Romano Roth
Global Chief of Cybernetic Transformation | DevOps | Thought Leader | Coach | Trainer | Speaker | Lecturer | Organizer of DevOpsDays Zürich & DevOps Meetup Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
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Romano Roth is a pioneering thought leader in cybernetic transformation, enterprise evolution, and platform engineering, with over two decades of experience in the technology sector. As the Global Chief of Cybernetic Transformation at Zühlke, Romano shapes the global strategy and service portfolio for cybernetic enterprises, platform engineering, AI integration, and cloud solutions. His visionary approach is redefining how organizations innovate and adapt across industries such as finance, insurance, cybersecurity, energy, healthcare, and aerospace.
Romano began his journey at Zühlke 23 years ago, evolving from expert software engineer and architect to distinguished consultant, and now to his leadership role in cybernetic transformation. Throughout his career, he has been driven by a singular passion: enabling organizations to continuously deliver value through the harmonization of people, processes, technology, and AI. This passion naturally led him from software engineering to the forefront of DevOps and now to shaping the future of enterprise transformation.
Romano is the organizer of the monthly DevOps Meetup in Zürich and the president of DevOps Days Zürich, an annual conference that is part of the global DevOps movement. He shares his expertise through his YouTube channel, featuring over 250 videos on DevOps, architecture, leadership, and transformation. Additionally, he has authored more than 30 blog posts on these topics on his website.
His commitment to education and thought leadership extends to his role as a lecturer in DevOps leadership and agile methodologies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Romano’s work emphasizes the transformative power of cybernetic thinking in modern enterprises, harmonizing people, processes, technology, and AI to foster resilience, innovation, and continuous value creation.
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What is the business case for DevOps?
Everyone wants to do DevOps. But only a few understand what DevOps is and what it does with your company. When you want to introduce DevOps in a company you need to convince decision-makers that it is worth investing money/time/resources into the DevOps transformation. They will ask you about the business case and the return on investment of DevOps. In this talk, I will show you how to convince the decision-maker about the business case and the return on investment of DevOps, so that you get the money/time and resources for your DevOps transformation.
Container Days 2019: What is the Business Case of DevOps?https://youtu.be/u_apBFUuMs0
DevOpsDays Zürich 2019: What is the Business Case of DevOps?https://vimeo.com/344516688
This talk will be fully updated with my newest experience and to the audience. I'm also currently working on a mathematical model to calculate the cost of unused features or poorly developed features. This will then be included in this talk.
How to architect for continuous delivery
You want to continuously deliver value to your customer whether you create a new product or maintain an existing product. To do this you need to architect for continuous delivery. This for sure includes a continuous delivery pipeline (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline). But it also includes that you architect your product for continuous delivery.
In this talk, I will show you, with concrete examples, how to architect for continuous delivery.
DevOps – Thinking in Systems & Value Streams
In today's world, everybody wants to do DevOps. But why? What problems are we trying to solve?
Together, we will take a step back and look at how you can architect for continuous delivery.
AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering
Explore the fusion of AI with DevOps and platform engineering to automate workflows, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. Learn about cutting-edge tools, practices, and future trends.
The Digital Factory
Many companies are suffering from a lack of alignment between business and IT, silo thinking, and inefficiencies in product development, while time to market is becoming increasingly important.
These companies try to adapt DevOps in their organizations, but unfortunately, sometimes the DevOps approach is misunderstood, wrongly implemented, and it does not scale as expected.
We are entering the age of the industrialization of software development. The Digital Factory together with Platform Engineering will help industrialize digital product development across teams to efficiently develop products and improve the lives of our staff, time to market, quality, and alignment.
What you will learn:
- What are the current challenges
- What is DevOps
- How to scale DevOps
- Platform Engineering
- How to implement a Digital Factory
Why do we want to introduce DevOps?
Introducing DevOps in a large enterprise is difficult.
But wait – why do we want to introduce DevOps in the first place?
Good question. I will answer the question in my lightning talk and show you what happens when you introduce DevOps and what did not happen.
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