The #1 Event for DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps

Sept 8-10 // Meritage Resort & Spa // Napa, CA

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Maciej Mazur

AI CTO
Large scale inference for the enterprise – architecture, security, and best practices
Maciej Mazur is a CTO of Artificial Intelligence in EMEA at Dell Technologies. Based in Wrocław, Poland, Maciej works with enterprise and public sector customers to help them successfully integrate and leverage AI solutions for strategic growth as part of their digital transformation. As a lead architect on more than one hundred AI projects, Maciej is a recognized AI expert and industry blogger/podcaster. With his security clearance, Maciej is also able to discuss strategic projects with customers in governmental space. With cross sector experience, and deep telco and defense knowledge, Maciej works with the C-Suite and IT leaders to leverage AI across their organizations, breaking down silos and optimizing data investments. Customer inquiries often center on sovereign AI cloud strategies and hybrid cloud optimization, and Maciej works with them to provide expert guidance on architecture, implementation, and maximizing GPU utilization in these environments. He also works on the Dell AI Factory program that provides organizations with the building blocks for seamless integration of AI models and frameworks into their operations, enabling them to turn their ideas into practical applications. Maciej joined Dell Technologies in 2024 from Ubuntu, where he was a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, and has experience as Chief Data Scientist and lead solution architect with top IT companies.

Shlomi Ben Haim

Co-Founder and CEO
The Quantum Shift – Rethink Software Supply Chain
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
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Demetrios Brinkmann

Founder of MLOps Community
Evals are your Moat
Demetrios founded the largest community dealing with productionizing AI and ML models. In April 2020 he fell into leading the MLOps community (more than 75k ML practitioners come together to learn and share experiences) which aims to bring clarity around the operational side of Machine Learning. Since diving into the nitty gritty of Machine Learning he has felt a strong calling to explore the ethical issues surrounding the new tech he covers. In his free time he can be found building stone stackings in the woods with his daughters

Eyal Dyment

VP, Security
Beyond Packages: DevOps & Governance Delivered with Trust
Eyal Dyment leads Security at JFrog, where he is responsible for driving the company’s security product strategy and innovation across the software supply chain. With a deep background in AI, machine learning, and data-driven product development, Eyal brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to the evolving DevSecOps landscape.
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Krishna Nadiminti US

Developer Experience Leader
Handling Hyper-Scale Growth and AI Workloads with Artifactory
Krishna Nadiminti leads Developer Experience at NVIDIA, focusing on improving developer productivity and application lifecycle efficiency. She is an award-winning leader recognized across the tech industry for her contributions to engineering excellence and innovation.

Yoav Landman

Co-Founder and CTO
AI-Driven DevOps Unleashed: The Future Starts Here
Co-Founder and CTO of JFrog, Yoav is the visionary behind Artifactory, the universal artifact repository manager. Prior to founding JFrog, he spent over a decade as a senior consultant specializing in Distributed Computing and Enterprise Build Systems and held several senior technical roles in global organizations. Yoav holds a master’s degree in computing from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Haifa.
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Charles Crowder

Senior Engineering Manager
Artifactory self-hosted Observability with OpenTelemetry & Splunk O11y
Charles Crowder is a Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco on Splunk’s SDLC Infrastructure team, and has been with Splunk for 6 years working both as an IC delivering cloud infrastructure, and now as a leader within SDLC. When not at work, he enjoys family time with his daughter and hobbies like 3D printing, photography, and mountain biking.

Yuval Fernbach

VP, MLOps
AI Demands LLMs at DevOps Speed
Yuval Fernbach is VP and CTO of MLOps at JFrog, where he leads the integration of a fully managed ML platform following JFrog’s acquisition of Qwak, which he co-founded. With deep expertise in AI and infrastructure, Yuval helps teams streamline the entire ML lifecycle, from data prep to deployment, bridging the worlds of MLOps and DevOps for secure, scalable AI delivery.
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Ciro Greco

