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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Firewalls and Friendships: Building a Balanced Professional Network"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["annie-hedgpeth"]
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+## Abstract
+
+In DevOps, we often interact with networks via ingress/egress, routers, subnets/IP addresses, and firewalls, but can we learn anything from our experience with these while improving our professional network? In this age of layoffs and AI, ensuring we are authentically connected to our communities is more important than ever. Let’s take what we’ve learned from systems networks and apply it to our professional network.
+
+## Description
+
+Many people really struggle with intentional career networking. It can seem scary or pointless or overwhelming, so they end up falling back on default networking, only maintaining professional relationships with those in their immediate circle of influence. Others are very intentional with their networking but end up being takers and not givers, offending those in their network. Still others are worried about asking for anything from their network for fear of seeming like a taker. Being a genuine person in the corporate world is a tricky business.
+
+I’m going to use basic IT systems networking concepts to illustrate career networking concepts in a way that DevOps folks can easily visualize. I will share my experiences with authentic career networking through the lens of systems networking, the good and the bad. Sometimes it has worked out favorably for me, a well balanced ingress and egress! And other times it has left me feeling super crappy and used, egress only sharing.
+
+All of it has been educational and has shown me how to be a better network-friend, a well-balanced router and have healthy firewalls. I want to share it all with you in hopes of seeing more authenticity and generosity in our shared work world.
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Let's Learn Cloud Native Nix"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["leigh-capili"]
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+
+
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Shadow Vulnerabilities in AI/ML Data Stacks - What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["mic-mccully"]
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+
+
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "What’s beyond DORA metrics?"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["michael-stahnke"]
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+
+
diff --git a/content/events/2025-chicago/program/peter-zaitsev.md b/content/events/2025-chicago/program/peter-zaitsev.md
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["peter-zaitsev"]
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+
+
diff --git a/content/events/2025-chicago/program/reid-savage.md b/content/events/2025-chicago/program/reid-savage.md
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Anti-DevOps: SRE at Honeycomb"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["reid-savage"]
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+
+
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "The Elegant Expectation Factory"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["robert-snyder"]
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+
+
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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Reviving a stalled DevOps initiative"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["tracey-barrett"]
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+
+
diff --git a/content/events/2025-chicago/speakers.md b/content/events/2025-chicago/speakers.md
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+Title = "Speakers"
+Type = "speakers"
+Description = "Speakers for devopsdays Chicago 2025"
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+Title = "Annie Hedgpeth"
+Twitter = "anniehedgie"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-hedgpeth/"
+image = "annie-hedgpeth.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "annie-hedgpeth"
+
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+From film to engineering, Annie’s career has seen many iterations. She is a keen observer of what works and what doesn’t, striving always to make the right thing to do the easy thing to do. Annie and her husband, Michael, are raising their three teenagers in Boulder, CO. She’s currently working on a project to make doing the right thing with team management the easy thing to do.
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+Title = "Kedasha Kerr"
+Twitter = "itsthatladydev"
+image = "kedasha-kerr.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "kedasha-kerr"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kedashakerr/"
+mastodon = "https://hachyderm.io/@itsthatladydev"
+github = "LadyKerr"
+website = "https://itsthatlady.dev/"
+sharing_image = "kedasha-kerr.png"
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+Kedasha is a Developer Advocate at Github where she enjoys sharing the lessons she's learned from her time as an engineer and from her day job talking with other engineers at GitHub and in the wider developer community.
+
+Prior to her transition to the world of tech, she worked as a social worker in various government agencies. She finds joy in helping others learn about the tech industry and loves sharing her experience as a software developer.  
+
+When she's not building software, you can find her in the kitchen cooking up her favorite Jamaican dishes. You can find her on Instagram & Tiktok at @itsthatladydev.
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+Title = "Leigh Capili"
+Twitter = "capileigh"
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/leighcs"
+image = ""
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "leigh-capili"
+
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+
+
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+Title = "Mic McCully"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/micmccully/"
+image = ""
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "mic-mccully"
+
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+
+
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+Title = "Michael Stahnke"
+Twitter = "stahnma"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mstahnke/"
+image = ""
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "michael-stahnke"
+
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+
+
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+Title = "Peter Zaitsev"
+Twitter = "PeterZaitsev"
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/peterzaitsev/"
+image = ""
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "peter-zaitsev"
+
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+
+
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+Title = "Reid Savage"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/reid-s/"
+image = "reid.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "reid-savage"
+
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+
+
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+Title = "Robert Snyder"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsnyder7/"
+image = "robert-snyder.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "robert-snyder"
+
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+
+
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+Title = "Tracey Barrett"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceycbarrett/"
+image = "tracey-barrett.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "tracey-barrett"
+
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+
+
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   - name: location
   - name: registration
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- # - name: speakers
+  - name: speakers
   - name: sponsor
   - name: contact
   - name: conduct