Cloud Operator Days Tokyo 2023
〜Effortless Operation〜

Sponsorship Prospectus
Cloud Operator Days Tokyo ２０２３ Organizing Committee
https://cloudopsdays.com/ver. 202３.0４.10

A New Era of Effortless Operation
Under the main theme of “A New Era of Effortless Operation," we would like to share new challenges, successes
and failures, and know-how gained from experience in actual operation.

Monitoring, log collection, and trend analysis are necessary to efficiently manage resources and to detect andrecover from failure at an early stage. In the new era of cloud operations, these tasks will also be automated andutilize artificial intelligence technology to reduce the burden on operations work, aiming for early detection andresponse to errors and failures.
We are considering the following main tracks for this year’s event, but we are open to a wide range of topics aslong as they are operations-related and in line with the purpose of the event.
- AIOps- War stories (failures, troubleshooting)- Automation (Dev/Ops, CI/CD, IaC)
- Cost management- OpenStack- Monitoring and Log Observability- Public cloud operations (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)[Cloud Operator Days Tokyo]
A tech event focused on cloud operators. Cloud operators include not only infrastructure engineers who areoperating cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, FaaS), but also those who create and operate applications on
cloud infrastructure. We would like to grow this event as a community that can develop operations technology andeducate and train young engineers who are interested in infrastructure and application operations by presenting
and sharing techniques, problems, and solutions related to operation.
Last year's third event featured more than 70 online, on-demand sessions, followed by a one-day hybrid closing
event, and was accessed by more than 2,000 viewers. https://cloudopsdays.com/archive/2022/
This year we plan to hold the event again with online, on-demand session delivery and a closing event to be heldoffline.

Purpose
Operational challenges (multiple choice)from CODT2022 audience survey

Why focus on “operations engineers” ?

OtherThe building and operation of cloud infrastructure systems are two sidesof the same coin, but the main topics covered in technical articles, books,documents, and technical events and cutting-edge case studies
inevitably lean toward building. However, if we consider the “life” of anenterprise IT system, most of its lifetime is occupied by “operations". Itshould be obvious that the know-how related to operation is theinformation that most engineers want to acquire.

Aging

5.2%

Infrastructure

…

10.3%

technology
26.8%

Changes toexisting apps

10.4%

Following new

Insufficient
Humanmanpower

dependency

24.8%

22.6%…

In the enterprise field, operations engineers are involved in a wide range of tasks, from day-to-day stable
operation to fixing problems, responding to incidents, and performing various types of maintenance. The
dilemma is that it is difficult to share know-how with the outside world, and even if you want to provide
information, you cannot put it in a form that can be understood by outsiders. In addition, there seems to be a
psychological feeling of embarrassment in exposing case studies to the outside world, since it is necessary totell stories of failure and hardships.
Unfortunately, it is not so convenient to find a way out of this situation. If there is anything that can be done,
it would be to prepare more places where the situation in the field can be discussed as openly as possible. In
the same way as with open source development, opening up the know-how of cloud operations will be ashortcut for more engineers to grow together.
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Event Outline
Cloud Operator Days Tokyo (CODT) 202３

Theme: A New Era of Effortless Operation
Host: CODT202３ Organizing Committee
Fee: Free (advance registration required)
Expected Viewers: 2,０00202２.0５.2９ CODT202２ Media EventTakeshi Narisako（ Gifu University Visiting Professor / Design for ALL Co-founder / DENSO ）Dates (Format):- late July 202３

Pre-event (online/live | half-day | event intro | targeting media)- late August 202３

On-demand delivery (online | 60 sessions | CFS/Sponsor/Invited content)- mid September 202３ Closing Event (offline | one-day | Keynote/Panel/LT/Award Ceremony）- October 202３

Archive available

Host
Cloud Operator Days Tokyo 2023 Organizing Committee
Chair: Akihiro Hasegawa (AXLBIT)

Committee Members:
Kanako Fukuoka (New Relic)Akira Oiwa (Yahoo!)

Yushiro Furukawa (LINE)

Yuma Taguchi (NTT East)

Kenta Gomi (NTT East)

Hideki Takashima (NTT AT)

Yudai Kudo（Hitachi Solutions）

Mitsuhiro Tanino (LINE)

Sakiko Ida (New Relic)

Mariko Tokikuni (NTT East)

Takuya Ito (Redhat)

Takuro Yamaguchi (VMware Japan)

Shintaro Mizuno (NTT)Yuki Yamashita (Redhat)

Past Events
CODT２０２０
Registrants
Viewers(unique)

CODT2021

１,422

１，９０８

1,387 (July 2021 two-day program; live streaming）

１，821 (July/August 2021; four week on demand viewing)
４０８ （2021.08.27 closing event – award ceremony viewers;
live streaming)

Sessions

43５４Sponsors

１３１９Main
SessionTracksApplication development
Troubleshooting
Large-scale operation
OpenStackOrganization Theory