Founder and CEO
The End of Manual DataOps: Git for Data and the Automation of AI Infrastructure
Ciro Greco – founder and CEO at Bauplan, a serverless computing platform for complex data workloads. Developers can write complex, multi-language data pipelines with zero environment management and infrastructure configuration and the same instantaneous feedback loop as running code locally. Formerly, he was the founder of Tooso, an NLP startup based in San Francisco. Tooso was acquired by Coveo in 2019 and Ciro was in the management team that brought Coveo to IPO in 2021. In a previous life he got a PhD in Neuroscience at Milan-Bicocca, a postdoctoral fellowship at Ghent University and he was visiting scientist at MIT.
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Sai prasad Veluru

Software Development Engineer
Mastering Modern Tech Stacks: Optimizing Performance at Scale
A software engineer specializing in large-scale data processing, AI-driven automation, and real-time infrastructure. Currently working at Apple, leading projects that optimize data pipelines, enhance system performance, and integrate AI to streamline operations. Passionate about distributed systems, Kafka, and cloud-native architectures, with a track record of solving complex engineering challenges at scale.

Yossi Shaul

SVP, DevOps
Beyond Packages: DevOps & Governance Delivered with Trust
Yossi Shaul is the Senior Vice President of DevOps Core at JFrog, where he leads the development of the company’s core DevOps platform. With a career spanning over two decades in software engineering and leadership, Yossi has been instrumental in shaping JFrog’s comprehensive solutions that integrate DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps practices.
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Gaurav Saxena

Director of Engineering
Resiliency by Design: Internal Platforms’ Contributions to Cloud Stability
Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Observability.
https://sessionize.com/image/f711-400o400o1-poSUEMU6ZtfdSXBcwpoENw.jpg

Maciej Mazur

AI CTO
Large scale inference for the enterprise – architecture, security, and best practices
Maciej Mazur is a CTO of Artificial Intelligence in EMEA at Dell Technologies. Based in Wrocław, Poland, Maciej works with enterprise and public sector customers to help them successfully integrate and leverage AI solutions for strategic growth as part of their digital transformation. As a lead architect on more than one hundred AI projects, Maciej is a recognized AI expert and industry blogger/podcaster. With his security clearance, Maciej is also able to discuss strategic projects with customers in governmental space. With cross sector experience, and deep telco and defense knowledge, Maciej works with the C-Suite and IT leaders to leverage AI across their organizations, breaking down silos and optimizing data investments. Customer inquiries often center on sovereign AI cloud strategies and hybrid cloud optimization, and Maciej works with them to provide expert guidance on architecture, implementation, and maximizing GPU utilization in these environments. He also works on the Dell AI Factory program that provides organizations with the building blocks for seamless integration of AI models and frameworks into their operations, enabling them to turn their ideas into practical applications. Maciej joined Dell Technologies in 2024 from Ubuntu, where he was a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, and has experience as Chief Data Scientist and lead solution architect with top IT companies.

Shlomi Ben Haim

Co-Founder and CEO
The Quantum Shift – Rethink Software Supply Chain
Shlomi is Co-Founder and CEO of JFrog, creators of the universal DevOps platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Prior to JFrog, Shlomi was the CEO of AlphaCSP (acquired in 2005 by MalamTeam) and a Major in the Israeli Air Force. Shlomi holds an MS from Clark University (Massachusetts, USA) and a BA from Ben-Gurion University (Israel).
https://sessionize.com/image/857d-400o400o1-3TRhsaR17iDdGD8VEZQ6u.jpg

Demetrios Brinkmann

Founder of MLOps Community
Evals are your Moat
Demetrios founded the largest community dealing with productionizing AI and ML models. In April 2020 he fell into leading the MLOps community (more than 75k ML practitioners come together to learn and share experiences) which aims to bring clarity around the operational side of Machine Learning. Since diving into the nitty gritty of Machine Learning he has felt a strong calling to explore the ethical issues surrounding the new tech he covers. In his free time he can be found building stone stackings in the woods with his daughters

Eyal Dyment

VP, Security
Beyond Packages: DevOps & Governance Delivered with Trust
Eyal Dyment leads Security at JFrog, where he is responsible for driving the company’s security product strategy and innovation across the software supply chain. With a deep background in AI, machine learning, and data-driven product development, Eyal brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to the evolving DevSecOps landscape.
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Krishna Nadiminti US

Developer Experience Leader
Handling Hyper-Scale Growth and AI Workloads with Artifactory
Krishna Nadiminti leads Developer Experience at NVIDIA, focusing on improving developer productivity and application lifecycle efficiency. She is an award-winning leader recognized across the tech industry for her contributions to engineering excellence and innovation.

