Organiser Summit 2024
Registration and Breakfast
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.
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.
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.
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.
Break
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.
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.
Lunch
Open Space Opening
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Break
Open Space
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Social Event