OpenShift Commons Gathering Co-located Alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
November 12, 2024 | 8:00 AM–6:00 PM MST | Salt Lake City, UT
Where users, partners, customers, contributors and upstream project leads come together to collaborate and work together across the OpenShift Cloud Native ecosystem.
Event Overview
This in person OpenShift Commons Gathering will be held on November 12th live in Salt Lake City, Utah and co-located with CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA.
This Gathering will focus on talks from and by Cloud Native practitioners with production deployments sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way.
Where
Salt Lake City, UT
LE MÉRIDIEN SALT LAKE CITY DOWNTOWN, 131 South 300 West
When
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Price
Free
All times are local.
Sponsors
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Schedule
Code of Conduct: We follow the Code of Conduct of other events such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Similarly we are dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events, whether they are held in person or virtually. All event participants, whether they are attending an in-person event or a virtual event, are expected to behave in accordance with professional standards, with both this Code of Conduct as well as their respective employer's policies governing appropriate workplace behavior and applicable laws.
COVID-19 Health + Safety Information: We are committed to our attendee's health and safety and follow the Healthy and Safety policies of the events we are co-located with or by default those of the CNCF.
See sessions from previous gatherings
- 8:00 AM
- Registration, Networking & Coffee Service
- 9:00 AM
- Keynote Kickoff Mike Barrett (Red Hat)Derek Carr (Red Hat)Mrunal Patel (Red Hat)
- 9:45 AM
- User Talk
- 10:15 AM
- User Talk
- 10:45 AM
- COFFEE BREAK
- 11:00 AM
- How to go from zero to hero with Internal Developer Portals Adam Sykes (Manager | Deloitte Engineering - Cloud App Dev)Christophe Fargette (Red Hat)
- 11:30 AM
- Virtualization Panel: Ensuring Data Protection and Disaster Recovery with Leading Technology Partners Brenda McLaren (Red Hat)
- 12:00 PM
- LUNCH
- 1:00 PM
- User Talk
- 1:30 PM
- User Talk
- 2:00 PM
- User Talk
- 2:30 PM
- Sponsor Talk: Crunchy Data Postgres for Red Hat Products Blair McDuff (Crunchy Data)
- 2:35 PM
- Sponsor Talk: Architecting storage for modern applications on OpenShift
- 2:40 PM
- COFFEE BREAK
- 3:00 PM
- User Talk
- 3:30 PM
- Scaling fine-tuning of language models with distributed InstructLab on OpenShift AI Sally O Malley (Red Hat)Michael Clifford (Red Hat)
- 4:00 PM
- AMA Session: Live Q/A with Guest Speakers, Red Hat Engineers & Project Leads Mrunal Patel (Red Hat)
- 4:30 PM
- What is next for OpenShift Commons & Community Awards Amy Marrich (Red Hat)Aubrey Muhlach (Red Hat)
- 5:00 PM
- RECEPTION
Speakers
Adam Sykes
Manager | Deloitte Engineering - Cloud App Dev
Intro
Adam Sykes is a Deloitte Engineering leader in building Developer Platforms in the Cloud and an overall Developer Experience for enterprise. He serves customers across Government and Commercial sectors and strives to bring acceleration to environments for happy developers.
Alan CowlesPrincipal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Alan Cowles is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager on the Customer and Field Engagement team at Red Hat. He specializes in hybrid data center architecture and the development of solution patterns using Red Hat OpenShift, with a particular focus on OpenShift Virtualization. These patterns combine both native features and partner solutions to demonstrate how to best meet customer needs. In the world away from work, Alan can often be found running or biking on one of the many trail systems in central North Carolina, playing softball or golf, or hanging out at home with his wife and two children.
Alexon Ferreira de OliveiraPrincipal Technical Account Manager
Red Hat
Alireza RahmaniSenior Cloud Success Architect
Red Hat
Intro
Alireza Rahmani is a dynamic Senior Cloud Success Architect at Red Hat who blends technical mastery in cloud computing with a passion for education. With a strong foundation in both software engineering and business, Alireza excels at developing forward-thinking strategies and solutions. As an innovative educator and curriculum developer, he champions open-source technologies, inspiring the next generation of tech leaders. His commitment to advancing technological progress and driving community engagement underscores his role as a true leader in the cloud and academic spheres.
Amy MarrichPrincipal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Amy is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat specializing in OpenStack. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project, as Vice-Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and on the CHAOSS Project Governing Board. In addition she serves on the OpenStack Technical Committee, as chair of the OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and contributes to several OpenStack projects, and previously served as the chair of the OpenStack User Committee.
Andrew BlockDistinguished Architect
Red Hat
Intro
Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reduce the overall delivery time. Andrew is the author of several publications on solutions within the Kubernetes ecosystem, a maintainer on the Helm, ORAS and SOPS projects, and a contributor to several Open Source projects including Sigstore.
Anjali TelangPrincipal Product Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Anjali Telang is a Principal Product Manager for Security and Identity in OpenShift at RedHat. She is a security, networking and cloud enthusiast with over 16 years of experience. Prior to joining RedHat, she worked in various product and engineering roles at VMware and NetApp. In her free time, she loves to read, cook and meditate.
