Cloud Foundry / Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016

BOSH 2.0: The Evolution - Alexander Lomov, Altoros

BOSH 2.0 is not what most people think it is. It is not a major release of BOSH, and, in fact, not a version at all. BOSH 2.0 is a set of concepts, features, and ideas designed to improve and evolve the BOSH project. In this talk, Alexander will share with you the most exciting and useful upcoming and existing BOSH features, give you a tour to the internals, and show how new changes appear in the project. He will also highlight the main driving forces of the BOSH evolution, describe the role of the Concourse project in this process, show how we can influence the direction in which BOSH is moving. BOSH 2.0 is almost out, so be ready to get the most of it!

About Alexander Lomov
Alexander Lomov is a Cloud Foundry Engineer at Altoros. With extensive experience in Ruby, Go, and Python, he was involved in development of several BOSH CPIs and a number of other Cloud Foundry-related projects. A fan of the open source movement, Alexander has contributed to BOSH, Admin UI, Fog, etc.

Beyond 1001 Dedicated Data Service Instances - Julian Fischer, anynines

The first on-demand provisioning service brokers have appeared on the radar. This talk inspires to use them at scale leading to new challenges. Provisioning thousands of dedicated service instances, a corresponding number of VMs or even clusters of VMs needs to be managed. Find out whether common practises from manual cluster operations and automation strategies suitable for managing a small number of service instances can still be applied. Striving for a full lifecycle automation, this talk gives insights about obstacles and strategies for deploying dedicated, clustered data services instances at a large scale. Questions such as how to manage thousands of service instance dedicated PostgreSQL or MongoDB clusters will be discussed, exemplarily. Join this talk and the mission to automatically manage the entire lifecycle of complex data services beyond 1001 service instances.

Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer is CEO of Avarteq GmbH, the company behind anynines. He is enthusiastic about lean thinking, agile and cloud. As a Ruby friend he fell in love with Cloud Foundry, early. By running Cloud Foundry for more than two years on VMware, AWS and OpenStack as well as researching deep into the development of Cloud Foundry services, Julian has collected valuable experience about the capabilities of Cloud Foundry.

BoF: Security Best Practices in Cloud Foundry

Building an IoT Cloud for the Healthcare Industry: How to Solve Networking, Security, and Multi-tenancy Challenges and Still Have Fault Tolerance and High Availability - Sergey Sverchkov, Altoros

Imagine yourself building an IoT healthcare cloud solution that securely connects to hundreds of private hospital networks and exchanges data with 100,000+ devices via WebSocket, TCP, and HTTP. In this scenario, even private networks routing can become a challenge. Now, add the requirements to encrypt and store customer data separately, run the pool of shared applications in Cloud Foundry for customer multi-tenancy, and integrate authentication with customer directory services. What you will get is a very complex project that must thoroughly address all aspects of building a shared and secure private cloud. In this talk, we will concentrate on the details of networking, security, and multi-tenancy implementations for an IoT cloud-based healthcare solution and reveal the architecture principles of device adapters that allow for seamless integration of new devices.

About Sergey Sverchkov
Sergey Sverchkov has over 15 years of experience in building complex software architectures, database development, and data migration. Since 1996, Sergey has created dozens of enterprise solutions for big data analysis and BI that utilize distributed frameworks (such as Hadoop) and are deployed in public and private cloud infrastructures, including Amazon, Joyent, Rackspace, OpenStack, etc. Sergey is a certified Oracle trainer and a frequent speaker at international IT conferences, e.g., JAX London.

Building an Open Framework for Cloud Based IoT Solutions - Steffen Evers, Bosch Software Innovations GmbH

It is expected that in the next years billions of devices will be connected to the internet of things (IoT). Many of them will interact with cloud-based solutions to provide additional services on the devices or in the web. To bring IoT to the next level technologies for supporting cross-domain/cross-vendor solutions are needed. Cloud Foundry is a great technological base for building IoT solutions. However, on top of it, software is needed for the connectivity challenges, support of domain-specific protocols, large scale messaging and device management and integration with existing infrastructure. Eclipse IoT aims to address these needs and provide an IoT framework that makes IoT development fast and simple. Bosch SI is active in CFF and Eclipse to bring both worlds together to develop with many other companies a suitable base for the IoT solutions of tomorrow. Come and join us!

About Steffen Evers
Steffen Evers is responsible for all matters relating to open source software such as strategy, community, and software management infrastructure at Bosch Software Innovations GmbH since 2012. The topic has been his professional focus since 2000 when he started researching on open source development and continued by helping companies to use the open source approach to reach their business goals.

CF Server-Less: CloudFoundry as a Platform for Server-less Computing - Nima Kaviani & Michael Maximilien, IBM

As CloudFoundry matures to become the de-facto platform for enterprise cloud computing, it is no surprise that various types of computing services need to be supported. Server-less computing is a new name for various previous concepts or technologies, e.g. functors, functional programming. In this model of computing, applications are written as a series of small functions with clear input and output and can be executed in the cloud on demand. The difference between this approach and eg. micro-services is that the backend part only executes when invoked. In this talk we compare and contrast possible approaches to make CF a first class platform for server-less computing. We explore retrofitting the current CF app push model, leverage open source server less platforms like OpenWhisk, and investigate how the CF runtime (Diego) could be improved to support server less apps as on-off tasks.

About Nima Kaviani
Nima Kaviani is a Cloud Engineer with IBM Cloud Labs and also a member of Cloud Foundry's Diego Team. Nima has a PhD in computer science, and has been working in the area of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud as part of his PhD work. He has also been the developer of Cloud Foundry BlueDocs, and has been actively writing about the experience of developing Cloud Foundry.

About Michael (aka dr.max) Maximilien
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and work closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.

Catch Me If You Can – Leveraging Cloud Foundry, SDN, BOSH and Predictive Analytics to Outrun Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) While Maintaining Optimal Quality of Service (QoS) - Keith Strini, Merlin Glynn & Sean Keery, Pivotal

As we work to move the BOSH/Cloud Foundry ecosystem closer to an autonomous dynamic runtime architecture, it’s time to incorporate more layers of the OSI model into the fold to provide a more robust security posture and optimize performance. BOSH coupled with a properly architected SDN, can manage more complexity in its deployments such that each Cloud Foundry deployment can adapt in response to demands on the system, security policy, or degradation of network performance. By analyzing continuous feedback of key metrics and easily offloading these metrics to BOSH managed Big Data platforms, operators can now define Domain Specific Language (DSL) based strategies and pass them to BOSH to manage how to adapt the entire domain in response to changes in the health of the communications layers below it.

About Merlin Glynn
Merlin has been building complex environments for over 20 years {yeah he's an old guy}. While with IBM, he architected some of the worlds largest Supercomputers regularly being listed on the https://www.top500.org/. At VMware, he was the lead architect for VMware's global OneCloud. Now at Pivotal, he focuses on designing next generation Cloud Foundry platforms with Pivotal's key enterprise customers.

About Sean Keery
Sean Keery began hacking obscure video game systems at the age of 13. Sean then developed interpersonal skills while teaching snowboarding. Nowadays we've got Cloud Foundry, choreography, containers and plenty of io. Cluster deployments and IaaS independence occupy most days, while the daily commute is filled with podcasts and chipmunk bunny hops. Some family time, spicy food, a good book and hacking on the newest toy keep Sean busy at home.

About Keith Strini
Keith Strini is a Cloud Foundry Solutions Architect at Pivotal, implementing Cloud Foundry solutions across a wide variety of customer environments both in the Federal and Commercial space. He also served as a technology analyst for the US Department of Defense and Intelligence communities. In this capacity, he was responsible in aiding the enterprise management decision process and guiding the modernization migrations to cloud initiatives. In addition to this he provided strategic analysis to aide in the planning and investment projections necessary for this technology acquisition. He has helped architect, develop and execute the fielding of information systems across the Joint Services both CONUS and OCONUS (Korea, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East) and NATO.

Cloud Foundry Growing Pains: Lessons Learned Keeping the Largest CF Environment Alive and Kicking - Michael Maximilien, IBM

Bluemix is the largest CF environment by far. It is also arguably the one with the most usage and users. Come to this talk to hear from the World Wide DevOps and development team who answers the call when things go wrong and who also help keep Bluemix up to date and running.

We plan to share what we have learned in the past year as we grew and encountered unexpected failures and how we dealt with them.

About Michael (aka dr.max) Maximilien
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and work closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.

Cloud Foundry in the Community - Kim Bannerman, IBM; Lukas Lehmann, Swisscom; Paula Kennedy, Pivotal; and Stormy Peters, Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is more than an open source platform; it’s a growing community! In the past two years, our community has grown by leaps and bounds as a result of very passionate and dedicated people as well as crucial community tools like GitHub, Slack, and Twitter. Cloud Foundry meet-ups foster a collaborative, inclusive environment focused on new releases, best practices, and how customers are using Cloud Foundry. Come meet Cloud Foundry organizer for Seattle and Atlanta Kim Bannerman of IBM, London organizer Paula Kennedy of Cloud Credo/Pivotal, and Lukas Lehmann of Swisscom (Swisscom helps to organize the CF Community across the EU). Moderated by Stormy Peters, VP of Advocacy for the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The panel will discuss lessons learned, what 2016 looks like for the Cloud Foundry community.

About Stormy Peters
Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst with a long standing career in educating and advocating for open source software, Stormy built up and led Mozilla’s 7000 strong developer network and has been a leader in the open source community efforts through multiple positions and philanthropic projects.

Previously she was VP of Developer Relations at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Prior to that, she was Director of the Mozilla Developer Network and served as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she worked at OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. At Hewlett-Packard she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP’s open source strategy, policy and business practices.

Stormy Peters is a founding member and director of Kids on Computers and served as its first President. She is also on the board of directors for Software Freedom Conservancy.
Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.

About Kim Bannerman
Kim Bannerman leads the Technical Advocacy & Community team inside the Office of the CTO at IBM Blue Box. Kim has over a decade of experience in the tech industry working with enterprise customers. Prior to joining Blue Box, she was the Director of Evangelism Programs inside the ISV Partner Ecosystem at CenturyLink Cloud.

Kim is passionate about open source and the open source community. She co-founded the Atlanta Hadoop Users Group in 2011, and co-founded the Seattle & Atlanta Cloud Foundry meet-up groups in 2014. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman

About Paula Kennedy
Paula joined Pivotal in 2015 as Director of Business Operations, EMEA Services and is focused on working together with clients to drive innovation, disruption and transformation. She was previously Chief Operating Officer and cofounder of CloudCredo and has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years. Paula is passionate about community, diversity and inclusion, and has a range of speaking experience, including Cloud Foundry Summits in Santa Clara and Berlin, QCon in London and several meetups. She also organises the London PaaS User Group.

About Lukas Lehmann
Lukas Lehmann is product owner of Swisscom’s Application Cloud and a Cloud Foundry ambassador. As a cloud native, he loves developer platforms. That’s why he got in contact with Cloud Foundry: In 2013 Swisscom sent him to Pivotal Labs to build the skills needed to run a large scale Cloud Foundry implementation. As co–founder of the Cloud Foundry user group in Switzerland, he is also heavily involved in the whole Swiss cloud community.

