Cloud Foundry / Cloud Foundry Summit Santa Clara 2016

Come join us for a journey to the center of the Cloud Foundry!

Ever wondered what happens once you hit return on a `cf push`? What is a Diego? Does Loggregator bite? Are CAPI’s really as cute as they look?

Alex & Ed will take you on a whistlestop tour of the major components and workflows in Cloud Foundry in this exciting adventure.

Buckle up for this low budget production!

Ed King
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Ed has been working with Cloud Foundry and BOSH for several years now. He is currently working at Pivotal as an engineer on the Garden team. At last year's Cloud Foundry Summit, Ed presented "Cloud Foundry Logging & Metrics", a companion talk to a well-received series of blog posts he wrote under the same name. He has also co-delivered the BOSH training course at events in the past.

Alex Ley
Pivotal
Product Manager
London
Alex Ley works on the Cloud Foundry platform at Pivotal as a Product Manager. He is primarily focused on bringing data services to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform such as Redis, RabbitMQ and Cassandra. Alex has a passion for Cloud Foundry and the way we build software. Previously Alex has given talks at "muCon - The Microservices Conference 2015", "Continuous Lifecycle Conference 2016" , "London PaaS Meetup 2015", "Pivotal Open Lunch & Learn 2016".

Air Marshal: No More Secrets In Your Manifests - Michael Brodhead, Stark & Wayne

In real-world use our BOSH and Concourse manifests are littered with secrets: passwords, AWS credentials, SSH keys, you name it. Dealing with these secrets is a pain in the neck. If we check secrets into source control then there are myriad ways to accidentally leak them. Without source control distribution becomes a hassle and we still have some risk of leaking. Ideally we would like to keep production secrets off staff workstations altogether.

Enter Air Marshal. Air Marshal acts as a proxy between staff workstations and BOSH or Concourse. Manifests checked into source control have placeholders wherever secrets are necessary. Air Marshal reads secrets from a secure back-end, adding them to manifests where needed.

Michael Brodhead
Stark & Wayne, LLC
Michael Brodhead, mkb to his pals, works for Stark & Wayne, a consultancy based in Palo Alto, CA. Mkb has worked for financial giants, tiny startups, and everything in between. At Stark & Wayne he helps clients secure and automate large-scale cloud deployments.

Applications may face the dreaded unplanned increase of requests. Even knowing when such an event might occur, it is very difficult to estimate how far to scale without under- or over-committing resources. The auto-scaling service adjusts the number of application instances based on need. Come learn about what the auto-scaling service can do for you. Lets discuss what additional capabilities (application metrics, time-based, external events, etc) you need to scale up or down your application properly.

Michael Fraenkel
IBM
Michael Fraenkel is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He is the Product Manager for the Runtime OG team responsible for the DEA and HM9000.

Bo Yang
IBM
Bo Yang is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM.

Autosleep Service: Inactive Apps Gets Stopped and Auto-Restarted on Incoming Traffic - Guillaume Berche, Orange

Did you ever run out of CloudFoundry cells capacity, while your Iaas budget is already maxed out ? Tired of asking org/space admins to clean up these hello-world apps that waste RAM on the platform ?

The autosleep service might help: it automatically stops inactive apps and restarts them upon incoming traffic.

Try it by yourself by installing it from https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/autosleep/ or come to this session to learn its motivations, get the current status of this work-in-progress, watch a demo, and understand how to autosleep service leverages cloudfoundry features (service broker api, route services, CC api) sometimes in unusual ways. This session wraps up with learnings and suggestions for potential evolution of the service broker API that could open up new innovative usages of the platform.

Guillaume Berche
Software Architect, Orange
Guillaume Berche is an active bosh and cloudfoundry user since 2012. He is working at Orange, one of the leading european telco operator, where he is contributing to private Paas efforts since late 2010. His activities range from product-management, software development to operations. He has been contributing to the CloudFoundry community through cf-dev@, cf-docs, specs proposals, cf-java-client and java-buildpack.

Deploying complex systems is hard. What's even harder is figuring out how to make changes to those systems, parsing which elements of that system are failing, and how to debug and fix the issues in a system in an elegant manner. Thankfully, there is a solution! BOSH allows users to version, package, and deploy both simple and complex software in a reproducible manner. This talk will give a history and overview of the BOSH solution, a brief tutorial on how to get started, how to debug, and finally will give practical guidance and tips on how BOSH can help make complicated product development and deployments a thing of the past.

Kira Combs
Kira is a Software Engineer at Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She works with BOSH and Cloud Foundry on a daily basis, and is excited to be here at Summit. She has presented once before at CF Summit Berlin on the Loggregator system of Cloud Foundry.

Cloud Foundry makes it exceptionally simple to deploy and manage applications with simple commands like 'cf push'. However, what if your application grows in complexity, the number of deployed components explodes and it becomes difficult to keep an overview of the required services and bindings? Many organisations are facing these challenges sooner or later. So did dorma+kaba Group, one of the world’s leading providers of security and access solutions, while developing their new internet based Access-as-a-Service solution - Exivo. The development team had to manage more than 60 applications using 30+ services running in multiple environments. Deployment scripts and CI-Server configurations where getting to complex, inflexible and slow. This lead to the decision to develop a more flexible, reliable and faster deployment tool. Together with members of the ZHAW School of Engineering Init Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLab) the "Cloud Foundry Deployment Toolkit" was designed and implemented.

Leveraging the successful concepts of BOSH to manage applications on-top of Cloud Foundry by separating the application structure from the deployment configuration, it facilitates dynamic deployment of complex applications to multiple runtime environments with minimal effort. By comparing the actual with the desired state, the framework provides workflows to automatically detect the minimal required changes to update an application to a new release with zero downtime. The support for individual workflows allows more complex scenarios, including for example migrations of versioned data stores.

The framework helped dorma+kaba to streamline the deployment workflow and cut deployment times by more than a factor of two.

Christof Marti
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Senior Lecturer / Researcher
Winterthur ZH, Switzerland
Christof Marti is Senior Lecturer (Docent) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He teaches in the areas of Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Networking, Operating System Technologies, ICT Infrastructure and Cloud-Computing. He is technical lead of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) research domain within the Init Cloud Computing Lab (ICCLab, http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab). In this role he is working since several years with PaaS technologies and frameworks like Cloud Foundry. Beside the kaba+dorma Cloud Foundry Deployment Toolkit he is also working on the open source Cloud Foundry Web UI project (http://icclab.github.io/cf-webui/). He is co-organizer of the Cloud Foundry DACH User Group in Switzerland and held several talks about Cloud Foundry in meetups and conferences in Switzerland.

Blockchain Essentials & Blockchain-as-a-Service on CloudFoundry - Gurvinder Ahluwalia & Gari Singh, IBM

Blockchain is a new pattern of distributed transaction systems with private or public immutable ledger properties arrived through decentralized consensus algorithms across peer nodes. Recent milestones have created the Hyperledger Project as an Open Source Blockchain and delivered Blockchain-as-a-Service for the first time on a CloudFoundry-based commercial cloud provider. The three broad applications of Blockchain are as a platform for exchange of tangible and intangible assets, as a trusted source of truth, and to run smart contracts. This session will explain Blockchain, its uses, and its relationship to the cloud world. The session will elaborate on four consensus technology approaches, other architecture considerations and practices important to your Blockchain-based visioning or projects. Blockchain business use cases in Financial Services, Internet of Things, Business Contracts, Supply Chain Management and Provenance will be outlined. The session will demo an application built using Blockchain-as-a-Service running on a CloudFoundry-based provider cloud.

Gurvinder Ahluwalia
IBM
CTO Cloud Technical Solutioning
Dallas
Gurvinder Ahluwalia is the CTO for the Cloud Technical Solutioning unit at IBM covering NA and an early member of IBM's technical community working on Blockchain. In these duties, he covers CloudFoundry-based Bluemix ecosystem, hybrid cloud, and other services with the goal of weaving IBM, Open Source, and non-IBM capabilities into cohesive strategy and implementations for clients. Guri has taken $15M-150M dev programs for launch to internal environments or to commercial markets products. Previously, he has led Product Engineering of Handheld devices at Texas Instruments and Consulting practices in Distributing Computing at Accenture and in Digital Strategy at Diamond Technology Partners / PwC. He is based in Dallas, available on Twitter @guriahluwalia. Gurvinder is a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Gari Singh
IBM
Chief Architect - Cloud Integration
United States
Gari Singh is an IBM Distinguished Engineer currently focused on Blockchain technology. He leads the architecture and implementation of the CloudFoundry based IBM Bluemix Blockchain offerings. Gari is a versatile technologist with over 20 years experience with all aspects of product delivery. He has held various roles spanning multiple technologies and industries. Prior to his current role, Gari was the chief architect for IBM's IoT Cloud MessageSight offerings.

Breaking the cf-release Monolith ( Alvaro Perez-Shirley and David Sabeti, Pivotal)

The release integration team, with the help of many other teams, is breaking the monolith that is cf-release. This enables faster iteration on independent components, increased testability, and reusability while also bringing hidden dependencies into the foreground.

This involves re-thinking the way CI for cf-release is done, how the structure of cf-release was changed, and how manifests are generated for cf-release. The changes that are happening are making it easier for contributors to quickly and efficiently iterate on their contributions while reducing the risk of blocking or breaking the integration of the separate components of cf-release.

As a result of these changes releases are happening more quickly. This enables consumers to frequently upgrade and gain all the benefits of new features, security patches, and smaller release sizes thanks to component reuse, and release composability.

Many challenges were encountered during this process. Hear about how these were tackled, why the decision was made to break the release into independent components, and how it’s being done.

Alvaro Perez-Shirley
Pivotal
CF Release Engineering

David Sabeti
Pivotal
David works at Pivotal, where he's currently part of the open-source Release Integration team on CF.

Julian Fischer, CEO of anynines guides through the journey of building a highly available, self-provisioning PostgreSQL Cloud Foundry service. The talk is meant to share experience collected in the anynines team from years of building production grade backing services. PostgreSQL in particular is a good example as it has never been built to be fully automated. Challenges such as setting up a proper replication, detect failure scenarios and perform automatic failovers are interesting challenges with many pitfalls for beginners. Learn about production requirements, technical challenges and have a look at an exemplary architecture to learn about building failure resilient Cloud Foundry data services.

Julian Fischer
anynines
CEO
Julian Fischer is CEO of anynines. As an expert for digital transformation he has been attending hundreds of IT conferences and speaking at dozens including several Cloud Foundry events. His passion for Cloud Foundry was the motivation to found anynines, a startup entirely focused on cloud-native software development and operations. anynines has been the first Cloud Foundry based public PaaS and is entirely operated under German jurisdiction. With more than three years of Cloud Foundry operation experience anynines has established in CF related enterprise operations and consulting for central europe. More than that anynines does significant groundwork in the field of highly available, self-provisioning, infrastructure agnostic Cloud Foundry services.

Building an Interconnected Ecosystem - Discussion on the Container Network Interface (CNI) and the OCI projects - Craig Mcluckie, Google, Chris Aniszczyk, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and Richard Kaufmann, Samsung

Collaboration is important to any successful open source project. Cloud Foundry works to foster an expansive ecosystem, as well as a collaborative approach to the development efforts both within the project, as well as with other projects. Ensuring that the platform is always taking advantage of innovative strides, including those made in other communities.

Come meet an amazing group of panelists that include the head of Product Management for Google, Craig Mcluckie, the Executive Director for Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Chris Aniszczyk, VP at Samsung, Richard Kaufmann, and CTO of Intercloud Solutions at Cisco, Ken Owens. The panel will be moderated by the CTO for Cloud Foundry Foundation, Chip Childers

The panel will discuss the efforts surround CNI (Container Networking Interface), and its importance to a platform, as well as the RunC specification that has come out of OCI (Open Container Initiative), and how that has changed the way we think about containers.

