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Companies like Kayak, NPR, Stratus and Avid operate at unprecedented levels of business velocity, rapidly adapting and scaling to changing market conditions and customer needs.  The secret to their nimbleness lies in the technology they employ, their process (or lack thereof) and culture.   Their technology is able to adapt quickly, build and scale at an unprecedented pace, and do it all with historically low levels of investment by using open source components, Agile development strategies and leveraging SaaS and cloud infrastructures.  Their dev process and culture is built on a principle of high performance and strives to unlock developer creativity at every turn. Learn the secrets to how today’s most productive and innovative development teams achieve unprecedented levels of business velocity and do it with a fraction of historical levels of resources.

Attendees will come away with:

• Understanding how to break out of traditional
• Learn the characteristics of high performance development teams from a process and culture perspective
• Insight into Agile development strategies and the free and re-usable software and components used to rapidly build out infrastructure, applications and services
• Review of the latest SaaS and cloud infrastructures being leveraged for innovation and scale

Moderator:

Jeff Hammond, Principal Analyst Forrester Research

Speakers:

• Doug Gaff, Director of Technology, NPR Digital Services
• Lars Jankowfsky, Director of Quality Engineering, Kayak
• Michael Madden, Vice President, Integrated Media Enterprise, Avid Technology
• Tim Wegner, VP of Avance Engineering, Stratus Technologies
  
• Andi Zink, CTO, Black Duck Software