DevOps REX

Name: DevOps REX
Start: 2026-12-09
End: 2026-12-10
Location: Paris Expo Porte De Versailles

DevOps REX takes place on 9–10 December 2026 at Paris Expo Porte De Versailles, Paris. It is organised by Infopro Digital, and B2DB lists 20 speakers and 16 sessions announced so far.

DEVOPS REX is a French-language conference dedicated to real-world feedback on applying DevOps in enterprises, with all its benefits, constraints and limitations. The 7th edition runs over two days at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles (Hall 5.2), with a programme selected by an independent committee covering DevOps strategy, DevSecOps, FinOps, Platform Engineering and developer experience, AI and DevOps, and sovereignty. It also includes a solutions area with around 30 exhibitors, and the pass gives access to the co-located Open Source Experience.

Key facts

Dates	9–10 December 2026 (upcoming)
Venue	Paris Expo Porte De Versailles, Paris, France
Organiser	Infopro Digital
Series	DevOps REX
Speakers	20
Sessions	16
Official site	devopsrex.fr/en/programme-2026

Keynote speakers

Boris Maras Indépendant, Lyon Café Vie Privée
Jean-Baptiste Kempf Project lead et développeur / Président, VLC / VideoLAN
Paul Pedretti Développeur de jeux vidéos, Lyon Café Vie Privée

Speakers (20)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

Boris Maras Indépendant, Lyon Café Vie Privée
Jean-Baptiste Kempf Project lead et développeur / Président, VLC / VideoLAN
Paul Pedretti Développeur de jeux vidéos, Lyon Café Vie Privée
Aurélien Coget CEO, Plumber
Girija Saint Ange Developer Advocate, Orange
Adrien Gooris Développeur, GitLab sans (trop) souffrir
Alexandre Cailliaud Practice lead software engineer, Ippon Technologies
Baptiste Riquier Senior Platform Engineer, CRITEO
Elizabeth Zaslavsky Lead Product Manager — Fintech API Platform, Ippon
Emilie Bisseriex Architecte Technique, Michelin
Emmanuel Peroumalnaik Staff Engineer, Believe
Hugo Locatelli Lead SRE, Theodo Cloud
Jean-Baptiste Latapy Tech Lead, BPI France
Jérémy Planckeel Lead DevOps, ENERGY POOL
Luc Juggery Developer Relations Engineer, Exoscale
Lucas Drago Expert technique, Michelin
Michel Hubert CTO, Accenture / Avanade
Stéphane Robert
Théotime Leveque Principal Engineer, BACK MARKET
Zineb Naji Indépendant, ENSA

Agenda (16 sessions)

Day 1 — Wednesday 9 December 2026

Connected Elevators in Monaco: When a Conference Sparks a Technical Rethink 10:10–10:30 — Luc Juggery
From 1,000 to 5,000 users: scaling GitLab without (too much) pain. 10:30–11:00 — Adrien Gooris, Lucas Drago
Can we confidently entrust the updating of 200 heterogeneous and undocumented servers to AI? 11:35–11:55 — Hugo Locatelli
TBD - Keynote JB Kempf 11:55–12:25 — Jean-Baptiste Kempf
From Friction to Platform: Redesigning a Permissions System at Scale 14:25–14:55 — Elizabeth Zaslavsky
GitLab CI/CD under attack: stolen secrets, hijacked pipelines, resilient defenses 14:55–15:25 — Aurélien Coget, Stéphane Robert
From packaged software to "Software Engineering": industrializing a market tool 16:05–16:35 — Emilie Bisseriex
KEYNOTE: What About Smartphone Sovereignty? Lessons Learned from Alternative OSes—and How to Make the Switch 16:35–17:05 — Boris Maras, Paul Pedretti

Day 2 — Thursday 10 December 2026

The Hidden Cost of AI in CI: When Agents Send Your Build Budget Through the Roof** 09:40–10:10 — Michel Hubert
Platform Engineering and Relational Databases: Promises, Realities, and Trade-offs 10:10–10:30 — Baptiste Riquier
What If Agentic AI Became Your Best Ally Against Vulnerability Overload? 10:30–11:00 — Girija Saint Ange
The deployment that caused 92% of requests to fail — and the gate that could have prevented it 11:40–12:00 — Zineb Naji
The FastPass to Production: Building a Platform That Empowers Teams, Rather Than Constraining Them 14:05–14:35 — Jérémy Planckeel
From the LLM Explosion to a Sustainable Platform: Surviving AI Growth Without Drowning in Costs 14:35–15:05 — Théotime Leveque
From shadow tracking to global acculturation: Our journey to the heart of the incident. 15:45–16:15 — Emmanuel Peroumalnaik
Developer AI at scale: the real work begins after the prompt 16:15–16:45 — Alexandre Cailliaud, Jean-Baptiste Latapy

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