Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018
Featuring over 175 speakers
Conference Speakers
Workshop Speakers
Sponsored Solutions Tracks Speakers
Track Hosts & Programming Committee
Directory
First name |
Last name | Short title |
|---|---|---|
| Zack | Butcher | Software Engineer @Google & Core Contributor @IstioMesh |
| Xiaoning | Li | Chief Security Architect @Alibaba Cloud |
| Without | Boats | Rust Contributor (Language & Cargo Team Member) |
| Willie | Wheeler | Principal Application Engineer @Expedia |
| William | Roscoe | Lead Engineer @Ceres Imaging |
| Will | Shulman | CEO @mLab |
| Wes | Reisz | Software/Technical Advisor C4Media & QCon Chair, previous Architect @HPE |
| Vinay | Chella | Cloud Data Architect @Netflix |
| Vasia | Kalavri | PMC Member of Apache Flink (Core Developer Graph Processing API) & Postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich Systems group |
| Valerie | Aurora | Software Engineer & Diversity and Inclusion Consultant |
| Tyler | McMullen | CTO @Fastly |
| Tyler | Akidau | Engineer @Google & Founder/Committer on Apache Beam |
| Tomas | Lin | Senior Software Engineer @Netflix |
| Tim | Fox | Big Data and Machine Learning Consultant @ElephantScale |
| Tim | Tyler | Principal Solutions Engineer @MetLife |
| Thomas | Hooker | VP of Marketing @CollabNet |
| Temesghen | Kahsai | Software Engineer, previously Research Scientist @NASAAmes |
| Tasneem | Minadakis | Engineering Leader @Uber |
| Tal | Weiss | Co-founder and CEO @OverOps |
| Szczepan | Faber | Mockito Creator, Core Eng Gradle 1.x/2.x, & TechLead @LinkedIn Development Tools |
| Susan | Nesbitt | Head of Business Development @ Make School |
| Sumit | Nagal | Principal Engineer in Quality @Intuit |
| Steven | Kim | Engineering manager @Google |
| Steve | Johnson | Vice President of Product Design & Creative @Netflix |
| Stephen | Fluin | Developer Advocate @Google |
| Stephan | Ewen | Committer @ApacheFlink, CTO @dataArtisans |
| Sid | Anand | Chief Data Engineer @PayPal |
| Shubha | Nabar | Sr. Director @Salesforce Einstein |
| Sheroy | Marker | Head Of Technology @ThoughtWorks |
| Shane | Hastie | Chief Knowledge Engineer @SoftEd & Agile Alliance Board Member |
| Serhat | Yilmaz | Software Engineer @Facebook |
| Sergey | Kuksenko | Java Performance Engineer @Oracle |
| Sasha | Rosenbaum | Azure TSP @Microsoft |
| Sarah | Novotny | Head of Open Source Strategy for GCP @Google |
| Sarah | Aerni | Senior Manager, Data Science @Salesforce |
| Sarah | Wells | Principal Engineer @FT (Financial Times) |
| Sahar | Samiei | Senior Product Manager @Expedia |
| Ryan | Schwers | Senior Software Engineer @Reddit |
| Ryan | Knight | Principal Software Architect @GrandCloud |
| Ryan | Boyd | Engineer & Head @DevRel |
| Rossen | Stoyanchev | Spring Framework Committer @Pivotal |
| Roshan | Kumar | Sr. Product Marketing Manager @RedisLabs |
| Roopa | Tangirala | Engineering Manager @Netflix, Apache Cassandra MVP |
| Roman | Elizarov | Software Engineer Developing Kotlin @JetBrains |
| Robert | Munro | VP of Machine Learning @CrowdFlower |
| Richard | Zhao | Chief Technology Officer, SVP Research @NSFOCUS |
| Richard | Kasperowski | Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness |
| Reena | Philip | Engineering Manager @Facebook |
| Randy | Shoup | VP Engineering at StitchFix, Previously @Google & @Ebay |
| Ramki | Ramakrishna | Staff Software Engineer @Twitter |
| Rafael | Schloming | Co-founder and Chief Architect @Datawire, spec author of the AMQP specification |
| Rafael | Ferreira | Senior Software Engineer @Nubank |
| Prof. Dawn | Song | Professor @UCBerkeley, Researching Deep Learning & Security |
| Philip | Wadler | Haskell, Type Theory, & Functional Programming Theory Contributor |
| Paul | Allen | Senior Integration Engineer @Perforce |
| Ozgun | Erdogan | CTO & Co-Founder @CitusData |
