Build & maintain complex distributed systems
October 1–2, 2017: Training
October 2–4, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

Schedule: Meet The Experts sessions

Meet the Experts gives you a chance to meet with expert Velocity presenters face-to-face in a small group setting. Join in to discuss the speakers’ areas of expertise, give feedback about their sessions, or ask questions. Seating is limited, so don’t forget to add it to your personal schedule.

    Tuesday, October 3

    10:45am–11:35am Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Bret Fisher and Shawn Bower
    Location: Table A
    Bret Fisher (DevOps Consultant), Shawn Bower (Cornell University)
    Want to know how to improve your local development workflow, how to deploy Docker Swarm, or how to deal with other stumbling blocks on the way to deploying containers? Come chat with Bret and Shawn about all things Docker and containers. No question is too big or too small. Read more.
    10:45am–11:35am Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Kristopher Beevers
    Location: Table C
    Kristopher Beevers (NS1)
    Join Kristopher to discuss topics like DNS resiliency, traffic management setups, application delivery architectures, global infrastructure management, and service provider redundancy. Read more.
    10:45am–11:35am Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Bryan Liles
    Location: Table B
    Bryan Liles (Heptio)
    Stop by to hear Bryan explore paths for starting a career in systems engineering, ideas on where we could go in the future, and how words, technology, and empathy impact the people and projects we interact with every day. Read more.
    10:45am–11:35am Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Matt Cutts
    Location: Table D
    Matt Cutts (United States Digital Service (USDS))
    Join Matt Cutts for Meet the Experts. Matt is acting administrator and distinguished engineer at the US Digital Service, which delivers better government services through technology and design. Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with VM Brasseur and Deb Nicholson
    Location: Table A
    Deb Nicholson (Software Freedom Conservancy), VM Brasseur (Juniper Networks)
    Deb and Vicky will answer all your questions about team composition, conflict resolution, communication strategies, goal and expectation setting, or anything else dealing with creating a healthy cross-functional team. Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Michael Hausenblas
    Location: Table B
    Michael Hausenblas (AWS)
    Michael is a Gopher. If you know what that means, you'll likely want to talk with him. He's also into all sorts of cloud-native topics, including containers (CRI-O, Docker, etc.), Kubernetes, OpenShift, Prometheus, and functions as a service (from Amazon Lambda to OpenWhisk). Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Craig Adams
    Location: Table C
    Join Craig to talk about the traditional DevOps pipeline, how to think about CDN automation, and how Akamai is baking automation into its CDN. Read more.

    Wednesday, October 4

    10:45am–11:35am Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Lara Hogan
    Location: Table A
    Lara Hogan (Wherewithall)
    Join Lara to discuss public speaking, mentorship and sponsorship, engineering management, and last but not least, donuts. Read more.
    10:45am–11:35am Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Richard Cook
    Location: Table C
    Richard Cook (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers)
    Come chat with Richard about his experience with managing anomalies, his concept of "dark debt," and the paradoxes that dog efforts to enhance resilience. Read more.
    10:45am–11:35am Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Basil Faruqui
    Location: Table B
    Basil is the Lead Solution Marketing Manager at BMC. Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Brendan Burns
    Location: Table D
    Brendan Burns (Microsoft)
    Brendan is here to talk with you about Microsoft Azure, the cloud and cloud-native applications, containers, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Jessica Frazelle
    Location: Table A
    Jessica Frazelle (Microsoft)
    Bring all of your questions (and thoughts) on containers, security, Linux, or Golang to Jess to get the answers you need. Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Robert Castley
    Location: Table C
    Robert Castley (Catchpoint Systems)
    Robert has been optimizing web page performance for years and specializes in all things digital experience management, end-user experience, real-user measurement, and synthetic monitoring. Come chat with him all about APIs, CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, XML, web design and UX, and performance. Read more.
    3:05pm–3:50pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
    Meet the Experts with Claire Le Goues
    Location: Table B
    Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Come talk with Claire about software quality—especially automated debugging. There is no question too big or small. She is happy to discuss any kinds of development or challenges people face and the ways that academic research can (or can't) help them. Read more.