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Kurt Andersen

SRE Architect
US/Pacific TZ

https://linkedin.com/in/kurta1

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Kurt Andersen is a practitioner and an active thought leader in the SRE community. He speaks at major DevOps & SRE conferences and publishes his work through O'Reilly in quintessential SRE books such as Seeking SRE, What is SRE?, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know. Before joining Blameless, Kurt was a Sr. Staff SRE at LinkedIn, implementing SLOs (reliability metrics) at scale across the board for thousands of independently deployable services. Kurt is a member of the USENIX Board of Directors and part of the steering committee for the world-wide SREcon conferences.

8:30am CDT

Opening Remarks Track 1Gene Kim • Jeff Gallimore

9:00am CDT

How a DevOps Mindset is Influencing Target's Culture Track 1Brett Craig • Luke Rettig

9:30am CDT

Journey to Digitopia: The Government of Canada's Quest to Modernize Services Track 1Marc Brouillard • Denis Skinner

10:05am CDT

Iterative Enterprise SRE Transformation Track 1Christina Yakomin • Robbie Daitzman

10:35am CDT

Interview: Kimberly Johnson and Christopher Porter on Leadership Track 1Kimberly H. Johnson • Christopher Porter • Gene Kim

11:20am CDT

SRE From Scratch: An Enterprise Journey Track 2Monika Gupta • Avinash Rao

11:50am CDT

The Minefield of Open Source: Guidance for Staying Secure Track 4Dr. Stephen Magill

1:20pm CDT

A Layered Approach to Progressive Delivery Track 4Dave Karow How to Misuse and Abuse DORA Metrics Track 1Bryan Finster

2:20pm CDT

Flow Engineering – Learning to Lead from the Inside Out Track 3Andrew Davis • Steve Pereira The Shaping Forces of Transformation: Growing a Learning Organization Track 2Ganga Narayanan

2:50pm CDT

Saving the Software Supply Chain: Critical Trends and 5 Must-Dos for DevOps Track 4Daniel Nurmi • Kim Weins

4:15pm CDT

Leadership Development in the U.S. Navy Track 1Admiral John Richardson

4:45pm CDT

Improving the Developer Experience at the National Security Agency Track 1Virginia Laurenzano

5:15pm CDT

Closing Remarks Track 1Gene Kim • Jeff Gallimore

5:25pm CDT

Happy Hours Track 1

8:30am CDT

Opening Remarks Track 1Gene Kim • Jeff Gallimore

8:45am CDT

Continuous Delivery at Suncor's Digital Bay; Mining Maintenance meets DevOps Track 1John A. Hill • Lindsey Deluca • Joey Roa

9:15am CDT

How Google SRE and Developers Work Together Track 1Jennifer Petoff • Christof Leng

9:50am CDT

Productizing the Network: Square Peg, Round Hole? Track 1Girija Rao • Denée Ferguson • Jennifer Miles

10:15am CDT

How Discover Financial Services Puts Engineering “Craftsmanship” at the Center of Our Digital Transformation Track 1Dr. Angel Luis Diaz • Sheila Lodhia

10:35am CDT

The Four Characteristics of Structure Needed to Get Great Dynamics Track 1Gene Kim • Dr. Steven J. Spear

11:20am CDT

DevOps SRE or ITIL – Know Before You Leap! Track 3Meenal Meenaakshi The Art of Platform Engineering Track 1Sanjeev Sharma • John Comas Why the Dora Metrics and Feature Management are a Brilliant Combination Track 4Michael Gillett

11:50am CDT

Governance, Compliance, and Risk in the SDLC Can Be a Fun Event! Track 1Jeremy Castle • Ryan Chambers

1:20pm CDT

ENSUCKLOPEDIA OF DevUps - An improvised glossary to help us for understanding of What DevOps should not be or become!!! Track 1Jorge Luis Castro Toribio

2:20pm CDT

Avoiding Goodhart’s law - Use SLO’s as Tools not Cudgels Track 2Marco Coulter

4:15pm CDT

Driving a Tech-led Reimagination of eBay Through DevOps Track 1Randy Shoup • Mark Weinberg

4:45pm CDT

Information Flow Cultures Track 1Dr. Ron Westrum

5:15pm CDT

Closing Remarks Track 1Gene Kim • Jeff Gallimore

5:25pm CDT

Happy Hours Track 1

8:40am CDT

Opening Remarks Track 1Gene Kim • Jeff Gallimore

8:45am CDT

Building Confidence in Your SRE Team Track 1Michael Winslow

9:45am CDT

"She’s Not Dead Yet, Jim": Vulnerability and Retrospectives in Emergency Medicine Track 1Dr. Al'ai Alvarez • Kurt Andersen • Christina Tan

10:20am CDT

Interview: Amanda Silver on Leadership and Remote Work Track 1Amanda Silver • Gene Kim

11:20am CDT

DevOps Story of a Crisis & Conquest Track 3Prasanjit Singh How to Implement Enterprise DevOps in a Huge Organization Track 4Bramley Maetsa

11:50am CDT

How OpenTelemetry Improves Observability and Monitoring Track 4Johnathan Campos

1:20pm CDT

The Serverless Edge - Using Wardley Mapping with the Value Flywheel for combined business & technology evolution Track 3David Anderson • Mark McCann

1:50pm CDT

Developer Productivity Engineering – The Next Big Thing in Software Development Track 3Justin Reock

2:20pm CDT

A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High Performance Track 3Matt K. Parker Banking on Flow Metrics – Bank of New Zealand Transformation Journey Track 1Paul Littlefair • BMK Lakshminarayanan Chaos and Reliability: A Surprising Friendship in the Enterprise Track 2Troy Koss • Courtney Nash

2:50pm CDT

GitOps & SLO-Driven Automation Driving Faster and Better Releases! Track 4Andreas Grabner

4:15pm CDT

Shifting Left on Production Excellence with Observability Track 1Shelby Spees • Liz Fong-Jones

4:45pm CDT

Learning Effectively From Incidents: The Messy Details Track 1John Allspaw

5:15pm CDT

Closing Remarks Track 1Gene Kim • Jeff Gallimore