Large-scale system operation
Internal Infra (infosys, dev infra) operation
Operation automation（Dev/Ops、CI/CD）
Operation war stories (failures/troubleshooting)
Cloud Native Telecom Operator Meetup (CNTOM)

Top Viewed
Sessions

Rakuten Mobile "Complete Virtualization”
KDDI's approach to "agile development"
IaaS infra supporting Yahoo! JAPAN's 80 billion PV/month
How to Troubleshoot Cloud Infrastructure
Static Testing Strategy for Infrastructure as CodeHow to Start SRE: NTT DOCOMO "RAFTEL"'s PracticeConfronting the Super PayPay Shopping Festival
NFV changing the way telcos operate - cloud-native (KDDI)OpenShift for Kubernetes Operation
Yahoo Japan's IaaS Kubernetes cluster update story

EventReport(Japanese)

https://cloudopsdays.com/wpcontent/uploads/2020/09/CODT2020_report.pdf

https://cloudopsdays.com/wpcontent/uploads/2021/09/CODT2021_report_final.pdf

Past Events
CODT２０２２

CODT２０２３ 「Unplugged」
2023.02.14

Registrant
s２，０３９Registrants

144Viewers(unique)

１，846 （On-demand session viewers）
５０１ （７/27 Closing Event - Hybrid）

participants

96（off-line）

PurposeA completely offline operational
engineers' roundtable discussion. Unlike
a traditional conference, this was be a
fishbowl-style discussion of the real
voices of engineers. As the name
"Unplugged" suggests, this was a great
opportunity for speakers to not only give,
but also take away information from eachother through discussion.

Main
SessionTracks

Large infrastructure incidents
Operational HR
Deployment
Monitoring and logging
Technology acquisition strategy
Bare metal
Remote troubleshooting
Agile teams
Latest technology roundtableLog

https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/JPCODT-2023-Unplugged

Sessions

７１Sponsors

２４MainSessionTracks

Large-scale system operation
War stories
Operation automation (Dev/Ops, CI/CD)
Internal infrastructure
Service and application operations
Product and technology trends
Cloud CoETop
ViewedSessions- KDDI’s internal upgrade of its OpenStack NFV infrastructure- Gameday at a credit card company - unleashing "Gremlin" on Kubernetes- The evolution of accident prevention efforts at Yahoo! Japan- Rethinking Effective Alerts- Building Japan's Largest Containerized Data Center

EventReport(Japanese)

https://cloudopsdays.com/wpcontent/uploads/2022/09/CODT2022_report_final.pdf

Attendee Profile
Infra Engineers ６０％ ｜ Software Engineers ２０％
Managers, Group Leaders, Other Tech Staff 2０％
Number of Employees
11-50人4.1%
51-99…

Size of cloud (nodes) operating in current project

Less than 10～5000台3.7%

More than～1000台10,0005.9%More than

24.4%

500-999人
10.6%

1,0009,999…

21.6%

100-499人

18.3%

Involvement in Purchase Process
Purchase Decision
Maker
Seller

5.8%

14.6%

5,000

～100台

9.0%

34.7%

～500台

4,999人5,000-5.5%

CODT2022 ViewerSurvey Responses

11.9%
～10台
33.0%

Cloud infra operating/using (multiple response)

Review/Decide

Otherproduct and7.0%

service specs
32.9%

OpenStack
7.0%
9.8%
GCPAWS
32.0%

14.0%
Specify andRecommend

User

22.3%

24.4%

VMware

Azure

17.5%

19.8%

Event Contents
Apr-May Call for Speakers （CFS）
Call for Sponsors

Jun-Jul Program- CFS evaluation/selection- Organized session proposals- Sponsor session submission- Track selection; session grouping

Sponsorship Deadline (late June)
Late Jul Pre-event- online; live streaming- Targeting media
Goal – event outline/contents PR- promotion- media collaboration

Late Aug On Demand Session Streaming- 2-week period of on-demand session streaming- 60 sessions (CFS/invited/sponsor)

Mid Sep One-day Offilne Closing Event- Offline- keynote, panel, LT sessions- Cloud Operator Award Ceremony- Sponsor exhibit booths

Sep-Oct On-demand Archive Streaming

Cloud Operator Awards
Following the August on-demand session streaming period, a one-day offline
event will be held to close CODT2023 in mid September. Keynote speeches byprominent global guests, operator panel sessions, and the “Cloud OperatorAwards" ceremony will be held.

