21 Oct, 2026
DevOps Summit NSW 2026
ICC Sydney: International Convention & Exhibition Centre
Join APAC's most established DevOps event bringing together engineering and technology leaders to explore CI/CD, cloud-native practices, agentic AI, AIOps, observability and the future of high-performance software delivery.
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APAC's most established DevOps event
As organisations accelerate digital delivery, DevOps is no longer just about faster releases. Engineering teams are balancing the need for speed, reliability, security and governance while integrating emerging technologies that are transforming how software is built, deployed and managed.
Stream A: Build, Integrate & Deliver explores the foundations of modern software delivery. Sessions examine how composable and modular architectures enable greater agility and scalability, how organisations can build AI-ready data pipelines, and how leading engineering teams are standardising AI-assisted development while maintaining quality, consistency and control. The stream also looks at the growing role of agentic AI in transforming software delivery workflows and accelerating innovation across the development lifecycle.
Stream B: Operate, Observe & Optimise focuses on running resilient, secure and high-performing systems in production. Discussions will cover observability maturity, AIOps-driven operations, intelligent incident management and strategies for turning operational data into actionable insights. Attendees will also explore approaches to automated remediation, continuous optimisation and strengthening software supply chain security in increasingly complex environments.
Together, these discussions highlight the next evolution of DevOps: combining intelligent automation, modern engineering practices and operational excellence to build software delivery ecosystems that are faster, more resilient and better aligned to business outcomes.
Meet our Speakers
Co- Author of the DevOps Handbook (One of the most respected and influential figures in the DevOps movement)
Director of Engineering
GM Engineering Platform
Senior Director of Engineering
Chief Technology Officer
Senior Engineering Manager
Director of Engineering
Head of Engineering
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Head of Engineering
Head of Enterprise Release Management
Chief Technology Officer
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8:30 am
Registration & Refreshments
9:00 am
Welcome Remarks
9:10 am
The “Painful Middle” of DevOps Maturity
9:40 am
Learnings from the Best-of-Breed Engineering Teams Who Deliver Excellence at Scale
Leadership behaviours that set direction & drive a culture of excellence
Operating models that enable empowered teams while maintaining strategic alignment
Sustaining talent, capability & innovation as organisations scale
Shweta Saraf
Director of Engineering
LinkedIn
Helen Lau
GM Engineering Platform
Commonwealth Bank
Craig McPhee
Senior Director of Engineering
SafetyCulture
Nick Honey
Director, Solutions Engineering APJ
LaunchDarkly
10:20 am
Agentic AI Transforming DevOps Workflows
Ilker Taskaya
Field CTO - US
Perforce
10:50 am
Morning Tea & Networking
Stream 1: Build, Integrate, Deliver
11:20 am
Composable, Modular Systems to Accelerate Development & Continuous Delivery
Building systems for scale & agility to support constantly evolving user needs
Determining whether systems are actually independent, or just loosely coupled in theory
Balancing standardisation & flexibility across systems to scale without creating friction
Artem Yakimenko
Engineering Director, SRE
Culture Amp
Ainslee Ling
Senior Engineering Manager
Airwallex
Patrick Catanzariti
Head of Engineering
Nova Entertainment
Puneet Gupta
Director of Product Management
JFrog
12:00 pm
From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Accelerating AI Ready Data Pipelines
Stream 2: Operate, Observe, Optimise
11:20 am
Incident Management: Leading Organisational Resilience Through Critical Incidents
Preparing teams, processes and platforms to respond effectively when critical incidents occur
Enabling clear decision-making and collaboration across technology and business stakeholders during disruptions
Leveraging post-incident insights to improve resilience, reliability and operational maturity
Edwin Kwan
CISO
NEOS Life
Roy Alingcastre
Head of Engineering
Cover-more Group
Andrew Burton
Head of Platform Engineering
The Iconic
Niall McCarthy
Field CTO - APAC
PagerDuty
12:00 pm
How to Measure Observability Maturity & Set Benchmarks for Continuous Improvement
12:20 pm
Lunch & Networking
1:10 pm
Interactive Workshops
Faster Delivery, Lower Risk: Automating Compliant Data for DevOps and AIOps
The True Cost of Running AI in Production
2am Recovery Club: Lessons from Workflow Failures
From Manual to Autonomous Engineering: Bringing Control to Agentic Workflows
DevSecOps in Reality: What’s Actually Working (and What’s Not)
Developer Experience as a Strategy: Who Owns It and How Do You Improve It
Stream 1: Build, Integrate, Deliver
1:50 pm
Engineering with AI at Scale to Govern Quality, Consistency & Control
Standardising AI assisted development to keep teams aligned & accelerate reliable delivery at scale
Embedding guardrails into pipelines to validate AI generated code and manage risk & compliance
How AI is evolving from assistive development tools to agentic software delivery workflows
Vinny Lawrenson-Woods
Head of Engineering
Newscorp
Amit Dhami
Head of Enterprise Release Management
QBE
Chaitanya Kuber
Chief Technology Officer
Airtasker
Gareth Manuel
Director of Engineering
Amaysim
Andrew Muollo
Director, Solutions Eng & Technical Account Mgmt JAPAC Lead | Customer Experience Global Lead
Docker
2:30 pm
Minutes to Build, Weeks to Data: Fixing the DevOps Blind Spot
Stream 2: Operate, Observe, Optimise
1:50 pm
AIOps to Drive Intelligent Operations & Continuous Optimisation in Production
Turning observability signals into actionable intelligence to accelerate incident response & resolution
Enabling automated remediation to reduce human intervention & improve system stability at scale
Leveraging AI-driven systems to continuously optimise performance, reliability & cost in production
Jac Domney
Head of Engineering
REA Group
Jovana Dunisijevic
Senior Technical Evangelist
Atlassian
Asif Gill
Head of Discipline Software Engineering
UTS
2:30 pm
When the Runbook Runs Out: Closing the Loop on the Unexpected
This presentation explores where AI belongs in the DevOps loop when traditional automation and runbooks reach their limits, how it can help teams reason through the unexpected, and why observability becomes critical when we start trusting probabilistic systems to make decisions and take action.
Kate Hymers
Senior Manager Observability Solution Architects - APJC
Splunk
2:50 pm
Afternoon Tea & Networking
3:10 pm
The Origin Story of DevOps & Its Continued Evolution to Modern Software Delivery
John Willis
One of the most respected & influential figures in the DevOps movement
Co-Author of the DevOps Handbook