Cloud Foundry on Google Cloud Platform - Colleen Briant & Eric Johnson, Google

Google Cloud Platform allows developers to build their applications on the same global infrastructure that allows Google to return billions of search results in milliseconds, serve six billion hours of YouTube video per month, and provide storage for almost a billion Gmail users. But what if this infrastructure was also available as the underpinning for your next Cloud Foundry deployment? Join the Google team as they illustrate how they expose Google Cloud Platform to Cloud Foundry developers and their applications.

About Colleen Briant
Colleen has been at Google for 3 months, developing a Service Broker for Google Cloud Platform. Prior to Google, Colleen worked at a variety of startups as a full-stack software developer. 2 of those startups were in the travel space, and the most recent was acquired by Booking.com.

About Eric Johnson
Tech Lead/Manager, Google

Designing for Multicloud - Mark DCunha, Pivotal

Your carefully planned cloud strategy and technology architecture is useless, because multicloud changes everything. In this session, we will explore what multicloud means and why your business will force it upon you. We provide examples of customers successfully using multicloud models, identify early patterns of usage and how to leverage them.

You’ll learn about how Cloud Foundry provides unique capabilities to simplify and implement multicloud deployments. We’ll cover how you can use features like service brokers, service plans, asynchronous provisioning and arbitrary parameters to deploy muilticloud, while still maintaining a consistent experience for your application developers and IT operations staff.

About Mark DCunha
Mark D’Cunha, P.Eng. is a product manager with Pivotal, specializing in mobile technologies and solutions. He has over 25 years of industry experience and a strong computer engineering and software development background. He has spoken on Wearable technologies at SxSW and has worked with the world’s leading airlines, telecom providers, utilities and large enterprises to build and execute their mobile strategy. He holds several technology patents and is a nationally certified archery coach.

Developing a Westy Tracking platform on Cloud Foundry - Rob Brinkman, JDriven

Experiencing Europe while traveling with our Volkswagen Camper (Westy) is one of the items on top of my bucket list. It would be great to offer friends and family the possibility to track our adventure in real-time and build up a history of the route we took and the places we visited. For that purpose I develop a real-time tracking platform using Vert.x, Redis and AngularJS and I equipped the Westy with an online GPS Tracker and deployed it to CloudFloundry. The realized platform uses Vert.x to handle events published by the tracker(s), stores the history in Redis and visualizes the real-time location and history an a map using AngularJS. This session will give insight in the modern (reactive) architecture style of the application and a hands on introduction to Vert.x., Redis and AngularJS deployed on Cloud Foundry.

About Rob Brinkman
Rob is a founding member of JDriven and within JDriven primarily responsible for the development of his colleagues and the organization. Based on his passion for technology and extensive experience as a developer and architect he takes every opportunity to dive into the code.

Developing with Cloud Foundry 101 - Maria Ntalla & Jatin Naik, Pivotal

Do you want to get started with Cloud Foundry - but think that setting it up takes too long? Do you want to know to get started with using services but don’t have a BOSH director setup?

Join us while we give you a quick intro to the fundamentals and then take you through the whole process of writing, deploying, updating apps on CF.

In this session, we will iterate on an application, demonstrating how you can get started on a Cloud Foundry without even leaving your workstation - and push to a remote Cloud Foundry when ready. You will also learn how to use services from your CF application.

About Jatin Naik
Software Engineer at Pivotal, on Cloud Foundry.

About Maria Ntalla
Maria works as a Software Engineer with Pivotal on CloudFoundry.

Diversity Lunch & Program - Tracy Miranda

The 7 Habits of Highly Diverse Communities
IoT is transforming our societies. But how do we ensure we don't end up solving IoT problems for just the elite, or a tiny percentage of society? Fortunately there are diverse communities out there we can learn from. This talk distils 7 habits learnt from these communities and a framework for sustaining diverse IoT communities. The more diverse our IoT communities the more secure and resilient society will be.

Tracy Miranda
Director, Kichwa Coders
Tracy Miranda is a developer, open source evangelist and veteran of the Eclipse community. She is founder of Kichwa Coders, a software consultancy specialising in Eclipse tools for scientific and embedded software. Tracy has a background in electronics system design, including patents for her work on processor architectures. She writes for opensouce.com and jaxenter.com on tech, open source & diversity.

Do More With Your Apps: Unleashing the Power of the V3 Cloud Controller API - Utako Ueda and Dan Wendorf, Pivotal

Some of the biggest problems developers have had with the Cloud Controller API have traditionally revolved around lifecycle management of their apps. The lack of features like version rollbacks, zero downtime deployment, running one-off tasks, simplified database migration, and running multiple processes per application have frustrated many developers.

The CAPI team is working on making all this and more possible with V3 of the cloud controller API. The new application modeling provides much more flexibility and control over the workflows available to you for application deployment, while maintaining backwards compatibility with the Cloud Foundry interface you use today.

Utako and Dan will explain how to take advantage of the V3 API, and get into the details of the strategies involved in ensuring both dependable backwards compatibility and exciting new resource modularity.

About Utako Ueda
Utako is a core contributor to the Cloud Controller API on the CF CAPI Team. She is a Pivotal CF software engineer with a background in physics. She is very excited about her escape from basement laboratories into the world of agile development and offices with windows.

About Dan Wendorf
Dan is a consultant at Pivotal Labs who has been working with and on Cloud Foundry in multiple capacities since 2013. He is a core contributor to the Cloud Controller API. | Utako and Dan previously presented on the Cloud Controller API at the 2016 North American CF Summit.

Docker & Buildpacks: One App, Two Options for Deploying to Cloud Foundry - Jen Spinney, HPE & James Myers, Pivotal

Now that Cloud Foundry natively supports pushing Docker containers in addition to the traditional approach of constructing an app from a buildpack, end-users have a choice about which strategy to use. In this talk, we’ll walk through pushing the same sample app to Cloud Foundry using both the buildpack and Docker container techniques.

We’ll discuss the pros and cons of both approaches, and at the end of the talk, attendees will have a better sense of the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ of the buildpack and Docker application lifecycles in Cloud Foundry.

About James Myers
James Myers is a software engineer for Pivotal Software and a core contributor to the Cloud Foundry project. James is currently the anchor of the Diego team and has worked on Cloud Foundry for two years. He has presented previously at the 2015 and 2016 North American CF Summits.

About Jen Spinney
Jen Spinney is a software engineer at HP Enterprise, where she works as a core contributor on the CF Diego team. Prior to HPE, she worked at Microsoft on the OData team where she developed a passion for open source and cross-company software development. She pairs remotely from the HPE office in Seattle, WA.

Docker and Cloud Foundry: The 3 Use Cases - Alexandre Vasseur, Pivotal

With Diego, Cloud Foundry is capable of deploying and running apps as Docker images. That is now easy to orchestrate, scale and manage in production those Docker containers up to the point that what you care is not Docker but the app itself. But there is more you can do to and explore combining Cloud Foundry with Docker!

- leveraging Docker service broker, possibly using Docker Swarm managed by BOSH to provide containers as a service with all the BOSH and service broker great capabilities
- leveraging Concourse and Docker based pipeline to ensure your run pipeline in isolation, using Concourse as BOSH release with garden-runC.

Those 3 uses cases are fully independent yet all use Cloud Foundry, BOSH and Docker to align to specific requirements. Come learn about those combined architectures, seem them in action thru live demos, and expand the possibilities with Cloud Foundry.

About Alexandre Vasseur
Alexandre Vasseur is in charge of Pivotal ‘ technical field engagements in France and South of Europe. He and his team are in charge of technical awareness and solution architecture for customers, prospects and partners in that region around Cloud Foundry and Pivotal solutions. Alexandre joined Pivotal at its creation from his past tenure at VMware in the early Cloud Foundry days and spent around 15 years on applications and middleware. He also leads the Cloud Foundry Paris meetup.

Enable IoT and Media Support in CF with Custom TCP/UDP Routers - Roman Swoszowski, Grape Up

Recent updates to cf-routing introduced new powerful improvements related to route services and TCP routing. Yet there is still a missing piece of the puzzle – UDP routing. We would like to share experiences we gained at Grape Up while working on adding UDP routing in Cloud Foundry and how the original idea evolved into something much more flexible. During this talk we will present a pluggable router architecture that can make Cloud Foundry even more powerful and extensible. We will show how one can attach and register a custom router to appropriately handle specific TCP or UDP based protocols and what new possibilities open for the Cloud Foundry platform.

About Roman Swoszowski
Roman Swoszowski is CTO and VP Cloud Foundry Services at Grape Up. Responsible for developing the overall technology vision of the company with focus on Cloud Foundry and related cloud technologies. With almost 15 years of hands-on experience in the IT industry, he drives the company’s technology strategy and works with engineering teams to ensure continuous delivery of innovative software solutions.

Enabling Cloud Foundry to Run on Bare Metal - Brian Roche, EMC

For years, Cloud Foundry users have been asking for the functionality to deploy Cloud Foundry on bare metal machines. With the new RackHD CPI, Bosh is now empowered to provision bare-metal machines, deploy software on them, and monitor the health of deployments. In this talk we will describe the work we have done over the past 12 months to enable Cloud Foundry to run on bare metal machines.

Fireside Chat: ClearPath to Deep Dive into Container Data - Abby Kearns & John Garrett

About John Garrett
John Garrett is a Founder and Partner at ClearPath Strategies, a US-based research and consulting firm specializing in international political campaigns and multi-national corporate strategy. Garrett has a proven track record of success advising political, corporate, and organizational leaders around the world—from winning elections, to branding and positioning, to executing challenging research. His body of work spans six continents and over two dozen countries.

Garrett has worked on high profile races and historic victories across the globe—from Australia and the Philippines to Austria and Ukraine—and across a range of levels of office—from Prime Minister to Senator to Mayor. In over 10 years, he has achieved a win record over 90%. Garrett also brings rich experience helping corporate leaders use research to create meaningful insights and impactful executions. He specializes in helping companies of all sizes sharpen reputations, create or refresh brands, and improve messaging to target audiences. He has worked on multiple continents with corporate clients of varying industries—from gigantic tech firms to boutique financial services companies to national consumer product brands. Garrett believes in strategy driven by research and has years of experience designing, executing, and analyzing surveys to translate research into actionable advice for
his clients. In particular, he specializes in complicated research environments—from rural Kenya or diverse archipelagos like the Philippines, to C-Suite executive interviews at Fortune 500 companies, to multiple-geography quantitative and qualitative studies in the rapidly-changing world of IT. Garrett has written, managed, and analyzed hundreds of surveys on a variety of subjects and has personally overseen hundreds of focus groups in more than 20 countries.

Prior to starting ClearPath, Garrett worked at the Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. He received BAs in International Studies and in German from Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

About Abby Kearns
A 18-year technology veteran with a career that has spanned product marketing, product management, and consulting at a mix of Fortune 500 and startup companies. Abby was most recently in the Product Management team at Pivotal, focusing on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Before that Abby led a Product Management and Product Marketing team at Verizon that focused on cloud services.

Five Years Delivering World-Class Business Critical Apps on Cloud Foundry – Tim Savage & Ben Fry, Armakuni

Armakuni has worked with Comic Relief to transform the legacy donations platform into a secure, highly scalable and resilient, micro-service platform that caters for over 100,000 concurrent web sessions and up to 500 payments/second. At the same time, Armakuni was able to reduce the team size by 90% and save iro £5m run costs. This presentation will walk-through the journey, analyse the key decisions along the way, and discuss the benefits gained by a move to Cloud Native and why Cloud Foundry was key to the initial success and remains critical to the on-going success of the platform, and is now being adopted across the wider technology function.

