# Cote's Talks

> Conference talks given by Coté (Michael Coté) on platform engineering, AI, DevOps, cloud-native, and the ongoing comedy of enterprise software. Each entry links to a talk page with slides, recording, and (where available) an inline transcript with citations.

## Talks

### 2026

- [The "AI as a Service" Playbook](https://talks.cote.io/ai-as-a-service-playbook-vmug-ams-2026/): 2026-03-18, VMUG Connect Amsterdam
- [State of Spring, 2026](https://talks.cote.io/state-of-spring-2026/): 2026-02-18, Spring Tour
- [7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform](https://talks.cote.io/7-ways-to-fail-at-building-a-platform/): 2026-02-02, CfgMgmtCamp

### 2025

- [Private Cloud AI Platform Engineering](https://talks.cote.io/private-cloud-ai-platform-engineering-sre-day-ams-2025-q4/): 2025-11-07, SREDay Amsterdam
- [What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI](https://talks.cote.io/goblins-enterprise-ai-rest-of-us-2025/): 2025-10-15, AI for the Rest of Us
- [Three Cloud Foundry Stories](https://talks.cote.io/cfdayeu2025/): 2025-10-07, Cloud Foundry Day Europe
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud, with AI seasoning](https://talks.cote.io/civonavigatelondon2025/): 2025-09-30, Civo Navigate London
- [AI Platform Engineering](https://talks.cote.io/ai-platform-engineering-sreday-london/): 2025-09-19, SREDay London
- [What the goblins can teach us about enterprise AI](https://talks.cote.io/what-the-goblins-can-teach-us-about-enterprise-ai/): 2025-07-04
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-sreday-cologne-2025/): 2025-06-11, SREDay Cologne
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-ndc-oslo-2025/): 2025-05-21, NDC Oslo
- [Enterprise Software: Goblin Mode](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-software-goblin-mode-tanzu-ai-workshop/): 2025-05-11, Tanzu AI Workshop
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-platformcon-2025/): 2025-05-10, PlatformCon
- [2025 to 2030: A marketing strategy for Cloud Foundry](https://talks.cote.io/2025-to-2030-a-marketing-strategy-for-cloud-foundry/): 2025-05-07, Cloud Foundry Day North America
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/platform-engineering-for-private-cloud-fdfecfe3-956e-4a4c-b6ae-9164cbd432a3/): 2025-03-25
- [What the goblins can teach us about AI - Lessons learned from two years of playing D&D with GenAI](https://talks.cote.io/ai-goblins-monki-gras/): 2025-03-25, Monki Gras
- [Platform Engineering for Private Cloud](https://talks.cote.io/private-platform-vmwugnl/): 2025-03-10, SREDay London
- [The confusing case of cloud app domicilicity](https://talks.cote.io/confusing-cloud/): 2025-02-03, cfgmgmtcamp

### 2024

- [We Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/we-fear-change-sredayams2024/): 2024-11-20, SREDay Amsterdam
- [Escaping the Legacy Trap](https://talks.cote.io/escaping-the-legacy-trap-gotechworld/): 2024-11-12, GoTech World
- [What is Tanzu? Why is Tanzu?](https://talks.cote.io/deliver-cloud-native-apps-faster-with-tanzu-platform/): 2024-11-04, VMware Explore EU
- [Enterprise AI for platform engineers](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-ai-for-platform-engineers/): 2024-11-04, VMware Explore EU
- [The Platform Contract](https://talks.cote.io/platform-contracts/): 2024-11-04, VMware Explore EU
- [Developer Productivity is Waste](https://talks.cote.io/sredaylondon2024/): 2024-09-19,  SRE Day London
- [Low Growth DevOps](https://talks.cote.io/low-growth-devops/): 2024-08-29, DevOpsDays Antwerp
- [Developer Productivity is Waste](https://talks.cote.io/devx-waste-ams/): 2024-06-20
- [Developer Productivity (is?) Waste - Preparing for the next wave of DevX mania.](https://talks.cote.io/devx-waste-oslo/): 2024-06-07, NDC Oslo
- [The Legacy Trap](https://talks.cote.io/the-legacy-trap/): 2024-06-04, DATEV Software Craft Community
- [Surviving the Platform Journey](https://talks.cote.io/surviving-the-platform-journey/): 2024-03-26
- [We Fear Change, for DevOpsDays LA 2024](https://talks.cote.io/we-fear-change-for-devopsdays-la-2024/): 2024-03-13, DevOpsDays LA
- [When the developer is the customer - what to ask for](https://talks.cote.io/when-the-developer-is-the-customer-what-to-ask-for/): 2024-02-26
- [Modernizing app, platforms, & culture - Maybe it's not as hard as it seems](https://talks.cote.io/culture2024/): 2024-02-19
- [Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/fearchange/): 2024-02-06, cfgmgmtcamp