| Omer | Azmon | Staff Tools Engineer @Intuit |
| Nora | Jones | Senior Chaos Engineer @Netflix |
| Nitin | Bharti | Managing Editor and Product Manager C4Media |
| Nikhil | Dandekar | Leads NLP @Quora |
| Nicolas | DeRico | MySQL Principal Sales Consultant |
| Nick | Caldwell | VP Engineering @Reddit, Inc. |
| Nic | Raboy | Senior Developer Advocate @Couchbase |
| Neil | Williams | Leads Infrastructure Team @Reddit |
| Nathan | Sobo | Founding Member of the Atom Editor Team @GitHub |
| Nathan | Äschbacher | Chief Technology Officer @PolySync |
| Nate | Kupp | Technical Infrastructure Lead @Thumbtack |
| Natasha | Rooney | W3C Advisory Board, Stack Evolution Board IETA, & Engineering Director @GSMA |
| Monica | Beckwith | JVM Perf & previous G1GC Perf Lead @Oracle |
| Mitul | Tiwari | CTO and Co-founder of Passage.AI |
| Min | Ni | Engineering Manager @Instagram |
| Mike | Spicer | Distinguished Engineer, Lead Architect, IBM Streams |
| Miju | Han | Director of Product @GitHub |
| Michel | Weksler | Software Engineer @Airbnb |
| Michael | Bunnell | Graphics Programmer & Academy Award Winning Computer Graphics Researcher |
| Michael | Armbrust | Initial Author of Apache Spark SQL & Leads Streaming Team @Databricks |
| Michael | Bryzek | Co-Founder / CTO @Flow.io., previously Co-Founder / CTO @Gilt |
| Michael | Nygard | Author of the Best Seller "Release It!" |
| Melanie | Warrick | Senior Developer Advocate for ML and Google Cloud |
| Matt | Zimmer | Real-time Data Infrastructure Senior Engineer @Netflix |
| Matt | Abrahams | Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions |
| Marty | Weiner | CTO @Reddit, formerly 2nd engineer @Pinterest |
| Marius | Pirvu | Advisory Software Developer @IBM |
| Magnus | Hyttsten | TensorFlow Developer Advocate @Google |
| Mads | Torgersen | Chief Language Designer of C# & Contributor to TypeScript, Visual Basic, Roslyn, LINQ |
| Louis | Ryan | Core Contributor Istio, gRPC, & Principal Engineer @Google |
| Linda | Elkins | Leader Silicon Valley Innovation Center |
| Leslie | Miley | Engineering Leadership, previously of Slack, Google, & Apple |
| Kyle | Davis | Technical Marketing Manager @RedisLabs |
| Kris | Nova | Kubernetes Maintainer & Kubicorn Creator |
| Kolton | Andrus | Founder of Gremlin Inc, former Netflix |
| Kirk | Lewis | Field Engineer @Pepperdata |
| Kieran | Farr | Senior Director @Brightcove |
| Kevin | Moore | Senior Data Scientist @ Salesforce Einstein |
| Kevin | Ball | Project Lead & Contributor @ZURBfoundation |
| Kevin | Stewart | VP of Engineering @Heptio |
| Ketan | Gangatirkar | Senior Director of Engineering - Job Seeker Products @Indeed |
| Kavya | Joshi | Software Engineer @Samsara |
| Katrina | Uychaco | Software Engineer @GitHub |
| Katharina | Probst | Engineering Director @Netflix |
| Karunakar | Singamreddy | ML/NLP Tech startup CEO & founder @Pamoru |
| Karthik | Ranganathan | Co-Founder & CTO @YugaByte |
| Karen | Catlin | Advocate for Women in Tech, Former VP OF Eng, Adobe |
| Karen | Casella | Engineering Leader @Netflix, previously @EBay & @Sun |
| Juval | Lowy | President and Chief Master Architect @Idesign_inc |
| Justin | Becker | Engineering Manager @Netflix |
| Justin | Lambert | Principal Platform Engineer @StitchFix |
| Julian | Hyde | Original Developer @ApacheCalcite, Co-Founder SQLstream, & Architect @Hortonworks |
| Julian | Guthrie | Author of "How to Make a Spaceship" |
| Josh | Evans | Senior Director of Platform Service Engineering @ GitHub (Formerly @ Netflix) |
| Jörg | Schad | Distributed Systems Engineer @Mesosphere |
| Jonathan | Schabowsky | Sr Architect @Solace |
| John | Willis | Vice President of Devops and Digital Practices @SJTechnologies |
| John | Gosset | Software Engineer & Go Trainer for @ArdanLabs |
| Jérôme | Petazzoni | Hacker @Docker |
| Jeremy | Hermann | ML Platform Team @Uber |