Comic Relief is the UK-based charity responsible for ‘Red Nose Day’; seven hours of primetime live TV with circa 26 million viewers raising over a billion pounds in five years.

About Ben Fry
I am truly excited by the possibilities of cloud native and Cloud Foundry and the potential it has to enable organisations to design, build, deploy and run software solutions the way they should be, breaking free from all the complexities and constraints associated with traditional methods and technologies.

About Tim Savage
Tim has been delivering technology across many industry sectors for the past 20 years, most recently working on high volume/transaction web platforms. He formed Armakuni in 2012 with colleagues to provide a platform through which to deliver business critical systems but applying new methodology. Armakuni use new technologies such as PaaS to enable truly agile delivery.

Got a Pull Request for Diego? Learn the Why, What and How to Contribute to Diego - Jen Spinney, HPE & Luan Santos, Pivotal

So you’ve found a bug in Diego, and you’re excited to make a contribution to the project. Great! Now how do you get your fix accepted into the Diego codebase?

This talk will walk through the process of implementing a small change, writing and running the tests, and following the Diego team’s best practices for Golang development. It will cover common reasons for pull requests to be rejected and peel back the curtains on how the Diego team handles code contributions from developers outside the core team.

We will use the Diego project as a concrete example, but many of the steps discussed will apply to the other Cloud Foundry projects as well.

About Luan Santos
Luan Santos is a Pivotal developer and core contributor to the Cloud Foundry platform. He is a member of the Diego team, located in San Francisco, CA. He also spoke at the CF Summit 2015 in Santa Clara, CA about the Cloud Foundry API.

About Jen Spinney
Jen Spinney is a software engineer at HP Enterprise, where she works as a core contributor on the CF Diego team. Prior to HPE, she worked at Microsoft on the OData team where she developed a passion for open source and cross-company software development. She pairs remotely from the HPE office in Seattle, WA.

Highly Available Cloud Foundry Deployment for Allstate - Henry Sinclair, Allstate

Cloud Foundry has a lot of native features that allows it to run in a highly available manner. However, these features are not enough if you need Cloud Foundry to be highly available across multiple regions particularly for on premise deployments.

This talk walks you through how Allstate architected and designed an integrated infrastructure designed for maximum resiliency. The design starts from datacenter placement to physical infrastructure isolation, network domain isolation, security zone isolation, and up to application architecture patterns. Allstate redesigned everything including the infrastructure supply chain to optimise infrastructure build and delivery.

In the end, Allstate has a multi-deployment solution that spans physical regions and availability zones that guarantee a 99.9% up time for applications.

About Henry Sinclair
Henry Sinclair is a Senior Engineer with Allstate Insurance Company working as part of the CompoZed Platform Engineering team. Henry servers as an internal subject matter expert on Cloud Foundry and Highly available systems. Henry has a significant background in large scale Data solutions within Insurance and Financial Institutions. Previously Henry has presented at SQL User Group meet-ups.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Enterprise-Grade Platform - Rui Nogueira, SAP

This presentation guides you through SAP’s journey to build a PaaS with enterprise-grade qualities on top of Cloud Foundry. Like on every journey there are beautiful experiences, but as well lot’s of challenges until you’ve reached your destination and incorporated all the customer requirements.

Auto-scaling of apps, 2-factor authentication mechanisms, security in general, certification, managing vulnerabilities, connectivity to the IaaS layer, etc.

But hey: don’t panic! You’ll hear the uncut version of all the nice, the good and the bad that SAP is facing during that journey together with several large enterprise customers and maybe even learn from SAP the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

About Rui Nogueira
Rui Nogueira is a product expert in product management for the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, focusing on onboarding developers, customers, and partners to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.He is an active member on the SAP Community Network and is an instructor for several openSAP courses (open.sap.com). Rui is a regular speaker at SAP conferences like e.g. SAP TechEd, SAP Inside Track or SAP InnoJam.

How Cloud Controller Makes the Foundry Go ‘Round - Urvashi Reddy, Pivotal & Simon Leung, IBM

Cloud Foundry is one of the most capable Platform as a Service out there. Internally Cloud Foundry is a very complex system, but at the heart of it lives the Cloud Controller. It’s what makes the entire system tick. And now with the inclusion of v3 features, Cloud Controller is changing into a more performant component within Cloud Foundry.

For those who are actively using and maintaining the platform, it is crucial to understand the internals of Cloud Controller and how it works. In this session, attendees will hear an overview of Cloud Controller and how it fits in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

If you have ever wondered how your source code turns into a running app or what the future of Cloud Controller looks like, this is a talk you won’t want to miss!

Simon Leung
Simon is one of the early Dojo program participant and has been working on varies Cloud Foundry projects for almost 3 years. Currently he is in CAPI team help pushing Cloud Controller features forward.

Urvashi Reddy
Urvashi Reddy is a Software Engineer at Pivotal. She works on Cloud Foundry’s API team which is responsible for creating and maintaining Cloud Foundry's endpoints. Urvashi was a speaker at last year's CF Summit in Berlin where she gave a talk on the benefits of pairing designers and developers.

How dorma+kaba Leverages and Deploys on CloudFoundry - Michael Erne, wölkli gmbh & Adriano Raiano, dorma+kaba

DORMA Group and Kaba Group, merged to form dorma+kaba in September 2015. The merger has created one of the top three companies in the global market for security and access solutions, with pro forma sales of more than CHF 2 billion and around 16,000 employees. dorma+kaba is active in over 50 countries and has a presence, through both production sites and distribution and service offices, in all relevant markets. In this presentation, you will take part of the journey of how dorma+kaba is leveraring Cloud Foundry for their access control as a service "exivo" and how they deploy on it.

Cloud Foundry makes it exceptionally simple to deploy and manage applications with simple commands like 'cf push'. However, as your application grows in complexity and the number of deployed components explodes it becomes difficult to keep an overview of the required services and bindings. Many organisations, like dorma+kaba, face these challenges sooner or later, especially with microservices architecture. Starting from the naive idea of automating deployments using shell scripts wrapping the Cloud Foundry cli, the pitfalls encountered with this approach, and the evolution towards sophisticated and reliable tooling. Finally dorma+kaba built their open framework to deploy 80+ applications through multiple deployment stages including production and open sourced it during the CF Summit

About Michael Erne
Michael Erne is the CEO at wölkli gmbh, a swiss-based consultancy focusing on cloud technologies such as Cloud Foundry. He supports the dorma+kaba group in their journey with Cloud Foundry. He is one of the maintainers of the open source deployment framework push2cloud.

About Adriano Raiano
Adriano Raiano is the Lead Platform Software/System Architect at dorma+kaba, the world’s leading provider of groundbreaking solutions in the security industry. He contributes to cloud projects initiatives since late 2012, is a cloud foundry user and the author and maintainer in multiple open source projects such as a cqrs framework for node.js and i18next.com with its "as a service" offering locize.com.

How to Scale Single-Node Service Brokers with Subway - Justin Carter & Xiujiao Gao, Stark & Wayne

Using cf-containers broker (packaged in docker-boshrelease) is the fastest and easiest way to get as a service working with Cloud Foundry by leveraging the existing ecosystem of docker based services. It allows you to easliy start and stop docker containers via the Cloud Foundry services api. But bringing up multiple service instances on a single node can quickly lead to a shortage of resource (memory, cpu, disk).

In this presentation, Justin Carter and Xiujiao Gao will talk about Subway, which is a multiplexing service broker that allows you to scale out single-node brokers. They will demonstrate how to deploy Subway as a proxy to balance incoming requests to multiple backend brokers. This allows horizontal scaling of brokers such as cf-containers-broker that were previously confined to a single node. Subway is OSS project and has been deployed in GE Predix.

About Justin Carter
As a professional artist Justin Carter has performed as a musician and dancer in many prestigious festivals and venues. As a high stakes poker player he has faced former world champions. As a developer he has worked on algorithmic synthesizers, poker bots, game theoretical analysis tools and scheduling software for workforce management.
Currently he is a project lead at Stark & Wayne where he helps clients be successful in their adoption of Cloud Foundry and contributes to various projects in the Cloud Foundry open source ecosystem.

About Xiujiao Gao
Xiujiao Gao is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). | She is currently working at Stark & Wayne as a Cloud Engineer Cloud Engineer helping to deliver tremendous value to customers (such as GE). She has been working on the RDPG & SHIELD projects, bosh deployments for various products and pipelines for automated deployment of various services at Stark & Wayne.

For more info: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/

Keynote - 'Open' as a Disruptor for Government - Liam Maxwell, National Technology Adviser, UK Government

Keynote - A Team of Women are Already Leading the Olympic Transformation. Will Cloud be the Catalyst for Greater Diversity in IT? - Ursula Morgenstern, Global Head of Consulting & Systems Integration, Atos

Thanks to cloud, analytics and mobile technologies, the Olympics is being transformed into a global connected experience through a centralized cloud model. This transformation is being led by an outstanding team of senior women at Atos. Unfortunately, the diversity gap, in particular the gender balance, remains stronger in IT than in other industries.

Research is showing that diversity including gender diversity has a positive impact on corporate performance.

Will open and collaborative technologies such as cloud create the pull for women and minorities to – at last - extend their contribution to IT and, further, to enterprise innovation and performance?

Keynote - Bringing Pivotal Cloud Foundry for Dutch Government - A Tale of People, Process and Technology - Bas van Essen, Dutch Government Agency Rijkswaterstaat

Rijkswaterstaat is streamlining operations and accelerating its digital transformation by implementing a comprehensive platform strategy that brings together best-in-class technologies and services.

See examples of how Rijkswaterstaat is leveraging Mendix to rapidly build smart apps that integrate with SAS, SharePoint and SAP, and run on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. In addition, gain insight into how they’re employing component-based development to enable easy sharing and reuse of application building blocks, both within RWS and in collaboration with other government agencies.

Lastly, in addition to platforms, discover how Rijkswaterstaat is addressing the people and process aspects of digital transformation, in order to successfully execute on a growing portfolio of initiatives.

About Bas van Essen
Bas van Essen has held various management positions in the Air Force (13 years) and Rijkswaterstaat (6 years). Business management, ICT and societal engagement have been the common elements in his illustrious career. Since January 2013, Bas has served as Head of the Department of Information Development at Corporate Services Department at Rijkswaterstaat. His position entails facilitating the d

Keynote - Fireside Chat around Application Development, Product Launches and 2017 Outlook - John Roese, CTO, EMC and Sam Ramji, CEO, Cloud Foundry

Keynote - Fireside Chat around Application Development, Product Launches and 2017 Outlook - John Roese, CTO, EMC and Sam Ramji, CEO, Cloud Foundry

Fireside Chat with John Roese and Sam Ramji.

• State of Modern Application Development - growth of open source application development tools and platforms like CF
• Growing Modern Application Development Resource Pool - launch of the initial CF Dojo’s (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/contribute/dojos/) and how developers can learn the new application technologies and methodologies
• Successful 2016 product launches using Cloud Foundry including GE Predix, EMC Leap, Cisco Spark, …
• 2017 Outlook – challenges & opportunities
- Transition from CNA talk to execution
- Simplifying CF setup and utilization
-- On premises appliances
-- Off premises cloud service offering expansion
- Using CF platform for tradition application dev/deployment

About Sam Ramji
A 20 year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam Ramji brings a wealth of business, product and open source experience to the CEO role. He has led strategy for API powerhouse Apigee, designed and led Microsoft’s open source strategy and drove product strategy for BEA WebLogic Integration. He is the board secretary of Outercurve Foundation and a member of multiple industry advisory boards.

