CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

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Geoff Allen

Red Hat

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

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 SkyRay: Seamlessly Extending KubeRay to Multi-Cluster Multi-Cloud Operation - Anne Holler, Elotl Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

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

AI Assisted Hands-on Learning - the Future of Education - Michael Forrester, Kodekloud Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A 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

10:25am 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

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 Panel: Kubernetes and GPU Trends for AI in Financial Services - Olyvia Rakshit, Avesha; Toshal Khawale, JP Morgan Chase; Bijit Ghosh, Deutsche Bank; Manoj Agrawal, Royal Bank of Canada Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

11:40am MST

Lunch Break 1 Food + Beverage Area | Salt Palace Hall D, Level 1 | Salt Palace Upper Mezzanine, Level Two | Hyatt...

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

12:25pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Data Science Environments in Seconds: Scaling Jupyter Notebooks in Kubernetes - Jialin Zhang, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

1:25pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

1:35pm MST

Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower - Start-Up Resilience in a Post-ZIRP World - Kelsey Hightower & Megan Reynolds, Vertex Ventures Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Accelerating Application Delivery with OpenTofu Controller and GitOps - Lucas Duarte & Tiago Reichert, AWS Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

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 Innovating at Scale: Building and Managing Modern Developer Platform in U.S. Bank - Poonam Garg & Carrie Pommier, U.S. Bank Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:55pm MST

Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls - Himanshu Mishra, Harness Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Migrating a Monolith to Kubernetes with Istio: Our Journey at Adobe - Edward Adasiak & Rahul Tripathi, Adobe Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

5:00pm MST

Panel: Platform Adoption Strategies: Critical Roles When Investing in Platforms - Danielle Cook, StackGen; Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Simon Forster, CNCF Ambassador Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G