Jeffery Payne

DevOps is more than a buzzword or a passing fad. It's a radically new approach to rapidly deliver high-quality software applications. However, many organizations don’t fully grasp the magnitude of this change or what it means for everyone involved in the software development lifecycle. Jeffery Payne says that DevOps—when done right—drives higher quality and efficiency into software development, software testing, and application management activities. It empowers teams to remove impediments to quality and productivity throughout the entire software lifecycle. However, when DevOps is done...

With the emergence of deep learning integrated into today's software products, a modern software development process needs an effective way to automatically test and deploy machine learning models as part of product delivery. In this presentation, Coveros CEO Jeffery Payne introduces deep learning AI models and how to effectively test and deploy them as part of product development. Approaches to testing models will be discussed as well as how to automate your deployment process when machine learning is part of your product.

While everyone has their own approach to leadership, we all have our go-to tips and tricks that can help others lead teams, organizations, and ourselves. These may be techniques for motivating staff, growing team skills, managing senior executives, or finding the right people for your organization.

During this collaborative lean coffee session, Jeffery Payne will facilitate a discussion to elicit and discuss those leadership secrets used effectively by Summit participants. Using a lean coffee meeting format, participants will choose which aspects of leadership to discuss, vote on...