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 LISA15 program addressed the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and offers a highly-curated program around four key topics: Culture, Monitoring & Metrics, SRE & Software Engineering, and Systems & Network Engineering. The six-day program included 23 half- and full-day Training Sessions; 12 Workshops; and over 60 Invited Talks, Refereed Paper Presentations, and Mini-Tutorials, all included in the Conference Program.

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Save the Date:

LISA16
December 4-9, 2016
Boston, MA

Conference Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

Cory Lueninghoener, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Amy Rich, Mozilla Corporation

Academic Co-Chairs

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
Marc Chiarini, MarkLogic Corporation

Invited Talks Co-Chairs

Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC.
Mario Obejas, Retirado

Lightning Talks Coordinator

Lee Damon, University of Washington

Workshops Chair

Lee Damon, University of Washington

Content Recruitment Team

Jonathon Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jennifer Ash-Poole, NASA
Patrick T. Cable, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Travis Campbell, Indeed
Selena Deckleman, Mozilla Corporation
Matt Disney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nicole Forsgren, Chef
Ski Kacoroski, LOPSA
Paul Krizak, Qualcomm
Tom Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
Mike Rembetsy, Etsy
Chris St. Pierre, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mandi Walls, Chef

LISA Lab Co-Chairs

Tony Del Porto, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Andrew Mundy, National Institute of Standards and Technology

LISA Build Coordinators

Branson Matheson, sandSecurity
Brett Thorson, Cranial Thunder Solutions

USENIX Liaisons

David N. Blank-Edelman, Apcera
Carolyn Rowland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

USENIX Tutorials Staff

Natalie DeJarlais, USENIX Association
Rik Farrow, USENIX Association