CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

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9:00am MST

BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Program Co-Chair & Avantika Iyer Community Member Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:25am MST

Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - a Platform Engineering Journey - Jared Watts, Upbound & Maximilian Blatt, Accenture Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

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

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform Engineering - Ben Wilcock, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Containerization – It’s Not Just for CPUs Anymore: Introducing a Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Data Applications - Nathan Goulding, Vultr Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

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 Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability - Jorge Lainfiesta, Rootly & Abby Bangser, Syntasso Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

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

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

1:25pm MST

Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Iris Ding & Keith Mattix, Event Co-Chairs Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

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

Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:45pm MST

Secure ArgoCD Multi-Cluster Management Across Clouds Without Static Tokens - Marc Boorshtein, Tremolo Security, Inc. Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Sail-Operator: Making Seamless Istio Upgrades Easy - Francisco Herrera Lira & Daniel Grimm, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

3:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Security with Istio: Realtime JWT Access Revocation - Josh Oberdick, Rocket Companies Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

3:20pm MST

DevEx and Productivity Metrics on Backstage - Do's and Don'ts - Yishai Beeri, LinearB Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Unlock the Full Potential of Generative AI via Microservices and Istio Service Mesh - Lin Sun, Solo.io & Iris Ding, Intel Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

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

4:30pm MST

IDPs For The Rest of Us: Maximizing Impact When You Aren't a Tech Giant - Eric Irwin, Quantum Metric Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:10pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing Multi-Cluster Communication and Cost Efficiency with Admiral and Istio - Punakshi Chaand, Intuit Inc. Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Countercultural: Backstage for Consultants - Lizzie Salita, Booz Allen Hamilton Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H ⚡ Lightning Talk: Cost Saving Strategies for Interactive AI Development - Shravan Achar, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A