Philippines – 15 August 2025

• The rise of cutting-edge technologies like AI, new methodologies and a heightened focus on automation and security
• Staying agile to get ahead of the curve

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – enabling consistent and repeatable deployments
• Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD): Automation in CI/CD pipelines ensures rapid and reliable code integration and deployment
• Self-Healing Systems: Modern automation also includes self-healing capabilities, where systems automatically detect and resolve issues without human intervention

• Container Orchestration: managing containers, handling deployment, scaling, and maintenance, ensuring applications run smoothly
• Platform Engineering: freeing developers from repetitive tasks, improving consistency, and delivering software faster across the organization.
• Microservices Integration: allowing individual parts of an application to be updated or scaled without affecting the whole system, thus enhancing agility

• 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

Participants:

Ruel Nopal, DevSecOps Coach, Sun Life

Mark Rivera, CIO, Pluxee Philippines

• 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

Eugene Reynes, DevSecOps Lead for Philippines IT, Sun Life

• Unified Observability Platforms
• Proactive Monitoring
• AI and ML for Enhanced Observability

• Predictive Analytics for Incident Management
• Automated Testing
• Self-Healing Systems

Rookie Nagtalon, Chief Technology Officer, Aidea

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

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