Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2018: Full Schedule

Molly Crowther is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Pivotal, working on security strategy and vulnerability management for Cloud Foundry. She also helps lead security workshops for open- and closed-source Cloud Foundry teams in North America and Europe.

Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

4:20pm EDT

Conversation with Matthew Curry, Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co.

Speakers

Matthew Curry

Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co.

Matt is a director of Infrastructure Products at Allstate. He maintains a regular presence on multiple podcasts and is an avid Twitter freak.

Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:20pm - 4:30pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

4:30pm EDT

Demo with Nick Ford, Chief Technology Evangelist, & Johan den Haan, CTO, Mendix

Speakers

Nick Ford

Mendix

In his current role as Chief Technology Evangelist at Mendix, Nick leads a team of experts in low code development, chartered to inspire the world with the art of possible in Mendix. Nick is a low code veteran with a strong software development background and have served Mendix as... Read More →

Johan den Haan

CTO, Mendix

As Mendix's Chief Technology Officer, Johan leads the company's overall technical strategy and research & product development teams. He earned a Master of Science with a specialization in Information Architecture from the Delft University of Technology.

Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:30pm - 4:40pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

4:40pm EDT

Conversation with Chen Goldberg, Engineering Director, Google Cloud

Speakers

Chen Goldberg

Engineering Director, Google

Chen Goldberg is a technology leader with 18+ years of experience leading engineering teams. In her current role as Engineering Director, she leads Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and the OSS Kubernetes and Istio projects teams in Google Cloud. Her team is committed to enable open... Read More →

Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:40pm - 4:50pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

4:55pm EDT

Conversation with Alois Reitbauer, VP, Chief Technology Strategist, Dynatrace & Bob Johnson, Technology Director, Humana

Speakers

Bob Johnson

Humana Inc.

Alois Reitbauer

Chief Technology Strategist/Head of Open Source, Dynatrace

Alois works as Chief Technology Strategist at Dynatrace, where he is response for all open source activities and research. He is currently heavily engaged in the cloud-native ecosystem as a maintainer and founder of several open source projects and as co-chair and founder of TAG App... Read More →

Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:55pm - 5:10pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

5:15pm EDT

Ecosystem Panel Discussion with Molly Crowther, Pivotal, Matt Curry, Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co., Chen Goldberg, Engineering Director, Google Cloud, Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation & Moderator Frederic L

Moderators

Frederic Lardinois

Enterprise Editor, TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/author/frederic-lardinois/

Speakers

Molly Crowther

Senior Technical Program Manager, Pivotal

Matthew Curry

Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co.

Matt is a director of Infrastructure Products at Allstate. He maintains a regular presence on multiple podcasts and is an avid Twitter freak.

Chen Goldberg

Engineering Director, Google

Abby Kearns

Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Wednesday April 18, 2018 5:15pm - 5:35pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

5:35pm EDT

Demo with Jenny McLaughlin, Sr. Platform Architect & Tim Hess, Engineer, Pivotal

Speakers

Tim Hess

Pivotal

Tim Hess is an engineer on the Steeltoe project. He's been slinging code professionally for over 10 years, with healthy doses of software architecture and system administration responsibilities along the way. In order to feed his expansive appetite for learning, Hess also runs the... Read More →

Jenny Morris

Principle Solution Architect, Elastic

Jenny Morris has years of Java and .NET experience across various industries. She is currently a Solution Architect at Elastic helping customers gain real-time, actionable insights from their data. Consequently, customers have become industry leaders on searching, logging, analyzing... Read More →

Wednesday April 18, 2018 5:35pm - 5:45pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

5:50pm EDT

Closing Remarks - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Speakers

Abby Kearns

Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Wednesday April 18, 2018 5:50pm - 5:55pm EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:00am EDT

Welcome Remarks - Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Speakers

Chip Childers

Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Chip has spent more than 18 years in large-scale computing and open source software. In 2015, he became the co-founder of the Cloud Foundry Foundation as Technology Chief of Staff. He was the first VP of Apache Cloudstack, a platform he helped drive while leading Enterprise Cloud... Read More →

Thursday April 19, 2018 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:05am EDT

Conversation with Chuck Knostman, VP, Digital Technology & Strategy, T-Mobile

Speakers

Chuck Knostman

VP, Digital Technology & Strategy, T-Mobile

Chuck is the Vice President of Technology and Strategy at T-Mobile USA, Inc. As an executive with 20+ years of experience, Chuck is currently focused on evaluating and incubating near-term and emerging technologies that support our relentless pursuit of providing our customers with... Read More →

