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Alison Dowdney

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New Zealand
Alison is a Customer Reliability Engineer at Weaveworks, a CNCF ambassador and an active member of SIG Contributor Experience for the Kubernetes project. She is passionate about helping others get more involved with the cloud native community. Coming from a startup background, she has a wealth of hands-on experience with Kubernetes. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the video game Destiny 2 and making memes.
Sunday, November 17
 

2:00pm PST

Registration + Badge Pick-up at San Diego Convention Center (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

6:00pm PST

Kubernetes Contributor Summit Reception (Contributors Only - Additional Registration Required) Quartyard
 
Monday, November 18
 

9:00am PST

Kubernetes Contributor Summit (Participants Only - Additional Registration Required) Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

5:02pm PST

Lightning Talk: What Makes a Good Multi-tenant Kubernetes Solution? - Victor Varza, Adobe Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:08pm PST

Lightning Talk: Boosting Your kubectl Productivity - Mauricio Salatino, LearnK8s Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:14pm PST

Lightning Talk: Get Started With Non-Code Contributions to Kubernetes - David Strebel, Microsoft Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:20pm PST

Lightning Talk: Kuber-What-Es?! Misadventures in Building UIs for K8s-Based ML Platforms - Alexandra Johnson, Independent Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:26pm PST

Lightning Talk: Code Kubernetes While You Are Using It - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:32pm PST

Lightning Talk: Sharing a GPU Among Multiple Containers - Patrick McQuighan, Algorithmia Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:38pm PST

Lightning Talk: How the Observability Team at Spotify Radically Decreased On-Call Alerts - Lauren Muhlhauser, Spotify Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:44pm PST

Lightning Talk: CRDs All the Way Down – Using OPA for Complex CRD Validation and Defaulting - Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:50pm PST

Lightning Talk: Easily Observing Operators - Lili Cosic, Red Hat Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:56pm PST

Lightning Talk: Open Match - Matchmaking Framework - Robert Bailey, Google Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:02pm PST

Lightning Talk: Is Your Kubernetes Cluster's DNS Working? - Jonathan Perry, Flowmill Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:08pm PST

Lightning Talk: Want to Donate a Project to the CNCF? Here's How - Cheryl Hung, CNCF Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center
 
Tuesday, November 19
 

9:00am PST

Keynote: Hiding in the Dark - Dan Kohn, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:10am PST

Keynote: CNCF Updates - Cheryl Hung, Director of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:20am PST

Keynote: CNCF Project Updates - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:47am PST

Sponsored Keynote: Keep Kubernetes Caffeinated - Erin Boyd, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:54am PST

Keynote: NATS: Past, Present and the Future - Derek Collison, Founder and CEO, Synadia Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:16am PST

Sponsored Keynote: Bringing Confidential Computing to Kubernetes - Lachlan Evenson, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:20am PST

Keynote: Closing Remarks - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

Kubernetes at Cruise: Two Years of Multitenancy - Karl Isenberg, Cruise Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center Building Reusable DevSecOps Pipelines on a Secure Kubernetes Platform - Steven Terrana, Booz Allen Hamilton & Michael Ducy, Sysdig Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Sharing is Caring: How to Begin Speaking at Conferences - Jenny Burcio & Ashlynn Polini, Docker Room 31ABC - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Intro: Contributor Experience SIG - Elsie Phillips, Red Hat & Paris Pittman, Google Room 23BC - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Managing Helm Deployments with Gitops at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

Building the Cloud Native Kernel: Kubernetes Release Engineering - Tim Pepper & Stephen Augustus, VMware Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

5:21pm PST

Keynote: Kubernetes Project Update - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Keynote: Opening Remarks - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:41pm PST

Sponsored Keynote: Modernizing Virtualization Technology for Cloud Native Computing - Arjan van de Ven, Intel Fellow, Intel Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:46pm PST

Keynote: (Open)Telemetry Makes Observability Simple - Sarah Novotny, Open Source Wonk, Azure OCTO, Microsoft & Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:06pm PST

Sponsored Keynote: Beyond Badges—How Inclusive Communities Accelerate Innovation - Kostadis Roussos, Principal Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:11pm PST

Keynote: Reflections - Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:25pm PST

Keynote: CNCF Maintainer + Ambassador Awards Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:35pm PST

Keynote: Closing Remarks - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:40pm PST

Taco Tuesday Welcome Reception + Sponsor Booth Crawl, sponsored by SAIC Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center Puppy Pawlooza / Paw Therapy Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center
 
Wednesday, November 20
 

9:00am PST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:05am PST

Keynote: Everything Worked Before Kubernetes - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:27am PST

Sponsored Keynote: Network, Please Evolve – Chapter 2 - Vijoy Pandey, Vice President/CTO Cloud, Cisco Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:34am PST

