DeveloperWeek 2021
Schedule
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
PRO WORKSHOP (CloudWorld): As a DevExec Are You Doing Enough for Security?
Archana Joshi
LTI, Head - Engineering Transformation
PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Safe to Fail Agile Culture
Sylvia Lobo
Seera Group, Project Manager, Program Manager
PRO WORKSHOP: Edge Computing Done by Your Network
Flo Pachinger
Cisco DevNet, Developer Advocate
PRO WORKSHOP: Wait...can My Browser Do That??
Francesco Leardini
Trivadis, Senior consultant and Angular trainer
OPENING KEYNOTE: Twilio -- Why Great Infrastructure is the Foundation of Innovation
Jeff Lawson
Twilio, CEO and Co-Founder
Jason Hudak
Twilio, VP of Platform Engineering
PRO WORKSHOP (CloudWorld): How Cisco Embraced a DevOps Culture within Its Network Engineering Team
Stuart Clark
Cisco Systems, Network Automation Developer Evangelist
PRO WORKSHOP: The 90s Called & They Want Their Websites Back
Rachel White
Datadog, Technical Evangelist
PRO WORKSHOP (CloudWorld): How to Benchmark Your Apache Kafka
Kirill Kulikov
Confluent, Consulting Engineer
PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): The Perfect Product Owner
Richard Cheng
NextUp Solutions, VP of Training and Chief Product Owner
PRO WORKSHOP: Manage Microservices at Scale with Istio and Anthos Service Mesh
Giovanni Galloro
Google Cloud, Application Modernization Solution Specialist
PRO WORKSHOP: NodeJS, ML, K8s and Unethical Face Recognition
Joel Lord
Red Hat OpenShift, Developer Advocate
PRO WORKSHOP (CloudWorld): Architecting the Transformation
Asanka Abeysinghe
WSO2, Chief Technology Evangelist
PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Virtual Table Estimation: Rapid Collaborative Estimation for Product Teams
Paul Sobocinski
Connected, Engineering Practice Director
PRO WORKSHOP: From Zero to Hero with Observability in Microservices
Ricardo Ferreira
Elastic, Principal Developer Advocate
PRO WORKSHOP: Fugue: A New Way to Think and Solve Distributed Computing Problems
Han Wang
Lyft, Staff Engineer, Tech Lead
PRO WORKSHOP: Image Gesture Controls Using Monoids
Sarah Renfro
Empyrean Benefit Solutions, Web Systems Engineer
PRO WORKSHOP (CloudWorld): Data Lake on Cloud
Anwar Zeeshan
New York City Department of Education, Executive Director – Finance and Product Engineering Division of Instructional and Information Technology (DIIT)
PRO WORKSHOP (ProductWorld): Setting up Product Owners for Success
Cathy Cao
Olive Tree Holdings, Director of Digital
Grzegorz Lotysz
Boldare, Senior Product Designer
Aneta Orszewska
Boldare, New Products Guide
PRO WORKSHOP: Deploying a Modern Serverless Reactive Microservice to the Cloud
Mary Grygleski
IBM, Senior Developer Advocate
PRO WORKSHOP: Large Graph Neural Network Learning with Kubernetes Spark
Jintao Zhang
Square, Software Engineer Machine Learning
PRO WORKSHOP: You Sure, You Want to Be an Engineering Manager?
Sonali Kalgaonkar
Intuit, Sr Development Manager | Leader Tech Women
PRO WORKSHOP (CloudWorld): The Fifth Element: Azure Secure Devops
Mike Martin
Microsoft, Technical Evangelist
PRO WORKSHOP: Making Apps Listen and React with LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service)
Sam Nasr
NIS Technologies, Sr. Software Engineer
PRO WORKSHOP: Performance as a Culture - Not Another Survival Kit
William Mendes
Farfetch, Performance Engineer
Thursday, February 18, 2021
FEATURED TALK: Expanding Your Developer Base - an Emerging Trend in Application Development
Srinivas Thummalapalli
Fifth Third Bank, Senior VP - Chief Enterprise Architect
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): Demystifying Distributed Tracing
Jayesh Bapu Ahire
Traceable.ai, Founding Engineer
PRO SESSION: Beyond the Container – the Developer Experience of Microservices
David Thor
Architect.io, Founder & CEO
PRO SESSION: Create a Learning Culture
Amir Shaked
PerimeterX, VP of R&D
PRO SESSION: Operationalising Responsible AI
Devangana Khokhar
ThoughtWorks, Lead Data Scientist
Vanya Seth
Thoughtworks India, Head of Technology
OPEN TALK: From Containers to Kubernetes Operators
Philipp Krenn
Elastic, Developer Advocate
PRO SESSION: GitOps, Kubernetes, and Secret Management
Kara de la Marck
CloudBees, Open Source Community Manager
PRO SESSION: Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale
Manoj Agarwal
Salesforce, Distributed Systems Architect
PRO SESSION: Why Designers & Developers Need a Common Language
Jedidiah Weller
OpenForge, Product Designer, Founder, & Software Guru
OPEN TALK: Self-Destructing Kubernetes Clusters Using Terraform and GitHub Actions
Nills Franssens
Microsoft, Sr. Cloud Solution Architect
OPEN TALK: Why Do I Need Runtime Security....and Why Do I Want Cookies Too?
