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Monday, October 24th, 2022

09:00AM PDT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

On Beyond Serverless: CALM Lessons and a New Stack for Programming the Cloud

Joe Hellerstein - UC Berkeley

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PDT

Break

10:35AM PDT

Track:
Architecting for Change at Scale

Adopting Continuous Deployment at Lyft

Tom Wanielista - Lyft, Inc.

Ballroom A

Track:
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Successful Leadership in Hybrid Environments: Powerful Principles, Practical Steps, and Poignant Examples

Lena Reinhard - Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting

Ballroom BC

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Backends in Dart

Chris Swan - Atsign

Bayview

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Taming Configuration Complexity Made Fun with CUE

Marcel van Lohuizen - CUE Project

Seacliff ABC

Track:
MLOps

Ray: The Next Generation Compute Runtime for ML Applications

Zhe Zhang - Anyscale

Pacific DEKJ

11:25AM PDT

Break

11:50AM PDT

Track:
Architecting for Change at Scale

Enabling Change @ Scale Roundtable

Tom Wanielista - Lyft, Inc.

Mykyta Protsenko - Netflix

Tapabrata Pal - Fidelity Investments

Javier Fernandez-Ivern - Netflix

Ballroom A

Track:
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World

Jesse McGinnis - Shopify

Ballroom BC

Track:
Building Modern Backends

24/7 State Replication

Todd Montgomery - Adaptive Financial Consulting

Bayview

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Unconference: Language of Infrastructure

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
MLOps

Fabricator: End-to-End Declarative Feature Engineering Platform

Kunal Shah - DoorDash

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track I

Is Web3 Here to Stay?

Richard Bair - Hedera

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track II

Four Steps to Unlocking Your Ability to Deploy Multiple Times a Day

Dylan Etkin - Sleuth

Pacific LM

01:15PM PDT

Wellbeing Session [First Come, First Served]: Chair Yoga - Located in Marina from 1:15 to 1:35pm

01:40PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for Change at Scale

Unconference: Architecting for Change

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

[Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now?

Lena Reinhard - Lena Reinhard Leadership Coaching & Consulting

Jesse McGinnis - Shopify

Alexandra Sunderland - Fellow.app

Brian Elliott - Slack

Ballroom BC

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Ubiquitous Caching: A Journey of Building Efficient Distributed and In-Process Caches at Twitter

Juncheng Yang

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Programming Your Policies

Justin Cormack - Docker

Seacliff ABC

Track:
MLOps

An Open Source Infrastructure for PyTorch

Mark Saroufim - Meta

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track I

Service Abstractions to Cloud Service Providers: A Tale of Trade-Offs

Oscar Mullin - Mercado Libre

Pacific LM

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Observability AMA

Frederic Branczyk - Polar Signals

Boardroom C

02:30PM PDT

Break

02:55PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for Change at Scale

Dark Side of DevOps

Mykyta Protsenko - Netflix

Ballroom A

Track:
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Unconference: Hybrid Work Strategies

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Panel: Building Modern Backends

Chris Swan - Atsign

Frank Yu - Coinbase

Juncheng Yang

Ballroom BC

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Sprinkling eBPF Onto Your Observability

Frederic Branczyk - Polar Signals

Seacliff ABC

Track:
MLOps

Real-Time Machine Learning: Architecture and Challenges

Chip Huyen - Claypot AI

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track I

Building Agile Data Architectures in Support of Digital Twins and Data Products

Stuart Sim - Build by McKinsey

Pacific LM

03:45PM PDT

Break

04:10PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for Change at Scale

Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix

Javier Fernandez-Ivern - Netflix

Ballroom A

Track:
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

Leveraging Hybrid One-on-Ones for Better Connections

Alexandra Sunderland - Fellow.app

Bayview

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Data Mesh: Are We There Yet?

Zhamak Dehghani - Stealth Startup

Ballroom BC

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future

Joe Duffy - Pulumi

Seacliff ABC

Track:
MLOps

Declarative Machine Learning: A Flexible, Modular and Scalable Approach for Building Production ML Models

Shreya Rajpal - Guardrails AI

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track I

Our Journey Into High Performance and Reliable Document Databases with RavenDB

Trevor Hunter - Kobo Inc.

