Panel: Kubernetes, Cloud Native and the Public Cloud [B] - Moderated by Dan Kohn
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 15/12/2017

Panel: Kubernetes, Cloud Native and the Public Cloud [B] - Moderated by Dan Kohn, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

The six largest public cloud providers -- AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Oracle -- are all now major backers of CNCF and Kubernetes. This is a chance to hear their perspective on investments they are making into Kubernetes and other CNCF technologies. How are they using these technologies internally? What changes are they making in their offerings to better suit cloud native enterprises? What is their perspective on the future of container runtimes? How do they deal with customers that need a hybrid cloud solution? Is the infrastructure layer becoming commoditized? What is their ability to differentiate in value added services at the higher layers? What projects should CNCF bring in to help fill out its stack?

About Dan Kohn
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Dan is Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus. He also helped create and launch the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative as an industry-wide response to the security vulnerabilities demonstrated by Heartbleed.

About Jon Mittelhauser
Jon runs engineering for the Container Native Platform team at Oracle (which includes all of Oracle’s Kubernetes offerings). Jon is considered one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web with more than 20 years of open source and engineering management experience.  He wrote the first widely used Web browser (NCSA Mosaic for Windows) as part of his Master’s thesis at the University of Illinois and was a founding engineer of Netscape Communications.  More recently he ran engineering for Nebula, Inc., was on the OpenStack foundation board and was CEO of CloudBolt Software. 

About Gabe Monroy
Gabe Monroy is the Lead PM for Containers on Microsoft Azure. Gabe was the founder and CTO of Deis, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2017. As an early contributor to Docker and Kubernetes, Gabriel has deep experience with containers in production and frequently advises organizations on PaaS, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures. Gabriel speaks regularly at industry events including KubeCon, DockerCon, CoreOS Fest, GlueCon, QCon, and Microsoft Build.

About Todd Moore
Todd leads the IBM global team working to develop open communities that fuel both innovation and new business models. Todd can be found engaged with communities and technologies that span Cloud Computing, Mobile, Social Business, and Analytics. He has the pulse of where open innovation is happening around the industry. Todd has a unique background in software and hardware development, architecture, design and product management. He has served in executive roles in both IBM’s Software and Systems. 

About Aparna Sinha
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.

About Hong Tang
Dr. Hong serves as Chief Architect at Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. He joined Alibaba Cloud in 2010 and has been instrumental in the development of Apsara, Alibaba Cloud’s large-scale computational engine.
Join us for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona May 20 - 23, Shanghai June 24 - 26, and San Diego November 18 - 21!  Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.