CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Ben Wilcock

Red Hat

Principal Product Manager

EMEA

redhat.com

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Ben loves helping application development teams improve their productivity and achieve better results. He does this through listening, learning, and coaching - influencing individuals and teams in organizations all over the globe. His digital marketing expertise and many hours of high-quality content make him a familiar face to developers, architects, and software managers in large enterprises everywhere. By advocating for tools that allow for greater developer productivity,

8:00am MST

Badge Pick-Up 200 South Entrance (South) Badge Pick-Up West Temple Entrance (East)

9:00am MST

WasmCon Day 1 Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355

9:00am MST

BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Program Co-Chair & Avantika Iyer Community Member Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:10am MST

How to Grow Your Internal Backstage Community with Some Open-Sauce (Source) 🍝 - Djamaile Rahamat & Mitchell Hentges, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:55am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Future is Backstage: Building a Better Platform from the Framework Up - Tom Barkan-Benkler, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform Engineering - Ben Wilcock, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

10:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Intro to the CNCF App Development WG - Daniel Oh & Mauricio Salatino, WG Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

10:30am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Twelve-Factor App, Rebooted: Essentials for Cloud Native Development - Vish Abrams, Heroku Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

11:15am MST

Empowering LLMs with Backstage: Broader Insights Driven by the Developer Portal - Niall Thomson, Amazon Web Service Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

11:50am MST

Panel: Insights from Internal Developer Portal Rollouts in Large Enterprises - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Red Hat; Srinivas Peri, Adobe; Serena Chechile, JPMC; Jay Cox, American Airlines; Lilit Yenokyan, Roku Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

1:30pm MST

The Lego Approach: Leveraging Reusability for a Seamless User Experience - Ashna Malhotra & Mesut Yilmazyildirim, Booking.com Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

2:05pm MST

Centralized Compliance: Automated Governance Inside of Backstage Developer Portals - Amber Beasley & Daniel Hagen, Liatrio Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

2:40pm MST

Scale the Adoption and Delivery of Backend Plugins Using the New Backstage Framework - Avantika Iyer & Emma Indal, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

3:20pm MST

DevEx and Productivity Metrics on Backstage - Do's and Don'ts - Yishai Beeri, LinearB Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

3:55pm MST

Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls - Himanshu Mishra, Harness Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

4:30pm MST

IDPs For The Rest of Us: Maximizing Impact When You Aren't a Tech Giant - Eric Irwin, Quantum Metric Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build Visualizations of Cloud-Native Applications - Will Tsai & Ryan Nowak, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Countercultural: Backstage for Consultants - Lizzie Salita, Booz Allen Hamilton Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:25pm MST

BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Bryan Landes, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:30pm MST

Evening Reception (Salt Palace) Salt Palace | Level 1 | Lower Concourse + Level 2 | Upper Mezzanine