Dan “POP” Papandrea
Sysdig, Director of Open Source Community and Ecosystem
Scott Surovich
HSBC, Global Container Engineering Lead
PRO SESSION: Beyond the Network: Data-Centric Security and Technical Controls for Kubernetes
Tim Tschampel
Virtru, VP of Engineering Product Development
PRO SESSION: Bringing Responsible AI to the Enterprise
Triveni Gandhi
Dataiku, Data Scientist, Responsible AI
PRO SESSION: The Goldilocks Problem of Software Delivery
Anders Wallgren
CloudBees, VP of Technology Strategy
KEYNOTE: Citrix -- Your Chip Implant Is Ready, Are You?
PJ Hough
Citrix, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): Going Serverless in an Early Stage Startup
Fatih Acet
Superpeer, Co-founder and CTO
OPEN TALK (ProductWorld): How to Build Effective Remote Agile Teams?
Vili Mileva Yankova
ScaleFocus, Senior Project Manager and Project Management Trainer
OPEN TALK: Get Your CI/CD Pipeline Flowing
Kate Shastakova
Trulioo, Front end developer
Alexander Julianto
Trulioo, Software Engineer
PRO SESSION: How to Avoid 'Day 2' Kubernetes Problems
Lewis Marshall
appvia.io, SRE and Tech Evangelist
PRO SESSION: Local Fulfillment for the Smart Home
Toni Klopfenstein
Google, Developer Advocate
PRO SESSION: Rise of Next-Gen Software Supply Chain Attacks
Brian Fox
Sonatype, Chief Technology Officer
OPEN TALK: Creating Fully Reactive Applications with R2DBC
Rob Hedgpeth
MariaDB, Director, Developer Relations
OPEN TALk (ProductWorld): Pretotyping - Finding Market Fit before You Even Have a Prototype
Shay Mandel
Next Insurance, Engineering Manager
OPEN TALK (ProductWorld): Defining and Measuring Success in Product
Sebastian Honores Espejo
Fever Labs, Director of Product Management
OPEN TALK: Shift Data Security to the Left
Steve Luplow
Absio Corporation, Vice President, Software Development
PRO SESSION: AI Readiness: Utilizing Machine Learning to Scale Analytics across Big Data
Wolf Ruzicka
EastBanc Technologies, Chairman
Victor Shilo
EastBanc Technologies, CTO
PRO SESSION: Developer Training Is Broken. Here's How We Fix It
Mark Lassoff
Framework Television, Founder
OPEN TALK: Develop Smarter, Easier, and Confidently!
