Malaysia – 10 October 2025

Aditya Saxena, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

• A 7-year case study of how DevOps evolved in a digitally transforming traditional bank
• Pioneered by engineering geeks, picked up by IT for enterprise scale up
• Through soul searching cycles of operating modelling and definitions: DevXOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, EngOps
• Have our organisations really benefitted from adopting DevOps? Know your DORA, know where you are

Ir Amir Hamzah, Head of Digital Technology and Engineering, RHB Banking Group

Azrul Madisa, Head of Engineering, Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad

Mohd Fakhri, Chief Digital Officer, FarmByte

Reserved for Datadog

• Building a solid foundation for DevOps teams to deliver high-quality software at a faster pace while adapting to ever-changing business needs
• Creating more streamlined and robust software delivery pipelines
• Increasing developer productivity and fostering a collaborative team-based culture

Moderator:

Aditya Saxena, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

Participants:

Ganeshbabu Nagarajan, Executive Director – Head of Cloud Acceleration & Data Centre Migration, Standard Chartered

G Saravanan, Chief Information Officer, National Cancer Society Malaysia

• Shift-Left Security: incorporating security measures early in the development cycle to identify and address vulnerabilities promptly, reducing potential risks
• Automated Security Testing Tools: running automated security checks throughout the entire software development pipeline, making it easier to detect and fix issues before they reach production
• Zero-Trust Architectures

Pradeep Kumar R., Head of Architecture & Platform Engineering, AirAsia MOVE

• DevOps Assessment: Flow, Feedback and Experiments
• Constraints and new challenges identified after establishing a basic CI/CD pipeline
• New roadmap towards “Zero Touch Deployment” design

Elizalde Esteban, Chapter Lead – DevOps Engineering, SWIFT

• DevOps Is Not a Job Title – It’s about principles
• Infrastructure as Code as the Foundation – Why IaC is the backbone for scalability, repeatability and speed
• Improving Developer Experience (DevEx) – How automation, ephemeral environments and observability reduce friction and help developers ship with confidence
• Pragmatic Tech Choices – When to use serverless, containers or VMs, no silver bullets only smart trade-offs

Kenneth Wong, Head of Infrastructure Engineering, MoneyMatch

• Adopting agile methodologies for continuous improvement
• Creating cross-functional product teams for DevOps
• Agentic AI in DevOps

Moderator:

Aditya Saxena, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

Participants:

Mohd Alif Jasin, Head – Software Engineering, alrajhi bank Malaysia

Sean Lon, Head of Engineering, TIME dotCom Berhad

Aditya Saxena, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company