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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019

San Diego, California
November 18–21, 2019
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Richard Theis

IBM
Senior Software Engineer
USA

Richard Theis is a Senior Software Engineer in the IBM Cloud division. In his current role, Richard leads Kubernetes and OpenShift update development and support for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. He is a co-chair of the Kubernetes provider IBM Cloud subproject.

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7:30am PST

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

7:00am PST

Continental Breakfast (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

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

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

Only Slightly Bent: Uber’s Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices - Yunpeng Liu, Uber Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center Securing the Software Supply Chain with in-toto - Santiago Torres-Arias & Justin Cappos, NYU Room 23BC - San Diego Convention Center SIG Cloud Provider Intro - Fabio Rapposelli, VMware & Nick Turner, Amazon Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center The Devil in the Details: Kubernetes’ First Security Assessment - Aaron Small, Google & Jay Beale, InGuardians Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Hardware-based KMS Plug-in to Protect Secrets in Kubernetes - Raghu Yeluri & Haidong Xia, Intel Room 6E - San Diego Convention Center Introduction to CRI-O - Mrunal Patel & Peter Hunt, Red Hat, Inc. Room 33ABC - San Diego Convention Center Introduction to Virtual Kubelet – Featuring Titus by Netflix - Ria Bhatia, Microsoft & Sargun Dhillon, Netflix Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center Rethinking the K8s DNS for the Modern Enterprise - Deepa Kalani & Venil Noronha, VMware Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center CAP_NET_RAW and ARP Spoofing in Your Cluster: It's Going Downhill From Here - Liz Rice, Aqua Security Room 11AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

Lunch (Provided) Hall C + West Terrace + 20 Foyer - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Introduction to Autoscaling - Marcin Wielgus & Vivek Bagade, Google Room 28ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center PodOverhead: Accounting for Greater Cluster Stability - Eric Ernst, Intel Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes - Melanie Cebula & Bruce Sherrod, Airbnb Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Admission Webhooks: Configuration and Debugging Best Practices - Haowei Cai, Google Room 29ABCD - San Diego Convention Center Service Discovery With Hybrid and Multi-Cloud: Introduction to CoreDNS - Yong Tang, MobileIron Room 33ABC - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

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

4:25pm PST

Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of Nodes Across Multiple Clusters, Calmly - Ben Hughes, Airbnb Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center Extending containerd - Samuel Karp & Maksym Pavlenko, Amazon Room 5AB - 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

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

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

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

10:55am PST

Are You About to Break Prod? Acceptance Testing with Ephemeral Environments - Erin Krengel, Pulumi & Sean Holung, Nordstrom Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center Multiple Networks for Kubernetes Workloads - Piotr Skamruk, CodiLime & Doug Smith, Red Hat Pacific Ballroom, Salon 20-22 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

11:50am PST

Deep Dive into Autoscaling - Marcin Wielgus & Vivek Bagade, Google Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Did Kubernetes Make My p95s Worse? - Jian Cheung & Stephen Chan, Airbnb Room 15AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

Lunch (Provided) Hall C + West Terrace + 20 Foyer - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

CRI-O: Under the Hood - Mrunal Patel, Red Hat, Inc. & Sascha Grunert, SUSE Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center Deep Dive Into API Machinery - Antoine Pelisse, Google & Stefan Schimanski, Red Hat Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center Intro: Scheduling SIG - Wei Huang, IBM & RaviSantosh Gudimetla, Red Hat Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center SIG Release - Deep Dive: Release Engineering Subproject - Stephen Augustus, VMware & Hannes Hörl, Pivotal Pacific Ballroom, Salon 25-26 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Liberating Kubernetes From Kube-proxy and Iptables - Martynas Pumputis, Cilium Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

Writing a Kubernetes Operator: the Hard Parts - Sebastien Guilloux, Elastic Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center To Infinite Scale and Beyond: Operating Kubernetes Past the Steady State - Austin Lamon, Spotify & Jago Macleod, Google Pacific Ballroom, Salon 20-22 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Mitigating Noisy Neighbours: Advanced Container Resource Management - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel Hall D - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

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

4:25pm PST

Developer Experience on CD: Build a CD Platform to K8s that Developers Love - Euccas Chen & Tobi Ogunnaike, Pinterest Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center SIG Cloud Provider Deep Dive - Walter Fender, Google & Yassine Tijani, VMware Pacific Ballroom, Salon 25-26 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Let's Try All the CRI Runtimes: Part 2: Answering the Why Question! - Phil Estes, IBM Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:00pm PST

All-Attendee Block Party (Name Badge Required to Attend) Gaslamp Quarter

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

Intro + Deep Dive - Provider IBM Cloud - Sahdev P. Zala, Brad Topol, Richard Theis & Ian Watts, IBM Room 32AB - San Diego Convention Center K8s Conformance & SIG Architecture Conformance Subgroup - Hippie Hacker, ii.coop; Dan Kohn, CNCF; & John Belamaric, Google Room 6D - San Diego Convention Center SIG-Network Intro & Deep-Dive - Tim Hockin, Google & Vallery Lancey, Lyft Room 33ABC - San Diego Convention Center Tutorial: Debug Your Kubernetes Apps - Arun Gupta & Re Alvarez Parmar, Amazon (Limited Available Seating; First-Come, First-Served Basis) Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center Tutorial: Everything You Need To Become a GitOps Ninja - Alex Collins & Alexander Matyushentsev, Intuit (Limited Available Seating; First-Come, First-Served Basis) Room 29ABCD - San Diego Convention Center Tutorial: Zero to Operator in 90 Minutes! - Solly Ross, Google (Limited Available Seating; First-Come, First-Served Basis) Hall D - 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 Am I Using It Right? Checking Best Practices on Live Kubernetes Clusters - Varsha Varadarajan & Adam Wolfe Gordon, DigitalOcean Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center How Kubernetes Components Communicate Securely in Your Cluster - Maya Kaczorowski, Google Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

Lunch (Provided) Hall C + West Terrace + 20 Foyer - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Containerd Mini-Summit - Phil Estes, IBM; Lantao Liu, Google; Derek McGowan, Docker; & Yu-Ju Hong, Google Room 6D - 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

CoreDNS: Beyond the Basics - Cricket Liu, Infoblox & John Belamaric, Google Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

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

4:25pm PST

Deep Dive Into the Latest Kubernetes Scheduler Features - Abdullah Gharaibeh, Google Inc. Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center Tutorial: Attacking and Defending Kubernetes Clusters: A Guided Tour - Brad Geesaman, Brad Geesaman Consulting; Jimmy Mesta, KSOC, Inc.; Tabitha Sable, Independent; & Peter Benjamin, Teradata (Limited Available... Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center Tutorial: Deep Dive into the Operator Framework for Kubernetes - Melvin Hillsman, Michael Hrivnak, & Matt Dorn, Red Hat (Limited Available Seating; First-Come, First-Served Basis) Hall D - San Diego Convention Center