In recent times, DevOps has become a pretty much popular term, especially those working in an IT-centric company. But for those who are still not familiar with it, the DevOps Live Event would be a great place to start.

This half-day conference is going to kick start on Saturday, October 20, and will address the questions like why is DevOps important and how it is revolutionizing the IT industry.

Initiated by Mid-Cities DevOps, the DevOps Live event will allow participants explore trends in open source, automatic deployment and management tools, and new initiatives in programming language design and innovation. Besides live, it will be streaming live via Google+ Hangouts and YouTube. The prime sponsors of the event include Google, Gravity Center, Red Hat, CollabNet, Pluralsight, and Palaoin. Besides, prominent speakers include following:

Paul Peissner, CollabNet, Inc. – Director Business Development – IT Transformation advocate: DevOps, BSM, Agile, Cloud via innovative eco-systems.

Shannon Behrens, Google, Inc. – Open-source enthusiast, Python, Ruby, and Dart programmer.

Stefan Negrea, Red Hat, Inc. – Software engineer focused on open source development and practices.

So, register now to attend the conference, and get free stuff too!