About John Roese
Cloud Foundry Board Chairman and EMC Global CTO
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 Data and Trusted IT.

Prior to EMC, John was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the North American R&D Centers at Huawei Technologies responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio ranging from photonics to cloud computing and costumer technology. Having previously served as CTO at four large corporations in the telecom and IT sector over the past two decades (Nortel, Broadcom, Enterasys and Cabletron),
John has developed a broad understanding of the total ICT ecosystem and its diverse global customer base. In addition to his roles as CTO, John has been a Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer in publicly traded companies. This expertise has allowed John to become an extremely well-rounded senior executive and an expert in both establishing the long-term strategy of a company and the near-term tactical execution to reach those goals. John is a published author; holds more than 18 pending and granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services, and security; is a recognized public speaker; and has sat on numerous
boards, including ATIS, OLPC, Blade Networks, Pingtel and Bering Media.

In recent years, John has been honored by the Ottawa high-tech community by being named High Tech Executive of the year and one of the Forty Under 40 executives in Canada’s capital region. John also was one of the first senior executives in Canada to publish his thoughts on an external blog, where more than 10,000 unique users per month followed his thoughts and commentary.

Keynote - Innovating Around The Digital Core - Marc Geall, SVP, Head of Platform Partner Ecosystem, GCO, SAP; Steffen Stang, Director MindSphere R&D and Product Management, SIEMENS; & Bernd Issler, VP, Cloud & Enterprise Software, Atos

Find out how SAP is extending its ecosystem of ISVs to help customers turn digital disruption to advantage by leveraging agile cloud applications built on Hana Cloud Platform. Hear from SAP, Siemens and Atos about the joint journey they are taking.

SAP is helping its customers and partners embrace digital disruption. Digital Transformation allows customers to re-think classical business processes and take advantage of new inputs and insights to scale their businesses more quickly. However, the pace of innovation in most industries can be so fast that only an open ecosystem approach to Bimodal IT stands a chance of success, and one that connects directly to the most relevant business data.

SAP is leveraging an open platform strategy that allows customers to build new applications and extensions, run these side-by-side ecosystem partner innovation (offered as packaged SaaS applications), and all natively integrated to their back-end systems, whether in the cloud or on-premise.

About Marc Geall
Marc Geall is a member of the executive leadership team within SAP’s Global Channel & General Business Organization. In this role he has responsibility for partner adoption of SAP’s strategic platforms including HANA and HANA Cloud Platform. The team has recruited over 1,300 build partners that are innovating on SAP’s platforms and manages the recruitment, onboarding, enablement, commercialization and support of partner IP on the platform.Marc has split his career between industry, enterprise software, and financial services. Until 2012 he was a Managing Director heading up Technology, Media and Telecoms Equity Research at Deutsche Bank. Prior to this, he was head of Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Investor Relations at Autonomy, a role that incorporated being CEO of Virage the Rich Media subsidiary of Autonomy. Other relevant roles have included head of Software and IT Services Research at Citi, and senior application engineer at PTC in the product lifecycle management (PLM) space.Marc has a Master's degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, specializing in Aerodynamics and Aeronautics and started his career at Rolls Royce (Aerospace Division).

About Bernd Issler
I enjoy working with our customers on their digitalization initiatives. Specifically I am now involved bringing the IT and OT world together. Each customer's needs are different and therefor the right approach differs but "time to value" is a good guiding principle for me.

About Steffen Stang
Steffen has joined SIEMENS in 1998. He has extensive experience in Process Control industry working at many projects around the world. Steffen spent many years working in the United States as a Senior Consultant for Process Control. Later Steffen became responsible for HMI Software Product Management including SCADA as well as machine tool software. After a while as Manager for the SIEMENS Industry Technical Support he became responsible for the SIEMENS Industry Plant Analytics Services. Within this role Steffen and his team define and build the MindSphere platform as well as Industrial analytical apps on top of MindSphere ecosystem.

Keynote: 5 Years of Cloud Foundry at Rakuten - Orest Onuszko, Rakuten

A team of seven engineers at Rakuten has been running Cloud Foundry in production for five years on over 5,000 virtual servers. In this talk we'll look back at the experience acquired in the past five years and the goals for the next five. We'll share some of the solutions we're building to empower our users - like how we implemented placement pools to run applications in different networks/environments, how we deploy a single Cloud Foundry environment on multiple virtual infrastructures and how we collect and process logs and metrics - as well as how we're applying what we learned from running one of the biggest Cloud Foundry deployments worldwide to make operations and maintenance efforts scale efficiently.

About Orest Onuszko
System Administrator, Rakuten Deutschland GmbH

Keynote: Anthropic Sympathy - How Cloud Foundry & Continuous Delivery Make Humans Happier and More Productive - Daniel Jones, CTO, EngineerBetter

Cloud Foundry and Continuous Delivery make it possible to exploit the findings of cognitive psychology and neuroscience to increase the productivity and happiness of our teams.

This session will answer:
• How can we improve willpower & decrease technical debt?
• Is the present bias real? How can we turn it to our advantage?
• Can you increase a team’s effective IQ?
• How do DevOps & Product Teams increase empathy, and what impact does empathy have on productivity?
• Why is Cloud Foundry vital to all of this?

“Mechanical sympathy” was popularized in software development when LMAX inverted the practice of writing software in a style that befitted humans, and instead wrote code that exploited characteristics of the hardware it ran upon. This talk makes the argument that our processes are software, our teams the platform, and our brains the hardware (wetware!) that runs it.

About Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is CTO of UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter. He has recently been operating and supporting multiple production CF instances at a global wealth management enterprise, and helping an IoT tech startup build their platform atop CF. Daniel was a member of the Pivotal CF London Services team, and also worked with Europe's leading CF consultancy CloudCredo. Daniel has spoken at CF Summit Santa Clara 2016, CF Summit Berlin 2015 and the London PaaS User Group, as well as numerous video games industry conferences. He once even stormed the stage at a music festival to interrupt the performing act and challenge their questionable off-stage conduct!

Keynote: Confessions of a Cloud Foundry PaaS Product Owner: How to Create a Successful Devops Team in an Enterprise - Emma Hammond, Associate Director, Fidelity

Some would say successful devops is all about having the right tools. Emma Hammond believes it is all about people. It’s about trust & responsibility with the freedom to innovate, take risk & learn from failure. Much of this is alien to a traditional financial enterprise governed & protected by processes derived from years of operation – the ‘scar tissue’. Through the use of Cloud Foundry and software defined networks, Fidelity have been able to generate a new way of working to help mend these wounds and show the art of what is possible. Emma is very proud to have created the first devops team in Fidelity – their journey is worth sharing.

About Emma Hammond
Fidelity International was established in 1969 & is responsible for managing over £185.1 billion for investors around the world, offering 732 funds across all sectors, regions & asset classes supported by 390 investment professionals working across 12 countries. We have been using Cloud Foundry for 2 years (15 months running Production applications on it). We participate in London Cloud Foundry meetups & presented in Berlin last November. The speaker is experienced in presenting, having done so both publicly in the UK & professionally globally.

Keynote: Pivotal & Allianz Fireside Chat - Rob Mee, CEO, Pivotal & Dr. Andreas Nolte, CIO, Allianz

About Rob Mee
Rob Mee is CEO of Pivotal. He frequently advises the world's most admired brands, government agencies and fast-rising start-ups about the value of agile software development using an open cloud platform.

A software engineer by trade, Rob started his career working at an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo, writing natural language translation systems in Lisp.

In 1989, Rob founded Pivotal Labs. The company, based in San Francisco, focused on rapid, Internet- style software development known as agile programming. Over the years, Pivotal Labs has been credited for shaping the software development cultures of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential and valuable companies. In 2012, Pivotal Labs was acquired by EMC Corporation.

In 2013, Rob was part of Pivotal’s founding team, alongside Paul Maritz, Scott Yara and Bill Cook. Pivotal merged Pivotal Labs with assets from EMC and VMware.

Rob graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.

About Dr. Andreas Nolte
CIO, Allianz

Keynote: State of the Project - Chip Childers, Vice President of Technology, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Chip Childers
A proven DevOps visionary and leader. Before coming to the Foundation, Chip was vice president of Product Strategy at CumuLogic. He spent more than 15 years in engineering leadership positions within the service provider industry including work with SunGard Availability Services and Qwest Solutions. He has served on the board of directors for the Distributed Management Task Force; and is a member of The Apache Software Foundation.

Keynote: The Shift to a New Digital Allianz Germany - Dr. Daniel Poelchau, Allianz

The fast progress of digitalization is a challenge for Allianz Germany. Customers compare the value of products and services of their insurance companies to the intuitive offerings they are used to from other industries. Additionally, there is a growing number of Startups and InsurTechs shaping the market with innovative ideas and their aim to take possession of the customer interface. This means: in order to be still market leader in ten years, Allianz Germany needs to get digital by default and to be fully geared to customers’ needs and expectations of the digital age.

We recognized the necessity for a wide-ranging digital transformation at Allianz Germany and translated the key factors into our corporate strategy. Of course, two decisive factors are the shift towards a co-located and agile software development together with the implementation of an elastic Cloud Foundry infrastructure which offers easy scalability of successful products.

About Dr. Daniel Poelchau
Daniel Poelchau is currently Head of Digital Factory @ Allianz Germany, after having held various positons at Allianz Group since 2010. Before that Daniel spent 8 years with McKinsey.

Keynote: To Change a Huge Company: Volkswagen's Way to Renew Its Software Development - Carsten Schade, Head of Integration Technologies, Volkswagen & Dr. Roy Sauer, VW Group IT CTO

Volkswagen is one of the leading companies in the automotive industry. To stay successful in the future, Volkswagen setup a cloud program in 2015. By the end of June 2016 CloudFoundry went life to be used as one of the most powerful tools for software development in the future. In this presentation some Volkswagen representatives will talk about their way of changing their software development processes and their idea of changing their company’s mindset.

About Dr. Roy Sauer
Head of Group IT Architecture & Technology at Volkswagen.

About Carsten Schade
Since January 2015 I am part of the leadership team of Volkswagens Group-IT Cloud programm. The main focus was to invent Cloud Foundry to our company, based on Open Stack, which has been introduced by the end of 2015.

Keynote: Zen and the Art of Platform - Sam Ramji, CEO, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Sam Ramji
A 20 year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam Ramji brings a wealth of business, product and open source experience to the CEO role. He has led strategy for API powerhouse Apigee, designed and led Microsoft’s open source strategy and drove product strategy for BEA WebLogic Integration. He is the board secretary of Outercurve Foundation and a member of multiple industry advisory boards.

