[KC-2024] Add Program + Speakers

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 It wasn’t until 1983 when Victor Patti had the vision of restoring this architectural artwork to its original grandeur and purchased it with that intention, and by the beginning of 2000, the hard work was well underway.  At long last, in 2001, 75 years after its grand opening, the Madrid Theatre reopened its doors to the public.
 
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     We offer wheelchair-designated spaces, chairs, and standing options (with tall tables) in the mainstage session room; a quiet room; bathrooms labeled according to the facilities they contain; professional live captioning of mainstage sessions; ingredient labeling (based on data provided when registering); and private space (upon request) for those nursing. We'd also be happy to accommodate any other accessibility needs upon request: {{< email_organizers >}}    
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+### Parking options
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+There are a variety of spaces available for parking at the venue:
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+- Spirit of Hope Church, 3801 Wyandotte St, Kansas City, MO 64111
+  - Parking is in the back lot, accessible via Baltimore Ave
+- Kansas City Young Audiences, 3732 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64111
+- Madrid Gated lot, 3745 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64111
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+<img src="/events/2024-kansas-city/parking.jpg" alt="Parking options" width="50%" />
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+## Hotel recommendation
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+We have secured a block of rooms at the [SpringHill Suites Kansas City Plaza](https://maps.app.goo.gl/g723yzNAb9o6bymQ9) for **$139 per night**. The special room block is available via **[this link](https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1711053941374&key=GRP) until Tuesday, April 23, 2024**.
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+After that date, you can call the hotel at 816-285-4900 to request the room rate using `DevOpsDays` as the promo code, subject to availability.
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+Title = "Program"
+Type = "program"
+Description = "Program for devopsdays Kansas City 2024"
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+    If Open Space is new to you, you may be interested in <a href="/pages/open-space-format">more details about Open Space</a>.
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+  </div>
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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "On-Prem is the new Black"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["aj-jester"]
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+The general trend in the industry is shifting towards cloud repatriation, this shift has caused what I call a knowledge gap where engineers are only familiar with interacting with infrastructure via APIs but not the hardware or networks their application runs on. In this talk I aim to demystify on-prem environments and show engineers how easy and smooth it is to repatriate data from cloud to an on-prem air gap environment.

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "The IaC Tooling Face-off for Modern Cloud Native Ops"
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+Speakers = ["asaf-blubshtein"]
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+With Infrastructure as Code becoming the de facto way we manage our infrastructure today, a lot of excellent tools have become widely adopted that each have a different set of strengths. In this talk we'd like to take a look at the evolution of the IaC landscape over the past decade, and where we're heading.
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+We'll examine some of the biggest Ops - DevOps / SRE / Platform - engineering challenges through the lens of IaC including disaster recovery, security, cost, performance and even where complexity factors in when choosing your tooling of choice. While many of us have already chosen our tooling, we may also like to consider migration and integration of multiple tools for different use cases and stacks. In this interactive talk, we'll allow you to decide which tools we explore - from CDK to Pulumi, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, ArgoCD to learn about how they stack up versus modern cloud native challenges.

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+Title = "Three ways to accelerate your API platform maturity"
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+Speakers = ["budhaditya-bhattacharya"]
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+When it comes to building a resilient and high-performing API platform, it’s crucial to understand that success is not solely dependent on the technology you use. During this talk, we will:
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+1. Discuss the recently released Platform engineering maturity model
+2. Explore the intersection of people, processes, and products for platform success
+3. Understand the metrics that matter for platform success
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+API platforms provide an API-first, self-service way of delivering and maintaining the applications that an organisation needs to grow its business. However, every organisation’s maturity is different, every team’s needs are different and subsequently, their definition of success is different!
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+So, how do you assess your organisation’s maturity and platform needs? What determines the success of such API platforms? What might you be missing? Tune in to find out!

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
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+Title = "Diagramming as Code"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["carl-chesser"]
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+It is easy for documentation with our projects to get stale. This can especially be true with diagrams. This powerful visualization that illustrates our systems, can quickly become misleading when they become out of date. What if we could make it easier to maintain visualizations of our systems, by removing the burden of classical diagramming tools or forcing people into a presentation building tool to illustrate their system?
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+Treating our documentation like code can be applied to how we build diagrams, through textual languages that can represent our systems. Quickly get a taste of how you can get started diagramming with code to communicate about your systems. After this talk, you will learn how you can stay in your code editor and build powerful diagrams with a consistent look and feel, enabling you to quickly communicate about your systems through illustration.