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track II

Engineering an API First Product

Troy Goode - Courier

Marina

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

eBPF AMA w/ Frederic Branczyk & Jim Barton

Frederic Branczyk - Polar Signals

Jim Barton - Solo.io

Boardroom C

05:00PM PDT

Break

05:25PM PDT

Track:
Architecting for Change at Scale

Log4Shell Response Patterns & Learnings From Them

Tapabrata Pal - Fidelity Investments

Bayview

Track:
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies

The Future of Work: How Flexibility Unlocks Potential for People and Organizations

Brian Elliott - Slack

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Leveraging Determinism

Frank Yu - Coinbase

Ballroom A

Track:
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Panel: Languages of Infrastructure

Frederic Branczyk - Polar Signals

Marcel van Lohuizen - CUE Project

Justin Cormack - Docker

Joe Duffy - Pulumi

Adam Jacob - System Initiative

Ballroom BC

Track:
MLOps

Unconference: MLOps

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track I

Optimal Data Storage Choices - Data Lakes vs Databases

Greg Hamer - Backblaze

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track II

Open Source Your Software Development Lifecycle

Andrew Zigler - Mattermost

Pacific LM

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Data Pipeline AMA w/ Sid Anand & Allen Wang

Sid Anand - Datazoom

Allen Wang - DoorDash

Boardroom C

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

09:00AM PDT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Innovating for the Future You've Never Seen: Distributed Systems Architecture & the Grid

Astrid Atkinson - Camus Energy

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PDT

Break

10:35AM PDT

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Collette Tauscher - Columbia Sportswear Company

Ballroom A

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

Generous, High Fidelity Communication Is the Key to a Safe, Effective Team

Denise Yu

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

API Evolution Without Versioning

Brandon Byars - Thoughtworks

Ballroom BC

Track:
Green Tech

DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations

Adrian Cockcroft - OrionX

Bayview

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Unconference: Microservices

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track III

Performance Testing Java Applications

Pratik Patel - Azul Systems

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

A Million People want a Million Things and They Want Them Now: How to Meet Personalised User Demands in Realtime

Roman de Oliviera - Ably

Marina

11:25AM PDT

Break

11:50AM PDT

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Modeling Patterns for Digital Transformation

Asif Iqbal - Alimentation Couche-Tard

Seacliff ABC

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

Panel: "Just" Engineering Culture

Denise Yu

Jacob Scott - Stripe

Jessica DeVita - Microsoft

Vanessa Huerta Granda - Enova

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

What API Product Managers Need

Deepa Goyal - Postman

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Green Tech

The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey

Lisa McNally - Thoughtworks

Marco Valtas - Thoughtworks

Bayview

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!

Chris Richardson - Chris Richardson Consulting, Inc

Ballroom A

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track III

Engineering Considerations for Running Machine Learning Models at the Edge: Application in Body Scanning for eCommerce

Jenn Lin - Amazon

Herak Sen - Amazon

Marina

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

How to Build Reliable Systems Under Unpredictable Conditions

Benjamin Wilms - Steadybit

Pacific LM

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Chaos Engineering AMA w/ Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, & Christina Yakomin

Boardroom C

01:15PM PDT

Wellbeing Session [First Come, First Served]: Stress Less - Located in Marina from 1:15 to 1:35pm

01:40PM PDT

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

AMA: Optimizing Teams

Jayashree Atre - Walmart Global Tech

Collette Tauscher - Columbia Sportswear Company

Asif Iqbal - Alimentation Couche-Tard

Jennifer Davis - Google

Seacliff ABC

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

Unconference: Engineering Culture

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix

Tejas Shikhare - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Track:
Green Tech

Efficient Language and Library Use to Reduce Carbon

Esteban Küber - Amazon

Pacific LM

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Orchestration vs Choreography, A Guide To Composing Your Monolith

Ian Thomas - Genesis Global

Ballroom A

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track III

Kubernetes and LaunchDarkly; The Junction of Deploy and Software

Peter McCarron - LaunchDarkly

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

DevOps AMA w/ Brandon Byars

Boardroom C

02:30PM PDT

Break

02:55PM PDT

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Unconference: Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

Recipes for Blameless Accountability

Michelle Brush - Google

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

[Panel] Who Cares About Your API?

