Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines, from both good and bad experiences
Track: When Things Go Wrong: GDPR, Ethics, & Politics
Location: Windsor, 5th flr.
Day of week: Monday
Track Host: Doug Talbot
Head of Organisational Effectiveness @Ocado
Doug Talbot is currently the Head of Organisational Effectiveness for Ocado Technology. He leads a team whose mandate is to catalyse improvements in anything that might assist “creating great teams made of great people that create great products to change the way the world shops”. This often means using a systems thinking lens to create change in culture, building the right thing and building it right. The team is distributed across development centres in four countries. The team thinks both locally and centrally stealing ideas from many disciplines (lean, agile, data, psychology, hr, training, networks … ). Doug acts as a central thinker, and direction setter for this team of Catalysts. Doug has been transforming organisational culture, structure and technology for over a decade. He believes in creative and innovative change through empowering learning culture and lean thinking. He has led and transformed groups within science, government, banking and retail. Doug has previously spoken at conferences on lean culture, organisational transformation, measuring the right thing, trust building for great teams, core agile and agile testing.
10:35am - 11:25am
Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows
Session details to follow.
Paul Johnston, CEO @roundaboutlabs
11:50am - 12:40pm
How We Built a Generative Culture at Redgate
Creating an environment where teams have a high sense of ownership and aren’t afraid to take risks is one of the keys to creating a fantastic Product-centric culture. This talk will introduce you Westrum model of culture and (more importantly!) we’ll share some practical steps that Redgate has taken to improve the way we build products by building a generative culture.
Jeff Foster, Head of Product Engineering @redgate
2:55pm - 3:45pm
Managing for Mental Wellbeing in the Tech Industry
How many employees are in your company? Multiply that number by 1300. Now put a pound sign in front of it. That’s how much your business is losing to mental ill-health annually. Technology is the easy part, it’s the human beings behind the tech that are tricky. The pace at which the tech industry moves and the pressure to deliver, can leave staff struggling to keep up. Long hours and high levels of critical decision making take their toll. A project may be delivered today at the expense of tomorrow. There is a pressure sweet spot that can keep staff engaged at a sustainable level, optimising their performance and wellbeing. You don’t need to be a therapist to influence a person’s mental health for the better. In this session delegates will learn about the impact of mental ill-health in the workplace, how to manage mental ill-health as an employer, and how to engineer occupational psychosocial factors for optimal performance.
Michelle O'Sulivan, Psychologist & Researcher - Mental Health in the Workplace
5:25pm - 6:15pm
DevOps Is More Complex and Harder Than You Think. Personal Lessons.
Patrick pioneered the concept and actually wrote the book on DevOps, but it hasn't all been simple even for him. DevOps is inherently complex and with some many things to consider there are many risks and things that can be missed or go wrong. Patrick lets us in on his personal lessons and stories to help you not make the same mistakes.
Patrick Debois, Original DevOps Pioneer, Co-author of the DevOps Handbook
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When Things Go Wrong: GDPR, Ethics, & Politics
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines, from both good and bad experiences
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