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DevOpsNotDead New York 2026

DevOpsNotDead New York 2026 is a one-day, in-person conference featuring experts from across the DevOps, site reliability engineering, and cloud infrastructure ecosystem. The event highlights the intersection of DevOps and artificial intelligence, with sessions focused on AI-powered automation, pipeline reliability, security, and strategic cultural shifts in…

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13Speakers
4Sponsors
13On the bill · sessions
12Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at DevOpsNotDead, in alphabetical order.
Akash Thakur
SRE Architect · Cognizant
Avinash Sabat
Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer · Synechron / UBS
Birol Yildiz
Co-founder and CEO · ilert
Chinmay Gaikwad
Director of Product Marketing · Harness
Diamond Bishop
Director of Engineering and AI · DataDog
James Brookbank
Cloud Solutions Architect Manager · Google
Jessica Garson
Josh Lee
Senior Developer Advocate · Altinity
Leon Adato
Cribl
Mahender Mangalasri
AppSec Manager · Cognizant
Mark Pawlikowski
DND Organizer
Nishkarsh Raj
Principal Evangelist & Consultant · StatusNeo
Sadio Jonas
Founder and Director of AI Strategy · The Academy For AI Strategy
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Agentic Reliability Framework
Cribl
Harness
Hockeystick Show
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Agenda

Selected from 13 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:30

    Opening note: Was this a furry convention all along?

    Mark crossed the Atlantic from London to NYC through a full blown snowstorm just to don a Gandalf grade beard in person. He commandeered the opening slot like a benevolent wizard …

    Track 1
  • 10:00

    Building Enterprise-ready CI/CD Pipelines using Agentic AI

    This talk explores how agentic AI can be applied to build enterprise-ready CI/CD pipelines that are faster, safer, and easier to operate at scale. Chinmay will walk through how aut…

    Track 1
  • 11:00

    The DevOps of Live Coding

    For the past 10 years, I’ve created live-coded music and audio-reactive visual art under the name Messica Arson. This talk will cover my tools, my creative process for sound and vi…

    Track 1
  • 11:30

    Building AI SRE Agents for Autonomous Recovery

    Standard runbook automation often fails because it lacks context. When an incident strikes, the missing link is the "reasoning" that connects a spike in latency to a specific commi…

    Track 1
  • 12:00

    What Tolkien Taught Me About Being an SRE

    J.R.R. Tolkien was a master of presenting real world situations in fantastical settings and making them both understandable and solvable. For many of us, Tolkien gave us the tools …

    Track 1
  • 13:30

    Leading the Future of DevOps with AI

    This talk explores how AI is collapsing the traditional software development lifecycle and breaking long held linear DevOps assumptions, pushing meaningful work earlier through AI …

    Track 1
  • 14:00

    Who Watches the Watchmen - Running Production Ready AI Agents

    As AI agents increasingly act autonomously in production systems, devops expands into evaluation, observability, and all of the above. This talk explores how to observe, improve, a…

    Track 1
  • 14:30

    DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)

    A language is more than just the syntax and semantic rules of the words themselves. It also encompasses the shared culture of the speakers. With the proliferation of programming la…

    Track 1
  • 15:00

    Latest DORA research on AI-assisted Software Development

    DORA is the largest and longest running research program of its kind, that seeks to understand the capabilities that drive software delivery and operations performance. Our latest …

    Track 1
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 12 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

Twelve companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
8Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Cribl·Harness

Speakers by seniority

31% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite18%
  • Founder / Owner18%
  • Director / Head of215%
  • Manager / Lead431%
  • Engineer · IC215%
  • Other roles323%

Of 13 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01CriblSp1V
  2. 02HarnessSp1V
  3. 03Agentic Reliability FrameworkSp
  4. 04Hockeystick ShowSp
  5. 05Cognizant2V
  6. 06Altinity1V
  7. 07Datadog1V
  8. 08Google1V
  9. 09ilert1V
  10. 10StatusNeo1V
  11. 11Synechron / UBS1V
  12. 12The Academy For AI Strategy1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified4
100% of 4
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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