• “Open Space: AI for FinOps”
• “Open Space: Secure CI/CD for LLM code”
• “Perforce Puppet - Gold Sponsor”
• “Open Space: Do you use LLMs to act on Cloud Infra / LLM Prod war stories”
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops/AI (Ballroom 2)”
• “Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Collaboration”
• “Open Space: How to improve communications across teams in a large facility”
• “Open Space: Cool AI Side projects”
• “Open Space: Testing with AI”
• “Open Space: I <3 AI but it's making my BURNOUT worse!”
• “Zesty - Gold Sponsor”
• “Open Space: Health Ops + Wearables”
• “Closing Ceremonies and Raffles”
• “Open Space: Campbell's Law”
• “Texas State University - Community Sponsor”
• “Open Space: How do you learn?”
• “Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Collaboration”
• “Open Space: Secret Ops for Agents / Agents for Secret Ops”
• “groundcover - Gold Sponsor”
• “Open Space: Measuring success of Agents”
• “Open Space: Agent Orchestration and how it Influences AI-enabled engineering / Agentic engineering”
• “Open Space: Observability Costs $$$”
• “Open Space: Skills: Patterns and Antipatterns”
• “Open Space: Responsibility without authority”
• “LaunchDarkly - Gold Sponsor”
• “Modicus Prime - Food Sponsor”
• “Crash Override - Lanyard Sponsor”
• “Day 2 Opening”
• “Open Space: OpenClaw”
• “Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Collaboration”
• “Open Space: Benchmarking Changing AI Infrastructure”
• “Open Space: Agentic Troubleshooting”
• “Open Space: Open Source and AI - Do we need it?”
• “Open Space: What could and should we build together?”
• “Red Hat - Gold Sponsor”
• “Open Space: Neurospicy in Devops / AI”
• “Open Space: N/A (Ballroom 2)”

We have moved a session around: “Open Space: How to lock down Agents” (Inspiration A/B → Inspiration A - Open Spaces)

Version 1.3 April 21, 2026

Added Byron's talk.

We have a new session: “Beyond the Prompt: Building a Cognitive Control Plane” by Byron Miller.

Sadly, we had to cancel a session: “5 Lessons from Automating Away My Own Job (And Why That's Actually Good)” by VISHVESH PANDEY

Version 1.2 April 8, 2026

This version of the schedule finished out the last few openings and closing blocks, and it also moved the sponsor blocks to private so the unconfirmed sponsor pitches don't fill the schedule.

Version 1.1 April 6, 2026

We have updated a few talks, and move a couple people around.

We have a new session: “Rollback-by-Design: Safe Infrastructure Migrations at Scale” by Abhinav Dahiya.

Sadly, we had to cancel a session: “Why AI Agents Break Everything You Know About Observability — And How We Fixed It” by Divya Mahajan

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Typing was never the hard part” by Ian Littman (May 6, 2026, 11:10 a.m. → May 6, 2026, 11:40 a.m.)
• “From Rollouts to Results: How Platform Engineering Removed Bottlenecks in Value Delivery” by Ajo Augustine (May 5, 2026, 11:15 a.m. → May 6, 2026, 11:40 a.m.)
• “Open Source Endpoint Telemetry Blueprint for Security Teams” by Victor Lyuboslavsky (May 6, 2026, 11:40 a.m. → May 5, 2026, 11:15 a.m.)
• “Developer EQ: Mix and Master Your Social Game” by Kyle Shelton (May 6, 2026, 11:40 a.m. → May 6, 2026, 11:10 a.m.)

Version 1.0 April 3, 2026

This is the first schedule release for DevOpsDays Austin 2026. All talks have been placed in their spots, and there are some additional changes coming for future releases (e.g., administrative slots, more open spaces, keynote announcements, etc.).