Tuesday November 29th,
1:00p ET
DevOps has become a major enabler of business innovation that can drive digital transformation at an enterprise level if done well. Challenges remain, however. Crossing the chasm from successful DevOps pilots with "two-pizza" teams to full enterprise adoption, including cultural transformation, best practices and tools remains a challenge.
Join Alan Shimel as he hosts a panel discussion with Hertz' John LaFreniere, Kaiser Permanente's Raghunath Raman and IBM's Sanjeev Sharma on how traditional enterprises are accelerating innovation by adopting DevOps practices at scale across their organizations.
Find out how:
- Hertz is accelerating transformation of their platforms, business process and operating models with Cloud, DevOps and Agile.
- Kaiser Permanente is managing the cultural, process and integration challenges of multi-speed IT.
- IBM has embarked on a DevOps transformation that has engaged over 10,000 developers already -- including becoming one of the world's largest users of GitHub Enterprise.
Please join us to learn how to assess your organization’s readiness for scaling DevOps, and to identify next steps.
John LaFreniere
Vice President of Global IT Architecture, Hertz Corporation
Along with traditional IT architectural responsibilities, John is the technology transformation executive focused on positioning Hertz for the future through cloud, data, and application transformation. Throughout his 30-year career, John has held IT leadership positions at Ally Financial, Vanguard Car Rental, GMAC, Cisco, AT&T and variety of technology service companies. He has a broad spectrum of experience in architecture, data management, application delivery, business integration and infrastructure.
Raghunath Raman
Director - Digital APIs and Integration Delivery at Kaiser Permanente
22+ years of experience in developing and executing enterprise product strategy and global initiatives. -Strong technical background, verifiable record of product development, service deployments, operations and program management of multi-million dollar portfolios. - Demonstrated prowess to formulate & deliver highly complex programs throughout an organization. - Seasoned in managing and building complex, interdependent systems and enterprise frameworks. Speaker @ IBM interconnect 2015, Speechtek 2009 , Speechtek 2010, etc.
Sanjeev Sharma
CTO, DevOps Technical Evangelist, IBM Distinguished Engineer
Sanjeev is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and the CTO for DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption at IBM, leading the DevOps practice across IBM. Over the past three years Sanjeev has become the client facing Technical Sales SME and Solution Architect for DevOps and is recognized as a Thought Leader for DevOps within IBM, with IBM’s customers and across the broader DevOps solution space. Sanjeev is responsible for leading the worldwide technical sales community for DevOps offerings across IBM’s portfolio of tools and services. Sanjeev speaks regularly at conferences around the world, including IBM InterConnectr, IBM Innovate, IBM Pulse. IBM Impact and IBM Connect.