Devopsdays

What Devopsdays does

DevOpsDays is a worldwide community conference series for practitioners interested in IT improvement, DevOps culture, and the intersection of software development and operations. Founded in 2009 in Ghent, Belgium by Patrick Debois and Kris Buytaert, the organization operates a decentralized model in which local volunteer teams in 40+ cities independently organize events while leveraging shared global infrastructure. Events combine curated talks, Ignite sessions (5-minute rapid-fire presentations), and Open Space discussions—a self-organizing format where attendees propose and lead their own topic conversations. The platform includes a centralized website at devopsdays.org and a Call for Papers system powered by pretalx that standardizes speaker submissions across most city events, alongside a consistent code-of-conduct framework adopted from confcodeofconduct.com.

The core product surface is the events themselves, with regional editions such as DevOpsDays Salvador, Melbourne, São Paulo, and Islamabad serving local DevOps communities. Underlying technology is intentionally lightweight: the website is deployed on Netlify, CFP management runs through pretalx, and event registration uses varied local platforms (ti.to, Eventize, Eventbrite). The organization does not sell attendee contact lists, does not operate vendor booths, and explicitly encourages sponsors to send engineers rather than sales staff, preserving a vendor-neutral positioning that distinguishes it from commercial DevOps conferences.

The business model is sponsorship-led and decentralized. Each local event markets tiered sponsorship packages to technology vendors (Bronze through Platinum, with documented pricing such as R$1,000 to R$5,000 in Brazilian markets), supplemented by attendee ticket sales. Starting January 1, 2025, a modest localized sustainability donation was introduced to fund centralized infrastructure. Notable sponsors across recent events include CircleCI, PagerDuty, Buildkite, ANZ, Telstra Purple, REA Group, and StoryBlok. The organization is volunteer-driven with no venture capital backing and minimal central monetization, meaning most sponsorship revenue accrues to local event teams rather than a central entity.

Name

Devopsdays

Legal name

DevOpsDays

Website

https://devopsdays.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

DevOpsDays is a volunteer-run worldwide community conference series for DevOps practitioners, founded in 2009 and operating events in 40+ cities through decentralized local organizer teams using shared pretalx-based CFP infrastructure and tiered sponsorship monetization.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tech Community Conferences

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual/Hybrid Conference Production & Platform Management (THAHACAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Training, Enablement & Talent Development Summits (THAHAMAH), DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering (CI/CD, IaC, Containers) (EDABAFAC)

Keywords

• DevOps community conferences
• IT improvement events
• Software development meetups
• Tech community networking
• Developer operations conferences

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlotte

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Event Sponsorships: Sponsors fund DevOpsDays events at various tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum). Sponsors get recognition on website and social media, elevator pitches during program, and table space for interaction during breaks. No vendor booths or attendee contact lists are sold.
2. Conference Tickets: Attendees purchase tickets to participate in DevOpsDays events. Local events have varying ticket structures with some sponsorship tiers including event tickets.
3. Sustainability Donation (2025+): Starting January 1, 2025, a modest localized event fee was introduced to ensure sustainable funding for underlying infrastructure powering the DevOpsDays global community.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Devopsdays operates a worldwide series of community-driven technical conferences covering software development, IT infrastructure operations, and DevOps culture. Events are organized by local volunteer teams across 40+ cities globally and feature curated talks, Ignite sessions (5-minute rapid-fire presentations), and Open Space self-organizing discussions. Revenue is generated through multi-tier event sponsorships (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) and paid conference tickets.

Product overview

DevOpsDays is a worldwide community conference series focused on IT improvement, DevOps culture, and the intersection of software development and operations. The organization operates a global platform at devopsdays.org that enables event discovery and management across dozens of cities globally. Individual regional events (such as Salvador, Melbourne, São Paulo, Islamabad, and many others) are coordinated by local teams while using shared infrastructure including pretalx for call for papers submissions. Events typically feature curated talks, Ignite sessions (5-minute rapid-fire presentations with auto-advancing slides), and Open Space discussions—a self-organizing format where attendees propose and lead topic discussions. The portfolio includes events across multiple continents with varying sponsorship tiers (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Community) and topics spanning Kubernetes, CI/CD, chaos engineering, MLOps, platform engineering, and organizational culture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DevOpsDays Conference Series Worldwide series of community-driven technical conferences covering software development, IT infrastructure operations, and DevOps culture. Events feature curated talks, Ignite sessions (5-minute rapid-fire presentations), and Open Space self-organizing discussions, organized by local volunteer teams in 40+ cities globally.
• DevOpsDays Sponsorship Program Multi-tier sponsorship program offering Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Community tiers for technology companies seeking to engage DevOps practitioners. Benefits include event tickets, social media recognition, logo placement, promotional booth space, institutional videos, and elevator pitches. No vendor booths or attendee contact lists are sold.
• DevOpsDays Local City Events Individual DevOpsDays conferences held in specific cities including Salvador, Melbourne, São Paulo, Islamabad, Kraków, London, Portland, Denver, Cairo, Vilnius, Prague, Barcelona, and others. Each event is independently organized by a local volunteer team while using shared global infrastructure including the pretalx CFP system and code of conduct framework.

