Cloud Foundry / Cloud Foundry Summit NA 2018

Cloud Foundry Platform Automation with Concourse - Dennis Gross, anynines

Operating production Cloud Foundry environments require short delivery cycles to constantly mitigate critical security updates and ship new features. Confronted with a rapidly growing number of Cloud Foundry environments, a consequent automation of administrative tasks is mandatory. Improving CI/CD pipelines is today’s systems administration!

This talk will walk through real-world Concourse CI/CD automation grown during years of operating Cloud Foundry. It will show how Concourse is vital for Cloud Foundry Application Runtime operations, data service automation and operations.

Learn about Concourse best practices to manage the lifecycle of Cloud Foundry environments to maximize your deployment pace. See how you can automate CloudFoundry release updates, test and ship new features from code to production through multiple staging systems and keep track on the outcome at the end of the day.

At the end of this talk, you’ll be keen to download Concourse and start automating your Cloud Foundry environment.

About Dennis Groß
As part of the anynines platform team, I work with Cloud Foundry and Bosh on a daily basis. I am an active volunteer for the Concourse community and my mission at anynines is to automize our Cloud Foundry driven Platform every day a bit more.anynines is a Cloud Foundry driven PaaS that provides highly available data services at scale. With the feature richness of our data services comes a high demand for automation.In this talk proposal, I want to present a Concourse based CI/CD system I am working on for the past three months.The system automizes the deployment and testing of our Cloud Foundry PaaS and all data services with little to no manual operations work.It is designed to deliver new features and hotfixes continuously at a high pace to all of our customer staging and production systems.

Dynamic Application Availability - Jayson Go & Grant Deshazer, Charles Schwab

Knock, knock! Who’s there? Request. Request who? Requesting a route to my application, please!

Routing is no joke! We’re all good at building software and constructing cloud-native applications, but have you thought about the entry points to your application? It’s easy to forget about these requests hitting our apps when we’re focused on building our software, however, these very requests (and responses) hold interesting information. Dynamically routing requests to different versions of your application enables different deployment strategies such as Blue-Green deployments and canary releases. Want to learn more and see practical demos? If so, please join jgo and Grant as they leverage Spring Cloud Netflix and Netflix Zuul to enable these types of deployments in the cloud.

We’ll primarily talk about Blue-Green deployments and canary releases, and show demos of those two strategies. We'll show how to configure Zuul, write filters, and an environment leveraging eureka and configserver.

About Grant DeShazer
Grant is a graduate from Colorado School of Mines with a background in Mechanical Engineering and software development on microprocessors. He joined Charles Schwab in 2017 and has been building the Intelligent Portfolio Application while providing the primary development for Zuul integration.

About Jayson Go
Jayson, also known to colleagues as “jgo”, is a Technical Lead for Charles Schwab where his team of “schwabbies” enables clients to robo-invest with the Intelligent Portfolios platform. JGo started professional development in 2000 where he initially focused on desktop technologies, and later, with web and cloud platforms. At Schwab, where digital transformation and modernization are key initiatives, JGo contributes to team and product efforts by helping transform apps to become cloud-native.

BOSH 2017/18 - A Year in Review - Dr. Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne

BOSH and the entire ecosystem of BOSH releases and deployment projects went thru huge, exciting changes in 2017. For one, BOSH became easy and fun to use.

This session will be a rapid fire reivew of dozens of improvements to BOSH, BOSH releases, and BOSH deployments. If you want to get the most out of BOSH, then this is the session for you.

Not to be missed!

About Dr. Nic Williams
Dr Nic Williams from Stark & Wayne is the author of the free online books Ultimate Guide to BOSH, https://ultimateguidetobosh.com, and Concourse Tutorial https://github.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial, and one of the most active users and community members of BOSH, CF, CFCR/Kubernetes.

Bring Your Own Code vs. Bring Your Own Container - Comparison of the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime and Kubernetes Approach - Matthias Haeussler, NovaTec Consulting GmbH

This talk shows best practices how to deploy and operate on a Cloud platform fast.

Platform and Container as a Service layers (PaaS/CaaS) enable developers to deliver the functionality of their code to end users in a fast way.
The technologies with the highest adoption rate for each approach are currently Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.

Fundamental difference between both approaches is the abstraction layer. While the focus is on the application in Cloud Foundry, it is on the container in Kubernetes.
This talk gives an analysis what kind of a difference this makes for a developer that has to deploy the software using both technologies.

It will show on the basis of a Spring Boot microservice application which steps you need to take to get it configured and running on either platform approach.
The analysis will also cover connection to backing services, scaling, recovery from failure, zero-downtime deployment, logging and monitoring.

About Matthias Haeussler
Matthias Haeussler is a Managing Consultant at NovaTec Consulting and the organizer of the Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup. He advises clients on Cloud strategies and supports implementations and migrations. Besides that he teaches Cloud Native Development at universities. Prior to that he was employed at IBM R&D Germany for 15 years and was engaged as speaker at the IBM InterConnect conference.

Enhancing the Routing Tier in CF: Istio and Envoy for Ingress Routing - Aaron Hurley, Pivotal

Istio and Envoy are booming in the Open Source community. With heavy investments from industry-leading companies such as Google, IBM, and Lyft, these tools are developing at a rapid pace and continue to receive increased attention. The Cloud Foundry Routing team has been exploring how these technologies can contribute to the Cloud Foundry routing tier. With Istio and Envoy comes a lengthy list of features and enabling these in CF would provide a major benefit to all. We will provide our findings of how Istio and Envoy are able to contribute to Cloud Foundry’s ingress routing capabilities and what the future might hold.

About Aaron Hurley
Aaron has been with Pivotal for 3 years and is currently serving as the anchor for the Cloud Foundry Routing team. Previously, he had stints on the MySQL, BOSH CPI, and BOSH teams within CF.

Platform as Product - Clayton Hynfield, Kevin Mackett, Sean Keery, Pivotal, Kyle Campos, CSAA & Jai Schniepp, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Phase 1: Install Kubernetes. Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit! Today, cloud-native platforms like Cloud Foundry are integral to delivering on your core business strategy, but integrating their bounty of features and architectures with your business’s existing systems, processes, and people isn’t (just) an engineering problem. Hear from cloud-native leaders how you can use Lean Product Management and User-Centered Design to focus precious engineering effort on delivering platform features most valuable to your company and offering a DevOps experience that will delight software engineers and SREs alike.

About Kyle Campos
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Kyle is a digital transformation and cloud operations leader who for the past 20 years has worked to turn non-scalable, resource intensive and painful systems into automated, scalable and efficient systems. Currently at CSAA Insurance Kyle leads the digital security, QA, support, analytics and platform teams who are working hard to deliver to application teams all the promises of a highly available, highly performant PaaS through Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Kyle is also the Co-Founder of Commit.to and a previous speaker at CF Summit Europe and OpenStack Conf.

About Clayton Hynfield
A graduate of philosophy and engineering physics, Clayton has never been comfortable confined to a box. Since the birth of Web 2.0, he has enjoyed marrying engineering with design, development with operations. Clayton has helped to build platform product teams central to transformation at two Fortune 100 companies, and now brings to bear cloud-native architectures and teams at many others with Pivotal.

About Sean Keery
Sean 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, IaaS independence and his studies for a Masters in Data Science keep Sean occupied. The daily commute is filled with podcasts and chipmunk bunny hops. Some family time, spicy food, a good book and wrecking the latest toys keep Sean busy at home.

About Kevin Mackett
Kevin is a Product Manager with Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions who helps platform teams manage Cloud Foundry as a product by working from an agile backlog driven by the voice of their customers. He comes to this role after holding just about every job related to “Product” as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Component Owner, and Manager of Product Owners in spaces ranging from end user facing UI software to microservice based middleware to Operations. In a former life Kevin was an Enterprise Agile coach working with teams and executives in Fortune 500 companies.

About Jai Schniepp
Jai is a Sr. Product Owner for Cloud and Security at Liberty Mutual.
She’s an AWS product maven and an agile pro who's spent over a decade partnering with like-minded practitioners to introduce CI/CD practices, cloud native solutions, and deliver products that drive developers further up the value line. Her entire career is based on managing and building technical products from a non-technical perspective. Customer point of view and the developer experience are her everything--yet she still wants to be an astronaut.

Why Do I Need Kubernetes When I Already Have Cloud Foundry? - Sanjay Patil, SAP

Like many of you, several SAP teams have also been asking this question to themselves. While the answer is singular in some cases (either Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes), in many situations, there is room or rather a need for both these technologies. In this session, you will learn why several SAP teams have adopted Kubernetes / container model for developing comprehensive solutions (more than what a typical ‘cf push’ can handle) and deploying them on-premise and/or in the cloud. Some of these Kubernetes based solutions are also exposed as services in Cloud Foundry environment, whereby Cloud Foundry applications can consume them via the simple and familiar service binding paradigm.

About Sanjay Patil
Sanjay Patil is a Product Manager of SAP Cloud Platform, a certified Cloud Foundry PaaS solution. With his passion and decade-long experience with Open Standard technologies, Sanjay has been closely involved in creation and launch of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. He has delivered talks on Cloud Foundry topics at previous Cloud Foundry Summits as well as other conferences such as SAP TechEd.

4 Principles of Release Engineering with BOSH - Maria Ntalla & Jatin Naik, Pivotal

Cloud operators want to be able to run and deploy systems repeatedly, reliably, consistently and on a variety of cloud providers. BOSH is a unique tool, that can manage the release engineering, deployment and lifecycle of complex distributed systems like CloudFoundry, kubernetes and Concourse.

In this talk Maria and Jatin will cover the principles that BOSH was built on, that allow operators to orchestrate and converge cloud deployments. We will also go through the basic mechanics of BOSH like releases and deployments and compare and contrast it to other release engineering and deployment orchestration tools. We would highlight how using BOSH allows release authors to ship software consistently and enables continuous integration and delivery.

About Jatin Naik
Jatin is a software engineer for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, currently working on BOSH Backup & Restore. He has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017, Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016 and is a regular at the London PaaS User Group.

About Maria Ntalla
Maria is a software engineer at Pivotal.She is currently working on the Redis offering for Cloud Foundry. She has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016 and 2017, London PaaS Users Group and Women Who Go sessions.

99 Problems but a Container Ain't One: Patterns for Application Development Without Toil - Julz Friedman, IBM

There's an important secret about distributed systems and it's this: state is bad. State is the original sin that turns cattle into pets. Patterns focusing on stateless code - Serverless, Cloud Foundry, 12 Factor, Map/Reduce etc - allow programmers to focus on their app, and not on orchestration. This talk is a guide to the why and how of Orchestratorless, Containerless and Serverless development: that is development where you get to focus on your application, not containers and orchestration and servers and how Cloud Foundry can should and does fit into that movement.

A Deep Dive into Modernization Patterns to Get Your Mission Critical Applications to the Cloud - Shaun Anderson, Pivotal

Shaun will be taking you through several of the most common patterns he and his colleagues have compiled from experience on more than 45 modernization projects. These technical patterns were driven out by the desire to strangle business critical functionality out of legacy monoliths and push to the cloud without impacting current business flow. These patterns can be used to move functionality to the cloud in days and weeks rather than months and years.

Pattern Categories include:

* Strangling the Monolith
* Event Shunting
* Proxies / Facades / Adapters
* Gateways

About Shaun Anderson
Shaun is an Application Transformation Practice Lead at Pivotal. He spends most of his time slaying, starving and strangling monoliths and defining pragmatic solutions to complicated problems. He has a wealth of experience designing and building mission critical applications with technologies running the gamut from Akka to Zuul. He is the inventor of top down domain oriented design techniques including the Boris Diagram. Shaun also contributed to the curriculum and taught the replatforming and modernization sections of Pivotal’s Platform Acceleration Lab. His specialties are distributed computing and transforming mission critical Java applications into Cloud Native applications. Shaun has recently presented at the SpringOne Conference, has participated in webinars and podcasts.

A Event-Handling System for Serverless Platforms - Julian Skupnjak & Simon Moser, IBM

IoT devices are becoming ubiquitous in e.g car-, smarter home, and many other industries. Applications dealing with IoT devices need to react to events and serverless platforms are essentially designed for such workflows. More and more sensors are continuously sensing data, some – often the majority – of this data is more or less neglectable, and some of this data requires attention. The reception of an event on serverless platforms yields the execution of a (set of) function(s). The pricing model is activation based, i.e. the customer is only charged for code really running. As a conclusion, customers are charged for code activations based on irrelevant events.

In this talk, we will show a system build on top of Cloud Foundry, which brings together event management and serverless computing capabilities to do both: Filter (IoT) events and execute actions. The project was generally a PoC, which was implemented as microservice architecture with different technologies (e.g. Golang, Angular JS, NodeJS, Rabbit MQ, etc.). Its aim is to handle events, based on rules set by the user and trigger actions on a serverless platform for handled events only.
We will show our microservice architectural design and talk about problems we faced. Moreover, we will show a demonstration video of an end-to-end scenario using the event handling system.

About Simon Moser
Simon Moser has been at IBM since 2003, where he is currently the lead architect for the Cloud Foundry part of the IBM Cloud. He is interested in many aspects of clouds and distributed systems, emphasising on technologies that allow systems to manage themselves. After receiving his M.Eng., he started his career in various development roles around application servers and Business Process Management, and started his journey in Cloud Computing in 2010. Along the way, he has been chairing various program and steering committees (e.g. BPM and OASIS TOSCA), has been publishing many papers and given many talks at various international conferences. He’s listed as an inventor on a good dozen US patents, and has an adjunct lecturer appointment at University of Jena, Germany. In his spare time, he’s torturing various musical instruments.

About Julian Skupnjak
Julian Skupnjak is a software engineer at IBM Cloud. He joined IBM with a bachelor degree in 2015 and works as a member of the internal team for Cloud Foundry. Alongside his full-time activities as Software Engineer he continued his study on masters degree level. Recently, he completed his master degree with a thesis in the area of Container Placement Algorithms.
Beside several IBM intern talks about Continuous Delivery, Golang, and tools to empower and enhance CI/CD flows, Julian gave a talk about Serverless Computing at the IoT Conference 2016 in Stuttgart.

ASP.NET Core Deep Dive - Glenn Condron & Ryan Nowak, Microsoft

Join Glenn and Ryan from the ASP.NET Core team, for a deep dive into ASP.NET Core with a focus on how to build real apps today. We will tell you what you need to know to write containerized ASP.NET Core applications.

About Glenn Condron
Glenn is a PM on the .NET Server team where he works on ASP.NET Core.

About Ryan Nowak
Microsoft

Accelerating Developer Adoption of Cloud Foundry - Matthew Gunter, Pivotal

Developer Adoption of CF is important to Platform Teams and CF stakeholders.

In this talk, we will look at the specific practices and broader cultural factors that can accelerate adoption (...and the downstream Business Impacts).
Insights will be shared from Ultimate SW & 5 different adopters of CF and we view those insights from the perspective of the organization's "CF Journey" and their "culture and technical situation" using a version of the Denison Cultural Analysis Model.

CoPresented by Ultimate Software's Distinguished Architect Luis Amadeo-

About Luis Amadeo
Distinguished Architect, Cloud Architecture, Ultimate Software

About Matt Gunter
Matt Gunter works at Pivotal as a Senior Platform Architect where he helps Enterprises transform the way they build, deploy, run and operate their applications. He is regularly asked to speak on Cloud Native trends and adoption with Pivotal customers and regional industry events.

Advanced Container Concepts for Java Applications - Julian Friedman, IBM

This talk is a deep dive including everything(-ish) you need to know about how containers interact with Java and JVM applications. From the container memory model (how to avoid getting OOMed!) to advanced JVM flags to take the best advantage of containers to how to set up and customise the java buildpacks available in cloud foundry to how to get the logs and trace from containers after they die and reproduce container issues locally. Come along to get your black belt in containerization for Java apps.

Art and Science of Optimizing Your Cloud Native Java Apps - Siva Balan, GE

Cloud native apps are a beast when it comes to optimization and troubleshooting. There is no silver bullet to achieve them and it requires a multi-dimensional approach. This session will go through some of those approaches, its pros and cons and how to effectively optimize the bits running on CF. It will also showcase some real life use cases of optimization and troubleshooting techniques that helped GE Digital to run its Java apps effectively on Cloudfoundry.

About Siva Balan
Siva has been doing performance engineering for the past 15 years starting with 3-tier architecture to cloud native architecture. Since joining GE Digital 4 years ago, he has been doing performance engineering for apps and services deployed on Cloudfoundry. He has presented at the CF summit 2016 at Frankfurt on "Performance Engineering of services deployed on CF". Current projects include performance engineering of Java apps and services deployed to CF on Azure, DB performance engineering and using Splunk as a dashboard for Performance test results.

Automate Your Life with BOSH Bootloader - Genevieve L'Esperance & Evan Farrar, Pivotal

Well, actually, you need all this other stuff and it won't really change your life, but maybe your life as a Cloud Foundry operator.

In our talk we will illustrate how to bootstrap Cloud Foundry with bbl and concourse. Starting with a blank IaaS, we'll describe how to get your first BOSH director running concourse, then how to configure concourse to make more BOSH directors running CF, and finally how to configure concourse to update everything (including concourse!) This talk will focus less on hands-on demonstration and more on the philosophy for using these tools in your production deployment.

About Evan Farrar
Evan Farrar is a Product Manager at Pivotal, Cloud Foundry core contributor currently working on the Infrastructure team, which maintains BOSH Bootloader. In his spare time, he runs an orphanage for BOSH deployment manifests at http://github.com/evanfarrar.

