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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 28/05/2026

Kicking off #DevOpsDays KC is @lnxchk.bsky.social talking about how even after all these years, culture is still a challenge

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 19/05/2026

it's that time again - we're a week away from #DevOpsDays KC 2026! The Schedule & Speaker List is up: devopsdays.org/events/2026-... Don't wait to get your tickets - the low price of $100 gets you 2 days of great content across multiple tracks! ti.to/kansas-city-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 19/04/2026

Speaker acceptances have gone out for #DevOpsDays KC! We can't wait for you to see the great talks coming your way from some awesome speakers! Grab your tickets NOW for $65! ti.to/kansas-city-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 27/02/2026

Get your EARLY BIRD tickets to #DevOpsDays KC and Community Days NOW for only $60!!! ti.to/kansas-city-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 26/02/2026

‼️ BREAKING NEWS ‼️ #DevOpsDays KC is back for a SEVENTH year, and in collaboration with #CommunityDaysKC we are excited to contribute to the growth of the #KansasCity tech community. EARLY BIRD Tickets are on sale NOW at an unbelievable $60, and the CFP is open until 31-Mar! devopsdayskc.org

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/08/2025

Our #DevOpsDaysKC afternoon sessions kick off with @stahnma.bsky.social talking about "Measuring the Impact: Unveiling the ROI of AI in Engineering Workflows" devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/08/2025

Closing out the morning for us at #DevOpsDaysKC is @lnxchk.bsky.social with "Managing Vendor Incidents" devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/08/2025

At #DevOpsDaysKC, Nicolas Fränkel is giving us a "Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing" devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/08/2025

After the break, @jjasghar.bsky.social is introducing us to "Leveraging AI for Your Enterprise" at #DevOpsDaysKC devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/08/2025

Next up is Kyle Jenkins with "Beyond Automation: How DevOps Principles Foster Trust and Collaboration" #DevOpsDaysKC devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/08/2025

Kicking off #DevOpsDays is George Westwater with "Evolution of a Configuration Management Legend: The Chef Journey" devopsdays.org/events/2025-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 12/08/2025

Tomorrow is #DevOpsDays KC 2025, and it wouldn't be possible without our sponsors! GOLD: - @dynatrace.com - Densify SILVER SPONSORS: - RedHat.com - Progress Chef.io - @chocolatey.org - ControlMonkey.io KARAOKE: - @nx.dev - TEKsystems.com And special mention to @kcdc.bsky.social!!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 08/08/2025

We welcome Densify (densify.com) as a Gold Sponsor for #DevOpsDays KC! With 4 days left, make sure you grab your combo tickets for 3 days of extraordinary technical content at DevOpsDays KC and #KCDC via tickets.devopsdayskc.org

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DevOps KC Meetup @handle.invalid · 06/08/2025

SEVEN days now! Grab your last-minute ticket to #DevOpsDays KC with a 10% discount via DevOpsKC10 at tickets.devopsdayskc.org

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 04/08/2025

DevOpsDays KC is 9 days away, and if you don't have a ticket yet to #DevOpsDays and @kcdc.bsky.social, you don't want to miss out on a great 3 days of tech content from some of the best speakers from around the world! Grab your combo ticket at tickets.devopsdayskc.org NOW!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 04/08/2025

With #DevOpsDays KC and @kcdc.bsky.social happening NEXT WEEK 🤯 , don't forget to RSVP for the best #Karaoke night this side of the Mississippi!!! Happening Thu Aug 14 after the #KCDC after party, this night will be a great time sponsored by @nx.dev and Teksystems KC. lu.ma/c3qaflrj

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Karaoke with DevOpsDays KC & KCDC · Luma

Get ready to unleash your inner rockstar at the most epic karaoke night Kansas City has ever seen! DevOpsDays KC and KCDC are teaming up to bring you a night…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 29/07/2025

We are excited to have ControlMonkey.io joining us at #DevOpsDays KC as a Silver Sponsor! Visit tickets.devopsdayskc.org to get your combo #DevOpsDaysKC + @kcdc.bsky.social ticket before it's too late!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 24/07/2025

We are thankful to have @chocolatey.org back again at #DevOpsDays KC as a Silver Sponsor! Visit tickets.devopsdayskc.org to get your combo #DevOpsDaysKC + @kcdc.bsky.social ticket before it's too late!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 23/07/2025

Get ready to hit those high notes! 🎤 After the @kcdc.bsky.social Attendee Party, keep the good times rolling at the #DevOpsDays KC 2025 #Karaoke Night! It's the perfect way to unwind and network. Sign up now: lu.ma/c3qaflrj Huge thanks to our sponsors TekSystems and @nx.dev! #DevOps #kcdc

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Karaoke with DevOpsDays KC & KCDC · Luma

Get ready to unleash your inner rockstar at the most epic karaoke night Kansas City has ever seen! DevOpsDays KC and KCDC are teaming up to bring you a night…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 23/07/2025

