KubeCon + CloudNative North America 2021: Full Schedule

In-person + Virtual
October 11-15
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9:00am PDT

Wednesday Keynote Sessions

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

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 →

Tim Pepper

Principal Engineer, VMware

Tim Pepper 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 (emeritus Steering Committee elected member, emeritus Code of Conduct Committee elected member... Read More →

Katie Gamanji

Senior Field Engineer @ Apple, Apple

Katie is a cloud-native leader, practitioner, and contributor, currently in a Senior Field Engineer role at Apple and a TOC for CNCF. As a cloud platform engineer, Katie has contributed to the buildout of infrastructure at Conde Nast, and American Express, gravitating towards cloud-native... Read More →

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 →

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 →

Priyanka Sharma

Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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 →

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 →

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 →

Stephen Augustus

Head of Open Source, Cisco

Stephen is the Head of Open Source at Cisco. Across the open source ecosystem, Stephen holds a number of governance roles, including membership on the OpenSSF Governing Board, the OpenAPI Initiative Business Governing Board, the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and the TODO Group Steering... Read More →

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

Keynote Sessions

Talk Type In-Person

9:00am PDT

Thursday Keynote Sessions

Be sure to join us for Thursday's keynotes which include:

Kubernetes Project Updates - Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source, Cisco (9:00-9:15)
Welcome to Cloud Native - We’re Here to Help - Vaibhav Kamra, Chief Technical Officer, Kasten by Veeam (9:15-9:20)
Why a Cloud Native (CNCF) & Open Hardware (RISC-V) Alliance Makes Sense - Kim McMahon, Director of Visibility & Community Engagement, RISC-V International & Katelin Ramer, Director of Business Development, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (9:20-9:35)
Where Do We Go From Here? - Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk (9:35-9:50)
Creating a Holistic Developer Experience - Jasmine James, Engineering Manager, Twitter (9:50-10:05)
And Here We Go: Dual-stack Networking in Kubernetes - Lachlan Evenson, Principal Program Manager, OSS at Azure, Microsoft Azure (10:05-10:10)
Building Support For Your Cloud Native Journey - Robert Duffy, Vice President, Development and Runtime Platform, Expedia (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

Kim McMahon

Senior Director, Advocacy and Community, FreeBSD Foundation

Kim McMahon is well-known in the open source ecosystem as a marketer of open source and growing healthy and productive communities. She is currently at The FreeBSD Foundation leading the Foundation’s advocacy, marketing, and community efforts to develop a go-to-market plan, long... Read More →

Lachie Evenson

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. As a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes steering committee member and release lead, Lachlan has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. He spends his days building and contributing... Read More →

Constance Caramanolis

Principal Software Engineer, Splunk

Katelin Ramer

Director of Business Development, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Katelin is the Business Development Manager at Cloud Native Computing Foundation. She is responsible for driving growth globally for the foundation in the form of partnerships with the member community and gaining support for CNCF global events.Katelin has a background in sales from... Read More →

Vaibhav Kamra

CTO, Kasten by Veeam

Vaibhav Kamra is CTO at Kasten by Veeam, which is tackling Day 2 data management challenges to help enterprises confidently run applications on Kubernetes. Previously, Vaibhav has worked at Dell EMC, Maginatics and Microsoft, where his focus has been on storage, filesystems and databases... Read More →

Jasmine James

Senior Engineering Manager-Developer Experience

Stephen Augustus

Head of Open Source, Cisco

Robert Duffy

Vice President, Development and Runtime Platform, Expedia

Rob has spent the last 20 years working on industry leading developer platforms. Building the culture around them, driving adoption across 100-1000 team organizations with 10s of thousands of developers, and delivering on the promise of business agility. Along the way he has torn... Read More →

Thursday October 14, 2021 9:00am - 10:30am PDT
West Hall + Online

Keynote Sessions

Talk Type In-Person

9:00am PDT

Friday Keynote Sessions

Be sure to join us for Friday's keynotes which include:

Opening Remarks - Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk; Jasmine James, Engineering Manager, Twitter; Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source, Cisco (9:00-9:05)
Machine Learning on Kubernetes Made Easy With Kubeflow - Masoud Mirmomeni, Lead Data Scientist, Shell & Jimmy Guerrero, Vice President of Marketing, Arrikto (9:05-9:20)
A Secure Supply Chain Vision - Luke Hinds, Security Lead, Office of the CTO, Red Hat (9:20-9:25)
Sustaining a Contributor Community’s Next Generation - Christoph Blecker, Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat & Paris Pittman, Program Manager, Apple (9:25-9:40)
Breaking Tradition: The Future of Package Management with Kubernetes - Shatarupa Nandi, Engineering Director @ VMware Tanzu, VMware (9:40-9:45)
Maintaining the Maintainers - Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source, Cisco (9:45-10:00)
SBOM is Coming: Why You Should Care and How You Can Help - Frederick Kautz, AI Chief; Enterprise Architect, Anthem & Allan Friedman, Senior Advisor and Strategist, CISA (10:00-10:15)
Community Awards

Speakers

Paris Pittman

various project roles, independent

Paris Pittman has spent the last 20 years helping communities grow and flourish — from building hometown Baltimore tech communities to driving belonging and sustainability in massive open source ecosystems like Kubernetes. Paris has contributed to Kubernetes for 6 years and serves... Read More →

Luke Hinds

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Luke Hinds works within the Emerging Technologies group in Red Hat's CTO office, where he leads a team working on open source security. Luke started the project sigstore, alongside many other OSS security projects. He has held numerous OSS community leadership roles, such as the Kubernetes... Read More →

Christoph Blecker

Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat

Christoph is an Architect and Senior Principal SRE at Red Hat. He's a long time maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and sits on the CNCF Governing Board.

Constance Caramanolis

Principal Software Engineer, Splunk

Shatarupa Nandi

Engineering Director @ VMware Tanzu, VMware

Shatarupa Nandi is an engineering leader focused on software distribution and lifecycle management problems with a strong emphasis on improving Day 2 operational experiences. Her interest follows naturally from past work building infrastructure management tools and tools for running... Read More →

Frederick Kautz

Director of R&D, TestifySec

Frederick collaborates on security and networking. He is on the SPIFFE Steering Committee, focusing on providing Zero Trust Workload Identity to compute workloads and resources. Frederick co-authored Solving the Bottom Turtle. He is a co-founder of OmniBOR and maintains the reference... Read More →

Allan Friedman

Senior Advisor and Strategist, CISA

Dr. Allan Friedman is Senior Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around SBOM and related initiatives. Prior to joining government, Friedman spent over a decade as a noted infosec and... Read More →

Keynote Sessions

Talk Type In-Person