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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "The Hidden Cost of Picking Up the Pieces" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["ashley-arya"] 
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+
+An interactive workshop to discover what hidden work people are doing on their teams and how doing the work that other team members neglect to do actually hurts the team. 
+After we discover work that belongs to someone else, we uncover the systemic issues allowing this to happen and draft a script that the person can take back to their managers to make them aware of the situation and get the work realigned.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Breaking Down Silos: Overcoming Upper Management Behaviors That Hinder Team Collaboration"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["catherine-louis"]
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+
+DevOps is all about collaboration, but it can be challenging to achieve when upper management behaviors create silos that hinder progress. In this talk, we'll explore how to overcome siloed behavior in upper management to ensure DevOps success.
+We'll discuss the common siloed behaviors exhibited by upper management, including lack of communication, limited transparency, and resistance to change. We'll also provide strategies for breaking down these silos, including fostering a culture of collaboration, building trust, and encouraging cross-functional teams.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Incident-Driven Engineering: Turning Production Fires Into Organizational Wisdom" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["chakra-kota"] 
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+
+Every team experiences production incidents. What separates resilient organizations is their ability to learn from failures systematically. This talk introduces a practical, repeatable framework for extracting long-term value from incidents 
+through blameless postmortems, shared ownership, and cultural openness. Instead of focusing on who caused the issue, we’ll explore why incidents happen, how systemic weaknesses accumulate, and how teams can transform operational pain into 
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Open Source Survival Guide: Rules to Keep You Sane in the Open Source World" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["chris-short"] 
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+
+From navigating different incentive structures to fostering healthy collaboration, this practical session delivers hard-earned wisdom from 25+ years of open source experience. Whether you're a newcomer curious about contributing or a seasoned maintainer, 
+Chris Short's "Open Source Survival Guide" offers concrete rules that help technical professionals, community leaders, and companies work effectively in open source environments. Learn to build trust, share knowledge, manage contributions, and avoid common pitfalls that can damage projects and careers.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Egoless Engineering" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["dan-mckinley"] 
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+
+Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calvinist thought. I expected little but redemptive hard labor, before presumably one day dying in a mine. 
+I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while. This talk is about how despite this, I got better.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Secure by Default: Building Confidence in AI-Driven Delivery" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["dewan-ahmed"] 
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+
+The fastest way to break trust in DevSecOps is to automate insecurity at scale. As AI takes a central role in our pipelines, it is time to rethink what "secure by default" really means.
+In this 5-minute lightning talk, Dewan Ahmed challenges the traditional reliance on vulnerability scanners and compliance gates. He will share a vision for intelligent security by design where native intelligence detects risky delivery behavior, 
+such as misconfigured environments and suspicious artifact provenance, before they become breaches.
+You will walk away with a high-level framework for balancing automation with human oversight. Learn how to build verifiable, AI-native systems where safety is not just a step but a continuous outcome.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Hands-On LLMOps: Build an Observable AI System in 90 Minutes" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["jeanne-mcclure"] 
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+
+ In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a complete LLM-powered system with production-grade observability—from scratch, on your laptop, using entirely open-source tools with zero API costs.
+ What you'll build: A document analysis system using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) that can answer questions about your own documents, fully instrumented with tracing and monitoring.
+ 
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "We're building the next high level coding language without realizing it." 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["jeremy-freeman"] 
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+
+When we analyzed 15 million commits across thousands of repositories at Allstacks, we discovered AI isn't just changing how fast we code—it's fundamentally reshaping how developers communicate through code. This talk reveals three counterintuitive patterns that emerged from our data. 
+First, AI-assisted commits contain 340% more emoji than human-only commits, breaking decades of "professional" coding conventions. While developers initially resist, teams using AI-generated messages with emoji report 45% faster code review comprehension—turns out. 
+Fix: Resolved race condition" is instantly more scannable than traditional messages. Second, AI-generated commit messages are 3.2x longer yet paradoxically more useful, including context humans consistently omit like affected files, potential side effects, and related issue numbers. 
+The third finding challenges our assumptions about code ownership: AI-assisted development is creating a shift from individual authorship to collaborative intelligence, with fascinating implications for team dynamics and knowledge transfer. 
+We'll explore real examples from our dataset, discuss the cultural resistance to these changes, and share practical strategies for embracing the benefits while avoiding the pitfalls of over-documentation and emoji fatigue. 
+Whether you're an AI skeptic or enthusiast, these insights will change how you think about the future of development communication.
+
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Developer Experience != Developer Productivity" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["jeremy-meiss"] 
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+
+With everything changing in tech at a frenetic pace, the emphasis on developer productivity has overshadowed the true essence of developer experience (DevEx). While frameworks like SPACE, getDX, and DORA metrics provide valuable insights, 
+they often miss the mark on capturing developers' real, day-to-day experiences using tools and services, instead focusing strictly on the bottom line for the company. Meanwhile, developers and practitioners are job-hopping more than ever. 
