DevOpsDays PDX

Did you have a great time painting with Jes and co-creating the watercolor rendition of our #DevopsdaysPDX logo? You can find her at www.witchywatercolor.com to book your own sessions.

Did you miss out on #DevopsDaysPDX this year? Or maybe you're already jonesing for next year.... You've got three more days to snag the super early bird 50% discount. (The discount shows up in your cart) tickets.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-p... (tentatively scheduled for Sept 7-9 in the same venue)

Thank you to our media sponsors, helping to spread the word and keep DevOpsDays PDX on a roll! We already can't wait to see you all next year!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for our snack and happy hours sponsors who are keeping us caffeinated, hydrated, fed, and happy this week! We're so lucky to have you on our team!

Watercolor painting at a #DevopsDays evening event? Oh yes we did. We had so much fun, and wait until you see the #DevopsDaysPDX deer we painted! Mad props to Jes at www.witchywatercolor.com for the amazing evening!

DevOpsDays PDX organizers want to give a huge THANK YOU to all of our Silver Sponsors! This comeback wouldn't be possible without your support!

🎉 We kick off at noon!!! 🎉 Can't wait to see you! Use #dodpdx #devops #devopsdays to share your takeaways..... Let's give everybody else some serious FOMO from their desks! And, yes, you can register on site. We'd LOOOOOVE to have you join us! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Calling all introverts and artists!! Conference attendees can hang out with Jes of Witchy Watercolor as she teaches watercolor basics and you go home with your own postcard sized art! Learn more about her work at www.witchywatercolor.com It's not too late to register! devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Secure your dockerfiles with Emphere's tools. Come talk to them about it THIS WEEK at DevOpsDaysPDX!!! The party starts tomorrow at noon! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Meet Mezmo's new "SRE Agent" when they join us as a Silver Sponsor at this year's DevOpsDaysPDX. Grab your ticket today to hang at the only PDX conference dedicated to DevOps. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Great conversations, lovely humans, impressive tech, and overall good times.... We're sooooo close to kick off! Get your ticket ASAP! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Next Wednesday, Sept 9th, you could be at happy hour with us, thanks to Overlook Infratech, one of our awesome sponsors. Come chat with them about OpenVox and OSS Puppet support, custom development, and trainings! Grab your ticket today! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

LAST CALL: grab one of our vintage 2019 DevOpsDays PDX travel mugs! Register by midnight on Fri, Aug 28 and we'll have one set aside when you arrive! BTW: This little buddy can carry your hot/cold liquids OR act as a can coozie. Pure joy. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

The Fork Around and Find Out podcast will be joining us at DevOpsDaysPDX as a Media Sponsor to help us FAFO in person!  Listen to their podcast here fafo.fm/33 We're sooooo close to kick off! Have you registered yet?? 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

HELLO FELLOW COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS! We've been reaching out to PDX meetups & other communities w/ reg discounts! If you are an organizer & haven't received one, ping portland-or@devopsdays.org! If you are a community member, let your leadership know you want the deets! devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Be a part of our team! We're looking for some awesome humans to help with event management over our 3 day event! Maybe it'll even spark your interest to help plan DevOpsDays PDX 2027! Catch the details here: forms.gle/ZRZx5XhY7eX7...

Neo4j, the leading graph database, is all about connections. It's only natural that they should join us as a Silver Sponsor! Come visit their table at DevOpsDays PDX!

Even today, there are new Linux distributions to try, deploy, & even standardize on. Join Brendan of Fedora as he interviews Jim from Microsoft Linux, Justin of Talos Linux, Jonathan of Alma Linux, and Sriram of Bluefin Linux and GnomeOS. Bring your questions! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Finding jobs and boosting careers has always been part of DevOpsDays. We're thrilled to have DevIT Jobs as a media partner for this year's event!!

We are glad to have Technology Association of Oregon as a media partner for DevOpsDaysPDX. If you want be in the know what's happening in Oregon's tech sector, join TAO!

It’s been 5 years since the last DevOpsDays PDX, which means your target audience has probably changed jobs twice. 😅 Come meet Portland’s top devs, SREs, and engineering leaders in person - become a sponsor! 👇 devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

We welcome TheNewStack as our media partner for DevOpsDays PDX. TheNewStack is a familiar face in PDX, covering everything from DevOps to tech culture since 2014. Now we're in the spotlight! Thanks for your support!

Be a part of our team! We're looking for some awesome humans to help with event management over our 3 day event! Maybe it'll even spark your interest to help plan DevOpsDays PDX 2027! Catch the details here: forms.gle/ZRZx5XhY7eX7...

We are so happy to share that KubeEvents has chosen to be one of our media partners for DevOpsDaysPDX. Visit them at DevOpsDays PDX to discover many more great events for platform builders!

