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Todd Ekenstam

Intuit
Principal Software Engineer
Todd Ekenstam is a Principal Engineer at Intuit, building a platform for secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure. Todd has worked on various large-scale distributed systems projects during his career, ranging from hierarchical storage management, peer-to-peer database replication, enterprise storage virtualization, two-factor authentication SaaS, and Kubernetes clusters. Todd is co-author of the book "GitOps and Kubernetes" and is co-chair of the CNCF Developer Experience/End-user SIG.
Monday, November 18
 

8:00am PST

Registration + Badge Pick-up at Manchester Grand Hyatt Harbor Tower Side - Manchester Grand Hyatt

11:30am PST

Open Policy Agent Summit hosted by Styra (Additional Registration + Fee Required) Room 8 - San Diego Convention Center

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

5:38pm 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
 
Tuesday, November 19
 

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

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 OPA Introduction & Community Update - Rita Zhang, Microsoft & Patrick East, Styra Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center Blazin’ Fast PromQL - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs Room 11AB - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Applying Policy Throughout The Application Lifecycle with Open Policy Agent - Gareth Rushgrove, Snyk Room 29ABCD - San Diego Convention Center Intro to SIG Service Catalog - Jonathan Berkhahn, IBM & Mateusz Szostok, SAP Room 32AB - San Diego Convention Center Intro: Flux - Stefan Prodan & Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

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

2:25pm PST

Managing Helm Deployments with Gitops at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center From Issue to PR Merged: A Fluentd “Tail” - Jordan Hamel, Amgen Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center Living with the Pathology of the Cloud: How AWS Runs Lots of Clusters - Micah Hausler, Amazon Room 29ABCD - San Diego Convention Center Enforcing Automatic mTLS with Linkerd and OPA Gatekeeper - Ivan Sim, Buoyant & Rita Zhang, Microsoft Room 31ABC - 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 Kubernetes in Your 4x4 – Continuous Deployment Directly to the Car - Rafal Kowalski, Grape Up Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center Admission Webhooks: Configuration and Debugging Best Practices - Haowei Cai, Google Room 29ABCD - San Diego Convention Center Intro to the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-tenancy - Tasha Drew, VMware Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center Jaeger Intro - Yuri Shkuro, Uber Technologies & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center Weighing a Cloud: Measuring Your Kubernetes Clusters - Han Kang, Google & Elana Hashman, Red Hat Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

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

4:25pm PST

Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land - Vincent Demeester, Red Hat & Andrea Frittoli, IBM Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of Nodes Across Multiple Clusters, Calmly - Ben Hughes, Airbnb Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center Panel: Control Plane vs Data Plane: Untangling the Tenets of Multitenancy - Tasha Drew, VMware; Sanjeev Rampal, Cisco; Ryan Bezdicek, Cray Inc.; Adrian Ludwin, Google; & Fei Guo, Alibaba Room 29ABCD - 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
 

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 Stitching a Service Mesh Across Hundreds of Discrete Networks - Jason Webb & Anil Attuluri, Intuit Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Leveling Up Your CD: Unlocking Progressive Delivery on Kubernetes - Daniel Thomson & Jesse Suen, Intuit Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center Deep Dive: Flux the GitOps Operator for Kubernetes - Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

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

2:00pm PST

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

2:25pm PST

Krane: A Developer-Centric Deploy Tool - Daniel Turner & Katrina Verey, Shopify Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center Emitting, Consuming, and Presenting: The Event Lifecycle - Jesse Dearing, VMware Room 11AB - San Diego Convention Center Intro: SIG Cluster Lifecycle - Timothy St. Clair, VMware Room 6E - 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

Panel: GitOps User Stories - Tamao Nakahara, Weaveworks; Javeria Khan, Palo Alto Networks; Hubert Chen, Branch; Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks; & Edward Lee, Intuit Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting – Liz Rice, Aqua Security; Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks; Joe Beda, VMware; Jeff Brewer, Intuit; Michelle Noorali, Microsoft; Matt Klein, Lyft Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center SIG Service Catalog Deep-Dive - Jonathan Berkhahn, IBM & Mateusz Szostok, SAP Pacific Ballroom, Salon 25-26 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

3:55pm PST

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

4:25pm PST

Developing Operators with the Kubernetes Operator Pythonic Framework (kopf) - Sergey Vasilyev, Zalando SE Hall D - San Diego Convention Center 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 Intro: Prometheus - Matt Layher, Fastly & Ganesh Vernekar, Grafana Labs Pacific Ballroom, Salon 20-22 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Debugging Live Applications the Kubernetes Way: From a Sidecar - Joe Elliott, Grafana Labs Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:20pm PST

Deep Dive: Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-tenancy - Sanjeev Rampal, Cisco & Adrian Ludwin, Google Room 1AB - San Diego Convention Center OPA Deep Dive - Tim Hinrichs & Torin Sandall, Styra Pacific Ballroom, Salon 23-24 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Open Source Weave Ignite - The GitOps VM - Mark Emeis, Weaveworks Room 6E - San Diego Convention Center

6:00pm PST

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

7:30am PST

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

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

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

10:30am PST

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

10:55am PST

Handling Risky Business: Cluster Upgrades - Puneet Pruthi, Lyft Ballroom Sec 20CD - 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

11:50am PST

SIG Cluster Lifecycle (kops) - Justin Santa Barbara, Google Room 7AB - 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

12:25pm PST

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

2:25pm PST

Cloud Native Runtime Security with Falco - Kris Nova, Sysdig & Abhinav Srivastava, Frame.io Room 31ABC - San Diego Convention Center SIG Cluster Lifecycle (Cluster API) - Vince Prignano, VMware & Ashish Amarnath, Salesforce Room 6E - 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

Kubeadm Deep Dive (SIG Cluster Lifecycle) - Fabrizio Pandini, VMware & Yago Nobre, Nubank Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center Supercharge Your Microservices CI/CD with Service Mesh and Kubernetes - Brian Redmond, Microsoft Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

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

4:25pm PST

Enforcing Service Mesh Structure using OPA Gatekeeper - Sandeep Parikh, Google Room 6F - 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

5:20pm PST

Staying in Tune: Optimize Kubernetes for Stability and Utilization - Randy Johnson & Koushik Radhakrishnan, VMware Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center