About
We know it's time to get off Jenkins. It’s slow, it’s expensive to maintain, and the plugin ecosystem is a security nightmare. But aside from the regular crashes and the pipeline sprawl... we can almost tolerate the old Butler.

Why? Because for many teams, the fear of a slow, painful migration holds them back. The prospect of interrupting teams or manually rewriting thousands of lines of Groovy script feels riskier than just maintaining the status quo.

But staying put is costing you.

In this session, we are dismantling the fear of moving. We will move beyond "one-click" promises and show you how to execute an Intelligent Migration, one that analyzes your estate, separates the "good stuff" from the clutter, and modernizes your delivery pipelines rather than just copying technical debt.

Key Takeaways:

- The "Spring Cleaning" Strategy: How to automate the analysis to identify the core 10-20% of pipelines that actually matter, leaving stale clutter behind.

- The "Last Mile" Reality: A credible look at how to use AI for the heavy lifting of conversion, while empowering your team to manually optimize the final steps for true standardization.

- Land in a Better Place: How your builds can be 8x faster, deployments 4x safer, and your pipelines can require 10x less maintenance.

Don't let the fear of migration stall your DevOps modernization. Register now to see how you can finally break free.
When
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 · 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -5:00)
Presenters
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Jared Harris
Webinar Host
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Eric Minck
Senior Director of DevOps Solutions - Harness.io
Eric Minick is an internationally recognized expert in software delivery with experience in Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and Agile practices, working as a developer, marketer, and product manager. Eric is the co-author of “AI Native Software Delivery” (O’Reilly) and is cited or acknowledged in the books “Continuous Integration,” “Agile Conversations,” and “Team Topologies.”

Today, Eric works on the Harness product management team to bring its solutions to market. Eric joined Harness from CodeLogic, where he was Head of Product.
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Arpit Patel
Chief Customer Officer - Harness.io
Arpit is a seasoned engineering leader and technologist with a wide-ranging skillset. He has been a part of and has worked to build stealth engineering teams, leading products from their inception and moving them to production and making them highly scalable. Arpit has a wide variety of experience building and leading Platform Engineering, SaaS Engineering, and DevOps, Performance Engineering, Quality Engineering as well as Customer Engineering, Support and Success teams. Being a technologist, Arpit enjoys working on new and innovative solutions and has always pushed for the transformation of technology. Arpit has been advising several startups and leverages his deep technical background along with his fine sense of transforming ideas to products to assist these startups in their journey. Arpit is an expert in the Application Performance Management (APM) field as well as enjoys working on Big Data systems, Cloud OPS, SaaS Architectures and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). His interests are wide-ranging enabling him to build and work on various projects in different capacities while being able to present a collective front for the products he’s working on.