About Genevieve
Genevieve is a Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She is Anchor of the Infrastructure team responsible for providing solutions for automation of provisioning and configuring IaaS resources needed to deploy BOSH, Ops Manager, and other applications before deploying Cloud Foundry. This includes maintaining bosh-bootloader, a CLI for bootstrapping BOSH with a bastion and optional load balancers for a Concourse or Cloud Foundry installation. It also includes multiple terraforming repositories with IaaS-specific terraform templates for deploying an Ops Manager VM and the recommended networking on AWS, GCP, Azure, and vSphere. Genevieve has spoken at the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Youth Forum and the United Nations Social Economic Forum on the representation of women in the tech industry.

Automating Your Automation, or How I Learnt to Love the Pipeline - Kevin Rutten & James Hunt, Stark & Wayne

Automation with pipelines is a critical part to modern development and operations. Pipelines reduce human errors, improve testing, and improve workflow. Why wouldn’t you want to automate something? Kevin and James want to help show you some of the tools, templates, and tutorials that will make you too love the Pipeline

- The "repipe" concept
- Go-binary release pipeline template
- Things learnt supporting CloudFoundry-Community pipelines
- Highlights from Pivotal’s PCF-Pipeline scripts
- Creating pipelines automatically
- Automating the pulling data from vSphere

About James Hunt
James Hunt is the Chief Architect and Technical Evangelist at Stark & Wayne, a leading Cloud Foundry consultancy. He has authored dozens of Open Source projects, including: SHIELD, Safe, Genesis, Spruce, and more.

About Kevin Rutten
Kevin Rutten is an Electrical Engineering Technologist and Cloud Engineer in Canada. He has worked with everything from 8-bit microprocessors to setting up new Data Centers. He is currently working at Stark & Wayne developing the tools to streamline the deployment and maintenance of BOSH and Cloud Foundry components. Kevin has worked with large companies on their deployment pipelines and backup solutions. Kevin also works on OSS projects such as SHIELD, Codex, and Genesis.

Autoscaling Cloud Native Applications... with Math - Allan Espinosa, Bloomberg

Platforms like CloudFoundry and Kubernetes provide delightful APIs to show various statuses of our applications. From CPU, Load average, HTTP response times, etc. we all have what we need to make sure our app is running healthily.

When things are on fire, we Ops people twiddle some knobs like spin up more Pods to keep things going. We use mostly our experience and knowledge of the systems that we are running to know what to do.

However, if you look at everyday things like your airconditioners and thermostats, they don't have an Ops team that gets paged to set the correct level of the coolant to set your room to the right temperature. They use some math behind called *Control Theory* to keep your room's temperature stable. In this talk, I will show how we can use the same concepts to autoscale and manage the health of our applications on CloudFoundry and Kubernetes.

About Allan Espinosa
Site Reliability Engineer, Bloomberg

Avoiding Tainted Tenant Apps with Staging Gates and Electric Fences - Bret Mogilefsky, 18F

You've deployed Cloud Foundry and now your tenant applications are unable to mess with each other. Mission accomplished, right? Not if you're the government! In this session, we'll describe how the cloud.gov team used Cloud Foundry's multi-buildpack feature to scan for CVEs during staging, and used kernel tracing to report and optionally restart apps that behave in unexpected ways.

About Bret Mogilefsky
Bret Mogilefsky is an Innovation Specialist at 18F, the agile design and development consultancy inside government, for government. Bret leads teams and projects focused on deconstructing the biggest technical hurdles to improving government services. Prior to 18F, Bret was the architect and evangelist for the overall developer experience at PlayStation, and was lead programmer and assistant designer of the legendary adventure game Grim Fandango at LucasArts. Bret lives in Castro Valley, CA with his wife, two kids, nervous pup, indifferent cat, and two ambivalent guinea pigs.

Baking Clouds! An Experiment Involving Raspberry Pis, BOSH - Christiaan Roeleveld & Ruurd Keizer, ITQ

In this session, we will demo an experiment in which we run Cloud Foundry (workloads) on a bunch of Raspberry Pis. As Raspberry is ARM instead of x86, and has no virtualization, we had to work through the whole stack, including the creation of a minimal IaaS, BOSH CPI, ARM stemcells, BOSH agent, and a buildpack. We will talk about each of these, the architecture and what we learned along the way. Did we say *live demo* yet?

About Ruurd Keizer
Ruurd Keizer is responsible for all things Cloud-Native at ITQ, and spends the majority of his time with customers as a consultant, architect and engineer on Pivotal Cloud Foundry and its ecosystem. Prior to this he was active as developer working predominantly with C#/.NET, C++, and Go. In a distant past, he earned a PhD in experimental physics working on superconductivity and quantum nanoscience. Ruurd has performed at several conferences, ranging from the NLVMUG (1k+ attendees), to the Low Temperature Physics Conference.

About Christiaan Roeleveld
Christiaan works as a consultant at ITQ. After years of building cloud automation solutions based on VMware products he finally found the cloud-native path. He is now talking about Cloudfdoundry, helping customers implement Cloudfoundry, a huge bosh fan and does some Go coding on the side. Christiaan is currently helping the Dutch Road and water authority to extend their PCF platform Speaking experience: Many talks at VMware Usergroup Conferences in europe. Most of them at the largest VMUG Conference in the world (1000 attendees): The NLVMUG UserCon. Also experience as a VMware trainer and as a speaker at the ITQ Transform events.

Building Reactive Microservices with .NET Core - Kevin Hoffman, Capital One

This session is all about building reactive services in .NET Core. Kevin Hoffman explains how to deal with distributed transactions by designing around them with techniques like Event Sourcing, CQRS, and embracing eventual consistency. He will walk through a suite of services built with ASP.NET Core to illustrate these patterns, including consuming and publishing Kafka events, using Entity Framework Core to materialize views in Postgres, and more.

Building Responsive Systems with Serverless, Event-driven Java - Richard Seroter, Pivotal & Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Microsoft

Speed. It matters in software. Not going fast just for the sake of it. No, it's about learning quickly and delivering insight and capabilities that move you forward. How does event processing make this possible? What role does serverless technology play? In this talk, Richard from Pivotal and Asir from Microsoft take a look at event-driven architectures, and how to realize it with a Java-centric solution. This solution collects data from around the world and reveals real-time insight. The presenters will demonstrate all the components, including Spring Boot, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Functions, and Spring Cloud Function. After this talk, attendees will have the knowledge they need to deliver modern, responsive systems.

About Asir Selvasingh
Asir started building Java apps in 1995. He has been into developing enterprise products, applications and open source projects for years now. Asir focuses on everything needed for the developers to build Java apps on Azure.

About Richard Seroter
Richard Seroter is a Senior Director of Product at Pivotal, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also a 10-time Microsoft MVP for cloud, Pluralsight trainer, lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, frequent public speaker, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

CF Application Runtime on CF Container Runtime (Kubernetes) - Thinh Nguyen, EMC

Due to CF Application Runtime(CFAR) and CF Container Runtime (CFCR) benefits, we use them for automating applications deployments in the cloud. However, as CFAR usually underutilizes its cloud infrastructure due to its large resource consumption, we experimentally put its components on top of CFCR. As a result, we got a utilized and scalable combination that brings the best of both platforms for cloud application deployments.

About Thinh Nguyen
Software Engineer 2 at Dell EMC under Technology Research and Innovation Group. Cloud Foundry Contributer.

CF Killed the ITSM Star - Kyle Campos, CSAA Insurance

The enterprise change process is filled with tickets, approvals and all forms of non-deterministic change review and time wasting gates that dominate the ITSM landscape. Cloud Foundry has thrown a monkey wrench into ITSM in the form of high velocity change via CI/CD and a healthy embrace of the DevOps "automate all the things" mantra.

Our DevOps and PCF platform leader, Kyle Campos, will talk about how we at CSAA are raising the quality and security bars of the platform even as deployment velocity increases through infrastructure and application CI/CD pipelines and how automation can serve the ITSM overlords through higher levels of determinism.

About Kyle Campos
Kyle is a digital transformation and cloud operations leader who for the past 20 years has worked to turn non-scalable, resource intensive and painful systems into automated, scalable and efficient systems. Currently at CSAA Insurance Kyle leads the digital security, QA, support, analytics and platform teams who are working hard to deliver to application teams all the promises of a highly available, highly performant PaaS through Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Kyle is also the Co-Founder of Commit.to and a previous speaker at CF Summit Europe and OpenStack Conf.

CF Networking: Policy, Service Discovery, & Beyond - Angela Chin & Usha Ramachandran, Pivotal

Last year, the CF Networking team introduced direct communication between microservices and fine-grained, application-based policy through the creation of a new networking stack. With these features, operators are able to deploy microservices securely, removing the need for applications with sensitive information to have public routes.

However, the work did not stop there! Learn about new features the Networking team have introduced in the past year such as platform service discovery and integration with 3rd party networking plugins! Through these enhancements, we will demonstrate how easy it has become for operators to enable direct, secure traffic between their applications.

About Angela Chin
Angela is a software engineer at Pivotal and the engineering lead of the Cloud Foundry Networking team, which develops the container networking and policy enforcement systems inside Cloud Foundry Application Runtime. Angela has previously given talks at CF Summit (North America and Europe), Open Source Summit, and Spring One Platform.

About Usha Ramachandran
Usha is a Staff Product Manager at Pivotal and the Product Lead for CF Networking. She is responsible for prioritizing and delivering core networking capabilities for Cloud Foundry. Usha has over 15 years of networking experience, having worked at Cisco, Alcatel and Ericsson. She has worn several hats throughout her career including software engineer, technical marketing engineer and product manager. A seasoned conference speaker, she has spoken at Cisco Live!, VMworld, Open Networking Summit and Cloud Foundry Summit.

CF^3 - Putting a Kubernetes Behind CF - Julz Friedman, Andrew Edgar & Julian Skupnjak, IBM

Container scheduling is increasingly commoditised. Diego, Kubernetes, Mesos, Nomad, Swarm.. - and all of them could be backends to our beloved CF Platform! You think we have a fever dream ? Come join us in our talk and we’ll prove you wrong. We’ll introduce CUBE (https://github.com/julz/cube), which is a prototype to abstract our way out of being stuck with one particular scheduler. Cube syncs CF apps to a kube backend (or any other container scheduling backend — pluggability ftw!) in exactly the same way that the diego nsync component works today, except using generated OCI images. After staging, you get a nice shippable, auto-patched OCI image, and you can use the regular “cf push” flow and get a first-class Kubernetes Deployment/ReplicaSet (or a Diego LRP, Or a Docker Stack). In other words, it decouples buildpack staging and stateless-multitenant-app running and does both of them in a “cloud native” way, on top of any scheduler”. But that’s enough teasing, come and listen to the talk if we got you interested!

About Andrew Edgar
Open Source Development

About Julz Friedman

About Julian Skupnjak
Julian Skupnjak is a software engineer at IBM Cloud. He joined IBM with a bachelor degree in 2015 and works as a member of the internal team for Cloud Foundry. Alongside his full-time activities as Software Engineer he continued his study on masters degree level. Recently, he completed his master degree with a thesis in the area of Container Placement Algorithms.
Beside several IBM intern talks about Continuous Delivery, Golang, and tools to empower and enhance CI/CD flows, Julian gave a talk about Serverless Computing at the IoT Conference 2016 in Stuttgart.

Challenges in Migrating Legacy .NET Apps into PCF - Krystian Czepiel, Grape UP

12 years old .net framework application migrated to pivotal cloud foundry? Yeah, why not?
The main idea for this talk is to show the audience how we created fully automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using concourse and PCF for legacy .net application. We will go through all big choices that we had to make at the beginning and all challenges that we faced while working on that project.
We start off by briefly describing migration requirements and preconditions.
In the main part of the presentation, we focus on work that needs to be done to setup pipeline. In this part, we discuss the following topics:
· Toolset decision (TFS vs Concourse)
· Build process
· Integration environment deploy
· Acceptance tests execution
· Package delivery
You will be left with a ready solution for most common issues and choices that you will have to make during your own migration process.

About Krystian Czepiel
Krystian, a .NET Cloud Native Team Leader at Grape Up enthusiastic about the cloud and .NET technologies. By utilizing the latest solutions such as Cloud Foundry, he works in collaboration with clients and business partners on software development projects.

Closing Remarks - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

Cloud Foundry Diego Update - Eric Malm, Pivotal

Do you love how simple and easy it is to push your application to Cloud Foundry but want to know what really happens to your app instances under the hood? Do you operate a Cloud Foundry deployment and need to understand how all its different components work together to keep applications running?

After years of development, Diego is now the official container runtime at the heart of Cloud Foundry, capable of managing even the largest CF deployments. In this talk, the project lead for the Diego team will survey how the Diego components interact inside of CF to run application instances and tasks and then dive into how those interactions have evolved over the past year to improve system stability, security, and scale. This talk will also review how recent work in Diego supports powerful platform capabilities such as isolation segments, application-identity certificates, and improved reliability of the CF routing tiers, how to use tooling such as the CF Diego Operator Toolkit ("cfdot") to inspect the app instances and CF components in a deployment, and other features that the core Cloud Foundry teams are working on or considering for development today.

After attending this talk, you'll be ready to operate your Diego-based CF deployment with confidence and to take advantage of the powerful features it provides for your users and their applications.

About Eric Malm
Eric works at Pivotal Software as the Product Manager for the CF Diego team, and prior to that was a software engineer on the Diego and CF Runtime teams. He has presented at several previous Cloud Foundry Summit events as well as at many national and international academic conferences in mathematics, and is an award-winning teacher and lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University.

Cloud Foundry UAA Overview and Roadmap - Sree Tummidi, Pivotal

Have you wondered about how UAA secures Bosh, the CF runtime, the Apps running on CF and even other container runtimes like Kubernetes. In this session we will cover not just UAA but also take a closer look at the various identity protocols like OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML which form the foundation for UAA.

In addition to this we will also cover the latest feature updates to UAA like Google Authenticator and OpenID Connect Session Management. Finally we will provide a peek into the roadmap and the big themes for 2018 !

About Sree Tummidi
Sree Tummidi is the Product Manager for UAA (User Account and Authentication Service) on Open Source Cloud Foundry since the past 3+ Years and drives the Identity and Access Management products for Pivotal. She brings in more than 12 years of experience in the security domain. Prior to joining Pivotal she held multiple Product Management & Engineering positions at CA Technologies. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Boston University & Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. She has spoken at multiple sales & customer conferences about Identity & Access Management related topics and products. Most recently she spoke at Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 (http://bit.ly/2sWjlst) and Spring One Platform 2016 about UAA and Cloud Identity (http://bit.ly/2kD1WNB)

Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes - Will It Blend? - Bernd Krannich, SAP, Cornelia Davis, Pivotal, Meaghan Kjelland, Google, Gabe Monroy, Microsoft, Simon Moser, IBM, & Jeff Hobbs, SUSE

"Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CF CR) based on Kubernetes as an additional component next to Cloud Foundry Application Runtime (CF AR) is the latest addition to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. All major players in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem — the employers of our panellists included — have already adopted CF CR and are working on adopting CF CR or are major contributors to the Kubernetes ecosystem. In this round, we want to discuss the vision these companies have for the future of the two runtimes in terms of integrating them but also for developers using the opportunities both runtimes bring to the table when it comes to developing and operating solutions that span both.

About Cornelia Davis
Cornelia Davis is Sr. Director of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Through engagement across Pivotal’s broad customer base, Cornelia develops core cloud platform strategies that drive significant change in enterprise organizations, and influence the Pivotal Cloud Foundry evolution. Currently she is working on ways to bring the various cloud-computing models of Infrastructure as a Service, Application as a Service, Container as a Service and Function as a Service together into a comprehensive offering that allows IT organizations to function at the highest levels. She is the author of the book “Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software” by Manning Publications (https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native).

An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms, Cornelia holds the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and further studied theory of computing and programming languages at Indiana University.

When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

About Jeff Hobbs
Jeff Hobbs leads the Cloud Application Platform team at SUSE. He has been involved with Cloud Foundry since it was open sourced, as the driver behind Stackato, the first enterprise Cloud Foundry distribution. He works to foster innovation and modern development ideas for enterprise environments.

About Meaghan Kjelland
Meaghan is a Software Engineer at Google working on making Cloud Foundry work well on Google Cloud Platform. She is currently working on Cloud Foundry Container Runtime. She also works on the service broker that brings Google Cloud services to applications running in the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime.

About Bernd Krannich
Technical Lead, SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry, SAP SE
Bernd works as a technical lead for Cloud Foundry at SAP. He is covering topics around the integration of Cloud Foundry into SAP's cloud platform. Therefore, his interests are cloud computing and related technologies. During his 19 years of working for SAP, Bernd has held various...

About Gabe Monroy
Gabe Monroy is the Lead PM for Containers on Microsoft Azure and represents Microsoft on the governing board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Gabe was the founder and CTO of Deis, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2017. As an early contributor to Docker and Kubernetes, Gabe has deep experience with containers in production and frequently advises organizations on PaaS, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.

About Simon Moser
Simon Moser has been at IBM since 2003, where he is currently the lead architect for the Cloud Foundry part of the IBM Cloud. He is interested in many aspects of clouds and distributed systems, emphasising on technologies that allow systems to manage themselves. After receiving his M.Eng., he started his career in various development roles around application servers and Business Process Management, and started his journey in Cloud Computing in 2010. Along the way, he has been chairing various program and steering committees (e.g. BPM and OASIS TOSCA), has been publishing many papers and given many talks at various international conferences. He’s listed as an inventor on a good dozen US patents, and has an adjunct lecturer appointment at University of Jena, Germany. In his spare time, he’s torturing various musical instruments.

