DevOps Live Day 1 Highlights

The DevOps Umbrella

Brittany Woods, Engineering Director - HR Block

The industry evolved beyond the DevOps revolution, sparking new teams with unique responsibilities. Yet, all shared common DevOps principles. This session explored DevOps as an umbrella methodology and examined how modern teams like SRE and Platform Engineering built on its foundations to solve new organizational challenges.

The AI-Powered Developer with GitHub Copilot

Richard Erwin, Solutions Engineer - GitHub

The era of AI-powered development is upon us. Watch this session to explore the latest advancements in GitHub Copilot. Learn how to successfully begin your journey into AI-assisted development and gain a deeper understanding of the transformative potential AI holds for the future of software creation.

Cracking the Code of Reliability: SLI/SLO Uncovered

Benjamin R Chiro, Sr Staff DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering - SSE Plc

This session demystified Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), showing how they shaped reliability in modern DevOps and SRE practices. Ben shared real-world examples, practical tips, and explained how error budgets helped drive better decisions, leaving attendees with practical insights to improve performance and reliability.

AI Driven Devops

Narender Kunta, Full Stack Developer - UK Health Security Agency

This session explored modern quality engineering principles for building robust DevOps pipelines in cloud infrastructure. It covered practical strategies such as shift-left testing, continuous testing, chaos engineering, and automated validation to improve reliability, scalability, and security. Attendees gained insights to optimise cloud infrastructure quality while efficiently meeting business goals.

Transforming Developer Experience: From Complexity to Self-Service

Tony Phillips, Cloud DevOps Engineering Lead - Cloud Platform - Lloyds Banking Group
Andrew Greenough, Engineering Lead - Cloud DevOps CI/CD - Lloyds Banking Group

This session explored how a leading UK financial institution transformed its developer experience. It shared challenges faced and lessons learned in moving from fragmented platforms to a streamlined self-service model. Attendees discovered how collaboration across teams enabled a modern cloud approach within a regulated environment, with a vision for automation and data-driven delivery.

Key Considerations for Success with AI-Driven DevOps

Oseghale Okosun, DevOps Automation Engineer - Lloyds Banking Group

AI is revolutionising DevOps, but integrating it effectively requires careful planning. In this session, Oseghale explore key considerations - automation vs. oversight, data quality, security risks, and ethical implications - to ensure AI enhances, rather than disrupts, your DevOps pipeline. The session explored the opportunities and challenges of AI-driven DevOps with confidence.

Build better, faster: How to supercharge your software development in 2025

Colin Mueller, Community Support Manager - Sonarsource

This session explored how AI became an active partner in software development, changing how developers write, review, and maintain code. It examined the growing importance of code quality and security for both human and AI-generated code, and shared strategies for combining traditional code analysis tools with AI to enhance software development in 2025.

Streamlining Success: Automating the DevOps Journey with AI

Karthik Pelluru, Senior Devops Engineer - UK Home Office
Hemanshu Chauhan, Director Of Quality Assurance - DWS Group

Recent advancements in technology and AI are transforming DevOps practices. By automating routine tasks, AI enhances efficiency and allows engineers to focus on more strategic, impactful work. Attendees discovered best practices for effectively integrating AI into the DevOps lifecycle and maximising its potential to optimise operations.

How You Can Improve Your DevOps Culture From the Bottom Up

Steve Fenton, Principal DevEx Researcher - Octopus Deploy

This session explored how to create an environment that fosters change by adapting your approach. Rather than directing change like a leader, you'll learn how to shape the signals you send and their impact on those beyond your team, increasing the likelihood of meaningful transformation.

Driving Excellence in Cloud: Innovative Quality Engineering Strategies for Superior Infrastructure

Hemanshu Chauhan, Director Of Quality Assurance - DWS Group

Discover modern quality engineering principles & approach to enable robust DevOps pipelines in Cloud Infrastructure. This session will explore actionable strategies like shift-left testing, continuous testing, chaos engineering, and automated validation to ensure reliability, scalability, and security in dynamic cloud environments. This session shared the knowledge to optimise cloud infrastructure quality while meeting business goals efficiently.