Speaking

Etienne speaks about how to understand, govern, and transform complex digital systems — not a generic buzzword checklist.

Topics

Topics documented on this site. Each talk can be adapted to context, audience, and format — with no default fixed duration.

Building a living map of the information system

Problem addressed
Organizations decide on frozen diagrams or incomplete inventories; no one shares the same representation of the system.
Audience
CTOs, architects, platform and security leads
Three takeaways
  • A useful map serves a decision, not another dashboard.
  • Code, cloud, runtime, and supply chain must be read together.
  • Mapping is a continuous process, not a one-off deliverable.
Possible formats
KeynoteConference talkWorkshopExecutive briefing
Languages
FR · EN

SBOM as a decision tool, not a compliance checkbox

Problem addressed
SBOMs are produced for audits but rarely used to prioritize risk or arbitrate updates.
Audience
CISOs, supply chain leads, platform and SRE leads
Three takeaways
  • Connect the SBOM to patch and deployment decisions.
  • Distinguish real risk, exposure surface, and regulatory obligation.
  • Integrate SBOM into the delivery cycle — not at the end of the chain.
Possible formats
Conference talkPanelWorkshopExecutive briefing
Languages
FR · EN

Why fifty thousand alerts do not make a system safer

Problem addressed
Observability is confused with signal volume; teams drown in alerts without reducing risk.
Audience
SREs, observability leads, engineering managers
Three takeaways
  • Measure ability to act, not the number of triggered rules.
  • Connect signals, runbooks, and capacity decisions.
  • OpenTelemetry as a common language — not a tool catalog.
Possible formats
KeynoteConference talkPanelWorkshop
Languages
FR · EN

Platform engineering: reducing cognitive load without new bureaucracy

Problem addressed
Internal Developer Platforms become rigid single windows instead of simplifying the path to production.
Audience
Platform engineers, CTOs, product and infrastructure leads
Three takeaways
  • Define the platform product by removed frictions, not by the stack.
  • Golden paths yes — blind enforcement no.
  • Measure adoption by accelerated decisions, not catalogued service count.
Possible formats
KeynoteConference talkPanelWorkshopExecutive briefing
Languages
FR · EN

Designing digital products for constrained markets

Problem addressed
Products designed for a global market fail against local regulatory, cultural, and infrastructure constraints.
Audience
Founders, product leads, investors, and institutional partners
Three takeaways
  • Constraint filters design; it is not a planning delay.
  • Architecture, compliance, and go-to-market must be co-designed.
  • Traction proof comes from accessible products, not slides.
Possible formats
Conference talkPanelWorkshopExecutive briefingPodcast
Languages
FR · EN

External dependencies: what Kubernetes does not show you

Problem addressed
Workloads depend on off-cluster services; the control plane neither maps their health nor their SLO impact.
Audience
SREs, platform engineers, cloud-native architects
Three takeaways
  • Export comparable signals for external dependencies.
  • Connect automatic discovery and actionable runbooks.
  • Do not confuse pod availability and business service availability.
Possible formats
Conference talkWorkshopPanel
Languages
FR · EN

Architecture, risk, and irreversible decisions

Problem addressed
Architecture choices are treated as reversible when they commit cost, security, and product trajectory for years.
Audience
CTOs, CISOs, enterprise architects, and technical steering committees
Three takeaways
  • Classify decisions by rollback cost, not hype cycle.
  • Document context and rejected alternatives.
  • Connect architecture decision records and operational governance.
Possible formats
KeynoteConference talkExecutive briefingPanel
Languages
FR · EN

Formats

Keynote

Vision and structuring decisions to open or close an event.

Conference talk

In-depth session with framing, examples, and operational implications.

Panel

Discussion with other practitioners on governance or architecture.

Workshop

Guided work on a real case: mapping, trade-offs, or decision criteria.

Executive briefing

Executive synthesis: risk, options, and irreversible consequences.

Podcast

Long-form conversation on a specific angle, without a mandatory slide deck.

Documented appearances

Infrastructure as Code — Terraform and Packer on Azure

Microsoft Experience 2017 — 1 October 2017

Paris, France · Model and provision Azure services with Terraform and Packer

Article

From Honolulu to Orlando — Microsoft ecosystem recap

ITCast — episode 48 — 29 September 2017

Remote · ITCast podcast — cloud and Microsoft ecosystem

ArticlePodcast

Useful or not — PowerShell and automation

French PowerShell Saturday (FRPSUG) — 16 September 2017

Paris, France · FRPSUG session — content and field notes

ArticleSlides

Media kit

Resources for organizers and media — same data as the downloadable PDF.

Etienne Deneuve — headshotDownload photo

Short bio

Etienne Deneuve is a Platform Reliability Architect and CTO at Omnivya, based near Paris. Through Omnivya, he designs and secures cloud and Kubernetes platforms — OpenTelemetry, FinOps, DevSecOps, and platform engineering — for organisations in finance, luxury, and public digital health. He writes at etienne.deneuve.xyz.

Long bio

For over fifteen years, Etienne Deneuve has built and modernised infrastructure — first in operations and pre-sales, then on assignments via systems integrators and vendors (Cellenza, Dell Technologies), and since 2020 as CTO of Omnivya.

Former Microsoft MVP — Cloud and Datacenter Management (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 cycles). His scope covers Kubernetes (AKS), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Flux), security integrated into delivery, and platform governability.

He spoke at Microsoft Experience 2017 and the French PowerShell User Group; he contributed to the OS Factory open source project during a Cellenza assignment. He speaks about understanding, governing, and transforming complex digital systems.

Themes

  • Building a living map of the information system
  • SBOM as a decision tool, not a compliance checkbox
  • Why fifty thousand alerts do not make a system safer
  • Platform engineering: reducing cognitive load without new bureaucracy
  • Designing digital products for constrained markets
  • External dependencies: what Kubernetes does not show you
  • Architecture, risk, and irreversible decisions

Languages

French and English

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