Program
DevOpsDays Zurich 2027 program and schedule
Day 1
May 6, 2026
8:00 - 9:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:00 - 9:15
Opening
9:15 - 10:00
🎤 Keynote
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Engineering & Ethics: Responsibility by Design
Bertrand Delacretaz
10:00 - 10:30
💬 Talk
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Agents in Action: How Google is Automating Operational Toil
Maria-Hendrike Peetz
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:30
💬 Talk
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From Firefighting to Flow: Building Calm and Resilience in a High-Reliability Engineering Team
Olga Kristjansdottir
11:30 - 12:00
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The playbook for a sovereign Model-as-a-Service platform
Camille Nigon
12:00 - 12:30
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Beyond SBOMs: The Future of Container Supply Chain Security
Mohammad-Ali A'râbi
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:10
Opening Afternoon
14:10 - 14:15
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Taming the Metal: Platform Engineering for HPC
Michele Brambilla
14:15 - 14:20
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Neurodiversity: An Underrated Superpower in Business
Vera Herzmann
14:20 - 14:25
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Excellent collaboration. The basics.
Denniz Dönmez
Simon Berg
14:25 - 14:30
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What is a Scrum Master good for?
Eszter Torda
14:30 - 14:35
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Dr. Strangepod or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
Bastian Spanneberg
14:35 - 14:40
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Why Living Documentation is Cool
Antonio Alvino
14:40 - 14:45
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Cutting 2/3rds of your cloud costs with common sense
Simon Falsig
14:45 - 15:15
Open Space Voting
15:15 - 17:25
🌐 Open Space
Open Spaces
15:15 - 17:25
🛠️ Workshop
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Event-Sourced DDD Domain Models with Axon (in Kotlin)
1. OG – Malen
Oliver Zihler
Alina Liburkina
15:15 - 17:25
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Maintaining legacy applications using AI tooling
1. OG – Seminar
Cristian Schuszter
15:15 - 17:25
🛠️ Workshop
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Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Secure the Software Supply Chain, Empower the Developer
2. OG – Gesang
Manuel Schindler
17:30 - 17:45
Closing Day 1
17:45 - 22:00
Evening Event
Day 2
May 7, 2026
8:00 - 9:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:00 - 9:15
Opening
9:15 - 10:00
🎤 Keynote
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Your Systems Aren’t Stuck - Your Teams Are: The Leadership Patterns Behind Scalable DevOps
Limor Bergman Gross
10:00 - 10:30
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From Gut Feel to Evidence: What DORA Metrics Actually Tell Us
Egor Savochkin
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:30
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Automated Root Cause Analysis
Melchior Thambipillai
11:30 - 12:00
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Scaling DevOps Without Scaling Ops: Our Platform Engineering Journey
Gang Luo
Kristina Kondrashevich
12:00 - 12:30
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When Your "New Teammate" Hallucinates: Observability as the Safety Net for AI Code
Florian Mair
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:10
Opening Afternoon
14:10 - 14:15
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Speak Up: Your Story Matters
Iris Hunkeler
14:15 - 14:20
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Planning Theater: The Play That’s Killing Your Delivery
Peter Zylka-Greger
Benjamin Huser-Berta
14:25 - 14:30
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“How to design Observability before you buy it”
Pallavi Agrawal
14:30 - 14:35
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Why your CI/CD processes should include your ERP systems
Martin Fischer
14:35 - 14:40
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Pragmatic AI Adopton is Hard!
Lena Fuhrimann
14:40 - 14:45
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DevOps on 36 Ton Machines: Shipping Software to Autonomous Excavators in the Desert
Sandro Meier
14:45 - 14:50
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Kill the Project. Build a Team.
Timo Böhm
14:50 - 15:15
Open Space Voting
15:15 - 17:25
🌐 Open Space
Open Spaces
15:15 - 17:25
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Beyond the Scan: Professional SBOM Management and Risk Mitigation with Dependency-Track and VEX
1. OG – Seminar
Marc Herren
15:15 - 17:25
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It’s Giving Insecure Vibes: Secure Coding Literacy for Vibe Coders
1. OG – Malen
Betta Lyon Delsordo
15:15 - 17:25
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Challenge your Kubernetes skills in a time-constrained capture the flag session
2. OG – Gesang
Luc Juggery
17:30 - 17:45