CF-Abacus: Introduction to the Standard Metering and Aggregation Engine for Cloud Foundry - Jean-Sebastien Delfino, IBM & Hristo Iliev, SAP

As Cloud Foundry (CF) matures into the dominant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) the focus of development has been shifting towards re-engineering components for scale and stability as well as increasingly towards adding components that allows it to be used in commercial environments.

CF-Abacus is a metering and aggregation engine extracted from IBM's Bluemix. It enables the aggregation and metering (flexible pricing) of various usage data (service, apps, and buildpacks) so that the resulting output can be presented to end users and used for subsequent billing. For instance, a user with a few apps connected to several services can see the cost breakdown for each app, each service, over time and get projection of their costs as well.

In this talk we will cover briefly how CF-Abacus came into fruition, we will describe its micro-services architecture, detail where it is going, and how you can use it into your own (private or public) CF environments.

Jean-Sebastien Delfino
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM | Architect for IBM Bluemix Cloud services, account and subscription management, usage metering and rating, payments, and analytics. | Working on the Cloud Foundry Abacus project.

Hristo Iliev
SAP
Hristo Iliev has been a professional developer for over 16 years. He works at SAP, providing NetWeaver (SAP`s Java EE platform) with core and provisioning infrastructure, including core modularization, deployment, class loading, configuration, thread and cache management. He also worked on Eclipse Virgo - application server, designed to run enterprise Java applications. In the last 5 years he is actively contributing and integrating cutting edge technologies like SAP HANA Cloud Platform, Docker and Cloud Foundry. He worked on Cloud Foundry’s new scheduler (Diego) and currently works on CF Abacus – metering and aggregation engine for Cloud Foundry. Hristo has spoken at SAP meetups and Eclipse Con, JAX and ISTA conferences about Java, Eclipse and CF related topics. In his free time he is doing lightsaber duels with his 4 year daughter.

CLI Plugin to Enhance Your Cloud - Simon Leung & Jonathan Berkhahn, IBM

Cloud Foundry is fully featured, however, there are moments when we wish it had come with those 1 or 2 extra features; could be features to make administrator’s life a little easier, or it could be tools to utilize environment specific features. CLI (Command Line Interface) plugin is among one of the easiest ways for providers to customize Cloud Foundry. Come learn about how the plugin framework available as part of the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface can be used to provide new features to end users quickly and easily, with real life examples of how it helps operators and end users. See how plugins leverage the portability and distribution architecture of the CF CLI to deliver features to users easily regardless of architecture or operating system. You too can utilize plugins to provide new functionality and interact with infrastructure built around and on top of Cloud Foundry.

Jonathan Berkhahn
IBM
Software Engineer
Jonathan Berkhahn is an IBM software engineer that has been a Cloud Foundry core contributor for over 2 years. His work includes improvements to the CF CLI such as the CLI plugin interface and the V3 Cloud Controller API. He also works as an agile evangelist within IBM, driving use of new technologies and programming methodologies. He currently works on the Runtime_OG team at the new CF Dojo in RTP, supporting the legacy runtime components of Cloud Foundry.

Simon Leung
IBM
Simon is one of the early Dojo program participant and has been working on varies Cloud Foundry projects for almost 2 years. He has experience in contributing to and leading Cloud Foundry projects that operates in co-located pairing model and distributed committer models.

Changing the Development Culture at Comcast and Our Evolution from Legacy SOA to Cloud Native - Nicholas Beenham and Todd Migliore, Comcast

The Enterprise Service Platform at Comcast processes over 200 million transactions per day, spanning the sales, ordering, provisioning, activation, billing, and payment domains. Join us to learn about how we changed the culture within our development teams and leveraged tools such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry and concepts such as TDD, continuous delivery and dev ops to reduce cycle times from months to hours. We will also discuss our ongoing evolution from legacy SOA to cloud native Microservices. This session will offer real world insight into some common challenges enterprises face as they migrate to the cloud and discuss strategies to overcome said challenges.

Nick Beenham is a Senior Principal Engineer at Comcast. He works within the Application and Platform Services(APS) organization and has been with Comcast for nine years. He has had a variety of roles during his time at Comcast, beginning in operations and rotating through many of the departments within the organization. He has delivered talks internally at Comcast to his peers at internal conferences and working groups. He has worked on designing and implementing several platforms. Currently his main focus is on Continuous Delivery and Automation and he is currently working on systems and processes to accelerate the delivery of products to the market

Todd Migliore
Todd Migliore is a Senior Principal Architect at Comcast. He works within the Application and Platform Services (APS) organization and has been with Comcast for five years. His primary focus has been on defining the next generation architecture for the Enterprise Services Platform, which is built on top of Cloud Foundry. His background is in building distributed applications within the Enterprise Java space.

Chaos Heidi vs. Orchard: Self-Disruption and Healing in a Cloud Foundry-Based Service Environment - Diego Zamboni, Swisscom & Bill Chapman, Stark & Wayne

Cloud Foundry has built-in health management and self-healing capabilities. But when delivering a Cloud Foundry-based service, it is not sufficient to monitor and heal the Cloud Foundry components, since the end-to-end functionality of the service also depends on the state of the entire infrastructure surrounding and supporting Cloud Foundry. This includes the hardware, virtualization and networking platforms on which it runs, the CF Services available, the user interface, and even the billing systems.

To this effect, at Swisscom we have built an overarching Health Management platform called Orchard, which not only monitors and notifies about failures in our Application Cloud platform, but has the ability to trigger automated responses to heal those failures automatically. To challenge Orchard’s abilities, we have also developed Chaos Heidi, a self-disruption platform that allows us to cause failure scenarios of different types.

In this talk we will describe Orchard and Chaos Heidi, including their motivation and architecture, their current implementations, and our challenges and ideas for the future.

Bill Chapman
Cloud Architect, Stark and Wayne
Bill is a Cloud Architect at Stark & Wayne and for the last two years he has been helping Swisscom in their efforts to build management and monitoring tools that support their Cloud Foundry deployments. Before coming to Stark & Wayne Bill spent several years as a consultant, and development manager helping businesses scale both their software stacks and their engineering teams.

Diego Zamboni
Cloud Architect, Swisscom
Diego Zamboni is a computer scientist, consultant, author, programmer and sysadmin who works as a Cloud Architect at Swisscom, where he is building monitoring and self-healing capabilities into Swisscom’s Cloud Infrastructure. He has more than 20 years of experience in system administration and security, and has worked in both the applied and theoretical sides of the computer science field. He holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University, has worked a sysadmin at a supercomputer center, as a researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab, as a consultant at HP Enterprise Services and as a Product Manager at CFEngine. He is the author of the book "Learning CFEngine 3", published by O'Reilly Media. He lives in Switzerland with his wife and two daughters.

The Cloud Platform Engineering team at GE Digital are big fans of Cloud Foundry, it's the foundation of their Industrial Cloud Platform called Predix. Their global Cloud Foundry install base serves a developer community of thousands, and run tens of thousands of production application instances.

One of the key benefits of Cloud Foundry is it's ability to dynamically scale all of it's core components using BOSH. As Cloud Foundry subsystems like runners and routers are scaled out to keep up with demand, ensuring that the new nodes automatically come under monitoring and metrics collection coverage, and keeping health dashboards up to date becomes challenging!

Jeff Barrows will show how the Cloud Platform Monitoring team is using Sensu, an open-source monitoring framework, and Graphite, an open-source realtime metrics collection solution, to provide health and availability data on all Cloud Foundry components and Marketplace Services. He will also show how they build and maintain summary KPI, health, and utilization dashboards in Grafana - an open source graphing and dashboard visualization tool, and cover some simple strategies they use to help keep everything up to date in a dynamic environment.

Jeff Barrows
GE Digital
Manager / Technical Lead - Cloud Platform
Oakland, CA
Jeff Barrows has been working at GE Digital for the past two years as a technical lead, and manager of the Cloud Platform Engineering team, for GE's Industrial Cloud Platform called Predix. He has been working in technology in the Bay Area since 1994 in industries ranging from Social Media companies like Yelp to Investment Banks, Telcos, and Web Startups. Jeff lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and daughter, and likes to hike in the East Bay hills with his Rhodesian Ridgeback.

While some other platforms you may have heard of have containers front-and-center as the main user experience, Cloud Foundry uses containers under the covers to provide a rich user experience ("push my code, I don't care how"!). The container engine powering Cloud Foundry is called Garden and pre-dates most of the big name container technologies now in the market. In this talk, you'll find out what makes Garden different from other container technologies (including detailed comparisons of other container engines), and in what ways it's just the same.

Julz Friedman
IBM

George Lestaris
Software Engineer, Pivotal
George Lestaris is a software engineer working at Pivotal in the Garden team, the container runtime of Cloud Foundry. Before Pivotal, he spent time with web programming, high throughput computing and cloud computing research. He has given talks before in CHEP 2013 regarding virtual clusters and their use in high-energy physics and, most recently, in PyCon UK 2015 on interactive cloud experimentation.

Cloud Foundry and ODPi Working Towards Enabling Cloud-Native, Data-Driven Applications - Roman Shaposhnik, Pivotal and Richard Pelavin, Reactor8 Inc.

While Cloud Foundry Foundation drives global awareness, adoption and development of the de-facto open source, industry standard platform for cloud applications, ODPi is an open source foundation focusing on promoting and advancing the state of Apache Hadoop® and Big Data technologies for the enterprise. We believe that working together these two major open source efforts could accelerate the arrival of true cloud-native, data-driven applications for the enterprise.

In this talk we will describe how BOSH is shaping up to be a universal cloud abstraction layer allowing any ODPi certified product to achieve cloud portability and thus replacing a plethora of ad-hoc and single vendor tools. We will talk about how ODPi hopes to champion stateful use cases for BOSH allowing any data base-live service to benefit from CFF technology. Finally, we will spend time exploring options around standardizing data services and service brokers enabling application developers to start focusing on the holy grail of not only cloud-native, but cloud-native AND data-driven applications.

Richard Pelavin
Richard is a Co-Founder and CTO of Reactor 8, the company developing The DevOps Toolkit (DTK). DTK is a framework for Infrastructure and Application Developers working together to deliver Services to their perspective users/customers. The framework was born out of 3+ years of consulting/services work in the area of automation, application/service architecture and deployment, with a particular focus on distributed Services and related tooling which typically feature complex topologies and cross node dependencies.

Roman Shaposhnik
Pivotal Inc.
Director of Open Source
Palo Alto, CA
Roman Shaposhnik is a Director of Open Source @Pivotal. He is a member of Apache Software Foundation, committer on Apache Hadoop, founder of Apache Bigtop and, as of late, a man behind ODPi curtain. Roman has been involved in Open Source software for more than a decade and has hacked projects ranging from Linux kernel to the flagship multimedia library FFmpeg. He grew up in Sun microsystems where he had an opportunity to learn from the best software engineers in the industry. At Pivotal, among other things, he was leading an overall open source effort of Pivotal Data products in 2015.

Over the course of the last year, Comcast has matured its Cloud Foundry platform from proof-of-concept to production ready. The platform currently supports some of our most critical applications while also being an incubator for more innovation. Transitioning to a new platform is never easy and we have had to win over skeptics with operational excellence. Join us to hear about how we:

· Monitor and Alert on Cloud Foundry KPIs
· Certify the resilience of Cloud Foundry
· Manage and Maintain Cloud Foundry

Neville George
Cloud Engineer, Comcast
Neville George is a Cloud Engineer at Comcast. He plays a key role in promoting, managing and supporting PaaS initiatives within the company. He has a passion for automation and more recently open-source tools so doesn't have to pay "full-price for fabulous". When he needs a break from his warm chair, you will find him at a ping pong table or flinging bags into a cornhole board - though neither contributing to his biceps.

Tim Leong
Principal Architect, Comcast Cable
Cloud Engineer at Comcast. Currently working on supporting and operating Pivotal Cloud Foundry and many other Cloud initiatives at Comcast. Last year, I spoke at the CF summit about our journey towards production. This year, we are running production workloads, and the platform is successful under our watch.