Brandon Byars - Thoughtworks

Jim Barton - Solo.io

Deepa Goyal - Postman

Tejas Shikhare - Netflix

Ballroom BC

Track:
Green Tech

Tesla's Virtual Power Plant

Hector Veiga Ortiz - Tesla

Natalie DellaMaria - Tesla

Ballroom A

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

[Recording] Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck

Cassandra Shum

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track III

Understanding Analytics and Data-driven Decision Making

Daniel Ceasar Paul Jalathyan - Zoho

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Architecting Your Data Platform Across Clusters, Regions, and Clouds

Adit Madan - Alluxio

Marina

03:45PM PDT

Break

04:10PM PDT

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

Navigating Complex Environments and Evolving Relationships

Jennifer Davis - Google

Ballroom A

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

How Did It Make Sense at the Time? Understanding Incidents As They Occurred, Not as They Are Remembered

Jacob Scott - Stripe

Ballroom BC

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

Unconference: Modern APIs

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
Green Tech

Panel: DevSusOps

Marco Valtas - Thoughtworks

Esteban Küber - Amazon

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Untrusted Execution: Attacking the Cloud Native Supply Chain

Francesco Beltramini - Control Plane

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track III

Are Programming languages... *Actually* Languages?

Dylan Lacey - Sauce Labs

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

A Guide to the Event-Native World of Open Standards: AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, and Shared Signals & Events

Linus Hakansson - Gravitee

Marina

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

GraphQL AMA w/Tejas Shikhare

Tejas Shikhare - Netflix

Boardroom C

05:00PM PDT

Break

05:25PM PDT

Track:
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow

[Recording] How to Win as a Tech Team in a New Reality That Feels Like a Mad Max Movie?

Mehnaaz Abidi - Adidas

Seacliff ABC

Track:
"Just" Engineering Culture

Reckoning with the Harm We Do: In Search of Restorative Just Culture in Software and Web Operations

Jessica DeVita - Microsoft

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving

Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh

Jim Barton - Solo.io

Ballroom BC

Track:
Green Tech

Unconference: Green Tech

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Track:
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success

Panel: Building Performant Microservice Architectures

Chris Richardson - Chris Richardson Consulting, Inc

Ian Thomas - Genesis Global

Todd Montgomery - Adaptive Financial Consulting

Ballroom A

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track III

Discover Inspirational Insights in Motivational Sports Speeches Using Speech-to-Text

Tonya Sims - Deepgram

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track IV

Bringing Green, Sustainable Software Solutions Into the Enterprise

Adam Jordan - Shell

Marina

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

Azure Cosmos DB AMA w/ Mei-Chin Tsai & Vinod Sridharan

Boardroom C

Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

09:00AM PDT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Harnessing Technology for Good — Transformation and Social Impact

Lisa Gelobter - TEQuitable

Grand Ballroom

10:10AM PDT

Break

10:35AM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyper-Scale Cloud Database Service

Akshat Vig - Amazon Web Services

Ballroom A

Track:
Effective SRE

The Endgame of SRE

Amy Tobey - Equinix

Bayview

Track:
Practical Security

A Big Dashboard of Problems

Travis McPeak - Resourcely

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Everyone Can Be a Full-Stack Engineer

Alex Cole - Convex

Ballroom BC

Track:
Staff+ Engineer Path

The Secret to Finding Impactful Projects to Land a Staff-Plus Engineer Role

Akhilesh Gupta - LinkedIn

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track V

Scaling From 2K Engineers to 12K Engineers and 10K Deploys per Day

Sebastian Barrios - Mercado Libre

Lucia Brizuela - Mercado Libre

Pacific LM

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track VI

[Workshop] Targeting and Shipping - Building Features with LaunchDarkly

Peter McCarron - LaunchDarkly

Cody De Arkland - AWS

Marina

11:25AM PDT

Break

11:50AM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed Up Our Servers

Jessica Kerr - Honeycomb.io

Ballroom A

Track:
Effective SRE

Did the Chaos Test Pass?

Christina Yakomin - Vanguard

Bayview

Track:
Practical Security

Scaling Defenses Amidst Evolving Threat Landscape

Aditi Gupta - Netflix

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript

Brian Douglas - Open Sauced

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineer Path

How Community Engagement Can Boost Your Staff-Plus Career

Eder Ignatowicz - Red Hat

Ballroom BC

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track V

Tailor Your Processes to be as Data-Driven as Your Systems

James McGill - Code Climate

Pacific LM

Track:
Speaker Ask-Me-Anything

AMA w/ Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft - OrionX

Boardroom C

01:15PM PDT

Wellbeing Session [First Come, First Served]: Guided Meditation - Located in Pacific LM from 1:15 to 1:35pm

01:40PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale

Mei-Chin Tsai - Microsoft

Vinod Sridharan - Microsoft

Ballroom A

Track:
Effective SRE

[Panel] SRE: Is it Working?