Anthony Baer
Sonatype, Solutions Architect
KEYNOTE: IBM -- Supercharging the Developer Experience with an Enriched API Hub
Soumitra Limaye
IBM, Director, Digital Technology Lab & API Economy
OPEN TALK (ProductWorld): Kanban for Product Managers
Anurag Sharma
Zensar Technologies Netherlands, Agile Delivery Manager
OPEN TALK: One Company's Journey Going Serverless with AWS
Mike Watson
Synerzip, VP of Engineering
Philip Edge
Intertek Alchemy, Vice President, Engineering & Chief Security Office
PRO SESSION: Creating a Kubernetes Operator in Java
Rudy De Busscher
Payara, Developer Advocate
PRO SESSION: Delivering Visual Perception and Holographic Content with AI
Taylor Scott
IKIN, Founder and Chief Technology Officer
OPEN TALK: Driving Cloud Innovation with Ephemeral, Immutable and Compliant Data
Jason Simpson
Choice Hotels, Vice President, Engineering
Alex Hesterberg
Delphix, Chief Technology Officer
OPEN TALK: Testing in Production
Talia Nassi
Split Software, Developer Advocate
PRO SESSION: Cultivating Engineer Team Resilience in the World of AI
Akshay Sharma
doc.ai, Chief Technology Officer
PRO SESSION: The Evolution of Developer Evangelism
Johnny Higgins
Digits, Advisory Board Member
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): Accelerating App Validation in the Cloud
Jacquelyn Ekwueme
Microsoft, Senior Program Manager
Michael Nwanna
Microsoft, Software Engineering Lead
OPEN TALK: Engineering Innovation -- Microfocus
Martin Knobloch
Micro Focus, Global AppSec Strategist
PRO SESSION: Making the Case for People First Automation
Sagi Eliyahu
Tonkean, Co-Founder & CEO
PRO SESSION: Rethinking the Role of AI in Technical Hiring
Vivek Ravisankar
HackerRank, Co-Founder & CEO
OPEN TALK: Observability for Software Teams
Shelby Spees
Honeycomb.io, Developer Advocate
PRO SESSION: Containerize Microservices with Service Fabric
Rebai Hamida
Revenu Quebec, Software Architect
PRO SESSION: Low-Latency Inference Using TensorFlow Models in Dataflow Pipelines
Dash Desai
StreamSets, Director of Platform and Technical Evangelism
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): Cloud Run - Why Serverless Is Awesome
Lars Artmann
Skylines One, Co-Founder, CTO
PRO SESSION: Architectural Caching Patterns for Kubernetes
Rafal Leszko
Hazelcast, Cloud Software Engineer
PRO SESSION: DevSec AI Ops
Myra Haubrich
Salesforce, Lead Site Reliability Engineer
KEYNOTE: Microsoft -- Are We There Yet?
Emily Freeman
Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate
OPEN TALK: Engineering Innovation -- IBM
Daniel Krook
IBM, Chief Technology Officer for the Call for Code Global Initiative
Upkar Lidder
IBM, Senior Developer Advocate, Call for Code
OPEN TALK: Low Code Identity Verification Is Changing the Game in Fraud and KYC
Mark Prest
Trulioo, Account Executive, SMB
Victor Cuevas
Trulioo, Account Executive, SMB
PRO WORKSHOP: What Is Your Role in Building a Culture of High Performing Engineering Teams?
Rama Kulasekaran
UHG-Optum, Senior Director of Software Engineering
Vidal Graupera
LinkedIn, Engineering Manager
Alexandra Paredes
Code Climate, VP of Engineering
Annie Zhou
Square, Director of Engineering, Business Platform Engineering
KEYNOTE (ProductWorld): Vonage -- Putting Customer Communications at the Center of the E-Commerce Experience
Brian Gilman
Vonage, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): Performance & Latency Prediction Using AI/ML on Streaming and Eventing Platforms
Bijan Mohanty
Dell Technologies, Sr. Enterprise Architect
OPEN TALK: Engineering Innovation -- Tyk
Matt Tanner
Tyk, Product Evangelist
PRO SESSION: So You Think You Know the Behavior of Your Containers? Would You Stake Your Job on It?
John Day
DeepFactor, Pre-Production Observability for Developers
Friday, February 19, 2021
OPEN TALK: SaaS-on-SaaS: The SaaS App Ecosystem That Silently Generates $5b+ Revenue for Developers
Albert Ho
Sidr, Co-Founder
Tongbo Huang
Chaser, Cofounder
PRO SESSION: Engineering Culture: Why Ownership Is the Secret Ingredient
Eric Rabinovitch
Aspectiva - A Walmart company, VP of Engineering
OPEN TALK: Control Kubernetes Ingress and Egress Together with NGINX
Amir Rawdat
NGINX, Technical Marketing Engineer
OPEN TALK (ProductWorld): Thinking beyond Product & Crafting the 3600 Customer Experience
Abhishek Jain
ServiceNow, Staff UX Researcher - ServiceNow, Co-founder
OPEN TALK: Get Your Apps in Front of 800,000k Developers
Walt Ribeiro
Linode, Developer Advocate
OPEN TALK: Making Data Programmable and API-Driven