During the on-demand streaming period, viewers will be asked to nominate
sessions for the awards through a survey for each session, and the Evaluation
Committee will decide on the winning sessions.
Images from “Cloud Operator Awards” Ceremony

Voice of a CODT2021 Cloud Operator Award Winner
Jayoung Oh, Rakuten Mobile
I am honored to receive such an award. I have never given a presentation outside the company before, but since I
was given this opportunity, I decided to take on a new challenge and gave a presentation on the automation of cloud
platform operations that I am currently working on. I was able to win the "Young Operator Award" thanks to the
support of my team members from the preparation stage of my presentation.
2021年12月23日
楽天モバイルのエンジニアが「Cloud Operator Days Tokyo 2021」で「ヤングオペレーター賞」を受賞！
クラウドプラットフォームの開発プロセスを自動化する施策を発表しました
https://corp.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/blog/2021/1223_01/

Sponsor Levels and Benefits
Sponsorship Fee(not inclusive of 10% sales tax)

DiamondPlatinum

GoldSilver

2,000,000 JPY

800,000 JPY

400,000 JPY

100,000 JPY

Past OSDT and CODT sponsors Sponsors will be entitled to a 10% discount off the above sponsorship fees

(estimated 2,000 registrants)〇 sponsor session registrant
data〇 sponsor session registrant
ーdata(estimated 100-200 registrants)(estimated 100-200 registrants)〇 20 min x 2 sessions〇 20 min x 1 session〇 20 min x 1 session(viewer tracking data provided)(viewer tracking data provided)(viewer tracking data provided)

1 min. video slot during
closing event

30 sec. video slot during closing
event

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Real Exhibit Space +LT speaking slot
(Closing Event)

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Logo〇

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Lead Data〇 all registrant data

(advance registration data)

Speaking Session(s)(pre-recorded video content provided by sponsor)(On demand streaming)
Video Ad
(video ad content provided by sponsor)(event site/streaming platform/closing event)Archive(on streaming platform; limited time)ーLead data provided (in Japanese only): name, work email address, work phone number, work department, work title

Cloud Operator Days 2022 Sponsors

Applications and Inquiries
Sponsorship Application
https://forms.gle/YFneuKiRt4Pz6TLb7
Please complete the online CODT2023 Sponsorship Application Form to apply.

Initial Application Deadline
The initial application deadline is set as Monday, June 26, 2023. If you are unable
to meet this deadline, please contact the Event Office to confirm availability.

Invoicing of Sponsorship Fees
Following the application deadline, sponsors will be provided with a pdf version of thesponsorship fee invoice for confirmation. Payment of sponsorship fees will be requested to becompleted within 30 days of invoicing. If you cannot meet the payment deadline, pleasecontact the Event Office with details and requests.
Cloud Operator Days Tokyo 2023 Event Officec/o e-side, inc.
POC: Chie Miyamoto, Yuka Nishijima, Scott Macdonald
Tel: 81-3-6435-8789 Fax: 81-3-6435-8790
email: codt2023-office@e-side.co.jp

Sponsorship Agreement
Execution of Agreement
Organizations that sponsor the Event (hereinafter referred to as "Sponsors") must comply with all provisions described in the following regulations. If a Sponsor
violates any of these rules, the Organizer may reject the application for sponsorship, terminate the sponsorship agreement, cancel or change the speaking
session, or give instructions to remove or change the online booth content. In such cases, any fees paid in advance by the Sponsors will not be refunded. Inaddition, the Organizer will not compensate the Sponsor or any related parties for any loss or damage incurred by the Sponsor or any related parties due tocancellation of the sponsorship agreement, cancellation or change of the speaking session, or removal or change of online booth content.

Qualification
The Organizer reserves the right to determine whether the Sponsor's products, services, etc. are appropriate with the purpose of the Event.
Date of Agreement
The Sponsorship Agreement will be effective as of the date the completed Sponsorship Application Form is received by the Organizer.
Payment of Sponsorship Fee
The Sponsor shall pay the full amount of the invoiced Sponsorship Fee by bank transfer to the bank account designated by the Organizer by the deadline statedon the invoice. If the payment of the Sponsorship Fee cannot be confirmed by the due date, the Sponsorship Agreement will be terminated. If the Organizer incurs
any damage in this case, the Sponsor shall compensate for all such damage.

Cancellation of the Sponsorship Agreement
If the Sponsor wishes to terminate the Sponsorship Agreement in whole or in part after it has been executed, it must do so in writing. The sponsor will be required
to pay 30% of the sponsorship fee on cancellations made on or before June 26, 2023 (Monday) and the full sponsorship fee on or after June 27, 2023(Tuesday). If the Organizer incurs damages in excess of the cancellation fee, the Sponsor will be required to compensate for such damages separately.
Transfer of Sponsorship Benefit
The Sponsor will not assign or lend all or part of the speaking slots, advertising slots or online booth to other companies without the permission of the Organizer.
Cancellation of the EventThe Organizer reserves the right to cancel the event at any time. In the event of cancellation, the Organizer will reimburse the Sponsor an amount deemed
reasonable by the Organizer. The Organizer will not be responsible for any expenses or damages exceeding the original sponsorship fee.
Liability for Damages
The Organizer shall not be held responsible for any typographical errors or omissions that may occur in any work produced for this event.
Handling of Personal Information
When obtaining personal information through the Event, Sponsors shall comply with the Protection of Personal Information. The purpose of use of personal
information must be announced or notified, and the information must be used within the scope of the purpose of use. The Sponsor shall be responsible for themanagement of the personal information it obtains. In the case damage is caused to a participant, the Sponsor shall bear full responsibility and shall beresponsible for resolving any dispute.
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