Learn to Develop a Service Broker in No Time - Christian Brinker, evoila GmbH

When it comes to setting up a Cloud Foundry environment, one of the first questions is which services should be provided. Therefore, Service Brokers are the core components to implement. Based on their experience on the development of several Service Brokers for use cases in DevOps and production infrastructures the speakers present how to avoid common pitfalls and risks. Together with the audience the speakers implement an exemplary Service Broker based on an Open Source framework[1]. After the tutorial, participants are able to implement their own Service Brokers more efficiently with the gained insights and knowledge. The speaker team helps the audience to benefit from their rich experience from small and highly complex projects and the improving of their own DevOps infrastructure with customized Service Brokers to accelerate Development.[1] https://github.com/evoila/cf-service-broker

About Christian Brinker
As long-standing member of the evoila Automation and Technology team and Automation Engineer Christian Brinker is well experienced in the automation of Cloud Environments. His focus is the development of Software Architectures in customized XaaS solutions. He developed many solutions in and for the Cloud Foundry ecosystem, like Service Brokers or complex Billing Systems for Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. Additionally he gained broad experience as a Data Scientist resulting in publications and presentations on international conferences. The next conference he attends as a speaker are the upcoming OpenStack Days Germany 2016. Christian Brinker works at an agile, German-based cloud engineering and consulting company. The evoila GmbH develops cloud strategies and engineers tools for cloud enablement and improvement. Their customers are small companies, global players and the public sector.

Lessons Learnt Operating Multiple Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Deployments - Tyler Britten, IBM

According to OpenStack users survey, Cloud Foundry is the 2nd most popular workload on OpenStack. You want to deploy Cloud Foundry on OpenStack or already have. What's next?

Cloud Foundry continues to evolve, often with revolutionary changes, e.g move from bosh-micro to bosh-init, using the new eCPI, move to Diego etc. Same with OpenStack, e.g changes from Keystone v2 to v3, from Kilo to Mitaka, network plugins changes etc. Both IaaS and PaaS layers are changing frequently.

In this talk will discuss our lessons learnt operating hybrid Cloud Foundry deployments on top of OpenStack over the last years. We will discuss how we have used underlying technologies like BOSH, Ansible, Jenkins, Razor, Rally etc to seamlessly operate Cloud Foundry on OpenStack. We will also detail community tools to validate whether Cloud Foundry deployment will work on your OpenStack etc.

Leverage Existing Enterprise Data as Cloud Foundry Services - Robert Moss, Cloudsoft Corporation

Enterprises have a wealth of data in pre-existing databases, which are ripe for developers to create new and exciting applications. Currently developers have to contact the database admin and request a new user account and register it as a user-provided service. The Cloudsoft Service Broker Manager allows an administrator to add service definitions for creating users to its service broker quickly. This means that developers can securely access existing enterprise data as reliable Cloud Foundry managed services.

In this presentation, Robert Moss will demonstrate how to add new service definitions using a form-based user interface. He will show how to create a service definition that provides Read-Only access to pre-existing SQL databases.

Robert Moss
Robert Moss is a Senior Software Engineer at Cloudsoft Corporation the makers of Cloudsoft AMP. He leads Cloudsoft’s Cloud Foundry development efforts as the creator of the Apache Brooklyn Service Broker which is in Cloud Foundry Incubation; he is the instigator of the Apache Brooklyn client CLI; and has worked on Brooklyn supporting OASIS TOSCA blueprints. Robert has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summits in Santa Clara and Berlin.

Liberate Your CloudFoundry Installation From Being Constrained to a Single Cloud - Marcel Härry, Swisscom

Cloud Infrastructure components are here to fail, while your service – in our case cloud foundry as a platform running your workload – is here to stay available and keep the hosted applications alive. How do you stay available, while whole clouds are going down, either for maintenance or due to failure?

At Swisscom we think that cloud infrastructure should be kept as simple as possible, meaning that it is here to deliver a platform that enables rapid deployment of cloud-native workload, without lots of complexity.

In the end users would like that the platform to deploy and run their applications should stay alive and keep running their applications without interruptions.

To keep that promise while having individual parts (in our case whole stacks) failing, we didn’t delegate this problem to the infrastructure, but rather took it to the application level, meaning Cloud Foundry.

About Marcel Härry
Leading the architecture of Swisscom's elastic platform going from cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack up to a Platform as a Service running on CloudFoundry. Background in software engineering, but long time and mainly fixing and deploying stuff as a systems engineer and automation advocate.

Lightning Talk - A Perfect Cloud Foundry Engineer - Andrei Yurkevich, CTO, Altoros

About Andrei Yurkevich
Andrei has grown Altoros’s engineering team from zero to 250 specialists across seven development centers around the world. Currently, he is building a portfolio of experts who bring "software assembly lines" into organizations through training, deployment, and integration of solutions offered by the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. The team is standing behind some of the world's largest CF deployments.

Lightning Talk - IBM Bluemix - How an Internal Innovation Project Became the Biggest Cloud Foundry Service in the World - Simon Moser, Sr. Technical Staff Member and Dr. Max, Scientist, Architect, and Engineer, IBM

It's quite a story: in 2012, a bunch of developers in need of a platform where they can quickly push some applications without having to order infrastructure starting playing around with Cloud Foundry. A few years later, this project became commercially known as Bluemix, and with around 1 million users and hundreds of thousands running applications is probably the largest Cloud Foundry certified service in the world today. One reason for its popularity is Bluemix' great service ecosystem - which was fueled by technical contributions from and to the community and therefore serves as a great example how an open source community and a resulting service ecosystem impact each other.

About Michael (aka dr.max) Maximilien
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and work closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.

About Simon Moser
Simon is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM that works both on IBM Bluemix as well Cloud Foundry, where he runs projects like OpenWhisk or the Bits-service. Simon has been publishing many papers and given many talks at International Conferences (such as IBM Interconnect, EclipseCon and other major conferences).

Multi-DC Cloud Foundry: What, Why and How? - Daniel Jones, EngineerBetter & Colin Humphreys, Pivotal

What are the fundamental choices that need to be made when running Cloud Foundry in more than one data centre, and what tools can help operators deal with the compromises that CAP theorem enforces? In this talk Colin Humphreys details the deployment models of Cloud Foundry, and explains that whilst it’s possible to keep apps running and available in a multi-data centre deployment, operators face a compromise of increased operational overhead if they want to be able to continue changing the state of their PaaS in the event of an outage. Daniel Jones then shows some of the open source tooling that helps manage the operational complexity required by those wishing to operate a highly-available multi-data centre Cloud Foundry installation.

About Colin Humphreys
As CTO for Cloud at Pivotal, Colin Humphreys is responsible for the company’s big picture strategy and roadmap for our cloud platform offerings. Colin joins Pivotal from its acquisition of CloudCredo, where Colin was co-founder and CEO. Colin led the installation of the first SLA-driven production Cloud Foundry deployment, delivers tooling to the Cloud Foundry community, and is a regular conference speaker on PaaS-related topics. He also organises the London PaaS User Group, and is passionate about “Infrastructure as Code”, “Continuous Delivery”, “Devops”, and “Agile Testing”. Colin has spent the last 15 years sitting on the fence between development and operations, delivering solutions for eBay, Volkswagen, Paypal, Cineworld, and others.

About Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is CTO of UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter. He has recently been operating and supporting multiple production CF instances at a global wealth management enterprise, and helping an IoT tech startup build their platform atop CF. Daniel was a member of the Pivotal CF London Services team, and also worked with Europe's leading CF consultancy CloudCredo. Daniel has spoken at CF Summit Santa Clara 2016, CF Summit Berlin 2015 and the London PaaS User Group, as well as numerous video games industry conferences. He once even stormed the stage at a music festival to interrupt the performing act and challenge their questionable off-stage conduct!

NFS and Shared Filesystems as a Service - Julian Hjortshoj, Dell

Attach your NFS system to your Cloud Foundry apps! IBM, Pivotal, and EMC have partnered to extend Cloud Foundry to include filesystem-based storage services in the Cloud Foundry marketplace.

When people think of data services, they usually think of a web service, database, or other network service. But what about network attached storage? The new Volume Services API for service brokers allows apps to bind to network file systems just as they would to any other service.

This talk will give an overview of the new Volume Services feature, with a focus on the practical details you will need to get started with shared file systems in your applications, including a run-down of the service brokers and drivers available so far.

Not Only for Giants: The Minimal Reasonable Size of a Cloud Foundry Implementation - Juan Pablo Genovese, Altoros

Allstate, EMC, HP, IBM, GE... All of them are giants in their respective industries. Sometimes, it looks like Cloud Foundry is destined to only work for the big guys. The size of a typical deployment alone can be quite intimidating. However, there are very compelling reasons and very specific ways for a small/medium sized business to adopt Cloud Foundry as a cloud platform to manage their software products and implementations. In this presentation, Juan Pablo Genovese will demonstrate the smallest and cheapest possible way to deploy Cloud Foundry, achieving an affordable solution for in-house Cloud Foundry management. He will go over different IaaS options, a sample BOSH manifest, and how to make the most of Cloud Foundry for a small/medium sized company. This will help companies that think Cloud Foundry is "too complicated" to look at this awesome product in a different way.

About Juan Pablo Genovese
All and Everything Cloud Foundry. Tango. Beers. Blues. :)

OCI in CF: For Buildpacks, Security and Interoperability - Julz Friedman, IBM & Will Pragnell, Pivotal

The CF buildpacks workflow allows app developers to focus on the business logic of their code rather than the operational concerns of the OS that runs their code. At the same time, CF operators need confidence that all the code running in their org has been patched for the latest vulnerabilities. However, the current workflow does not currently support dynamically linked compiled languages well. This makes it very difficult to support apps written in C, haskell, et.al.; and also leaves us with a large difficult-to-protect surface area in our rootfs. We explore a solution to this problem using the new OCI container image specification, and demonstrate how this could result in a more flexible, more secure platform that supports better interoperability with the rest of the container ecosystem. For example, what if you could download your droplet and run it on any OCI container manager?

Operationalising Data Science on Cloud Foundry - Ian Huston, Pivotal

The first part of the talk argues why Cloud Foundry is ideal for operationalising and scaling machine learning models.

The core of the talk describes a scalable cloud native architecture for operationalising data science models based on microservices. There will be a live demo of this architecture in action.

The last part of the talk explains the limits of Cloud Foundry in the context of data science and what still has to be achieved for Cloud Foundry to become an end-to-end data science platform.

About Ian Huston
Ian Huston is a Senior Data Scientist at Pivotal Labs. Before joining Pivotal, Ian used Python to create and destroy baby universes inside numerical simulations of the inflationary phase of cosmology.

Pair Programming from 2,000 km Away: Strategies for Distributed Agile Teams - Jen Spinney, HPE

Cloud Foundry development is driven by several tenants, agile development, test-driven development and of course pair programming. Pair programming is seen as working best when the pairs are right next to each other working on the same computer in the same room, but what do you do when your pair is hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles away? The Diego team has several members who are not located in San Francisco, so remote pairing is part of our daily workflow. This talk will touch on the tools we use, the process we follow, and how we get the most out of a remote pairing situation. Andrew and Jennifer will also look at the drawbacks most often faced with remote teams and discuss a few strategies the we use to combat issues and to keep the remote team members engaged and productive and have a truly distributed agile development team.

About Jen Spinney
Jen Spinney is a software engineer at HP Enterprise, where she works as a core contributor on the CF Diego team. Prior to HPE, she worked at Microsoft on the OData team where she developed a passion for open source and cross-company software development. She pairs remotely from the HPE office in Seattle, WA.

