CloudNativeCon 2018, May 2-4

CloudNativeCon 2018, May 2-4
Come see us at the CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 2 – 4, 2018. CloudNativeCon gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.

Featured Speakers

Aparna Sinha
Google
Aparna Sinha leads the product team at Google for Kubernetes and Container Engine. She started and co-leads the community PM Special Interest Group (SIG) to maintain an open backlog for the Kubernetes project on Github. Aparna is currently a secondary member of the CNCF Governing Board. She has worked in enterprise software for 15+ years, and was formerly a Director of Product at NetApp. Aparna holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and has co-authored several technical papers during her research.

Lew Tucker
Cisco
As VP/CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco, Lew is responsible for shaping Cisco’s strategy and products in cloud computing and leads several of the company’s open source initiatives. He also serves as a member of the OpenStack Foundation board of directors. Lew brings to the CNCF more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and parallel system architecture. Prior to joining Cisco, Lew was VP/CTO Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems where he led the development of the Sun Cloud platform. While at Sun, Lew was also a member of the JavaSoft executive team, launched java.sun.com, and helped to bring Java into the developer ecosystem. Intrigued by the software-as-a-service model for application delivery, Lew joined Salesforce.com and led the development of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. In the 1980’s Lew was a research director at Thinking Machines, where he developed algorithms for AI and machine vision for the massively parallel Connection Machine. Lew moved into technology following a career in Neurobiology at Cornell University Medical school and has a BA in Biology from Cornell and a Ph.D. in computer science from New York University.

Liz Rice
Aqua Security
Liz Rice is the Technology Evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security, and also works on container-related open source projects including manifesto and kube-bench. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London.

Ralph Squillace
Microsoft
Ralph Squillace is a Principal Program Manager for the open-source, container-native dev and ops Kubernetes tooling built by Azure. He oversees contributions to Helm, Draft, Brigade, VS Code Kubernetes extensions, and any random thing that makes building apps in containers easier, faster, and more secure.