### 2023

- [Day Two Digital Transformation: We Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/day-two-digital-transformation-we-fear-change/): 2023-10-24
- [The People Side of Building the Path to Production](https://talks.cote.io/the-people-side-of-building-the-path-to-production/): 2023-10-17
- [Lessons Learned from 7 Years of Running Developer Platforms](https://talks.cote.io/platform/): 2023-10-17, SpringOn Tour
- [Getting to Daily Builds: Improving Software Delivery Speed and Quality](https://talks.cote.io/getting-to-daily-builds-improving-software-delivery-speed-and-quality/): 2023-10-10
- [The Cloud Native Stack - How to get started, the current state and where the industry is heading](https://talks.cote.io/the-cloud-native-stack-how-to-get-started-the-current-state-and-where-the-industry-is-heading/): 2023-10-03, Enterprise DevOps TechCon
- [Marketing Your Internal Developer Platform](https://talks.cote.io/marketing-your-internal-developer-platform/): 2023-10-03, Enterprise DevOps TechCon
- [Lessons learned from 7 years of running developer platforms](https://talks.cote.io/lessons-learned-from-7-years-of-running-developer-platforms/): 2023-10-02
- [Better Living by Changing Less - IncrativeOps](https://talks.cote.io/better-living-by-changing-less-incrativeops/): 2023-09-08, DevOpsDays Des Moines
- [The Legacy Trap - Executive survival guide to application modernization](https://talks.cote.io/the-legacy-trap-executive-survival-guide-to-application-modernization/): 2023-08-29
- [How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance, and Trust in Finance](https://talks.cote.io/how-cloud-native-improves-and-ensures-security-governance-and-trust-in-finance-financial-sector-webinar-series-episode-03/): 2023-07-11
- [Escaping the Legacy Trap - Financial Sector Webinar Series, Episode 02](https://talks.cote.io/escaping-the-legacy-trap-financial-sector-webinar-series-episode-02/): 2023-07-04
- [How the Cloud Foundry Community Can Help Platform Engineering](https://talks.cote.io/how-the-cloud-foundry-community-can-help-platform-engineering/): 2023-06-21, Cloud Foundry Day EU

### 2022

- [The Eternal Recurrence of DevOps](https://talks.cote.io/the-eternal-recurrence-of-devops/): 2022-08-24
- [Customer Experience & Innovation - Financial Sector Webinar Series, Episode 01](https://talks.cote.io/customer-experience-and-innovation-financial-sector-webinar-series-episode-01/): 2022-06-28
- [How To Survive & Thrive In a Big Company](https://talks.cote.io/how-to-survive-and-thrive-in-a-big-company/): 2022-06-28, DevOpsDays Amsterdam
- [The Enterprise DevOps Whimper - surviving the trough of disillusionment](https://talks.cote.io/the-enterprise-devops-whimper-surviving-the-trough-of-disillusionment/): 2022-05-05
- [OMGDEVSECOPSBBQ](https://talks.cote.io/omgdevsecopsbbq/): 2022-04-27, Spring One Tour Chicago

