GitLab Connect: DevSecOps Forum

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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

Craig Nielsen, VP Sales Asia-Pacific Japan, GitLab

Craig Nielsen, VP Sales Asia-Pacific Japan, 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

9:45 am

Welcome Keynote: The Evolution of DevSecOps

Lee Faus, Global Field CTO, GitLab

  • Learnings from US agencies 
  • Talent attraction, onboarding and retention 
  • Accelerating Digital Delivery (Citizens and Staff) 
  • Efficiency/effectiveness returns of migrating to GitLab – specific case studies with Customer metrics 
  • “Secure by design” and “Secure by default” consistency, patterns
    (templates) and automation

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

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

10:30 am

Morning Tea & Networking

11:15 am

Government Keynote: RAAF's journey with Agile methodologies

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

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)

  • Tackling your strategy, platform, people and process challenges

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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