1️⃣ Women in DevOps
Seven Women in DevOps team and community members arrived in Lisbon for Web Summit 2022, over 70,000 attendees from 160 countries with 42% women attendees. 🇵🇹 It was my first ever web summit and the first face to face web summit since covid. I didn't know what to expect and I really enjoyed the experience, especially going with such an awesome group of 'Women in DevOps' ♀
2️⃣ Opening Ceremony
Before the conference began we had the opening ceremony which included a startup showcase featuring topics from meta avatars and medical AI to property tech. There was a final destination moment when a wire split and a 6 foot speaker was left dangling 100m in the air 🤯 After a delay, the show continued and we had special guest first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, who spoke of the importance of technology "your chosen profession – your field of expertise – is now a battlefield in Russia’s war against Ukraine" 💥
3️⃣ Range of Talks
There were over 1,000 speakers speaking on a range of topics. I spent most of my time at the 'Deep Tech' stage learning about the future and applications of machine learning and AI 🤖 My favourite session was Ciaran O'Mara of Protex AI discussing 'How AI is Transforming Product Development'. There were two takeaways:
Trust: Build a solution where pitfalls are understood and can be communicated with end user 📢
Understanding the Problem: Not adopting #AI for the sake of it. It needs to fundamentally solves a problem 🔧
4️⃣ Stands, Companies & Countries
It was a big conference! As well as the main stage there were five pavilions filled with stands, startups and stages. I really enjoyed wandering around and seeing what's up and coming on the startup scene. Many countries had stands, the funnest was Brasil 🇧🇷 On the Maersk stand I was lucky enough to win a rubber duck to add to my collection 🦆
5️⃣ Night summit
After the day conference there was Night Summit! Every night we had the opportunity to network, eat, drink and dance the night away 💃🏽 Each night was in a different location, I attended the last night and it was a pleasure to listen to local music by up and coming Portugese electro artists 'stkman', favourite song played was 'blow my mind' 🎶
Bonus 6️⃣ - Surfing in Ericeira
After an intense conference week, it was lovely to decompress and relax in one of my favourite surf spots Ericeira 🌊 I spent the following days at the beach watching the waves and processing everything web summit, a wonderful way to end the week ☯️
Thanks for reading ❣️
@devstefops 👩🏽💻🌴💗