Cloud Foundry in the Community - Moderated by Stormy Peters; Kim Bannerman, IBM; Mark Carlson, ECS Team; Daniel Krook, IBM; Paula Kennedy, Pivotal & Bridget Kromhout, Pivotal

Cloud Foundry is more than an open source platform; it’s a growing community! In the past two years, our community has grown by leaps and bounds as a result of very passionate and dedicated people as well as crucial community tools like GitHub, IRC, Slack, and Twitter. These meetups foster a collaborative, inclusive environment focused on new releases, best practices, and how customers are using Cloud Foundry. Come meet Cloud Foundry organizer for Seattle and Atlanta Kim Bannerman of IBM, Denver organizer Mark Carlson of ECS Team, London organizer Paula Kennedy of Cloud Credo/Pivotal, and New York organizer Daniel Krook of IBM along with frequent speaker and community leader Bridget Kromhout of Pivotal. Moderated by Stormy Peters, VP of Evangelism for Cloud Foundry Foundation.

The panel will discuss lessons learned, what 2016 looks like for the Cloud Foundry community, and how they have managed to grow and nurture this vibrant community. Learn best practices and tips and tricks for starting meetups in your area and retaining your devoted Cloud Foundry followers.

Stormy Peters
Cloud Foundry Foundation

Kim Bannerman
Program Director, Advocacy & Community, IBM
Kim Bannerman: Program Director, Advocacy and Community at IBM (Blue Box). Kim and her team are passionate about open source and community. Kim currently organizes the Seattle & Atlanta Cloud Foundry meetup groups, and has organized technical user groups for over a decade. She’s also the founder of StartupChicks Seattle, an organization that supports female founders. Prior to joining Blue Box, Kim was the Director of Evangelism Programs inside the ISV Partner Ecosystem Group at CenturyLink. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman.

Mark Carlson
ECS Team, CTO
Mark Carlson is the CTO for ECS Team, a regional systems integrator providing cloud platform implementation and cloud-native development services in North America. Mr. Carlson is fascinated by the behavior or large enterprises as they attempt to radically improve their ability to deliver innovative solutions in a cadence that matches the needs of the business. Mark began his career with a "Big 4" consulting firm then pursued a series of emerging technology opportunities across industry and consulting firms in a variety of industries. He has been a CIO and lead software development, operations and technology R&D organizations.
Paula Kennedy
Director, Program / Project Management, Pivotal
Paula joined Pivotal at the end of 2015 as Director of Program / Project Management and is helping Pivotal clients as they make the journey towards digital transformation. Paula was previously Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of CloudCredo, where she was responsible for the operational and financial activities of CloudCredo. Paula has worked in the IT industry for over fifteen years and prior to founding CloudCredo, was on the management team of a SaaS provider at the forefront of introducing the benefits of cloud technology to the insurance-broking software market.

Bridget Kromhout
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After years in site reliability operations (most recently at DramaFever), she traded in oncall for more travel. A frequent speaker at tech conferences, she helps organize the AWS and devops meetups at home in Minneapolis, serves on the program committee for Velocity, and acts as a global core organizer for devopsdays. She podcasts at Arrested DevOps, occasionally blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.

Daniel Krook
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Daniel Krook is a New York area Senior Software Engineer, Distinguished IT Specialist, Master Inventor, and Member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He works with customers to create cloud solutions based on the OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, and Docker open source projects. Daniel has spoken about meetup best practices and Cloud Foundry operational metrics at previous summits. He runs the NYC Cloud Foundry meetup group and co-organizes OpenStack NYC.

In this deep dive session you'll learn about how some of the enterprise and hybrid features of Azure are available natively for Cloud Foundry applications.

Gil Isaacs
Microsoft
Gil is a Microsoft Certified Azure Architect in the Microsoft Developer Experience division where he helps commercial technology publishers develop solutions utilizing Microsoft Azure. Most recently, Gil was the lead in partnership with Pivotal Engineering in publishing the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Azure Marketplace offer. Gil brings deep experience to Microsoft helping customers, partners and colleagues with new technology adoption across many different platforms.

Ning Kuang
Microsoft
Ning is a Senior Program manager from Microsoft Shanghai, focusing on open source technologies in Azure; she worked on various projects for the Linux VM and middleware on Azure, especially deployment and management solutions. She also manages the Could Foundry on Azure engineering efforts, especially deployment solutions including CPI. Previously Ning works with different server and web technologies including Microsoft Windows Servers and networking protocol analyzing solutions.

Kundana Palagiri
Senior Program Manager, Azure, Microsoft
Kundana Palagiri been at Microsoft for about 14+ years and worked on various Windows Server and Cloud Technologies as both a Program Manager and a Software Engineer. She currently work on Azure IaaS and PaaS platforms and I primarily work on a VM Customization framework to integrate open source and ISV solutions with Azure Virtual Machine for providing rich DevOps tools and PaaS platforms.

BNY Mellon, the oldest bank in the US and one of the most influential financial institutions in the world, has made a firm commitment to Cloud Foundry as a key component of our cloud technology stack. The reasoning is clear: we are a financial institution focusing on financial problems, and don't want to be in business of building infrastructure and platform software, instead wanting to take advantage of open-source community-driven software so we can focus on our business challenges.

Cloud Foundry meets several of our requirements for a highly-available, flexible, secure, and scalable platform , but it's not a panacea and has some gaps that we are forced to fill using other technologies. Specifically these gaps include support for non-http workloads, service discovery, multi-datacenter orchestration and failover support, application grouping (assembly) concepts, OS support, and more.

This technical session will focus on many of these gaps that the open source Cloud Foundry platform currently doesn't cover, and will present in depth the solutions, including other open source software technologies, that we are building to fill those gaps, to deliver a flexible and reliable platform that fosters modern cloud practices including microservices, containerization, and continuous delivery.

Developers, DevOps, sys-admins, and IT decision makers in any industry will benefit from the lessons we've learned.

John Wetherill
Principal Architect
BNY Mellon
John Wetherill, Principal Architect at BNY Mellon's Innovation Center in Palo Alto, spent much of his career designing and building software at a handful of startups, at Sun Microsystems, NeXT Inc., and in the smart grid and energy space. His biggest passion is for tools, languages, processes, and systems that improve developer productivity and quality of life.

John has spent the last four years immersed in Cloud Foundry, and continues to focus on cloud technologies including PaaS, microservices, and containerization. At BNY Mellon he is helping drive the adoption of Cloud Foundry and related technologies across the bank.

Modern applications consist of small, highly interconnected, independently scalable units of deployment that are often referred to as “microservices.” When you deploy these services on Cloud Foundry today, they are forced to communicate via routes that are advertised to the external routing tier. Not only does this force all services to be exposed to external clients, it adds significant latency to the interactions between services.

What if instead of exposing routes to all of your services, you could define the network topology that’s right for your application? How about defining an isolation policy to prevent unauthorized access? What about enabling secure access to existing networks?

The Cloud Foundry Container Networking project hopes to make these things a reality. Come learn about where we are today, where we’re going, and how you can help us get there.

Gabriel Rosenhouse
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Gabe is a software engineer at the Pivotal office in Santa Monica, California. He is currently working on the Cloud Foundry Container Networking team.

Matthew Sykes
STSM, IBM
Matthew is an senior technical staff member in IBM's open cloud technology group. He has been involved with Cloud Foundry since 2013 as part of the elastic runtime and Diego teams. He is currently working on the Cloud Foundry container networking project to enable flexible, efficient, and secure communications between containers and legacy networks. Prior to his work on Cloud Foundry, he worked on IBM application servers and middleware.

In 2015 Daimler recognized the need for a modern and agile evolution of their product development process to maintain responsiveness to market needs. Yet inciting process change at a storied organization like Daimler required a modification not just to the technology platform, but also to the organizational best practices that support product development. Discover more about the experience Daimler had in bringing MercedesMe to market, accommodating the needs of an experienced, multidisciplinary project team distributed all over the globe, while never sacrificing the product quality and consumer experience that they are known for.

Manuel Birke
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

Middleware lock-in is over. In a world of lightweight, containerized workloads the need to standardize on a commong middleware is no more. With Cloud Foundry's buildpack ecosystem the need to manage middleware yourself is further nonexistant. This is truly exciting as is eliminates the operational overhead of using the right tool for the right job. Cloud Foundry, with officially supported and open source buildpacks, supports more than 50 programming languages, frameworks, an runtime environments. This rich ecosystem empowers your engineers to explore new tools and environments without burdening your operators with the need to learn, manage, and maintain new runtime environments.

What even is a buildpack? How are they managed? How are they used? How do I make my own? In this talk we'll answer all those questions.

We'll dissect a buildpack and examine its internals. Learn how Cloud Foundry builds containers for your applications in its staging environment. Learn how operators deploy, enable, and upgrade buildpacks. we'll expore the separation of responsibility Cloud Foundry offers to empower operations to control the runtime environmnents carefully whilst providing maximum flexibility to engineering safely. Learn how to specify buildpacks when deploying applications, and how to manage runtime upgrades and security fixes with minimal developer disruption. Finally, learn how to write a custom buildpack for specialized runtime environments.

Cloud Foundry will run almost any cloud-native application in almost any runtime environment. We may never support COBOL, but after this talk you'll see how Cloud Foundry support's the rest of your heterogeneous architecture.

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

Have you heard about Diego for a while now, but wonder what it means to you as an application developer or operator? Have you experienced the magic of pushing an application to Cloud Foundry and want to know what makes it all possible behind the scenes?

Over the past year, the Diego container runtime has made tremendous strides, reaching feature parity with the existing DEA runtime, making its deployments easily upgradable, and scaling to manage larger and larger container workloads. In this talk, the project lead for the Diego team will review the components of the Diego system, how they interact with each other, and how they integrate with existing Cloud Foundry deployments to allow a straightforward transition to the new runtime. We will also discuss how the Diego runtime enables many powerful new platform features, such as CF Tasks, TCP routing, and SSH access to containers, and preview other upcoming features that CF teams are actively working on and exploring today.

After watching this talk you’ll be ready to upgrade to Diego with confidence and take advantage of the many improvements it brings to Cloud Foundry.

Eric Malm
Pivotal Software
Eric works at Pivotal Software as the Product Manager for the CF Runtime Diego team, and prior to that was a software engineer on the Diego team and on the CF Runtime team. He also holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University.

Do More with Your Apps: Unleashing the Power of the Cloud Controller V3 API - Utako Ueda & Daniel Wendorf, Pivotal

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

The CAPI team is working on making all this and more possible with V3 of the cloud controller API. The new application modelling provides much more flexibility and control over the workflows available to you for application deployment. Many of these features are already available as pre-release/experimental APIs on recent versions of Cloud Foundry.

Utako and Dan will explain how to take advantage of these (as well as some existing functionality you may not have seen before). This talk is targeted towards application developers at any experience level who would like to learn more about taking advantage of and building tooling using the Cloud Controller API V3. Attendees can expect a live demo showing real use cases for these features.

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

Daniel Wendorf
Dan is a consultant at Pivotal Labs who has been working with and on Cloud Foundry in multiple capacities since 2013. He is a core contributor to the Cloud Controller API.

Fissile is a tool that allows developers to convert BOSH releases into Docker images as part of a build pipeline.

Because BOSH releases are precisely structured, we are able to craft Docker images that contain jobs and packages, similar to what you get after BOSH provisions you a VM. The difference is that with Fissile, this process happens in as part of your build (not at deployment time), and there are no Agents involved. The result - you get to deploy Cloud Foundry as Docker images and configure them via environment variables.

Fissile is written in Go. It provides a CLI that takes you each step of the process: package compilation, job configuration, Docker layer management and final image creation. It has multi-release support, so you can create Docker images with components from more than one release.

Vlad Iovanov
Technical Lead, HPE
Vlad Iovanov is currently working as a Technical Lead on the Helion Cloud Foundry project at Hewlett Packard enterprise. Located in Seattle, USA.