Aubrey MuhlachSenior Manager, Product Marketing
Red Hat
Blair McDuffAccount Executive
Crunchy Data
Intro
Blair McDuff is an Account Executive at Crunchy Data. She works with enterprises across North America to ensure the backend data store for their applications is highly available and secure. She focuses on providing open-source software solutions, an exceptional customer experience, and business value.
Brenda McLarenSenior Specialist Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Christophe FargetteProduct Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Christophe Fargette is a Product Manager at Red Hat, specializing in the development and enhancement of the Red Hat Developer Hub. With a passion for empowering developers and optimizing workflows, Christophe leads initiatives to create user-centric solutions that streamline internal development processes. With his extensive expertise in developer experience, Christophe brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic vision to his role. He is committed to understanding the diverse needs of developers within the organization and works closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative tools and resources that enhance productivity and collaboration.
Derek CarrSenior Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
Doron CaspinSenior Principal Product Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Doron Caspin is the Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, based in Chapel Hill, NC. He has 25 years of experience in the industry and holds both an MBA from North Carolina State University and CSSLP certifications.Doron joined Red Hat from IBI, where he was Director of Product Management and led the company’s transition to the cloud. Before IBI, he was a Senior Offering Manager at IBM, overseeing QRadar Security SaaS products. He also served as a Senior Product Manager at Dell-EMC, focusing on Data Protection and Security for Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Doron has also worked as a Principal Architect at RSA Security. Doron enjoys the outdoors, building things, and listening to music outside of work. He lives in Chapel Hill with his four daughters.
Doug SmithPrincipal Software Engineer
Red Hat
Intro
Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network Plumbing Working Group and a contributor to OpenShift, Multus, and NFV-related projects.
Francisco MenesesSenior Architect- STP LATAM
Red Hat
Intro
Francisco Meneses is Senior Architect - STP for Latin America at Red Hat. His main role is to help the consulting and TSM team define architectures and support in generating commercial proposals that allow the generation of new opportunities for the company, ensuring the best practices and recommendations. With more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry, Francisco has been with Red Hat since 2016. During his professional career there, he has served as an architect and a Practice Leader, ensuring the adoption of product stack integration technologies. In addition to supporting the transformational processes of all clients (in areas of education, retail, banking, and telecommunications)
Hugo Guerrero OlivaresDeveloper Advocate
Red Hat
Intro
Hugo Guerrero is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat with over two decades of experience in software development. Throughout his career he has taken on diverse roles, including developer, consultant, architect and software development factory manager. Passionate about event-driven architecture, Hugo actively promotes the adoption of AsyncAPI, volunteering his time to raise awareness of this technology as an AsyncAPI ambassador. He is also a dedicated contributor to open-source projects and is responsible for maintaining the Microcks Docker Desktop Extension.
Jaime MagieraSenior Systems Engineer, Co-Chair OKD Working Group
CSX
Jamie ParkerProduct Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the OpenShift Logging and OpenStack Telemetry areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their feedback, helps to guide upcoming products within the Red Hat Observability Platform. Jamie enjoys sharing lessons learned to the community by frequently speaking at meetups and conferences and by blogging.
Joel SpeedPrincipal Software Engineer, Technical Lead
Red Hat
Intro
Joel is a Principal Software Engineer with Red Hat focusing primarily on integrating OpenShift and the cloud. He’s been working with and building on Kubernetes since 2017. With Red Hat since 2020, he now leads the team behind Machine API and Cluster API as well as Cloud Controller Manager and autoscaling integrations. Joel is also one of the OpenShift API review team and is responsible for assisting OpenShift engineers across the board with their architecture and API design.
Kevin DuboisSenior Principal Developer Advocate
Red Hat
Intro
Kevin Dubois is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where his deep passion for open source, Java and cloud-native development shines through. As a recognized Java Champion, accomplished software engineer, author, and keynote speaker, Kevin is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern software development. His role at Red Hat allows him to immerse himself in cutting-edge open source projects while enhancing the developer experience across the globe. A true advocate for the open source community, Kevin also contributes when he can to projects like Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel and Podman (Desktop). He’s also an organizing member of the Belgian CNCF and the Belgian Java User Group. Multilingual and multicultural, Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently. Currently based in Belgium, he has lived in Italy and the USA, giving him a global perspective that he brings to his work.
Mauricio 'Maltron' LealPrincipal Product Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Matt BatorPrincipal Solution Architect
Veeam
Intro
Matt is a 15+ year IT veteran with a passion for educating others about emerging technologies. From roles in development, to sales, to enablement, Matts career has continually focused on creating connections between customer value and technical problem solving. His work at Kasten includes designing and delivering training on Kastens product and Kubernetes ecosystem for employees, partners, and the community. Matt holds a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.
Michael CliffordPrincipal Data Scientist
Red Hat
Intro
Michael Clifford is a Principal Data Scientist in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. He is a member of the Emerging Technologies team where he focuses primarily on the intersection of AI tools and cloud native development.
