List of speakers for the ITx 2016 conference
This page contains the speaker list for ITx 2016, ordered by name. Check out the Programme as well.
Managing Director, Two Hills Ltd
Rob England is a self-employed IT commentator and consultant.
He consults in New Zealand on IT governance, strategy and processes.
Internationally, he is best known for his blog The IT Skeptic and half a dozen books on IT, and he speaks widely at conferences and online.
Rob was the NZ IT Service Management Champion for 2010 and his blog was voted the best "IT consultant and analyst" blog in the UK's Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards for 2010. He is an acknowledged contributor to ITIL (2011 Service Strategy book).
The world is changing the way it thinks about IT.
Cloud, Agile, BYOD, DevOps and user forums are surface manifestations of something deeper and more fundamental – a shift in the way people view IT.
All of these developments are liberating the IT process from constraint, rigidity, and cumbersome complexity.
This is the IT renaissance - built upon the notion that people deserve to be respected and empowered. We are now talking about the humanity of IT, and focusing on behaviour, culture and beliefs.
Our IT world is changing like it never did before. We look at the big picture and its implications.
Sooner or later we will all need to make the lateral shift in mindset required by challenging concepts borne out of DevOps.
DevOps turns some fundamental principles of IT and ITSM on their heads, with new concepts such as high velocity change, fail fast, infrastructure as code, people over process, servers as cattle, and empowered developers.
DevOps is a strong leading indicator of our IT future. Your IT fundamental axioms will be challenged.
Hosted by Matt Hooper, this panel of Karen Ferris, Rob England, Lou Hunnebeck & Mark Smalley will discuss how to integrate "traditional" frameworks (e.g. ITIL) with other approaches (e.g. DevOps & Agile).