+This talk will explore the origins and evolution of "developer experience," dissect popular frameworks, and advocate for a more balanced approach that values the practitioner's perspective. At the end we will set a path towards integrating 
+top-down metrics with bottom-up feedback, ensuring an approach to developer experience that fosters innovation and satisfaction.3
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "The Fundamentals of Strategy" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["joel-tosi"] 
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+
+Strategy requires choice. No choice? No strategy.
+
+In this session we will explore how to find choices - in architecture, leadership, improvement initiatives, products, and more. Along the way, we will look at how context effects our potential choices and, occassionally, can make an outcome inevitable.
+Leave this session understanding how to find more choices, leading you to better strategy.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Burnout to Brilliance for DevOps Teams: The G.P.S. for Happiness at Work™ Playbook" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["kapil-patel"] 
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+
+High-pressure delivery cycles, on-call fatigue, and constant context switching quietly erode the very capacity teams need to ship reliably. This session gives engineering leaders and ICs a practical playbook to reduce burnout and raise engagement—without big budgets or headcount.
+Kapil shares his G.P.S. for Happiness™ framework—Gratitude, Purpose, and Small Acts (Smile)—translated for DevOps realities: incident reviews, stand-ups, retros, and handoffs. The focus is not “feel-good” theory; it’s micro-habits that improve collaboration, psychological safety, and execution under stress.
+ 
+Participant will learn:
+A 3-step ritual teams can use in <5 minutes to reset energy before high-stakes work (deploys, incidents, war rooms).
+How to connect daily tasks to personal and product Purpose, so motivation sustains beyond deadlines.
+“Small Acts” that lift morale during on-call rotations and reduce friction across Dev, Ops, and Security.
+A manager toolkit to turn disengagement into ownership—leading to better MTTR, lower change-failure rates, and stronger retention.
+Why it works: DevOps thrives on trust, clarity, and fast feedback. The GPS framework operationalizes those human levers so the team can think clearly, collaborate faster, and finish stronger—especially when things break.
+Format: Fast-paced talk with stories from high-pressure environments, field-tested exercises, and take-home prompts teams can start using the same day.
+
+Outcomes: Attendees leave with a shared language and simple rituals they can insert into existing ceremonies—no extra meetings required. The result: calmer incidents, tighter collaboration, and a team that has the energy to keep improving.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Alerts Don't Suck. YOUR Alerts Suck!" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["leon-adato"] 
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+
+The SRE handbook defines alerts as "*A notification intended to be read by a human and that is pushed to a system such as a bug or ticket queue, an email alias, or a pager. Respectively, these alerts are classified as tickets, email alerts, and pages.*" and I just want to scream.
+Not because the definition is wrong, but because it's not enough.First, that definition causes devs to (reasonably) think "Why bother?" After all, who wants an unscheduled interruption with no intrinsic value? 
+Because - and this is the key point - the SRE handbook fails to communicate *the value* of an alert. Second, and conversely, many practitioners think alerting is the raison d'etre for monitoring and observability. 
+In this view, why bother monitoring if there won't be an alert? But the truth is alerts are only one piece of the puzzle. Drawing on decades of experience designing, building, implementing, and supporting solutions from a range of vendors in a variety of settings, 
+I'll expose the places where alerting often goes wrong, how to avoid common pitfalls, how to create truly stunning and useful alerts, and how to dig yourself out if you're already neck-deep.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Upskill or Outsource? Practical Talent Strategies for an AI Future" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["mark-koelsh"] 
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+
+The scramble for AI talent is real — and expensive. This talk helps people ops and engineering leaders make clear, practical choices about growing AI capability: when to train your existing DevOps teams, when to hire, and how to combine both without draining morale or money.
+You’ll get a straightforward decision framework and repeatable tactics: short, role-focused learning roadmaps that link to product goals; lightweight apprenticeship programs that pair practicing engineers with AI-savvy mentors; and retention levers that protect your investment.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "17 Things Developers Need to Know About Databases" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["peter-zaitsev"] 
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+
+Despite their widespread use, many applications suffer from inefficient database use, leading to poor performance, increased downtime, and heightened security risks. This presentation aims to address these challenges by introducing foundational best practices that every developer should know for working with databases. 
+Focusing on the most popular open-source databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB - we will explore crucial concepts and techniques that can significantly improve how your applications interact with databases. From understanding schema design and query execution to mastering indexing and scalability, 
+this session will provide you with the knowledge you need to enhance your database operations and ensure your applications are robust, secure, and efficient. 
