Welcome onboard on our 4th episode of DevOps World Radio with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Sacha Labourey and Ian O'Brien. On this episode, we are going to talk about DevOps implementations, the successes and the challenges through the eyes of two industry veterans - Kohsuke and Sacha. And Ian tells us about what role data, ML and AI can play in helping practitioners do DevOps better.

Everybody that's out there thinking they are doing DevOps really well or planning to do DevOps, or anywhere along the journey - sometimes you get 5-10 years into it and you go, we are the best in the world, we are just awesome at this, we are killing it at DevOps. But then the inside truth is always somewhere in between or not close to that statement. There might still be a long way to go and a lot of things that need to happen before you get really successful at it in both a practical and strategic sense. And that’s ok! Being able to admit that there is a long way to go and finding ways to improve it, that’s something we are going to have in this discussion and who better to discuss this than the two people who have been doing this for 25 years+. We are so excited to have two legendary personalities, who have probably seen some of the largest, most successful and probably some of the most challenging DevOps implementations in the market - Founder of Hudson Project and Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Founder and CSO of CloudBees, Sacha Labourey. 

Our host, Shawn Ahmed talks about the future of Fintech/ Financial Services with Chris Skinner. It is said that every child in technology is trained by their parent to be one generation out of date. How true is this statement? Writing a cheque to be paid into account to getting paid in bitcoins, there is a whole generational shift that has happened over the last decade in terms of how we have evolved in our approach to FinTech.

Chris Skinner is one of the most influential people in technology. He is an independent commentator on the financial markets and fintech through his blog, the Finanser.com, which is updated daily and as a best-selling author. His latest book, Digital for Good, focuses on how technology and finance can work together to address the environmental and social issues we face today and make a better world.

Here is his perspective on what the future holds for Financial Sector.

About Steve Wozniak:

A Silicon Valley icon, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist for more than forty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II. He also influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. 

Wozniak continues to pursue his entrepreneurial and philanthropic interests to this day.  In October 2017, Steve co-founded Woz U — a postsecondary education and training platform focused on software engineering and technology development.  He has also recently co-founded Efforce which leverages disparate applications of blockchain technology.

During it all Wozniak has delivered thousands of talks and fireside chats, thrilling audiences and inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs and engineers.