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Wednesday, October 13 • 9:00am - 10:30am
Wednesday Keynote Sessions

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Be sure to join us for Wednesday's keynotes which include:
  • Welcome & Opening Remarks - Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (9:00-9:15)
  • A Different Kind of Cloud Native - Tim Pepper, Open Source Engineer, VMware (9:15-9:30)
  • End Users: Leaders of the Cloud Native Maturity - Katie Gamanji, Ecosystem Advocate, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (9:30-9:45)
  • From One to Many, the Road to Multicluster - Kaslin Fields, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud (9:45-9:50)
  • CNCF Project Updates - Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk & Jasmine James, Engineering Manager, Twitter (9:50-10:05)
  • APIs, the Universe, and Everything - Vijoy Pandey, Vice President, Engineering for Emerging Technologies and Incubation, Cisco (10:05-10:10)
  • CNCF Technical Oversight at Scale - Cornelia Davis, Product Manager, Amazon (10:10-10:25)
  • Closing Remarks - Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk; Jasmine James, Engineering Manager, Twitter; Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source, Cisco (10:25-10:30)
Speakers
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Kaslin Fields

Developer Advocate, Google
Kaslin Fields is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador, and a contributor to Open Source Kubernetes. As a Developer Advocate, she engages with Open Source communities both as a member, and as an advocate for their needs as users... Read More →
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Tim Pepper

Principal Engineer, VMware
Tim is a Principal Engineer in VMware's Open Source Technology Center with over 25 years in open source, working as an open source developer advocate and contributor to Kubernetes (current Steering Committee elected member, emeritus Code of Conduct Committee elected member; past SIG... Read More →
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Katie Gamanji

Senior Field Engineer, Apple
Katie is a cloud native leader, practitioner, and contributor, currently in a Senior Kubernetes Field Engineer role at Apple and a TOC for CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). As a cloud platform engineer, Katie has built the infrastructure for Conde Nast and American Express... Read More →
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Vijoy Pandey

Vice President, Engineering for Emerging Technologies and Incubation, Cisco
Vijoy Pandey is Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Incubation (ET&I) at Cisco. ET&I is chartered to create and drive the next Bold Bets for Cisco in an agile, ambitious, and entrepreneurial manner. Vijoy runs both engineering and a global framework of customer-focused co-innovation... Read More →
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Constance Caramanolis

Principal Software Engineer, Splunk
Constance is a principal software engineer at Splunk, formerly Omnition, contributing to OpenTelemetry. Previous to Omnition, she worked at Lyft as part of the data platform and server networking teams. While at Lyft, Constance built, deployed, and configured Envoy internally, and... Read More →
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Priyanka Sharma

Executive Director, CNCF
Priyanka is the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which serves as the vendor-neutral home for 100+ of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. She is also a co-creator of the Inclusive Naming Initiative... Read More →
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Cornelia Davis

Product Management, CNCF TOC, Amazon
Cornelia has been working in IT systems for several decades with the last 10 years focused on DevOps platforms. She was part of the team that brought Cloud Foundry to the industry - both the open source project and the Pivotal CF product. In the last 5+ years she has applied that... Read More →
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Jasmine James

Senior Engineering Manager-Developer Experience
Jasmine is an engineering manager leading the developer experience pillar in the engineering effectiveness organization. She has previously worked at Delta Air Lines enabling cloud native application development by providing modern tooling and capabilities utilizing various CNCF projects... Read More →
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Stephen Augustus

Head of Open Source, Cisco
Stephen is a leader in open source communities and Cisco’s Head of Open Source.For Kubernetes, he has co-founded transformational elements of the project, including the KEP (Kubernetes Enhancements Proposal) process, the Release Engineering subproject, and Working Group Naming... Read More →

Wednesday October 13, 2021 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
West Hall + Online
  Keynote Sessions