Aaron Blythe

Random thoughts on tech, devops, meetups, conferences, and other stuff.

Aaron Blythe has presented at over 100 tech events on topics including DevOps, Cloud, Machine Learning, AI, Security, Marketing, Futurism and more. He has also organized over 100 free tech events. Additionally has MC’d, organized, and sold tickets to many large tech events over 250 people.

Presentations

Date Presentation Event Slides Media
2025/02/27 Generative AI in Action - Amplify Kansas City iabc-icon N/A N/A
2024/10/29 Google Cloud Data to AI - St. Louis google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2024/10/09 GenAI in Action - Ingredion Customer Symposium - Kohler WI ingredion-icon N/A N/A
2024/10/08 GenAI for Marketing - PR Newswire Webinar prn-icon N/A N/A
2024/09/18 Future Technology Panel - USAA - San Antonio usaa-icon N/A Photos
2024/08/21 GenAI in Action - BigAI Omaha bigai-icon N/A Photos
2024/07/29 The Singularity is Nearer - NextFive nextfive-icon N/A N/A
2024/06/18 Gemini for CyberSecurity - Huber CyberSecurity Symposium huber-icon N/A Photos
2024/05/03 AI/ML for Manufacturing - APQC apqc-icon N/A Photos
2024/04/24 Harnessing the Power of Gemini - USAA Tech X - San Antonio usaa-techx-icon N/A N/A
2024/04/23 Responsible AI - USAA TechX - San Antonio usaa-techx-icon N/A N/A
2024/03/12 Google GenAI Live and Labs (St. Louis) google-cloud-icon N/A Photos
2023/12/01 DevFest KC devfest-icon N/A Video
2023/11/10 NextFive KC nextfive-icon N/A N/A
2023/11/07 General Mills+Google Cloud (Minneapolis) google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2023/10/04 VMUG KC Conference vmug-icon N/A N/A
2023/08/14 Google Cloud Omaha AI Tech Day (Kiewitt) google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2023/08/08 DevOpsDays Organizers Summit 2023 - Chicago devopsdaysorgsummit2023-icon N/A Video
2023/07/19 Google Cloud Minneapolis Exec AI Day (Pinstripes) google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2023/05/30 DevOpsKC Meetup devopskc-icon N/A Video
2023/05/24 Google Cloud St. Louis GenAI Day google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2023/05/12 Google Cloud KC AI/ML Day (Burns & McDonnell) google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2023/02/22 Google Cloud St. Louis AI/ML Day google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2023/02/09 Google Cloud Patient Experience Webinar with Quantiphi google-cloud-icon N/A N/A
2019/12/16 DevSecOpsDays Austin isg-icon N/A N/A
2019/10/28 ISG Agile Summit Boston isg-icon N/A Photo
2019/08/27 DevOpsDays Chicago devopsdayschi-icon Slides Video
2019/05/02 DevOpsDays Des Moines devopsdaysdsm-icon Slides Video
2019/04/25 Kansas City InfoSec Community Showcase seckc-icon N/A coming
2019/03/12 Sprint DevOps Community of Practice (Company Lunch-n-learn) sprint-icon N/A N/A
2018/11/30 RE*WORK: Machine Learning for DevOps Summit rework N/A N/A
2018/10/05 ChatOps for Incidents (Company Lunch-n-learn) rx-savings Slides Photo
2018/09/08 Introduction to Shodan corncon-icon Slides Video
2018/04/21 Alexa and Google are listening (How Much Are They Transmitting?) bsideskc-icon Slides N/A
2018/04/14 Alexa and Google are listening (How Much Are They Transmitting?) bsidesiowa-icon Slides video
2018/03/27 Running 1000’s of Containers at Scale (Interview on Mesosphere) newrelic-icon N/A N/A
2017/11/07 Trust, Just Culture and Blameless Post Mortems leanagilekc-icon Slides coming
2017/08/17 Introduction to Shodan secdsm-icon Slides Video
2017/08/04 Trust, Just Culture and Blameless Post Mortems kcdc-icon Slides Video
2017/07/21 Introduction to Shodan bsidesspfd-icon Slides Video
2017/07/20 Voice Driven ChatOps for Remote Worker tulsatechfest-icon N/A N/A
2017/07/20 Trust, Just Culture and Blameless Post Mortems tulsatechfest-icon Slides Video
2017/07/18 Hands On Kubernetes Discussion devopskc-icon N/A Video
2017/05/20 Introduction to Shodan bsideskc-icon Slides Video
2017/05/02 Test Kitchen and Inspec for your Infra silverlinings-icon Slides Video
2017/05/03 Voice Driven ChatOps for Remote Worker silverlinings-icon Slides Video
2016/11/09 Lean for Outages (ChatOps) leanagilekc-icon Slides Video
2016/10/20 Ignite: Failure and the Third Way devopsdayskc-icon Slides Video
2016/09/28 Change your password devopskc-icon Slides Video
2016/08/31 Visual Studio Code and Ruby devopskc-icon Slides Video
2016/08/22 Voice Driven ChatOps for Remote Worker midwestio-icon N/A Video
2016/07/12 Enterprise Chef: Bringing Teams Together chefconf-icon Slides Video
2016/04/28 Continuous Delivery uofiwebcon-icon Slides N/A
2016/03/22 Chef and Docker: Where is the line? devopskc-icon Slides Video
2015/10/27 Continuous Delivery leanagilekc-icon Slides N/A
2015/09/23 Guerilla Marketing splunk15-icon Slides Video
2015/06/11 Continuous Delivery cerner-icon Slides N/A
2015/04/01 Cleaning up the Kitchen: Enterprise Chef chefconf-icon Slides Video
2014/10/08 Cooking up Splunk (With Charlie Huggard) splunk14-icon Slides Video
2014/07/01 Promises, Promises (Promise Theory) cerner-icon Slides Video
2014/04/08 Splunk Live! Kansas City splunklive-icon N/A N/A
2013/06/21 Zabbix: Beyond Thunderdome cerner-icon Slides Video

