CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

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9:10am MST

The Power of Apache Pulsar. Harnessing Dapr to Build High Scale Messaging at FICO® - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 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

9:55am 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

10:40am 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 Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes - Peter Zaitsev, Coroot, FerretDB, Percona Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Migrating to Open Feature at Scale: 0 to Billions - Chetan Kapoor & Justin Abrahms, eBay Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

11:15am MST

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 Perfect Match: Correlating Continuous Profiling with Distributed Tracing for Stronger Observability - Jonas Kunz & Christos Kalkanis, Elastic Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

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

Building Real-World Applications with Dapr: A Startup Developer's Journey - Whit Waldo, Innovian Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 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

12:55pm MST

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

1:35pm 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 Boosting Training and Inference Performance via Topology-Aware Scheduling of Heterogeneous Resources - He Cao, ByteDance Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Enhancing Asynchronous Communication Observability with OpenTelemetry - Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B 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

Panel: The $100B Opportunity for the Cloud-Native Ecosystem: A VC Perspective - Wei Lien Dang, Unusual Ventures; Astasia Myers, Felicis Ventures; Natalie Vais, Spark Capital; Erik Nordlander, GV (Google Venture... Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A The Perfect Storm: Production Kubernetes Running on Ocean Vessels - Raghushankar Vatte, ZEDEDA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Mutually Assured Development - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

2:40pm MST

Brag Your RAG with the MLOPS Swag - Madhav Sathe, Google & Jitender Kumar, publicissapient Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Unlocking Advanced Processing Capabilities with OpenTelemetry - Aunsh Chaudhari, Splunk & Anthony Mirabella, AWS Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E ⚡ Lightning Talk: A Tale of Three Configs: On Best Practices with OpenTofu Structuring - Ronny Orot, env0 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

2:55pm MST

Docker's Journey from Open Source Darling to a Thriving Enterprise Business - Scott Johnston, Docker Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A ⚡ Lightning Talk: Migrating a Client onto OpenTofu for Cost + Speed - Matt Gowie, Masterpoint Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

3:20pm MST

Why Does Continuous Profiling Matter to Developers? - Jonas Kunz, Elastic & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 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 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 Inference on Streaming Data at Scale at Intuit - Sri Harsha Yayi & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

4:30pm MST

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: Ranking Argo CD Settings in a Tier List - Gerald Nunn, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ⚡ 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 ⚡ 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