Thank you to our Silver Sponsor, Progress Chef! A strong supporter of many #DevOpsDays over the years, we're excited to have them join #DevOpsDaysKC this year. Visit tickets.devopsdayskc.org to get your combo #DevOpsDaysKC + @kcdc.bsky.social ticket before it's too late!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 22/07/2025

Props to our SILVER SPONSOR #RedHat! 🎉 Without them, #DevOpsDays KC wouldn't be able to happen! Visit tickets.devopsdayskc.org to get your combo #DevOpsDaysKC + @kcdc.bsky.social ticket before it's too late!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 21/07/2025

We wanted to say 💙THANK YOU🙏 to our GOLD SPONSOR @dynatrace.com!! We couldn't put on #DevOpsDays KC without you! Visit tickets.devopsdayskc.org to get your combo #DevOpsDaysKC + @kcdc.bsky.social ticket before it's too late!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 10/07/2025

🎺 ANNOUNCEMENT 🎺 : Karaoke Night at #KCDC after the Attendee Party on Thurs, Aug 14 (930p-2a)!!! In partnership with @kcdc.bsky.social, @nx.dev, and TekSystems KC, we're putting together the most epic #karaoke night KC has ever seen (since last year's of course). Make sure to RSVP at lu.ma/c3qaflrj

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Karaoke with DevOpsDays KC & KCDC · Luma

Get ready to unleash your inner rockstar at the most epic karaoke night Kansas City has ever seen! DevOpsDays KC and KCDC are teaming up to bring you a night…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 19/06/2025

Huge news! 🤩 The #DevOpsDays KC 2025 schedule is now LIVE! Get ready for an amazing lineup of talks, open spaces, and networking. Check it out and start planning your day! #DevOpsDaysKC #DevOps #KansasCity 🔗 program.devopsdayskc.org 🎟️ tickets.devopsdayskc.org

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/06/2025

‼️ Don't forget! Today is the LAST day to get the EARLY BIRD 🦅 ticket price for 3 amazing days at @kcdc.bsky.social and #DevOpsDays #KansasCity Aug 13-15! ti.to/kansas-city-... #devopsdayskc

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 09/06/2025

Early Bird pricing ends this coming Friday (June 13) for #DevOpsDays KC and @kcdc.bsky.social !!! Make sure to get your combo ticket (KCDC + DevOpsDays KC) to attend all 3 days of these events with over 100 speakers before the price goes up!! ti.to/kansas-city-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 05/06/2025

⚡ 5 Speakers. 5 Unique Topics. 1 electric Ignite session. #DevOpsDaysKC is bringing the 🔥 with our 2025 Ignite Talks! You’ll laugh. You’ll learn. You might even rethink YAML. 🎟️ Grab your ticket now: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #IgniteTalks #DevOpsDaysKC #KCDC

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KCDC 2025

The Kansas City Developer Conference is excited to announce our 15th annual event! Our 2025 conference will be held August 13-15th, 2025, with a pre-conference workshop day and two full conference…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 02/06/2025

🔍 Get hands-on with observability. Nicolas Fränkel offers a one of a kind talk for modern app visibility. 🎤 Talk: “Practical Introduction to OpenTelemetry Tracing” 🎟️ Join us in KC: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #OpenTelemetry #Observability #Tracing #DevOpsDaysKC

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Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 28/05/2025

📉 When vendors go down, what happens next? Mandi shares practical guidance for managing vendor incidents before they escalate. 🎤 Talk: “Managing Vendor Incidents” 🎟️ Reserve your ticket: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #VendorManagement #IncidentResponse #DevOpsDaysKC #SRE

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Mandi Walls

Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate on the Community and Advocacy Team at PagerDuty. Before joining PagerDuty, Mandi spent a number of years at Chef Software, working with customers and community…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 23/05/2025

🧠 Mind over outage. Learn how to approach incidents like a pro with Carl Chesser and his mental hacks for incident analysis. 🎤 Talk: “Mind Hacks for Incident Analysis” 🎟️ Secure your spot: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #IncidentResponse #SRE #DevOpsDaysKC #PostMortem

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Carl Chesser

Carl is a software architect at Oracle. Most of his career has been focused on evolving and scaling the service infrastructure for their core electronic medical record platform called Millennium. He…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 20/05/2025

🤝 DevOps is more than pipelines. It’s about trust. Join Kyle and explore how DevOps principles can unlock team collaboration and growth. 🎤 Talk: “Beyond Automation: How DevOps Principles Foster Trust and Collaboration” 🎟️ Get your ticket now: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #DevOpsDaysKC #TeamCollaboration

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Kyle Jenkins

Kyle Jenkins is driven to help you ease the pain of work, whether it’s technology bleeding resources or trouble working with a team of people. As a full stack developer, public speaker, and principal…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 17/05/2025

