In 2016, Derek Weeks, Mark Miller and the team at Sonatype, with support from a global community of DevOps advocates, launched a live online conference, All Day DevOps. Within a year and a half, they had over 33,400 people register for the second annual event.
In this "DevOps Radio" podcast, Andre Pino from Cloudbees, talks with Derek and Mark about the story behind All Day DevOps, and their plans for the future.
Derek Weeks serves as vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype, the leading provider of DevOps-native tools to automate modern software supply chains. Derek is also the lead researcher behind the annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report for the DevOps industry. In 2016, Derek co-founded All Day DevOps, a global online community of 40,000 DevOps professionals.
André brings more than 20 years of experience in high technology marketing and communications to his role as vice president of marketing. He has experience in several enterprise software markets including application development tools, middleware, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise search and software quality and testing tools. André has particular expertise in working with the executive teams of enterprise software companies to create unique competitive positioning, build pipeline and establish sustainable market leadership.
Prior to joining CloudBees, he served as principal analyst serving technology marketers at Forrester Research. He has also held a number of senior management positions in marketing and communications with companies such as Segue Software, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys Corp. and Bluestone Software. André holds a BS from Eastern University.
As a DevSecOps Community Advocate for Sonatype, I build massive online community projects. The most recent project is All Day DevOps 2017, with 32,927 registrations.
Malcom Gladwell would call me "A Connector". Wherever I go, one of the things I am most happy with is the ability to introduce people to each other, making connections where they didn't previously exist. I've done this on every continent in the world as part of an ongoing desire to see connections where other people see differences.
My main expertise is in developing and supporting live online communities built around specific market verticals. These online communities bleed over into the real world, where relationships are strengthened and expanded.