CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Cole Conrad

7:30am MST

Badge Pick-Up West Temple Entrance (East)

9:00am MST

BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Program Co-Chair & Avantika Iyer Community Member Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

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

9:40am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Keeping the Show Running: Backstage Maintenance from a Platform Engineer's Lens - Paul Schultz, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:45am MST

Simplify Stream Data Processing with Declarative, Scalable K8s Native Technologies - Derek Wang & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

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

10:10am MST

10:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Evolution of MLOps - Alex Yeh, GMI Cloud Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

10:40am MST

Building a Cutting-Edge Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform at NVIDIA - Carlos Santana, AWS & Feng Zhou, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Backstage in the Board Room: What Makes a Digital Portal Helpful for C-Level Executives? - Olivier Liechti, Avalia Systems Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue: A Case Study - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Rajat Phull, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

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 From Supercomputing to Serving: A Case Study Delivering Cloud Native Foundation Models - Autumn Moulder, Cohere Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

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 Reproducible AI with Kubeflow, lakeFS and Langchain - Oz Katz, Treeverse Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

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 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Cost Saving Strategies for Interactive AI Development - Shravan Achar, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

5:25pm MST

BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Bryan Landes, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Closing Remarks - Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

5:30pm MST

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