Devopsdays 2021 - Houston | DevOpsDays | 21 September 2021 | Norris Conference Centers - Houston/CityCentre, 816 Town and Country Blvd #210, Houston, TX 77024, US

About this event
Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area.

Most devopsdays events feature a combination of curated talks (see open Calls for Proposals) and self organized open space content. Topics often include automation, testing, security, and organizational culture.

2021 Speakers

Blessing Richardson
Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead

Aakash Shah
Co-Founder, CTO, oak9 (Hiring!)

Angel Rivera
US Air Force Space Systems Operations Specialist, Cape Canaveral AF Station

Austin King
Senior Engineer, Amazon, AWS, Mozilla

Dan Lorenc
Staff Software Engineer, Lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST)

Ell Marquez
Advocate, Hacking Is Not and Crime and Operation Safe

Ernest Mueller
Director of Engineering, Product at Six Nines IT

James Strong
Cloud Native Director, Contino

Jeremy Meiss
Director, DevRel & Community at CircleCI, Formerly at Solace, Auth0 and XDA

JJ Asghar
Developer Advocate, IBM Cloud

Dr. Mark Peters
Technical Lead on several DoD Cyber Programs, Novetta, San Antonio, TX

Matt Stratton
Staff Developer Advocate, Pulumi

Matthew D. Groves
Microsoft MVP Award

Matt Ostlind
Senior Software Engineer, Umbrage.

Mikhail Kozorovitskiy
Founder, Datalus, Organizer of Birmingham Area Software Enthusiasts

Milecia McGregor
Senior Software Engineer, International Tech Speaker

Nick Hodges
Development Team Advocate, LinearB

Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas (@ragss)
Architect/evangelist wi, Cloud Solutions

Rob Richardson
Software Craftsman , ASP.NET and Node

Thomas Haver
Test Automation Architect

Veer Muchandi
Container and Cloud evangelist. A

Vishnu Vasudevan
DevSecOps Leader and a SAFe Agilist

2021 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• InfluxData
• Microsoft
• xMatters, Inc
• Contrast Security

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Phoenix NAP
• Launch-darkly
• Two Sigma
• AppDynamics
• Datadog
• Improving
• MongoDB
• Elastic
• Redis Labs
• VMware Tanzu
• Dynatrace
• Couchbase
• Alert Ops

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Decisiohealth
• Basis
• Teleport
• Umbrage

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• FlightAware
• Envo
• Red Hat
• Trili
• Circleci

CORPORATE SPONSORS:
• ABS
• Arundo
• Corva

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
• Arrested DevOps
• Houston DevOps Meetup

LUNCH SPONSOR:
• Skycrafters

BREAKFAST SPONSOR:
• Coralogix