Aaron Lefkowitz
Engineering Manager, HPE
Aaron Lefkowitz is currently working as an Engineering Manager on the Helion Cloud Foundry project at Hewlett Packard enterprise. Located in Seattle, USA.

Experience Report: Cloud Foundry Open Source Operations - Lucas Pinto and Steffen Zuber, anynines

Cloud Foundry and OpenStack are the biggest Open Source projects in their domain. As IaaS and PaaS walk hand in hand the idea of combining both worlds is close. anynines is running their public Cloud Foundry offering on top of OpenStack for more than three years with two years running on a self-hosted OpenStack setup. As head of public Paas operations Julian Weber has gained a lot of knowledge to share about setting up and operating Cloud Foundry installations. This presentation leads the audience through the journey of adopting the Cloud Foundry Open Source version and breeding it to a highly available and production ready Cloud Foundry setup. The listener is guided through the analysis of potential single points of failure in standard CF Open Source setups up to required changes in the Cloud Foundry OS release to reach our goal. As this talk is about Cloud Foundry operations we also need to talk about experiences with BOSH as a general purpose tool for software lifecycle management of big distributed systems and possible improvements to the BOSH tool set and workflows. The talk will enable advanced DevOps to dive deeper into the technical details of setting up production ready Cloud Foundry installations based on Cloud Foundry Open Source.

Lucas Pinto, anynines

Steffen Zuber
Developer, anynines

Five Years of Cloud Foundry at Rakuten - Carlo Alberto Ferraris & Ronak Banka, Rakuten, Inc.

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

Ronak Banka
DevOps Engineer, Rakuten, Inc.
DevOps engineer on the Rakuten PaaS team. Speaker at Cloud Foundry meetup Delhi, India (June 2015), Openstack Summit 2015 Tokyo, Japan.

Carlo Alberto Ferraris
Senior DevOps Engineer, Rakuten, Inc.
Senior DevOps engineer, team leader of the Rakuten Platform-as-a-Service team. Speaker at Cloud Foundry Tokyo Meetup.

Ford Invests in Making Customer Experience as Strong as Its Vehicles with FordPass - Shaji John Thomas & Mohsin Ahmed, Ford Motor Company; Hayden Ryan, Dave Wallraff & Sani Chabi Yo, Pivotal

Creating value through early and frequent delivery of innovative solutions with our business partners as the norm. To do this Ford is working with cloud-based software technology leader Pivotal to build a software platform that will enable the company to rapidly innovate and iterate on new applications and mobility solutions for consumers. This will help with transitioning Ford Motor Company to be both an automobile company and a mobility company by providing an agile development platform to development teams.

Haydon Ryan
Member of the customer facing PCF Solutions team at Pivotal. Deeply involved in bringing Cloud Foundry to large corporate customers, specifically on AWS and Azure.

Dave Wallraff
Dave Wallraff is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal, helping customers understand and embrace CloudFoundry. He enjoys most of the things, and only breaks some of the things.

Sani Chabi Yo
Sani Chabi Yo is a highly proficient bilingual (French/English) IT professional with more than 10 years of experience. He is currently Cloud Foundry Solutions Architect at Pivotal; a company that is transforming the way enterprises build software. In this hands-on role, he advises global Fortune 100 customers through their journey to digital transformation by leveraging Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microservices and cloud-native design. Sani has a bachelor degree in Software Engineering as well as a Masters in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

Shaji Thomas
Shaji Thomas serves as Team Lead for Global PCF operations at Ford Motor Company. With 20 years on industry experience and serving Ford for 13 years Shaji has led the creation of two new Agile teams at Ford Motor Company, Global Cloud Operation and Pivotal Cloud Operations for Operational Support of Azure, Visualization, Big Data, Devops, and Internet of Things for supporting the Connected Vehicle initiative. In previous roles Shaji has led a team doing infrastructure support for big data analysis using Teradata Data Warehouse and Unix operational support of CAD/CAM/CAE.

Mohsin Ahmed
Mohsin Ahmed is working as Senior Systems Engineer at Ford Motor Company. He has been involved in various enterprise infrastructure design, development and implementation projects for the past 15 years. He has engineered resilient and highly available solutions with VMware virtualization platforms, Microsoft server and cloud infrastructure. His recent engagement has been with the design and implementation of Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform in the Microsoft Azure public cloud to support Ford’s transformation into both an automotive and a mobility company.

Frequent Flying Foundry Style: An IoT Microservices and Secure Insight Platform for the Aviation Industry - Sarah Cooper, M2Mi & Shyam Nath, GE Digital

The potential role of Internet of Things in next generation Airports and the broader Aviation Ecosystem is astounding. From reducing trip time to decreasing on-tarmac collisions, IoT’s enablement of shared real time resources and cross-ecosystem collaboration dramatically changes the value generation game in a traditionally siloed industry. The key to unlocking the cross-ecosystem potential is the creation of a secure, shared Aviation services platform that allows stakeholders to securely share insights without compromising data integrity and ownership. CloudFoundry is the perfect basis for such an industry shared resource.

M2Mi and GE, along with several industry players are developing an Industrial IoT platform for Aviation based on the combination of M2Mi’s IoT platform and GE’s Predix platform on Cloud Foundry. This Aviation Shared IIoT Services platform serves as the basis for the Industrial Internet Consortium's Aviation Testbed and consists of aviation and airport control and data services with industry specific microservices for the real time management of cybersecurity, insight generation and private information sharing. We’ll walk through the architecture and Cloud Foundry components that are re-imagining air travel and aviation for the industry at large.

Sarah Cooper
M2Mi
COO
Moffett Field, CA
Dr. Sarah Cooper is M2Mi’s Chief Operating Officer, responsible for engineering, business development and platform strategy. With 15 years designing IoT devices and platform technologies, she serves as vice chairwoman of the 12,000 member Internet of Things Community and is an active member of the Industrial Internet Consortium, as well as several IoT standards organizations. Sarah’s industry achievement includes recognition as a Top 100 Wireless Technology Expert by Wireless World, a 2015 Silicon Valley Woman of Influence, one of Connected World’s Women of M2M, National Academy of Engineer’s Frontier of Engineering Awardee. She's multidisciplinary entrepreneur, inventor and recovering physicist. Prior to M2Mi, Sarah founded and sold TE-Bio, an IoT device company, NaturalNano, a publicly traded advanced nanomaterials company and conducted fundamental research for both NASA and DoE.

Shyam Nath
GE Digital
Industrial Internet Architect
San Ramon, CA
Shyam is Industrial Internet Architect with GE Digital. He has 25 years of Industry experience. Prior to GE, he has worked for IBM, Deloitte, Oracle and Halliburton. He has an undergrad in EE (IIT Kanpur, India) and MBA and MS (Computer Science) from FAU, Boca Raton, FL. He is a regular speaker in large technology events on IoT and Big Data Analytics.

When the Diego team publishes a new release of Diego, it needs to be solid. When operators know they can trust the latest releases, they are more likely to update regularly and stay current with the latest features and security patches.

Thus, the Diego team works hard to ensure the quality of each release they publish. At the same time, the steps involved in creating a final release must be quick and easy. A critical aspect of agile software development is being able to turn out new features and security fixes rapidly.

In this talk, Jen and Andrew from Diego discuss the battery of tests Diego code is run through along with the design of the team’s continuous integration pipeline. They will discuss the testing strategies and tools used at different verification scopes (unit, component, cross-component, etc.) and spend some extra time discussing the test suites specific to Diego, such as the upgradability suite and the BBS benchmarking suite. Attendees will learn how they can apply these techniques to their own projects and feel more confident in the software they release.

Andrew Edgar
IBM Canada
Senior Software Developer
Canada
Andrew has over 24 years of experience in the Software Development industry. He joined IBM 12 years ago and has worked in several senior positions in the Tivoli and Cloud development teams. He is currently working as Senior Software Developer on the Bluemix Development team and is a core contributor on the Diego project in Cloud Foundry. He has presented at many IBM customer conferences in the past and regularly talks with customers on Cloud Foundry and Bluemix. Located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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

Nearly all Cloud Foundry projects have independently chosen to use http://concourse.ci/ as their build & pipelining tool. At Stark & Wayne we run over two dozen pipelines for our OSS and customer projects. For the last year, we have maintained the most popular tutorial https://github.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial for people learning to use Concourse for the first time or learning some new advanced feature. For the first time, we're offering a workshop to getting started and getting proficient with our favourite CI system.

Workshop schedule:

* 01 - Hello World task
* 02 - Task inputs
* 03 - Task scripts
* 04 - Basic pipeline
* 05 - Tasks extracted into Resources
* 06 - View job output in terminal
* 07 - Trigger jobs with the Concourse API
* 08 - Triggering jobs with resources
* 09 - Destroying pipelines
* 10 - Using resource inputs in job tasks
* 11 - Passing task outputs to another task
* 12 - Publishing outputs
* 13 - Actual pipeline - passing resources between jobs

Dr. Nic Williams
CEO, Stark & Wayne
Dr Nic has been working with BOSH and Cloud Foundry for 4 years; is the CEO of Stark & Wayne, the largest consultancy focused on Cloud Foundry operations and enablement. Previous he was VP Technology at Engine Yard.

The Open API Specification (née Swagger 2.0) is a comprehensive language for describing Web APIs (e.g., REST) using a JSON. Using the description of a Web API one can easily generate all types of artifacts (docs, clients, proxies, and so on) that are useful to consumers, developers, and maintainers of the API.

CF-Swagger is an incubation project in CloudFoundry where we have applied Swagger to various CF APIs in order to generate value. For instance, by having a Swagger description of the Service Broker APIs we are able to generate a Golang Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) that makes it easy for a CF service administrator to vet whether a service broker conforms to a particular version of the service broker API.

We have also described various other CF APIs using Swagger with the goal to allowing specific useful tasks. In this talk we will give a complete overview of the various CF APIs we have swaggerized, along with some of the useful consequences of the description. We will also discuss general directions of the project along with other potential applications by looking at how the Swagger community is currently taking advantage of APIs' descriptions.

Michael (aka dr.max) Maximilien
Scientist, Architect, and Engineer, IBM
My name is Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, and I am a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, I was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, I was a research scientist and did pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, as well as platform-as-a-service. I joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 as Chief Architect for Crchitect for Cloud Innovations working closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Foundry Open Source Platform-as-a-Service the best PaaS on the planet.

My main expertise are in areas of software engineering and distributed systems. I have published over 60 refereed papers with citations count on GoogleScholar over 3500 and I hold 13 issued US patents. I am an avid amateur triathlete who has completed more than 10 half Ironman and one full Ironman and more than 20 marathons.


Tony Tam
VP and CTO, SmartBear
VP and CTO of all things Swagger at SmartBear

For years, CF users have been asking for the functionality to deploy Cloud Foundry on bare metal machines. With the new RackHD CPI, Bosh is now empowered to provision bare-metal machines, deploy software on them, and monitor the health of deployments.

The RackHD CPI bridges the communication between Bosh (http://bosh.io) and EMC OSS RackHD (http://github.com/RackHD). RackHD is a technology stack that enables automated hardware management and orchestration. To Bosh, the RackHD CPI behaves just like any other Cloud Provider Interface. Internally, the RackHD CPI uses RackHD to manage, provision, and deploy software on bare machines.

Victor Fong
EMC
EMC Cloud Platform Team, Dev. Lead for the Cambridge Cloud Foundry Dojo. Working on the Rack HD CPI.

Hybrid Cloud in Finance - John Wetherill, BNY Mellon (moderator), David Lewis, BNY Mellon, and Asif Alam, Thomson Reuters, Janga Aliminati, Visa

Every major global financial institution is encountering the cloud, and each is adopting it in their own way. Some are diving in the deep end, moving all software delivery to public cloud like AWS or Azure. Others choose to keep everything on premise. Others are taking a "wait and see" approach, while still others are combining the best of both public and private clouds, adopting a hybrid strategy.