George Westwater serves up a flavorful history of the Chef platform, showing how it evolved into a DevOps staple. Come hungry for insights! 🎤 Talk: “Evolution of a Configuration Management Legend: The Chef Journey” 🎟️ Join the experience: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #Chef #DevOpsDaysKC

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George Westwater

George Westwater is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Progress Chef. He has 25+ years of experience across all altitudes of an organization (developer, architect, manager, executive, …) at…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 14/05/2025

📊 How do you measure the impact of AI? Michael Stahnke breaks it down beyond the hype, into real numbers. 🎤 Talk: “Measuring the Impact: Unveiling the ROI of AI in Engineering Workflows” 🎟️ Don’t miss out: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #AI #EngineeringProductivity #DevOpsDaysKC #TechLeadership

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Michael Stahnke

Michael is VP of Engineering at Flox. Prior to this, he held senior engineering leadership roles at CircleCI and Puppet. He has a demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 13/05/2025

🤖 Curious about AI in the enterprise? Start here. JJ brings an engaging intro to using AI tools where it matters most: at scale. 🎤 Talk: “Introduction to Leveraging AI for Your Enterprise” 🎟️ Reserve your spot: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #AI #EnterpriseAI #DevOpsDaysKC #DevOps #TechConference

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JJ Asghar

JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing IBM worldwide. He mainly focuses on open-source AI and OpenShift, trying to help companies and users successfully onboard to the Cloud-Native ecosystem.…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 12/05/2025

🧠 Tech debt? Delivery pressure? Choose your battles wisely. At #DevOpsDaysKC, Rhia Dixon helps us navigate the tug-of-war between speed and quality. 🎤 Talk: “Debt or Deliver? The Art of Choosing Refactoring Battles Wisely” 🎟️ Get your seat: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #Refactoring #TechDebt

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Rhia Dixon

Kansas City. Lead Dev. She/Her. Physicist. Mentor. Mom. A Manager of Mischief. Dangerous in the front; deadly in the back. Enabler of repeatable, scalable success. Rhia Dixon is a technical architect…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 12/05/2025

🚀 Join Nathan Loding at #DevOpsDaysKC as he shares how process automation can tame the wild. 🎤 Talk: “Orchestrate the chaos: Process automation in modern architectures” 🎟️ Grab your ticket: tickets.devopsdayskc.org #DevOpsDaysKC

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Nathan Loding

I’m a nerd, and proud of it! I love solving problems and technology is the best way to do that. I work professionally as a Developer Advocate for Camunda. On the side I’m a husband, father, collector…

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 08/05/2025

🎤 Hey there Kansas City!!!! Get ready to belt it out! DevOpsDays KC & @kcdc.bsky.social are teaming up for a Karaoke night on Thursday Aug 14 to round out the first day of #KCDC! 🎶 Sponsorships are available. Register now: lu.ma/c3qaflrj #DevOpsDaysKC #Karaoke #KansasCity

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DevOps KC Meetup @handle.invalid · 30/04/2025

Any company or organization in #KansasCity want to host the monthly #DevOps KC Meetup? We are looking for a space for the next few months (probably through the summer?), as well as companies that would want to sponsor some food. If interested, please let us know! www.meetup.com/devops-kansa...

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DevOps Kansas City | Meetup

This is a group targeted to engineers (both dev and ops), tech professionals, managers, leads, architects and entrepreneurs coming together to learn about and share information on DevOps processes, to...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 22/04/2025

🤯 Mind blown by the incredible speakers joining us for #DevOpsDaysKC and @kcdc.bsky.social - you won't want to miss these sessions. 👀 See the first reveal of our speakers at: devopsdays.org/events/2025-... and secure your spot today for both events! 🎟️ tickets.devopsdayskc.org #DevOpsDays #KCDC

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 15/04/2025

Our first round of CFP acceptance notifications for #DevOpsDays KC have gone out - check your emails for a message from Sessionize! Thank you to all those who submitted! It was really hard picking from some amazing talks.

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 09/04/2025

Want to take your team or a group of people from work to #DevOpsDays KC and @kcdc.bsky.social? What if we told you that if you buy 10+ tickets, not only will you get 10% off but your company will also be listed as a Corporate Sponsor?!?!?! Shoot us a DM and we'll hook you up with the discount code!

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 07/04/2025

As we near announcing the #DevOpsDays KC 2025 at @kcdc.bsky.social speaker lineup, we wanted to share some stats with you: ✍️ CFP's submitted: 111 Talks (76 speakers), 19 Ignites (17 speakers) ✅ CFP's Accepted: 8% of Talks, 26% of Ignites Get your tix now at ti.to/kansas-city-...

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DevOpsDays Kansas City @kansas-city.devopsdays.org · 07/04/2025

This means, your KCDC + #DevOpsDays KC Super-Early Bird ticket will also be ending Sunday, April 13!!! Make sure to get your ticket at ti.to/kansas-city-...

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