Beyond DORA: Moving Fast, Staying Compliant - GDS Group

Beyond DORA: Moving Fast, Staying Compliant

LIVE DINNER
2 December 2025, Europe 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm CEST
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Dinner Location: The Charles Hotel

For financial services and other regulated enterprises, the pressure to deliver software faster has never been greater—but neither has the scrutiny. Frameworks like DORA, BAIT, and MaRisk demand control and traceability, yet traditional compliance models still slow delivery to a crawl. With a new report finding a 20% or more roadmap loss, teams lose weeks to manual approvals, duplicated reviews, and outdated change boards designed for a pre automation era. How can organizations move safely without sacrificing speed?

Leaders are proving that compliance and speed can work together. By embedding approvals and evidence within the delivery pipeline, teams can meet regulatory requirements without slowing progress. Automating application and database deployments reduces errors, shortens lead times, and improves reliability & resilience. Standardizing tooling across teams enhances visibility and governance, turning compliance into a continuous process that accelerates delivery and strengthens control.

Join us to explore how technology and process design can align regulators and developers on a shared goal: delivering innovation securely and continuously. Hear how peers are modernizing approval chains, reducing roadmap loss, and satisfying auditors without slowing delivery.

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Discussion topics

Reducing manual controls without compromising compliance

Designing pipelines that deliver audit-ready evidence by default

Building resilience through automated deployment and rollback

Speakers

Steve Fenton

Head of Developer Relations
Steve Fenton is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a 8-time find out more
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Event Agenda

Day one

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Arrivals, welcome drinks, and networking

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Event welcome and introductions

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

Table discussion and three-course dinner

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Event Wrap Up

Why Attend

Closed door, tailored conversations to benchmark, share and get better equipped to solve complex transformation projects.

Experience shared learning

Meet industry leading like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.

Benchmark with your industry peers

Discover and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed.

Accelerate your projects

Accelerate In-depth face time with the world’s leading organizations pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges.

An engaged experience

An expert host facilitates conversations, with live polling, Q&As, and gamification to ensure focused conversation.

Discover next-level ideas

Ensure project success with access to industry experts and cutting edge thought leadership.

De-risk new projects

Gain a range of insights from peers and technical experts who are current with emerging business trends.

About Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on its Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi- cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects.

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