Performance Engineering and Testing of Apps and Services Deployed on Cloudfoundry - Siva Balan, GE

Performance engineering of apps and services deployed on Cloudfoundry is an art in itself. If there is any misconception that this is going to be very similar to performance engineering of on-premise apps, you are in for a rude awakening. This sessions explains the various nuances of doing non-functional testing and analysis of your services when deployed to cloudfoundry. The session will also cover some examples of how to effectively setup your environment for performance engineering and things to look for that may not be very obvious. We will also look at some performance engineering tools and frameworks that has been adopted successfully at GE Digital. The session will also showcase how this framework can be extended to include performance testing of your services as part of your CI/CD pipeline.

About Siva Balan
I currently wear a hat of a Performance Engineer for platform security services for GE Digital's Predix platform built on Cloudfoundry. I am actively involved in performance engineering of Predix services like UAA(User Account and Authentication), ACS(Access Control Service) and TMS(Tenant Management Service). I also wear a hat of Performance architect for the Predix platform and love to experiment with technologies to make performance engineering better. I am currently working on seamlessly integrating performance testing with the CI/CD pipeline and also making Predix Security Services auto-scale based on resource utilization.

Private, Hybrid & Public Cloud CF Environments on Microsoft Azure - Mario Szpuszta, Microsoft

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform available across 38 regions world-wide. Microsoft has worked on an official CPI to enable CloudFoundry on Azure with the Open Source Community and Pivotal. This CPI is available for about a year, now! In this presentation, Gil and Mario will go beyond the basics and will focus on running Private, Hybrid and Globally Distributed CF Clusters in Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack. They will show you how-to get them implemented and how you can re-use your assets across the public cloud (Azure) and the private Cloud (Azure Stack). They'll discuss how failover can happen across multiple environments and what the caveats are by deploying CF Clusters and apps across those environments.

About Mario Szpuszta
Mario works as a Software Development Engineer in the Developer Experiences team (DX) at Microsoft Corp. HQ. He works with global software vendor partners on architecting, designing and coding reference solutions. Mario is a part of Microsoft for more than 14 years and his focus areas include cloud computing, Containers and PaaS Platforms, as well as identity & claims-based security and .NET. Mario is Co-Author of “Advanced .NET Remoting 2nd Edition" and "Pro ASP.NET in C#" by APress.

Public Cloud Foundry Platforms in Europe: What Have We Learned and Where Can We Go Next? - Moderated by Dan Young, EngineerBetter

Public Cloud Foundry platforms form an essential part of the ecosystem and a useful on-ramp for new users. This panel will explore the operational lessons that have been learned from running CF at scale and find out how enterprises are using public CF for production apps. What features would service providers like in CF and what would users like to see from their providers? Finally, what non-technical factors are at play in the often complex European market and how can the community work to build better public PaaS for this region?

To discover more about public CF come and meet Marco Hochstrasser (Head of Cloud Platform, Swisscom), Julian Fischer (CEO, Anynines), Jonathan Matthews (Principal Engineer, M&S Digital), Dominic Harries (Lead Developer, IBM Bluemix Garage) and Colin Humphreys (CTO for Cloud, Pivotal). The panel is moderated by Dan Young (CEO, EngineerBetter)

About Dan Young
Dan Young is CEO of the UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter, having worn a variety of hats over the last 15 years, spanning engineering, presales and product management. He’s been a Cloud Foundry enthusiast since 2012, long-term member of the London PaaS User Group meetup community and is also a Cloud Foundry Ambassador. His ongoing quest to understand and resolve organisational friction has led Dan to recognise PaaS as a helpful vehicle for changing things for the better. He has spoken at numerous industry events during his career, as well as LOPUG and CF Summit BOSH Day

About Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer is CEO of Avarteq GmbH, the company behind anynines. He is enthusiastic about lean thinking, agile and cloud. As a Ruby friend he fell in love with Cloud Foundry, early. By running Cloud Foundry for more than two years on VMware, AWS and OpenStack as well as researching deep into the development of Cloud Foundry services, Julian has collected valuable experience about the capabilities of Cloud Foundry.

About Dominic Harries
Lead Developer, IBM Bluemix Garage London

About Marco Hochstrasser
Marco is running the PaaS team within Swisscom. | He’s known as one of the early adopters of CloudFoundry, passionate about cloud computing, modern software architectures in general | and a Cloud Foundry Board Member.

About Colin Humphreys
As CTO for Cloud at Pivotal, Colin Humphreys is responsible for the company’s big picture strategy and roadmap for our cloud platform offerings. Colin joins Pivotal from its acquisition of CloudCredo, where Colin was co-founder and CEO. Colin led the installation of the first SLA-driven production Cloud Foundry deployment, delivers tooling to the Cloud Foundry community, and is a regular conference speaker on PaaS-related topics. He also organises the London PaaS User Group, and is passionate about “Infrastructure as Code”, “Continuous Delivery”, “Devops”, and “Agile Testing”. Colin has spent the last 15 years sitting on the fence between development and operations, delivering solutions for eBay, Volkswagen, Paypal, Cineworld, and others.

Real World Experiences: Cloud Foundry on Windows - Steven Benario & Matthew Horan, Pivotal

Interested in building or operating .NET applications on Cloud Foundry, but not sure whether your existing applications are well suited for the platform? In this talk, we will consider the experiences of several real world users of Cloud Foundry on Windows, and dive into the lessons learned in bringing their .NET applications to Production.

We will look at both greenfield, and legacy applications that have been adapted to run on Cloud Foundry, and examine the patterns that have been successfully utilized to bring these applications to the platform.

About Steven Benario
Steven has spent nearly a decade as a Product Manager, leading products in both large and small organizations across both coasts. After starting his career working at Microsoft on Windows 7 and Windows 8, he went on to several Product Management roles in New York City. Most recently, he was the PM for Windows and .NET support on CF, and currently works at Pivotal to help drive the strategic roadmap for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

About Matthew Horan
Matthew has spent over a decade developing Web applications. Before becoming a developer, he worked as a systems administrator at various startups as and hosting providers. Having worked with just about every configuration management tool, and being a developer by trade, Matthew was drawn to Cloud Foundry three years ago as it touched on all his interests. He has focused on .NET due to a desire to bring the best practices of Pivotal's Cloud Fonudry platform to a wider audience.

Saving Human Lives with the IoT - Dat Tran, Pivotal

Nearly 1.2 million people die in road crashes each year (WHO - 2015) with additional millions becoming injured or disabled. One big part of this problem is worst road traffic conditions and unless action is taken, road traffic injuries are predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Moreover, although road traffic injuries have been a major cause of mortality for many years, most traffic accidents are both predictable and preventable. In this talk, we want to demonstrate a scalable IoT platform that uses weather data and data from other cars to warn drivers of dangerous conditions. We will show how CF can help to save human lives and the architecture behind this. Additionally, we will also explain the data science that is involved.

About Dat Tran
Dat Tran is a Data Scientist at Pivotal Labs where he mainly focuses on helping clients to understand their data and accordingly how it can be used to add value. To do so, he employs a wide range of machine learning algorithms, statistics and open-source tools to solve his clients’ problems. Previously, he was a member of the advanced analytics team at Accenture where he also accompanied various clients across different industries during their journey to become a data-driven enterprise. Dat has a background in Operations Research and Econometrics and received his MSc in Economics from Humboldt University of Berlin.

Serverless and Event-driven Applications with Cloud Foundry and OpenWhisk - Andrei Yurkevich, Altoros & Andreas Nauerz, IBM

Cloud Foundry represents a great platform for developing cloud-native apps. OpenWhisk is an open source serverless platform that instantly launches and scales out lightweight microservices and terminates them when they are no longer needed. It can power event-driven apps that can react to user- or machine-generated triggers to address spikes in traffic or requirements, like HA, reliability, and scalability, without the need to keep overcapacities.

In their presentation, Andreas and Andrei will talk about the sweetspots of traditional Cloud Foundry and serverless models, as well as cases where both models complement each other to create highly efficient cloud-native architectures. OpenWhisk’s core concepts, programming model, and general value proposition will be presented. Andreas and Andrei will conclude their session with a demonstration of practical examples of OpenWhisk-based end-to-end applications.

About Andreas Nauerz
Technical Product Manager, IBM

About Andrei Yurkevich
Andrei has grown Altoros’s engineering team from zero to 250 specialists across seven development centers around the world. Currently, he is building a portfolio of experts who bring "software assembly lines" into organizations through training, deployment, and integration of solutions offered by the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. The team is standing behind some of the world's largest CF deployments.

Simple Abstractions for the Challenge of Complexity - How Cloud Foundry's Layered Approach Allows for Isolated Components and a Pattern for Reuse - Duncan Winn, Pivotal

Simple abstractions for the challenge of complexity - how Cloud Foundry's layered approach allows for isolated components and a pattern for reuse.”

With all the hype around trends such as microservices, DevOps, and continuous delivery, what does it look like in reality? Cloud Foundry, including both the way it is architected, and developed, expertly demonstrate how these trends are established and why they make sense for distributed architectures such as Cloud Foundry.

This talk comes from spending three years writing a technical book on Cloud Foundry that explores the core components, the beauty of Diego’s abstraction , the value and progression of BOSH and the essential steps required for debugging CF.

This talk is intended for anyone getting started with CF or anyone who wants to see real world examples of the aforementioned trends in practice.

About Duncan Winn
Duncan has been working on Cloud Foundry since 2012. Currently Duncan works in Pivotal's Services Team to help companies install and configure hardened Cloud Foundry environments and related services so they get the most out of Cloud Foundry in an enterprise setting. Prior to moving to the US he was the EMEA developer advocate for Pivotal and ran Pivotal's Platform team in London.

Snakes in a Buildpack: Deploying Data Science in Cloud Foundry - Ian Huston & James Wen, Pivotal

The Cloud Foundry Buildpacks team set out on a journey in February to go where no official buildpack has gone before: Data Science. Working with those most elusive creatures, data scientists, we toiled in the deepest darkest crevices of our stacks and buildpacks to find a way to easily support the PyData ecosystem. We discovered a package manager called Conda and migrated it to the buildpacks’ zoo, where it now lives in glorious captivity.

Join us as we share our story with you! From idea inception to experiment after experiment after experiment after… you get the idea. We’ll share our initial working hypothesis and subsequent surprising discoveries, dive into the innards of buildpacks and stacks and detail what it was like working with the Pivotal Data Science team as our first customer. Finally, we’ll `cf push` a python data science app with no vendored dependencies!

About Ian Huston
Ian Huston is a Senior Data Scientist at Pivotal Labs. Before joining Pivotal, Ian used Python to create and destroy baby universes inside numerical simulations of the inflationary phase of cosmology.

About James Wen
James Wen is the Team Lead (Anchor) of the Cloud Foundry Buildpacks team at Pivotal in New York City. He currently maintains and works on the Cloud Foundry system buildpacks, buildpack tooling, stacks, and the extensive automation behind it all. In his free time, James serves as a core maintainer and contributor to Bundler and also loves to rock climb, whether on plastic or real rock.

The Cloud Foundry Dojo Experience — How to Become a Contributor - Cornelius Schumacher, SUSE Linux & Michael Trestman, Pivotal Cloud Foundry

The Dojo is Cloud Foundry's unique way of ramping up new contributors. Participants join existing core teams on site for six to ten weeks, and get introduced to technology, culture, and community by working as part of the team, pair programming all day.

