Puppetize Digital 2021 -- Opening Keynote

Moving Forward: Building Fearless and Open Innovation in the Enterprise
Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO, Puppet

Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar will conduct the opening ceremonies at Puppetize with a look at how putting people at the center of automation empowers them to innovate. With so much pressure coming from the top to deliver more apps and increase release frequency, how do you move fast without breaking things and without introducing risk into the system? Yvonne will speak to how Puppet is equipped to help you navigate these changes in a people-centered way that meets you where you are and takes you to where you need to be.


Ahead of Your Time: How the People at the Center of Automation Push Technology Forward
Abby Kearns, CTO, Puppet

Puppet CTO Abby Kearns continues the focus on Puppetize’s theme Putting People at the Center of Automation with a keynote dedicated to how people’s vision, dedication and skill push technology into the future. Her talk will touch on the strength of the Puppet community, the ways in which we’re driving innovation with a focus on self-service, Policy as Code, DevSecOps and automation. Abby will share the Puppet roadmap and how it supports the current and rapidly transforming needs of customers, keeping both Puppet and its community ahead of their time.


Stuck in the Middle with You: What 10 Years of Research Tells Us About DevOps
Nigel Kersten, Field CTO, Puppet

For 10 years, Puppet has been researching and publishing the State of DevOps Report, and each year reveals a new perspective. In 2021, Puppet set out to explore why so many firms were stuck in the middle of their DevOps evolution, why the role of team identities and interaction models matters, and whether the rise of automation and cloud relate to an organization’s success in its DevOps evolution. Join State of DevOps Report author and Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten to uncover why so many organizations are stuck in the middle, how they’ve evolved, and how you can apply these learnings to your own DevOps success.


Why Sufficiently Advanced Ops is Akin to Magic
Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO, Puppet

Infrastructure is everywhere — but it’s only as strong as the humans who power it. Behind the technology running our world are the thousands upon thousands of people who dedicate their days to making sure the rest of us stay connected, can do our jobs, and can live our lives as we’ve come to know them. Puppet CTO Deepak Giridharagopal speaks to the people at the center of automation and why, without them, technology doesn’t matter.