Yoav Landman

Co-Founder and CTO
AI-Driven DevOps Unleashed: The Future Starts Here
Co-Founder and CTO of JFrog, Yoav is the visionary behind Artifactory, the universal artifact repository manager. Prior to founding JFrog, he spent over a decade as a senior consultant specializing in Distributed Computing and Enterprise Build Systems and held several senior technical roles in global organizations. Yoav holds a master’s degree in computing from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Haifa.
https://sessionize.com/image/632a-400o400o1-QBM5UrLriQDupWNCTs8gzw.jpg

Charles Crowder

Senior Engineering Manager
Artifactory self-hosted Observability with OpenTelemetry & Splunk O11y
Charles Crowder is a Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco on Splunk’s SDLC Infrastructure team, and has been with Splunk for 6 years working both as an IC delivering cloud infrastructure, and now as a leader within SDLC. When not at work, he enjoys family time with his daughter and hobbies like 3D printing, photography, and mountain biking.

Yuval Fernbach

VP, MLOps
AI Demands LLMs at DevOps Speed
Yuval Fernbach is VP and CTO of MLOps at JFrog, where he leads the integration of a fully managed ML platform following JFrog’s acquisition of Qwak, which he co-founded. With deep expertise in AI and infrastructure, Yuval helps teams streamline the entire ML lifecycle, from data prep to deployment, bridging the worlds of MLOps and DevOps for secure, scalable AI delivery.
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Ciro Greco

Founder and CEO
The End of Manual DataOps: Git for Data and the Automation of AI Infrastructure
Ciro Greco – founder and CEO at Bauplan, a serverless computing platform for complex data workloads. Developers can write complex, multi-language data pipelines with zero environment management and infrastructure configuration and the same instantaneous feedback loop as running code locally. Formerly, he was the founder of Tooso, an NLP startup based in San Francisco. Tooso was acquired by Coveo in 2019 and Ciro was in the management team that brought Coveo to IPO in 2021. In a previous life he got a PhD in Neuroscience at Milan-Bicocca, a postdoctoral fellowship at Ghent University and he was visiting scientist at MIT.
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Sai prasad Veluru

Software Development Engineer
Mastering Modern Tech Stacks: Optimizing Performance at Scale
A software engineer specializing in large-scale data processing, AI-driven automation, and real-time infrastructure. Currently working at Apple, leading projects that optimize data pipelines, enhance system performance, and integrate AI to streamline operations. Passionate about distributed systems, Kafka, and cloud-native architectures, with a track record of solving complex engineering challenges at scale.

Yossi Shaul

SVP, DevOps
Beyond Packages: DevOps & Governance Delivered with Trust
Yossi Shaul is the Senior Vice President of DevOps Core at JFrog, where he leads the development of the company’s core DevOps platform. With a career spanning over two decades in software engineering and leadership, Yossi has been instrumental in shaping JFrog’s comprehensive solutions that integrate DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps practices.
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Gaurav Saxena

Director of Engineering
Resiliency by Design: Internal Platforms’ Contributions to Cloud Stability
Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Observability.

Warp into the Next Era of Innovation

Massive AI advancements and rising digital demands require more than evolution -they demand a quantum shift in how we build, secure, and scale software. At swampUP, engineers, DevOps pros, and security leaders tackle
the toughest challenges in AI, ML, DevSecOps, and compliance—from deploying GenAI and scaling ML pipelines to fortifying security and navigating audits.