| Jeff | Williams | Robotics Systems Developer |
| Jay | Kreps | Co-Founder and CEO @Confluent |
| Jay | Phelps | Senior Software Engineer @Netflix |
| Jarrod | Overson | Engineering Director @ShapeSecurity & JavaScript Expert |
| Jared | Short | Director of Innovation @Trek10 |
| Jamie | Grier | Streaming Platform @Lyft |
| Jamie | Butler | Chief Technology Officer @Endgame |
| James | Truitt | Technical Evangelist @Microsoft |
| Ivana | Mcconnell | UX Design @CustomerIO. Editorial assistant @OffscreenMag, Runs @FacetsDigest & Our-Origins.com |
| Isaac | Potoczny-Jones | Founder @Tozny & Authentication and Privacy Specialist |
| Ioannis | Papapanagiotou | Senior Software Engineer @Netflix |
| Idit | Levine | Founder and CEO of solo.io |
| Hui | Xue | Director of Threat Research @ShapeSecurity |
| Hien | Luu | Engineering Manager @Linkedin focused on Big Data |
| Heather | Nakama | Software Engineer @Microsoft - Azure Search |
| Guy | Podjarny | Co-founder @Snyk.io |
| Eugen | Cepoi | Senior Software Engineer @Netflix |
| Edward | Wible | Founder & CTO @Nubank |
| Edith | Harbaugh | CEO & Co-Founder @LaunchDarkly |
| Dr. Yu | Ding | Security Scientist @Baidu X-Lab |
| Davis | Shepherd | ML Management @Netflix |
| David | Wells | Full Stack Developer Serverless |
| David | Redkey | Senior Software Engineer, Video Games, 3D Graphics, C++, Mobile |
| Dave | Hahn | Sr SRE, Reliability and Chaos Engineering @Netflix |
| Dave | Casper | CTO @Moogsoft |
| Dave | Copeland | Director of Engineering & Senior Most Developer @Stitchfix |
| Dave | Cheney | Software Engineer & Core Contributor to Go-lang |
| Darren | Crews | Principal Engineer @Intel working on Deep Learning |
| Dana | Engebretson | Performance Engineer @SPS Commerce |
| Dan | Wilson | Web Engineer @MutualMobile |
| Dan | Debrunner | STSM, IBM Streams Programming Model Architect |
| Dan | Kreigh | Structural Engineer @ScaledComposites, built the unique "feather" mechanism of SpaceShipOne |
| Cody | Pierce | Director of Vulnerability Research @Endgame |
| Christy | Norman Perez | Software Developer @IBM |
| Christopher | Jones | Software Developer @IBM |
| Chris | McFadden | VP of Engineering @Sparkpost |
| Chris | Richardson | Java Champion and Author of POJOs in Action |
| Chris | Slowe | CTO & Founding Engineer @Reddit; former Chief Scientist at Hipmunk; PhD in Experimental Physics |
| Chris | Moody | Manager of the Applied AI team @StitchFix |
| Changhoon | Kim | Director of System Architecture @Barefoot Networks |
| Carmen | Andoh | Software Engineer on the Build Infrastructure team @TravisCI |
| Carl | Lerche | Software Engineer & Rust Contributor |
| Bruce | Johnson | Founder and COO @FullStory |
| Brian | Bulkowski | CTO and Co-Founder @Aerospike |
| Bret | Fisher | DevOps / Cloud Engineer |
| Bing | Wei | Software Engineer @Slack |
| Bernard | Traversat | Head of the Java Platform Development Team & VP @Oracle |
| Ben | Watson | Principal Software Engineer @Microsoft focused on High-Performance .NET |
| Ben | Kehoe | Cloud Robotics Research Scientist @iRobot |
| Balwinder | Kaur | Principal Software Engineer @AppDynamics |
| Asif | Khan | Tech Leader @AWSCloud |
| Arun | Gupta | Principal Open Source Technologist @AWSCloud |
| Ariya | Hidayat | VP of Engineering @ShapeSecurity & Creator of PhantomJS |
| Anjuan | Simmons | Technical Program Manager @Questback |
| Amitabha | Roy | Software Engineer @Google |
| AJ | Bowen | Software Developer |
| Adrian | Cockcroft | VP Cloud Architecture Strategy @AWSCloud & Microservices Pioneer |
| Adam | Wick | Research Lead, Leads Mobile Security/Systems @Galois, & Haskell Lightweight VM Maintainer |
| Adam | Conway | Product Management and Marketing @Datacoral |
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Tracks
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architectural practices from the world's most well-known properties, featuring startups, massive scale, evolving architectures, and software tools used by nearly all of us.