DevOpsDays PDX is back after 5 years, and our engineering coffee budget isn't going to fund itself. ☕😉 Sponsor PDX's favorite tech reunion and get your brand in front of top devs, SREs, and platform leads! 👇 devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Great news: Flox has joined us as a Silver Sponsor for DevOpsDaysPDX. Check out their development pipeline at their table! If your organization wants to sponsor DevOpsDaysPDX: devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Treat your database like application code! 🛠️ Database design pioneers Pramod Sadalage & Kevin Hartman explore database branching (Neon, PlanetScale, Supabase) for safer experiments & faster feedback loops. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Can you hack our AI burrito bot? 🤖🌯 Get your own K8s cluster access in this hands-on workshop with Whitney Lee & Michael Forrester! Attack an AI agent, test CNCF guardrails, & learn how to stop runaway token spend. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Do you love vintage swag? Looking for just one more reason to complete your DevOpsDays registration? Look no further! 60 lucky folks who reg by Aug 28 get our favorite 2019 insulated mug plus a 2026 commemorative sticker!!  You can rep the full comeback story. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Ready to get your hands dirty with config management? 🛠️ Join Ben Ford & Charlie Sharpsteen for a workshop on OpenVox (the OSS fork of Puppet), declarative patterns, & drift remediation from the basics to custom modules! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

DevOpsDays PDX is a volunteer run event and we'd love your help! We're looking for folks to help at set up, supporting registration, and with general event management! Interested? We'll say thank you with a free conference registration. Details in the link below! forms.gle/ZRZx5XhY7eX7...

We are delighted that Red Hat will be a Silver Sponsor of DevOpsDaysPDX. Visit their table and talk about Linux, Ansible, and Openshift!! If your organization wants to sponsor the DevOpsDays magic: devopsdays.org/events/2026-... 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

We are delighted to share that Zenity has joined us as Silver Sponsor for DevOpsDays PDX! Visit their table at our event to chat about secure AI agents. If your organization wants to sponsor DevOpsDaysPDX: devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Look what we found in the archives (aka Alastair's garage)!! GET YOUR VERY OWN VINTAGE DevOpsDays PDX TRAVEL MUG! Onsite, we'll give these beauties to everyone who's registered so far as well as the NEXT 60 FOLKS who sign up. Whatcha waiting for? Sign up now! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

"The problem is all inside your storage..." 🎶 Join Josh Berkus & Guinevere Saenger for a sing-along Ignite talk on 50 ways to lose your data (now with AI agents!). Don't miss this duet on modern storage pitfalls! 💾 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

We’re back after 5 years because we know the group chat isn’t enough anymore. 🛠️ Want to reach Portland's best devs, ops, and tech leaders without pitching in their LinkedIn DMs? Become a DevOpsDays PDX sponsor! 👇 devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Replacing the engine of a live, real-time decision system handling 1B+ users with zero downtime? 😱 Join Ankit Agarwal as he shares the honest playbook for high-stakes migrations: shadow testing, zero-panic rollbacks, & lessons learned! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Your incident response runbook was built for bugs, not AI. 🤖🔥 AI degrades quietly & hallucinates confidently. Don't let your runbooks fall behind! Kat breaks down what's actually different about AI incident response & how to prepare your team. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Can AI actually catch malicious pipeline changes, or does it just add noise? 🤖🔒 Shalini Sudarsan breaks down what really happened when pairing syntax-tree analysis with language models to secure Terraform, Kubernetes, & GitHub Actions. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

DevOpsDays PDX returns after a 5-year hiatus-we need to you to help keep community strong! Become a sponsor to connect w/ developers, engineers, team leads, & agile practitioners influencing security, monitoring, operations, engineering, quality, and product & more! devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

"The AI knows what it's doing" = famous last words in DevOps. 😅 Come hear Michael Forrester break down how a 30-second walkaway turned into a 250-cluster disaster - and the essential guardrails that keep agentic AI from wrecking your fleet. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

47-day certificate lifetimes are coming! 🔒 Hear directly from a SRE Brad Winckler on how to audit your certificate automation and prepare your ACME clients for the upcoming CA/B Forum deadlines. 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

"Ozzie thinks his cluster is secure. Spoiler alert: he's about to get HACKED." 😅 Join Whitney Lee for a hilarious, theatrical dive into Kubernetes security, mTLS, & runtime protection! 🎟️ devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

"It works on my machine!" But sharing dev environments with teammates? Absolute chaos. Join Flox product designer (and Oregon native/ultrarunner) Daniel Sauble as he breaks down container headaches, polyglot app dependencies, and better dev environments. Get your tix today: devopsdays.org

We're 40 days away from the return of Portland's premiere DevOps & Open Source Conference! Don't miss your chance to be a sponsor! devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Get ready for "It's just a jump to the left: the Time Warp of DevSecOps" with Bea Hughes! The self proclaimed "award losing security jester," Bea has keynoted DevOpsDays PDX & given talks at SecTor, PuppetConf, LasCon, Operability.io, Velocity various Bsides and DevOpsDays. devopsdays.org

Liz Savage's talk will share how an analytics engineering team adopted AI when standard metrics didn't apply. Learn what metrics prove AI value for non-product teams, what failed spectacularly, and how to track AI adoption when you're not counting commits. Don't miss out: register today!

Anna Daugherty is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Arnica where she spends her days trying figure out application security in an increasingly agentic world. She has been a product marketer for more than 6 years, & in technology marketing for 11+ years. Join us: devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Aaron Hunter is a Principal Developer Advocate at AWS. With 15+ years spanning system administration, networking, & training, plus more than a decade of cloud expertise, his philosophy is simple: always be learning something new & have fun while doing it! Don't miss out on this incredible speaker!

Eric D. Schabell is renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, baseball expert, open source maintainer and CNCF Ambassador. He brings a unique perspective to the stage sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. Register today! devopsdays.org