Bio
Josh is a Senior Technology Advocate at Splunk, focused on helping IT organizations evolve to support the growing demands on them. He has worked within the realm of IT for over 20 years beginning with desktop support and moving through automating enterprise architecture and operations. He has spent the last 10 years working publicly to improve the way IT is managed, automated, and delivers value to business. His most recent focuses have been in DevOps, Digital Transformation, and IT Transformation. Josh is the co-author of several popular books, a serial podcaster, has led numerous technology user groups, and is an awarded public speaker. Never known for lacking an opinion he guest blogs on various platforms and tweets at @josh_atwell.
My Talks
Adopting a Continual Improvement Mindset for IT/DevOps
Few organizations feel they are reaching their true potential. Most feel incapable of doing much more than keeping the lights on or getting a feature out. Overcoming these challenges and achieving ...
Are You Being the Right Person for DevOps
In this talk I'll outline some of the key characteristics we apply through the path of growing and maintaining a healthy relationship, mistakes we can avoid, and behaviors we can nurture. We'll thi...
Embracing Transformation and Navigating the New World of IT
IT organizations continue to face new challenges as their companies embrace digital transformation, new platforms emerge and mature, and cloud services expand. This requires new operating models fo...
How to Avoid Knee-Jerk Response to Incidents – Executive Track
One of the biggest risks for the long-term success of high-performing teams is the inevitable outage that draws negative attention from leadership. These outages are often business impacting and hi...
How to be a Failure (and still Succeed)
Failure is not always bad, it just feels bad. Failure is also typically the most powerful teacher, which sounds pretty positive. We all fail from time to time, so why is it that collectively we hav...
How to Build an Invincible Incident Management Plan
We all know that service degradation and outages are going to happen, especially as organizations increase their system complexity and their pace of change. With a robust incident management plan i...
How to Evolve Ops Skills to a DevOps World
Adopting DevOps puts new challenges on IT ops whether it be managing new tools, or having to learn new skills to enable success. This often leads managers and individual contributors curious how th...
Infrastructure Extensibility at Home and DevOps
Extensibility of infrastructure is becoming pervasive in our personal and work lives. In this ignite talk we’ll highlight some of these areas and how they are influencing the way we live and work.
Work + Family + Self + Fast Paced Industry = \_(_)_/
Keeping up with the brisk pace of change requires a steady stream of investment of your time and energy. How do you stay in the forefront while maintaining some element of balance in your overall l...