KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Open source rules the world, and for a good reason: The code is generally better and more secure, bugs are fixed faster, and more. Virtually all modern applications run on it. But the landscape has changed since the early Linux days. Nights and weekends, volunteer-led projects are increasingly rare. Especially in the CNCF landscape, open source is maintained almost exclusively by companies that pursue a strategic goal, and they need a business justification for paying their engineers. So, who writes the code has changed, but the community's expectations — that it should be free — hasn't. While open source will remain free, the companies behind it must find ways to monetize it — whether through support, enterprise editions, or licensing models. Recent changes, including projects like Terraform, Flux, and Linkerd, highlight the need for a paradigm shift. Join this panel to hear from project maintainers why that is and the future they envision.

Speakers

William Morgan

Linkerd Director, Buoyant CEO, Buoyant

William is a director on the Linkerd project and the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, a software engineer at Powerset, Microsoft, and Adap.tv, a research scientist at MITRE. He holds an MS in computer... Read More →

Ashley Davis

Staff Software Engineer, Venafi

As a teenager, Ash taught himself to program after wondering how exactly video games were made. That led to adventures trawling through open source codebases, sparking an interest in computers spanning from bare-metal machine code right up to scalable distributed platforms like Kubernetes... Read More →

Deepthi Sigireddi

Software Engineer, PlanetScale

Deepthi is the Technical lead for Vitess, a CNCF graduated open source project. She also leads the Vitess engineering team at PlanetScale which offers a database service built on Vitess. She brings over 20 years of experience building scalable systems to this role. She enjoys speaking... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

11:55am MST

Accessibility at KubeCon: Deaf Voices in Cloud Native - Rob Koch, Slalom Build; Jay Jackson, CallRevu; Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women; Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group; Travis Johnson, Convo Communications

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Never met a deaf person at a conference? That is not surprising. While there are lots of deaf engineers, until recently, most conferences — and virtually any other community activity — haven't been accessible to deaf community members. But for KubeCon, that all changed exactly a year ago! During this discussion, deaf panelists from various countries will shed light on their unique experiences being deaf in tech and the impact that making KubeCon accessible has had on their lives and hopes for the future. Attendees will learn why the technology space is a great fit for deaf individuals, the benefits and opportunities deaf professionals bring to the table, and what it takes to be an accessible and welcoming community. Panelists will also debunk common misconceptions and empower *you* to take steps toward a more inclusive cloud native ecosystem.

Speakers

Anastasiia Gubska

SRE/DevOps Engineer, BT Group

Anastasiia Gubska, a Deaf SRE/DevOps Engineer at BT Group, develops and implements best practices for software delivery at the UK-based multinational telecommunications company. Passionate about discovering new communities and embracing diverse cultures, Anastasiia is an active member... Read More →

Travis Johnson

Level 3 Engineer, Convo Communications

A Linux aficionado, Travis Johnson is a deaf Level 3 Engineer with 10+ years of experience in the VoIP industry, where he has gained deep knowledge of networking and scripting. A firm believer in lifetime learning, Travis continuously acquires new skills and certifications. Off work... Read More →

Rob Koch

Principal, Slalom Build

A tech enthusiast who thrives on steering projects from their initial spark to successful fruition, Rob Koch is Principal at Slalom Build, AWS Hero, and Co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group. His expertise in architecting event-driven systems is firmly rooted... Read More →

Destiny O'Connor

Co-Chair CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing WG, Web Developer, Women Blessing Women

As Co-Chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group, where I channel my passion for creating a more inclusive tech world for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. My mission is to educate the tech community about the unique challenges and experiences of being deaf in this... Read More →

Jay Jackson

Senior Software Engineer, CallRevu

Jay Jackson, a Senior Software Engineer at CallRevu, brings over 2 decades of experience in the tech industry. Jay has navigated this tech journey as a deaf individual, with American Sign Language (ASL) as his primary mode of communication and is passionate about exploring ways to... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

11:55am MST

Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

This session is a panel discussion moderated by Chris Aniszczyk with members of the Technical Oversight Committee. Feel free to come with questions, but we'll be doing an overview of the Technical Oversight Committee's governance structure, scope, mission and processes.

To learn more about the TOC, visit https://github.com/cncf/toc

Speakers

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, CNCF

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE

Cloud Native Experience

2:00pm MST

Can You Put a Price Tag on Open Source? - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic & Bob Killen, CNCF

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Earlier this year, the Harvard Business School released the paper titled “The Value of Open Source Software,” estimating the worldwide value of OSS at 8.8 trillion, and on average, it would cost companies at least 3.5x more to develop similar projects internally. Yet, many organizations and engineers struggle to understand or realize this kind of value from contributing to these projects. In this talk, Bob and Mario will discuss the many benefits individuals and companies can achieve by contributing to open source and guide you through the first steps to becoming a contributor. They will also cover how to develop a lightweight open source strategy and convince your organization that an open source first approach can yield great returns.

Speakers

Mario Fahlandt

Service Delivery Architect, Kubermatic

Mario is working as a Customer Delivery Architect @Kubermatic with the focus on planning and building concepts and architecture for Infrastructure in the cloud native world.He started the GDG Munich for Cloud and became a GDE in 2019. In the Kubernetes project he is involved in SIG-ContribEx... Read More →

Bob Killen

Senior Technical Program Manager, CNCF

Bob is a Program Manager at the Google Open Source Programs Office with a focus on Cloud Native computing. He serves the Kubernetes project as a Steering Committee member and chair of the Contributor Experience SIG. Bob comes from an academic background, spending 15 years at the University... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

4:00pm MST

Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project - Calum Murray, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering & Zainab Husain, OCAD University

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Have you ever struggled to explain what a Cloud Native project does? One of the challenges many cloud native projects face is that the abstractions they provide are not intuitive for new users. Since cloud technologies are often built on top of each other and use domain specific language, this problem compounds. Luckily, educational games can be made to help communicate these abstract concepts in a fun and engaging format! In this talk, we will explore how you can build an educational game for your project through the example of a game that the Knative community has built to teach Knative Eventing. We will walk through the steps other open source projects can follow to design their own educational game, including brainstorming strategies for deciding on key concepts and which metaphors/symbols to use to represent these concepts. These information design strategies can also be applied to create more understandable educational cloud native content in general!

Speakers

Zainab Husain

Knative UX Design Lead, OCAD University

Zainab Husain is a UX Design Researcher working at OCAD University. She completed her Masters in Engineering at the University of Toronto, focusing on Human Computer Interactions. Zainab is passionate about tools that improve collaboration between Engineers and Designers and is also... Read More →

Calum Murray

Engineering Science Student, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

I'm a software engineer, and I love building cool things in open source. I like to seek out the most interesting and challenging problems which I think will have a large impact, and build creative solutions to them. I also like to share my passion for open source with others, and... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any