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Tuesday, November 12
 

9:00am MST

OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Community
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
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Andrew Maclean

Developer Relations Manager, DevCycle
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit

9:10am MST

How to Rollout an Update for a CNI Without Breaking the World Wide Web - Reza Ramezanpour & Jen Luther Thomas, Tigera
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Project Calico is a widely adopted open-source solution known for its flexible architecture, providing robust networking and security across most cloud providers. Feature flagging is a critical step in every release for Project Calico, allowing Tigera engineers to deploy our solution without breaking the Internet. This talk will explore the importance of feature flagging within Project Calico, highlighted by the real-world case study of the Reddit Pi Day incident. We will discuss how this incident underscored the necessity of feature flagging and led to its extensive adoption in our project. Attendees will gain insights into the underlying problems that feature flagging solves on a big scale and the relevance of these practices in maintaining seamless, secure operations in diverse cloud environments. Join us to learn how Project Calico leverages feature flagging, which allows you to scroll through your favourite social services, such as Reddit!
Speakers
avatar for Reza Ramezanpour

Reza Ramezanpour

Developer Advocate, Tigera
Reza Ramezanpour is a Developer Advocate at Project Calico where he eagerly tries to demystify the less known capabilities of open source. Throughout his professional career years in IT he has been a developer, system administrator and reverse engineer.
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Jen Luther Thomas

Technical Marketing Engineer, Tigera
Jen Luther Thomas is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Tigera. She has 10 years of experience in the geospatial industry and in more recent years was responsible for customer success of cloud and container deployments of enterprise ETL software. At Tigera, she is a subject matter... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

9:45am MST

Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature - Meha Bhalodiya, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
In the dynamic world of software development, how do you ensure quality without compromising speed? And how OpenFeature empower QA teams to elevate their testing game? "Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature" delves into the revolutionary ways OpenFeature enhances your QA processes, allowing teams to achieve robust, bug-free releases exploring how feature flags when integrated with OpenFeature, reduce the complexity of environment management, and enable more granular control over feature deployments. Attendees will gain insights into setting up effective feature flagging strategies and leveraging OpenFeature's capabilities to minimize risk and maximize quality. Whether you're a QA engineer, developer, or project manager, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to enhance your QA processes, delivering high-quality software faster and with greater confidence. Embrace the future of QA with OpenFeature and start testing smarter, not harder.
Speakers
avatar for Meha Bhalodiya

Meha Bhalodiya

Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, where I work with the OpenShift Container Platform team. Apart from the full-time job, I also participate in upstream community initiatives, such as being a Branch Manager in v1.31, a CI Signal Lead in Kubernetes Release v1.28 (been a shadow... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

10:40am MST

Migrating to Open Feature at Scale: 0 to Billions - Chetan Kapoor & Justin Abrahms, eBay
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
eBay, a seasoned 20+ year big-tech with ~4000 engineers adopted OpenFeature on its large scale decision making platform. This success story is more than simply a feature flag enablement, it's about simplifying a complex onboarding process, enabling flags and offering a 5-star developer experience! This 2023 highlight took two partners with complimenting skill-sets, a lot of trust and continuous iterations. We'll walk through the state of the world before the introduction of Open Feature, how we built an internal community around the mission and practical techniques that were used to establish leadership buy-in and accelerate momentum in such a large complex organization.
Speakers
avatar for Chetan Kapoor

Chetan Kapoor

Product Leader @ eBay, eBay
Chetan is a change-maker, OpenFeature evangelist and technical product leader at eBay, responsible for establishing a culture of data-informed decision making and building platform for experimentation and feature flags. Previous to eBay, he grew a B2C Chicago FinTech from 100M to... Read More →
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Justin Abrahms

Principal Engineer, Thrive Market
In recent years, I’ve spent the bulk of my work-related time helping large enterprises deliver software more successfully. I care a lot about open source, software delivery and solarpunk ethos.In my spare time, You’ll find me motorcycling, working in the wood & metal shops or... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

11:15am MST

Experimentation Programs at Scale: Lessons Learned from Top Companies - Graham McNicoll, GrowthBook
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Running a few experiments is easy, especially when using feature flags. However, scaling up experimentation and adopting an experimentation-driven approach across an entire organization is much more challenging. How can the frequency of experiments be increased while maintaining quality and trustworthy results? This talk will address this question by exploring the methods top companies use to run their experimentation programs at massive scales. It will start with an introduction to experimentation-driven product development and discuss the advantages of these techniques. Then, the discussion will cover how experimentation programs can go wrong and, finally, how top companies structure their programs to solve these issues and unlock experimentation at a large scale.
Speakers
avatar for Graham McNicoll

Graham McNicoll

Co-founder, GrowthBook
Graham is the co-founder and CEO of GrowthBook, an open-source feature flagging and AB testing platform that is part of the open feature project and used by thousands of companies. Before starting GrowthBook, Graham was the CTO of Education.com for six years. Graham is a three-time... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

11:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Costs of Feature Flags: Understanding and Managing Adoption Challenges - Shreya Shivratriwar, Software Engineer
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:45am - 11:55am MST
Feature flags offer powerful control over software releases, but they introduce hidden complexities in version management and user adoption that can catch development teams off guard. As application states multiply and the definition of a "version" blurs, teams struggle with maintaining compatibility and ensuring smooth updates across diverse platforms and user segments. To address these challenges, we propose a strategy of treating feature flag rollouts as code changes, favoring smaller, more frequent updates over large-scale alterations. This talk will unveil the often-overlooked costs of feature flags, explore their impact on versioning and user experience, and provide attendees with practical strategies for mitigating these issues. By the end, you'll have a clearer understanding of how to navigate the complex landscape of feature flag implementation, balancing the benefits of flexibility with the need for manageable, user-friendly software evolution.
Speakers
avatar for Shreya Shivratriwar

Shreya Shivratriwar

Software Engineer, N/A
Shreya is an engineering student and AI researcher from India, deeply involved in AI and its applications. Passionate about technology, she enjoys coding, exploring new AI advancements, and contributing to open-source projects. Shreya is also focused on AI ethics and aims to create... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:45am - 11:55am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

12:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Would a Gradual Rollout by Any Other Hashing Algorithm Still Smell as Sweet? - Chris Griffing, GitKraken
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:00pm - 12:10pm MST
Gradual rollouts are an important use-case for feature flags. But not all hashing algorithms have the same goals. In this analysis, we will compare/contrast hashing algorithms and why your standard password hashing algorithm might not be ideal compared to some others. Some are also more readily available in various languages which can influence your decisions when building SDKs. We will outline which metrics we care about and why while graphing the results.
Speakers
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Chris Griffing

Developer Advocate, GitKraken
I like to make things and share them with people.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:00pm - 12:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

12:10pm MST

OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Coummunity
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm MST
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Maclean

Andrew Maclean

Developer Relations Manager, DevCycle
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
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