+Join us to transform your approach to database management and elevate your development practices.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Predicting Outages Before They Happen: A Practical Guide to Multi-Signal Cloud Reliability Engineering"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["sai-bharath"]
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+
+Cloud outages rarely begin when dashboards turn red. They start quietly — through subtle latency shifts, noisy logs, partial control-plane failures, and mismatched signals across layers. Yet most DevOps teams still rely on provider incident alerts or siloed monitoring to detect failure, losing precious minutes during high-impact events.
+This talk introduces a practical, real-world approach to predicting outages before they become customer-visible using multi-signal correlation across cloud platforms and Kubernetes environments. Drawing from millions of health events across Azure and large-scale distributed systems, 
+we’ll break down how modern cloud-native infrastructure reveals early failure signals long before official incident notifications.
+ 
+Attendees will learn:
+Why logs, metrics, traces, and alerts fail to detect outages early
+How to correlate cloud provider health signals with resource-level events
+How synthetic probes uncover failures dashboards don’t show
+Why “telemetry divergences” often predict outages 3–7 minutes early
+Practical steps to build a lightweight, proactive outage-detection pipeline
+Real failure stories from production and what we learned
+How to design reliability “guardrails” without adding operational overhead
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Beyond Backups, Building a Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy that Works" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["seth-eliot"] 
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+
+You've backed up your data. You've secured your application code and infrastructure as code. You've documented runbooks. But when Google accidentally deleted a customer's entire cloud environment for a week, 
+or when Change Healthcare's partners refused connectivity for 90 days after a breach, backups alone weren't enough. The real objective is recovering quickly and completely—data, infrastructure, networking, configuration, 
+and security principals—all together. In this talk, you'll learn the requirements for fast, reliable recovery including: cross-region and cross-account isolation, complete workload recovery, and testability. 
+We'll walk through the design decisions you need to make and how can implement them using cloud native tools. All while applying DevOps principles—automation, culture, lean practices, measurement, and sharing—to reduce toil, and test your DR strategy safely and frequently.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "From Code to Leadership: Navigating the Tech Landscape as a Woman" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["shannon-ryan"] 
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+
+Navigating the tech landscape as a woman comes with unique challenges and opportunities. "From Code to Leadership: Navigating the Tech Landscape as a Woman" offers a comprehensive guide to career growth, leadership development, and the impact of diversity in technology. 
+This presentation provides practical advice to technologists aspiring to transition from technical roles to leadership positions, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning, mentorship, and building a personal brand.
+ 
+ Key Highlights:
+ Career Growth: Strategies for advancing from technical roles to leadership positions.
+ Leadership Skills: Developing the qualities of an effective leader.
+ Diversity Impact: Understanding the value of diversity in driving innovation.
+ Personal Branding: Techniques for building a strong and authentic personal brand.
+ Mentorship and Networking: The role of mentorship and networking in career advancement.
+ This presentation is tailored for women in tech who are ready to take their careers to the next level, providing tools and insights to navigate the journey from coder to leader.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Zero-Downtime Deployment Patterns: Lessons from Large, Regulated Hybrid Enterprises" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["shilpi-yadav"] 
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+
+In Large Regulated environments, system outages during deployments can stop important processes, make it harder to follow the rules, and make users lose trust. This webinar talks about tried-and-true zero-downtime deployment techniques that come from genuine modernization programs on hybrid estates. 
+We'll talk about practical ways to deploy at scale without stopping business services, like blue-green rollouts, canary waves, dependency sequencing, automated validation, configuration governance, and intelligent rollback triggers. 
+Instead of talking about specific technologies, the session focuses on design concepts and what we've learned by working with complicated ERP, API, and integration systems. People who come will get practical advice on how to lower risk, speed up releases, and carry out deployments with confidence, safety, and no downtime.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/program/steven-diamante-ignite.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/program/steven-diamante-ignite.md
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Making AI Coding Agents Build the Right Thing" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["steven-diamante"] 
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+
+AI coding agents can generate hundreds of lines of code in seconds—but speed doesn't mean you're building the right product. Without steerability, agents keep generating with no idea when they're done, and you discover hours later you've built the wrong thing.
+The breakthrough is small steps: clear goals, fast feedback, and controllable increments. Each step completes in minutes, giving you constant verification that you're building what users actually need. Add strict linting enforced by pre-commit hooks, and agents can't commit messy code—they refactor automatically.
+I'll show what this looks like in practice: small, steerable steps that keep AI building the right thing instead of generating code you'll spend hours debugging. 
+Small steps aren't just good practice. They're how you make AI agents build what you actually want.
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Your Teams Need Learning Time, Not More AI Tools"
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["steven-diamante"] 
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+
+Your teams have AI coding tools. Adoption rates are high. Leadership celebrates the win.
