IstioCon 2021
ReportBy María Cruz and Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy

#IstioCon

Key metrics

4,021
Registrants

84

Countries

2,836

1,517

Unique livestream
viewers

Unique recordingviewers#IstioCon

4.4/5
Satisfactionscore25+ End User Presentations

10 IstioCon Partners

Where did people join from?

Where did people join from?
43.5% from
North America

26.5%from
Europe23% from
Asia

5% fromSouthAmerica

1.5% from
Oceania
0.5% fromAfricaParticipant demographics

20.4%

43.8%

of attendees were CxO / Engineering manager /of attendees were either evaluating Istio for

Tech Lead

production use, or have tried at least one
example but haven’t used it seriouslyMost popular sessions in English

SessionCompany
presenting# liveviewers#IstioCon

Using Istio toIstio service
build the next
I want tomesh at
Improving What Envoy
Welcome generation 5G
sketch aenterprise security with hears when
Keynoteplatformmesh for you
scale
Istio
Istio speaks

Googleand IBM

Aspen Mesh &independent
contributor

1108

1192

Solo.io1080

IntuitRedHat955

807

Descartes
Labs677

Most popular sessions in Chinese

Session

Performancetuning and bestBestPreserve
practices in a
Secure yourpractice:original
Knative based,
microservices from Springsourcelarge-scale
Welcome Lightning with Istio step Cloud toaddress serverless platform
Keynote talks China
by stepIstio
within Istio
with Istio

CompanypresentingIntel and Tetrate, HP
Tetrate and others# live viewers#IstioCon

554

432

Intel

Huawei395

381

Huawei341

IBM China Dev Lab291

Making Istio accessible

13
Sessions presented in Chinese

51
sessions presented in English

3
Workshops covering the topics“Using Istio” (by Layer5), “Istiomulticlusters” (by Solo.io), and“Istio cookbook using Kiali” (byRedHat).

Oﬃcehours
On the following topics:● Istio debugging,● Istio Security,● WebAssembly,● Multi Cluster,● Istio Roadmap and● Istio in production.

Participant feedback
The majority of

Most participants felt

“It was an amazing event in every way of that!

participants agree thatempowered to use

From the speakers and presentations, to thethey had enough

Istio after attending

hosts, community, activities, gifts, online gathering

information about thethe conference.

platform, and even the amazing artists for thefuture of Isito project.

caricatures! Great job!”Social hour fun!

Impact for the project

23%

18.6%

87%

Audience growth on Twitter,

New users to the project fromOf Istio users are new users at

which is 10 percentile points

beginning of Jan to end of Feb.

the end of February 2021.

higher than other conferencemonths.

Impact for the project

Source: http://eng.istio.io/

The team (1/3)
Organizer’s
Committee

Co-leadAizhamal Nurmamat kyzy (Google)

Co-leadMaría Cruz (Google)

MemberRose Sawvel (Aspen Mesh)

MemberKevin Conner (RedHat)

MemberAditya Prerepa (Highschool student)

MemberAlex Soto Bueno (RedHat)

The team (2/3)
Program Committee Co-lead

Lin Sun (IBM > Solo.io)

Co-leadCraig Box (Google)

MemberChristian Posta (Solo.io)

MemberNeeraj Poddar (Aspen Mesh)

MemberBrain Tannous (RedHat)

MemberIris Ding (Intel)

MemberJimmy Song (Tetrate)

MemberZhonghu Xu (Huawei)

The team (3/3)
Event Production(Software Guru)

Event Manager

Mara Ruvalcaba

Content Coordination

Pedro Galván

Streaming and website

Alberto Rodríguez

Streaming

Alex Palomo

Speaker Advocacy

Alma María Rinasz

Promotion and socialmediaFernando Hernández

Streaming

Luis Sánchez

Streaming

Uriel García

Thank you!
María Cruz
Program manager
mpcruz@google.com#IstioCon

Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy
Program manager
aizhamal@google.com