Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute, and ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is the Chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium and provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders. She is also an analyst at Techstrong Research, hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk and the Value Stream Evolution series on TechStrong TV. She currently lives in the UK.

Bill Bensing builds things that build things. He is a skilled leader and architect of software, people, teams, and companies. Bill is an expert at making innovation a wholly inclusive process. His love of DevOps comes from a background in logistics and operations management. Automated Governance is a topic Bill finds very interesting. He believes a lack of good governance is the single biggest issue preventing breakthrough value. Bill will tell you, “Good strategy and good governance are the grease and guide rails for success.” He lives in the Tampa Bay, FL, area.

Jason Cox is a champion of DevOps practices, promoting new technologies and better ways of working. He enjoys helping organizations deliver more value, better, faster, safer and happier. He is an inspirational speaker who loves people and delights in amplifying their abilities with technology. Jason frequently speaks at conferences, contributes to open source and writes on technical and leadership topics. He currently leads several SRE teams and resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their children.

Michael Edenzon is a senior IT leader and engineer that modernizes and disrupts the technical landscape for highly regulated organizations. Michael provides technical design, decisioning, and solutioning across complex verticals and leverages continuous learning practices to drive organizational change. He is a fervent advocate for the developer experience and believes that enablement-focused automation is the key to building compliant software at scale.

Caleb Queern helps CIOs and CISOs reduce risk across the software development life cycle so they can innovate quickly and win in the market. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Marian, and son, Joseph.

John Rzeszotarski assists organizations with strategic planning and leadership in the solution and infrastructure focus areas; moreover, John provides thought leadership to large enterprises that need to focus on reliability, scalability, regulatory, and other business considerations. His expertise spans many verticals with a focus on digital, payments, security, development, and his primary passion is solving business and IT problems thru technology, process, and culture transformations.

 Andres Vega helps engineering organizations securely build large-scale, distributed software leveraging novel approaches to reduce the compliance toil associated with the area. He is recognized in the open-source community as a maintainer, contributor, and technical leader focused on the improvement of ecosystem security. Outside of his profession, he is a family guy and an avid outdoors person. You are sure to find him adventuring with his family all over the trails of the San Francisco Bay Area in his best attempt not to get mauled to death by hungry mountain lions.

John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the DevOps movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks, as well as co-author of the The DevOps Handbook and Beyond the Phoenix Project.
 

Topo Pal is a thought leader, keynote speaker, evangelist in the areas of DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Open Source Adoption and Digital Transformation. He is a hands-on developer and Open Source contributor. Topo has been leading and contributing to industry initiatives around automated governance in DevOps practices. Topo resides in Richmond, VA, with his wife and two children.