Michael St-JeanGlobal Partner Business Executive
Red Hat
Intro
Michael St-Jean collaborates with partners across Red Hats partner ecosystem to develop solutions and cross-route initiatives that deliver business value for organizations around the world. For more than 2 decades, Michael has worked with cross-functional teams to help organizations solve complex business challenges with innovative technology solutions and strategies.
Mike BarrettVice President and General Manager, Red Hat Hybrid Platforms
Red Hat
Intro
Mike Barrett is the Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Hybrid Platforms. He looks after Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Cloud Services, Red Hat OpenStack and most of Red Hat’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation investments. He joined Red Hat in 2013 and specializes in accelerating application platforms through the use of operating systems, cloud and hardware technologies. Mike has more than 25 years of experience in datacenter architecture. He previously worked in both services and product management roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle before joining Red Hat.
Mrunal PatelDistinguished Engineer
Red Hat
Intro
Mrunal Patel is a Distinguished engineer at Red Hat working on OpenShift and Kubernetes. He serves as a Kubernetes SIG-Node Chair and Technical Lead, contributing to the evolution of container orchestration. As a founder of the CRI-O container runtime and a maintainer of the OCI runtime spec and runc, Mrunal played a pivotal role in advancing containerization and runtime standards.
Pavol LoffayPrincipal Software Engineer
Red Hat
Intro
Pavol Loffay is a Principal Software Engineer, tech lead, Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry and OpenShift distributed tracing. He works on open-source observability technology for modern cloud-native applications. He contributes to and maintains the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects OpenTelemetry and Jaeger. In his free time, Pavol likes to hike, climb, and ski steep slopes in the Swiss Alps.
Peter LauterbachSenior Principal Technical Product Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Peter is a product manager in Red Hat Hybrid Platforms, focused on OpenShift, virtualization, and performance & scale. He’s been building high-tech solutions for enterprise storage, virtualization, databases, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud for longer than he cares to admit.
Prasanth AnbalaganSenior Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Raffaele SpazzoliSenior Principal Architect
Red Hat
Intro
Raffaele Spazzoli is a full-stack enterprise architect with 20+ years of experience. Raffaele started his career in Italy as a Java Architect, then gradually moved to Integration Architect and then Enterprise Architect. Later he moved to the United States to eventually become an OpenShift Architect for Red Hat consulting services, acquiring in the process, knowledge of the infrastructure side of IT. Currently Raffaele covers a consulting position of cross-portfolio application architecture with a focus on OpenShift. For most of his career Raffaele has worked with large financial institutions allowing him to acquire an understanding of the processes, security and compliance requirements of large enterprise customers. Raffaele has become part of the CNCF TAG Storage and contributed to the Cloud Native Disaster Recovery whitepaper. Recently Raffaele has been focusing on how to improve the developer experience by implementing internal development platforms (IDP).
Ryan WallnerSenior Technical Marketing Engineer
Portworx by Pure Storage
Intro
Ryan is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Portworx by Pure Storage and host of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. Ryan is a cloud native and Kubernetes enthusiast and dad of a fearless daughter. Find Ryan creating blogs, podcasts, light boards, demos, and hands-on labs within the container cloud native ecosystem. Before Pure, Ryan spent time at Dell, ClusterHQ, and Athenahealth where he focused on DevOps and Storage. In his free time, you can find Ryan spending time outdoors adventure riding dual sport bikes, hiking, and mountain biking.
Mauricio 'Salaboy' SalatinoSoftware & Ecosystem Engineer
Diagrid
Intro
Mauricio “Salaboy” Salatino works as an Open-Source and Ecosystem Software Engineer at Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. He also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project, Co-chair of the Application Development Working Group at the CNCF, and Dapr Maintainer. He published a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning Publishing and previously worked at both VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.
Sally O MalleyPrincipal Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies
Red Hat
Scott BerensSenior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Red Hat
Intro
Scott Berens is a Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, with a focus on multicluster management. Scott has 20 years of experience with IBM and Red Hat working in virtualization, orchestration and management across private, hybrid and multicloud. Scott leads the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes product management team as part of the Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus offering. Scott likes technology that just works, live music, bbq, tennis, skiing and pretty anything outdoors [except yardwork].
Surya SeetharamanPrincipal Software Engineer
Red Hat
Intro
Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat on the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems. She loves solving problems in any sphere of life (specially if it involves coding and collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds). When she is not working, she loves to bike, swim and binge watch.
Valentina Rodriguez SosaPrincipal Technical Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Intro
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Architect at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. Before this role, she worked with high-profile customers, helping them adopt new technologies, and worked closely with developers and platform engineers. Her background is in software engineering. She built software for 15 years, working in diverse roles from Developer to Tech Lead and Architect, from retail, healthcare, financial, e-commerce, telco, and many other industries. She loves contributing to the community and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as OReilly, KubeCon, Open Source Summit, Red Hat DevNation Day, and others. She is a KCD organizer and a project member of the OpenGitops project.
Younes Ben BrahimSenior Product Marketing Manager
Red Hat
Venue
November 12, 2024 | 8:00 AM–6:00 PM MST
LE MÉRIDIEN SALT LAKE CITY DOWNTOWN, 131 South 300 West
131 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101, United States
Salt Lake City, UT