### 2021

- [We Fear Change](https://talks.cote.io/we-fear-change/): 2021-10-04, DevOps Loop
- [Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Innovation](https://talks.cote.io/creating-and-sustaining-a-culture-of-innovation/): 2021-09-15

### 2019

- [Platform as a Product](https://talks.cote.io/platform-as-a-product/): 2019-03-12, Warsaw JUG
- [Putting the Dev back into DevOps, or, creating better software](https://talks.cote.io/putting-the-dev-back-into-devops-or-creating-better-software/): 2019-03-08, Incontro DevOps

### 2018

- [Secrets of Success for Digital Transformation](https://talks.cote.io/secrets-of-success-for-digital-transformation/): 2018-11-20, Dell Technologies Forum
- [Who put digital transformation in my DevOps?](https://talks.cote.io/who-put-digital-transformation-in-my-devops/): 2018-11-19
- [Who put digital transformation in my DevOps? (90 mins)](https://talks.cote.io/who-put-digital-transformation-in-my-devops-90-mins/): 2018-11-19
- [Rethinking enterprise architecture for DevOps, agile, & cloud native organizations](https://talks.cote.io/rethinking-enterprise-architecture-for-devops-agile-and-cloud-native-organizations/): 2018-11-14, Devoxx Antwerp
- [Creating a DevOps culture, whatever that means](https://talks.cote.io/creating-a-devops-culture-whatever-that-means/): 2018-11-12, Singapore Spring User's Group Meeting
- [Beyond the nonsense of digital transformation](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-the-nonsense-of-digital-transformation/): 2018-10-17
- [Beyond the nonsense of digital transformation](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-the-nonsense-of-digital-transformation-number-dellemccsp/): 2018-10-09, #DellEMCCSP
- [Metrics, beyond 'it depends'](https://talks.cote.io/metrics-beyond-it-depends/): 2018-09-22, SpringOne Platform 2018
- [The agile warfighter - creating better software in defense](https://talks.cote.io/the-agile-warfighter-creating-better-software-in-defense/): 2018-08-30
- [World Champions of Digital Transformation](https://talks.cote.io/world-champions-of-digital-transformation/): 2018-06-26
- [Kubernetes for the konfused](https://talks.cote.io/kubernetes-for-the-konfused/): 2018-06-01, VoxxedDays Singapore
- [Not a DevOps talk](https://talks.cote.io/not-a-devops-talk/): 2018-05-29
- [Enterprise Transformation Use Cases](https://talks.cote.io/enterprise-transformation-use-cases/): 2018-04-11
- [Rethinking Enterprise Architecture](https://talks.cote.io/rethinking-enterprise-architecture/): 2018-02-23, DevOpsDays Charlotte

### 2017

- [Not actually a DevOps Talk, or, beyond 'survival is not mandatory'](https://talks.cote.io/not-actually-a-devops-talk-or-beyond-survival-is-not-mandatory/): 2017-10-04, DevOpsDays Auckland, 2017
- [What I do - Ignite Karaoke](https://talks.cote.io/devopsdays-kansas-city-ignite-karaoke-2017/): 2017-09-22, DevOpsDays Kansas City

### 2015

- [The Coming Donkey Apocalypse, or Day of the Donkey: What happens when DevOps goes mainstream?](https://talks.cote.io/the-coming-donkey-apocalypse-or-day-of-the-donkey-what-happens-when-devops-goes-mainstream/): 2015-08-26, DevOpsDays Chicago
- [Beyond the accidental platform, or, success is no accident](https://talks.cote.io/beyond-the-accidental-platform-or-success-is-no-accident/): 2015-08-25, Chicago Cloud Foundry Meetup
- [The Coming Donkey Apocalypse - What happens when DevOps goes mainstream?](https://talks.cote.io/the-coming-donkey-apocalypse-what-happens-when-devops-goes-mainstream/): 2015-05-04, DevOpsDays Austin

### 2012

- [General Session at 11th Cloud Expo](https://talks.cote.io/cloud-expo-silicon-valley-2012/): 2012-12-15, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley