PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026

As artificial intelligence reshapes software delivery, DevOps will not just survive, it will thrive. This keynote explores why, in an AI-powered era, skilled DevOps professionals become even more indispensable in building, guiding, and validating Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and orchestration at enterprise scale.AI now enables generative IaC templates and intelligent automation, accelerating infrastructure provisioning, flagging anomalies, and suggesting optimized workflows. Generative AI tools can draft Terraform or CloudFormation scripts, enforce policy compliance, and detect drift, which significantly reduces toil and manual errors. AIOps platforms supplement this with real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and auto remediation that enhance operational reliability.Yet AI lacks the advanced reasoning and contextual awareness required for orchestrating complex, multi-environment systems. Skilled professionals remain essential to define guardrails, validate AI-generated outputs, manage edge-case failures, and maintain architectural resilience. Rather than replacing DevOps roles, AI magnifies their impact. It turns practitioners into orchestrators of human-AI collaboration, including prompting systems, reviewing configurations, and making strategic decisions. Join Kellyn as we explore a future where AI amplifies the DevOps craft vs. replacing it and learn how to empower skilled engineers to steer intelligent, reliable, and secure software delivery at unprecedented scale.

State of IaC explores where Azure stands today through the lens of Terraform and Bicep, including the AI‑driven direction shaping modern infrastructure workflows. We’ll share the core pillars guiding our work today and outline where we’re heading next as infrastructure-as-code continues to evolve.

PowerShell 7.6 delivers a strong iteration of the platform, focused on quality, security, performance, and the refinements that come from steady, community-driven development. In this year's State of the Shell, the PowerShell Team will walk through what’s landing in 7.6 LTS, highlight meaningful changes across the engine, modules, and ecosystem, and share how ongoing investments in DSC v3, the AI-enhanced experience, and cross-platform reliability are shaping the next phase of PowerShell.
 
This session is equal parts roadmap, reveal, and open conversation. If you want to understand where PowerShell is headed—and influence what comes next—this is the room to be in. Your questions, scenarios, and critiques directly shape the future of the shell. Join us and help drive the next generation of PowerShell.

Corporate dysfunction is a fact of life. We see it in: siloed teams, keynote-driven projects that are abandoned after announcement, promotion-focused developers delivering checkbox features and ignoring admin needs. 
I tried to fix those problems but knew that I would fail, so I also designed PowerShell to route around the damage.
This is a case study in pragmatic design. I'll show how PowerShell's core architecture directly attacks these predictable failures. You'll see how the Adaptive Type System normalizes the 'Not-Invented-Here' data problem, how pipeline binding-by-property-name bridges the silos created by Conway's Law, and how deep extensibility empowers the community to finish the job the corporation won't. This is the story of designing for the world we have, not the one we wish we had.