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September 17, 2026 at Webster University, St. Louis, MO

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devops 2026

Not Just Another Tech Conference

Every software organization faces the same fundamental challenge: delivering innovation at speed while maintaining rock-solid reliability.

We all know what we need. What eludes most teams is the how.

That's precisely why Sketch Development is hosting DevOps Midwest 2026 – where pragmatic solutions replace theoretical ideals and real practitioners share what actually works.

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2025 Schedule (Outdated, for reference only)

 Time Track 1: Sunnen Lounge Track 2: Presentation Room
7:45 - 8:30 Registration/Breakfast
8:30 - 8:50 Opening Remarks (Sunnen Lounge)
9:00 - 9:50 The Art of Subtle Automation: Getting It Done Without Scope Creep - Olha Vovk Data Gone in 60 Seconds: A Serverless ETL Heist - Paul Chin Jr.
10:00 - 10:50 From Chaos to Clarity: Revolutionizing Deployments in a Highly Regulated World - Michael Allen & Jeremy Poteet Mission Copilot Autofix: Securing the World’s Software with GitHub Advanced Security - Randy Pagels
11:00 - 11:50 AI Augmented Software Quality and Testing in the Delivery Pipeline - Lee Barnes Code More, Spend Less: Cloud Savings Every Dev Should Know  - Robert Laughter
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch Keynote: The Evolving DevOps Attack Surface: How Cybercrime and Nation-States Exploit Your Pipelines and Code - Kyle Wilhoit (Sunnen Lounge)
1:30 - 2:20 Modernizing Legacy Code - While Not Bringing Down Prod - Joel Tosi Efficient Communication Between Microservices With LavinMQ - Dustin Turpin
2:30 - 3:20 "It just works!" - The Rust Programmer's Rally Cry - Jeff Barczewski Securing Git Repositories: Preventing Accidental Secret Commits with Gitleaks - Dewan Ahmed
3:30 - 4:20 Better Together: Leveraging Your Observability Tools as a SIEM - Mathias Palmersheim DevOps to LLMOps: Taming Probabilistic Systems - Travis Frisinger
4:30 - 4:50 Closing Remarks (Sunnen Lounge)
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Experience, Not Just Exposition

This isn't another day of passively consuming slide decks. DevOps Midwest delivers a concentrated dose of insights from professionals who've implemented these practices across diverse industries with measurable results.

The difference? You'll do more than listen.

We've engineered this conference around hands-on learning because we understand that knowledge without application is just trivia.