ESCAPE/19 - An Unbiased Multi-Cloud Conf in NYC
Tags: database, devops, distributedsystems, architecture
Published: 2019-10-02 18:36:55

The existing cloud conferences are, for the most part, pretty biased (self-serving) events where content is caged within the context of the host cloud. This is why we decided to create **ESCAPE/19 - The Multi-Cloud Conference**. 

ESCAPE/19 will gather practitioners and technologists in NYC on Oct. 16th/17th, to have an **open and independent conversation about the cloud and multi-cloud** outside the context of the large public cloud providers. This is **not a show about databases in the cloud**, rather a more broad event to talk about the technical and business issues we’ll face with our cloud investments.

We've built a promo code for those who find us in this community. Just use **SOCIAL40** when you buy your ticket to get 40% off. 

Please let me know if you have any questions & check out some of the speakers. Full Agenda is here https://escapeconference.io/schedule/


**October 16- MORNING SESSIONS**

Spencer Kimball, CEO/Co-founder, **Cockroach Labs**
The future of the cloud is a global world where details of each cloud provider are abstracted away from our apps/services so our developer can get busy coding.

Armon Dadger, CTO and Co-founder, **Hashicorp**
The many definitions of multi-cloud and how to distill this into workflow portability, workload portability, traffic portability, or data portability.


MIke Shindle, Riot Games & Jeremy Hermann
A panel discussion on the practical reality of the cloud in our complex enterprise environments.

James Waters, SVP Product, **Pivotal**
James will explore how we can turn the challenges of multi-cloud into business value.

Bassam Tabbara, CEO & Founder, **Upbound**
How can the open-source community tip the market towards a more open, horizontally-integrated cloud ecosystem?

**October 16 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS**

Zac Smith, CEO, **Packet**
How to balance price, performance, proximity, politics and pride to gain a better picture of your multicloud challenges and strategy.

Max Beauchemin
Dealing with multiple data ingestion challenges and doing this at scale - lessons learned and best practices.

Lisa Marie Namphy - **Portworx**, Allan Naim - **Google**, Eric Han - **Portworx** and Joseph Sandoval, **Adobe**
This panel brings together end-user practitioners and infrastructure providers to talk multi-cloud challenges, value and what workloads suit this new world best.

Frans van Rooyen - Senior Infrastructure Architect, **Adobe**
Designing Scalable Cloud Systems: Architecture for Multi-Cloud Implementations.

Nathalie Gholmieh, **UCSD**
Our journey to cloud-agnostic PaaS - containers first, multi-vendor orchestration, avoid unrationalized vendor lock-in, and go open source wherever possible.

Christina Noren, **Cloudbees**
ISVs in a Multi-Cloud World: Understand how the cloud platform oligopoly impacts the strategies of independent software vendors critical to the modern enterprise.

Chris Kuhl, CEO & Founder - **Kinvolk**
The many technical challenges of orchestrating and tunning workloads in a multi-cloud environment.

Kris Nova, Chief Open Source Advocate, **Sysdig**
The unique constraints of running a low level forensics analysis and incident response engine in a multilcloud environment.

Fritz Wetschnig, **CISO** & VP Enterprise Information Technology, Flex
Herding Cats- a CISO’s perspective on securing multi-cloud infrastructure. How security teams must retrofit and reimagine for multicloud.

Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer, **Gremlin**
Multi-cloud presents a whole new level of complexity for our apps and services. How can chaos engineering help you identify and squash issues?

Cornelia Davis, Vice President Of Technology, **Pivotal**
A look at a number of different approaches to infrastructure abstraction including Openstack, BOSH and cluster-api.

**October 17 - MORNING SESSIONS**

Rob Reid, Principal Engineer - **Lush**
How do you measure the eco-friendliness of the various public cloud providers.

Scott Johnston, CPO, **Docker**
The complexities that developers face when building, sharing and running modern apps, and how they can adapt to this new environment.

Michael Willette, Technical Fellow **USAA**
How we can apply science and apply a methodology to get a handle on your investment in multiple cloud providers.

Steve Mullany - Aviatrix and Fernando Robayo, Jeffries Financial
A “fireside chat” about the drivers and challenges multi-cloud enterprises face,  regulatory compliance and corporate governance for the multi-cloud era.

Brendan O’Leary, Senior Solutions Manager - **Gitlab**
Building and deploying applications in the multi-cloud world and the challenges of this modern supply chain.

**October 17 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS**

Liz Fong-Jones, CTO, **Honeycomb**
As distributed systems and cloud become more widespread, who is involved in production, how do they collaborate, and how do we measure their success?

Chris Smit, VP Engineering - **Ticketmaster**
The challenges we faced managing new and legacy systems in a hybrid cloud environment, and the benefits derived, some of which may surprise you.

Daniel Spoonhower, Co-Founder & CTO, **Lightstep**
Why distributed tracing should become the backbone for observability in “deep systems” at scale.

Jeremy Hermann, Co-Founder
The key challenges that companies face when trying to scale their ML efforts in a multi-cloud environment.

Dan Papandrea, Field CTO, **Sysdig**
Real-world examples of deploying clusters and applications across clouds with realtime golden signal visibility, alerting, and lifecycle security.

Bill Shetti, Director Sales Engr & Dev Advocacy, **VMware**
How continuous verification can reduce and potentially eliminate post-deployment headaches and increase the pace and reliability of software delivery.

Eddie Satterly, Co-Founder, **Amari.ai** & **DataNexus**
Leveraging Hybrid Clouds to Enable Capability Inside and Out - How to choose the right tools for the right job.

Andy Woods, Product Manager, **Cockroach Labs**
Benchmarking the cloud providers. A methodology for testing performance and what to look out for.

Brian Denker, Co-Founder & COO, **Tackle.io**
Public Cloud Provider Marketplaces - Under the Covers: a look inside the way we consume software on the public cloud providers.

Ethan Jackson, CEO & Founder - **Kelda**
Kubernetes presents a consistent API that's expressive, portable, and has everything required to develop a new class of cloud-agnostic tools.