devopsdays · sundeepbobba1985 · Aug 30, 2026 · Aug 30, 2026 · Aug 30, 2026 · Aug 30, 2026
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-If you are traveling to attend this event, the Southwest Airlines Wings Building is located at Dallas Love Field.  It is approximately 25 minutes from DFW Airport via Hwy 114. 
+If you are traveling to attend this event, the Southwest Airlines Wings Building is located near Dallas Love Field.  It is approximately 25 minutes from DFW Airport via Hwy 114. 
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+Title = "Program"
+Type = "program"
+Description = "Program for devopsdays Dallas 2026" 
+icons = "true"
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+<!-- <img alt="Work In Progress" src="/events/2024-dallas/wip.gif" style="max-width: 15%;"> -->
+<div class = "row">
+  <div class = "col">
+    <hr /> 
+<h5>If Open Space is new to you, you may be interested in <a href="/pages/open-space-format">more details about Open Space</a>.<br>
+<p><p>
+<!-- Our <img alt="DoDDFW Slack" src="/events/2025-dallas/slack.png" style="max-width: 100%;"><strong>Slack</strong> team is:<strong> <a href="https://doddfw.slack.com/">doddfw.slack.com</a></strong>.  Click <strong><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/doddfw/shared_invite/zt-14po9i929-tJI37csQQxurwIBXnb7lkA">here</a></strong> to join.<br> -->
+<!-- Click <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsDaysDFW/playlists"> here</a></strong> to see the<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsDaysDFW/playlists"><img alt="DoDDFW YouTube Playlists" src="/events/2024-dallas/youtube.png" style="max-width: 50%;">YouTube</a> video playlists for DevOpsDays DFW.<br>
+If you would like to see both full (8-hour) day videos uncut, just click on 👉🏽 <a href="https://vimeo.com/857172506">Day 1</a> & <a href="https://vimeo.com/857177084">Day 2</a>.<br> -->
+<!-- B4CON Photo Gallery - click <strong><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/2jXp7dpkvmnQjUad9">here</a></strong> to see pictures.<br>
+Leadership Summit Photo Gallery - click <strong><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/V4yBoeq9aaHD1okG7">here</a></strong> to see pictures.<br>
+DevOpsDays DFW Photo Gallery - click <strong><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/xvbLVsDPRkATGV6P7">here</a></strong> to see pictures.</h5><hr />  -->
+  </div>
+</div>
+<div>
+<b>Color Keys:</b>
+<div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 program-element program-talk">Talk</div>
+<div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 program-element program-ignite">Ignite</div>
+<div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 program-element program-open-space">Open Space</div>
+<!-- <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-3 program-element program-workshop">Workshop<br>(Leadership Summit - <strong>Nominations Only</strong>)</div> -->
+<br />
+<!-- <h3><b>NOTE:</b> <strong><a href="/events/2018-dallas/b4con/">B4CON</a></strong> is on Aug 29th, 2018 from 3:00pm - 7:30pm and will be hosted at the:<br> 
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dalpt-dallas-plano-marriott-at-legacy-town-center/">
+<strong>Marriott Legacy Town Center</strong></a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/''/Marriott+Legacy+Town+Center/@33.0744937,-96.8922496,12z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x864c3cb2e2080053:0x7bc6aecd38eb56ba!2m2!1d-96.8222094!2d33.0745133">7121 Bishop Rd, Plano, TX 75024</a> </h3> -->
+</div>
+<p>
+
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 Talk_date = ""
 Talk_start_time = ""
 Talk_end_time = ""
-Title = ""
+Title = "Scaling AI at the Edge: The tools Google uses to deliver a unified intelligent experience across billions of edge devices"
 Type = "talk"
 Speakers = ["brian-buege"]
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "A Fireside Chat about Lessons Learned Through Many Transformations"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["dalia-powers"]
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+
+
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Site Reliability Engineering w/ AIOps"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["sunny-behl", "giridhar-kanikarapu"]
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+
+Modern distributed systems have outpaced traditional SRE tooling. Static thresholds, manual alert correlation, and reactive runbooks were built for a simpler era — not for Kubernetes-native, microservices-heavy production environments generating millions of signals per minute. The result is alert fatigue, unsustainable on-call burden, and SRE teams spending more time firefighting than engineering.
+This session presents a practitioner's blueprint for applying AIOps — Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations — directly to the SRE workflow. Drawing from real-world experience managing production reliability at a global financial institution serving 200M+ customers, five US patents in AIOps platform management, and the recently published book SRE with AIOps , the speaker will walk through how AI-driven intelligence transforms three core SRE disciplines:
+
+Intelligent Incident Management — how ML-powered alert correlation collapses noise, accelerates triage, and compresses MTTR without burning out your on-call rotation
+Predictive Anomaly Detection — replacing static thresholds with dynamic baselines using autoencoders and isolation forests, catching degradation before it breaches SLOs
+Generative AI in the SRE Loop — architecture and real-world patterns for deploying LLM-powered assistants that execute runbooks, correlate incidents, and draft postmortems through natural language
+
+Attendees will leave with concrete architectural patterns, an ROI framework for justifying AIOps investment internally, and a clear picture of where the SRE role is heading as autonomous remediation and agentic AI move from concept to production reality.
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Continuous Deployment is an Org Problem, Not a Tools Problem: Designing a CD strategy that Scales"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["leena-kallakuri"]
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+
+
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 Talk_date = ""
 Talk_start_time = ""
 Talk_end_time = ""
-Title = "“It’s a Process” - Planning for failure"
+Title = "It's a Process – Planning for Failure"
 Type = "talk"
 Speakers = ["lorenzo-samaniego"]
 +++
 
-In this session, I explore how the GMF ITS Resiliency Program has elevated operational excellence across GMF, with the Enterprise Kubernetes practice as an early success story. I will highlight how following “The Process” led to iterative improvements, platform enhancements and cross-team alignment to drive resiliency outcomes. By focusing on the fundamentals of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, we enable our customers with a strong foundation to navigate the growing complexities of our industry.  The session will be delivered as a Lightning Talk. It will share our journey and how we emphasized continuous experimentation and learning to foster a culture of improvement.
+In this session, I explore how the GMF ITS Resiliency Program has elevated operational excellence across GMF, with the Enterprise Kubernetes practice as an early success story. I will highlight how following “The Process” led to iterative improvements, platform enhancements and cross-team alignment to drive resiliency outcomes. By focusing on the fundamentals of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, we enable our customers with a strong foundation to navigate the growing complexities of our industry. The session will be delivered as a Lightning Talk. It will share our journey and how we emphasized continuous experimentation and learning to foster a culture of improvement.
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "AI That Knows How We Work: From Prompts to Agents, Skills, and Real Results"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["michael-erdman"]
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "We Gated Our Releases and Stopped the 3 AM Scramble"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["sai-saketh-chekuri", "sai-sravan-cherukuri"]
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+
+Every team has some version of this moment: a high-stakes period is two weeks away, a big launch, a busy season, a hard deadline, and someone pulls up a spreadsheet and asks, "Are we actually ready?" And the honest answer is: nobody really knows. You piece it together from whoever remembers the last incident, a few Slack threads, and a general sense of optimism.
+
+This talk is about how I got tired of that moment and built something to make it go away.
+
+I'll walk through how our team built a way to continuously score every service's health and recovery readiness so that by the time peak season arrives, we already know exactly where the risk lies. Not because we're watching better dashboards, but because we built governance into the process before anything ships.
+
+The idea borrows from what DevSecOps figured out years ago: catching a problem at commit time is a hundred times cheaper than catching it at 3 AM during your busiest week. We applied that same thinking to performance and resilience. Every service gets a health score based on real signals: error rates, latency patterns, test reliability, regression history. If a service scores too low, the release is blocked. No exceptions, no manual override without a paper trail.
+
+I'll talk about what broke before this worked, including the organizational pushback, the false confidence that comes from "we have monitoring," and the difference between knowing something is broken and having a process that prevents it from shipping in the first place.
+
+I won't pretend this is a solved problem. But I'll give you a framework you can take back to your team on Monday, regardless of your stack.
+
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "We Gated Our Releases and Stopped the 3 AM Scramble"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["sai-sravan-cherukuri", "sai-saketh-cherukuri"]
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+
+Every team has some version of this moment: a high-stakes period is two weeks away, a big launch, a busy season, a hard deadline, and someone pulls up a spreadsheet and asks, "Are we actually ready?" And the honest answer is: nobody really knows. You piece it together from whoever remembers the last incident, a few Slack threads, and a general sense of optimism.
+
+This talk is about how I got tired of that moment and built something to make it go away.
+
+I'll walk through how our team built a way to continuously score every service's health and recovery readiness so that by the time peak season arrives, we already know exactly where the risk lies. Not because we're watching better dashboards, but because we built governance into the process before anything ships.
+
+The idea borrows from what DevSecOps figured out years ago: catching a problem at commit time is a hundred times cheaper than catching it at 3 AM during your busiest week. We applied that same thinking to performance and resilience. Every service gets a health score based on real signals: error rates, latency patterns, test reliability, regression history. If a service scores too low, the release is blocked. No exceptions, no manual override without a paper trail.
+
+I'll talk about what broke before this worked, including the organizational pushback, the false confidence that comes from "we have monitoring," and the difference between knowing something is broken and having a process that prevents it from shipping in the first place.
+
+I won't pretend this is a solved problem. But I'll give you a framework you can take back to your team on Monday, regardless of your stack.
+
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 Talk_date = ""
 Talk_start_time = ""
 Talk_end_time = ""
-Title = ""
+Title = "The Technology Will Change. Will We?"
 Type = "talk"
 Speakers = ["sean-lynch"]
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 Talk_end_time = ""
 Title = "Site Reliability Engineering w/ AIOps"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["sunny-behl", "kanikarapu-giridhar"]
+Speakers = ["sunny-behl", "giridhar-kanikarapu"]
 +++
 
 Modern distributed systems have outpaced traditional SRE tooling. Static thresholds, manual alert correlation, and reactive runbooks were built for a simpler era — not for Kubernetes-native, microservices-heavy production environments generating millions of signals per minute. The result is alert fatigue, unsustainable on-call burden, and SRE teams spending more time firefighting than engineering.

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+Title = "Dalia Powers"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daliapowers/"
+image = "dalia-powers.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "dalia-powers"
+
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+Dalia is an EVP and CTO across Financial Services, Healthcare and Tech.  She is a senior executive leader that has led many transformations through companies like Capital One, USAA, Dell, and Humana amongst many others
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+Title = "Leena Kallakuri"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leena-kallakuri/"
+image = "leena-kallakuri.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "leena-kallakuri"
+
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+Leena Kallkuri is Managing Vice President, Software Engineering at Capital One
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+Title = "Michael Erdman"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-erdman-4ba44234/"
+image = "michael-erdman.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "michael-erdman"
+
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+
+Michael Erdman, Managing Director of Technology – Digital Platforms at Southwest Airlines, is a technology leader focused on building and evolving the digital platforms that power Southwest’s customer experiences. In his role, Michael leads teams responsible for delivering scalable, resilient, and modern technology capabilities that support Southwest’s digital channels and enable millions of Customers to interact with the airline.
+
+Throughout his career at Southwest, Michael has played a key leadership role in advancing the company’s digital technology ecosystem, bringing together engineering, cloud, DevOps, platform capabilities, and modern software delivery practices. He is passionate about creating technology platforms that allow engineering teams to move faster while maintaining the reliability, security, and operational excellence required at airline scale.
+
+Michael is known for his collaborative leadership style and his ability to connect technology strategy with meaningful business and Customer outcomes. He continues to champion engineering modernization and platform innovation as Southwest evolves its digital experience.
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+Title = "Parag Trivedi"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = ""
+image = "parag-trivedi.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "parag-trivedi"
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+
+Parag is a DevOps and platform engineering leader based in the DFW metroplex. With a passion for reducing developer friction and scaling engineering excellence, I specialize in internal developer platforms, cloud migrations, and building cultures of automation. I believe the best platforms are the ones developers actually love and want to adopt rather then force fed them.
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