CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

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Zach Gibbs

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 Confluent's Multi-Cloud Journey to Cilium: Pitfalls and Lessons Learned - Nimisha Mehta & Alvaro Aleman, Confluent Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B SkyRay: Seamlessly Extending KubeRay to Multi-Cluster Multi-Cloud Operation - Anne Holler, Elotl Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Bridging the DevOps to Data Divide with a Common Cloud Native Stack - Elad Hirsch, Terasky & Mey Beisaron, Forter Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A How to Rollout an Update for a CNI Without Breaking the World Wide Web - Jen Luther Thomas, Tigera Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

9:25am MST

Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - a Platform Engineering Journey - Jared Watts, Upbound & Maximilian Blatt, Accenture Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

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

Attack, Defense & Danger in the Age of AI - Shane Lawrence, Shopify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Simplify Stream Data Processing with Declarative, Scalable K8s Native Technologies - Derek Wang & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

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

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Containerization – It’s Not Just for CPUs Anymore: Introducing a Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Data Applications - Nathan Goulding, Vultr Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom 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 LLM Powered Agents with Kubernetes - Hema Veeradhi & Shrey Anand, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

11:50am MST

Building Real-World Applications with Dapr: A Startup Developer's Journey - Whit Waldo, Innovian Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G From Supercomputing to Serving: A Case Study Delivering Cloud Native Foundation Models - Autumn Moulder, Cohere Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

12:55pm MST

Optimizing LLM Efficiency One Trace at a Time on Kubernetes - Aditya Soni, Forrester & Seema Saharan, Autodesk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

1:30pm MST

Your Cheat Code for API Authorization - Omri Gazitt, Aserto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Dressing-up Your Cluster for AI in Minutes with a Portable Network CR - Sunyanan Choochotkaew & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM Research Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

2:05pm MST

Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:10pm MST

The Perfect Storm: Production Kubernetes Running on Ocean Vessels - Raghushankar Vatte, ZEDEDA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

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 Brag Your RAG with the MLOPS Swag - Madhav Sathe, Google & Jitender Kumar, publicissapient Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

3:20pm MST

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

3:55pm MST

Introducing Dagger Modules: Open Source CI/CD Building Blocks You Already Know How to Write - Jeremy Adams, Dagger Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Bridge the Gap Between Terraform and GitOps - Junze Bao & Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls - Himanshu Mishra, Harness Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Inference on Streaming Data at Scale at Intuit - Sri Harsha Yayi & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A If You Build It, They Will Come - a Platform Modernization Journey - Ken Heaslip & Chloe Clarke, Canada Life Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

4:25pm MST

Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb - Viktor Farcic, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

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 Incremental GPU Slicing in Action - Abhishek Malvankar & Olivier Tardieu, IBM Research Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: LLM-Driven Applications: Intro to LLM Agents in Kubernetes - Calum Murray, University of Toronto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G ⚡ Lightning Talk: Transform Your Kubernetes Cluster Into a GenAI Platform: Get Ready-to-Use LLM APIs Today! - Kenji Kaneda, CloudNatix Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Searching for Serverless Candidates in the Jungle of Microservices - Yash Bhatnagar, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G ⚡ Lightning Talk: Cost Saving Strategies for Interactive AI Development - Shravan Achar, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A