Making Matrixed Organizations Successful with DevOps

Damon Edwards is Senior Director, Product at PagerDuty. Previously, Damon was a cofounder of Rundeck, the makers of the popular open-source runbook automation platform acquired by PagerDuty in 2020. Prior to Rundeck, Damon was the Managing Partner of DTO Solutions, a DevOps and Operations Improvement Consultancy. Damon has spent the past 23 years working with both the technology and business ends of IT Operations. He is noted for being a leader in porting cutting-edge DevOps techniques to large-scale enterprise organizations. Damon is a frequent conference speaker and writer who focuses on DevOps, SRE, and Operations improvement topics. Damon is active in the international DevOps community, co-host of the DevOps Cafe podcast, and a content chair for Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit.

Talks by DamonAll 17 →

19 min

Operationalizing AI: The Race for an Unfair Business Advantage

Las Vegas 2023

18 min

Confession + Lightning Talks + Closing Day 1

London 2020

13 min

Lightning Talks and Closing Remarks

London 2020

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Ben Grinnell is Managing Director and Global Lead of the Technology and Digital Service Line at North Highland, where he has spent over twenty years specializing in digital transformation for large organizations across public and private sectors. With extensive experience in next-generation IT, DevOps, Agile, and Lean methodologies, Grinnell has led major technology initiatives spanning government, health, education, and transport industries. He previously served as interim IT Director at the UK Border Agency, where he built internal IT capabilities and restructured major outsourced contracts. Grinnell holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computing from Loughborough University, completed PhD-level research in predictive control algorithms, and currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at Decentenergy.io.

Talks by BenAll 6 →

26 min

Making Vibe Coding a Core Skill

AI Summit Spring 2026

20 min

Do I Need to Insource to Achieve My DevOps Goals?

Las Vegas 2022

19 min

Do I Need to Insource to Achieve My DevOps Goals?

Virtual US 2022

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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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Helping leaders navigate complexity, create digital strategies, and establish sustainable improvement practices. Former Minister of IT & Foreign Trade, Estonia.

Talks by Kaimar

28 min

ITIL: You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think it Means What You Think it Means.

London 2017

25 min

ITIL. You keep using that word.

San Francisco 2016

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