In this talk, we will discuss whats preventing smart people from learning new things, the development of personal and organizational growth mindset, and how leading by example proves to be extremely important for creating a learning organization.

In this talk, we will cover some of the common causes of productivity loss via naive adoption of genAI tools and how to take human factors into account to intelligently design sociotechnical systems to maximize genAI-powered productivity gains.

In this talk Sasha will frame this into the three pillars of Tech Excellence (reduction of tech debt), Platform Engineering, and Reliability (SRE) on which innovation can thrive. She will show how when you make strategic investments in these pillars so you can free your people from keeping the lights on to where innovation happens and value is created.

In this talk, Jabe Bloom explores what has gone well in this exploration so far, and he makes some suggestions about where we need to focus to move forward in the next 10 years of DevOps.

Jabe Bloom discusses the design principles of Whole Work systems and discusses how to use them to create resilient sociotechnical systems in complex and dynamic economic environments.