This technical panel discussion features thought leaders from several major global finance corporations. It will explore the role of hybrid cloud in global enterprise software delivery. The panelists will present their unique experienced viewpoints on the pros and cons of hybrid cloud, the reasons they have, or have not moved to hybrid, and the challenges they're facing in whatever cloud adoption strategy they've chosen, whether public, private, or hybrid. This promises to be an invigorating, charged, and possibly somewhat controversial debate.

Asif Alam
Global Business Director - Technology Sector, Thomson Reuters Corporate

David Lewis
Director Architecture and Platform Services, BNY Mellon

John Wetherill
John Wetherill, Principal Architect at BNY Mellon's Innovation Center in Palo Alto, spent much of his career designing and building software at a handful of startups, at Sun Microsystems, NeXT Inc., and in the smart grid and energy space. His biggest passion is for tools, languages, processes, and systems that improve developer productivity and quality of life.

John has spent the last four years immersed in Cloud Foundry, and continues to focus on cloud technologies including PaaS, microservices, and containerization. At BNY Mellon he is helping drive the adoption of Cloud Foundry and related technologies across the bank.

Janga Aliminati
Janga R. Aliminati is a Passionate technology leader who possess strategic aptitude, entrepreneurial leadership, hands-on deep domain expertise, exceptional organizational talent with extreme customer focus. Over 20 plus years of his career, Janga has excelled in several high profile project/architectural advisory roles for global corporations and consistently delivered marketable offerings with measurable results. Currently Janga is the Chief Architect and global leader for Visa Cloud (PaaS) platform, responsible for defining Cloud strategy and architecture, identifying right technologies for Visa business needs with automation. Prior to Visa Janga worked at Oracle, he was the founder and head of deployment architectures team and responsible for defining deployment architecture and blueprints for Fusion Middleware, Applications and Public Cloud. Janga has played variety of roles at Oracle like Sr. Group Manager/Director/Sr.Director for Platform Architecture team and Architect for Fusion Applications and Oracle Public Cloud. Janga possess in-depth knowledge on emerging technologies, go-to market strategy and Cloud adaption process for enterprises.

Is My App Still Up? Monitoring Your Cloud Native Application - Johannes Tuchscherer, Pivotal

With the introduction of the Cloud Native application, we are seeing a paradigm shift on how an application is developed and deployed. But development and deployment are just two phases of the application lifecycle. Equally important is the next phase in which the operator has to monitor the application to keep it up and running 24/7.

In this talk, Johannes Tuchscherer is going to explore how the idea of Application Performance Management has to adopt from its classical roots to keep up with Cloud Native applications. He is going to explain what KPIs are important for an application that is running on Cloud Foundry and how to actually get those numbers from the platform.

Johannes is currently working as a Software Engineer for Cloud Foundry in Denver and is part of the team that works on Logging and Metrics for Cloud Foundry. Before that, he spent a year in Germany as a developer advocate ]spreading the word about Cloud Foundry all over Europe.

Keynote: Allstate/CompoZed Labs - One Year Later - Doug Safford, Vice President in the Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures Group, Allstate Insurance

At the 2015 Cloud Foundry Summit, Allstate spoke about their goal of being thought of as more of a software company. Transforming an 85-year-old Fortune 100 company involves creating a shift in how to conduct business, but also in how technology can facilitate and even increase this process. The threats and issues facing Allstate’s business-technology transformation are typical of many large companies.

Doug will discuss how Allstate’s technology strategy has shifted since 2015 as the insurance giant moves aggressively to the cloud. Doug will also cover how far Allstate has come in the last year, what's been working, the challenges that remain, and the journey which continues full speed ahead.

Doug Safford
Allstate
Doug Safford is a vice president in the Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures group of Allstate Insurance Company. He leads the company’s Technology Innovation department, and CompoZed Labs, the enterprise’s agile efforts on cloud foundry.

In his current position, Safford is focused on using innovation and technology to quickly bring to life the ideas of his business partners.

Safford took his current position in October of 2015, and most recently was VP and Chief Architect of Allstate. He has a long track record of creating and building high-performing teams in the most complex technologies. Prior to that, he had been the Chief Architect for Sales, Marketing and Customer Experience technology. Under his leadership, the team developed the strategy that led to the selection and acquisition of eAgent, which evolved into the foundation for Allstate’s Relationship Management System.

Safford joined Allstate in 2004 after eight years designing and developing a wide range of applications while working as a consultant for Sears, Allstate and other well-respected firms. He has contributed to articles and books as co-author and technical editor and also has been a speaker at a number of industry-related events.

A native of Rochester, New York, Safford studied at the State University of New York and is a graduate of the Naval Nuclear Power Program and spent eight years in the U.S. Navy, six of them stationed on a nuclear submarine.

Keynote: Cloud Native Transformation - The Journey Begins Here! - Ken Owens, CTO of Cloud Infrastructure Services, Cisco

Developers are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into the new era of software defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for businesses. However, current cloud solutions do not enable application development platforms natively or provide the ability to create applications that are cloud native with elastic services. In addition, businesses are moving to application development architectures leveraging microservices, which are becoming more strategic to their business strategy. When making the decision to build and operate an application in a cloud platform, microservices become central to your application architecture and strategy.

This presentation will describe the Cloud Foundry contributions that address current devops challenges, the data platform that is required to support the business analytics, and the build, deploy, and run, including application monitoring and advanced user plane network enhancements.

The overall architecture of the combined contributions will be described with a customer use case.

Ken Owens
CTO
Cisco
Greater St. Louis Area
Ken Owens is Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Infrastructure Services at Cisco. Ken is responsible for creating and communicating technical/scientific vision and strategy for Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) business. He brings a compelling view of technology trends in enterprise IT (e.g., infrastructure, computing, SaaS, virtualization, and cloud) and evangelizes the technology roadmap for the business. Before joining Cisco in 2014, Ken spent over 7 years at Savvis as the Chief Scientist, CTO, and VP Security and Virtualization Technologies. Prior assignments include 5 years as a network security architect at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., and Edward Jones brokerage firms in St. Louis, Mo, and 10 years in the design and architecture of communications systems and components for Erlang Technologies, Tellabs, and Wiltel. Ken holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Keynote: Delivering Simpler, Clearer, Faster Government Services with Cloud Foundry - Lindsay Holmwood, Head of Development, Australian Government Digital Transformation Office

Nobody interacts with government because they want to - they interact with government because they have to, and most people come away from online interactions feeling more confused than when they started.

That's why the Digital Transformation Office was created in 2015 – to change the way Australian governments deliver services, by relentlessly focusing all delivery activities on user needs, and modernising technical delivery methods.

Cloud Foundry is at the core of this technical modernisation, with the DTO providing a Cloud Foundry-based delivery platform to government for building new services. Every team gets a CD pipeline, centralised monitoring and logging, and an app runtime – driving a culture change through tools.

In this talk we'll learn about the problems with the traditional approach to digital service delivery in government, what opportunities Cloud Foundry creates for architecting the delivery of user-focused services, and how Cloud Foundry enables the DTO to help government deliver simpler, clearer, faster public services.

Lindsay Holmwood
Australian Government Digital Transformation Office
Head of Development
Australia
Lindsay Holmwood is a engineering manager living in the Australian Blue Mountains. Lindsay works at the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Office, building clearer, simpler, and faster public services . A long-time contributor to the open source and DevOps communities, he authored cucumber-nagios, Visage, and Flapjack, and has run the Sydney DevOps meetup the past six years.Lindsay speaks internationally about both the cultural and technical side of DevOps, covering Just Culture, complexity, cognitive biases, and monitoring tools. He also won third place at the 1996 Sydney Royal Easter Show LEGO building competition.

Keynote: Dell's Internal Transformation Based on Cloud Foundry - Cody Taylor, Director, Software Engineering & Barton George, Senior Technologist in the office of CTO, Dell

Join us for a fireside chat with Director of Software Engineering, Cody Taylor, and Sr. Technologist, Office of CTO, Barton George of Dell, as well as VP Industry Strategy at Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby Kearns. In this chat we will hear how Dell IT has begun leveraging Cloud Foundry to better support the business, the transformation that Dell is undertaking internally, and how they are using this opportunity to better understand the needs of their customers that are undergoing a similar journey.

Barton George
Dell
Sr Technologist, office of the CTO
Barton is a Senior Technologist in the office of CTO, focusing on Dell’s efforts in the DevOps space as well as the open source community. He is also the founder and lead of Project Sputnik, an Ubuntu-based laptop for developers, now in its fifth generation. Besides working with developers, customers, analysts and press he is a regular blogger.

Prior to Dell Barton spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles from manufacturing to product and corporate marketing. He spent his last three years there as an Open Source evangelist, avid blogger, and driver of Sun’s GNU/Linux strategy and relationships.

Barton began his professional career out of college with a four year stint in Tokyo at Sony working with ISVs for Sony’s UNIX-based “NEWS” workstation.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barton headed east for higher education and attended Williams College and Harvard Business School. He currently happily reside with his three children in Austin, TX.

Cody Taylor
Dell
Director Software Engineering
Cody has 20 years of IT experience and is now a Software Engineer Director at Dell. He joined the company in 2002 in the software development and test arena and has been involved in all functions of the application delivery process ever since. He is currently responsible for delivering solutions that enable the organization to be more agile with the ability to continuously deliver benefits to the Dell business and customers. Cody was born and raised in Texas, including studies at Texas Tech University in Computer Science and Management Information Systems.

Keynote: Enterprise-Ready Lessons for Building Multi-Cloud Apps - Bill Hilf, SVP & GM, HP Cloud, HPE

Many enterprise customers want to take advantage of the promise of cloud native applications, but need a bridge to their current IT infrastructure. They want to reap the benefits of 12-factor apps and automation, but need strong tools to get started. In this session, HPE Helion SVP & GM, Bill Hilf, will share proven strategies for the Enterprise, the work HPE is focused on, and will highlight stories from HPE customers who have chosen Cloud Foundry technology as a key first step to evolving towards a multi-cloud approach.

Bill Hilf
HPE
SVP & GM, HP Cloud
Bill Hilf is Senior Vice President and GM for HPE’s Cloud business. In
this role, he leads the engineering, product management, product
marketing and delivery of HPE’s cloud portfolio. This portfolio enables
enterprises to build, manage and consume hybrid cloud services, helping
them to transform their IT environments through powerful cloud solutions
from HPE and its partners.

Prior to joining HP, Hilf was the General Manager of Product
Management for Microsoft Azure, where he led product planning, product
management and technical PM. At Microsoft, he also served as General
Manager of Product Management and Marketing for the Technical
Computing group. This group built solutions for a broad range of
scientific and engineering challenges, including HPC Server systems,
parallel languages and runtimes, and mathematical modeling tools.

Hilf also previously led Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar Windows Server
business, including the launch of Windows Server 2008, and his first role
at Microsoft was leading the Platform Strategy Group, helping bridge the
Microsoft and Open Source communities by developing and driving
Microsoft’s strategy for Open Source interoperability.

Before joining Microsoft, Hilf worked at IBM as a senior architect and
expert in Linux and Open Source. In the roaring 90s, he built his tech
chops as a software developer and engineering leader through a variety
of software start-ups in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hilf currently
holds 15 patents in the distributed computing and application server
domains.

In 2008, he founded the non-profit organization High Five Hope, which
focuses on helping street-children in the Philippines experience greater
self-esteem, confidence, leadership, teamwork and most importantly,
happiness and hope through the power of sports.

Keynote: From Weeks to Minutes - Simon Johansson, Platform Engineer, & Daniel Otte, Head of Platform Engineering, Springer Nature

Going from weeks to minutes for app deployments, 0 to 4000 requests per second and 0 to 1200 apps in approximately a year.

In 2014, Springer Nature development teams were globally distributed with no standardization across groups. From commit to production often took more than two weeks, and tasks like provisioning new VMs, configuring networks and firewalls, load balancing, and writing Chef were chores considered too tedious with which to deal. Tribal knowledge resulted in flaky systems that culminated in dev teams who were overly reliant on different ops teams.

