CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

Whit Waldo

Innovian

CEO

College Station, TX

https://innovian.net/

About me

Whit Waldo is the founder and CEO of Innovian where he manages the development of innovative technical solutions for diverse businesses. With over 14 years of experience, Whit has excelled in roles such as CTO for various startups and most recently as Director of Product Development for a global enterprise. Outside of his professional endeavors, Whit enjoys playing complex board games, reading and traveling with his wife.

9:00am MST

WasmCon Day 1 Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355

9:00am MST

AppDeveloperCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mark Fussell, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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

9:45am MST

Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Collecting and Processing OTEL Data at Scale - Anurag Gupta, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

10:40am MST

Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue: A Case Study - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Rajat Phull, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

11:30am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Discipline: Marketing Secrets for Engineering Platforms - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:50am MST

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

12:25pm MST

OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Coummunity 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

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

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

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

3:20pm MST

Why Does Continuous Profiling Matter to Developers? - Jonas Kunz, Elastic & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid 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

3:55pm MST

Distributed Tracing: All the Warning Signs Were Out There!!! - Vijay Samuel & Sandeep Raveesh, eBay Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

4:30pm MST

Designing for Observability - George Hantzaras, MongoDB Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 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 Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

5:25pm MST

AppDeveloperCon | Closing Remarks - Evan Anderson, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

5:30pm MST

Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks - Vijay Chintha & Paula Kennedy, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G