The Dojo experience immerses participants in the extreme programming culture practiced at Pivotal, as well as a wide range of tools and technologies. The Dojo embodies the values of transparency and openness, prevents siloing of project expertise within Pivotal, and ensures that Cloud Foundry development is accessible to the greater community.

This presentation will give a first hand experience report about the Dojo from the perspectives of a new participant joining the BOSH core team and a full-time member of the project, and situate this in the broader context of Cloud Foundry software development.

About Cornelius Schumacher
Cornelius works as engineering manager in the cloud and systems management department at SUSE Linux, which is working on projects such as OpenStack, Docker, and a variety of systems management tools. Cornelius is driving SUSE's technical involvement with Cloud Foundry, in particular the work on the BOSH OpenStack Cloud Provider Interface. He is a long time contributor to many open source projects for more than a decade, such as KDE, openSUSE, the Open Build Service, or Machinery. Cornelius is a regular speaker at Linux and open source events, mostly in Europe, but also in the US or in Brazil.

About Michael Trestman
Michael Trestman is a software engineer on the BOSH core team at Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

The Future of Commerce….Is Commerce Everywhere - Charles Nicholls, SVP Product Strategy, SAP

The explosion of channels, media and devices present massive opportunities to reinvent the way that companies do business. Commerce no longer needs be transacted solely on an ecommerce website, in a store, or call center, but can be embedded in every customer touch point, device, app, in fact wherever our customers choose to interact with us. Using inspirational examples, this presentation will show you how you can quickly monetize your
customer facing touchpoints with Cloud Foundry commerce microservices to drive new revenue streams and reinvent your markets.

About Charles Nicholls
In his role as SVP of Product Strategy SAP Hybris, Charles is
responsible for driving the strategy for the embedded commerce, marketing, customer experience and customer data solutions portfolio at SAP Hybris. He brings deep expertise in buyer behavior, and how businesses can leverage behavioral data to engage with customers most effectively across the customer journey.

Before joining SAP, he founded behavioural analytics company, SeeWhy, which was acquired by SAP in June 2014, serving first as CEO then as chief strategy officer. SeeWhy grew from an idea, which he patented, into a leader in its field with more than 4,000 customers deployed on its SaaS platform. Prior to SeeWhy, he held a series of leadership, product and marketing roles at HNC, Sybase and Business Objects.

Recognised as a leading industry expert on e-commerce, web analytics, and online buyer behavior, Charles also specializes in optimizing conversion across the customer buying experience and, in this regard, founded the Conversion Academy which he serves as chairman.

He is also a market analyst, blogger, commentator and contributor to e-commerce and analytics publications including Mashable, Forbes, ClickZ, Practical eCommerce, CustomerThink and BusinessWeek.

Tuning and Managing Loggregator, the Cloud Foundry Logging Subsystem - Allen Duet, Pivotal

Loggregator is a differentiator for Cloud Foundry, allowing operators to easily aggregate logs from all running apps, along with metrics about the apps and the various Cloud Foundry components. However, there are subtleties in getting the most out of Loggregator. This talk will cover best practices in scaling and configuring Loggregator, what metrics to monitor from the Loggregator components to inform managing and tuning the configuration, and the various tools (nozzles, syslog drains, plugins) for getting the data into the logging system of the operator's choice, be it Splunk, ELK, Datadog, Papertrail or other solutions.

Allen Duet
I joined Pivotal in 2015 focused on Cloud Foundry and Logging and Metrics offerings surrounding Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Prior to joining Pivotal I was the Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage, where I transitioned two prominent CRM brands acquired from Sage Software to SaaS offerings (Act! and SalesLogix). I have 17 years experience working with enterprise organizations implementing and operating critical software. I'm passionate about machine learning and operationalizing predictive models and I've been working on ways to analyze logs from CF to detect future failure state. I live in Denver Colorado and enjoy climbing, camping and fishing with my wife, daughter and friends.

Undo for Service Brokers - Justin Carter & Dr Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne

The Cloud Foundry service api as an interface allows application developers to create, delete and update services that they want to consume in their applications. There is however no support for other important features of stateful services such as disaster-recovery or recreation of mistakenly deleted instances.

In this presentation Justin Carter will talk about how the api could be evolved to support more use cases in the future as well as how the existing api can be hacked to add support for ‘user-undo’ today as was done in dingo-postgresql, an open source service broker for clustered postgresql services.

About Justin Carter
As a professional artist Justin Carter has performed as a musician and dancer in many prestigious festivals and venues. As a high stakes poker player he has faced former world champions. As a developer he has worked on algorithmic synthesizers, poker bots, game theoretical analysis tools and scheduling software for workforce management.
Currently he is a project lead at Stark & Wayne where he helps clients be successful in their adoption of Cloud Foundry and contributes to various projects in the Cloud Foundry open source ecosystem.

About Dr Nic Williams
CEO, Stark & Wayne
Dr Nic Williams has been working with, contributing to, documenting and teaching Cloud Foundry and BOSH since April 2012. He is perhaps the most prolific contributor across all open source code bases associated with Cloud Foundry & BOSH, and is one of the most active participants in community events, CAB calls and forums. He is the CEO of Stark & Wayne, the premier consultancy for enterprise Cloud Foundry.

Unik & Cloud Foundry Integration: Focus on IoT - Idit Levine, EMC

Unikernel – an executable image that can run natively on a hypervisor without the need for a separate operating system – are rapidly gaining momentum. To integrate unikernels into the echo-system, cloud-computing platforms as a service are required to provide unikernels with the same services they provide for constrainers. Here we present Unik, a open source orchestration system for unikernels. Unik handles the compilation of libraries and applications for running on verity of cloud providers, manages their scheduling, and ensures their health. To provide the user with a seamless PaaS experience, Unik is integrated as a backend to Cloud Foundry runtime.

In the session, I will demonstrate and dive in to the integration details and focus on how strong the combination of CF and Unik can play in the IoT world.

About Idit Levine
Idit Levine is the CTO for cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO office. Her passion and expertise are focused on Management and Orchestration (M&O) over the entire stack and on microservice, cloud native apps and Platform as a Service. Idit’s fascination with the cloud sprouted when she joined DynamicOps (vCAC, now part of VMware) as one of its first employees. She subsequently took part in developing the new-generation public cloud of Verizon Terremark, and served as an acting-CTO at Intigua, a startup company that focuses on container and management technology.

Unleash the Multi-Cloud with BOSH - Jatin Naik, Pivotal

Cloud operators want to be able to run and manage systems on a variety of cloud providers. Today Cloud Foundry’s BOSH only supports a single cloud provider for a given installation.

Introducing the BOSH meta CPI concept project which deploys multiple CPIs and allows a CPI to be chosen while deploying, giving operators the power to decide which IaaS is used for certain instance types and thus the ability to create a multi-cloud BOSH deployments. Uses cases for the meta CPI include deploying systems across multiple clouds, scaling from a private to a public cloud, running services on a particular IaaS that provides specialised hardware and executing errands in Garden containers.

Understand how to manage multi cloud deployments using a single BOSH installation and learn about the latency and network issues that arise.

About Jatin Naik
Software Engineer at Pivotal, on Cloud Foundry.

Update on Cloud Foundry Isolation Segments (formerly Elastic Clusters) - Dieu Cao, Pivotal

Motivation: CF Operators want the ability to isolate workloads across separate networks, iaas’s, and datacenters to meet compliance, availability, and cost requirements. CF Operators expect to achieve this isolation without the added overhead of managing multiple full installs of Cloud Foundry.

Goal: The goal of this set of features is to enable the cloud controller to address workloads to isolated compute, routing, and logging components and assign application placement by mapping a Cloud Foundry Space to an Isolation Segment. We intend to support a new bosh deployment, a Cloud Foundry Isolation Segment, that may include compute, routing, and logging components. The cloud controller will have added functionality to allow operators to manage segments of CF capacity via the api.

About Dieu Cao
Dieu Cao is Director of Cloud Foundry Product Management at Pivotal focused on the strategic direction of Pivotal's Elastic Runtime product. | | She is also currently serving as the PMC Lead for the Cloud Foundry Foundation's Runtime PMC. | Prior to that, Dieu served as Product Manager at Greenplum working with Pivotal Labs on applications for use by data scientists.

Use Case: RFID-based Baggage Tracking with Cloud Foundry - Elena Travkina, Altoros & Shyam Varan Nath, GE Digital

25 million checked bags get delayed, damaged, or lost every year. Altoros has implemented an end-to-end solution, an RFID sensor-based baggage tracking system for airlines that minimizes the chance of baggage being mishandled. Powered by GE Predix and built in collaboration with mentors from General Electric, the application tracks the flow of bags inside and between airports. Passengers can see the location and status of their bags at every moment of their jorney. Benefits of the solution include:

- reduced costs
- improved customer experience
- descreased departure delays

The presentation includes: a live demo (end-to-end, from a baggage drop point to a baggage claim point) and an overview of architecture, business model, and pricing.


About Elena Travkina
Elena Travkina is IoT Practice Lead at Altoros. She has over 11 years of experience in delivery and support of business-critical software applications, working closely with business owners and providing strategic and organizational leadership for software development. Over the years, Elena has served in different capacities, ranging from Software Engineer to Software Engineering Manager and Head of Altoros’s Ruby Department. She is also one of the founders of the Belarus Ruby User Group.Elena has spoken at Predix meetups in the USA.

About Shyam Varan Nath

User Account and Authorization Server at SAP - Martijn de Boer & Mathias Essenpreis, SAP

Cloud Foundry's User Account and Authorization (UAA) server is a great tool that offers many possibilities and usage options. In this session we will deep dive on how we at SAP leveraged the features of the UAA. In particular we will show how we and our enterprise customers manage platform as well as business users including an enforced a 2-Factor Authentication. Furthermore we strive on our development model and demonstrate how developers can easily integrate authentication and authorization checks into their application. Last but not least we also share our planned UAA contributions which we want to fine-tune with you.

About Martijn De Boer
Martijn de Boer is Product Owner for the Security & Crypto topics in SAP HANA XS Advanced and SAP AS ABAP. | He is working on integration of CF UAA in business applications.

About Mathias Essenpreis
Mathias Essenpreis is the head of the platform security department inside SAP. His team is providing elementary security functions to the SAP HANA Cloud Platform based on Cloud Foundry. Previously he worked 10+ years as a software developer for SAP NetWeaver security functions. He is co-author of the book "Single Sign-on mit SAP" and a regular speaker at SAP Teched conferences.

Using CF Route Services to Publish, Secure and Monitor APIs- Ed Anuff & Prashanth Subrahmanyam, Apigee

The new Route Services in Cloud Foundry 1.7 make it possible to for developers to do any sort of transformation or processing to requests before they reach an application. This new capability was designed with APIs in mind, and makes it easy to add security, authentication, and caching to requests. The Apigee team will walk through their experiences in building one of the first Service Brokers to leverage route services and will discuss how to build and deploy a full-featured API management platform as a route service and illustrate the use of Swagger/Open API to create a range of features such as quota enforcement, spike arrests and content caching. We'll also discuss the performance issues and provide some thoughts on how to best work around them.

