CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Frédéric Harper

Kubefirst

Principal Developer Advocate

Montréal, Canada

https://fred.dev

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About me

As the Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, Frédéric Harper helps Developers, and DevOps be successful with their Kubernetes journey. Fred has shared his passion for technology on the stage at multitudinous events around the world. He’s helped build successful, and healthy communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit. He is also the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Behind this extrovert is a very passionate individual who believes in the power of communication... and cat videos.

9:00am MST

ArgoCon | Welcome + Project Update - Pratik Wadher, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:00am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Where User Experience and Open Source Thrives - Christian Hernandez, Akuity & Jacob Feldman, CoreWeave Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:10am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Argo is Winning Everywhere - Paul Stovell, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:20am MST

Sponsored Keynote: How Intuit Uses Argo, GitOps, and AI to Boost Developer Velocity - Edward Lee, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:30am MST

10:40am MST

Dog Food Delight: How Argo Workflows Eats Its Own CI - Denise Schannon, Loft Labs & Tim Collins, Pipekit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes - Peter Zaitsev, Coroot, FerretDB, Percona Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

11:15am MST

Enhancing Compliance and Safety with Argo CD Ephemeral Access - Leonardo Luz Almeida & Vijay Agrawal, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

11:40am MST

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

11:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Costs of Feature Flags: Understanding and Managing Adoption Challenges - Shreya Shivratriwar, Software Engineer Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

11:50am MST

Panel: Building the Future of Your Project: How to Engage Students Into Open Source - Zainab Husain, OCAD University; Calum Murray & Leo Li, University of Toronto; Corey Leong, Valencia College; Ali Ok, Red Hat... Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

12:25pm MST

Lunch Break 2 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall C + Hyatt | Level 2 | South Foyer

12:40pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enabling Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Argo Workflows - Ashlyn Chapman, Cisco Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Lunch Break 3 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall C + Hyatt | Level 2 | South Foyer

12:55pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: On-Premise and SaaS CI/CD Large-Scale Production Automation with Argo Services - Edgar Magana, Splunk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B

1:10pm MST

Space Age GitOps: Lifting off with Argo Promotions (Live Demo!) - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

1:25pm MST

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

1:40pm MST

GitOps Safety: Rendering Accurate ArgoCD Diffs Directly on Pull Requests - Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble & Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B

2:05pm MST

Measure What Matters - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

2:10pm MST

Managing Application Dependencies in Argo CD - Christian Hernandez, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

2:40pm MST

Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code - Adriana Villela, ServiceNow Cloud Observability & Marino Wijay, Kong Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:55pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Migrating a Client onto OpenTofu for Cost + Speed - Matt Gowie, Masterpoint Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

3:05pm MST

3:10pm MST

3:20pm MST

Whoops! How Not to Accidentally Delete Everything - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

3:25pm MST

3:35pm MST

Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

3:55pm MST

Bridge the Gap Between Terraform and GitOps - Junze Bao & Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Ephemeral Environment Practices - the Good, Bad, and Ugly - Luke Philips & David Grizzanti, The New York Times Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

4:15pm MST

ArgoCD: Lessons in Spinning Out OSS from Intuit to Independence - Jesse Suen & Hong Wang, Akuity Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

4:25pm MST

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

4:30pm MST

Demystifying Argo Events: An Architectural Deep Dive - JP Zivalich, Pipekit Inc. & Becky Pauley, Venafi Jetstack Consult Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B

4:55pm MST

Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be? - Emily Omier, Omier Consulting; William Morgan, Buoyant; Tyler Jewell, Lightbend; Mark Fussell, Diagrid & Avi Press... Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How GitOps Changes Identity and RBAC Management - Alice Jones, Liatrio Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Merge Conflict - Conflict: Apply-Before-Merge vs. Traditional Continuous Deployment - Asaf Blubshtein, env0 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

5:25pm MST

ArgoCon | Closing Remarks - Christian Hernandez, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ArgoCon | Closing Remarks - Dan Garfield, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

5:30pm MST

Evening Reception (Hyatt Regency) Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | South Foyer Evening Reception (Salt Palace) Salt Palace | Level 1 | Lower Concourse + Level 2 | Upper Mezzanine