Join us as we push the boundaries of trust, traceability, and transparency in the era of intelligent software

Special Guest

Tina Guo

Grammy & BRIT Female Artist of the Year Nominee

Tina is one of the most recorded solo cellists of all time in Film, TV, and Game Soundtracks, Tina’s recent projects include DUNE, DUNE 2, Gran Turismo,  Top Gun: Maverick, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.  Tina co-composed the Main Theme for Wonder Woman with Hans Zimmer.

Her iconic sound is also featured in Inception, Pirates of the Carribean 5, Dunkirk, Cyberpunk 2077, Batman v Superman, The Lion King (2019) X-Men: Dark Phoenix, The Flash, Vikings, League of Legends, Diablo III, and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.

Train and Learn With the Best

swampUP training sells out fast every year!
These enhanced training sessions are renowned for their hands-on, practical approach.
Stay ahead of the curve with labs, instructor-led workshops, and opportunities to earn technical certifications.

Agenda At-a-Glance

A full day of keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on workshops, and networking focused on DevOps, security, and AI-driven software delivery – stay tuned for the full agenda after our CFP process is complete!
Training
Day
Day 1
Conference
Day 2 Conference
Morning
Registration Breakfast Training Sessions
Registration Breakfast Keynotes
Registration
Breakfast 
Keynotes
Morning
Training Day

Registration
Breakfast
Training Sessions

Day 1 Conference
Registration  Breakfast  Keynotes
Day 2 Conference
Registration Breakfast
Keynotes

Afternoon

Afternoon

Lunch Training Sessions
Lunch
Breakout Sessions
Activities
Sponsor Exhibition
Lunch
Breakout Sessions
Activities
Sponsor Exhibition
Lunch
Training Sessions
Lunch
Breakout Sessions
Expo Hall
Lunch
Breakout Sessions
Expo Hall
Evening
Welcome Reception
Community Gala & Concert
(Featuring Tina Guo)
Evening
Welcome Reception

Community Gala & Concert

(Featuring Tina Guo)

2024 Sponsors

Registration Packages 

Hopper Pass

Full access to Keynotes, Meals, Track Sessions, Expo, Community Gala & Concert

Leap Pass

Full access to Keynotes, Meals, Track Sessions, Expo, Community Gala & Concert, and Hands-on Training Labs

Squad Pass

Full access to for you & two team members  to Keynotes, Meals, Track Sessions, Expo, Community Gala & Concert

Advance

Purchase by June 20, 2025

$199

$699

$499

(Price based on group of 3)

Standard

June 21 – July 31, 2025

$399

$899

$999

(Price based on group of 3)

Late

August 1 – September 3, 2025

$450

$950

$1100

(Price based on group of 3)

Take the Quantum Shift
and Join us in Napa

September 8-10

swampUP 2025 is where fine wines meet fine minds. Space is limited, so book your hotel soon.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, tickets are refundable if requested by May 30 2025. After that date tickets can be transferred to another attendee of your choice. If you have a ticket and would like to request a refund, please email [email protected]

Yes, registrations are transferable. Please email us at [email protected] with the name and contact details of the person taking your place.

swampUP is perfect for DevOps, DevSecOps, AI and MLOps professionals and executives… and anyone passionate about software delivery and digital transformation.
Your registration to swampUP 2025 includes access to all keynotes, breakout sessions, workshops, the expo hall, and networking events. Meals and refreshments during the conference are also included. As well as an invitation to our community Gala dinner. If you have purchased the “Leap Pass” you will also have access to our hands-on training labs which include CPE credits.

We do have discounted hotel rooms for those attending swampUP. Please check the site for the link to book your hotel. We will also be sending reminders.

Absolutely! We welcome session proposals from the community. Submit your idea at https://sessionize.com/swampup-2025  by April 15, 2025.

Yes, attendees will enjoy complimentary meals, snacks, and beverages throughout the conference. Dietary restrictions can be noted during registration.

We’d love to partner with you! Contact us at  SwampUp Sponsors to learn more about sponsorship packages and exhibitor opportunities.

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My swampUP talk:
Speaker Name, Someone Awesome | Session Secured (Almost)
My swampUP talk:
Speaker Name, Someone Awesome | TBD, but Totally Worth the Wait
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Evals are your Moat
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Show Closing at Expo

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