About Ed Anuff
Ed Anuff, Apigee’s SVP of Product Strategy, is a respected technologist and a proven innovator with over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. In 2010, he founded Usergrid, the open source mobile backend-as-a-service (BaaS) to provide cloud services for powering mobile and rich client applications, which is now at the Apache Foundation. Ed previously was EVP and GM of Six Apart, which is known for creating the Movable Type blogging platform and TypePad blogging service. He founded Widgetbox, a popular marketplace for widgets, and he was also co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric, a provider of enterprise portal software which was acquired by Vignette. Anuff was also responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first large-scale web search engines, when he was an executive at Wired. Ed has spoken at numerous conferences, including Gartner's AADI Summit and Gartner Symposium, SAP TechEd, GlueCon, Cassandra Summit, and Apigee's I Love API's Conference.

About Prashanth Subrahmanyam
Prashanth is a technology addict who loves to solve real world problems using technology and code. Professionally he has played the roles of a Developer, Architect, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach.

As an Architect, he has progressed from designing large, enterprise software to building Highly Scalable and API-coupled, Microservices-based systems.

At Apigee, Prashanth builds solutions to help customers accelerate their Digital Transformation journey.

What Developers Say About Their Experience with PaaS Solutions - Andreas Constantinou, VisionMobile

Andreas is CEO and founder of VisionMobile, the leading developer research company working with the top names in tech. Andreas will share finding from VisionMobile's latest survey of mobile, IoT, cloud and desktop developers focusing on developer experience of leading PaaS/IaaS solutions.

Andreas Constantinou
As Director and Founder, Andreas Constantinou oversees the growth and strategy at VisionMobile. He has been working on the mobile industry since 2000, helping take the very first smartphones to market. Since then he’s worked with the top brand names in the mobile industry including Microsoft, Intel, Google, Mozilla, Amazon and AT&T. Over the past ten years, Andreas has grown VisionMobile into the leading analyst firm in the developer economy, with a client base and reputation that out-rivals companies many times the size.

In his academic life, Andreas is an Adjunct Professor at Lund University, Sweden, where he teaches Internet Business Models, and an Adjunct Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business where he teaches Entrepreneurship. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Image & Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK.

What is "Serverless"? - Moderated by Kim Bannerman, IBM; Kenny Bastani, Ruben Orduz, Jason Kennedy, & Tyler Britten, IBM, Casey West & Kenny Bastani, Pivotal

We all have heard these "Serverless" or "NoOps" buzzwords lately. So, why do these matter? How does it affect Cloud Foundry? Are they affronts or sources of impulse for the platform and community and CF technology? Should CF take a stance or just let the buzz fizz?

The thrust and motivation of this panel is the increased (mis)use of buzzwords like "serverless" and "NoOps" floating around and how those tend to be conflated with other technologies like PaaS, CF, and other fast-deployment technologies.

Please note it's not supposed to be a critique or the merits of the technologies discussed. It's a constructive and educational panel on the nomenclature and messaging and how that impacts Cloud Foundry and the tech community at large.

About Kim Bannerman
Kim Bannerman leads the Technical Advocacy & Community team inside the Office of the CTO at IBM Blue Box. Kim has over a decade of experience in the tech industry working with enterprise customers. Prior to joining Blue Box, she was the Director of Evangelism Programs inside the ISV Partner Ecosystem at CenturyLink Cloud.

Kim is passionate about open source and the open source community. She co-founded the Atlanta Hadoop Users Group in 2011, and co-founded the Seattle & Atlanta Cloud Foundry meet-up groups in 2014. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman

About Ruben Orduz
Enterprise software developer for over a decade. Cloud architect and advocate for five years. FOSS enthusiast and advocate. Obsessed with improving user and developer experiences.

About Casey West
Working in Internet infrastructure, web app security, and design taught Casey to be a paranoid, UX-oriented, problem solving Internet plumber; his earliest contributions to Perl live to this day on your Mac. Casey’s speaking and writing ranges from open source communities and culture to technical architecture and automation tips and tricks. Casey West wears the mantle of Principal Technologist focused on Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry Platform and lives in Pittsburgh raising three sarcastic children.

What is the Bits-Service? - Steffen Uhlig & Peter Goetz, IBM

Did you ever wonder what that mythical ‘bits-service’ incubation project is? Has the CloudFoundry community finally lost their minds and started on a competition with OpenStack Swift or Amazon S3? Hell NO! This talk will introduce the current state and give an outlook to the future of the bits-service project.

In short, the bits-service is an extraction of an existing functionality in the cloud controller today - externalising everything related to bits (application bits, droplets, packages, buildpacks, …) into a proper micro service. It can be scaled independently, is encapsulated by a well-defined API, so its a generic BLOBSTORE API, right? Mmm…. maybe come and join the team (the first community project equally staffed with engineers of IBM and Pivotal) in the talk and let us handle your bits!

About Peter Goetz
Bluemix Software Developer, IBM

About Steffen Uhlig
Steffen is a software developer, Ruby enthusiast, husband and proud father of two sons. In reverse priority order. He works for IBM's Bluemix organization and currently serves as the team anchor for the CloudFoundry bits-service project.

What’s New in Cloud Foundry Routing - Shannon Coen, Prashanth Subrahmanyam and Chris Piraino, Pivotal

Route Services: Until recently, developers were on their own to implement rate-limiting, authentication, and many request transformation functions offered by API gateway services. Route Services expand the use cases that can be fulfilled by Marketplace services, enabling developers managing apps on CF to inject a service into the request path, or dynamically configure a component already in the request path. User-provided services are also supported!

TCP Routing: Some developers would like to run workloads on Cloud Foundry that receive requests over TCP protocols other than http. Some developers would prefer to terminate TLS connections at the application. With support for TCP routing and multiple app ports, we enable these use case and more.

This session will provide an update from the Routing team, including demonstrations of some of these new features in CF Routing.

About Shannon Coen
Shannon Coen has been guiding core functionality in Cloud Foundry since joining VMWare in 2012. He stayed with the project when it moved to Pivotal, and served for three years as Product Manager with the Services team, launching the v2 broker API in 2013, the MySQL BOSH release as a reference implementation, and most of the subsequent enhancements including support for asynchronous operations in 2015. Since 2015 he has served as Product Manager for the Cloud Foundry Routing team. Shannon is a member of the CF Foundation PMC Council.

About Christopher Piraino
Chris Piraino has been a core contributor to Cloud Foundry for over 2 years. As a software engineer for Pivotal, Chris has previously working on the CLI and Cloud Controller API. For the past year, he has been working on the CF Routing team where he has been working on shipping new routing features, such as Route Services and TCP Routing.

About Prashanth Subrahmanyam
Prashanth is a technology addict who loves to solve real world problems using technology and code. Professionally he has played the roles of a Developer, Architect, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach.

As an Architect, he has progressed from designing large, enterprise software to building Highly Scalable and API-coupled, Microservices-based systems.

At Apigee, Prashanth builds solutions to help customers accelerate their Digital Transformation journey.

When and Why Does Portability Matter? Exploring Multi-cloud, Open Source and Cloud Switching Costs - Dan Young, EngineerBetter

In a world without viable AWS alternatives and nascent levels of adoption, high cloud switching costs have been of secondary concern; productivity has always trumped portability. However as AWS usage and skills become more evenly distributed, the competitive advantage of early adopters begins to evaporate.

Barbara Liskov said ‘Modularity through abstraction is the way things get done’. With Cloud Foundry and BOSH we now have an abstraction layer that allows us to imagine IaaS providers as modular building blocks, or a competitive utility market.

In this talk Dan will examine the evidence that points to multi-cloud defining the next phase of competitive advantage and also explain how business leaders in 2016 can use this to make better economic choices regarding their investment in cloud platform skills and technology.

About Dan Young
Dan Young is CEO of the UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter, having worn a variety of hats over the last 15 years, spanning engineering, presales and product management. He’s been a Cloud Foundry enthusiast since 2012, long-term member of the London PaaS User Group meetup community and is also a Cloud Foundry Ambassador. His ongoing quest to understand and resolve organisational friction has led Dan to recognise PaaS as a helpful vehicle for changing things for the better. He has spoken at numerous industry events during his career, as well as LOPUG and CF Summit BOSH Day

Who Lives in Our Garden: Understanding Cloud Foundry’s Container Manager - Maksim Zhylinski & Alexander Lomov, Altoros

Container technology has been a hot topic for years. With all its benefits and advantages, containers are often not well understood. The Garden container manager is a major component of Cloud Foundry and Diego, which it has already outgrown the boundaries of Cloud Foundry. Today, it is being used in a number independent projects. This talk is going to answer your most frequently asked questions about Garden, including: What is the difference between Docker and Garden? How secure Garden is? What do I need to know about security of Cloud Foundry containers? How to work with them? How can I use and benefit from Garden in my project? What are the best practices? How about the typical traps?

About Alexander Lomov
Alexander Lomov is a Cloud Foundry Engineer at Altoros. With extensive experience in Ruby, Go, and Python, he was involved in development of several BOSH CPIs and a number of other Cloud Foundry-related projects. A fan of the open source movement, Alexander has contributed to BOSH, Admin UI, Fog, etc.

About Maksim Zhylinski
Maksim Zhylinski is a Cloud Foundry Engineer at Altoros. He is an expert in cloud computing, networking, and Cloud Foundry BOSH, having worked on multiple BOSH CPIs, releases, and service brokers. Maksim has 6+ years of experience in all things Ruby, JavaScript, and Go, as well as extensive skills in server and client-side Web application development. He is an active member of Ruby and Go communities and a frequent contributor to open-source projects. Recent speaking experience: "Containers: What's Under the Hood," Cloud Foundry Meetup in Minsk

Windows Containers: The Step in Creating Linux/Windows Parity in Cloud Foundry - Stefan Schneider & Vlad Iovanov, HPE Helion

The current sandboxing technologies used in the Windows Diego cells are quite different from their Linux counterparts. Luckily, Microsoft is narrowing the gap.

The presenters will walk the audience through the new containerization technologies available in the latest server versions of Microsoft Windows and how they can be used in conjunction with Windows Diego Cells.

They will also be demonstrating Cloud Foundry running on Windows Diego Cell implementation that uses these new technologies in Windows Server release.

Writing Cloud Native Applications to Execute on Cloud Foundry - Sufyaan Kazi & David Pinto, Pivotal

In this tutorial, Sufyaan Kazi and David Pinto will walk attendees through the architecture of a Stock Trading application which has been built as 5 distinct Spring Boot Microservices. They will also give attendees a walk through of how to deploy these Microservices to Cloud Foundry to create a highly available resilient application and how to utilise features such as binding apps to a database, using a Configuration Server to store config external to an application, using Service Discovery to avoid hard-coding application urls.

The tutorial is hands on and attendees are invited to take part and try the classes or just follow the instructors.

About Sufyaan Kazi
Sufyaan leads the Pre-Sales team for Pivotal in UK and Ireland. He has previously worked as a code monkey, an architect and peacekeeper at IBM and Accenture, Wily Technologies as well as other consultancies in the APM and ECM spaces. He is a keen promoter of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and passionate about PaaS.

About David Pinto
David is a Principal Platform Architect in Pivotal UK & Ireland, prior to this he worked at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. David is passionate about Spring and how it can be used to write better applications for Cloud Foundry. David was one of the founder members of the London Cloud Native Meetup group and has successfully delivered many workshops on building Springs apps for the Cloud.