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DevSecOps Days D.C. Announces Agenda and Keynote Speaker

DevSecOps Days D.C. Announces Agenda and Keynote Speaker
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September 4, 2024—DevSecOps Days this week released the agenda for its upcoming conference in the Washington, D.C., area. Lt. Col. Christopher Hocking of the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office will provide the keynote address. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will host this free, in-person event on September 18 in Arlington, Virginia.

DevSecOps Days provides software developers and security professionals the opportunity to learn from fellow practitioners. Attendees will discover ways to integrate security into their DevOps practices and teams and automate security within the entire developer and production pipeline.

This year’s keynote address will discuss how DevOps practitioners can drive meaningful value to warfighters. Hocking is a program manager and materiel leader at the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.

Other topics on the event agenda include

  • DevSecOps and supply chain risk management in a zero trust architecture
  • the first open source program office in a U.S. federal agency
  • how software bills of materials (SBOMs) changed software supply chain management
  • demystifying artificial intelligence risk
  • DevSecOps for open source projects

DevSecOps Days is part of a series of global one- and two-day conferences helping to educate practitioners and evolve and explore concepts around developing security as code. Registration to attend the September event in Arlington is open.

Learn more about DevSecOps Days on the event’s website.