CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Langdon White

Boston University

Clinical Assistant Professor

Greater Boston Area

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Langdon White is a professor & Spark! Technical Director at Boston University. He helps to provide industry-affiliated experiential learning to students and teaches with the goal of making computing & data sciences more accessible. Joining BU after 9 years at Red Hat, where he re-architected Fedora for a containerized world & worked w/ developers to leverage Linux. Prior to Red Hat, he held various engineering & executive leadership roles for a variety of companies from startups to Fortune 50.

9:00am MST

Cloud Native University | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Christophe Sauthier, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

9:10am MST

Cloud-Native Curriculum for Diverse Student Cohorts - Zara Ahmad-Post, University of Arizona Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

9:45am MST

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

10:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mastering Myself Before Mastering Kyverno - Lessons Learned from Authoring My First Course - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

10:40am MST

Making Students Industry Ready with CNCF Ecosystem as a Catalyst - Rohit Ghumare & Nancy Chauhan, CNCF Ambassadors Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

11:15am MST

Top 5 Success Factors for Cloud-Native Enablement and Common Pitfalls to Avoid - Kunal Kushwaha & Chad M. Crowell, Civo Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

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

Cloud Native University | Closing Remarks - Christophe Sauthier, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

1:25pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

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

2:05pm MST

Streamlining Cloud-Native Development: Simplifying Dependencies and Testing with Microcks - Laurent Broudoux, Microcks & Daniel Oh, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

3:35pm MST

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

4:30pm MST

Build a ChatGPT RAG Data Pipeline with RisingWave Stream Processor and Vector Store - Mary Grygleski, Callibrity & Rayees Pasha, RisingWave Labs Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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: Searching for Serverless Candidates in the Jungle of Microservices - Yash Bhatnagar, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

5:30pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Closing Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A