Organiser Summit 2024

To see our schedule with full functionality, like timezone conversion and personal scheduling, please enable JavaScript and go here.
09:00
09:00
60min
Registration / Breakfast

Registration and Breakfast

Man Track
10:00
10:00
15min
Everything You Wanted to Know About Venue Selection But Were Afraid to Ask
Rich Boyd

Finding the right venue for you DevOpsDays conference can be a challenge. What makes a good venue? How do you compare and contrast them? And how do you navigate a sea of fees to calculate the final cost? In this talk I'll walk through the lessons I've learned as the venue lead for DevOpsDays Austin over the last decade.

Man Track
10:15
10:15
15min
How to DevOpsDays: Planning, Sponsors, and more!
Daniel Maher

Join Dan and Jason, two of the three DevOpsDays Global co-chairs, for a friendly refresher on how to plan and execute a successful DevOpsDays conference. Using data and feedback gathered from over a decade of global events, we’ll go over things like reverse schedules, marketing plans, and how to prepare a realistic budget. Then we’ll dive into one of the most important—and least understood—aspects of running a community conference of any type: sponsors. Specifically, how to find, attract, and form good relationships with these incredibly important members of our community.

Man Track
10:30
10:30
15min
Getting Sponsors: An events marketing primer
Jason Yee

Years ago, companies were throwing money at DevOpsDays organizers, but in recent years that’s changed. Companies are shrinking their budgets and being more intentional about where they spend their resources and which events they sponsor. So how can you convince them that your DevOpsDays is worth their investment?

In this session, I’ll share what sponsors really want and what you can do to have the best shot at getting their sponsorship.

Man Track
10:45
10:45
15min
DevOpsDays Zürich: Bigger is not always better
Dirk Lehmann, Nadine Broghammer

In this talk, we will explore the journey of scaling DevOpsDays Zürich from a compact, highly engaging event to a large-scale conference hosting 500 attendees. We'll delve into the challenges encountered, such as increased workload, the need for more sponsors, ticket sales pressures, and the unintended impact on perceived quality. The narrative will then shift to our critical decision-making process, trade-off analysis, and the strategic downscale back to 250 participants. We will share insights on managing community expectations, ensuring event quality, and achieving a balance that honors the core values of DevOpsDays.

Man Track
11:00
11:00
20min
Coffee Break

Break

Man Track
11:30
11:30
15min
DevOpsDays in Brazil, from the first DoD to top2
Camilla Martins, Rafael Gomes

Discover the journey of Brazilian DevOpsDays from one event per year to becoming top2. Overcoming cultural disparities and financial constraints, we expanded to regions lacking DevOps or even tech events. Our mission to the future is establish an association to enhance and expand event execution across the country.

Man Track
11:45
11:45
15min
Using FOSS tooling for your conference
Toshaan Bharvani

This talk provides some insights on using open source tools to run an conference, like DevOpsDays.
While there are many tools to work with, we also need to actually use them, and provide feedback to those projects.
This talk will also present the hook system to bring several tools together and improve the workflow for organizers.

Man Track
12:00
12:00
90min
Lunch

Lunch

Man Track
13:50
13:50
20min
Open Space Opening

Open Space Opening

Man Track
14:10
14:10
30min
Open Space 1

Open Space

Man Track
14:40
14:40
30min
Open Space 2

Open Space

Man Track
15:10
15:10
20min
Coffee Break

Break

Man Track
15:30
15:30
30min
Open Space 3

Open Space

Man Track
16:00
16:00
30min
Open Space 4

Open Space

Man Track
18:30
18:30
90min
Social Event and Dinner

Social Event

Man Track