When Platform Engineering began to hear faint whispers of “miiiiicro services,” the company knew it needed to do something drastic. This post will drill down into how Cloud Foundry changed the culture, allowing devs to own their apps in production and worry less about operational hassles, and how Platform Engineering simplified operations and reduced costs across the board.

Simon Johansson
Platform Engineer, Springer Nature
Dev turned ops, working with Springer Nature which is a global publisher. Have done a keynote at CF Summit Berlin.

Daniel Otte
Head of Platform Engineering, Springer Nature
Now I am become Ops, the destroyer of silos and the bringer of transparency. Currently the head of platform engineering for Springer Nature. It's a team I founded to increase development speed and make sure software can be deployed rapidly and reliable, with the focus on fast feedback. The team fills the gap between ops and dev and by building a PaaS based on Cloud Foundry we have really changed the way we work.

Launching the Next Generation Satellite Ground System on Cloud Foundry and Microservices – One Year Later - Michael Weirzbinski, DigitalGlobe; Mike Waters, DigitalGlobe; & Steve Wall, ECS Team

Last year at Cloud Foundry Summit, DigitalGlobe presented its rationale, plans, and early experience in the use of Cloud Foundry as the basis of its next generation Ground System. It’s now a year later, and we are in the midst of realizing that vision – culminating in a launch of DigitalGlobe’s latest satellite, WorldView-4, later this year.

This presentation describes the discoveries that we’ve made in scaling up a major development effort running on top of Cloud Foundry. It includes discussion of our current environment as well as how we have overcome both technical and cultural challenges along the way. Finally, we’ll include a discussion of the how our view of Cloud Foundry, microservices, and related infrastructure have evolved over the last year.

Steve Wall
ECSTeam
Director of Solutions Architecture
Denver
Steve Wall works is a Director of Solutions Architecture for ECS Team. Digital Globe is building out a new Enterprise platform with Cloud Foundry as a key component. Steve's role has been to assist the Enterprise Architecture with product selection, initial microservice exploration, followed by the build out of the automated pipeline and now helping to on board the Digital Globe community as a whole to the platform. Recent speaking engagements include Cloud Foundry presentations at the Denver Java User Group, Denver Open Source User Group and Colorado Springs Open Source User Group. Steve also spoke at last years Cloud Foundry Summit.

Mike Waters
DigitalGlobe
Enterprise Architect
Longmont, CO
Mike Waters works for DigitalGlobe as an Enterprise Architect/Software Architect. He is the lead Software Architect on DigitalGlobe's next generation Ground System. Mike has led DigitalGlobe's efforts to adopt microservices architecture and is the lead designer in planning the evolution of DigitalGlobe to adopt this new paradigm. Prior to working at DigitalGlobe he worked in the 9-1-1 Industry developing software and architectures for 9-1-1 call handling and data processing. Mike has also worked at U.S. West and GeoIT/KEMA Consulting as a geospatial software developer. Mike has presented at multiple conferences, and meetups, including recent speaking at the Denver Cloud Foundry Meetup.

Michael Weirzbinski
Mike Wierzbinski is DigitalGlobe's Enterprise Cloud Architect, focusing on Enterprise adoption and migration to Cloud technologies. Throughout his career, Mike has focused on geospatial technologies and architectures that promote the use of geospatial information as an enterprise resource. Mike is currently embedded in the Architecture team designing DigitalGlobe's next-generation Ground System. Mike has presented at multiple conferences, and meetups, including recent speaking at the Denver Cloud Foundry Meetup. Mike presented DigitalGlobe's Cloud Foundry strategy at last years Cloud Foundry Summit.

Learn from industrial Cloud Foundry based solutions built with GE Predix for Healthcare, Power Generation, Transportation and Municipals.

Marc - Thomas Schmidt
Chief Platform Architect, GE Software Marc-Thomas Schmidt is the Chief Platform Architect at GE Software, responsible for the architecture vision and strategy for the Predix Platform.

Before joining GE in 2015, Marc-Thomas worked 25+ years at
IBM where he led the architecture and development of Software Platforms in support of business process management, service-
oriented architecture and cognitive computing.

Marc-Thomas holds an M.S. from the University of Bonn.

While Cloud Foundry is best suited for web applications and 12-factor apps, it also supports TCP traffic, making itself ready for e.g. IoT scenarios. But why not go further?

At Grape Up we experimented a bit with the CF platform and enabled it for UDP-based applications – first and foremost VoIP usecases. This lightning talk will show highlights of what we achieved and what new possibilities open for the Cloud Foundry platform.

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

While deployment pipelines speed up the process of delivering software releases, test automation often fails to uncover non-functional regressions which can result in poor performing builds.

In this talk we will showcase the importance of shifting performance left in the software delivery lifecycle and examine key performance and scalability metrics to include across all phases of the deployment pipeline.

Mike Villiger
Product Evangelist, Dynatrace
APM, monitoring, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Buildpack extensions

Regardless of which cloud your applications run in, it needs to communicate to other applications within the same cloud or across public and private clouds. Web APIs have always been the lingua-franca of communication between applications. However, nuances of how APIs are published and managed can mean the difference between a highly agile software development organization, and just a pile of services that cannot communicate to each other. Ed Anuff from Apigee will discuss how to use use API Management to develop APIs that span public and private clouds.

Ed Anuff
Apigee

Distributed and massively scalable systems are difficult to design, implement, and operate. Further, microservice architectures are supposed to enable your business to be disruptive and innovative. Cloud Foundry provides that solution for modern, cloud native architectures and accelerates the ability to transform operational and development practices. The aggregated logging subsystem of Cloud Foundry, the Loggregator, is a key component of this transformation. And within the Loggregator, the firehose is where log and metric data is consumed. This talk will walk through how to consume the firehose and dive into the anatomy of the various firehose message types. Several use cases and lessons learned monitoring the platform versus an application will be covered to further demonstrate how Cloud Foundry can facilitate innovation.

Tom Collings
ECSTeam
Tom Collings has more than twenty years of software implementation experience, ranging from the simplest of utilities to enterprise-wide systems serving millions of customers. His current focus is delivering cloud-native solutions to his clients, and he is a Certified Practitioner of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. He has degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and in Computer Science from the University of Colorado. In his spare time he is active outdoors and plays the banjo.

Dustin Ruehle
ECS Team
Dustin Ruehle has over 19 years of software development, integration and architecture expertise. For over eight years at ECS Team, he has architected, implemented and supported large-scale web application and service oriented environments for enterprise-wide systems. He also serves as a technical subject matter expert on modern architectures and is a Certified Practitioner of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. He has spoken at Cloud Foundry meetups in Atlanta and Dallas.

Even Neil Degrasse Tyson would be impressed with how quickly and effectively the Cloud Foundry community has evolved into a fully organic ecosystem of ecosystems. This is because forward thinking organizations are putting a stake in the ground that Cloud Foundry will be the foundation for all future software development and deployment. In this multi-cloud platform-centric world, where do the ISVs fit?

As a relatively new member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Iron.io has first hand experience how to communicate, collaborate, and contribute with the members of the community to extend the platform where applicable and satisfy customer needs when requested. They key is knowing what you bring to the table, and doing it the cloud native way.

In this session, Ivan Dwyer from Iron.io will share a few anecdotes from their experiences working with Cloud Foundry community partners across integration engineering, co-marketing, and joint sales efforts – what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what’s coming next.

Ivan Dwyer
Head of Business Development, Iron.io
Ivan Dwyer is the head of business development at Iron.io, collaborating with partners across the entire cloud technology and developer services ecosystem to form strategic and technical alliances that benefit the modern Enterprise.

Come join The New Stack for a short stack at the Cloud Foundry Summit pancake breakfast and podcast. Have some pancakes and join a lively discussion about the new world of application development and management in a multi-cloud world. Here's out line up: Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry; Brian Swanson, Dataskill; and Chris Ferris, IBM.

Alex & Craig have been busy building what they are calling “On-Demand Services”, leveraging new features arriving in BOSH 2.0. For the first time, app developers will have the ability to deploy dedicated resources by simply running `cf create-service`. For example, app developers could create a dedicated RabbitMQ cluster or a customised Redis instance for their application.

You will be taken behind the scenes, showing how an app developer’s CF CLI request will trigger a service broker to create a new BOSH deployment which results in freshly created virtual machines.

Finally, they will discuss and demonstrate what challenges on-demand services bring to operating the Cloud Foundry platform and exciting new user experiences that we could start to offer.

Craig Furman
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Craig Furman is a software engineer at Pivotal in London. He currently builds data services for Cloud Foundry and has contributed to Cloud Foundry services brokers for Redis, Cassandra and Neo4J. He primarily writes code in Go, Java, Ruby and the occasional shell script.

Alex Ley
Product Manager, Pivotal
Alex Ley works on the Cloud Foundry platform at Pivotal as a Product Manager. He is primarily focused on bringing data services to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform such as Redis, RabbitMQ and Cassandra. Alex has a passion for Cloud Foundry and the way we build software. Previously Alex has given talks at "muCon - The Microservices Conference 2015", "Continuous Lifecycle Conference 2016" , "London PaaS Meetup 2015", "Pivotal Open Lunch & Learn 2016".

Persistent Storage is coming to Diego! IBM, Pivotal, and EMC have partnered to extend the Cloud Foundry runtime to include persistence storage. We discuss the approach we are taking, how distributed filesystems and block storage services fit well with our service broker abstraction. and how we plan to offer these services in the marketplace. An overview of the types of storage, their differences, and the effect they have on scheduling and the application lifecycle will be discussed. Example use cases for each type of storage will be covered. We will also discuss the pros and cons of running databases and other services directly on Cloud Foundry.

Nagapramod Mandagere
Research Group Leader, IBM
Nagapramod Mandagere received his PhD from University of Minnesota in Enterprise data management. He has been a researcher at IBM Almaden Research center since 2008 working on various systems technologies. He has coauthored several conference papers and has several patents in domain of systems management

Paul Warren
Software Engineer, EMC

Ted Young
Pivotal
Ted has built distributed computer systems in a variety of environments: computer animation pipelines for VFX, live event coordination, and elastic compute platforms. In 2015 he received a Pivotal Research Grant to explore approaches to running persistent workloads in a multi-tenant environment. He is a core contributor to Diego, and heads up the Diego Persistence Team (Persi).

Successfully introducing Cloud Foundry into a regulated financial enterprise is no mean feat, and managing four production Cloud Foundry instances in different data centres adds further complexity to be tamed. Daniel Jones relays his experiences operating Cloud Foundry at a global wealth management enterprise, covering both the technical and organisational challenges. How were enterprise developers upskilled in the ways of the cloud native app? What were the tensions between agility and regulatory requirements? What tooling helped administer multiple production CF instances? Can you declaratively configure the running state of a Cloud Foundry?

Daniel Jones
EngineerBetter Ltd
CTO
London, UK
Daniel Jones is CTO of UK Cloud Foundry consultancy EngineerBetter. He has recently been operating and supporting multiple production CF instances at a global wealth management enterprise, and helping an IoT tech startup build their platform atop CF. Daniel was a member of the Pivotal CF London Services team, and also worked with Europe's leading CF consultancy CloudCredo. Daniel has spoken at CF Summit Berlin 2015 and the London PaaS User Group, as well as numerous video games industry conferences.

Recent Enhancements to Routing in Cloud Foundry - Shannon Coen, Pivotal, Carlos Eberhardt, Apigee, and Atul Kshirsagar, GE

Running .Net Apps on Cloud Foundry: Windows vs. Core - Zach Brown, Pivotal & Rita Zhang, Microsoft

You’re an operator responsible for running tens or hundreds of .Net apps in production. Or maybe you're a developer who loves .Net. You’ve heard that Diego introduced support for running .Net apps on a Windows stack, but you also know that there’s a buildpack that supports .Net Core apps running on Linux. What is the best way to run your .Net apps on Cloud Foundry? In this talk we’ll share our experience pushing and running a .Net application to a Diego cell running Windows 2012 r2, as well as pushing and running the same application on Linux using the community ASP.Net 5 buildpack.

