With more than 60 sessions, Jenkins World offers expert insights at the largest gathering of Jenkins and DevOps practitioners in the world
SAN JOSE, CA. – April 11, 2017 – The Jenkins community , the community of practitioners using open source Jenkins, and lead organizing sponsor CloudBees, Inc. , the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, today announced the agenda for the 2017 Jenkins World conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, August 28-31. Training and workshops will be held on August 28-29 and the conference sessions take place on August 30-31.
Jenkins World is the largest gathering of Jenkins users in the world and includes Jenkins experts, continuous delivery thought leaders and companies offering complementary technologies for Jenkins. The event provides many opportunities for attendees to learn, network and explore, as well as to help shape the future of Jenkins.
This year’s conference includes six tracks and more than 60 sessions covering diverse Jenkins and DevOps topics. Sessions will be conducted by practitioners from organizations such as: Accenture, Cambia Health, American Express, Rosetta Stone, PayPal, Microsoft and CloudBees. Sessions cover topics ranging from security to pipeline automation, containers, DevOps adoption and continuous delivery best practices.
Inaugural Jenkins World Awards
The first annual Jenkins World Award Program is now open for nominations. There are two award tracks - Jenkins Community Awards and CloudBees Innovation Awards - and winners in each track will be featured at Jenkins World. Nominations will be accepted for both tracks until June 16, 2017 at 11:59PM EDT. Learn more about the Jenkins World Awards Program .
Jenkins Community Awards Categories:
Most Valuable Contributor **** - Presented to the Jenkins contributor who has moved the Jenkins project forward through feature contributions, bug fixes or plugin development.
Jenkins Security MVP - Presented to the individual most consistently providing excellent security reports or fixing security issues.
Most Valuable Advocate **** - Presented to an individual who has helped advocate for Jenkins through organizing and leading a local Jenkins Area Meetup.
CloudBees Innovation Award Categories:
DevOps Automation Excellence Award - Presented to the team or organization with the most outstanding automated DevOps process as measured by quantifiable business value returned to the organization.
DevOps Scalability Achievement Award - Presented to the team or organization with the most significant implementation of continuous delivery and DevOps at scale, as measured by the scope of the implementation and quantifiable business value returned to the organization.
“Once again, we have scaled Jenkins World this year to be even bigger and better. I am pleased to see such a high caliber of speakers from the Jenkins community giving sessions,” said Kohsuke Kawaguchi, CTO of CloudBees and Jenkins founder. “After the launch of Blue Ocean last week, more and more people of all skill levels are able to be involved in continuous delivery and DevOps, across all industries. At Jenkins World, they will have the opportunity to enhance Jenkins and DevOps knowledge, and to meet in person and learn from each other.”
Sponsors
Thanks to the leading technology vendors who are supporting the Jenkins community by sponsoring Jenkins World 2017. They are: CloudBees, the premier sponsor and lead organizer, joined by CA/BlazeMeter, Red Hat, Sonatype, JFrog, Scalyr, Splunk, Sauce Labs, Black Duck Software, XebiaLabs, GerritForge, Infostretch, DLT Solutions, Applitools, Mobile Labs, QASymphony and cPrime.
Media Sponsors include DZone, DevOps.com and PAN Communications.
Training Partners include Infostretch, OSA and ECS Digital.
Pricing
Super Early Bird pricing of $399 ends on April 28. Register today .
Additional Resources for Jenkins World 2017
Visit the Conference Website:
http://join.cloudbees.com/jenkinsworld2017Learn More About the Jenkins World Awards Program:
http://join.cloudbees.com/jenkinsworldawardsRegister for Jenkins World Before April 28 to Get Super Early Bird Pricing:
http://join.cloudbees.com/jenkinsworld2017registration
About Jenkins and the Jenkins Community
Jenkins is the leading open source automation server supported by a large and growing community of developers, testers, designers and other people interested in continuous integration, continuous delivery and other modern software delivery practices. Built on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it provides more than 1,300 plugins that extend Jenkins to automate with practically any technology software delivery teams use.
The Jenkins community advocates the use of Jenkins to the global development community, serving as a central source for tutorials, forums and other helpful resources for Jenkins users of all experience-levels. By recognizing the numerous contributors to the Jenkins project, the Jenkins project creates and fosters a community-powered infrastructure for maintaining and further developing Jenkins. You can follow the Jenkins community on Twitter (@JenkinsCI ).
About CloudBees
CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for automating software development and delivery. CloudBees starts with Jenkins, the most trusted and widely-adopted continuous delivery platform, and adds enterprise-grade security, scalability, manageability and expert-level support. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software and returning value to the business more quickly.
Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn and Google+ .
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