Thursday April 19, 2018 9:05am - 9:15am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:20am EDT

Conversation with Gabe Monroy, Lead PM, Azure Containers, Microsoft

Speakers

Gabe Monroy

Partner Program Manager, Microsoft

Thursday April 19, 2018 9:20am - 9:30am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:30am EDT

Demo with Topher Bullock, Staff Software Engineer, Pivotal

Speakers

Topher Bullock

Staff Software Engineer, Pivotal

Topher is a senior software engineer at Pivotal and is based out of the Toronto, Canada office. On the Pivotal Cloud R&D team he has experience working on distributed systems, infrastructure automation, Concourse, Cloud Foundry, Service Broker APIs, and Mobile Apps. Topher was recently... Read More →

Thursday April 19, 2018 9:30am - 9:40am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:45am EDT

Demo with Troy Topnik, Product Manager, Cloud Application Platform, SUSE

Speakers

Troy Topnik

Product Manager, Cloud Application Platform, SUSE

Troy is a Senior Product Manager responsible for SUSE Cloud Application Platform. He began working with Cloud Foundry shortly after its open source debut in 2011, and has been a technical writer, instructor, and product manager with the ActiveState and HPE Helion Stackato teams.

Thursday April 19, 2018 9:45am - 9:55am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

10:00am EDT

Demo with Zach Robinson, CAPI Project Lead

Speakers

Zach Robinson

Product Lead, Pivotal

Zach has worked as a core contributor to Cloud Foundry since 2013. He is currently the CFF Project Lead for the CAPI team. He has worked with the CF Services, Runtime, and CAPI teams including anchoring Runtime and CAPI, with contributions to most Cloud Foundry components. His previous... Read More →

Thursday April 19, 2018 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

10:10am EDT

Demo with Stephen Levine, Project Lead for Buildpacks & CF Local

Speakers

Stephen Levine

Engineering Lead / Principal Software Engineer, Pivotal

Stephen Levine is an Engineering Lead at Pivotal. He is the Cloud Foundry Project Lead for CF Local, CF Dev, and the core CF Buildpacks, as well as a co-owner of the Cloud Native Buildpacks project in the CNCF's Cloud Native Sandbox.

Thursday April 19, 2018 10:10am - 10:20am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

10:25am EDT

Conversation with Holly Moody, Sr. Manager, Software Engineering & Andy Rosequist, Director, IT Operations, Zipcar, Inc.

Speakers

Holly Moody

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, Zipcar, Inc.

Holly manages a team of software engineers that create dynamic products and functionality for Zipcar’s over one million membership base worldwide. In addition, Holly has been instrumental in helping the Zipcar engineering team transition to a Continuous Delivery mindset. Holly has... Read More →

Andy Rosequist

Director, IT Operations, Zipcar

Andy Rosequist is a senior technology leader at Zipcar responsible for driving performance excellence across all of Zipcar’s technology operations, platform team, and security engineering. Andy joined the Zipcar team in 2012 as the DevOps Manager, where he spearheaded the movement... Read More →

Thursday April 19, 2018 10:25am - 10:35am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

10:35am EDT

Closing Remarks - Chip Childers, CTO, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Speakers

Chip Childers

Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Thursday April 19, 2018 10:35am - 10:40am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:00am EDT

Welcome Remarks - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Speakers

Abby Kearns

Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Friday April 20, 2018 9:00am - 9:05am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:05am EDT

Demo with Shanfan Huang, Sr Product Designer, Pivotal

Speakers

Shanfan Huang

Designer, Pivotal

Shanfan Huang leads the customer-centric design effort at Cloud Foundry for Windows, improving .NET developer and Windows server operator experience on the CF platform. Before joining the Cloud Foundry team, Shanfan had been coaching enterprise clients at Pivotal on lean product design... Read More →

Friday April 20, 2018 9:05am - 9:15am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:20am EDT

Conversation with Subbu Allamaraju, Vice President, Expedia Inc.

Subbu Allamaraju is a technologist fascinated by large ambiguous problems and the learning opportunities such problems present. He is an influential voice both within Expedia, where he is currently a Vice President of Technology, and the industry. Subbu is passionate about all things related to cloud, infrastructure, platforms, operations, the evolution of cloud native technologies and architectures, and the intersection of culture and technology.