+But velocity hasn't improved. Tech debt is exploding. You're generating tons of code, but building the wrong things faster than ever.
+The problem isn't the tools. It's treating adoption as the finish line instead of the starting line.
+Over 12 months coaching development teams through AI coding adoption, I've seen the same pattern: teams that invest in learning together (2-4 hours/week) compound their improvements. Teams that skip the learning investment burn out their senior developers cleaning up AI-generated code (10+ hours/week).
+ 
+ This talk covers:
+- The three adoption patterns I observe repeatedly (and why only one works)
+- What high-performing teams do in their learning sessions
+- One practice engineering leaders can introduce immediately to shift trajectory
+ 
+ No tool evangelism. No generic "AI will change everything" hype. Just patterns from the field: what works, what fails, and why the learning investment is your competitive advantage.
+ Attendees will leave with a framework to diagnose where their team is struggling and concrete practices to shift from cleanup mode to capability building.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/program/suresh-palus-workshop.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/program/suresh-palus-workshop.md
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "Cross Platform Streaming Video QoE Validation in CI/CD Pipelines" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["suresh-palus"]
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+
+ The rapid growth of video streaming platforms across mobile, web, smart TV, and OTT devices has significantly increased the complexity of ensuring consistent Quality of Experience (QoE) for end users. While DevOps practices have successfully automated functional, performance, and security testing, 
+ video QoE validation remains largely manual, reactive, and siloed, often detected only after customer complaints or production incidents. This gap creates a critical risk for streaming platforms operating at scale.
+ This workshop presents a practical, cross-platform approach to integrating automated streaming video QoE validation directly into CI/CD pipelines, enabling teams to detect playback issues early and continuously across devices and environments.
+ We will explore how video QoE can be objectively validated across web, mobile, smart TVs, and OTT devices by combining instrumentation, automated playback analysis, and AI-assisted signal processing. The session introduces techniques to automatically 
+ detect and quantify common streaming failures such as startup delay, rebuffering events, bitrate instability, audio-video sync issues, black/white/blue screens, pixelation, and frame drops during pipeline execution.
+ Participants will learn how to:
+ Embed video playback probes into CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
+ Capture and analyze video streams using FFmpeg, device logs, and network telemetry
+ Apply computer vision and ML models to identify visual anomalies at scale
+ Normalize QoE metrics across heterogeneous devices and platforms
+ Define QoE quality gates that can fail builds before production deployment
+ The workshop also covers real-world architecture patterns, including parallel execution strategies, cloud device farms, and cost-efficient pipeline design for high-volume test runs. Attendees will see how QoE metrics can be correlated with code changes, CDN configurations, and adaptive bitrate logic to enable faster root-cause analysis.
+ By shifting video QoE validation left into CI/CD pipelines, engineering teams can move from reactive monitoring to proactive, automated quality enforcement, reducing customer churn, operational costs, and post-release incidents. This session is ideal for DevOps engineers, SREs, QA architects, and streaming platform engineers seeking to operationalize video quality  
+ as a first-class DevOps metric.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/program/velu-natarajan-workshop.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/program/velu-natarajan-workshop.md
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+Talk_date = "" 
+Talk_start_time = "" 
+Talk_end_time = "" 
+Title = "FinOps for Snowflake AI" 
+Type = "talk" 
+Speakers = ["velu-natarajan"] 
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+
+As Snowflake transforms into a full-fledged AI platform, traditional FinOps models, focused on warehouse sizing and compute credits, are no longer sufficient. The rise of Cortex AI introduces token-based economics and multi-dimensional cost drivers, demanding a new FinOps playbook. 
+The workshop guides participants through actionable deliverables for mastering FinOps in the era of Snowflake AI.
+
+ 1. Understanding the Shift:
+ • Explore the evolution from compute-based to token-based cost models in Snowflake AI.
+ • Identify new cost drivers: token consumption, model complexity, and serving infrastructure.
+ 2. Building AI Cost Observability:
+ • Learn to leverage Snowflake’s ACCOUNT_USAGE telemetry for AI workloads.
+ • Hands-on demonstration: Integrate Cortex AI usage views into FinOps dashboards to monitor token flow and high-cost prompts.
+ 3. Optimizing AI Workloads:
+ • Case study: Analyze a real-world sentiment analysis pipeline to uncover hidden token costs.
+ • Apply optimization strategies: data pre-filtering, text chunking, and model selection to reduce AI spend.
+ 4. Managing Indirect AI Costs:
+ • Address indexing and serving costs in Cortex AI Search.
+ • Implement best practices: minimize warehouse size, optimize refresh frequency, and suspend unused services.
