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IT Revolution announced the DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020 will be going virtual.

The scheduled dates and times for the summit will remain the same, 23-25 June during British Summer Time to closely match the schedule of previous live conferences.

In addition, IT Revolution has announced the next round of confirmed speakers for London, including technology leaders from adidas, IBM, Lufthansa, Maersk, Microsoft, Nationwide Insurance, Standard Bank, Swiss Re, and Verizon.

Amidst growing concern surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, IT Revolution has updated registration deadlines and cancellation policies accordingly. Registration ($480) will be limited to 3,000 attendees to ensure the Slack channels for the event do not become overwhelmed. Those who register within the first two weeks will receive a 50 percent discount, bringing the price down to $240.

Newly confirmed speakers for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020 include:

John Allspaw, Principal/Founder, Adaptive Capacity Labs
Kolton Andrus, CEO and Co-Founder, Gremlin
Kira Barclay, Director, Analytics, John Deere
Jill Campbell, Principal Group Program Manager, Edge, Microsoft
Craig Cook, DevOps Coach, IBM
Fernando Cornago, Senior Director, Vice President, Platform Engineering, adidas
Tim Dempsey, Delivery Director, Coats PLC
Daniel Eichten, Head of Enterprise Architecture, adidas
Bryan Finster, Delivery Systems Engineer, Walmart
Ann Marie Fred, DevOps and Security Lead, IBM
Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner, Azure DevOps, Microsoft
Rasmus Hald, Head of Cloud Center of Excellence, Maersk
James Head, Founder, Rebellion Consulting
Suzette Johnson, Northrop Grumman Fellow, Northrop Grumman
Christopher Kistasamy, IT Executive Head, Engineering Practices, Standard Bank
Rusty Lewis, IT Auditor, Nationwide Insurance
Thomas Limoncelli, SRE Manager, Stack Overflow
Rene Lippert, DevOps Evangelist, Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co
Clarissa Lucas, Audit Director, Nationwide Insurance
Stephen Magill, CEO, MuseDev
Guillermo Martinez, Head of DevOps, Accenture
Victoria Mayo, Head of Compliance- iptiQ EMEA P&C, Swiss Re
Jeff McAffer, Senior Director of Product, GitHub
Paul McMahon, Global Director of Technology and Innovation, Coats PLC
Stacie Peterson, Vice President, US Bank
Corey Quinn, Cloud Economist, The Duckbill Group
Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps for Enterprise Systems, IBM
Mark Schwartz, Author, War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
Roger Servey, Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, Verizon
Richard Vodden, Platform Infrastructure Lead, Babylon Health
Nate Vogel, VP Data Platforms, Charter Communications
Robin Yeman, LM Fellow, Lockheed Martin

"The DevOps Enterprise community has demonstrated over and over its skills of overcoming unforeseen challenges. They will certainly continue to be a force for good in helping organizations cope with the unprecedented challenges posed by COVID-19. We are excited to further the work of this amazing community, whose mission goes on," said Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Unicorn Project, and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook and Accelerate. "In response to COVID-19, to serve the best interest of our attendees, speakers, and the greater DevOps community, we will be moving the London summit to a virtual setting and remain focused on carrying out the mission of our amazing community. I am fully aware that achieving the type of magic that occurs at a physical conference is difficult to do in a virtual format, but I'd like to set your expectations that this event will be, if not the best, as close to as awesome of an experience as the previous DevOps Enterprise Summits we've run."

DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference for technology leaders and practitioners at large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The event programming emphasizes the next-generation operations and infrastructure needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations.

The virtual London event features keynotes, panels, breakouts, a community space for spontaneous gatherings, and other networking and collaborative activities to enhance the virtual learning experience for attendees. Sessions will be led by leaders who are pioneering these practices in large and complex organizations across a wide range of industries.