Overview

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

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LISA14 is a wrap!

Thanks to those of you that joined us in Seattle for LISA14. Order the LISA14 Box Set.

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Save the Date:
LISA15
November 8-13, 2015
Washington, D.C.

Conference Organizers

Program Chair

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University

Content Coordinators

Amy Rich, Mozilla Corporation
Adele Shakal, Cisco

Research Committee Co-Chairs

Kyrre Begnum, Oslo University College of Applied Sciences
Marc Chiarini, MarkLogic Corporation

Research Committee

Theophilus Benson, Duke University
Adam Oliner, University of California, Berkeley and Kuro Labs

Invited Talks Coordinators

Patrick Cable, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC.
Matthew Simmons, Northeastern University

Invited Talks Committee

John Looney, Google, Inc.
Branson Matheson, Blackphone
Gareth Rushgrove, Puppet Labs
Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft
Mandi Walls, Chef
John Willis, Stateless Networks

Lightning Talks Coordinator

Lee Damon, University of Washington

Workshops Coordinator

Cory Lueninghoener, Los Alamos National Laboratory

USENIX Training Program Manager

Rik Farrow, Security Consultant

Tutorial Coordinators

Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange, Inc.
Matthew Simmons, Northeastern University

LISA Lab Chair

Paul Krizak, Qualcomm, Inc.

LISA Lab Coordinator

Chris McEniry, Sony Network Entertainment

LISA Build Coordinators

Branson Matheson, Blackphone
Brett Thorson, Cranial Thunder Solutions

USENIX Liaisons

David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science
Carolyn Rowland, NIST

Local Chair

Lee Damon, University of Washington