+ 5. Establishing AI-Aware Governance:
+ • Classify AI use cases by business impact and align data governance with AI policies.
+ • Quantify the cost of poor data quality and ensure GenAI readiness.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/catherine-louis.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/catherine-louis.md
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+Title = "Catherine Louis" 
+Twitter = "catherinelouis" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinelouis/" 
+image = "catherine-louis.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "catherine-louis" 
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+
+Catherine Louis focuses on Product Strategy, Lean Innovation, and Business Agility: nurturing an innovation culture helping teams to rapidly sense and respond. She is a Certified Scrum Trainer®, a Certified Reinvention Professional, 
+an independent Agile coach, founder of CLL-group and co-founder of the #PoDojo. Catherine is a founding member of TechLadies®, runs AgileRTP, one of the largest Agile meetup groups in the US, and she is a volunteer Search and 
+Rescue professional with WCSAR, working with her K9 partner Viga.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/chakra-kota.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/chakra-kota.md
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+Title = "Chakra Pavan Kumar Kota" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavankumarmsincs/" 
+image = "chakra-kota.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "chakra-kota" 
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+
+With 11+ years of academic and industry research experience, I am a Senior Software Engineer at Jack in the Box and hold a Master’s from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in AI/Data Science. My expertise spans AI, ML, cybersecurity, and cloud computing.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/chris-short.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/chris-short.md
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+Title = "Chris Short" 
+Twitter = "ChrisShort" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thechrisshort" 
+image = "chris-short.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "chris-short" 
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+
+Chris Short brings over 25 years of experience in the open source world. He has contributed to numerous projects, worked at companies including Red Hat and AWS, and has built connections throughout the global open source community. 
+Chris is known for sharing knowledge generously through his website (ChrisShort.net) and previously ran a popular newsletter covering developments in the cloud native, DevOps, and open source spaces. 
+His experience spans from technical contributions to community building, making him uniquely qualified to speak on navigating the complex human aspects of open source.
+
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/dan-mckinley.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/dan-mckinley.md
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+Title = "Dan McKinley" 
+image = "dan-mckinley.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "dan-mckinley" 
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+
+Dan McKinley is a raconteur and engineer. He was in the first 20 employees at Etsy, and worked at Stripe, Mailchimp, and his own startups. 
+His talk “Choose Boring Technology” is fairly popular online. He was a VP of Engineering at Mozilla before boomeranging back to Etsy to build stuff and enjoy life again.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/dewan-ahmed.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/dewan-ahmed.md
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+Title = "Dewan Ahmed" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/diahmed/" 
+image = "dewan-ahmed.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "dewan-ahmed" 
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+
+Dewan Ahmed is a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness, a company that aims to enable every software engineering team in the world to deliver code reliably, efficiently and quickly to their users. Before joining Harness, he worked at IBM, Red Hat, and Aiven 
+as a developer, QA lead, consultant, and developer advocate. For the last fourteen years, Dewan has worked to solve DevOps and infrastructure problems for small startups, large enterprises, and governments. Starting his public speaking at a toastmaster in 2016, 
+he has been speaking at tech conferences and meetups for the last nine years. His work is fueled by a passion for open-source and a deep respect for the tech community. Dewan writes about app/data infrastructure, developer advocacy, and his thoughts around a 
+career in tech on his personal blog.
+
+Outside of work, he’s an advocate for underrepresented groups in tech and offers pro bono career coaching as his way of giving back.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/jeanne-mcclure.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/jeanne-mcclure.md
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+Title = "Jeanne McClure, PhD" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannemcclure/" 
+image = "jeane-mcclure.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "jeanne-mcclure" 
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+
+Jeanne McClure, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at NC State's Data Science Academy, where she builds LLM-powered tools and researches systematic approaches to prompt engineering. She developed a comprehensive LLMOps curriculum combining RAG systems, observability, and practical AI engineering. 
+Her work focuses on making AI accessible to practitioners—emphasizing local, open-source tools that respect data privacy and eliminate API costs. She created the ICI (Instruction-Context-Input) framework for reliable prompt design and has presented at Voxel51's Women in AI series. 
+She's passionate about teaching DevOps practitioners to apply their existing skills to the new world of LLM operations.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/jeremy-freeman.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/jeremy-freeman.md
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+Title = "Jeremy Freeman" 
+Twitter = "namingwaysway" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrelljfreeman/" 
+image = "jeremy-freeman.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "jeremy-freeman" 
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+
+Jeremy Freeman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Allstacks, where he leads AI-native engineering intelligence initiatives that analyze millions of commits to reveal how software development is evolving. 
+His current focus is on building AI systems that synthesize engineering data to help teams understand their development patterns and bottlenecks. By combining machine learning with software analytics, Jeremy is pioneering new ways to measure and improve developer productivity while exploring how AI is reshaping not just code generation, but team collaboration itself.
