Nigel Kersten, Field CTO at Puppet, leads a team of engineers to build greater knowledge around how customers around the world are using Puppet to ensure the company is building pragmatic products for current and future customers. In addition, his team focuses on building out service strategies and finding new opportunities and geographies to expand Puppet’s commercial footprint. Nigel brings a worldwide perspective to the challenges some of the biggest companies on the plant have with infrastructure automation, continuous deployment, compliance and DevOps.

Tori Wieldt is a New Relic Senior Solutions Manager (focusing on DevOps), which means she formulates messages to the market and creates assets for Sales and Marketing. She also presents at tech conferences, writes blogs and co-hosted the New Relic Modern Software podcast. She has been in the tech world as a Sys Admin (AT&T), Tech Writer (Sun Microsystems), and Community Manager (Oracle).