Our first meetup event so help us set the bar for future events by joining us! We've found an amazing location next to the river, and some amazing speakers, followed by free beer & pizza afterwards.



We'd like to have a theme for each meetup so for our first one we will start at the beginning - The Goal of DevOps. For newbies an intro to what devops is, for experienced DevOps people what's going on currently and where the space is going. This will lay out the roadmap for future meetup themes around Configuration Management, Monitoring, PaaS etc.



Agenda:



6:30pm: Arrive

7:00pm: Presentation 1 - The Goal of DevOps



Steven Acreman, CTO Dataloop.IO ( http://www.dataloop.io ) will set the stage and talk about his view on what DevOps really is and why its important for organisations to adopt.



7:20pm: Presentation 2 - DevOps in Practice



Paul Robinson & Surfraz Ahmed from Equal Experts ( http://equalexperts.com ) will talk about their experience rolling out DevOps across multiple organisations, what works, what doesn't when trying to bring DevOps into an organisation in real life.



7:40pm: Presentation 3 - DevOps @ Space Ape Games



Sam Pointer, Lead DevOps at Space Ape Games ( http://www.spaceapegames.com ) will bring DevOps to life with a real example of how a successful online games company uses DevOps to deploy and manage their online service at scale.



8:00pm: Beers & Pizza

9:00pm: Close



If you'd like to contribute to the event by speaking about any cool ideas/tech./projects then contact any of the organisers and we'd love to add you to the agenda for a future meetup.



See you there!