Courtney Nash - Verica.io

Amy Tobey - Equinix

Christina Yakomin - Vanguard

Sasha Rosenbaum - Red Hat

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Practical Security

Vulnerability Inbox Zero

Alex Smolen - AWS

Bayview

Track:
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

What the Data Says: Emerging Technical Trends in Front-End and How They Affect You

Laurie Voss - Netlify

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineer Path

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Charity Majors - Honeycomb.io

Ballroom BC

02:30PM PDT

Break

02:55PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

From Zero to A Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real Time Event Processing At DoorDash

Allen Wang - DoorDash

Ballroom A

Track:
Effective SRE

Rethinking Reliability: What You Can (and Can't) Learn From Incidents

Courtney Nash - Verica.io

Bayview

Track:
Practical Security

Panel: Practical Security

Aditi Gupta - Netflix

Travis McPeak - Resourcely

Nimisha Asthagiri - Thoughtworks

Alex Smolen - AWS

Seacliff ABC

Track:
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Brian LeRoux - Begin

Brian Douglas - Open Sauced

Laurie Voss - Netlify

Alex Cole - Convex

Ballroom BC

Track:
Staff+ Engineer Path

Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell Out of Love with “Ethical” Machine Learning

Katharine Jarmul - Thoughtworks

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Sponsored Solutions Track V

Building Resilient Microservices: The Hard Parts of a Distributed Architecture

Wanderlei Souza - Build by McKinsey

Pacific LM

03:45PM PDT

Break

04:10PM PDT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

Facundo Agriel - Dropbox

Ballroom A

Track:
Effective SRE

The Eternal Sunshine of the Toil-Less Prod

Sasha Rosenbaum - Red Hat

Bayview

Track:
Practical Security

Privacy-First Re-Architecture

Nimisha Asthagiri - Thoughtworks

Ballroom BC

Track:
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend

Enhance: SSR for Web Components

Brian LeRoux - Begin

Pacific DEKJ

Track:
Staff+ Engineer Path

The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel

Eder Ignatowicz - Red Hat

Charity Majors - Honeycomb.io

Akhilesh Gupta - LinkedIn

Katharine Jarmul - Thoughtworks

Seacliff ABC

05:30PM PDT

Evening Keynote:

Tidy First?

Kent Beck

Grand Ballroom

Thursday, October 27th, 2022

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 05:00PM PDT (8 hours)

[SOLD OUT] Modern Spring Based Microservices on Kubernetes [9AM - 5PM]

Adib Saikali - VMware

Dan Dobrin - Google

Seacliff B

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

MLOps: A Framework to Build Reliable ML Systems [Half-Day]

Nihit Desai - Refuel.AI

Bayview A

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Lean UX - An Overview [Half-Day]

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

09:00AM PDT

Training

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Scaling Organizations and Technology [2-Day Training]

Randy Shoup

Marina

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Domain-Driven Design: A hands-on guide for practitioners [Full-Day]

Premanand Chandrasekaran - Thoughtworks

Karthik Krishnan - Thoughtworks

Zichuan Xiong - Thoughtworks

Bayview B

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

[SOLD OUT] Creating a Kafka Streaming Data Pipeline [Full-Day]

Danica Fine - Confluent

Lucia Cerchie - Confluent

Seacliff A

12:00PM PDT
01:00PM PDT

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Deep Learning From Scratch [Half-Day]

Seth Weidman - SentiLink

Bayview A

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Avoiding Hybrid Hell [Half-Day]

Shane Hastie - SoftEd & InfoQ

Seacliff D

Friday, October 28th, 2022

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Istio Service Mesh [Full-Day]

Eitan Suez - Tetrate

Peter Jausovec - Tetrate

Seacliff A

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

OpenTelemetry: See Inside Your Software with Observability [SOLD OUT]

Jessica Kerr - Honeycomb.io

Bayview A

Training

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Scaling Organizations and Technology [2-Day Training]

Randy Shoup

Marina

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (7 hours)

Microfrontend Architecture [SOLD OUT]

Florian Rappl - Smapiot

Seacliff B

09:00AM PDT

Workshop

09:00AM PDT - 12:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Team Topologies [Half-Day]

Zichuan Xiong - Thoughtworks

Premanand Chandrasekaran - Thoughtworks

Karthik Krishnan - Thoughtworks

Bayview B

12:00PM PDT
01:00PM PDT

Workshop

01:00PM PDT - 04:00PM PDT (3 hours)

Wardley Mapping [Half-Day]

Zichuan Xiong - Thoughtworks

Karthik Krishnan - Thoughtworks

Premanand Chandrasekaran - Thoughtworks

Bayview B