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+Title = "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Terminal"
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+Speakers = ["chloe-condon"]
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+Chloe Condon, Senior Developer Advocate at Google, explains how she and other technologists have found ways to incorporate humor and entertainment into their docs, demos, streams, videos, and yes even code. In this talk, you'll learn how to keep your audience and viewers engaged by sprinkling in some fun to your presentations.

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "Collaboration is more than a name change"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["curtis-blackthorne"]
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+Communication is key if you want to follow the principles of DevOps, but are we talking to the right people? DevOps has always meant way more than just developers and operations working together. But who else should we involve when building a product? Let's look at some questions you need to be asking about your process and see who would be involved.

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+Title = "Make it simple, using generative AI to accelerate learning"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["duan-lightfoot"]
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+Advances in generative AI like ChatGPT present new opportunities to improve learning for DevOps practitioners. In this ignite talk, I will demonstrate how to leverage these large language models to build a customized learning assistant that helps you skill up faster. I will walk through creating your own learning assistant step-by-step, showing how it can leverage your team's documentation, tribal knowledge, and online resources to provide on-demand support. This ignite talk will also discuss current capabilities and limitations of AI assistants with a DevOps lens. While powerful, these models still require human supervision for responsibly staying up-to-date on best practices. The goal of this ignite talk is to start a practical discussion around augmenting our learning processes with AI while being realistic about its maturity.

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+Title = "Dealing with Layoffs"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["eric-lee"]
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+There have been 201,000 people laid off over the past calendar year (as of 2024/01/31) within the tech industry. What is the IT job market been like over the past 3 years, where is it going, what should you do if you are laid off, and what to say (or not say) to peers or family members that are laid off.

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+Title = "Embrace the Break: Engineering for Chaos, Without Disruptions."
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["erin-mikail-staples"]
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+People are well, unpredictable. And sometimes so are their projects.  In this talk we’ll go over how to embrace the possibility of breakage, all without risking a possible disruption. From conducting experiments, migrating databases, or implementing new features — we’ll walk through how to mitigate different pitfalls, and what we can learn when we design with chaos in mind.
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+We know we don’t live in a perfect world, so why do we build in a manner that requires perfection?  Let’s explore how the development process might look if we embraced our breaking points. Attendees will learn the benefits of engineering for chaos, including understanding risk mitigation, how to build internal safety nets and the magic that can happen when you create safe spaces to experiment and explore.

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "You say you can exit vim, have you ever tried exiting `ed` instead?"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["jj-asghar"]
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+You’ve heard about `emacs` vs `vim` , or maybe `vscode` vs `jetbrains`, I’m here to tell you there’s a text editor that is on every POSIX machine none of us know. `ed`, and in this ignite talk I’ll tell you everything you need to know to use it. I'm adding more characters to cover the 300 minimum required here.

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "Platform ROI: Why should your company invest?"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["jt-perry"]
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+Platform ROI: More Than Just Dollars. 
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+You don't have to be an accountant. You just need to understand your company's culture. A brief overview of ROI and why it matters and then we will dive in to learn about:
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+1. Calculating ROI:
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+I'll unravel the mysteries of ROI calculation, making it clear and something you can do yourself.
+Real-world examples and practical tips will be served with a side of humor, proving that ROI can be both enlightening and entertaining.
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+2. Corporate Culture Impact:
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+Discover the connections between corporate culture and platform ROI. We'll explore the importance of alignment that can affect ROI decisions.
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+3. Beyond Cost Justification:
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+Beyond dollars and cents, we'll delve into the world of non-financial benefits. Think of them as the hidden treasures of ROI – valuable, yet often overlooked. Improved productivity, innovation, and market gains will be showcased.

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "Speedrunning DevOps: What not to do in 5 minutes or less"
+Type = "ignite"
+Speakers = ["laura-santamaria"]
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+Sure sure, we all get the whole DevOps idea, right? Collaborate together, communicate more, and so on and so forth. But what about all the ways it can go wrong? How can you completely mess up a DevOps world? From buying DevOps to setting up so many ways to communicate we can't communicate at all, let's explore how the way to DevOps hell is paved with good intentions, all in 5 minutes or less.

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+Title = "Mastering the Fundamentals: Understanding DevOps in today's world"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["laura-santamaria"]
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+People over process over tools. Why do we say that when we talk about DevOps? How does that phrase explain the basics of this transformation? Let's talk about it!  
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+In this talk, we'll dig down into the fundamentals of DevOps to understand why it's still relevant today in a world full of hot takes and new paradigms like platform engineering. In particular, we'll explore the typical people problems that block organizational changes in processes, why changing tools won't fix the underlying cultural issue, and how you can use this knowledge to help your organization make a successful transformation, whether that's a classic DevOps transformation or adding the platform engineering idea to your already successful DevOps world. Whether you're an individual contributor, a manager, or an executive, let's explore why successful organizational change requires us to think of people over process over tools.

