Cloud Foundry Foundation, home to a family
of interoperable open source projects for the enterprise, announced today
additional keynote stage speakers at the annual
North America Summit
at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA, April 2-4, 2019.
Standard
registration for the event ends this Friday, February 22, before price
increases by $200. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please
download
the prospectus.
The keynote stage now features speakers including:
- Charles Schwab's Doug
Coleman, Senior Managing Director Cloud Engineering and Operations, will showcase the
company's focus on driving a digital future by enabling constant
innovation.
- Comcast's Mike
Crisafulli, SVP, Platform & Product Services; Rick Rioboli, SVP and
CIO; and Nithya Ruff, Senior Director of Open Source Practice, will discuss Cloud
Foundry's role in the customer lifecycle, external communities and the
company's business goals.
- Eirini and Garden
Project Lead Dr. Julz Friedman of IBM will do a demo of Project Eirini, which was accepted
as an incubating project last year. Project Eirini enables Cloud Foundry
end users to use Kubernetes as the underlying container scheduler.
- IBM Fellow Jason McGee,
VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform, and Briana Frank, Program Director, will discuss the
company's commitment to the cloud through its contributions to cloud and
open source.
- Liberty Mutual's Jai
Schniepp, Director of Product, Secure DevOps Platforms, will bring her
knowledge to the end user panel as a product maven and agile expert who
has spent over a decade partnering with like-minded practitioners to
introduce CI/CD practices, cloud native solutions, and deliver products
that drive developers further up the value line.
- SAP's Ralf Pannemans,
Cloud Foundry contributor, will demonstrate the interoperability benefits of
Service Manager, Gardener, Istio, and Cloud Foundry with an end-to-end
demo.
- T-Mobile's Karun
Chennuri, Senior Engineer of Security Architecture, and Ramesh Krishnaram, Senior Manager of
Platform Engineering, will do a demo on building a chaos engineering
project for Cloud Foundry deployments based on their company's internal
practice.
The Foundation has also released further details of a Cloud
Foundry end user panel discussion with c-Com GmbH, Liberty Mutual and ***'s
Sporting Goods, moderated by TechCrunch's Frederic Lardinois.
"Cloud Foundry provides choice, whether you're a developer
building great software, a CIO focused on productivity, or an operator
committed to efficiency," said Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry
Foundation. "Attending Cloud Foundry Summit empowers new contributors to
contribute to the open source project and build solutions with one of the
world's most used platforms -- and gives end users a hands-on opportunity to
make Cloud Foundry part of their multi-platform strategy including containers
and serverless, integrating technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy and many
others. A huge thank you to our Diamond sponsors Comcast and Pivotal and our Platinum
sponsor IBM Cloud -- we truly cannot hold this event without them."
Newly added tracks include:
- Cloud Foundry for
Operators
- Cloud Foundry for
Business
Cloud Foundry Foundation will carry on the tradition of
hosting a diversity event at Philadelphia event. This year the Foundation has
changed the process and line-up for the Cloud Foundry Summit Diversity Luncheon
on Thursday, April 4 at 12:15 p.m. For folks identifying as "diverse" - whether
based on ability, ethnicity, mental health, gender identity, sexual
orientation, socioeconomic status, immigration status, or any other experience
that varies from the "norm" - Cloud Foundry invites you to share your experience
as a panelist during the luncheon by applying to the
CFP form by Friday, March 1 at 11:59 p.m. Five panelists will be accepted.
This luncheon is co-sponsored by IBM; if you are interested in co-sponsoring,
please reach out.
For the first time ever, there will be a half-day
Contributors' Summit at Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019. The
Contributors' Summit is for new and current contributors to connect
face-to-face and share feedback with each other. This is an opportunity for
contributors to help shape the future of our community development. For new
contributors, it offers a welcoming space to learn about the technology and build
new relationships. Pre-registration is required.
The fifth Cloud Foundry Hackathon will be held at Summit,
sponsored by IBM. The top three teams will receive prizes and first place
winners will be announced on stage during the Thursday morning keynotes. More details here. All Summit attendees are
encouraged to watch the project presentations
on Wednesday afternoon.
Additionally, there will be Project Office Hours in the
Foundry lounge, where attendees will get a chance to speak directly with Cloud
Foundry project leads and developers, have their specific questions answered
and find out what new features are in the works.
More than 1,500 enterprise developers, architects, engineers
and executives from around the world are expected to attend the Philadelphia
Summit. Attendees will learn about Cloud Foundry from those who build and use
it every day. They will join other developers, end users and CIOs to gain
first-hand access to Cloud Foundry roadmaps, training and tutorials, and to see
how others are using Cloud Foundry to support continuous innovation and
application portability.
Find the full schedule here: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event_subpages/cfna2019-schedule/.
Register online here:
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/nasummit2019/.