Cloud Native Java with OpenJ9: Fast, Lean and Definitely Mean - Charlie Gracie, IBM

The economics of Cloud continues to dictate the need for radical changes to language runtimes. In this session lean about how OpenJDK with the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM is leading the way in creating an enterprise strength, industry leading Java runtime that provides the operational characteristics most needed for Java applications running in the Cloud. This talk will introduce the significant benefits that Eclipse OpenJ9 brings to Cloud applications and will show you how easy it is to switch to OpenJDK with Eclipse OpenJ9 in various Cloud and container environments. Whether deploying micro-services or more traditional Java applications the combination of OpenJDK with Eclipse OpenJ9 can help you reduce operational costs across the board.

About Charlie Gracie
Charlie Gracie is currently working at IBM as the Garbage Collection Architect on the Eclipse OpenJ9 and Eclipse OMR projects. He has more than a decade of JVM development experience with a focus on Memory Management and Garbage Collection. Recently, his focus has been on community growth for the OpenJ9 and OMR projects.

Cloud-Native Data: Getting to the “X” factors of Cloud Native Data - Dormain Drewitz & Paul Puckett, Pivotal, Stephen O’Grady, Redmonk, Mark Ardito, HCSC & Brian Dunlap, Southwest Airlines

Twelve-Factor App manifesto is arguably missing a key piece – data. There is no guidance for how to architect the data layer. Yet, we know how tremendously important data is to an application and an organization. We all have lots of data. What can we do to enable Cloud Native Data Manifesto to enable a DevOps model for data?

Discussions around the principles and the lack of proper data education is key to industry progress in being cloud native. If we can bridge this cloud native divide the possibilities for the enterprise are enormous. Those holding on to legacy applications due to massive data constraints could simplify and become cloud native.


Building on a panel held at SpringOne Platform 2017, this panel brings together perspectives from users (Timmy Richardson, Brian Dunlap and Mark Ardito), and industry observers (Steve O’Grady). Moderated by Dormain Drewitz, this panel will hone in on defining a set of “factors” for cloud-native data.

About Mark Ardito
As Divisional Vice President of Digital Delivery at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), Mark Ardito leads the development of new and innovative solutions for members and delivers business technology for the largest customer-owned health insurance company — and the fourth largest health insurer overall — in the United States. Mark’s leadership has helped HCSC solve complex technology challenges, and moved the company forward as a leader in the health care industry. Mark is leading a digital transformation within HCSC though the creation of an IT team that values business partner input, resulting in a new culture of collaboration and shared strategies with the business. Mark is a champion of infusing a start-up menatality within his team, and played a vital role in a recent facilities improvement project to create an approachable and open digital lab space complete with modern technology tools for IT employees. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Mark is an avid Chicago Cubs fan, and has been active in the local homebrewing community for the past 12 years. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College Chicago and a master’s degree in computer science from DePaul University.

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain leads Product Marketing for Pivotal Platform Ecosystem, including GemFire, Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Services offerings, and ISV offerings for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal’s Mobile offerings and Big Data Suite. She was Director of Platform Marketing at Riverbed Technology, covering a breadth of application performance solutions. Prior to Riverbed, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Cloud-Native Government: Saving Millions and Delivering in Minutes - John Lee, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Dan Zak & Eric Levine, SMS, Dmitry Didovicher, Crunch Data, & Moderated by Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal

If you can BOSH, BOSH!

How is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) enabling other government agencies to save millions of dollars a day?. They are working to not be the typical “government” agency. They are hiring developers to build cloud native. And, they are operating a cloud-native platform managed by BOSH.

The platform, along with key development practices, has the NGA delivering application upgrades to production in minutes. Yes, delivery of something in the government in minutes.

This panel brings together the NGA operations team to discuss how they are managing the NGA platform, with over 11 BOSH deployments globally, with less than 10 people. Moderated by Timmy Richardson, this panel will discuss where they have made success in failures as well as success with success. As well,

About Dmitry Didovicher
Dmitry Didovicher has been a software developer and project manager for over 20 years. He is currently a GIS Division Director at Crunchy Data. Working exclusively with Federal Agencies and large private enterprises he is at the front lines of the security driven environments, successfully promoting adaption of the Open Source PostgreSQL technology integrated with Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain leads Product Marketing for Pivotal Platform Ecosystem, including GemFire, Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Services offerings, and ISV offerings for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal’s Mobile offerings and Big Data Suite. She was Director of Platform Marketing at Riverbed Technology, covering a breadth of application performance solutions. Prior to Riverbed, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

About John Lee
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

About Eric Levine
SMS

About Daniel Zak
Sr. Cloud Engineer, SMS

Concourse All of the Things at All Times - Jason Immerman, Zipcar & Derek Van Assche, HS2 Solutions

How do large engineering organisations build reliable and well-defined processes to help dev teams get their work to production?

Zipcar answered this question by replacing a patchwork of semi-automated and manual testing, approval and deployment processes with a series of autonomous pipelines powered by the powerful and supremely flexible continuous integration/delivery system "Concourse".

Concourse allowed Zipcar to move from a tightly controlled weekly release cycle to a loose peer-reviewed process allowing 100+ applications to be tested, integrated and deployed on a continuous basis.

This presentation will focus on the real world experience of automating creation of well-tested deployable artifacts (in Zipcar's case, docker images, ready to be deployed into a diego-based infrastructure) and the tactics that can be employed in coordinating and expressing dependencies between applications that are managed according to their own autonomous schedules. It will discuss the limitations and constraints of pipelined integration testing and will suggest several approaches to overcoming them.

About Derek Van Assche
Derek is a software engineer working for HS2 Solutions in Detroit, Michigan. His primary expertise is in web development using a Java stack, but he also has experience in a variety of other tools and languages. He has particular interests in data analysis and simplifying complicated problems.

Most recently Derek has been working with Zipcar on managing Concourse infrastructure and streamlining the generation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.

About Jason Immerman
As manager of quality engineering, Jason focuses on furthering Zipcar’s continuous delivery implementation within a microservice architecture. Jason holds a BA in physics from Bowdoin College, and conducted research in numerical relativity.

He then made the (quantum) leap to computing, working both as an independent contractor in web development, and in management roles for QA and QA automation at Eze Software Group. Jason is passionate about automating manual processes including testing, artifact management, and deployment.

During downtime, Jason enjoys hiking, woodworking, cooking, and “having deep conversations with his Google Home.”

Concourse ❤ Container Runtime - Topher Bullock, Pivotal

Concourse has become an indispensable CI/CD tool in the Cloud Foundry community and has been widely adopted to deploy CF on any infrastructure using BOSH, as well as deploy applications to the CF Application Runtime.The Concourse team is excited at the announcement of CF's new Container Runtime and the more granular control and management of containers it provides.

The new Container Runtime provides new opportunities for CF developers to deploy containerized workloads, and Concourse will be there to help the CF community deploy and manage those workloads... continuously!

Topher - the anchor of the core Concourse team at Pivotal - will cover how Concourse can help users deploy new containerized workloads to the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime and present new features on the roadmap aimed at capitalizing on this amazing new capability in the platform.

About Topher Bullock
Topher is a senior software engineer at Pivotal and is based out of the Toronto, Canada office. On the Pivotal Cloud R&D team he has experience working on distributed systems, infrastructure automation, Concourse, Cloud Foundry, Service Broker APIs, and Mobile Apps. Topher was recently selected as one of Canada's Software Developer Top 30 Under 30.

Consumerization of Healthcare on Cloud Foundry - Kaiser Permanente’s Experiences on Cloud Foundry Platform - Surya V Duggirala, IBM & Alex Rubin, Kaiser Permanente

A leader in healthcare, Kaiser Permanente has many applications in production on Cloud Foundry platform. In this session, we will share some lessons learned in the areas of performance, scalability, resiliency, monitoring etc., This session will focus on a large consumer facing application which is used daily by millions of KP members and how it is moving toward microservices running on Cloud Foundry. In this session, we will also share our experiences comparing a set of services deployed on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.

About Surya V Duggirala
Surya Duggirala is IBM STSM responsible for Architecture and Performance Engineering of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. He directs a globally distributed team and chairs IBM Cloud performance engineering Guild. He also works closely with various Open Technology Communities and jointly leads various industry Workgroups on Performance and Optimization with other Cloud Providers in the industry. His special interests include designing microservices applications using scripting and cognitive technologies targeted for cloud. As a Global Technical Ambassador (GTA), he works with many customers, partners and ISVs across the world on cloud, application integration, performance and architecture. He has over 20 years of experience in various fields of the computer industry including application architecture and performance.

About Alex Rubin
Alex Rubin is a Principal Cloud Architect responsible for Digital applications across different lines of business in Kaiser Permanente.

Conversation with Alex Rubin, Principal Cloud Architect, Kaiser Permanente

About Alex Rubin
Alex Rubin is a Principal Cloud Architect responsible for Digital applications across different lines of business in Kaiser Permanente.

Conversation with Alois Reitbauer, VP, Chief Technology Strategist, Dynatrace & Bob Johnson, Technology Director, Humana

About Alois Reitbauer
Creativity and love of adventure are hallmarks of Dynatrace leadership and Alois is no exception. Whether bringing to market three of our market-leading performance solutions, participating in a cattle drive in Argentina or travelling the world in search of the perfect sushi, Alois is fearless and passionate. He’s a tireless creative force and evangelist for Dynatrace technology, services and solutions. With Masters Degrees in both software and information engineering, he’s equally at home addressing major international conferences or strategizing with Dynatrace architects, engineers and customers. Not surprisingly, his automobiles of choice are Porsche sports cars—always red and preferably convertible

Conversation with Chen Goldberg, Engineering Director, Google Cloud

About Chen Goldberg
Chen Goldberg is a technology leader with 18+ years of experience leading engineering teams. In her current role as Engineering Director, she leads Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and the OSS Kubernetes and Istio projects teams in Google Cloud. Her team is committed to enable open cloud and ensuring Kubernetes success is sustainable. Chen lives in Sunnyvale, California with her husband and 3 kids. Outside of work she enjoys hiking and making desserts.

Conversation with Chuck Knostman, VP, Digital Technology & Strategy, T-Mobile

About Chuck Knostman
Chuck is the Vice President of Technology and Strategy at T-Mobile USA, Inc. As an executive with 20+ years of experience, Chuck is currently focused on evaluating and incubating near-term and emerging technologies that support our relentless pursuit of providing our customers with the best wireless experience possible. This role includes helping our technology teams deliver with velocity, build for scale, and continually strive to improve, as well as work with our business partners to bring their visions and roadmaps to life.

Prior to this role Chuck has been responsible for Digital Architecture, software delivery units for Retail and Care Applications, Middleware, and Billing as well as Quality Assurance and Operations for T-Mobile, Dish Network, and MCI. Chuck spent his first 10 years as a Software Engineer and holds a Bachelors in Management Information Systems from the University of Northern Colorado.

Conversation with Gabe Monroy, Lead PM, Azure Containers, Microsoft

About Gabe Monroy
Gabe Monroy is the Lead PM for Containers on Microsoft Azure and represents Microsoft on the governing board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Gabe was the founder and CTO of Deis, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2017. As an early contributor to Docker and Kubernetes, Gabe has deep experience with containers in production and frequently advises organizations on PaaS, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.

Conversation with Holly Moody, Sr. Manager, Software Engineering & Andy Rosequist, Director, IT Operations, Zipcar, Inc.

About Holly Moody
Holly manages a team of software engineers that create dynamic products and functionality for Zipcar’s over one million membership base worldwide. In addition, Holly has been instrumental in helping the Zipcar engineering team transition to a Continuous Delivery mindset. Holly has worked in a variety of management roles in software development and engineering in companies like Blue Dolphin Software and UPromise. Just before coming to Zipcar, Holly was senior software engineering manager, continuous delivery at Constant Contact.

When not at work Holly enjoys volunteering and was a volunteer powerlifting coach for the Special Olympics, and coached one participant to a Silver Medal in the 2014 Special Olympics USA.

Holly holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and an MS in Engineering Management from The Gordon Institute at Tufts University.

About Andy Rosequist
Andy Rosequist is a senior technology leader at Zipcar responsible for driving performance excellence across all of Zipcar’s technology operations, platform team, and security engineering. Andy joined the Zipcar team in 2012 as the DevOps Manager, where he spearheaded the movement of technology culture into the robust and leading-edge collaborative process Zipcar iterates on today. Outside of work, Andy is a volunteer organizer for a number of science fiction conventions and generally just tries to make the world a better place. Andy holds a BA in Mythology and Culture from Hampshire College, where he once taught a class on Norse Mythology while outside in the snow. As it should be.

Conversation with John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer at Dell EMC & Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About John Roese
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.

Conversation with Matthew Curry, Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co.

About Matthew Curry
Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co.
Matt is a director of Infrastructure Products at Allstate. He maintains a regular presence on multiple podcasts and is an avid Twitter freak.

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Conversation with Subbu Allamaraju, Vice President, Expedia Inc.

Subbu Allamaraju is a technologist fascinated by large ambiguous problems and the learning opportunities such problems present. He is an influential voice both within Expedia, where he is currently a Vice President of Technology, and the industry. Subbu is passionate about all things related to cloud, infrastructure, platforms, operations, the evolution of cloud native technologies and architectures, and the intersection of culture and technology.

At Expedia, Subbu is leading a large-scale migration of Expedia’s travel platforms from enterprise data centers to a highly available architecture on the cloud.

Before joining Expedia, as a Distinguished Engineer at eBay Inc., Subbu helped build private cloud infrastructure and platforms for eBay and PayPal, which positioned these two organizations amongst a select few of the largest operators of OpenStack.

Subbu is an engineering leader well-rounded in software development, architecture, distributed systems, services, Internet protocols, operations, and cloud. Over the past several years, he helped build and empower several engineering and operations teams in these areas.

Subbu is an occasional blogger and speaker at technology conferences, and has published books on REST and server-side programming in Java. You can follow his activities at https://www.subbu.org and @sallamar on Twitter.

About Subbu Allamaraju
Subbu is the Chief Engineer of cloud at eBay Inc. His team builds and operates a multi-tenant geographically distributed OpenStack based private cloud. This cloud now serves 100% of PayPal web and mid tier workloads, significant parts of eBay front end and services, and thousands of users for their dev/test activities.

Cost of Delay--How PCF Helped Demonstrate the DoD Can't Afford Business as Usual - Capt Bryon Kroger & Tory Galvin, United States Air Force

In partnership with Pivotal Labs, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) and Defense Innovation Unit Experiment (DIUx) are demonstrating that cloud-native cycle times can lead to astronomical impacts. Our implementation of PCF paired with the "Pivotal Way" decreased our initial release time from an average of five years down to 120 days! Additionally, as opposed to 1-2 year update cycles on minor releases, we have now achieved continuous delivery. In the case of our first application in production, doing business the old way would have resulted in a $391M cost of delay. Rather than focusing on Total Life Cycle Cost to make decisions, the proposal is to demonstrate the Cost of Delay to inform and guide.

About Victoria Galvin
An Operations Research Analyst for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center that has provided cost estimates for weapon systems including: aircraft, tactical data links, satellites, sensors and now focusing on software cost estimating. Her integrated schedule/cost analysis work has earned her numerous awards-proving the value of her analytical background and fresh perspective on high visibility in defense programs. She has presented both locally and internationally with the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association, and to senior leadership within the AF both military and civilian.

About Capt Bryon Kroger
An Intelligence Officer turned Product Owner, Bryon now serves as COO for Project Kessel Run at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Having been on the receiving end of poor software from the Defense Acquisitions Cycle for seven years, he has a deep appreciation for just how steep the Cost of Delay can be--measured not just in dollars but sometimes in lives. His passion to reduce that cost led him to the acquisitions community where he embarked on a cloud-native journey for intelligence systems using PCF. He has made a career of presenting to the highest levels of military leadership on topics ranging from national security to DevOps.

CredHub and Secure Credential Management - Peter Blum & Scott Frederick, Pivotal

From the platform all the way down to the microservices which run upon it, secrets are everywhere and leaking them can be a costly experience. Understanding security best practices, such as encrypting secrets while in transit; encrypting secrets at rest; rotating secrets regularly; preventing secrets from unintentionally leaking when consumed by the final application; and strictly adhering to the principle of least-privilege, where an application only has access to the secrets that it needs—no more, no less.....can be daunting. A new Cloud Foundry Foundation project, CredHub, was designed for these reasons. This session will take a fresh look at how to enhance security within Cloud Foundry and applications through secret management by utilizing CredHub in conjunction with Spring Cloud Services.

About Peter Blum
Peter is a Platform Architect with Pivotal and has worked with several customers to help deploy and run Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Prior he contributed to Diego Persistence components in Cloud Foundry, as well as the RackHD CPI for BOSH.

About Scott Frederick
Scott Frederick is a Sr. Software Engineer at Pivotal, working on Spring Framework and Cloud Foundry open-source and commercial projects.

Scott has been using CloudFoundry, Java, Groovy, and Spring since the early days of each of these technologies, to solve real-world problems. Before joining Pivotal, Scott spent many years in the travel and transportation industry.