Keynote: The Long Road to IPv4/IPv6 Dual-stack Kubernetes - Tim Hockin, Principal Software Engineer, Google & Khaled (Kal) Henidak, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:54am PST

Sponsored Keynote: Making the Impossible Possible with Kubernetes - Rae Wang, Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:59am PST

Keynote: E2E 5G Cloud Native Network - Heather Kirksey, VP, Community and Ecosystem Development, Linux Foundation; Azhar Sayeed, Chief Architect, Red Hat; & Fu Qiao, Project Manager, China Mobile Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:24am PST

Keynote: Closing Remarks - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

A Week in the Life of the Kubernetes Community - Dawn Foster, Pivotal & Jorge Castro, VMware Room 15AB - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Panel: Beyond Codes of Conduct: Igniting Diversity in Your Community - Jemma Bolland, The Scale Factory; Lara Owen, Github; Shanis Windland, VMware; & Kevin Stewart, Independent Room 6D - San Diego Convention Center

12:30pm PST

Diversity Lunch + Hack - sponsored by Google Cloud (RSVP required; see description for details) Ballroom BC - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

2:00pm PST

Puppy Pawlooza / Paw Therapy Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Panel: Enterprise-grade, On-prem Kubeflow in the Financial Sector - Laura Schornack, JPMorgan Chase; Jeff Fogarty, US Bank; Josh Bottum, Arrikto; & Thea Lamkin, Google Room 14AB - San Diego Convention Center Fidelity’s Move to “Finance Grade” Kubernetes with GitOps - Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks & Rajarajan Pudupatti SJ, Fidelity Investments Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

Is There a Place for Performance Sensitive Workloads in Kubernetes? - Gergely Csatari & Levente Kale, Nokia Room 15AB - San Diego Convention Center

4:25pm PST

Deep Dive: Contributor Experience SIG - Christoph Blecker, Red Hat & Nikhita Raghunath, Loodse San Diego Ballroom A - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

5:20pm PST

Introducing Metal³: Kubernetes Native Bare Metal Host Management - Russell Bryant & Doug Hellmann, Red Hat Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center The Great Cardinality Disasters of Our Time - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Chris Marchbanks, Splunk Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:00pm PST

All-Attendee Block Party (Name Badge Required to Attend) Gaslamp Quarter
 
Thursday, November 21
 

9:00am PST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:01am PST

Keynote: In Search of the Kubernetes "Rails" Moment - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair & Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:22am PST

Keynote: Hello From the Other Side: Dispatches From a Kubernetes Attacker - Ian Coldwater, Lead Platform Security Engineer, Heroku Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

9:43am PST

Keynote: Seamless Customer Experience at Walmart Stores Powered by Kubernetes@Edge - Maneesh Vittolia, Principal Architect & Sriram Komma, Principal Product Owner, Walmart Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:04am PST

Keynote: Finding the Joy in Chaos Engineering - Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer, Gremlin & Lenny Sharpe, Director of Engineering, Target Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:24am PST

Keynote: Closing Remarks - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chairs: Vicki Cheung, Engineering Manager, Lyft & Bryan Liles, Senior Staff Engineer, VMware Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:30am PST

Puppy Pawlooza / Paw Therapy Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

Improving Performance of Deep Learning Workloads With Volcano - Ti Zhou, Baidu Inc Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Security Beyond Buzzwords: How to Secure Kubernetes with Empathy? - Pushkar Joglekar, Visa Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center Cloud Native Smart Contract with Knative - Jay Guo & Ying Chun Guo, IBM Room 11AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:45pm PST

EmpowerUs Lunch - sponsored by Comcast (RSVP required to attend; See description for details) Ballroom BC - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

2:25pm PST

Panel: State of the Kubernetes Union - Steering Committee Discussion - Davanum Srinivas, Timothy St. Clair, Jorge Castro, VMware; Paris Pittman, Google; Derek Carr, Christoph Blecker, Red Hat; & Nikhita Raghunath... Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center K3s Under the Hood: Building a Product-grade Lightweight Kubernetes Distro - Darren Shepherd, Rancher Labs Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center Networking Optimizations for Multi-Node Deep Learning on Kubernetes - Rajat Chopra, NVIDIA & Erez Cohen, Mellanox Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center The Gotchas of Zero-Downtime Traffic /w Kubernetes - Leigh Capili, Weaveworks Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

Kubernetes at Reddit: Tales from Production - Greg Taylor, Reddit, Inc Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center

4:25pm PST

Tinder's Move to Kubernetes - Chris O'Brien & Chris Thomas, Tinder Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center GPU as a Service Over K8s: Drive Productivity and Increase Utilization - Yaron Haviv, Iguazio Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:20pm PST

Supercharge Kubeflow Performance on GPU Clusters - Meenakshi Kaushik & Neelima Mukiri, Cisco Room 11AB - San Diego Convention Center