Running Cloud Foundry in a Compliance and Security Focused Environment - Diego Lapiduz and Bret A. Mogilefsky, 18F

Running Cloud Foundry in a compliance and security focused environment (Diego Lapiduz and Bret Mogilefsky, cloud.gov - 18F). cloud.gov has adopted Cloud Foundry to host applications for government users in the cloud, tackling one of the core impediments to government service delivery today. In the process of doing that we had to turn up the security of the platform, write composable compliance documentation, and build tools to automatically scan the system and tenant applications. These processes and tools have been built in the open so other members of the community can contribute to them and reuse them in other contexts.

This talk will show how Cloud Foundry and Bosh made it easy to centralize security and enable redeployment of the whole platform. We will also talk about how we built reusable and composable compliance documentation that can be shared publicly.

Diego Lapiduz
18F
Diego is a software architect turned DevOps practicioner. He is currently leading efforts to deploy software applications more efficiently at 18F. Earlier in his career, he worked on projects ranging from e-commerce to social networks. Diego is often a frequent guest speaker at conferences, where he talks about software architecture, DevOps and other ramblings.

Bret Mogilefsky
GSA/18F
Innovation Specialist
San Francisco, CA
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, an indifferent cat, and an ambivalent iguana.

SHIELD is a modularized backup and restore solution which utilizes a plugin based architecture to backup and restore BOSH deployments.

In this talk, we will mainly focus on how to use SHIELD to assist with our Backup and Restore plan for Cloud Foundry applications and Services which are deployed by BOSH. More specifically, we will show you how to use SHIELD to backup and restore core Cloud Foundry internal services as well as non-core CF services such as Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ, etc.. and how applications can be backed up and restored by adding plugins without having to modify SHIELD core.

We will also show you the framework of SHIELD which itself is distributed as a BOSH release. It consists of a core daemon, backup target plugins, storage plugins, a CLI and a web UI. The core daemon manages meta data, scheduling, tasks and jobs, it also monitors and verifies the status of backup jobs and archives. Backup target plugins specify what is to be backed up and how it is done. Store plugins specify where (local filesystem, or blobstores such as S3, Swift, Atmos, etc.) backups can be stored and how to put them there and retrieve them back. The CLI is used for controlling all aspects of the system, such as backing up, restoring, setting retention policies, scheduling, job & task management, etc.

Xiujiao Gao
Xiujiao Gao is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). Her research projects at UB including Virtual Network (VN) Mapping, Virtual Network Function Placement, Multicast Services VN Mapping and Mapping Reliability in Cloud Computing. She is currently working at Stark & Wayne as a Cloud Engineer helping to deliver tremendous value to customers (such as GE). She has been working on the RDPG & SHIELD projects, bosh deployments for various products and pipelines for automated deployment of various services at Stark & Wayne. Xiujiao has previously presented at both world wide academic and industry conferences.

Wayne E. Seguin
Wayne E. Seguin has over 19 years of professional software engineering, architecture, and business experience spanning several industries. He has founded companies, shipped code that thousands of developers have used on a daily basis, and spearheaded large operations efforts for mission critical platforms. Wayne is well known for building tools that make lives easier for other engineers. Lately, Wayne has focused on doing this in the PaaS space, bringing his characteristic “I can help” attitude along with him.

As a distributed container management system, it is important that Diego not only runs containers, but it does so in a quick and timely manner. In small deployments with manageable work loads, it is easy for us to guarantee that Diego adheres to these performance requirements. However, as both the scale of the deployment and the amount of containers increases, it has become increasingly challenging for us to validate that Diego maintains its performance characteristics.

This talk will dive into the steps that we took to design, perform, evaluate, and improve performance testing that has given us confidence in Diego as a backend to Cloud Foundry. Topics will include: how the Diego team designed performance experiments and testing suites given product requirements, how we evaluate a performant Diego environment, results that led to various performance changes in the system, and lastly how the Diego team is continuing to build out infrastructure to validate Diego’s performance at a larger scale on a more regular basis.

James Myers
Software Engineer, Pivotal
James Myers is a software engineer for Pivotal Software and a core contributor to the Cloud Foundry project. James is currently a member of the Diego team and has worked on Cloud Foundry for two years. He has presented previously at the 2015 North American CF Summit on the CF API.

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

How do big shops like Netflix make it possible to deploy hundreds if not thousands of releases every single day? FInd out with a tour through the Spring-Boot based system known as Spinnaker. Spinnaker is the open source continuous deployment tool that supports multiple clouds, multiple languages, and multiple providers. Learn about its pipeline-based, notification-empowered way to execute simple and complex deployment processes with ease while keeping you in control.

Greg Turnquist
Pivotal
Greg is a test-bitten script junky, Spring Pro and JavaScript Padawan. He is a member of the Spring team at Pivotal. He works on Spring Data REST, Spring Boot and other Spring projects, while also working as an editor-at-large of Spring's Getting Started guides. He launched the Nashville JUG in 2010. He "Learning Spring Boot" and has been a Spring fan for years.

BOSH has proven to be a go-to tool for managing Cloud Foundry and other complex service installations. But when infrastructure grows and number of deployments increases significantly new challenges arise: how easy is it to configure each deployment and connect them together, or how can deployment operators quickly understand requirements specified by software they are deploying. BOSH has made lots of progress in the past year to solve challenges of large multi-deployment installations.

In this talk core BOSH contributors will introduce recently released BOSH features and improvements with the aim of lowering the barrier to entry to deploying software with BOSH. Service broker authors, distributed software developers, release and operations engineers will be provided with new tools to compose and share cluster topologies.

Maria and Rupa will also talk about the development process: driving features with a comprehensive test suite (including fuzz and load tests), overcoming friction in a well-established open-source codebase, extending functionality while maintaining backwards compatibility and enabling recovery from misconfigurations while migrating to new functionality.

Shatarupa Nandi
Software Engineer, Pivotal, Inc.
Rupa is a consultant at Pivotal Labs. Rupa has developed various data services running on CF (such as Pivotal Hadoop for PCF, Pivotal Gemfire for PCF and others) and is currently a developer on the BOSH team. Rupa enjoys using CF to build distributed data services and exploring problems involving persistence, networking and service discovery in the cloud.

Maria Shaldibina
Software Engineer, Pivotal
Maria is a software engineer at Pivotal, currently anchoring the BOSH team at Pivotal. She started working on Cloud Foundry four years ago at VMware, since then she worked on different parts of Cloud Foundry, such as staging and running applications, and for the past two years she has been working on BOSH - infrastructure agnostic tool that is used by Cloud Foundry for release engineering and deployment automation.

Swift Workshop - Anton McConville, IBM

Many of us are gracefully transitioning to Swift on the client, but now we can develop with Swift in the cloud too! Native iOS developers can become full stack engineers - in much the same way Front End JavaScript developers could with Node.js.

In this session we introduce Swift programming with Cloud Foundry. We load some open data, and surface it in a browser, exploring the syntax, opportunities and quirks of the Swift language. Leave the workshop with an understanding of how to do it yourself, and think about the possibilities of using Swift full stack within your projects.

Did you ever wonder what that mythical ‘bits-service’ incubation project is? Has the CloudFoundry community finally lost their minds and started on a competition with OpenStack Swift or Amazon S3? Hell NO! This talk will introduce the current state and give an outlook to the future of the “bits-service” [1] project. In short, the bits-service is an extraction of an existing functionality in the cloud controller today - externalising everything related to bits (application bits, droplets, packages, buildpacks, …) into a proper micro service. It can be scaled independently, is encapsulated by a well-defined API, so its a generic BLOBSTORE API, right? Mmm…. maybe come and join the team (the first community project equally staffed with engineers of IBM and Pivotal) in the talk and let us handle your bits!

[1] www.github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/bits-service

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

Marc Schunk
Software Engineer, IBM

Stev Witzel
Engineering Manager, Pivotal
Stev works as a software engineer at Pivotal’s London office. He is part of the team behind the Cloud Foundry Bits-Service project. Previously, he has been working on Cloud Foundry data services and Bosh. In his free time he enjoys building things in Golang and learning about distributed systems.

The Future is Easy, Naming Things is Hard - Derek Collison, Apcera

Cloud Foundry alumnus Derek Collison takes the community back in time to reflect on the humble beginnings of project B29 and the thriving ecosystem Cloud Foundry created. Derek fast-forwards to modern day where technologies are trending to three main categories: infrastructure provisioning, artifact to workload and workload orchestration. Together, these technologies will create a cloud native, hardware-agnostic compute fabric to future-proof and scale enterprise applications.

Derek Collison Edit Profile
Apcera Inc.
Founder and CEO
Derek Collison is founder and CEO of Apcera. An industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing, Derek has held executive positions at VMware, Google and TIBCO Software.

As CTO and chief architect of cloud application platforms at VMware, he co-founded the cloud computing group and designed and architected Cloud Foundry, the industry’s first open PaaS. During his time at Google, he co-founded the AJAX APIs group. Prior to Google, he spent more than a decade at TIBCO, where he designed and implemented a wide range of messaging products, including Rendezvous and EMS. As TIBCO’s senior vice president and chief architect, Derek led technical and strategic product direction and delivery.

Derek is a sought after speaker and collaborator. He holds more than 20 software patents and is a recognized leader in distributed systems design and architecture, as well as emerging cloud platforms. He earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Unikernel – an executable image that can run natively on a hypervisor without the need for a separate operating system – are rapidly gaining momentum. To integrate unikernels into the echo-system, cloud-computing platforms as a service are required to provide unikernels with the same services they provide for containers. Here we present Unik, an orchestration system for unikernels. Unik handles the compilation of libraries and applications for running on AWS, manages their scheduling, and ensures their health. To provide the user with a seamless PaaS experience, Unik is integrated as a backend to Cloud Foundry runtime. In the session we will cover: an overview of Unikernel, UniK and the integration with Cloud Foundry followed by a demo.

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

Using CF Route Services to Publish, Secure and Monitor APIs - Carlos Eberhart and Ed Anuff, Apigee, Lothar Schubert and Kevin Yang, GE, & Richard Seroter, Pivotal

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

Ed Anuff, Apigee

Carlos fell in love with the internet in the early 90s and spent the next 20 years following it around like a puppy. You may remember him from such roles as Robot Code Wrangler for a manufacturing services company, Front-End Web Developer for a pre-bubble dot-com, Mobile App Gunslinger for an engineering consulting firm, or Enterprise Architect for a Fortune 50 retailer. His love finally requited, he now spends his days helping companies large and small learn how to use Apigee's products to build APIs and digital ecosystems.

Lothar Schubert
Developer Relations, GE Digital
Industrial Internet, IoT, Predix, Developer Evangelism

Kevin Yang, GE

Richard Seroter is a Senior Director of Product for Pivotal, a 9-time Microsoft MVP for cloud/integration, an instructor for developer-centric training company Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. As a Senior Director of Product at Pivotal, Richard works with customers and partners to realize the full value of the Pivotal platform and transform the way they build software. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

Using the Theory of Constraints to Prioritize Applications for Migration to Cloud Foundry - Mark Carlson, ECS Team

Cloud Foundry has enjoyed a tremendous adoption rate by Fortune 500 enterprises and large government agencies at both the state and federal level. Large organizations are turning to Cloud Foundry's agile infrastructure to help remove the friction of deploying and operation applications in both public and private clouds.

Most of these large firms start their cloud-native journey with small or moderately sized pilot applications. Once these have enabled the "pioneers" within the organization to share their success, the attention turns to the large, sometimes massive, portfolios of existing applications.
The challenge common to all of these large organization is to devise a strategy for selecting applications to migrate to the newly implemented cloud-native platform.

In this talk, you will learn about an approach to analyzing an existing application portfolio using the theory of constraints in addition to the more common criteria of size, technical fit and business function. By identifying the "innovation bottlenecks" within your organization, it is possible to select the set of applications (and development teams) to migrate to your newly implemented cloud-native application platform for maximum business impact.