Customizable CI/CD with Cloud Foundry - Wei-Min Lu & Yuebin Shen, Anchora

CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) is an essential requirement for enterprise PaaS solution. Due to different process requirements from difference users, it is required that CI/CD be made customizable by the users. In this presentation, we will introduce such a flexible CI/CD solution that provides an end-to-end application continuous delivery process via visualized methods with various built-in services. This approach enables the complete process from app development to deployment with seamlessly integration with Cloud Foundry. It supports the app deployment onto the Cloud Foundry platform using code packages or image files, process verification and approval, module self-definition, and notification etc.

About Wei-Min Lu
Dr. Lu is the founder and CEO of Anchora (MoPaaS), which is the leading cloud platform solution provider in China that builds the converged platform solution that enables both the first public open cloud platform service (MoPaaS: http://www.mopaas.com) and an enterprise-class PaaS cloud platform solution (MoPaaS enterprise); in particular, MoPaaS provide cloud platform for industrial Internet for manufacturing, communication and energy industries, artificial intelligence solution for education market, and SRE solution for cloud service operation. Dr. Lu has over 15 year experiences in product development and marketing. Before he founded Anchora in 2008, he served in key engineering and management positions at IBM and NASA-JPL etc. He has solid background in cloud computing, cybernetics, machine learning, information retrieval, and storage technologies. He received the Ph.D. degree (EE/Math) from CalTech and the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, China.

Customizing Your Windows Experience - Pick Your Own Journey - Guna Vijayaratnam & Rick Ross, Pivotal

Cloud Foundry provides users with a great deal of flexibility in terms of customizing the Windows experience (at the IaaS or Application) on the platform. There are several layers where this customization can be accomplished - through Bosh managed Windows releases or the actual Windows containers that host the applications.

Some of the areas that customers typically have a need to customize include:

1. Managing additional Windows services thats running on the actual VM.
2. Customizing frameworks that developers need to run their applications.
3. Managing 3rd party add-ons that are necessary to the telemetry and monitoring of their applications from an enterprise monitoring tool.

In this talk, Guna and Rick will cover strategies for accomplishing each of these tasks with a brief example of how they can be accomplished.

About Rick Ross
Rick Ross works at Pivotal as a Advisory Platform Architect where he helps Fortune 500 companies transform the way they build, deploy, run and operate their applications. He is a published author and has spoken at technical conferences such as Dreamforce in locations around the world.

About Guna Vijayaratnam
Platform Architect, Pivotal

Data Protection for a Modern Cloud - James Hunt, Stark & Wayne

Your BOSH / Cloud Foundry infrastructure is filled with critical data, from deployment metadata in BOSH, to org / space data in CF, to application data in your BOSH-deployed marketplace services. SHIELD is a Data Protection Solution that helps you backup that important data, off-site, and restore it in the event of all-out catastrophe. It provides scheduling, archive retention, and data encryption.

About James Hunt
James Hunt is the Chief Architect and Technical Evangelist at Stark & Wayne, a leading Cloud Foundry consultancy. He has authored dozens of Open Source projects, including: SHIELD, Safe, Genesis, Spruce, and more.

Debugging Cloud Foundry Apps: Via Service Mesh, Open Tracing - Idit Levine, Solo.io

The mainstreaming of containerization and microservices is raising a critical question by both developers and operators: how do we debug all this?

Debugging microservices applications is a difficult task. The state of the application is spread across multiple microservices, and it is hard to get a holistic view of the state of the application. Currently debugging of microservices is assisted by openTracing, which helps in tracing of a transaction or workflow for post-mortem analysis, and linkerd and itsio which monitor the network to identify latency problems. These tools however, do not allow to monitor and interfere with the application during run time.

In this talk, we will describe and demonstrate common debugging techniques and we will introduce Squash, a new tool and methodology.

About Idit Levine
Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, where she is aiming to streamline the cloud stack.
Prior to founding solo.io, Idit was the CTO of the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO Office.

At EMC, Idit lead, designed and implemented project UniK, an open source platform for automating unikernels compilation and deployment and project layer-x, an open source framework for cross-cluster scheduling . At solo, Idit recently released Squash, an open source platform for debugging microservices applications.

Decoupling the CF Buildpacks from CF: CF Local & more! - Stephen Levine, Pivotal

About Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine is a Pivotal CF Product Manager on Buildpacks team. He’s been known to leave unsuspecting coworkers’ keyboards set to Dvorak.

Delivering Business Value by Migrating & Modernizing .NET - Naveen Babu, Travelers & Zach Brown, Pivotal

Developers choose to use .NET when building new and modernizing existing business applications for a variety of reasons including skills/knowledge, personal preference and existing portfolio/investment. In this session, Naveen (Travelers) and Zach (Pivotal) will share real-world experiences of migrating and modernizing .NET applications on Cloud Foundry.

Cloud computing encourages a new set of patterns and best practices, such as microservices, 12-factors, service registry, and circuit breakers, to name a few. Using tools like Steeltoe and Cloud Foundry, developing new greenfield .NET apps that embrace these cloud-native patterns has become relatively easy. On the other hand, migrating and modernizing existing brownfield .NET apps is the elephant in the room. Practices that developers commonly used in the past (e.g. dependencies on the registry, GAC, and local file system) have become cloud anti-patterns. From their experience developing and migrating .NET applications at Travelers, the speakers will share some of the challenges faced and lessons learned with a focus on delivering business value.

This session is for developers and architects who want to unlock business value in their existing .NET application portfolio by migrating and modernizing their apps on Cloud Foundry.

About Naveen Babu
Naveen Babu is a lead architect in Claim Technology, Travelers. Co-chairing Cloud Native domain team at Travelers, he is a cloud evangelist architecting, coaching, mentoring and delivering cloud applications. He conducts workshops, speaks at forums like Speaker Series to promote/teach cloud and other architectural concepts/patterns. Prior to Travelers, since early 90s he has been actively involved in various roles of Information Technology and SDLC at Fortune 500s and Startups.

About Zach Brown
Zach Brown starting building web sites in the 90s using Netscape-optimized HTML, cgi, and lots of Photoshop lens flares. He spent many years as a developer on the Microsoft stack, then as an architect and manager of dev teams. Currently he's responsible for product strategy and marketing for Steeltoe and the Pivotal Cloud Foundry .NET developer experience.

Demo with Jenny McLaughlin, Sr. Platform Architect & Tim Hess, Engineer, Pivotal

About Tim Hess
Tim Hess is an engineer on the Steeltoe project. He's been slinging code professionally for over 10 years, with healthy doses of software architecture and system administration responsibilities along the way. In order to feed his expansive appetite for learning, Hess also runs the premier software developer group in Central Wisconsin.

About Jenny McLaughlin
​​​​Jenny McLaughlin has years of Java and .NET experience across various industries. She is currently a Platform Architect at Pivotal helping customers move toward a better way of building and operating their applications. Consequently, customers have become thought leaders on their cloud native journey. Jenny has involved with many speaking engagements including Meetup talks and non-profit organization classes. Topics vary from Spring subjects, Functions to .NET and .NET Core.

Demo with Shanfan Huang & William Martin, Staff Product Manager, Pivotal

About Shanfan Huang
Shanfan Huang leads the user centric design effort at Cloud Foundry for Windows, improving .NET developer and Windows server operator experience on the CF platform.
Before joining the Cloud Foundry team, Shanfan had been coaching enterprise clients at Pivotal on lean product design and cloud-native application development.

Demo with Stephen Levine, Project Lead for Buildpacks & CF Local

About Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine is a Pivotal CF Product Manager on Buildpacks team. He’s been known to leave unsuspecting coworkers’ keyboards set to Dvorak.

Demo with Topher Bullock, Staff Software Engineer, Pivotal

About Topher Bullock
Topher is a senior software engineer at Pivotal and is based out of the Toronto, Canada office. On the Pivotal Cloud R&D team he has experience working on distributed systems, infrastructure automation, Concourse, Cloud Foundry, Service Broker APIs, and Mobile Apps. Topher was recently selected as one of Canada's Software Developer Top 30 Under 30.

Demo with Troy Topnik, Product Manager, Cloud Application Platform, SUSE

About Troy Topnik
Troy is a Senior Product Manager responsible for SUSE Cloud Application Platform. He began working with Cloud Foundry shortly after its open source debut in 2011, and has been a technical writer, instructor, and product manager with the ActiveState and HPE Helion Stackato teams.

Demo with Zach Robinson, CAPI Project Lead

About Zach Robinson
Zach has worked as a core contributor to Cloud Foundry since 2013. He is currently the CFF Project Lead for the CAPI team. He has worked with the CF Services, Runtime, and CAPI teams including anchoring Runtime and CAPI, with contributions to most Cloud Foundry components. His previous experience includes over 10 years of engineering, primarily in the financial sector.

Deploying and Operating Cloud Native .NET apps - Jenny McLaughlin & Cornelius Mendoza, Pivotal

As .NET developers and Windows operators, we want to let cloud services do more for us so we can focus on delivering business values. In other words, we want to innovate faster without sacrificing our weekends.

Containerization has been a myth for those in the Windows world. What does it mean and how can we best leverage it to our advantage? In this talk, we will discuss how Windows containers are implemented in Cloud Foundry so .NET developers can have the same CF Haiku experience as Java developers: "Here is my source code, run it in the cloud for me, I do not care how." What about Day 2 operations? We will also examine how the platform takes care of the Day 2 concerns. In addition, we will explore Docker containers and provide insights on pros and cons and best use cases.

About Jenny McLaughlin
​​​​Jenny McLaughlin has years of Java and .NET experience across various industries. She is currently a Platform Architect at Pivotal helping customers move toward a better way of building and operating their applications. Consequently, customers have become thought leaders on their cloud native journey. Jenny has involved with many speaking engagements including Meetup talks and non-profit organization classes. Topics vary from Spring subjects, Functions to .NET and .NET Core.

About Cornelius Mendoza
Cornelius Mendoza is a Senior Platform Architect for Pivotal. He has been working with companies to transform the way they deliver .NET applications leveraging Cloud Native patterns. Cornelius has managed large global business transformation projects leveraging multi-disciplinary teams leveraging both Agile and SDLC methodologies. His broad experience includes software development, management consulting, and product management in Automotive, Energy, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Travel and Hospitality, Energy, and Financial Services industries.

Designing, Implementing, and Using Reactive APIs - Ben Hale & Paul Harris, Pivotal

The Java community is on the cusp of a major change in programming model. As the industry moves towards high-performance micro-service architectures, the need for a reactive programming model becomes clear. In this session, the lead developers of the Cloud Foundry Java Client will talk about what led them to choose a reactive API. Using that project as a lens, they'll explore how they designed and implemented this API using Project Reactor and what users will expect when using a reactive API. If you are a developer looking to provide reactive APIs, this is your chance to gain the experience of team building a large, production-ready reactive library.

About Ben Hale
Ben Hale leads Pivotal's efforts to constantly improve the Java experience on Cloud Foundry. Recently he has been working on the Cloud Foundry Java Buildpack with an eye to making it the best place to run Java applications, in the Cloud or otherwise. In addition, he leads the team that is revamping the Cloud Foundry Java Client, a Java language binding on top of the Cloud Foundry REST APIs.

Prior to working on Cloud Foundry, Ben worked on large-scale middleware management tools, tc Server, dm Server (OSGi), and Spring. If you go back far enough, he even worked on a network management and monitoring application, but will deny it when asked.

About Paul Harris
Paul Harris is the lead developer for the Cloud Foundry Java Client, working on bringing the power of Cloud Foundry’s API and CLI to Java. Prior to working on Cloud Foundry, Paul worked on large-scale middleware management tools, tc Server, and dm Server (OSGi). He’s worked in a range of industries from medical devices through manufacturing to banking, where he was one of the backroom heroes averting the Y2K disaster.

Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes Just Got Easier - Michael Rhodes, Dell EMC

In this talk we will walk through the value of running services in Kubernetes clusters, how they can be integrated quickly into Cloud Foundry, (via the Open Service Broker API), and how you can use a new OSB API extensions model called “Actions” to offer up backup & restore utilities to your end users. Pair all of this with Dell EMC Data Domain to reduce the transfer and storage size of backup data and you have a solid production data service story.

This topic is especially relevant with the release of Kubernetes persistent volumes there has been a shift in the way that data services are being deployed to production. Service Providers can choose from an endless number of open source components and get an (almost) production ready database up and running in kubernetes very quickly. With help from the Open Service Broker API and its extensions enhancement, Cloud Foundry Administrators can integrate kubernetes backed services into their platforms and give their users additional tools for managing instances, such as backup and restore.

About Michael Rhodes
Michael Rhodes is a Cloud Native Architect in Dell EMCs Data Protection Division. Mike has a twelve-year career at Dell EMC designing and implementing hardware and software system management products. He started with networking and compute management with Dell EMC Smarts, then moved on to storage management with Dell EMC Storage Resource Manager and VPLEX. Today, Mike spends his time designing and evolving data protection solutions in the cloud-native space.

Dispatch - A Serverless Framework - Berndt Jung & Mark Peek, VMware

This session will discuss the Dispatch open source serverless framework from VMware. The Dispatch framework uses other open source FaaS implementations (such as OpenFaaS, OpenWhisk, and RIFF) to provide an easier developer experience while adding in IT/Ops features such as multi-tenancy, monitoring, and visibility. This talk will demonstrate Dispatch leveraging RIFF for function execution and services via Open Service Broker API (CF service broker and Kubernetes service catalog).

About Berndt Jung
Berndt is currently a Sr. Manager of Engineering at VMware overseeing the serverless effort. This effort has resulted in the open source serverless platform, Dispatch. Previously, Berndt worked as a Staff Engineer in the Cloud Native Applications Business Unit.

About Mark Peek
Mark is a Principal Engineer at VMware working across areas of interest such as cloud management, cloud native applications, and open source. Currently, he is leading the work on serverless within VMware. Mark contributes to a wide range of open source projects and is the VMware representative for the Cloud Foundry TAB, CNCF, and OCI.

Mark has spoken at a number of conferences, most recently KubeCon 2017 where he co-presented "State of Serverless".

Diversity Luncheon - Chasing Grace Project Screening & Discussion - Introduction by Caitlyn O'Connell, Marketing Communications Manager, Cloud Foundry Foundation - Jennifer Cloer, Executive Director, The Chasing Grace Project & Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation - Sponsored by Cognizant & Google

The Chasing Grace Project https://chasinggracefilm.com/

Eighty Twenty: The Gender Pay Gap Exposed

The gender pay gap can lead to $1 million in lost wages over the course of a woman’s career, not to mention a profound emotional deficit brought on by the feeling one is always chasing something she cannot attain. Join us at the Diversity Luncheon to watch Episode One of The Chasing Grace Project, written and directed by Jennifer Cloer, co-founder of Wicked Flicks Productions, over a delicious meal. Episode One: Eighty Twenty explores the impact of the gender pay gap on women in tech, and documents how women find ways to charge ahead in order to sustain successful careers. Following the episode will be a Q+A with Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Abby Kearns and Jennifer Cloer. The audience will be given the opportunity to participate as well.

About Caitlyn O'Connell
Caitlyn O’Connell runs content for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, including the blog, white papers, messaging and more. She spearheaded a diversity and inclusivity initiative for the Foundation in 2017 and created the Junior Ambassador program to enable young women aspiring towards a career in STEM to attend Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley. Caitlyn is dedicated to supporting women and other underrepresented communities in open source and the tech industry at large, and telling their stories.

About Jennifer Cloer
Jennifer’s career has been dedicated to telling the stories that have defined a generation of technology developers, from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to the men and women who started Creative Commons and Google’s first I/O Conference. For more than 15 years, Jennifer has been a woman in tech and has been recognized for her storytelling acumen by BusinessInsider, who ranked her among the best PR people in tech for her video storytelling works. She is co-founder of Wicked Flicks, a film/video production house working with companies and individuals to affect change through original content. She is also founder and lead consultant at reTHINKit PR with clients in in the enterprise software, AI, blockchain, open source, health tech and cloud computing spaces. She was most recently VP of communications at The Linux Foundation, where she oversaw brand storytelling and team of PR, social media and video production professionals. Prior to that, she was vice president at Page One PR and held posts both in house and at agency in communications. In addition to her BusinessInsider recognition, CIO.com identified her as one of the most influential women in open source.

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

Ecosystem Panel Discussion with Molly Crowther, Pivotal, Matt Curry, Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co., Chen Goldberg, Engineering Director, Google Cloud, Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation & Moderator Frederic Lardinois

About Frederic Lardinois
Frederic has spent more than five years covering news and providing analysis about technology, the industry and consumer tech related to the Internet with potential to influence industry direction. At TechCrunch, his focus spans from emerging technologies and niche startups to major product advances by industry titans – all innovation focused. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite).

About Molly Crowther
Senior Technical Program Manager for Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
Molly Crowther is a Senior Technical Program Manager for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal.

About Matthew Curry
Director of Cloud Engineering, Allstate Insurance Co.
Matt is a director of Infrastructure Products at Allstate. He maintains a regular presence on multiple podcasts and is an avid Twitter freak.

About Chen Goldberg
Chen Goldberg is a technology leader with 18+ years of experience leading engineering teams. In her current role as Engineering Director, she leads Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and the OSS Kubernetes and Istio projects teams in Google Cloud. Her team is committed to enable open cloud and ensuring Kubernetes success is sustainable. Chen lives in Sunnyvale, California with her husband and 3 kids. Outside of work she enjoys hiking and making desserts.

