As an industry, we’ve been talking about the amazing benefits of continuous delivery for ages. But not everyone is doing it.

As enabling as it is, it’s hard to do because it touches so many different parts of both our software pipeline and our organisation. It has to pervade every part of the process, from the users all the way back to the designers.

At this event, we explore what it means to do Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment (to production) – the enormous benefits and the incredible acceleration that it brings, and we look at the organisational change required and the tech needed to support it.

Includes great speakers, panel Q&A, and really cool demos.

You’ll learn:
- Why you need continuous delivery (production) to move fast
- What behavioural changes are needed in your organisation
- What it takes to do continuous delivery and continuous production properly and safely
- How it can help you provide customer value more quickly and more efficiently

This is an exclusive event for business leaders of large enterprise businesses and pioneers in the tech space.

Agenda

6.00pm - Arrival and drinks
6.30pm - Lightning talks
8.00pm - Q&A and panel discussions
8.30pm - Drinks and networking

Speakers

Reg Meyer, Head of Technology Solutions at Nandos
Reg is a leading technologist and inspirational leader with over 15 years of experience across a broad range of industries. He strongly believes in empowering teams by giving them ownership and responsibility and in investing time in building strong and relevant relationships with colleagues and business partners. As well as being a visionary technologist he also keeps a close eye on financial status and builds relevant strategies to maximise return on investment.

Stu Harris, Chief Scientist and Founder at Red Badger
Stu is a Red Badger Founder, with a delivery focus. For more than 25 years he’s been building software and is a passionate leader who drives the technological agnosticism within the company. Stu is a mine of knowledge and understanding in infrastructure, server-side architecture and serverless applications, who never stops learning. His speaking style is focused on the technical capabilities and his ability to think around complex technical issues on the spot is incredible to see.

Sean Gabriel, Delivery Director at Red Badger
Sean loves managing world-class software products and programs, especially when delivering them to customers fast. With over 12 years of experience, he’s worked across a variety of consumer, edtech, FinTech and B2B products and teams around the world, and is known for his friendly approach to leading and guiding multidisciplinary teams. Sean gets his most excited when harnessing tech to build experiences that deeply serve the user’s needs.

More speakers will be announced shortly.

What are the speakers talking about?

1. Sean Gabriel, Delivery Director at Red Badger:
Continuous delivery promises to get products & services in the hands of your customers faster. But what behavioural change does the organisation need to embrace - to enable the business to successfully practice a new way of working? We'll take a look at how continuous delivery practices build upon the principles of fast feedback loops, measurability, and just-in-time engineering to create value in a way that’s true to the spirit of agile.

2. Stuart Harris, Founder and Chief Scientist at Red Badger:
Continuous Delivery demands a separation of the concepts of deployment and release. Deployment is a tech decision, should be fully automated (and fast and efficient), and happening all the time without anyone noticing or caring. On the other hand, releasing (or updating) a feature is a business decision with product owners in full control.

We will examine what it takes to do both of these things safely, in the microservices world in which we now live. Modern CI and CD tooling with DevOps and GitOps, together with release concepts such as feature toggles provide for the fastest delivery of customer value we’ve seen to date.
And the fun bit – I’ll demo Continuous Deployment to Production on Kubernetes, using Istio traffic routing to show how to build up and test a new feature in production. In the meantime have a read on how to make continuous delivery happen in our newly launched TechLab_Report 19 here.