Sheffield Devops - Celebrating International Women’s Day March 2019
The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 14th March 2019 and this month we’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2019.
Our event is generously hosted by Sky Betting & Gaming, with refreshments provided on arrival and the first talk starting at 6:30pm. Please use the rear entrance of the Electric Works where someone will be present to sign you in.
- 18:00 - 18:30: Doors open
- 18:30 - 19:15: Pauline Narvas - The importance of diverse teams in the technical workforce
- 19:15 - 20:30: Break
- 19:30 - 20:15: Claire Agutter - VeriSM: A service management approach for the digital age
About the Speakers
The first talk will be by Pauline Narvas (DevOps Graduate @ EE)
Pauline is a passionate multi-hyphenate - a person with a hyphenated profession. She is a self-taught developer, a speaker, and a community builder. She has been documenting stuff on the internet since 2008 and is now working in DevOps with EE, as well as a remote developer. She is on a mission to live her healthiest, happiest life. Her areas of interest include tech, the digital world, health and personal development.
Pauline will be talking about the importance of diverse teams, using stories of how much of an impact this has had in her career so far and ways that we can together improve diversity and inclusion of the technical workforce.
The second talk will be by Claire Agutter (ITSM professional & Chief Architect for VeriSM)
Claire joined us for one of our early Sheffield Devops events, way back in April 2016. This month she’s back to talk about VeriSM - a modern approach to IT Service Management:
“VeriSM is an approach to help organisations deliver digital services in a time when the pressure to deliver value has never been higher. VeriSM is not a new product that competes with frameworks and methodologies like DevOps, Agile and ITIL; instead it’s a way to analyse them and place them in context. VeriSM is about taking a step back, looking at the problems you have, the methods you currently use and then rethinking and evolving your approach.
VeriSM stands for Value-driven, Evolving, Responsive, Integrated Service Management. It helps organisations respond to the recent proliferation of management practices, frameworks and standards by giving them a way to select what they need to meet their goals.“
Venue
Sky Betting and Gaming
Electric Works
Sheffield Digital Campus
Sheffield
S1 2BJ
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/PvqT4Qx2saw
Sponsors
Sky Betting & Gaming
Sky Betting and Gaming are proud to be supporting Sheffield Devops and International Womens Day 2019.
Find out more at https://www.skybetcareers.com
Affecto Recruitment
Affecto is a multi-disciplined, specialist technology recruitment business that focuses on permanent, interim and contract appointments across Yorkshire and The Midlands. We’ve spent years building our networks across IT from Development and Project Management to Infrastructure and Data Science. With such an intense battle for skills being fought, more and more organisations are looking to us to connect them with the people who can make a real difference.
CMS
CMS is proud to be a long term sponsor of Sheffield Devops. CMS is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in CMS’s Sheffield office said “We are passionate about supporting the growth of the Sheffield City Region. Like the Sheffield DevOps team, we want Sheffield to be the UKs next big technology hub, attracting the best tech businesses and talent from across the UK and beyond, and encouraging innovation. Supporting organisations like Sheffield DevOps is a vital part of this strategy and we are very much looking forward to working with both in order to achieve our common goal.”For more information on CMS’s technology focus click here
If you’d like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops. We look forward to seeing you there!