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

Enabling .NET Applications with Performance Monitoring and Management on Cloud Foundry - Dave Tillman, Pivotal

Applications with complex distributed architectures typically have dozens of dependencies which at times fail or become unresponsive. Detecting these problems in a timely fashion and then troubleshooting them in a distributed environment can pose a significant challenge.
This developer level talk we will explore how you can use the Steeltoe Management frameworks to enable your .NET application with performance monitoring, management diagnostic endpoints, and distributed tracing all of which seamlessly integrate with Cloud Foundry. We will use a polyglot based micro-services sample application (i.e. Java and .NET) together with Pivotal Apps Manager and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Metrics to illustrate how all these tools integrate and can be used in detecting and diagnosing a failing application.

About Dave Tillman
Dave Tillman is the lead engineer on the Steeltoe open source project. He has many years of experience as both a Java and a .NET developer and currently works for Pivotal.

Enabling Innovation in Government with Cloud Foundry - Peter Burkholder, General Services Administration & Bret Mogilevsky, 18F

Two years ago at this summit the 18F team introduced you to cloud.gov: built for the compliance regime of the U.S. federal government. In this presentation, Peter Burkholder will update you on what we’ve learned while running a shared-service PaaS for government. Back then we had just launched our platform. Since then we’ve cleared the FedRAMP accreditation hurdles, taken on customers, and learned how to convince folks that PaaS is the path for government innovation.

This talk will show how we customized Cloud Foundry for government, how we added or tailored features to support users’ compliance needs, how our government partners in the UK (https://cloud.service.gov.uk) and Australia (https://cloud.gov.au) have joined the OSS and CF movement, and how cloud.gov has worked with agencies to enable agile development, better security, and greater innovation. Our lessons learned for hacking bureaucracy and advocating change will apply to most large or highly-regulated organizations.

End User Panel Discussion with Enes Yildirim, Boeing, Christopher Tretina, Comcast, Andrea Hirzle-Yager, Allianz Deutschland AG, Justin Stone, Liberty Mutual, Andy Rosequist, Zipcar, & Moderated by Ron Miller, TechCrunch

About Ron Miller
TechCrunch

About Susanna Brown
Susanna Brown serves as the managing director, Operations Technology for American Airlines. In this role, Susanna is in charge of facilitating the delivery of technology solutions that keep the airline operations running smoothly.

About Andrea Hirzle-Yager
Experienced change agent with international background; committed to increasing technology value for the business by improving efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Proven expertise at creating IT strategy and business transformation with a clear customer focus. Successful motivational leader, mentors and develops high-performing global teams.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreahyager/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcRx3iH3WmgCXGUkKfdaWRo0h209vMqEL

About Andy Rosequist
Andy Rosequist is a senior technology leader at Zipcar responsible for driving performance excellence across all of Zipcar’s technology operations, platform team, and security engineering. Andy joined the Zipcar team in 2012 as the DevOps Manager, where he spearheaded the movement of technology culture into the robust and leading-edge collaborative process Zipcar iterates on today. Outside of work, Andy is a volunteer organizer for a number of science fiction conventions and generally just tries to make the world a better place. Andy holds a BA in Mythology and Culture from Hampshire College, where he once taught a class on Norse Mythology while outside in the snow. As it should be.

About Justin Stone
Justin Stone is the Director of Cloud Enablement at Liberty Mutual. With 20 years of infrastructure and engineering experience, his background is leveraged daily as application teams look to start their cloud journey at Liberty. When it comes to understanding the frustrations faced by legacy application teams moving to the cloud, Justin excels at listening and working with teams to define and architect products that offer real business value. Currently focused on new technology and innovation—where Liberty is going next is always at the forefront of his mind. Justin’s highly developed management style comes from playing zone defense at home, managing three kids…with another on the way.

About Christopher Tretina
Christopher Tretina is Director of Software Dev & Engineering at Comcast and now leads the Customer Experience Platform (CXP) team. Most recently, Chris led the engineering of the aiQ program which delivered a customer-facing virtual agent experience, built atop Cloud Foundry and leveraging AI/ML, in about eight weeks. Prior to that, Chris led the Core Architecture team that drove the migration of the Enterprise Services Platform (ESP) implementation from SOA and WebLogic to the Xfinity Services Platform (XSP) built with microservices and deployed to Cloud Foundry across numerous DevOps teams. Chris has 15 years’ experience in the technology industry in various roles marked at AstraZeneca, Pfizer, QVC, and Comcast.

About Enes Yildirim
Enes Yildirim’s passion is to transform IT organizations to be their most productive. Today, as the Digital Transformation Environment (DTE) Global Program Leader, Enes drives this foundational enterprise initiative to support the 2nd Century Digital Transformation at Boeing. He does this by building up software engineering and analytics capability powered to deliver digital solutions to business problems. This work @ Boeing combines two passions of Enes: innovative technology solutions and driving business to find new revenue streams while delivering value at the fastest rate possible. Enes has been fascinated by aviation all his life; as the son of an Air Force pilot, husband to a certified commercial pilot and a student of aeronautical engineering he moved to Boeing in Chicago to make a difference at the global aerospace leader.

Ensuring Platform Security with Windows Bosh Add-ons and Runtime-Config at Boeing - James Coppock & Sheryl Maris, Boeing

We did it! InfoSec said “Not a chance you’re deploying Ubuntu and Windows on Pivotal Cloud Foundry unless you meet our highly stringent requirements!”. We were told – “You must implement virus protection and reporting; you must monitor about 100ish security controls, check them daily, and report anomalies daily; you must force multi-factor authentication for the opsman UI and SSH connections to opsman, and you must not allow direct access to any servers – all access must come from only the load balancers and go-routers”. What? Really? Um, okay, I see we have no choice.

Under immense time pressure, we found a way. We added some fairly simple Bosh Add-ons to the runtime config and applied via Concourse to all of our foundations. How easy was that?
Maybe your InfoSec team is as hard as ours (pretty likely). If you’re an operations/infradev person focused on security and want to learn an eloquent and technically simple way to meet their requirements, please come by and hear from our off-the-wall team. Cooperating daily with our InfoSec lead E.J., our stressed out Service Manager Brad was, well, stressed out. Our tech leads, James and Sheryl saved the day (with the help of our Pivots of course).

You’ll walk away learning some simple custom Bosh Add-ons applied via Runtime Config that met InfoSec’s tough requirements. Probably similar requirements at almost any company I would hazard a guess. We would love to talk to you anytime about our journey. We have implemented Windows on PCF quite successfully (how did we do this with the MS licensing restrictions?) and are hosting .NET Framework applications and .NET Core on Linux, we plan to implement Windows 2016 Core this year, Developers use SteelToe for the .NET Core and Framework applications to take advantage of Spring framework, we use SAML federation via PingFed to our Active Directory, Multi-Factor Authentication via smart card for Opsman, and probably a hundred other interesting topics.

Attend this talk to learn some simple, custom BOSH add-ons applied via Runtime Config saved the day, using Concourse to deploy to all foundations.

About Sheryl Maris
"Before starting with Boeing, Sheryl was in the customer service industry, never finding the challenges she thrived for. A single mother of 2, she went back to college in 2006 earning three degrees. Sheryl now thrives for the challenges she encounters as a core member of the PCF Core Team at Boeing. She has learned and implemented technologies such as Concourse pipelines and Fly CLI , Bosh, CF CLI, Operations and Application manager, vSphere, Minio S3 blob store, GIT, just to name a few. She created the first Concourse Installation pipeline used at Boeing, which fully automates the installation of a base foundation. She teamed with the PCF Core Team and Security to implement security requirements within the Runtime config. Sheryl truly enjoys developing new IT skills, enhancing leadership attributes, and increasing her responsibilities by taking on the most difficult assignments and focuses on making her Boeing customers successful.

I truly encourage other women (and men) to get involved in PCF. It’s really not that hard. I have nothing but good things to say about how Pivotal helped us deploy CF, how my team and our Pivots helped me learn through pairing, how it was so easy to pick this up. This technology is truly transformative for any company. Maybe that’s the secret to CF; it’s pretty easy to learn and implement, but so powerful once in place. I truly enjoy spending time with my family, hiking with my dog Spenser, and anything spicy!"

Extending the BOSH Backup and Restore Framework - Therese Stowell & Chunyi Lyu, Pivotal

BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR) is a backup and restore framework, designed for distributed systems, that has been adopted by the CF Extensions as the de facto backup and restore solution for CF. It has moved on quite a bit since its first release in summer 2017, including support for the new standard CF, cf-deployment. Operators will be pleased to hear about security enhancements, improved automation, and reduced API downtime. Therese and Chunyi will announce exciting integrations from partners like Stark & Wayne and Dell/EMC, support for additional hardware configurations and data services, and validation of backup artifacts.

About Chunyi Lyu
Chunyi Lyu is a software engineer at Pivotal, working on Backup and Restore. She previously worked on Release Integration team and has extensive experience on the open source Cloud Foundry and BOSH.

About Therese Stowell
Therese Stowell is Product Manager at Pivotal. She has worked in the software industry for 20+ years as programmer, interface designer, and product manager. She developed the command line environment in Windows, founded a successful social enterprise, and was part of a startup team to win a Nesta Open Data Institute £40,000 prize. She also has an MA in Fine Art. She has extensive speaking experience, including a keynote at SpringOne and sessions at CF Summit Santa Clara and CF Summit Europe.

Eyes on Target - Continuously Fielding Mission Driven Value - Keith Strini, Pivotal

At Pivotal, when we entered the national security space we made a conscious effort to translate the shared values of our company into those that were culturally aligned with this community. We did this with the stubborn intent to not sacrifice the speed at which we enable our customers to deliver innovation.

It required us to extensively collaborate with national security customers to define a new goal to align value and distill the non-value added work. This new primary goal was the development and implementation of a continuous fielding model. With a unified fielding platform strategy we are collectively working to overcome the delivery challenges of fielding to the last mile, out to the edge.

In the national security space its not how fast can you get an idea into production but how fast can you deliver a compliant solution to a mission need. This requires all of the pieces to be accounted for including compliancy. It drives a single KPI, the mean time between fielding. This KPI measures our ability to deliver the velocity needed to maintain the Effective Operational Agility.

About Keith Strini
Keith Strini is the Federal Practice Lead and a Cloud Foundry Advisory Solutions Architect at Pivotal, implementing Cloud Foundry solutions across a wide variety of customer environments both in the Federal and Commercial space. Keith recently presented "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cloud Foundry Summit - Frankfurt 2016 Conference and at the 2017 IC DevCon "Mission Driven Design" and "Mean Time Between Fielding". He most recently presented "Beyond the Buzzwords" at the 2017 CF Summit Basel. He also served as a technology analyst for the US Department of Defense and Intelligence communities. He has helped architect, develop and field information systems across the Joint Services both CONUS and OCONUS (Korea, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East) and NATO

FaaS & Furious: Running Serverless Apps on Multiple Clouds with CF Container Runtime and Project Riff - Guillermo Tantachuco, Pivotal

In this session, Guillermo will explain how your organization can leverage Cloud Foundry Container Runtime and Project Riff to build a Function-as-a-Service platform that lets you run and automatically scale your polyglot functions in response to a variety of events...on-premises and in the public cloud. Along the way, we will explore together why everyone is curious about serverless programming and demonstrate with a live demo multiple scenarios (web events, IoT streams, among others) that showcase the key capabilities that differentiate Project Riff from other FaaS projects.
Come see why adding functions to your architecture toolbox can help you do more with less and focus on delivering great user experiences for your users.

About Guillermo Tantachuco
Guillermo is an award-winning Enterprise Architecture practitioner with 20+ years of progressive experience in different industries. Since 2011, he has led the delivery of cloud-native and digital transformation initiatives with Cloud Foundry at numerous Fortune 500 organizations. He focuses on all aspects of distributed systems including defense-in-depth, Internet scale, multi-cloud and fault-tolerance capabilities. He has presented at multiple conferences including SpringOne Platform, Pivotal Internet-of-Things roadshows and VMware Partner Exchange. Guillermo is passionate about his family, business, technology and soccer.

First Line of Defense: Patching Vulnerable Java Application Dependencies in CF - Aner Mazur, Snyk

What happens when a critical Java security vulnerability is detected in an application dependency, and upgrading is hard? How could you respond quickly without disrupting your development process and immediately shifting substantial resources to test a major upgrade?

This talk will analyze high-impact Java vulnerabilities, such as the Apache Struts vulnerability that was exploited in the May 2017 Equifax data breach. We'll show how to exploit them as an attacker would, discuss the various ways such a Java vulnerability could be addressed in the CF environment, as well as present an automated patch first, upgrade later approach.

About Aner Mazur
Aner is the VP of Product Management at Snyk. He is responsible for setting the product strategy and delivering open source security solutions for developers. Prior to joining Snyk Aner was head of product management at Outbrain, and prior to that Aner came from an algorithmic R&D management background at VMware and B-hive Networks, which makes him very excited about the opportunities ahead for bringing security to cloud application platforms.

From Big Data to Global Lean Application Platform - Our Journey to Cloud Foundry - Olivier Brun, Orange & Alexandre Vasseur, Pivotal

Orange Group has mandate to setup large innovative solutions to support all countries and business needs. It covers platform think, build and run both as one central or several country level instantiations while keeping homogeneity and reducing costs and snowflakes.

As part of a global cloud native transformation across Orange countries, businesses and IT teams - OLAF Orange Lean Application Facilities was launched and encompasses topics from CI/CD developer ecosystem tools to actual big data, NoSQL and cloud native platform.

Adopting Cloud Foundry as a part of it immediately made sense - as long as the underlying larger strategic streams could be mapped for the long term:
- developer onboarding and project facilitation for several thousands of them
- rich catalog of service with a mix of build, buy & integrate strategy
- operational excellence for keeping the platform and apps running at scale on private cloud
- vendor neutrality and skill center development
- innovation acceleration for cloud native, microservices and container-first architecture
- simple rollout of a reference architecture at global scale

Come hear about our journey to start and measure success in transforming Orange Group how we leveraged and expanded the specifics of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pivotal DOJOs implementation approach and the Cloud Foundry partner ecosystem to rollout OLAF with developer-efficiency, secure-first, global-ready and automate-everything core goals in our design.

About Olivier Brun
Olivier Brun has spent the last 2 years working at Orange on the Cloud infrastructures by leading the technical working streams of the global OLAF platform : a cloud native transformation plan of Orange at scale. His 12 years spent at Orange provided him varied experience from Java development, VoIP validation & tests, DNS skill center and support, before embracing the Cloud. While not dealing with IT, Olivier is also a complete sport addict (skiing, fitness, basketball, cycling) and prefers above all a good ride or challenge with his two daughters.

About Alexandre Vasseur
Alexandre Vasseur is in charge of Pivotal ‘ technical field engagements in 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 20 years on applications and middleware. He also leads the Cloud Foundry Paris meetup.

From No Delivery to Continuous Delivery: How the Air Force Gave In and Embraced Industry - Adam Furtado, US Air Force

From the Internet to the microchip, the Department of Defense had been at the forefront of technology development throughout its history. Over the past few decades, software innovation in the commercial sector has left the DoD in its dust. Simultaneously, as the DoD became more and more reliant on software, their ability to deliver it rapidly worsened.

The Air Force realized that they needed a radical change and an innovative leap forward in order to give the warfighter the capability they need to win the war. That radical change included partnering with Pivotal Labs, embracing Cloud Foundry and turning the traditional DoD business model on its head.

This presentation discusses how the Air Force is mimicking Silicon Valley culture, growing its agile competency and continuously delivering better products to the warfighter, faster.

About Adam Furtado
Adam is the Chief of Product for, Kessel Run, a organization that is revolutionizing the Air Force's Air Operations Center (AOC) by partnering with Pivotal Labs and utilizing Pivotal Cloud Foundry to prove that industry best practices can be successful in the government. In this role, Adam oversees the product teams who are delivering capability more rapidly than they have ever before. This includes the Tanker Planner tool, which has saved the Air Force millions of dollars with the efficiencies gained. Adam has been working in Pivotal offices in SF and Boston as a Pivotal Labs client since June 2017. Adam has presented this work to the highest levels of government, including the Secretary of the Air Force and numerous Government events.

From Zero to Cloud in 12 Easy Factors - Jatin Naik & Ed King, Pivotal

It’s no secret that Cloud Foundry provides an amazing platform to deploy and run your applications, and getting your applications deployed to the Cloud is as easy as `cf push`, right? Well, yes, assuming your .NET applications are ready for the cloud. There are a number of “rules” your apps need to abide by in order to get the maximum value from the platform. These rules are commonly referred to as the “12 Factors”.

I’m sure you’ve probably heard of the term “12 factor”, but what exactly does it mean, and more importantly, what needs to be done to take your existing apps and convert them to “12 factor” apps?

For this session, Ed and Jatin have prepared a “0 factor" ASP.NET/C# web app, one that is completely unsuitable for the Cloud. Join them as they transform the app, factor-by-factor, into one that is Cloud Native and ready for the Foundry.

About Ed King
Ed is a Systems Engineer currently working on the Cloud Foundry Garden project. He has spoken at CFSummit Santa Clara 2016.

About Jatin Naik
Jatin is a software engineer for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, currently working on BOSH Backup & Restore. He has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017, Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016 and is a regular at the London PaaS User Group.

From Zero to Mobile on Cloud Foundry in 8 Weeks: A Model for How It Is Done - Josh Davis, Platform Consulting Group & Frank Carrubba, MEDSiS International

Creating a software solution from scratch that supports national governments and global healthcare organizations sounds challenging. And the idea of doing it in a mere eight weeks seems crazy! But our mission to transform a legacy process for the management of Vaccination Records across world populations was exactly the type of project that fits with today's digital transformation agendas.

Equipped with a technology platform based on Cloud Foundry and Android, and leveraging modern software development techniques, our team was able to deliver a mobile Vaccine Management System that satisfies the latest United Nations and World Health Organization usability standards on-time and on-budget. With diverse requirements ranging from very critical security compliance to EU data rules to passport chip technology, this presentation will document our journey from idea to product in just weeks, while sharing our key learnings across all phases of the project, including our best practices for deploying and managing Cloud Foundry at pace.

About Frank Carrubba
The Director of Software Development at Medsis, Frank Carrubba is a highly motivated United States Marine Corps veteran. He was recruited in 2016 to lead the global software development team at Medsis. His task is to create state of the art micro-service applications for the international market. Frank believes in a hands-on development approach and a lead from the front style of leadership akin to the Marine Corps. As an accomplished full-stack software engineer, Frank has found that there are specific advantages in using Cloud Foundry to envision, develop, and deploy mobile and web applications.

About Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis Born in New York City, Joshua began working for the Telecom and the Travel related industry while specializing in Object Oriented Programming in C++ with the Oracle toolset (PRO*C, PL/SQL, Forms, Reports, etc.). In 1999, Joshua decided to become a full-time Java Developer. In 2004 he met Rod Johnson, the original author of the Spring Framework at the J2EE Server Side Only Conference and has been a Spring Framework advocate ever since. Joshua spoke at SpringOne and the GR8 conference in 2010. He has also published articles in Groovy and Grails magazine. An early adopter of Cloud and micro-services, he joined SpringSource Professional Services in 2011 and transitioned into Pivotal Software in 2013. As a Pivotal Solution Architect Joshua deployed, created solutions, and mentored the early adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. In 2015 Joshua left employment with Pivotal and is currently working for the Platform Consulting Group. Joshua is married with two grown-up children and has lived in the Orlando, FL area for 27 years. Speaking experience: 2010 SpringOne Conference (2 sessions) 2010 GR8 conference (2 sessions) 2015 Pivotal Cloud Foundry Roadshow – Atlanta, GA 2015 Pivotal Cloud Foundry Roadshow – Tampa, FL 2015 Pivotal Cloud Foundry Roadshow – Charlotte, NC

Generic Config API: Beyond Cloud, Runtime, and CPI Configs - David Ansari, SAP SE

This talk starts by demystifying the existing cloud, runtime, and CPI conifg types and revealing weaknesses of their corresponding API endpoints.

We then present the new generic config API which not only unifies existing configs but, most notably, allows operators to upload any type of config to the BOSH director providing versioning, diffing and branching functionalities out-of-the-box.

For BOSH operators, these new config types enable unforeseeable uses cases. We present a couple of use cases which are already in the backlog and explain how operators can leverage the functionalities introduced by generic configs.

About David Ansari
David works as an open source software developer at SAP. After completing the Pivotal Dojo program in San Francisco he joined the BOSH Openstack CPI team in Walldorf, Germany.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: Running Open Source Workloads on Azure Stack - Walter Oliver, Microsoft

Azure is an hybrid cloud, Azure Stack is a key element of its hybrid capabilities. This means that customers can now develop and deploy their applications to Azure and when need to also to their on-prem environment to comply with regulations, organizational policies or high latency networks. For such you need to be able to run your OSS-based workloads on Azure Stack as you do on Azure (example: Could Foundry).

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: SUSE and Cloud Foundry - Jeff Hobbs, SUSE

SUSE joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation last year as a platinum member. Their open source, certified Cloud Foundry distribution is now available for running on Kubernetes. Come see what SUSE is doing in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem, from upstream contributions to innovative developments

About Jeff Hobbs
Jeff Hobbs leads the Cloud Application Platform team at SUSE. He has been involved with Cloud Foundry since it was open sourced, as the driver behind Stackato, the first enterprise Cloud Foundry distribution. He works to foster innovation and modern development ideas for enterprise environments.

Gold Sponsor Lightning Talk: The Path Forward with the Multi-* Reality! - Sanjay Patil, SAP

GovCloud Foundry - Rowan Jacobs, Pivotal & Bret Mogilefsky, 18F

This talk will cover government-approved IAAS regions, like AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, and how they're currently being used in the public sector for both classified and unclassified workloads. We'll also show how BOSH and cf-deployment are used on AWS GovCloud, and what special constraints separate government clouds from IAAS regions used by the private sector. Finally, we'll talk about how organizations like 18F (cloud.gov), the Government Digital Service (cloud.service.gov.uk), and the Digital Transformation Agency provide CF foundations to transform the public sector worldwide.

About Rowan Jacobs
CF infrastructure developer at Pivotal, working on IAAS paving tools for open source Cloud Foundry and PCF. | Previously at the Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded R&D company, where his work included building prototypes for government customers using k8s and AWS GovCloud.

About Bret Mogilefsky
Bret Mogilefsky is an Innovation Specialist at 18F, the agile design and development consultancy inside government, for government. Bret leads teams and projects focused on deconstructing the biggest technical hurdles to improving government services. Prior to 18F, Bret was the architect and evangelist for the overall developer experience at PlayStation, and was lead programmer and assistant designer of the legendary adventure game Grim Fandango at LucasArts. Bret lives in Castro Valley, CA with his wife, two kids, nervous pup, indifferent cat, and two ambivalent guinea pigs.

Growing Pains: Cloud Foundry at Scale at Garmin - Jonathan Regehr, Garmin International

Garmin has been running Production Apps in Cloud Foundry for a couple of years. As trust in the platform has grown, so have the size and importance of the apps. Jonathan will discuss the issues and solutions encountered along the way. Topics will include expanding a foundation and managing developer access to Garmin's multiple foundations.

About Jonathan Regehr
Jonathan is a Senior Software Engineer with Garmin International with over 19 years of development and architecture experience. He is a thought leader when it comes to developing applications that run in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native, CI/CD and Automation.

Previous speaking engagements include:
- Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 and 2017
- Kansas City Developer Conference 2017
- Kansas City Spring and Cloud Foundry User Groups

Before Garmin, Jonathan's history includes IT experience in manufacturing, digital marketing firms, and telecommunications. Jonathan grew up and attended college in Canada but made a remarkable recovery to became a successful member of the Kansas City IT community. If you kick him in the shins he'll probably say "Sorry."

How Cloud Foundry Compares with Kubernetes for Deployment of Cloud Native Java Applications - Surya V Duggirala, IBM

As Cloud Foundry is becoming the Cloud platform of choice across multiple industry domains, lots of Cloud Native Java applications are being developed and deployed on this platform. But there is a question lot of people in the industry are asking how Cloud Foundry compares with Kubernetes and when to use which platform. As we have deployed same Cloud Native Java applications both on Cloud Foundry as well as Kubernetes, we would like to share our experiences here. This session also talks about how the service mesh can be used while deploying microservices on Cloud Foundry and how it compares with Kubernetes platform using multiple industry use cases

About Surya V Duggirala
Surya Duggirala is IBM STSM responsible for Architecture and Performance Engineering of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. He directs a globally distributed team and chairs IBM Cloud performance engineering Guild. He also works closely with various Open Technology Communities and jointly leads various industry Workgroups on Performance and Optimization with other Cloud Providers in the industry. His special interests include designing microservices applications using scripting and cognitive technologies targeted for cloud. As a Global Technical Ambassador (GTA), he works with many customers, partners and ISVs across the world on cloud, application integration, performance and architecture. He has over 20 years of experience in various fields of the computer industry including application architecture and performance.

How Did Our Garden Grow? Advances in the Cloud Foundry App Runtime's Container Engine - Julian Friedman, IBM

Garden (the Cloud Foundry App Runtime's container engine, optimised for PaaS workloads) has had some incredibly cool upgrades in the past year. From massive security upgrades -- the ability to run without root, a first in the container ecosystem for a production runtime -- to experimenting with big performance and UX changes by exploiting layered images rather than untarring droplets to the new "Garden Peas" feature enabling sidecar containers for Cloud Foundry, this has been a very exciting year. This talk will cover everything operators and developers need to know about the runtime at the heart of Cloud Foundry.

As well as introducing the new features, the talk will explain how operators can interact with the runtime container bundles generated by Garden to debug, extend and operate the platform.

How The Gap Uses Open Source Technologies - including OpenStack and Cloud Foundry - to drive one of the largest consumer retail experiences in the world - Elijah Elliott & Tige Chastain, GAP

At The Gap, open source is a critical component for an always-changing and evolving infrastructure to serve one of the largest online and offline consumer retail offerings in the world. The company takes advantage of a multi-cloud approach at the infrastructure layer and this includes OpenStack - widely regarded as the go-to solution for open source infrastructure. This talk will discuss the decision process to using and implementing both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry - how both technologies are being used today and how they're going to be included in larger initiatives for the retail giant as the shift to a digital-first business accelerates.

About Tige Chastain
GAP

About Eli Elliott
Cloud cloud cloud. I'm the cloud guy.

Immutability for Cloud Foundry: Security in a Cloud Native World - Nolan Karpinski, Immutable Systems

In a cloud native environment, with applications that are abstracted from infrastructure such as Cloud Foundry based apps, there is an opportunity to reconsider the fundamental approach to security.

Bracket Computing has been working closely with the Cloud Foundry community to create new tools to harden a CF foundation and make it truly immutable. A truly immutable infrastructure will include controls to assure that stemcells cannot be modified even with the highest levels of privilege. This means that even with root access, a truly immutable infrastructure will resist the attack.

Bracket has developed a unique architecture that applies security and immutability controls via a virtualization layer called the Metavisor that wraps every stemcell. Enforcing immutability with Metavisor means that the controls cannot be bypassed even if an attacker gains root access to the stemcell VM.

This talk will focus on five areas required to achieve infrastructure immutability for CF:

1. Kernel immutability. Critical parts of the kernel such as the system call table should be protected.
2. File immutability. All file changes should be tracked and authorized.
3. Privilege immutability. Privilege changes should be monitored and/or disallowed.
4. Process immutability. Certain processes, for example a web server, should never spawn shells or execute unknown code.
5. Network immutability. Allowed ports and protocols should be static at runtime.

About Nolan Karpinski
Nolan Karpinski is a Product Manager at Immutable Systems, focusing on server immutability. He is responsible for bringing Immutable Systems's Server Guard product to market. Immutable Systems was founded with a big goal: To deliver enterprise grade security controls without impacting the speed and agility of the self-service cloud. Prior to Immutable Sytems, Nolan worked on the Advanced Malware Protection team at Cisco. Nolan has an engineering degree from Tufts University.

Inaugural Core Project Update: CF Services API & OSBAPI - Matt McNeeney & Jennifer Spinney, SUSE

The Cloud Foundry Services API project was launched in September 2017 and has already made a number of key improvements to the developer experience provisioning and managing services.

This inaugural project update from the team will include:
- The project's goals
- Who is working on the project (multiple companies, multiple time zones)
- What we've achieved so far (including configuration parameter schemas and the ability to share service instances across orgs and spaces)
- What's upcoming
- An overview of the Open Service Broker API project

We'll then give a live demo showing some of the new developer experiences in action (across both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes!).

About Matt McNeeney
Matt is the Project Lead for the Cloud Foundry Services API project which aims to enhance the developer experience provisioning and managing services. Matt is also a Co-Chair for the Open Service Broker API, a project by Pivotal, Google, IBM, Red Hat and others that allows developers to deliver services to applications running on multiple platforms including Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Over the past year, Matt has presented talks on services and service brokers at various conferences including CF Summit EU, VMworld and SpringOne Platform.

About Jen Spinney
Jen Spinney is a software engineer for SUSE, working from Nuremberg, Germany. She’s been a core developer of Cloud Foundry for almost 3 years, working on Diego, CAPI, and the Services API & Open Service Broker teams.

Information Overload and the Real Cost of Interruptions - Hannah Foxwell, Pivotal

Time is our most precious resource and we’re not using it well. Our attention and our time are being fought over all day every day, and no one is immune to this type of “digital disruption”. In this talk, we’ll look at our evolving relationship with technology and what impact it has on company culture, job satisfaction, productivity and our mental health. We'll also explore some of the ways we can create healthier digital environments in the context of software engineering. Environments where we use our tools to collaborate whilst recognising our need to concentrate.

About Hannah Foxwell
Hannah Foxwell is Delivery Manager at Pivotal and HumanOps champion. In large scale enterprises and technology start ups Hannah has always sought to create an environment where engineers can do their best work. This naturally lead to a keen interest in DevOps and Continuous Delivery as she witnessed the positive Human impact these technical practices can have on the teams who adopt them. Hannah continues this work today at Pivotal, helping teams transform how they deliver software.

Introduction to the Cloud Foundry in the Enterprise Track - Greg Otto, Comcast

About Greg Otto
Note - Keynote speaker at Cloud Foundry 2016, 2017 and SpringOne Platform 2016, 2017 BIO - As Executive Director of Cloud Services at Comcast, Greg is helping transform the product delivery experience. A 20+ year veteran with roots as a programmer, he is passionate about improving the lives of Comcast development teams. Greg has been a driving force for cloud, after initiating the program over 8 years ago, and has focused a lot of his time partnering with the Pivotal Cloud Foundry team since 2014. Greg and team have delivered a robust Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment across hybrid cloud environments, enabling critical application refactoring efforts and fast adoption across the enterprise.

Introduction to the Government Track - Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain leads Product Marketing for Pivotal Platform Ecosystem, including GemFire, Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Services offerings, and ISV offerings for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal’s Mobile offerings and Big Data Suite. She was Director of Platform Marketing at Riverbed Technology, covering a breadth of application performance solutions. Prior to Riverbed, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Istio Platform vs Spring and MicroProfile Frameworks - Ozzy Osborne, IBM UK

Istio is an open platform which aims to provide a uniform way to connect, manage and secure microservices. However, these are capabilities that are already provided by a variety of programming frameworks, such as Netflix OSS and MicroProfile fault tolerance. Can a platform really know everything about an application, or does the application sometimes know better?

In this session Ozzy will start with an introduction to the Istio architecture, including the sidecar model and what it means to deploy your application in this way. He will cover the technologies that overlap with existing framework capabilities such as security and fault tolerance. The differences between the approaches will be highlighted, including when to use which and how you can make them work in harmony together.

Istio also provides capabilities that compliment existing microservice and cloud native architectures. He will cover some of these functions, such as smart routing to enable A/B testing and canary deployments, together with how to make use of them within this new platform.

About avatar for Ozzy Osborne
Ozzy has over two decades of experience in Enterprise Software Development for IBM, mainly working with Java based technologies and enterprise middleware. An enthusiastic developer, who loves to "make things work", and isn't scared to take things apart to figure out how, he has most recently been focused on Cloud Native architectures centered around Kubernetes, and what the arrival of Istio means for the accepted definition of Cloud Native applications.

Jumpstart your Cloud Native development - Graham Charters, IBM UK Ltd

Developments in Java technologies and cross-language tools are enabling rapid development of cloud native applications. This session will cover the different tools and techniques available and how to make the most of these new technologies. We will start by examining what is desirable for a cloud native application, such as dev/prod parity, externalised configuration, dependency management and containerisation. We will discuss how these are addressed by tools and modern frameworks at each stage of the development lifecycle, from local development, through packaging and deployment.

Beginning with code generation, we will show some of the commonly used tools such as Yeoman, JHipster and Spring Initializr and how they can provide a starting point.

Moving on to development, we will discuss how to reach dev/prod parity using Docker whilst enabling rapid iteration of your application. We will also introduce the Open API specification and how it can be used to define and expose any external APIs.

Finally, with deployment, we will look at the packaging options provided by Spring and Microprofile and the composability options provided by applications servers such as Open Liberty and Wildfly Swarm. We will discuss the pros and cons of these different approaches and how they fit into a containerised environment.

Keynote: Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation

About Abby Kearns
With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. As Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby helms the ecosystem of developers, users and applications running on Cloud Foundry, and works closely with the Board to drive the Foundation’s vision and grow the open source project. Prior to Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby focused on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of the Product Management team at Pivotal. She spent eight years at Verizon where she led Product Management and Product Marketing teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. In her free time, Abby enjoys indulging in food and wine, and spending time with her husband and son.

Managing Session State with REDIS and Spring Data Redis - Ram Gopinathan, T-Mobile

A cloud-native web application that is used by millions of users, managing session state in a clustered environment can bring numerous challenges. This session will focus on leveraging REDIS along with Spring Data Redis for managing session state. We will discuss benefits of using REDIS, various tips and tricks, things to watch out for, etc. learned from large-scale implementations in the real world

About Ram Gopinathan
Ram is a Principal Architect with T-Mobile with 22+ years of experience in the industry with a focus on AWS Cloud, DevOps, Docker and microservices, API first design and Internet of things solutions.

More Secrets of Successful Cloud Foundry Adopters - Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal

What are the practices and hallmarks of organizations that are running Cloud Foundry at scale? How did they get started? How did they attract hundreds of developers and equip them to deploy thousands of applications?

2017 was a year when more enterprises hit critical mass with their Cloud Foundry deployments. The best part? They shared details of how they did it. Team structures, enablement tactics, target applications… there is a growing body of examples to learn from. But you have to absorb it all! Is there a Readers’ Digest version? Yes. Yes there is.

Wherever you are on your digital transformation journey, learn from your predecessors. In this talk, Dormain Drewitz distills the learnings from several companies using Cloud Foundry. She shares the patterns around strategies, processes, and tactics.

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain leads Product Marketing for Pivotal Platform Ecosystem, including GemFire, Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Services offerings, and ISV offerings for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal’s Mobile offerings and Big Data Suite. She was Director of Platform Marketing at Riverbed Technology, covering a breadth of application performance solutions. Prior to Riverbed, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

No Budget? No Problem. 5 Ways to Start Today - Jason Weber, Magenic

This session may be of interest if 3 things are true. One, you have a legacy (possibly massive) .NET-based monolithic application that your business relies on. Two, you would like to modernize this application and/or make it cloud-native but currently lack the budget to do so. Three, you wonder if there is anything you can do today to get a head start on this non-trivial effort.

Good news, the answer is “yes!” In this session you’ll learn 5 concrete and incremental changes you can begin today that will help you gain that head start in place. Why do next year what you can begin next week?

This session is geared towards decision makers and managers with a technical background. In addition to the checklist, you'll also see a few concrete examples (code) that illustrate the main points discussed.

About Jason Weber
Jason is a seasoned consultant with over 20 years experience creating business value with Microsoft technology. His experience spans a variety of industries and operating environments.
With a professional focus on the technical leadership of cloud- and web-based projects, Jason has led several of Magenic’s most significant engagements. Recently, Jason has worked with Pivotal's Application Transformation practice to help customers with .NET-based application portfolios achieve the benefits of cloud-native architecture and culture.

Jason has spoken at numerous conferences and events including AIM New England, Code Mastery, Microsoft Technology Center, national web casts for Magenic, and various Microsoft user groups.

Open Service Brokers for the CF Container Runtime - Jonathan Berkhahn & Morgan Bauer, IBM

The Open Service Broker API is an open standard based on the Cloud Foundry service broker model. The Cloud Foundry Container Runtime is backed by Kubernetes, a container orchestrator. The Kubernetes Service Catalog project is an implementation of the platform side of the OSBAPI running as part of Kubernetes. Come learn how to utilize the same brokers and services you use for applications running on CF for containers hosted by the new container runtime. We'll briefly cover the service broker architecture before demoing the set-up and operation of the Service Catalog on top of the CF Container Runtime and going over best practices for writing brokers to ensure that they are multi-platform compatible.

About Morgan Bauer
Morgan Bauer works on Open Source at IBM in San Jose as part of the Cloud Division. Morgan is a maintainer on the core Docker Engine and also a founding contributor of the Kubernetes Service-Catalog.

About Jonathan Berkhahn
Jonathan is a current contributor to the Open Service Broker API and the Kubernetes Service Catalog project, working with contributors from many companies Previously, he was a core Cloud Foundry contributor for several years, working on components ranging from the controller, the backend runtime, routing tier, and frontend. He has previous speaking experience at Cloud Foundry conferences in the US, Europe, and China.

Operating PCF via Concourse. Or, How to Sleep More and Worry Less - Therese Stowell & Ryan Pei, Pivotal & Yuri Litvinovich, Scotiabank

Cloud Foundry has a lot of knobs and dials. If you’re an operations team, how can you ensure that you have declarative, repeatable processes for installation, upgrade, and disaster recovery? Leveraging published Concourse pipelines turns operations from snowflake-creation to push-button rinse & repeat.

This talk will feature both the folks building CF and the folks operating CF. They’ll discuss and demonstrate using Concourse to install, upgrade, and manage disaster recovery on CF, including DR strategies like active-inflate aimed at reducing recovery time. They’ll give real world examples of how they manage multiple CF installations and can offer CF as a Product to their app developers, with guaranteed SLAs and well defined RTOs. And they’ll discuss reference architectures that accommodate CF, Credhub, and Concourse.

About Therese Stowell
Therese Stowell is Product Manager at Pivotal. She has worked in the software industry for 20+ years as programmer, interface designer, and product manager. She developed the command line environment in Windows, founded a successful social enterprise, and was part of a startup team to win a Nesta Open Data Institute £40,000 prize. She also has an MA in Fine Art. She has extensive speaking experience, including a keynote at SpringOne and sessions at CF Summit Santa Clara and CF Summit Europe.

Platform Automation the Pivotal Way: How I Learned to Stop Typing and Love the Operations Manager - Alan McGinlay, Pivotal

Operational efficiency is a key goal in the world of cloud platforms, but how you get there is your choice.

The Pivotal Network and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Operations Manager provide customers with cosy browser interfaces for deploying and upgrading robust distributed systems without you ever getting your hands really dirty. But where's the catch?

With major releases of Pivotal Cloud Foundry scheduled every quarter and the spectre of critical vulnerability lurking around every corner, your business depends upon a reliable and repeatable strategy for repaving all your instances with confidence and speed. The words "mouse" or "keyboard" should not feature in your solution, but where does that leave us with the Operations Manager?

In this session, Alan will discuss his experiences with the Operations Manager and how a chance encounter with the Ops Manager API led to some deep dives and a new way of thinking about CI/CD in the platform space.

About Alan McGinlay
Alan is a Principal Technical Instructor for Pivotal. Using Cloud Foundry with a sprinkling of cloud-native development magic, Alan enables customers across a number of verticals to transform the way they build and deploy modern software. Alan is the primary contributor to Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Administrator course on Google Cloud Platform and recently delivered the Spring Cloud Services pre-conference training event at SpringOne Platform in San Francisco.

Principles and Strategies in Data Service Automation - Julian Fischer, Anynines

In this talk, Julian Fischer, an automation enthusiast will talk about the exciting challenges you will encounter when automating a large set of data services across several platforms, infrastructures, and operating systems.

You will be guided through the impact a full automation mission has on existing operational models. Learn how the separation of duties, delegation, and automation need to work alongside to accomplish the mission.

See the impact and limitations of the Open Service Broker API and get a sense for false friends and challenging problems to solve when automating a multitude of data services with a small team.
At the end of the talk, you will have a clear picture of how to approach creating a set of production grade, highly scalable new data service for modern platforms including Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes.

About Julian Fischer
Julian Fischer is CEO of anynines a well established platform consultancy with focus on Cloud Foundry. Julian and his anynines team love operating Cloud Foundry environments but their true passion is automating the a9s Data Services.

As a true Cloud Foundry enthusiast, Julian has visited all CF Summits and spoke at most of them.

Running Multi-Cloud Microservices with Cloud Foundry - Maggie Ambrose & Cameron Stewart, Pivotal

What does it take to have an application be highly available to users in regions all over the globe? How do you take advantage of “Best in Cloud” features from multiple cloud providers? These are just some of the questions that technologists are grappling with in the new multi-cloud reality.
In this session, we will confront these questions with an example of a Java-based microservices application running globally on multiple clouds, taking advantage of different infrastructures and services including Spring Cloud.
The Cloud Foundry platform is an important enabler of the capability to deliver multi-cloud, reliable applications to users world-wide.
The audience will learn about the benefits achieved by running applications in a multi-cloud model, and how to do it effectively.

About Maggie Ambrose
Maggie is part of the Global Ecosystem Team at Pivotal. She works on expanding the Pivotal ecosystem with joint solutions across Dell Technologies. She is an Austin local and a member of Women Who Code Austin. Previous speaking experience includes Open Source Communities panel at SXSW and SpringOne Platform Conference.

About Cameron Stewart
Cameron comes from a full-stack developer background which makes her fiercely passionate about all things cloud-native, 12 factor and agile. As part of the Global Ecosystem team at Pivotal, Cameron works with a variety of partners to help bring cloud-native solutions to joint customers. Previous speaking experience includes CF Summit and the Pivotal and Google Cloud-Native Roadshow.

SaaSB - One Broker to Rule Them All - Christian Brinker, evoila

At the foot of mount coal there was forged a service broker. One Broker to rule them all. For the hackathon at the CF Summit Europe 2017 the fellowship of the broker came together to bring Cloud Foundry a service broker to enable access to the marketplace for all of the apps deployed to Cloud Foundry.

Cloud Foundry helps developers to deploy their applications in a fast and easy manner. Thereby one of the key benefits is usage of services from the marketplace. But one problem remains. The high isolation between platform users leads to a lack of interaction points between them. Either sharing solutions between departments in private clouds or monetizing your applications in public clouds is well support.

But why not providing your apps through the marketplace to other platform users? This addresses the winning team of the CF Summit Europe 2017 hackathon with their Software-as-a-Service-Broker. A service broker allowing the platform provider to enable offerings of apps in the marketplace. Normally this needs the development of a new service broker for each kind of app. The SaaSB even enables for a pay-as-you-go selling of the apps via the platform provider.

“One Broker to rule them all,
One Broker to find them;
One Broker to bring them to all
and in Cloud Foundry bind them.”

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.

On the CF Summit Europe 2016 and 2017 he presented his teams work on a service broker framework. At the CF Summit Europe 2017 he was track co-chair of the cloud & microservices track and his team won the hackathon. He is also ambassador of the Cloud Foundry foundation. Additionally he gained broad experience as a data scientist resulting in publications and presentations on international conferences.

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.

Simpler Releases, Faster Upgrades: BOSH Package Vendoring and Colocated Errands - Maria Ntalla & Maya Rosecrance, Pivotal

Until now, authors of BOSH releases have had to package any dependencies their software needed in their release. While this offers great flexibility, it means that for more complex deployments, there is unnecessary duplication of third-party dependencies. This also makes it difficult to patch external dependencies as they are kept in so many places.

One-off tasks are typically packaged as BOSH errand jobs. Until now, running BOSH errands would require spinning up a VM at the IaaS level. That’s costly and can take up to several minutes, depending on the IaaS.

BOSH recently introduced two very powerful features: package vendoring and errand colocation. Attendees will learn how to use them to simplify release package management, make deployments smaller in footprint, speed up operating and upgrading BOSH deployments.

About Maria Ntalla
Maria is a software engineer at Pivotal.She is currently working on the Redis offering for Cloud Foundry. She has previously spoken at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016 and 2017, London PaaS Users Group and Women Who Go sessions.

About Maya Rosecrance
Maya is an Software Engineer on the Pivotal CF Redis team. Previously she was a part of Pivotal Labs.

State of .NET - Scott Hunter, Microsoft

Join Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management for .NET, as he talks about the current state and future of .NET for the enterprise.

About Scott Hunter
Scott Hunter is the Director of Program Management for .NET. This includes the .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Visual Studio Tooling and much more.

Strategies For Managing Container Secrets At Scale - Matt Surabian, Zipcar

Managing the deployments of thousands of apps for hundreds of developers wouldn't be possible for Matt's team at Zipcar if it weren't for Cloud Foundry. Doing so securely wouldn't be possible without HashiCorp's Vault.

Secret management for containers at scale is a huge challenge, especially if you have compliance requirements like regular rotation of credentials, auditability, and emergency response time. Thankfully there are lots of great community projects that are able to help; the trick is knowing which to leverage given your threat model. This talk will outline some options for managing secrets in a containerized environment and propose a solution to the dreaded "secure introduction" problem.

About Matt Surabian
Matt is a full stack engineer on Zipcar's infrastructure team, which supports the car-sharing company’s custom Cloud Foundry architecture. This tooling gives developers the power to continuously deploy thousands of micro-services across multiple data centers. Matt all but owns Zipcar’s twelve Vault servers and is a contributor to the Bosh release of Vault. Matt’s background includes high availability application and infrastructure development at Alexa top 500 scale. Outside of work, Matt enjoys spending time working on his 103-year-old house, or being in the outdoors hiking, hunting, and fishing. You can bend Matt’s ear by finding him on GitHub in the JavaScript and Golang open source communities. Matt holds a BS in computer science and two HashiCorp certifications in Vault.

Stratos UI - An Open Source UI for Cloud Foundry - Troy Topnik, SUSE

At the last CF Summit, SUSE introduced Stratos UI - an Open-Source, modern, web-based Management UI aimed at meeting the needs of both Developers and Administrators.

Since then Stratos UI has been accepted for incubation in the CF-Extensions PMC.

In this talk we will present a refresher on Stratos UI, introduce its features, and provide an update on the work done in the last 6 months.

This talk is aimed at both end-users and developers. We present Stratos with the intent of raising awareness, growing the user base, and encouraging others to join in and contribute.

About Troy Topnik
Troy is a Senior Product Manager responsible for SUSE Cloud Application Platform. He began working with Cloud Foundry shortly after its open source debut in 2011, and has been a technical writer, instructor, and product manager with the ActiveState and HPE Helion Stackato teams.

Submitting Your Project to CF-Extensions: Process, Lessons, Pipeline - Michael Maximilien, IBM

After a year of opening up CF for Extensions and experimentations. Where are we? What have we learned? And how’s the new Extensions ecosystem doing? I will answer these questions and also give tips and advices on how to bring your own project into the Extensions ecosystem, covering all aspects of the process using a few recent examples as guides.

T-Mobile Going Digital - Speed, Scale & Agility Delivered on Cloud Foundry Leveraging TIBCO - Rakesh Madireddy, T-Mobile & Hitesh Nembhwani, TIBCO Software

With over 70 million customers, T-Mobile’s vision is to create an exceptional customer experience through the T-Mobile-as-a-Service platform. This needed a cloud-native platform that delivered at scale while still providing control and monitoring at a granular level. Leveraging TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition allowed us to do both - leverage the existing assets while building out and connecting the new class of microservices and APIs.

Join this session to hear from the battle hardened team on best practices, lessons learned and myths debunking while realizing such a digital transformation that touched aspects of technology as well as team culture.

About Hitesh Nembhwani
Having lived and worked in multiple countries and all 3 regions of APJ, NAM and EMEA, Hitesh (almost) speaks most languages that TIBCO's customers use :) Over the last 10 years in Enterprise Software, he has donned numerous hats including Engineering, Consulting and Customer Advocacy.

He's a regular speaker at meetups, developer events and global conferences (incl. TIBCO). When he's not busy piecing together application architectures for the customers, he likes to try his hand at cooking or playing tennis.

Tech Ethics: Putting People Ahead of Technology - Kim Bannerman, Google (Moderator), Mariesa Dale, Pivotal, Dan Jones, Engineer Better, and Barb Darrow, Oracle

“People first, technology second” should become the philosophy of humankind’s existence. We need more emphasis on this today more than we ever did before!

Kim, a strong proponent of this living principle, will lead a powerful panel discussion on ethics in our tech world today. Kim brings Mariesa, the author of “Hippocratic Oath for Technologists” and Daniel Jones, a strong advocate and ally for inclusivity, and Barb Darrow, veteran tech journalist who now covers innovation for Oracle, to discuss the ethical oath we need to take, the origins of the Hippocratic Oath, and the steps that must be taken to drive ourselves down a more ethical path.

About Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones is CTO of UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter, who have been improving value-delivery at the world’s largest banks, global wealth management firms, FTSE 100 retailers, governments and non-profit organizations. Previously Daniel was a member of the Pivotal CF London Services team, and also worked with Europe's leading CF consultancy CloudCredo. Daniel has delivered keynotes and talks at three Cloud Foundry Summits, 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 alleged bribe-taking!

Test Driven Development for Microservices Using Spring Cloud Contracts & Cloud Foundry - Reshmi Krishna & Adib Saikali, Pivotal

TDD introduced many improvements into the development process, but in our opinion the biggest impact relates to code design. Looking at the code from the usage perspective (by first writing an acceptance test) allows us to focus on usability rather than concrete implementation. Unfortunately, we usually rest on our laurels not trying to uplift this practice to the architecture level.

Consumer driven contracts (CDC) are like TDD applied to the API. It’s especially important in the world of microservices. Since it’s driven by consumers, it’s much more user friendly. Of course microservices are really cool, but most people do not take into consideration plenty of potential obstacles that should be tackled. Then instead of frequent, fully automated deploys via a delivery pipeline, you might end up in an asylum due to frequent mental breakdowns caused by production disasters.

This presentation will show you how you can use the Spring Cloud Contracts to have a fully automated solution to a consumer driven testing disasters. We will then deploy all these applications to Cloud Foundry. At the end, you will see how easy is it to write applications that have a consumer driven API and that will allow a developer to speed up the time of writing his better quality software.

About Reshmi Krishna
Reshmi Krishna is a Senior Platform Architect with Pivotal. She works with Cloud Foundry and helps customers transform the way they build software. Prior to working at Pivotal, Reshmi was a software engineer with investment banks and start ups on Wall Street. She has extensive experience of building low latency trading systems.

Reshmi lives in New York. She likes supporting various conferences and causes for diversity. She's a part of Women in Tech, Society of Women Engineers and participates in Grace Hopper Conference for Women.

About Adib Saikali
Adib is passionate about technology and entreprenurship from assembly to JavaScript from cold calling to pitching venture capitalists.

The Java Ecosystem Collision: What is the Future of Cloud Native? - Erin Schnabel, IBM

Changes in cloud orchestration technologies have started to push the boundaries between Cloud Native applications and their environment.

The notion of smart endpoints gave rise to shared libraries, like Ribbon from Netflix, to encapsulate outbound service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Now new technologies, like Istio, call that paradigm into question, suggesting those concerns should move out of the app and back into the infrastructure. What does that mean for Java applications using Netflix integrations in Spring Cloud?

The emergence of reactive programming is also pressing against the dominance of REST. Should everything be reactive now?

From shared libraries to sidecars, buildpacks to containers, Erin will demonstrate how different Java application frameworks are adapting to the changing Cloud Native landscape.

About Erin Schnabel
Erin Schnabel is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM working with microservice architectures, cloud native applications, composable runtimes and Java. Erin has more years of experience than she cares to admit, and was the former Development Lead for WebSphere Liberty. Erin is passionate about the Java developer's experience, particularly with respect to the role of community-driven, open source or standards-compliant software in the cloud environment, and strongly prefers being up to her elbows in code.

