AI-Enabled Digital Twins

Now: Senior Principal - Software Architect & Dev*Ops Advisor, The MITRE Corporation

Tracy “Trac” Bannon is a passionate software architect with extensive experience in software architecture, engineering, Agile, and DevSecOps. She focuses on enabling and accelerating digital transformation applying cybersecure principles to deliver secure, quality software. She drives the strategic direction for MITRE’s Modern Software Engineering capability and leads the adoption of emerging technology with a focus on research into the effective adoption of AI for enhancing software engineering. For multiple decades, Bannon has delivered complex projects across commercial and government sectors, applying AI/ML and Generative AI throughout the software development life cycle. She is committed to solving intricate problems and delivering business value rapidly. A dedicated advocate for diversity in technology, Bannon mentors, sponsors, and volunteers to close diversity gaps. She engages in industry events, leads working groups, and shares her insights through publications, speaking engagements, and podcasts like Real Technologists. Tracy holds multiple industry certifications and professional certificates. She is a senior member of the IEEE.

Talks by Tracy

30 min

#NoHobbyists: Building A Shared Cybersecurity Culture

Virtual US 2022

30 min

DevOps’ Missing Link: Data

US 2021

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Bill Bensing tranforms Shadow IT into legitimate software development organizations. Bill's recent thought-leadership is proving software devliery velocity and highly secure and compliant software are not mutally exclusive. He lives in Tampa Bay, FL, area.

Talks by Bill

23 min

Policy As Code 2.0: Doing it the Right Way

Las Vegas 2023

16 min

We're Sorry, Love DevOps

Europe 2022

23 min

Dear Security, Compliance, and Auditors, We’re Sorry. Love, DevOps.

Las Vegas 2022

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Debbie Brey is the director of complex systems innovation practice at Project & Team. In this role, she provides consulting and coaching for companies and organizations looking to innovate when dealing with the complexity of their solution and organizations. Debbie retired from Boeing as a technical fellow. She introduced and advanced Boeing’s ways of working using a combination of Agile, Lean, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Brey founded the Boeing Enterprise Agile Center of Excellence, where she focused on growing an internal Agile coaching capability and increasing the overall outcomes of business agility at Boeing. She achieved recognition for her continued pursuit of improving outcomes by simplifying and clarifying guidance around Lean and Agile ways of working for anyonemat Boeing, specifically how they could be embraced for cyber-physical systems. Brey is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and SAFe Fellow.

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Dr. Suzette Johnson is an award-winning author who has spent most of her career in the aerospace defense industry working for Northrop Grumman Corporation. Suzette was the enterprise Lean/Agile transformation lead. In this role, she launched the Northrop Grumman Agile Community of Practice and the Lean/Agile Center of Excellence. She has supported over a hundred enterprise, government, and DoD transitions to and the maturation of Lean-Agile principles and engineering development practices. She has also trained and coached over four thousand individuals on Lean/Agile principles and practices and delivered more than one hundred presentations on Lean/Agile at conferences both nationally and abroad. Her current role is as Northrop Grumman Fellow and Technical Fellow Emeritus, where she continues to actively drive the adoption of Lean/Agile principles with leadership at the portfolio levels and within cyber-physical solutions, specifically within the space sector. As a mentor, coach, and leader, she launched the Women in Computing, Johns Hopkins University Chapter; the Women in Leadership Development program; the Northrop Grumman Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; and the NDIA ADAPT (Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams) working group. She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and Agile engineering environments. She am also a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant/SPCT

Talks by SuzetteAll 7 →

27 min

Building a Community of Managers to Lead in the Digital Age

Las Vegas 2025

25 min

Industrial DevOps - Building Better Systems Faster

Las Vegas 2023

14 min

Build Internal Capability, Not Consultant Dependency

Europe 2021

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Now: IBM Fellow, CIO DevSecOps CTO, IBM

Talks by RosalindAll 21 →

30 min

AI in a Sustainable Way

Las Vegas 2025

11 min

Hosting Our All-Company AI Challenge

Las Vegas 2024

21 min

The Role of an Executive Individual Contributor in Large Transformations

Las Vegas 2023

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Now: Technical Director, Software Engineering Institute, CMU

Hasan Yasar is the Technical Director of the Continuous Deployment of Capability group at the Software Engineering Institute, CMU. Hasan leads an engineering group to enable, accelerate, and assure Transformation at the speed of relevance by leveraging, DevSecOps, Agile, Lean AI/ML, and other emerging technologies to create a Smart and secure Software Platform/Pipeline. Hasan has more than 25 years of experience as a senior security engineer, software engineer, software architect, and manager in all phases of secure software development and information modeling processes. He is also a Teaching Professor at CMU’s Heinz College and Software and Societal Systems College where he currently teaches “Software and Security” and “DevOps for Engineering Secure Development and Deployment”. Hasan also serves various IEEE/ISO, The Open Group, and NIST standard developments. He recently co-authored IEEE 2675 DevOps standard, while working on IEEE 828 Configuration Management, IEEE 982.1 Software Reliability, ISO Wkg 29 Agile, and DevOps standard development.

Talks by Hasan

30 min

Waterfall to DevSecOps in DoD

Las Vegas 2019

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Now: Leidos · as of 2026

Robin Yeman has spent twenty-six years working at Lockheed Martin as a senior technical fellow building large systems including everything from submarines to satellites. Robin lead the Agile community of practice supporting a workforce of 120,000 people. Her initial experience with Lean practices began in the late 90’s. In 2002 shen had the opportunity to lead her first Agile program with multiple scrum teams. After she had a couple months of experience, she was hooked and never turned back. She both led and supported Agile Transformations for intelligence, federal, department of defense organizations over the next two decades and each one was more exciting and challenging than the last. In 2012 she had the opportunity to extend our Agile practices into DevOps which added extensive automation and tightened our feedback loops providing even larger results. Currently she is consulting for a range of Fortune 500 companies in highly regulated environments enabling them to achieve the same results we experienced at Lockheed Martin. She engages in everything from automotive, pharmaceuticals, and energy reimagining legacy to modern solutions using all of the tools in my toolbox including Agile, DevOps, Lean, Digital Engineering, Systems Theory, Design Thinking and more. Her goal is to make a positive impact for those around her. Robin is a continuous learner. Her education includes a Bachelor's Degree from Syracuse Univision in Computer Information Systems, a Master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Software Engineering, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in Systems Engineering at Colorado State University, where she is working on my contribution to demonstrate empirical data of the benefits of implementing Agile and DevOps for safety critical cyber-physical systems.

Talks by RobinAll 9 →

25 min

Industrial DevOps - Building Better Systems Faster

Las Vegas 2023

30 min

Can the National Imperative for the Department of Defense Accelerate DevOps Adoption

Europe 2022

23 min

Highway to the Danger Zone: Why Your Digital Transformation Effort Will Not Produce the Results You Think

Las Vegas 2022

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