Program

DevOpsDays Zurich 2025 program and schedule

Day 1
May 6, 2026

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00 - 9:15

Opening

9:15 - 10:00 🎤 Keynote View Details →

Engineering & Ethics: Responsibility by Design

Bertrand Delacretaz

Bertrand Delacretaz

10:00 - 10:30 💬 Talk View Details →

Agents in Action: How Google is Automating Operational Toil

Maria-Hendrike Peetz

Maria-Hendrike Peetz

Ramón Medrano Llamas

Ramón Medrano Llamas

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:30 💬 Talk View Details →

From Firefighting to Flow: Building Calm and Resilience in a High-Reliability Engineering Team

Olga Kristjansdottir

Olga Kristjansdottir

11:30 - 12:00 💬 Talk View Details →

The playbook for a sovereign Model-as-a-Service platform

Camille Nigon

Camille Nigon

Maarten Vandeperre

Maarten Vandeperre

12:00 - 12:30 💬 Talk View Details →

Beyond SBOMs: The Future of Container Supply Chain Security

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:10

Opening Afternoon

14:10 - 14:15 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Taming the Metal: Platform Engineering for HPC

Michele Brambilla

Michele Brambilla

14:15 - 14:20 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Neurodiversity: An Underrated Superpower in Business

Vera Herzmann

Vera Herzmann

14:20 - 14:25 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Excellent collaboration. The basics.

Denniz Dönmez

Denniz Dönmez

Simon Berg

Simon Berg

14:25 - 14:30 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

What is a Scrum Master good for?

Eszter Torda

Eszter Torda

14:30 - 14:35 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Dr. Strangepod or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI

Bastian Spanneberg

Bastian Spanneberg

14:35 - 14:40 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Why Living Documentation is Cool

Antonio Alvino

Antonio Alvino

14:40 - 14:45 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Cutting 2/3rds of your cloud costs with common sense

Simon Falsig

Simon Falsig

14:45 - 15:15

Open Space Voting

15:15 - 17:25 🌐 Open Space

Open Spaces

15:15 - 17:25 🛠️ Workshop View Details →

Event-Sourced DDD Domain Models with Axon (in Kotlin)

Oliver Zihler

Oliver Zihler

Alina Liburkina

Alina Liburkina

15:15 - 17:25 🛠️ Workshop View Details →

Maintaining legacy applications using AI tooling

Cristian Schuszter

Cristian Schuszter

15:15 - 17:25 🛠️ Workshop View Details →

Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Secure the Software Supply Chain, Empower the Developer

Manuel Schindler

Manuel Schindler

17:30 - 17:45

Closing Day 1

17:45 - 22:00

Evening Event

Day 2
May 7, 2026

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00 - 9:15

Opening

9:15 - 10:00 🎤 Keynote View Details →

Your Systems Aren’t Stuck - Your Teams Are: The Leadership Patterns Behind Scalable DevOps

Limor Bergman Gross

Limor Bergman Gross

10:00 - 10:30 💬 Talk View Details →

From Gut Feel to Evidence: What DORA Metrics Actually Tell Us

Egor Savochkin

Egor Savochkin

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:30 💬 Talk View Details →

Automated Root Cause Analysis

Melchior Thambipillai

Melchior Thambipillai

11:30 - 12:00 💬 Talk View Details →

Scaling DevOps Without Scaling Ops: Our Platform Engineering Journey

Gang Luo

Gang Luo

Kristina Kondrashevich

Kristina Kondrashevich

12:00 - 12:30 💬 Talk View Details →

When Your "New Teammate" Hallucinates: Observability as the Safety Net for AI Code

Florian Mair

Florian Mair

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:10

Opening Afternoon

14:10 - 14:15 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Speak Up: Your Story Matters

Iris Hunkeler

Iris Hunkeler

14:15 - 14:20 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Planning Theater: The Play That’s Killing Your Delivery

Peter Zylka-Greger

Peter Zylka-Greger

Benjamin Huser-Berta

Benjamin Huser-Berta

14:20 - 14:25 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

AI Made Us Faster at Solving the Wrong Problems

Marcelo Ancelmo

Marcelo Ancelmo

14:25 - 14:30 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

“How to design Observability before you buy it”

Pallavi Agrawal

Pallavi Agrawal

14:30 - 14:35 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Why your CI/CD processes should include your ERP systems

Martin Fischer

Martin Fischer

14:35 - 14:40 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Pragmatic AI Adopton is Hard!

Lena Fuhrimann

Lena Fuhrimann

14:40 - 14:45 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

DevOps on 36 Ton Machines: Shipping Software to Autonomous Excavators in the Desert

Sandro Meier

Sandro Meier

14:45 - 14:50 ⚡ Ignite View Details →

Kill the Project. Build a Team.

Timo Böhm

Timo Böhm

14:45 - 15:15

Open Space Voting

15:15 - 17:25 🌐 Open Space

Open Spaces

15:15 - 17:25 🛠️ Workshop View Details →

Beyond the Scan: Professional SBOM Management and Risk Mitigation with Dependency-Track and VEX

Marc Herren

Marc Herren

15:15 - 17:25 🛠️ Workshop View Details →

It’s Giving Insecure Vibes: Secure Coding Literacy for Vibe Coders

Betta Lyon Delsordo

Betta Lyon Delsordo

15:15 - 17:25 🛠️ Workshop View Details →

Challenge your Kubernetes skills in a time-constrained capture the flag session

Luc Juggery

Luc Juggery

17:30 - 17:45

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