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Going Serverless
Learn about the state of Serverless & how to successfully leverage it! Lessons learned in the track hit on security, scalability, IoT, and offer warnings to watch out for.
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Microservices: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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DevOps: You Build It, You Run It
Pushing DevOps beyond adoption into cultural change. Hear about designing resilience, managing alerting, CI/CD lessons, & security. Features lessons from open source, Linkedin, Netflix, Financial Times, & more.
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The Art of Chaos Engineering
Failure is going to happen - Are you ready? Chaos engineering is an emerging discipline - What is the state of the art?
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The Whole Engineer
Success as an engineer is more than writing code. Hear inward looking thoughts on inclusion, attitude, leadership, remote working, and not becoming the brilliant jerk.
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Evolving Java
Java continues to evolve & change. Track covers Spring 5, async, Kotlin, serverless, the 6-month cadence plans, & AI/ML use cases.
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Security: Attacking and Defending
Offense and defensive security evolution that application developers should know about including SGX Enclaves, effects of AI, software exploitation techniques, & crowd defense
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The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon. Learn about ML at Quora, Uber's Michelangelo, ML workflow with Netflix Meson and topics on Bots, Conversational interfaces, automation, and deployment practices in the space.
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21st Century Languages
Compile to Native, Microservices, Machine learning... tailor-made languages solving modern challenges, featuring use cases around Go, Rust, C#, and Elm.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today. Topics include category theory, crypto, CRDT's, logic-based automated reasoning, and more.
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Stream Processing In The Modern Age
Compelling applications of stream processing using Flink, Beam, Spark, Strymon & recent advances in the field, including Custom Windowing, Stateful Streaming, SQL over Streams.
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Performance Mythbusting
Real world, applied performance proofs across stacks. Hear performance consideratiosn for .NET, Python, & Java. Learn performance use cases with OpenJ9, Instagram, and Netflix.
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Tools and Culture: What's Beyond a Stack of Containers?
Containers are not just a techology. It's a platform. Push your knowledge.
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Web as Platform
All things Browser, from JavaScript Frameworks for animation and AR / VR to Web Assembly and from protocol work to open standards evolution.
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Beyond Being an Individual Contributor
Beyond being an individual contributor. Building and Evolving managers and tech leadership.
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Building Great Engineering Cultures
Why engineering culture matters. Track features org scaling, memes as a culture tool, Ally skills, and panels on diversity / inclusion.
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Hardware Frontiers: Changes Affecting Software Developers Today
Topics around: Quantum computing, NVM, SMR, GPU, custom hardware, self-driving cars, and mobile hardware.