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+Title = "Test Driven Development & Pair Programming - Live Coding Demo"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["mark-shead", "benjamin-shead"]
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+In this talk, Mark and his son, Benjamin, will demonstrate pair programming and test driven development by live coding a simple algorithm. If you've heard about how pair programming and TDD work, but haven't ever seen it in successful practice, this demonstration should clear up some common misconceptions and give you an idea of how it might be useful to you and your team.

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+Title = "Unblocking Your CI/CD With Ephemeral Environments"
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+Speakers = ["natalie-lunbeck"]
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+CI/CD is now considered table stakes for any modern software team. The reality, however, is quite different: DevOps and SRE teams are constantly struggling to keep static testing and staging environments up and running. If teams don't have a place to test and validate their code how can they possibly release it, let alone continuously?
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+Ephemeral environments have coalesced as the solution for FAANG and are starting to pick up steam for everyone else. Short-lived, isolated, and disposable environments allow DevOps and SRE teams to stop worrying about broken environments blocking deployments.
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+Join Natalie as she shares best practices for implementing ephemeral environments and understanding their benefits to unblock your CI/CD.  She will cover test before merge, security, cost control, and ideal developer workflows.

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "DevOps: A Way of Being"
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+Speakers = ["nathen-harvey"]
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+We've been doing DevOps since before it had a name!
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+It's true, the word DevOps is less than 15 years old but collaboration across teams working towards shared goals has been around for much longer than that.
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+The DevOps community has taken lessons and insights from other disciplines.
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+Many argue that DevOps isn't a tool or a job title.
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+Let's take some inspiration from another field and explore the idea that, perhaps, DevOps is a Way of Being.

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+Title = "A Decade with DORA"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["nathen-harvey"]
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+DORA will publish its tenth report on software delivery performance this year, marking more than a decade of research into what it takes to build and scale high-performing technology teams.
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+Let's take a moment to reflect on how far we've come, celebrate the successes of today's DORA community, and make some predictions about the future.
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+This session will explore some of DORA's key findings including:
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+- Speed and stability are not tradeoffs
+- A healthy culture is essential
+- Improve by alleviating your team's constraints
+- Software delivery performance is good for organizational outcomes and practitioner well-being
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+We will also look at some of DORA's neighbors, including flow metrics, the SPACE framework, and the Dimensions of DevEx.
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+Join us for success stories, cautionary tales, and advice about how to leverage DORA to help your team get better at getting better.

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+Title = "Physics as a Philosophy for Practicing Life"
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+Speakers = ["rhia-dixon"]
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+What if I told you that physics makes career paths, colleague interactions, software solutions, and dinner plans all the same?
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+Intriguing, right?
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+Newton's laws of motion and Einstein's theories of relativity can help shift how you think about, approach, and execute each of these things. Join me for a spin on "life science" and personal growth you won't soon forget.

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+Title = "Getting Good (or Better) at Code Review"
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+Speakers = ["rhia-dixon"]
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+If you write code, you should review code.
+That's it.
+That's the talk.
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+There are quite a few "reasons" why developers at various levels find themselves code-review averse: impostor syndrome, time constraints, and area of expertise are a few I've heard. For code owners and project leads, it's a constant battle.
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+But it shouldn't be! It doesn't have to be!
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+Let's discuss the benefits of reviewing code, what it is, what it isn't, and how to make it more than the blind rubber stamp approvals we've grown used to. I'll show you my process and things that have helped me cultivate totally awesome code reviewers!

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+Title = "DevOps in the Cloud: Case Studies of Amazon.com teams and their resilient architectures"
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+Speakers = ["seth-eliot"]
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+Join Seth, an experienced Amazon technologist with over 12 years of experience working on the company's highly scalable systems, as he takes you on a journey through the unique DevOps culture at the online retailer Amazon.com. Discover the secrets behind the company's successful customer experience, and learn how "two-pizza teams" foster accountability and ownership in the systems they create and run in the cloud. Seth has worked with multiple of these teams, helping them incorporate best practices for building resilient workloads, and will share their technology and processes for running services in the cloud with you. Dive into real-world examples of Amazon's systems, such as how the search team uses chaos engineering to be ready for Prime Day, any day, and how transportation uses resilience best practices to keep the trucks rolling, Gain insights into the resilience strategies that Amazon employs, including chaos engineering, automated deployment, and multi-site architectures.