GitLab Connect: DevSecOps Forum

Event Details

Agenda

Yarralumla, 19 June 2024

All times in AEST

8:00 am

Registration and breakfast

9:00 am

Opening from PSN & Acknowledgment of Country

9:05 am

Welcome from MC: The Art of the Possible in Government Services

Catherine Ballantyne, Director of Customer Success APAC, GitLab
Catherine Ballantyne, Director of Customer Success APAC, GitLab

9:15 am

International Keynote: What CACI Learned from Experience, Complexity and Scale

Glenn Kurowski, Senior Vice President and CTO, CACI

Learn how CACI International Inc.’s technology and expertise play a vital role in U.S. national security and government modernization. The organization was challenged with navigating a complex landscape of cumbersome toolchains. Leveraging GitLab, CACI increased efficiency, security, and productivity by consolidating its toolchain on the one DevSecOps platform.

  • Effective collaboration with clients and other service providers 
  • Accelerating digital delivery (citizens and staff) 
  • Efficiency/effectiveness outcomes achieved 
  • Talent attraction, onboarding and retention 
  • Plans for future success 

Glenn Kurowski, Senior Vice President and CTO, CACI

 

Key Customers for which CACI are doing Software Development using our Common Software Development Environment (CSDE).  Based on GitLab Ultimate. 

 

  • Military Services including the United States Air Force, the Army, the United States Navy and Space Force
  • Combatant Commands including TRANSCOM and SOCOM
  • Intelligence Agencies including the National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO) and National Geospatial Agency (NGA)
  • International Defense organizations including UK GCHQ
  • Civilian Agencies including the FBI
  • Research organizations including DARPA and AFRL (Air Force Research Lab)
  • Major Aerospace Companies (as our customers) including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and L3/Harris
Glenn Kurowski, Senior Vice President and CTO, CACI

9:45 am

Welcome Keynote: The Evolution of DevSecOps

Lee Faus, Global Field CTO, GitLab
  • Learnings from US Federal agencies
  • Developer Experience – why you should care, including specific case studies with Customer metrics.
  • “Secure by design” and “Secure by default” consistency, patterns (templates) and automation
  • What GitLab is working on providing to our clients
Lee Faus, Global Field CTO, GitLab

10:10 am

Government Keynote: Secure by Design and Default (SbD2)

Jayden Cooke , Technical Director, Secure Design and Architecture | Cyber Uplift | Cyber Security Resilience, Australian Signals Directorate

ASD Describes their journey through the first year of the international efforts on Secure-by-Design and Default

Jayden Cooke , Technical Director, Secure Design and Architecture | Cyber Uplift | Cyber Security Resilience, Australian Signals Directorate

10:30 am

Morning Tea & Networking

11:10 am

Government Keynote: RAAF's journey with Agile methodologies

Wing Commander Mike Moroney, AI Lead for the Royal Australian Air Force

Mike will share the RAAF’s journey with agile methodologies to deliver measurably improved performance

Wing Commander Mike Moroney, AI Lead for the Royal Australian Air Force

11:40 am

AI Keynote: Securing your digital evolution with DevSecOps

Samuel Dudley, Deputy Director of Engineering, x-RD

 

 

Samuel Dudley, Deputy Director of Engineering, x-RD

12:05 pm

Maturing your Cloud Operating Model for optimum business value with Infrastructure as code

Craig Fox, Cloud Executive Advisor, AWS & former Assistant Commissioner for Service Operations at Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
  • How to mature your cloud operating model for business value with infrastructure as code
  • Tackling your strategy, platform, people and process challenge
Craig Fox, Cloud Executive Advisor, AWS & former Assistant Commissioner for Service Operations at Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

12:30 pm

Lunch & Networking

1:30 pm

Interactive Ask the Experts Q&A: DevSecOps, AI and ML

  • Integrating DevSecOps practices into government projects, leveraging AI and ML technologies to enhance security and efficiency. 
  • Exploring common challenges faced in deploying DevSecOps methodologies and adopting AI/ML solutions within government agencies. 
  • Discussing emerging trends and future innovations in the intersection of DevSecOps, AI, and ML, and their potential impact on the landscape of digital government services 

Moderator – Lee Faus, Global Field CTO, GitLab

Cherish Cherian, Director Applications Management, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Dan Riedel, Chief Product Officer, x-RD

Ben Ridley, Public Sector Solutions Architect, GitLab

Glenn Kurowski, CTO, CACI

2:30 pm

Closing Remarks

2:45 pm

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