MC

Date Presentation Event Video
2024/05/16 DevOpsDays KC 2024 Summary Video devopsdayskc-icon Video
2024/05/15 DevOpsDays KC 2024 Intro Day 1 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2019/10/25 DevOpsDays KC 2019 Summary Video devopsdayskc-icon Video
2019/10/24 DevOpsDays KC 2019 Intro Day 1 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2018/10/19 DevOpsDays KC 2018 Summary Video devopsdayskc-icon Video
2018/10/18 DevOpsDays KC 2018 Intro Day 1 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2017/09/22 DevOpsDays KC 2017 Summary Video devopsdayskc-icon Video
2017/09/22 DevOpsDays KC 2017 Intro Day 1 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2017/09/21 DevOpsDays KC 2017 Intro Day 2 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2017/06/27 KC DevOps Meetup News devopskc-icon Video
2017/06/27 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2017/05/16 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2017/04/04 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2017/03/21 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2017/02/21 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2017/01/17 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/12/06 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/11/01 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/10/21 DevOpsDays KC 2016 Intro Day 2 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2016/10/20 DevOpsDays KC 2016 Intro Day 1 devopsdayskc-icon Video
2016/09/28 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/08/31 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/04/19 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/03/22 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/02/18 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video
2016/01/21 KC DevOps Meetup Intro devopskc-icon Video

Interviews and Podcasts

Date Presentation Event Video
2016/10/22 DevOpsDays KC Recap devopsdayskc-icon Video
2016/07/12 Chef Box: Autonomation chef-icon Video
2016/07/12 Chef Box: Interview chef-icon Video
2014/08/28 Arrested DevOps 19 Dev to Ops ado-icon Video
2014 Cerner Dev Con Video cerner-icon Video

Mentions

Date Where
2017/01 Release Team Newsletter
2016/12/06 Chef Blog
2016/11/01 Chef Blog
2016/11/02 Chris Stein’s Blog
2013/08/03 Chef Blog
2002 Kool Katz Testimonials