At Expedia, Subbu is leading a large-scale migration of Expedia’s travel platforms from enterprise data centers to a highly available architecture on the cloud.

Before joining Expedia, as a Distinguished Engineer at eBay Inc., Subbu helped build private cloud infrastructure and platforms for eBay and PayPal, which positioned these two organizations amongst a select few of the largest operators of OpenStack.

Subbu is an engineering leader well-rounded in software development, architecture, distributed systems, services, Internet protocols, operations, and cloud. Over the past several years, he helped build and empower several engineering and operations teams in these areas.

Subbu is an occasional blogger and speaker at technology conferences, and has published books on REST and server-side programming in Java. You can follow his activities at https://www.subbu.org and @sallamar on Twitter.

Speakers

Subbu Allamaraju

Vice President, Expedia Inc.

Subbu is the Chief Engineer of cloud at eBay Inc. His team builds and operates a multi-tenant geographically distributed OpenStack based private cloud. This cloud now serves 100% of PayPal web and mid tier workloads, significant parts of eBay front end and services, and thousands... Read More →

Friday April 20, 2018 9:20am - 9:30am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:30am EDT

Conversation with Alex Rubin, Principal Cloud Architect, Kaiser Permanente

Speakers

Alex Rubin

Principal Engineer, Cloud Application Services, Kaiser Permanente

Alex is a principal with Kaiser Permanente responsible for Cloud adoption of healthcare solutions. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Cloud Foundry. Alex is specialized in Cloud technologies and its application to industry solutions.

Friday April 20, 2018 9:30am - 9:40am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

9:45am EDT

End User Panel Discussion with Enes Yildirim, Boeing, Christopher Tretina, Comcast, Andrea Hirzle-Yager, Allianz Deutschland AG, Susanna Brown, American Airlines, Justin Stone, Liberty Mutual, Andy Rosequist, Zipcar, & Moderated by Ron Miller, TechCrunch

Moderators

Ron Miller

Enterprise reporter, TechCrunch

Moderator: Ron Miller is enterprise reporter at TechCrunch. He has been a Freelance Technology Journalist since 1998. In addition, he is Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine where he writes the Media Redux column and is a regular contributor at Digital Content Next. He helped... Read More →

Speakers

Susanna Brown

Managing Director, Operations Technologies, American Airlines

Susanna Brown serves as the managing director, Operations Technology for American Airlines. In this role, Susanna is in charge of facilitating the delivery of technology solutions that keep the airline operations running smoothly. Previously, Susanna served as the managing director... Read More →

Andrea Hirzle-Yager

Head of Department, Allianz Deutchland AG

Experienced change agent with international background; committed to increasing technology value for the business by improving efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Proven expertise at creating IT strategy and business transformation with a clear customer focus. Successful motivational... Read More →

Andy Rosequist

Director, IT Operations, Zipcar

Justin Stone

Director, Cloud & Security Enablement, Liberty Mutual

Justin Stone is the Director of Cloud Enablement at Liberty Mutual. With 20 years of infrastructure and engineering experience, his background is leveraged daily as application teams look to start their cloud journey at Liberty. When it comes to understanding the frustrations... Read More →

Christopher Tretina

Director of Software Dev & Engineering, Comcast

Christopher Tretina is Director of Software Dev & Engineering at Comcast and now leads the Customer Experience Platform (CXP) team. Most recently, Chris led the engineering of the aiQ program which delivered a customer-facing virtual agent experience, built atop Cloud Foundry and... Read More →

Enes Yildirim

Boeing Digital Transformation Environment Global Program Leader, Boeing

Enes Yildirim’s passion is to transform IT organizations to be their most productive. Today, as the Digital Transformation Environment (DTE) Global Program Leader, Enes drives this foundational enterprise initiative to support the 2nd Century Digital Transformation at Boeing. He... Read More →

Friday April 20, 2018 9:45am - 10:15am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

10:20am EDT

Conversation with John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer at Dell EMC & Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Speakers

John Roese

President & Chief Technology Officer, Dell EMC Corporation

John Roese is the Chief Technology Officer of EMC Corporation. This role will play a key role in shaping EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in the history of IT – Cloud, Big... Read More →

Friday April 20, 2018 10:20am - 10:40am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any

10:40am EDT

Closing Remarks - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Speakers

Abby Kearns

Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Friday April 20, 2018 10:40am - 10:55am EDT
Ballroom East/West

Keynote

Experience Level Any