DevOps Movement to Convene at ChefConf 2015
Change Agents From GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Intuit, Scholastic, and Standard Bank to Address 60,000-Strong Chef Community; F5 Networks and Microsoft Among Leading Technology Providers Sponsoring ChefConf 2015
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Dec 17, 2014) - Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced ChefConf 2015, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, March 31 - April 2, 2015. ChefConf 2015 is the epicenter of the DevOps movement, bringing together web innovators and large enterprises alike to define how an entire generation of businesses delivers for customers. ChefConf 2015 will feature three days of vibrant events, inspiring presentations, collaborative hacks, and technical training focused on accelerating and de-risking DevOps adoption on the journey to web speed and scale.
Register now to take advantage of early bird pricing for ChefConf.
Executives and change agents from Global 2000 companies including GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Intuit, Scholastic, and Standard Bank will be addressing the Chef community, while major technology providers F5 Networks and Microsoft will be joined by innovators like Conjur, JFrog, Opsmatic, PagerDuty, and more in sponsoring the conference for more than 2,000 Awesome Chefs.
"Chef is growing like crazy because businesses of all shapes and sizes need automation and DevOps skills to move at the speed of customer demand," said Adam Jacob, CTO, Chef. "ChefConf is going to be a blast. Join us at the prime gathering for both the brightest minds in DevOps and enterprise change agents from around the world."
ChefConf 2015 is the definitive assembly for the 60,000-strong Chef community. The conference will feature talks from IT leaders representing some of the most dynamic thinking in IT. Confirmed speakers include:
Matt Merchant, Global Managing Director, ArchOps, GE Capital
James Prolizo, Director of Mobile & Installed Applications Delivery, Guest Solutions, Global Technology, IHG
Mike Thibodeau and Saman Garg, Staff Application Ops Engineers, Intuit
Daryn McCool, Senior Manager of Platform Services, and John Bryne, Cloud Services Engineer, Scholastic
Dawie Olivier, Executive Head of Group Technology Build, Standard Bank
On March 31, the day before the conference officially begins, ChefConf attendees can also take advantage of a wide range of technical training opportunities, including:
Introduction to Chef: Linux and Windows
Introduction to Chef Analytics and Compliance
Introduction to Chef and Security
Multi-node Deployments with Chef
Building a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Chef
Test-Driven Development with Chef
Fueling the Love of DevOps
Dev4Ops4Dev
More information and registration for these training sessions are available here.
The ChefConf 2015 Call for Proposals is now open, along with a wide range of sponsorship opportunities. Registration is $1,095 for early bird pricing, running through January 31, for the March 31 - April 2, 2015 conference, which includes the plenary sessions and all track sessions.
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We are Chef -- the leader in web-scale IT automation. We give you a model for automating IT infrastructure and applications that drive self-reliance across your development and operations teams. We are the Chef community. We are tens of thousands strong. We are helping your businesses become faster, safer and more flexible, so you win in today's 24x7 digital economy. Join our movement today. www.chef.io