DevOps Midwest 2025

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 2025 – where pragmatic solutions replace theoretical ideals and real practitioners share what actually works.

Tickets are sold out for 2025. If you don't have yours, you can try asking your favorite Sketch employee if there have been any cancellations. No promises.

Schedule

Time

Track One

Track Two

7:45 - 8:30

Registration/Breakfast

8:30 - 8:50

Opening Remarks

9:00 - 9:50

Data Gone in 60 Seconds: A Serverless ETL Heist - Paul Chin Jr.

The Art of Subtle Automation: Getting It Done Without Scope Creep - Olha Vovk

10:00 - 10:50

Mission Copilot Autofix: Securing the World’s Software with GitHub Advanced Security - Randy Pagels

From Chaos to Clarity: Revolutionizing Deployments in a Highly Regulated World - Michael Allen & Jeremy Poteet

11:00 - 11:50

Code More, Spend Less: Cloud Savings Every Dev Should Know - Robert Laughter

AI Augmented Software Quality and Testing in the Delivery Pipeline - Lee Barnes

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch Keynote: The Evolving DevOps Attack Surface: How Cybercrime and Nation-States Exploit Your Pipelines and Code - Kyle Wilhoit

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

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.