The talk will share some of the lessons learned from application migration projects within large enterprises like yours that can be used to avoid dangers encountered by others. It will also include some tips and practices shared by successful travelers ahead of you on the road to cloud-native.

Attendees will learn about three phases of cloud-native application migration, how the constraint theory can supplement other more common selection criteria and how to jump start your organizations application migration.

Mark Carlson
CTO
ECS Team
Denver, CO
Mark Carlson is the CTO for ECS Team, a regional systems integrator providing cloud platform implementation and cloud-native development services in North America. Mr. Carlson is fascinated by the behavior or large enterprises as they attempt to radically improve their ability to deliver innovative solutions in a cadence that matches the needs of the business. Mark began his career with a "Big 4" consulting firm then pursued a series of emerging technology opportunities across industry and consulting firms in a variety of industries. He has been a CIO and lead software development, operations and technology R&D organizations.

Ever wanted to know what it takes to stop a multi-data center roll out (MPLS-backed, pick-any-hardware, Cloud Foundry + Data Lakes) mid way, and begin an “all in” move to public cloud?

The vision of composable enterprise at Warner Music Group lives on, with Cloud Foundry being the backbone of application factory churning out cloud-native applications using a swarm of microservices, paving the way for all-digital revenue sources.
In this session, you will join us in the journey we are taking all the way from managed private cloud running Cloud Foundry and data services, to rethinking the economics of composable enterprise, to running on multiple availability zones at AWS.

At the end of the journey, attendees will find themselves holding a 5-point lists of patterns and antipatterns, a practical 10-point tip sheet, and a sample “one pager” reference deployment architecture of highly available Cloud Foundry and surrounding data lakes on AWS.

Adam Chesterton
Adam Chesterton is a Director of Engineering at Warner Music Group, where he is responsible for all things Cloud Foundry. Prior to WMG, Adam was Development Manager with Reuters. Prior to Reuters, Adam was Enterprise Analyst with GE Consumer Products.

Renat Khasanshyn
Renat Khasanshyn is CEO of Altoros and Venture Partner at Runa Capital. Renat's primary focus is bringing “software assembly lines” and "data lakes" into organizations through training, deployment and integration of solutions offered by the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Renat is an active member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation Advisory Board and a frequent speaker at Cloud Foundry events. In the past, Renat has been selected as a finalist for the Emerging Executive of the Year award by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and once won an IBM Business Mashup Challenge.

Will it Run on *My* OpenStack? – Building an Executable Validation Testsuite for CPIs - Beyhan Veli, SAP SE & Cornelius Schumacher, SUSE Linux

There is not *one OpenStack*, there are plenty. Installations differ by version, by set of enabled projects, and by configuration. Validating that Bosh can be used on a specific installation is a tedious and error-prone manual task. The fact that the teams using Bosh are not the ones responsible for setting up and running OpenStack doesn’t help either.
The Bosh OpenStack CPI team is building an executable validation test suite that gives non Bosh-experts a tool to find out if an OpenStack installation is ready to run Bosh, or which changes need to be done.

The testsuite is based on the generic lifecycle contract between Bosh and the external CPI. It can also become useful for all authors of additional CPIs. They can plugin their CPI implementation and configuration to test against a different IaaS than OpenStack instead of writing their own lifecycle testsuite.

In this talk, we show how the testsuite can be used to validate an OpenStack installation and how authors of other CPIs could use the testsuite to avoid building their own generic lifecycle tests. Furthermore, we show how IaaS specific tests can be added to account for differences between the IaaS and CPI implementations.

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

Beyhan Veli
Software Engineer, SAP SE
Beyhan works as software engineer at SAP SE. His current involvement is on the BOSH OpenStack Cloud Provider Interface project. He successfully used Eclipse technologies in many customer projects and has contributed to many Eclipse projects.

Dr. Nic tells a ten year story from learning to create web applications but not yet knowing how to run them in production, thru to his discovery of Cloud Foundry, and its use in production by clients for over 10,000 applications in 2015.

It includes a demonstration of deploying a new application to Cloud Foundry, seeing the logs and running database migrations - all which form the backdrop for Dr Nic's wide ranging perspectives and humour.

Dr. Nic Williams
Dr Nic has been working with BOSH and Cloud Foundry for 4 years; is the CEO of Stark & Wayne, the largest consultancy focused on Cloud Foundry operations and enablement. Previous he was VP Technology at Engine Yard.

Matt Curry will present how Allstate has created a brand around the Allstate transformation initiative. He will talk about branding the platform and the newly refined focus Allstate is putting on the developer experience. His talk underscores the cultural importance of enabling cloud consumers to identify with a branded experience when grappling with the idea dramatic cultural and technological change in a large enterprise.

Matt Curry
Matt is a director of Infrastructure Products at Allstate. He maintains a regular presence on multiple podcasts and is an avid Twitter freak.

Visit Organizations across all industries are looking to containers to enable the shift to cloud native application architectures. We briefly describe here how Cloud Foundry works with containers. For a deeper look at container usage and trends, download the 2016 Container Report with responses from 700+ cloud professionals: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/learn/20....

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Cornelia Davis, CTO, Transformation Practice at Pivotal hosts the Diversity Luncheon & Program at Cloud Foundry Summit.

Fireside Chat between Paul Maritz, Executive Chairman of the Board of Pivotal and Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Pivotal Executive Chairman Paul Maritz formed Pivotal in 2013, having previously served as Chief Strategist of EMC and CEO of VMware. During his tenure at VMware, he led transformation of the company from a technology leader in virtualization to a category leader in cloud computing. Maritz remains a member of VMware’s board of directors.

Jason De Lorme, John Sirmon of Microsoft and Haydon Ryan of Pivotal talk about how Microsoft and Pivotal worked together in rapid iteration on the bleeding edge to deliver Pivotal Cloud Foundry for Ford. Engineers directly involved in the project share insights and learnings about subtle IaaS differences that led to improvements in the CPI, storage, network optimizations and shared understandings of where BOSH and the IaaS play.

Ramez Naam is a computer scientist, author, and angel investor discusses how science is making surprisingly fast progress at interfacing electronics with the human brain, allowing men and women to send sights, sounds, touch in and out of their minds, to computers, and perhaps to each other. Award-winning author of Nexus novels, Naam gives a whirlwind tour of the frontier of the ultimate Human Computer Interface, and how it will change all of us.



Ramez speaks around the world on innovation, exponential technology, and solutions in climate and energy, and invests in innovative energy startups. His work has appeared in or been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, Slate, Business Week, Discover, Wired, and Scientific American. He's appeared on MSNBC, on Yahoo Finance, and has spoken to audiences on four continents, from Istanbul to Shenzhen; from Buenos Aires to Washington DC.

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Angel Diaz, VP of Cloud Architecture & Technology, IBM & Semyon Gambrian, Director of Cloud Services Group, Kaiser Permanente present their Keynote: "Cloud Foundry: The Open Community's Model Citize."

Angel and Semyon present on Cloud Foundry in the context of its initial and more recent achievements, including a story of one team's use of Cloud Foundry in its evolving, industry-specific cloud integration strategy.


Angel and his team are responsible for the technology, architecture and strategy behind
IBM’s Hybrid, open and secure cloud – empowering our clients with a new way to work. When he’s not working to bring greater value to clients through a flexible & interoperable cloud, he’s IBM’s leader for open technology where he is spearheading an industry IT renaissance driven by open source code, community and culture. A master of the art-of- the-possible, Dr. Diaz has been the driving force behind many of the most important Cloud, Data and Mobile open technology industry movements – all focused on enabling innovation that is built on simple, practical solutions.

Justin Smith of Pivotal discusses enterprise software security, outlines best practices and how Cloud Foundry can be part of your strategy to increase velocity and security.

Vulnerability is a function that changes with time. The probability of being exploited increases with the accumulation of long lived credentials and unpatched code. The question that must be asked is: how can a security strategy which resists change keep up with the pace of the modern threat landscape? This asymmetry in speed and adaptiveness only creates advantages for the attacker. What if the only what to increase security is to move as fast as possible? Continuously rotating credentials, patching systems, and rebuilding clusters to minimize windows of vulnerability decreases the threat profile in time and severity.

Justin has been a key influencer and product owner at both Microsoft and Google. At Microsoft he was the program manager for the first incarnation of Azure Active Directory, which has since become the largest enterprise directory in the world. At Google he was the product manager for one of the largest OAuth2 services in the world. Today he focuses all this time and energy on Cloud Foundry security.

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Phil Glebow, Director, Pricing Architecture, Gap, Inc. discusses cloud optimization and Cloud Foundry at Gap.

Philip is a software architect at Gap Inc. and is the product architect for pricing in the planning domain. Prior to joining Gap Inc., Mr. Glebow worked as a software architect in financial services for Blackrock, Inc. and Barclays. He began his career as a consultant where he worked on complex custom software solutions in the Information, Communications and Entertainment practice at BearingPoint (previously KPMG Consulting, Inc.). Mr. Glebow holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Masters of Science in Bioinformatics from the Johns Hopkins University. He may be reached via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/philipglebow or via email at pglebow@gmail.com.

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Brian Gallagher, President of the Cloud Management Division at EMC presents his Keynote: "Enterprise DevOps: Balancing Innovation Velocity with Business Requirements."

The emerging model of DevOps in IT is accelerating digital business transformation around the globe. This model is very different than the traditional application development model that has been the cornerstone of IT for decades. This session focuses on aspects of DevOps that enable the balance of innovation velocity with business GRC requirements. This will include a deeper look and comparison of the new application lifecycle, the business lifecycle, developer frameworks, Platform as a Service (specifically Cloud Foundry) and Infrastructure as a Service alternatives.

Greg Otto, Executive Director of Cloud Services at Comcast, talks about how Comcast is working to transform their product delivery experience.

A 20+ year veteran with roots as a programmer, Greg is passionate about improving the lives of Comcast development teams. He 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 his team have delivered a robust Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment across multi-cloud environments, enabling critical application refactoring efforts and fast adoption across the enterprise.

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

Renat Khasanshyn, CEO of Altoros, talks about Digital Transformation enabling companies of all sizes and industries to provide new, more effective applications and services. With digital platforms such as Cloud Foundry, enterprise IT is able to be agile, flexible, and therefore responsive to the need for continuous development and integration.

A few examples he walks through:

* Shoe companies use data from professional athletes and the general population to determine the most optimal designs for their shoes and other athletic wear.

* In the Industrial GE is able to gather massive analytics from the jet engines and locomotives it manufactures, leading to improvements that save millions of dollars per year for the company and its customers.

* A new era of financial services is emerging with the combination of development and deployment technology, along with blockchain technology that adds new levels of transaction security.

* Government agencies can provide citizen-facing services for routine tasks such as license renewal as well reform and transform major acquisition processes.

This lightning talk covers these and other great Digital Transformations occurring throughout the world today.

Jeff West and Michael Russo of Apigee discuss how Apache Usergrid makes it possible for deliver data to mobile apps at over 50,000 requests per second while providing a flexible data model and graph database API. Now, running Usergrid on Cloud Foundry is easier than ever, with a slick Service Broker integration. Learn how the Usergrid team architected the solution using Cassandra and ElasticSearch to enable this powerful open-source platform. They discuss all aspects of the architecture as well as important design decisions made during the development process. As part of the session, they also present a case study of T-Mobile using Cloud Foundry with Apigee and Apache Usergrid.

Sergey Sverchkov of Altoros considers uses cases typical for some advanced applications of Cloud architectures incorporating Cloud Foundry PaaS. High-Availability, Fault-Tolerance, scaling down to smaller form-factors while operating in mission-critical environments - all these requirements put constraints on architecture, configuration, and testing. Cloud Foundry's operation depends on the number of external and internal dependencies. Points of failure may exist on different levels stretching from hardware/IaaS foundation to microservices.