PagerDuty Community Update, August 11 2023
Tags: incidentresponse, devops, ai, ciso
Published: 2023-08-11 18:50:29

## Welcome Xenda!
This week we welcomed our new Community Manager, Xenda Amici! She’s joining the team in Lisbon, and will be working to make our [community forums](https://community.pagerduty.com) and other resources great! 

Here’s a bit about Xenda:
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>  👋 Hey folks,
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> I’m Xenda, and I’m so excited to join the all-star PagerDuty      Community team! ⭐Fun fact about my name: Xenda means “path” in Basque language, while my last name Amici translates to friends in Italian.


> I'm an enthusiast of bonding with people. For me, it's all   about exchanging experiences and learning from each other. I’m here to help our dev community shine and thrive and make it a go-to space to share, learn and... have a bit of fun! If you haven’t so, join me at https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/ and say hi. Let’s connect! 

> Before joining PagerDuty, I was a Community Manager at the AI translation start-up, worked in Customer Relationship Management and was also a producer and copywriter for a news website, TV and radio host in Brazil.

> I love singing, running, cycling and staying up to date to all things music, movies and series. I'm from Brazil, living in Lisbon for 6 years. I've lived in Brooklyn, Washington DC and on cruise ships for some time (years at sea count twice lol).

## Find us in person!
Where in the world is PagerDuty DevRel?  September is packed with PagerDuty Advocates worldwide in London, Taiwan, and Atlanta!

- Tara will present *Resilience: Building a burnout-resistant life in developer relations* at [DevRelCon](https://london-2023.devrelcon.dev/), September 7-8.
- The following week, Kat and Mandi will be at [SREDay](https://sreday.com/), September 14-15. Kat will present *Mastering Incident Communications*, and Mandi opens the show with *Futuristic Luxury Incident Response*. Want to join us? Use code **SREDAY-25%** to save on your ticket!
- Mandi will be at [DevOpsDays Atlanta](https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-atlanta/welcome/) to present *Reducing Trauma in Production with SLOs and Chaos Engineering* with Julie Gunderson, September 18 and 19.
- Kat will bring another round of *Mastering Incident Communications* to [DevOpsDays Taipei](https://devopsdays.tw/2023/) Sept 25-26.


Other Dutonians you’ll find out and about:
- Mitra Goswami, Senior Director of Data Science, will be presenting *Let’s Adopt Generative AI* at [Data Con LA](https://www.dataconla.com/), tomorrow, August 12 at the University of Southern California.
- PagerDuty CISO Heather Hinton will be presenting *DevSecOps + Generative AI: Recipe for Success or Disaster?* at [DeveloperWeek CloudX](https://www.developerweek.com/cloudx). Heather’s talk will be Wednesday, August 16th at 3pm. 

Our events folks are putting together our big upcoming events! We’ll see you at [Dreamforce](https://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/) and [KubeCon | CloudNativeCon North America](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)!

Find more Dutonians at our [global events](https://www.pagerduty.com/events/).
We hope to see you! Say hi, we might have PagerDuty stickers. :D 

## We’re Virtual!
- It’s time for the quarterly Terraform roundtable! [Sign up](https://meet.pagerduty.com/terraform10) to join us and chat about all things Terraform and PagerDuty! August 22, at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific on Zoom!

## On the Podcast 
Next week will be our **95th** episode! Mandi talked to PagerDuty CTO Tim Armandpour about the current landscape for incident response and where the state of the art is headed.

Subscribe to [Page it to the Limit](https://pageittothelimit.com) so you never miss an episode or listen to our entire archive at [pageittothelimit.com](https://pageittothelimit.com). 

We’re always looking for guests for the show, so get in touch if you’d like to be on an episode, or have a suggestion for who we should talk to!

## On Our Live Streams
We’re on [Twitch](https://twitch.tv/pagerduty), covering all things PagerDuty, with some of our streams also broadcasting on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pagerduty/events/)! Our regular shows are:

- The Unplanned Show with Dormain! Mondays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific!
- Terraform Time! Wednesdays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific with José Antonio!
- HowTo Happy Hour: Fridays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific. 

Make sure you’re following us so you can be there live!  You can also view our most recent episodes on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty/videos). You can see some of our earlier streams on the [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaOwwYODuuvKdte7STOpU6jt).

[Episode 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AEMOQSEC4) of The Unplanned Show is now on YouTube featuring Martin Van Son talking about Platform Engineering.

Upcoming guests on The Unplanned Show include: 
- August 14: [James Urquhart on flow architectures](https://www.linkedin.com/events/7080250075494420480/comments/) 
- August 21: Mitra Goswami on generative AI
- August 28: Donnie Berkholz on ITIL and DevOps

## Get in Touch
If you have a question about PagerDuty, check out our [Community Forums](https://community.pagerduty.com) for advice from friendly folks. If you’d like to be on our podcast or Twitch, or just say hi, email us at community-team@pagerduty.com. We’d love to hear what you’re doing with PagerDuty!

## Follow us on Social Media!
- Kat: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/strawberryf1eld) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/katgaines/)
- Tara: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/sparklingrobots) and [Mastodon](https://indieweb.social/@sparklingrobots)
- Mandi: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/lnxchk) and [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/lnxchk.bsky.social)
- Tiago: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/t1agob) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagobarbosa/)
- Xenda: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xendaamici/)
- We have retired the [Podcast Account](https://twitter.com/pageit2thelimit) so follow PagerDuty on Twitter!
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