+Jeremy holds a Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University and lives in Cary, NC with his wife and two kids, where he continues to push the boundaries of what's possible when AI meets software development.
+
+Whether you're wrestling with engineering metrics, curious about AI's real-world impact on development teams, or just want to geek out about the future of software—reach out. Jeremy loves connecting with fellow builders and problem-solvers over coffee or video chat.  Contact: jeremy.freeman@allstacks.com
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/jeremy-meiss.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/jeremy-meiss.md
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+Title = "Jeremy Meiss" 
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/jeremymeiss" 
+image = "jeremy-meiss.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "jeremy-meiss" 
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+
+Jeremy is an international speaker and is currently the Director of DevRel at OneStream Software, previously at CircleCI, Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area, including support, system and database administration, 
+application and web development, project management, program management, and systems analysis, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com, and organizer for DevOpsDays Kansas City. A lover of all things coffee, community, 
+open source, and tech, he’s also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/joel-tosi.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/joel-tosi.md
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+Title = "Joel Tosi" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-tosi-531a3b/" 
+image = "joel-tosi.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "joel-tosi" 
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+
+Helping teams make their work easier.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/kapil-patel.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/kapil-patel.md
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+Title = "Kapil Patel" 
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/kapilpatelthehappinessspreader" 
+image = "kapil-patel.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "kapil-patel" 
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+
+Kapil Patel helps leaders in high-pressure industries turn stress into engagement and burnout into brilliance. He is the founder of Inspiring Happiness at Work™ and creator of the G.P.S. for Happiness™ framework, a practical system that equips teams to build resilient culture from the bottom up.
+A former co-founder of a multimillion-dollar IT services firm with 20+ years of IT experience, Kapil blends business rigor with people science to deliver actionable, story-driven sessions. He has experience working both as an employee and as an employer in IT, which enables him to speak the language 
+of technical teams and leadership alike. He has spoken for leadership audiences and organizations across sectors, translating human performance principles into simple rituals teams actually use.
+
+His mission: help teams rediscover joy at work and ship with consistency.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/leon-adato.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/leon-adato.md
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+Title = "Leon Adato" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonadato/" 
+image = "leon-adato.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "leon-adato"
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+
+In my sordid career, I've worked as an actor, bug exterminator, wild-animal remover, electrician, carpenter, stage-combat instructor, ASL interpreter, and Sunday school teacher. I also work with computers sometimes.
+While my first digital experience was an Atari 400, my technical career started in 1989 (when Windows came free on twelve 5¼” with a copy of Excel 1.0). I got involved with monitoring 27 years ago. Since then I've 
+worked with a wide range of tools: Tivoli, BMC, OpenView, janky perl scripts (another way of saying "Tivoli"), Nagios, SolarWinds, Grafana, New Relic, and other assorted nightmare fuel. In that time, I've learned a 
+lot about monitoring and observability in all it's many, splendid, and horrifying forms.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/mark-koelsch.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/mark-koelsch.md
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+Title = "Mark Koelsch" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-koelsch/" 
+image = "mark-koelsch.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "mark-koelsch" 
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+
+Mark is a Data Analytics and Business Intelligence expert in software production and manufacturing area with more than 20 years of industry experience. Having a wealth of industry knowledge and years of practice 
+as a Software Architect and Chief Technology Officer, with a few other savvy IT gurus, decided to establish a custom software development company Agiliway.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/peter-zaitsev.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/peter-zaitsev.md
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+Title = "Peter Zaitsev" 
+Twitter = "PeterZaitsev" 
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/peterzaitsev/" 
+image = "peter-zaitsev.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "peter-zaitsev" 
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+
+Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, 
+Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several open source startups. 
+
+Additionally, Peter is the co-author of the book "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backup and Replication," one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.
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+Title = "Sai Bharath" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sai-bharath-devsecops/" 
+image = "sai-bharatht.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "sai-bharath" 
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+
+Sai Bharath is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in DevOps, SRE, automation, and large-scale observability engineering. He builds resilient cloud-native platforms across Azure and Kubernetes, with a focus on proactive outage detection, distributed systems reliability, 
+and multi-signal monitoring. Sai has led automation initiatives, platform reliability programs, and cloud-scale diagnostics pipelines for enterprise environments supporting mission-critical workloads. 
+Sai is passionate about bridging the gap between development and operations by designing systems that detect failures early, self-heal gracefully, and empower engineering teams with actionable insights.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/seth-eliot.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/seth-eliot.md
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+Title = "Seth Eliot" 
+Twitter = "setheliot" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/setheliot/" 
+image = "seth-eliot.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "seth-eliot" 
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+
+Seth is Principal Resilience Architect at Arpio. Previously, as the Global Reliability Lead for AWS Well-Architected, he spearheaded the development of comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) guidance for AWS customers. 
+He authored the AWS whitepaper "Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud" [http://bit.ly/DR_AWS] as well as the AWS Architecture Blog's disaster recovery series [http://bit.ly/aws-dr-blog]. 
+At AWS, Seth worked directly with customers, aiding them in building resilient architectures in the cloud. At Arpio, he continues working hands-on with customers, helping them to implement disaster recovery and 
+ransomware protection for their AWS workloads. In prior roles at Amazon, Seth was Principal Engineer for Amazon Fresh and International Technologies, and before that he was developer lead for the team that created Prime Video.
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+Title = "Shannon Ryan" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannoncryan/" 
+image = "shannon-ryan.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "shannon-ryan" 
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+
+I began my career as a digital marketer and web developer before evolving into a global brand builder, sales strategist, and product leader. Over the years, I’ve driven 12+ domestic and global product launches, blending sales-driven 
+marketing with innovative growth strategies that deliver measurable ROI. My expertise spans Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Healthcare, Energy, CPG, and more allowing me to adapt go-to-market strategies across diverse industries.
+I specialize in high-impact campaigns that generate revenue, accelerate brand growth, and funnel qualified leads into sales pipelines. By aligning marketing, sales, and business development, I ensure strategies drive both customer acquisition and long-term retention.
+
+Beyond business success, I’m passionate about women’s empowerment and mentoring the next generation of female leaders. Fueled by a data-driven mindset, I integrate market intelligence and sales analytics to expand visibility, increase market share, and unlock new opportunities for brands to thrive.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/shilpi-yadav.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/shilpi-yadav.md
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+Title = "Shilpi Yadav" 
+Twitter = "AutomationPanda" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shilpi-yadav-b64ab951" 
+image = "shilpi-yadav.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "shilpi-yadav" 
++++
+
+With over 18 years of experience in Enterprise Data Engineering and AI-driven ERP modernization at IBM, and currently working as a Technical Solution Architect, I have been actively contributing to the fields of AI-infused enterprise systems, 
+hybrid cloud architectures, and responsible digital transformation. I have also served as a Keynote Speaker and Reviewer at prior international conferences, where I shared insights on Data Engineering topics.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/steven-diamante.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/steven-diamante.md
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index 00000000000..93de99c42fe
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+++ b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/steven-diamante.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
++++ 
+Title = "Steven Diamante" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevendiamante" 
+image = "steven-diamante.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "steven-diamante" 
++++
+
+Steven Diamante is a technical coach who helps software teams get real value from AI coding agents. Most teams use AI to generate code fast, but then spend hours debugging. Steven teaches teams to use TDD and strict quality gates to keep AI agents steerable, ensuring they build the right thing in small, controllable steps. Through hands-on Samman Coaching, he helps teams transform how they work with AI while maintaining technical excellence.
+ 
+ Outside of coaching, he enjoys playing guitar in his local church, reading a non-fiction book, or hanging out with his wife and two kids.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/suresh-palus.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/suresh-palus.md
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+++ b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/suresh-palus.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
++++ 
+Title = "Suresh Kumar Palus" 
+Twitter = "sureshpalus" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/suresh-palus-0a436932/" 
+image = "suresh-palus.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "suresh-palus" 
++++
+
+Suresh Kumar Palus is a Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer with over 18 years of experience designing large-scale automation and quality engineering solutions across media streaming, banking, telecom, and e-commerce domains. 
+He specializes in cross-platform test automation for web, mobile, OTT, and API systems, with a strong focus on AI-driven quality validation and CI/CD integration. 
+Suresh has architected code-less BDD/SDD automation frameworks and pioneered automated video QoE validation approaches for streaming platforms. He is a co-author of multiple U.S. patents, a published technical book contributor, and an active mentor to engineering teams. 
+Suresh regularly speaks about AI in quality engineering, autonomous testing, and streaming video validation at conferences, internal tech summits, and industry forums.
diff --git a/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/velu-natarajan.md b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/velu-natarajan.md
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index 00000000000..9aec9aab35b
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+++ b/content/events/2026-raleigh/speakers/velu-natarajan.md
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++++ 
+Title = "Velu Natarajan with Krishnakumar Mohanram" 
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/velunatarajan/" 
+image = "velu-natarajan.jpg" 
+type = "speaker" 
+linktitle = "velu-natarajan" 
++++
+
+Velu Natarajan is a recognized data expert with over 20 years of experience architecting scalable, high-performance data solutions. As a leader in his organization’s cloud center of excellence, Velu drives cloud transformation, ensuring seamless migrations and operational efficiency. 
+He is an early advocate of Cloud FinOps frameworks, leveraging them to optimize costs and maximize business value, work that earned him the Discover President Award in 2024. His expertise spans AWS, Snowflake, and Azure, and he has contributed to the community as a speaker at 
+Snowflake Summit 2024 and authored a book on ‘FinOps for Snowflake’. His collaborative approach enables the development of self-service tools and best practices for database usage, performance, and cost management. 
+Certified in AWS, FinOps, and Snowflake, he is renowned for his commitment to excellence and innovation in data and financial operations.
diff --git a/data/events/2026/raleigh/main.yml b/data/events/2026/raleigh/main.yml
index f949aec98d4..cb9bd953aca 100644
--- a/data/events/2026/raleigh/main.yml
+++ b/data/events/2026/raleigh/main.yml
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ nav_elements: # List of pages you want to show up in the navigation of your page
  # - name: propose
   - name: location
   - name: registration
- # - name: program
- # - name: speakers
+  - name: program
+  - name: speakers
   - name: sponsor
   - name: contact
   - name: conduct
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     label: "Happy Hour"
   - id: breakfast
     label: "breakfast"
+
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+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
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+    end_time: "08:30"
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+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "08:30"
+    end_time: "08:40"
+  - title: "chris-short-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "08:40"
+    end_time: "09:10"
+  - title: "Sponsor Remarks"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "09:10"
+    end_time: "09:15"
+  - title: "shannon-ryan-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "09:15"
+    end_time: "09:45"
+  - title: "Break"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "09:45"
+    end_time: "09:55"
+  - title: "peter-zaitsev-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "09:55"
+    end_time: "10:25"
+  - title: "Sponsor Remarks and Open Space Topic Assignment"
+    type: open-space
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "10:25"
+    end_time: "10:30"
+  - title: "Open Spaces"
+    type: open-space
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "10:30"
+    end_time: "11:00"
+  - title: "Break"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "11:00"
+    end_time: "11:10"
+  - title: "leon-adato-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "11:10"
+    end_time: "11:40"
+  - title: "joel-tosi-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "11:40"
+    end_time: "12:10"
+  - title: "Lunch"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "12:10"
+    end_time: "13:10"
+  - title: "Welcome back Ignite Explanation + Karaoke"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "13:10"
+    end_time: "13:15"
+  - title: "Ignites"
+    type: ignite
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "13:15"
+    end_time: "13:40"
+  - title: "Ignite Karaoke"
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+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "13:40"
+    end_time: "14:00"
+  - title: "Open Spaces"
+    type: open-space
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "14:00"
+    end_time: "14:30"
+  - title: "Break"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "14:30"
+    end_time: "14:40"
+  - title: "jeanne-mcclure-workshop"
+    type: workshop
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "14:40"
+    end_time: "16:10"
+  - title: "catherine-louis-workshop"
+    type: workshop
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "14:40"
+    end_time: "16:10"
+  - title: "suresh-palus-workshop"
+    type: workshop
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "14:40"
+    end_time: "16:10"
+  - title: "Break"
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+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "16:10"
+    end_time: "16:20"
+  - title: "shilpi-yadav-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "16:20"
+    end_time: "16:50"
+  - title: "Day One Closing and Sponsor Remarks"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "16:50"
+    end_time: "17:00"
+  - title: "Happy Hour"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-04-30
+    start_time: "17:00"
+    end_time: "19:00"
+  - title: "Registration, Breakfast"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "08:00"
+    end_time: "08:30"
+  - title: "Opening Remarks"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "08:30"
+    end_time: "08:40"
+  - title: "dan-mckinley-keynote"
+    type: talk
+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "08:40"
+    end_time: "09:10"
+  - title: "Sponsor Remarks"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "09:10"
+    end_time: "09:15"
+  - title: "steven-diamante-keynote"
+    type: talk
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+    start_time: "09:15"
+    end_time: "09:45"
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+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "09:45"
+    end_time: "09:50"
+  - title: "Open Spaces"
+    type: open-space
+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "09:50"
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+  - title: "ashley-arya-workshop"
+    type: workshop
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+  - title: "Welcome back Ignite Explanation + Karaoke"
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+    date: 2026-05-01
+    start_time: "12:50"
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+  - title: "mark-koelsch-keynote"
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+  - title: "Closing Remarks, Raffle, & Prizes"
+    type: custom
+    date: 2026-05-01
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+
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+    date: 2026-04-30
+  - title: "chakra-kota-ignite"
+    date: 2026-04-30
+  - title: "jeremy-freeman-ignite"
+    date: 2026-04-30
+  - title: "sai-bharath-ignite"
+    date: 2026-04-30
+  - title: "dewan-ahmed-ignite"
+    date:2026-04-30