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Welcome to our 2023 CDF Ambassadors! 

By Blog, Staff

We’re happy to announce the 2023 CDF Ambassador cohort! We would like to thank the community for continued support to spread the word and overwhelming response.

Welcome to all our new and returning ambassadors, we can’t wait to collaborate with you!

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2023 ambassadors

What is the CDF Ambassador Program?

CDF Ambassador program is an initiative by CD Foundation to enable Continuous Delivery (CD) Leadership and build the Continuous Delivery Foundation through engagement, outreach and adoption of open source CD software practices and tools.

In other words, our ambassadors champion the CD Foundation and our mission to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. They will work together and with the Ambassador Chair to help steer the tactical roadmap for the next four quarters.

What’s the role of a CDF Ambassador? 

  • Be the Community Go-To Resource for People Interested in CDF
  • Help Local Users Learn More About CDF
  • Represent the CDF Community Publicly
  • Join the CDF Monthly Ambassador Meetings

More details here

How are Ambassadors Selected?

Ambassadors are part of a yearly cohort. This year, the call for ambassadors attracted top talent from various demographic locations, industry segments, and diverse backgrounds! We received an overwhelming number of nominations primarily from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America. The nominations were reviewed and selected by the executive team and the Ambassador Chair, Garima Bajpai.

We have a number of ambassadors who are continuing the journey with us from 2022 to 2023, thank you to all our past ambassadors, now listed on the CDF Ambassador Alumni page.

early-bird talks cdCon 2023

cdCon 2023 Sneak Peek: Five Early-bird Talks Accepted

By Blog, Community

Contributed by: Lori Lorusso, JFrog, cdCon Program Committee Chair

The cdCon Call for Papers is well underway and, based on the submissions the program committee just reviewed, this year’s cdCon is going to be jam-packed with amazing technical content and community-focused sessions from project maintainers, end users, and notables in the continuous delivery space. With over 40 submissions received in just a week we were hard-pressed to choose just five to announce early but without further ado… check out the first five early bird talks:

Panel: The Continuous Delivery Paradox – Balancing Business Value with Speed
Moderator: Gautham Pallapa, VMWare

Fidelity’s Software Delivery Platform – Frictionless Approach To Achieve Autonomic DevOps & Enhanced Security/Compliance Practices
Speakers: Jamie Plower & Evan Elms, Fidelity Investments

Operating Tekton with Secure Defaults
Speakers: Christie Wilson (Warwick) &  Wendy Dembowski, Google

CI/CD for Data – Building Dev/Test Data Environments with Open Source Stacks
Speaker: Vinodhini Duraisamy, Treeverse

Trusted Open Source Artifacts on the Blockchain: A Hands-On Introduction to Pyrsia
Speaker: Adam Gardner, Dynatrace

Congratulations to the speakers of these talks! 

*If you weren’t a part of the first five – have no fear, you are still in the running for acceptance into the cdCon 2023 program. We will send out notifications for the remaining program on March 3, 2023.* 

Submit Your Talk

The CFP deadline is Friday, February 10 at 11:59 PM PST and we need more submissions to review so we can curate the best content to help others on their path to continuous delivery. We’re looking for talks in the following tracks:

  • 101 (beginners to the CDF & continuous delivery content)
  • Interoperability in CD
  • Cloud Native CD
  • Progressive Delivery
  • Best Practices in Continuous Delivery
  • MLOps
  • Observability & Analytics
  • Performance
  • Security & Supply Chain Security
  • Developer Experience & Productivity
  • Platform Engineering
  • Policy & Governance
  • Automation & Testing
  • Leadership
  • Community & Culture

Don’t miss this great opportunity to share your knowledge with the CDF community. 

Have Questions? – Ask The Committee

Our Program Committee members are your resource if you have any questions during the submission process. Each member brings their own experience in continuous delivery to the table and we are here to help you if you need help with your abstracts. Please feel free to reach out to me on the CDF Slack Channel, Twitter, or LinkedIn and I can help connect you to one of our members that would be best suited to answer your questions. 

  • Adam Kaplan (Red Hat)
  • Alyssa Tong (CloudBees)
  • Andrew Fong (Prodvana)
  • Batuhan Apaydın (Trendyol)
  • Brad McCoy (Basiq)
  • Carlos Panato (Chainguard)
  • Dadisi Sanyika (Apple)
  • Garima Bajpai (Ericsson)
  • Lori Lorusso (JFrog) – Program Committee Chair
State of DevOps Report 2023

State of DevOps Report 2023 Results: Platform Engineering

By Blog, Member, Staff

We sponsored the State of DevOps Report by Puppet again this year. They’ve been researching DevOps and publishing this report for over 10 years! This time around, the focus of the report was around the rising trend of Platform Engineering. 

If you want to hear a panel discussing the results, listen to the podcast.

🎙️ Pulling the Strings: The Future of Platform Engineering

Panelists:

  • Ben Ford
  • Fatih Degirmenci
  • Kaspar von Grünberg
  • Nigel Kersten
  • Ronan Keenan

Report Highlights