Abby Kearns

Abby is Chief Technology Officer at Puppet and sits on the Lightbend Board. She brings over 20 years of experience scaling growth for numerous Fortune 500 and start-up companies, including Puppet, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Pivotal Software, Verizon, and Totality. Her leadership is born out of the intersection of business technology, deep expertise on cloud/cloud-native architectures, and open source software expertise.

Talk: How to Drive Your Business Forward with DevOps

Over ten years, Puppet has surveyed more than 35,000 technical professionals around the world in the most comprehensive and longest-running study on the topic of DevOps. This keynote will examine key attributes of successful DevOps teams, what the advanced stages of DevOps look like, the common roadblocks faced by organizations trying to scale DevOps organizationally, and how DevOps transformation is not just a technical transformation but a cultural and mindset change as well.