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Wednesday, April 1 • 1:30pm - 2:10pm
Disney DevOps: Automating the Enterprise with Supermarket, Containers and BI
Disney is the world’s largest media company and home of some of the most respected and beloved brands around the globe. Utilizing the latest technology is an important strategic focus at Disney, allowing guests to better connect with Disney and allowing Disney to better connect with its guests in innovative and impactful ways. As with many other IT organizations supporting increasingly agile and high velocity businesses, Disney’s own technical operations teams continue to adapt and transform to keep up with the speed, scale and consistent repeatability required to move successfully into the future.  This presentation will update the audience on Disney’s journey in adopting business empowering DevOps practices, deploying automation with tools like Chef and Supermarket, managing public cloud hosted application stacks through a custom tool complimentary to Chef called DRADIS, and transforming business intelligence through Docker containers.

Speakers
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Jason Cox

Director, Global SRE, The Walt Disney Company
Jason Cox is the Director of SRE at The Walt Disney Company. 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... Read More →
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Jeff LaPlante

Staff Systems Engineer, The Walt Disney Company
Jeff LaPlante is a DevOps professional with over 10 years of experience doing systems engineering. He is currently doing the DevOps in Los Angeles at The Walt Disney Company as a Staff Systems Engineer.  If you’ve gone to any Disney website, chances are you’ve encountered something... Read More →
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Brian Scott

Sr Staff Technical Evangelist, Global SRE, The Walt Disney Company
Brian Scott is Disney’s first Technology Evangelist & Engineering Advocate, helping teams with new technology, building best practices in the Cloud & Automation. He majored in computer science, helped build, and has managed many SRE Teams within The Walt Disney Company. He is an... Read More →
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Steven Wagner

Staff Systems Engineer, The Walt Disney Company
Steven Wagner has applied his fascination with getting technology to do the boring and/or impossible in the telecommunications, ISP/ASP, gaming and visual effects industries (at companies like Earthlink, XO Communications and Industrial Light + Magic) with positive results across... Read More →
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Nick Willever

Sr. Systems Engineer, The Walt Disney Company
Nick’s been automating with Chef since 2009 and is now using it at The Walt Disney Company for building complex infrastructure environments for their marketing and studio related web services.  His diverse software and system engineer skills not only allow him to automate servers... Read More →


Wednesday April 1, 2015 1:30pm - 2:10pm PDT
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