Quantifiable outcome

• Events held in 40+ cities worldwide with over 15 years of continuous operation since 2009

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• pretalxcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2009DevOpsDays uses pretalx as the primary platform for Call for Papers (CFP) submissions across most city events. Speakers submit talk proposals through pretalx, which also handles scheduling and speaker management.
• confcodeofconduct.comcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAll DevOpsDays events adopt the confcodeofconduct.com code of conduct framework, adapted for local use. This ensures consistent safety standards across all city events worldwide.
• ANZminorGTM or Marketing PartnerGold sponsor of DevOpsDays Melbourne 2023. ANZ bank supported the event as a financial sponsor with recognition during the event.
• CircleCIminorGTM or Marketing PartnerGold sponsor of DevOpsDays Melbourne 2023. CircleCI provided sponsorship to engage with the DevOps practitioner community.
• PagerDutyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerGold sponsor of DevOpsDays Melbourne 2023. PagerDuty supported the event as a sponsor.
• Arrested DevOpsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCommunity sponsor appearing across multiple Brazilian DevOpsDays events (Salvador, Recife, São Paulo). The Arrested DevOps podcast/community supports DevOps events regionally.
• AluraminorGTM or Marketing PartnerApoio (support) sponsor of DevOpsDays Salvador 2025. Brazilian technology education platform supporting regional DevOps community events.
• LinuxTipsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerApoio (support) sponsor of DevOpsDays Salvador 2025. Brazilian Linux and DevOps education platform supporting community events.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (CNCF): KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the flagship community-driven conference series for the cloud-native and DevOps ecosystem, run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It competes directly with DevOpsDays for the same practitioner and sponsor audience, and is the most direct functional peer — both run a globally distributed city/regional event series on adjacent technology topics.
• HashiConf: HashiConf is HashiCorp's annual community conference for DevOps and infrastructure tooling practitioners (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Packer). It is a direct peer in the DevOps tooling practitioner-event category and competes for sponsorship dollars from the same enterprise technology vendors that sponsor DevOpsDays.
• Devoxx: Devoxx is a community-organized developer conference series held across multiple European cities (Belgium, France, UK, Poland, etc.) with a similar locally-organized, community-led model. It is a direct peer in the volunteer-driven multi-city developer conference format, sharing the same target audience of practitioners and the same sponsor pool.
• All Things Open: All Things Open is a large community-organized open source and DevOps conference held annually in Raleigh, NC, with a similar mix of community curation and tech-vendor sponsorship. It is a direct peer targeting the same developer/DevOps practitioner segment in North America.
• OSCON (O'Reilly): OSCON is O'Reilly's historic open source and developer conference, historically a flagship event for the DevOps and open source practitioner community. It is a direct peer in the community-oriented developer conference category though it has shifted toward broader O'Reilly conference programming.
• DockerCon: DockerCon is Docker's annual community conference for container, DevOps, and cloud-native practitioners. It is a direct peer in the DevOps tooling conference category, drawing from the same audience and competing for the same container/CI/CD vendor sponsors.
• PuppetConf: PuppetConf (historical) was Puppet's annual community conference focused on configuration management, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices. It is a direct peer in the DevOps tooling practitioner-event space, though it has been more intermittent in recent years.

Broad incumbents

• AWS re:Invent: AWS re:Invent is Amazon's flagship annual cloud computing conference and one of the largest enterprise tech events globally. It is a broad incumbent competitor that draws from the same DevOps and infrastructure practitioner audience and competes aggressively for cloud/DevOps vendor sponsorship dollars.
• Microsoft Build: Microsoft Build is Microsoft's annual developer and DevOps conference covering Azure, GitHub, and the broader Microsoft developer platform. It is a broad incumbent in the developer/DevOps conference space, with overlapping sponsor ecosystem and overlapping practitioner audience.
• GitHub Universe: GitHub Universe is GitHub's annual conference for developers, DevOps practitioners, and open source contributors. It is a broad incumbent in the developer/DevOps conference category, overlapping with DevOpsDays' CI/CD and platform engineering audience and competing for the same enterprise tooling sponsors.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/devopsdays
• GitHubgithub.com/devopsdays
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/devopsdays-austin

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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