The Keys to the Cloud: Centralizing and Improving Permissions in Cloud Foundry - Isobel Redelmeier, Pivotal

Have you ever had a developer who needed to push new code, but you didn't want them to see environment variables? Had to make everyone in a team Org Managers because it got too complicated to track what roles everyone needed? Or maybe you want to be able to make your own roles that combine permissions across components.

Perm, the new permissions service, aims to solve all of these problems. Perm centralizes access control across Cloud Foundry components so that you can better manage, audit, and even customize authorization decisions across your foundations. Perm is also integrating with external identity providers such as LDAP, making it easier to ensure all employees have the appropriate roles even as they switch teams across your enterprise.

For those rusty on authorization, the talk will provide background on different types of authorization systems, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and OAuth2.

In this talk, you'll learn about how Perm simplifies Cloud Foundry authorization, what Perm's roadmap looks like, and why we've made some of our bigger technical decisions. Most importantly, you'll learn how to improve the security of your platform overall!

About Isobel Redelmeier
Isobel Redelmeier is a software engineer working on Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. She is currently the anchor of the Permissions team and has previously worked on CredHub.

The Route to Rootless Containers - Will Martin, Pivotal

Rootless containers are a new and exciting development in the container community, offering up the ability to create and manage containers as completely unprivileged, non-root users. This is hugely appealing both in terms of security, as well as making container-based workloads more accessible to a much wider audience.

Over the past few months the Cloud Foundry Garden team have been working to bring support for rootless containers to the platform. This talk will focus on how and why we went about doing so, including a technical overview of what rootless containers are, why they’re important and how we make use of them inside Cloud Foundry.

The talk will also discuss Cloud Foundry’s use of the Open Containers Initiative (OCI) standards, and how the platform has benefited from new features, such as rootless containers, by adopting them.

About Will Martin
Will is an Engineering Manager currently working on the Garden project, bringing containers to Cloud Foundry, Concourse and Bosh. In a past life he also worked on services for Cloud Foundry at IBM. He is an active contributor the Ginkgo/Gomega testing tools for Go.

The Tale of Two Runtimes: Kubernetes in Cloud Foundry - Konstantin Semenov, Pivotal

The Container Runtime, CFCR, has been recently introduced as part of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. It leverages Kubernetes to run all sorts of workloads.

The core CFCR team has been busy making sure that CFCR runs on multiple platforms, provides high availability, follows the best security practises, and integrates with CFAR, previously known as the Elastic Runtime.

As part of this presentation, a demo will be presented showing how 12-factor apps running on Application Runtime can leverage 3-rd party Docker packaged software with persistence, and what will happen during an infrastructure failure.

Attend this talk if you're interested in learning the available features of CFCR, or if you may be wondering when to use it, and how to get the best of both Application Runtime and the Container Runtime by using them alongside each other.

About Konstantin Semenov
Konstantin is a Principal Software Engineer at Pivotal. He spent most of 2017 with his colleagues from Pivotal, Google and vmWare building CFCR (a.k.a Kubo) – an open source automated reliable, reproducible and highly available Kubernetes deployment. Before that he was leading and developing software products across a wide range of industries and technologies: from desktop database applications through telecom servers and transactional banking systems to mobile applications and 3D model generators. As a speaker, he gave the first Kubo presentation together with his colleagues from Google at the CF Summit 2017 in Santa Clara, spoke about CFCR at DevOps Days in Galway, and has given talks at tech meetups in Dublin and Belfast.

The Twelve Factor Function - Desmond Rawls, Pivotal

PaaS, CaaS, or FaaS? Every year brings more options for where to run a piece of code. As application developers, we follow guidelines like The 12 Factor App to make sure our apps can run anywhere. But what about our functions? How do we make sure our functions can run anywhere?

In this demonstration, I will migrate functionality from within an application on Cloud Foundry Application Runtime to a collection of functions running as services on Riff. In the process, I will highlight how well-known concepts like referential transparency and the interface segregation principle free us from caring where our software deploys to.

About Desmond Pompa Alarcon Rawls
Since joining Pivotal three years ago, Desmond has developed dozens of web apps. Recently, he rotated onto the Cloud Foundry infrastructure team, where he experiences first-hand the challenges of building a platform. After a long time using it, he can finally satisfy his curiosity about how Cloud Foundry actually works. This kind of change in perspective is the part of software that Desmond enjoys the most.

When he lived in New York, Desmond organized Pivotal's Tuesday tech talk series. He has also spoken himself at many meetups and at the XP 2017 conference.

The Vault of Secrets: Secure Credentials Handling - James Hunt, Stark & Wayne

Credentials are a tricky thing to get right. Applications running on Cloud Foundry now have the ability to leverage Hashicorp's Vault as a service broker offering. In this talk, we will discuss the finer points of sharing credentials among applications, demo the Vault Service Broker, and introduce a small Open Source Cloud Foundry application for managing secrets directly.

About James Hunt
James Hunt is the Chief Architect and Technical Evangelist at Stark & Wayne, a leading Cloud Foundry consultancy. He has authored dozens of Open Source projects, including: SHIELD, Safe, Genesis, Spruce, and more.

Transactional and Data Integrity in Microservices Systems – Do We Need a Two-Phase Commit? - Dalia Borker, JP Morgan Chase

Transactional and data integrity, in highly-distributed, Microservices based systems, running on Cloud Platforms, poses some additional challenges. Designing your Microservices following Domain Driven Design (DDD), with Bounded Context pattern, helps but more work is required in high availability, and high scalability systems of today, to properly execute transactions and protect your data from getting corrupted.
Come and discover approaches to resolve these challenges. We will examine immediate and eventual consistency paradigms.

About Dalia Borker
Dalia started her career in IT after receiving Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from UNCC and UMASS. She has been developing and leading enterprise application development and architecture for 20 years at various Fortune 500 firms. Dalia is currently a Design Authority for Global Fees Platform, with title of Vice President in Asset Wealth Management Technology at JP Morgan Chase. She is leading Microservices application development leveraging Cloud Foundry on a custom PCF Cloud Platform.

Dalia likes to mentor and coach up-coming technologists in her personal time and is leading technical training work-stream on JP Morgan DE Tech Hub Technology Analyst Program Governance board. She is also an Adjunct Faculty in Department of Computer Science at Rider University, NJ

Transforming Health and Well-being with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Dynatrace - Michael Villiger, Dynatrace & Bob Johnson, Humana

Humana has been on the leading edge of technology in the healthcare industry for some time now, particularly with the creation of their Digital Experience Center which features Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and with the maturation of their IT Command Center which features the breadth of Dynatrace’s product line. In this session attendees will learn a number of things, starting with why Humana chose PCF as a key platform to power their digital transformation from legacy software development practices towards modern software engineering. The acceleration of this culture change and new methodology exposed gaps in existing monitoring practices and tools, and attendees will learn how Dynatrace via the Full-stack Add-on for Pivotal Cloud Foundry was able to fill those gaps. With unique visibility into the entire environment from the user experience to the underlying VMs and everything in-between, Dynatrace provided an intuitive view which simplified problem determination in the and transformed how Humana manages service availability for its customers. Finally, we'll learn about Humana's strategy for the future with public cloud deployment, continuous monitoring with DevOps, and monitoring tool consolidation on the horizon.

About Michael Villiger
Like many current professionals, Mike has taken a long and tangled road within the IT industry. Mike has spent the last 20 years occupying various engineering positions surrounding web-scale performance, architecture, and operations before joining Dynatrace in 2014. At Dynatrace Mike has specialized in assisting customers implementing Application Performance Management technologies and processes in the worlds of Public/Private Cloud, DevOps, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and NoSQL.

Mike has presented most recently at Spring One Platform and CF Summit EU. Previously Mike presented at both Hadoop and Cassandra summits, Cloud-Native Roadshows and is an active Meetup speaker as well.

About Bob Johnson
Humana Inc.

Transforming a Bank with a Highly-Opinionated Automated Release Pipeline - Reid Levesque, Royal Bank of Canada

Can development teams focus on developing business logic while avoiding the bureaucratic jungle to get to production? Microservices are great at speeding up development time and shortening the feedback loop -- unless every team has to build a pipeline from scratch. In an organization used to monthly or quarterly releases, moving to daily or hourly deployments requires more than a change in application architecture.

This session will cover how we’ve automated all the things while still giving developers the freedom to be successful.

About Reid Levesque
Reid is a Principal Software Developer in the Cloud Platform Engineering team at RBC. He has created several microservice applications using Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry. Reid is actively accelerating applications to production with an opinionated release pipeline. Reid has a strong development background and received his Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Troubleshooting .NET Apps on Cloud Foundry - Matyukevich Sergey, Altoros

With Java applications pushed to Cloud Foundry, remote debugging is a piece of cake. With .NET applications, it’s a different story. Execution of the troubleshooting operations is barely possible with the Cloud Foundry platform as it is.
In this presentation, I’m going to share my experience of troubleshooting and debugging .NET applications pushed to Cloud Foundry and uncover the details of some generic operations that need to be performed on the Cloud Foundry platform for these ends.

About Matyukevich Sergey
Sergey Matyukevich is Solutions Architect at Altoros. With 6+ years in software engineering, he is an expert in cloud automation and designing architectures for complex cloud-based systems. An active member of the Go community and a frequent contributor to open-source projects (Ubuntu, Juju Charms, etc.), Sergey has authored a series of popular blog posts on Golang internals. He has also designed and delivered a range of training courses on Cloud Foundry and cloud-native development for DevOps engineers, software developers, and architects.

Turning Multi-cloud Deployments into Useful Events - Andy Lowe, Allstate

Modern CI/CD pipelines should be automatically deploying to your CF environment on commit. If you have multiple foundries, coordinating deploys across them can be a problem, especially if something fails. Deployadactyl is an open source tool for doing multi-cloud blue-green deploys with rollback to ensure zero-downtime deployments. Learn how Allstate uses this tool for thousands of deployments each month. Deployadactyl’s internal event model allowed us to add security and reporting checks into each deploy. This improved our compliance controls and lowered our security risks while simplifying the deployment process for our development teams. All this combines to allow our development teams to spend time focused on their product and less time focused on infrastructure.

About Andy Lowe
I am a product manager at Allstate's CompoZed Labs. As part of the automation engineering group, I work on products focused on allowing our developers go faster with higher quality and greater security. Current products include: - Automated API management processes, saving development teams weeks of time on each new API endpoint. - Cloud Foundry deployment tools, which transparently added security controls to thousands of cloud deployments each month with zero effort from development teams. - Increased accuracy of our governance processes by improving the data model of our configuration management system and helped build tools for automatically updating it. At previous companies, I have managed products focused on security, compliance, and e-Discovery. I have also worked as a developer in the content management and medical devices fields. Previous speaking experience includes local Cloud Foundry meetup and DevOps Days events.

Using Cloud Foundry Container Runtime to Run Your Kubernetes Clusters - Oleksandr Slynko, Pivotal & Kaiting Chen, VMware

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR and formerly Kubo) is an OSS project developed jointly by Vmware, Pivotal and Google. It provides an uniform way to instantiate, deploy, and manage highly available vanilla Kubernetes clusters using BOSH - on GCE, vSphere, AWS, Openstack and Azure.

Using BOSH and CFCR to manage Kubernetes gives self healing, easily upgradeable clusters with managed secrets rotation. Cluster creation is simplified to the point where clusters can be created and destroyed for use in development or sandbox environments.

In this presentation, Oleksandr and Kaiting will demonstrate deployment across multiple IAASes, cluster healing, cluster upgrade and cluster creation.

About Kaiting Chen
Kaiting is a staff engineer at VMware. He is an active contributor to Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, working alongside with the Pivotal engineers.

Previously, Kaiting was the CTO and co-founder of a fintech patent-pending startup, developing an exchange for the transaction of illiquid securities initially intended for crowdfunded equity.

About Oleksandr Slynko
Oleksandr is the anchor of Pivotal Container Service project. Before he was working on Cloud Foundry Container Runtime since the project inception. | Oleksandr has a background in automation and working on high available cloud solutions.

Using Cloud Foundry on AWS to become Cloud Native - Mandus Momberg, AWS

Struggling to integrate the benefits of Cloud Foundry with native services in your AWS deployment? Confused about how to use AWS native services like EMR, Kinesis, and Lex with Cloud Foundry? Join us in this session to discover how you can stay agile, iterate quickly and make use of AWS native services in your polyglot application environment without sacrificing the value of Cloud Foundry.

About Madus Momberg
When a problem seems impossible to solve, when teeth grind, tables get flipped and hair gets pulled out, it means only one thing for Mandus Momberg: that’s when you turn on an episode of Star Trek and pull up your sleeves. Mandus has a passion for solving difficult problems in a simple and elegant way. When at 11 years old he got frustrated with a bad telephone line and a continuously disconnecting dial-up modem, he wrote a custom dialing program using Cobol. At 21, when stared down by a fleet of unintelligent remote digital advertising devices, he engineered a self-healing, battery-powered VPN device. He’s in love with the Open Source community. Mandus joined AWS at the age of 27 where he became one of the First Big Data System Engineers, working with customers on building effective data storage and analytic strategies. In his natural habitat, you can find Mandus inciting arguments such as Tabs vs Spaces and mumbling about his excitement about the cloud, containers and big data. This also earned him the title of Application Platform Lead within the Amazon Web Services Partner Solution Architect team.

What the F#nc? - Tim Hess, Pivotal

Life is short, you've only got so many keystrokes left! Come see how you can get more done with fewer keystrokes and more fun(ctional programming) along the way. We'll provide a little background on F# before diving into to some demos on how to use Steeltoe and F# together in Cloud Foundry.

About Tim Hess
Tim Hess is an engineer on the Steeltoe project. He's been slinging code professionally for over 10 years, with healthy doses of software architecture and system administration responsibilities along the way. In order to feed his expansive appetite for learning, Hess also runs the premier software developer group in Central Wisconsin.

Who Runs the Cloud - Ludwig Paulsen & Andrea Hirzle-Yager, Allianz

So, you have decided to migrate your organization's deployment platform over to Cloud Foundry. Next step is to roll up your sleeves and deep dive into the migration and setup of PCF with your team. But wait, who should be on that team? How do you make sure you have the the right skills on the team? How should this team work and where does its responsibility start and end? What does it mean to have an Agile operations team? And why are we suddenly talking about SLOs and SLIs, and not SLAs anymore?

In this talk, we will tell our story about setting up a brand new CloudOps team in a large enterprise and how we were able to answer the questions above. We will provide a glimpse into our daily routines, team size, room setup, and project and product organization. If you want to know how to transform a traditional platform operations to a platform product team, this will be your chance.

About Andrea Hirzle-Yager
Experienced change agent with international background; committed to increasing technology value for the business by improving efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Proven expertise at creating IT strategy and business transformation with a clear customer focus. Successful motivational leader, mentors and develops high-performing global teams.

After successful graduation and completion of language studies in Freiburg, Germany, Andrea Hirzle-Yager spent 17 years on the East Coast of the USA. For 13 years, she managed various areas of IT (incl. Manager/Director Desktop Support Services, Infrastructure Service Manager, Manager IT Strategy) at Liberty Mutual Insurance. During that time, she also successfully completed her „Bachelor of Science in Management and Information Technology“ and her MBA.

Andrea Hirzle-Yager returned to Germany in 2011, where she spent almost three years as CIO and Manager Application Services with a medium-sized company in the Black Forest. In 2014, she joined Allianz Germany AG as their Head of Department. At Allianz Germany AG she is responsible for ePortal operations, setup and operations of the agile delivery environment including Allianz Germany’s move into the AWS Cloud. In addition, she manages Allianz’ legacy systems for all business units incl. batch processing and mainframe, as well as the Change/Problem/Incident organization.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreahyager/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcRx3iH3WmgCXGUkKfdaWRo0h209vMqEL

About Ludwig Paulsen
Ludwig works at Allianz Germany's Cloud Ops Team as the product owner. He oversees the development of all platforms offered to the developer community at Allianz.

Windows Server Containers for Application Runtime - Matthew Horan & Sunjay Bhatia, Pivotal

The Garden Windows team has been hard at work extending the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime with support for Windows Server Containers. We'll be providing an update on our progress in implementing Windows Server Containers support, and discuss the architecture of this implementation. We'll assess the new file-system and network isolation provided by Windows Server Containers, and cover some of the differences between Windows Server 2012R2 "containers" and what's offered in Windows Server 2016. We'll discuss some future roadmap items like OCI image support and other features that have been unlocked by Microsoft's container implementation. Finally, we'll provide a demo of the Windows Server Containers functionality currently present in cf-deployment.

About Sunjay Bhatia
Sunjay Bhatia is a software engineer on the Garden Windows team at Pivotal in New York City.

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

Conversation with Molly Crowther, CFF Vulnerability Management Lead

About Molly Crowther
Senior Technical Program Manager for Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
Molly Crowther is a Senior Technical Program Manager for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal.

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Introduction to Kubernetes for Existing BOSH or Cloud Foundry Users - Dr Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne

The user/developer stories for using Kubernetes overlap with many of the user/developer stories for both Cloud Foundry (applications running in containers) and BOSH (running declarative production systems).

This session will be a beginner's guide to Kubernetes through your eyes as an existing Cloud Foundry app developer or BOSH operator.

About Dr. Nic
Dr Nic Williams from Stark & Wayne is the author of the free online books Ultimate Guide to BOSH, https://ultimateguidetobosh.com, and Concourse Tutorial https://github.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial, and one of the most active users and community members of BOSH, CF, CFCR/Kubernetes.