Dan Graves
Delphix, Chief Technology Officer
PRO SESSION: How to Stop Breaking Other People's Things
Lisa Karlin Curtis
GoCardless, API Engineer
PRO SESSION: The "Business" of Building APIs Into Your Business
Pat Patterson
Citrix, Developer Architect Evangelist
OPEN TALK: Enrich the Developer Experience Utilizing APIs with IBM API Hub
Paul Gordon
IBM, Manager - IBM API Economy
Steve Kenna
IBM, STSM Watson Supply Chain | Supply Chain Platform Principal Architect | Master Inventor | IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software
OPEN TALK: Real-World Insights on Container Security and Usage
Knox Anderson
Sysdig, VP of Product
Aaron Newcomb
Sysdig, Director of Product Marketing
PRO WORKSHOP: JavaScript Worker Procs, Communication, and Storage Features
Sam Nasr
NIS Technologies, Sr. Software Engineer
OPEN TALK: Securing and Managing K8s Apps with Ease: NGINX Service Mesh
Alan Murphy
F5 Networks, Sr. Product Manager, Service Mesh
PRO SESSION: Battle-Tested Event-Driven Patterns for Your Microservices Architecture
Natan Silnitsky
Wix, Backend Infra Developer
KEYNOTE: Roblox -- How to Scale and Manage Multiple Developer Communities
Matthew Curtis
Roblox, Vice President of Developer Relations
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Keeping Your Service Reliable with SLIs and SLOs
Prathyusha Charagondla
Adobe, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Technology
OPEN TALK (ProductWorld): Gamification Strategy for Enterprises to Enable Product Practices
Garima Bajpai
Capital Carbon Consulting, Co-Creator Continuous Product Oriented Practice
OPEN TALK: Stop Using Databases and Start Using Data Services
Patrick McFadin
DataStax, Head of Developer Relations
PRO SESSION: Using Google Apps Script to Sync Data and Automate Workflows
Al Chen
Coda, Solutions Architect
PRO SESSION: Waking up in the Weeds of Microservices? How to Diagnose Your First Bug
Muktesh Mishra
Adobe, Senior Software Engineer
PRO SESSION: You Are Moldable, Yes? : But, How to Not Leave All the Molding to Others to Thrive !
Sneha Singla
Salesforce, Senior Engineering Manager
OPEN TALK: (ProductWorld): The 5 Responsibilities of a High-Performing Agile Leader
Jill Stott
NextUp Solutions, Senior Agile Trainer, Excella Training
OPEN TALK: Groove with Ambiguity: The Robust, the Reliable, and the Resilient
Matt Davis
Blameless, Senior Infrastructure Engineer
PRO SESSION: Jamstack: Going (a Little Bit) Back to the Roots
Facundo Giuliani
MultiTracks.com, Senior Developer and Team Leader
PRO SESSION: Relationship with Developers. Is It Worth It?
Rodrigo Mota
WSO2, Head of Developer Marketing
OPEN TALK: Building a Progressive Web App from Scratch
Rui Barbosa
OutSystems, Developer Advocate and Evangelist
PRO SESSION: Building Tools for the API Developer
Rahul Agarwal
Boomi, Technical Product Manager
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): DevOps on AWS
Saikat Banerjee
Amazon Web Services, Sr. Product Manager - Tech
OPEN TALK (ProductWorld): Why Women Make Great Product Managers
Renu Motwani
AIOps Operational Intelligence, Head of Product
OPEN TALK: Lessons in Platform Engineering
Samir Naik
Plaid, Director of Engineering
PRO SESSION: A Survey of Strategies Used at Box to Protect MySQL
Priyanka Reddy
Box, Sr. Engineering Manager, Relational Data Access
PRO SESSION: Driving Innovation through Diversity
Claudia Galvan
Oracle, Principal Technical Product Manager
PRO SESSION: Empowering Application Developers with Serverless Real-Time Analytics
Dhruba Borthakur
Rockset, CTO and Co-Founder
FEATURED TALK: Simplifying Data-Driven Microservices with a Converged Data Architecture
Sanjay Goil
Oracle Database Cloud, Vice President, Product
Paul Parkinson
Oracle, Oracle Microservices Platform Data and Transaction Processing Dev Lead
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): How to Get Quick-Started into AWS Cloudformation
Roland Heusser
SRI International, Software Engineer
PRO SESSION: The Asynchronous Enterprise
Brendan O'Leary
GitLab, Sr. Developer Evangelist
PRO SESSION: Why Is DBaaS So Important for Developer Enablement?
Rick Vasquez
Percona, Chief of Staff, CXO
OPEN TALK (CloudWorld): Building Reliable Web Services with Kotlin Ktor
Julien Salvi
Aircall, Senior Android Engineer
PRO SESSION: From API Design to Development, How to Move Fast in Anypoint Platform
Jordan Schuetz
MuleSoft, Developer Advocate
PRO WORKSHOP: 4 Steps from JavaScript to TypeScript
Phil Nash
Twilio, Developer Evangelist
