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Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mark Fussell, Diagrid W178ab Welcome + Opening Remarks - Building the Argo Community - Pratik Wadher, Intuit W184abcd Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members - Waldir Montoya, VMware & Helen Greul, Spotify W196abc Welcome + Opening Remarks - Liz Rice, Isovalent & Laurent Bernaille, Datadog W179ab Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members - Lin Sun, Solo.io & Liam Randall, Cosmonic W180 Opening Remarks - More Than Kubernetes: The Data on Kubernetes Ecosystem, Program Committee Member - Melissa Logan, Costantia.io W471ab Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Member - Veronica Lopez, PlanetScale, Khallai Taylor, Regtheory W193ab Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Member - Matt Turner, Tetrate W175abc Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members - Faseela K, Ericsson Software Technology & Zack Butcher, Tetrate W470ab Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members - Ricardo Rocha, CERN & Yuzhui Liu, Bloomberg W194ab Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members - Tina Tsou, Arm & Steven Wong, VMware W192abc Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Committee Members - Austin Parker, Honeycomb.io: Eduardo Silva, Calyptia: Richard Hartmann, Grafana Labs W176abc [Livestream Sponsored by Isovalent] CiliumCon Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED 9:15am CST
Wiring Cloud Native Applications for Local Development - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid & Oleg Šelajev, AtomicJar W178ab Cross Cluster Execution of Argo Workflows - Shrinand Javadekar, Outerbounds, Inc. W187abc Driving the Platform at Deutsche Bahn with Crossplanes Provider-Argocd - Dennis Murtic, Deutsche Bahn; Jan Willies, Accenture W185abc Enforcing Supply Chain Security and Simplifying Compliance Audit for ArgoCD Deployments - Gopinath Rebala & Gopal Dommety, OpsMx W184abcd How to Adopt Backstage: Lessons from 20 Adopter Interviews - David Tuite, Roadie W196abc From Imagination to Implementation: Inside Adobe's Production-Grade Deployment with Cilium - Joseph Sandoval & Tony Gosselin Adobe W179ab WebAssembly Component Model: Enhancing Security, Productivity, and Green Computing - Bailey Hayes, Cosmonic & Kate Goldenring, Fermyon Technologies, Inc. W180 Transforming Data Processing with Kubernetes: Journey Towards a Self-Serve Data Mesh - Rakesh Subramanian Suresh & Jainik Vora, Intuit W471ab Cloud Native Data on K8s: The Good, Bad, and the Unknown - Michael Cade, Kasten by Veeam W193ab Envoy - Overview and Update: Senior Envoy Maintainer, Alyssa Wilk W175abc Unraveling Istio: A Tale of Scale, Challenges and Triumphs at DevRev - Khushboo Mittal & Kush Trivedi, DevRev W470ab Building a Multi-Cluster Privately Hosted LLM Serving Platform on Kubernetes - Julian Bright & Noah Yoshida, Predibase W194ab Kubernetes: Enabling Edge Workloads - Sally OMalley, Red Hat W192abc Project Updates W176abc 9:50am CST
Lessons Learned Migrating an Existing Product to a Multi Tenant Cloud Native Environment - Natalia Angulo & Carlos Sanchez, Adobe W178ab 300 Hours of Repetitive Work in Just 3 Hours by Leveraging Argo Workflows and ArgoCD - Anshul Mehta & Suman Das, Atlan W187abc Building a Bridge Between Argo CD and Terraform - Carlos Santana, AWS & Nicholas Morey, Akuity W185abc Managing Argo CD Multi-Tenancy Effectively - Gerald Nunn, Red Hat W184abcd GenAI in Backstage - Turbocharge Your Developer Productivity! - Ben Wilcock, VMware W196abc Controlling Access to External APIs with Cilium - Luis Ramírez, SuperOrbital W179ab Running Linux-Based Containers on Wasm and Browser with Container2wasm Converter - Kohei Tokunaga, NTT W180 Zero-Touch Fault-Tolerance for Cloud-Native Geo-Distributed Databases - Selvi Kadirvel, Elotl Inc & Aman Nijawan W471ab Building a Self Service DBaaS for Your Internal Developer Platform - George Hantzaras & Dan Mckean, MongoDB W193ab A Spotify Success Story: The Migration of the Web Proxy Layer to Envoy - Sabrina Zotti & Oliver Soell, Spotify W175abc Architecting Ambient Mesh for Scale - John Howard, Google W470ab How We Power the Largest AI Deployments on the Planet: Running Virtual Clusters at Scale - Brandon Jacobs, CoreWeave & Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs W194ab Pi in the Sky: Onboarding Edge Workloads Into the Service Mesh! - Marino Wijay & Nina Polshakova, Solo.io W192abc Business Observability -- FinOps at Grafana Labs - Richard Hartmann, Grafana Labs W176abc 10:20am CST
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Shaping Tomorrow's Technology: Navigating Cloud-Native, Serverless, and Polyglot Programming - Naina Singh & Shaaf Syed, Red Hat W178ab A Love Letter to Isolation - Kelly Shortridge, Fastly W180 Distributed Vector Databases - What, Why, and How - Steve Pousty, VMware W471ab How to Build Modern DBaaS Using CNCF Ecosystem Technologies - Kamal Gupta & Alok Nikhil, Omnistrate W193ab SLATE: Intelligent Request Routing - Aditya Prerepa, Aviatrix & Gangmuk Lim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign W175abc Lessons from Scaling AI Powered Translation Services Using Istio - Tim Gallant, Lilt & Malini Bhandaru, Intel W470ab Batch Systems in Production with Kueue: Multi-Tenancy and Fungibility - Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc. & Aldo Culquicondor, Google W194ab Energy Observability Using Kepler: Revolutionizing Cloud Efficiency - Sally OMalley, Red Hat & Marcelo Amaral, IBM W176abc 10:30am CST
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Build Progressive Delivery and Safety Into Your Apps with Feature Flags - Adam Gardner, Dynatrace W178ab Major League Baseball + Argo CD: A Home Run - Michael Goodness, Major League Baseball W184abcd Real Time Argo Rollouts Analytics Powered by Notification Engine - Vijay Agrawal & Henrik Blixt, Intuit W187abc Updating Databases the GitOps Way - Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh & Rotem Tamir, Ariga W185abc Evolution of Backstage: Declaring a New Route - Patrik Oldsberg & Ben Lambert, Spotify W196abc What's Smoother Than Your Morning Espresso Pull? Bridging Gaps with BGP and Cilium! - Marino Wijay, Solo.io W179ab The Falco Playground: A Cocktail of WebAssembly and Runtime Security - Jason Dellaluce, Sysdig & Rohith Raju, Independent W180 Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes: A Deep Dive - Kaslin Fields & Michelle Au, Google W471ab Database Parameter Auto-Tuning Through CI/CD Pipelines - Shohei Matsuura, Yahoo Japan Corporation W193ab A Platform-Agnostic Approach to Securing Workloads - Lukonde Mwila, AWS W175abc Running an API Gateway on Istio - Pitfalls and Learnings - Karim Lakhani, Intuit W470ab Cluster Operations as a Service, Introducing LLM Backed Controllers. - Rajas Kakodkar, VMware & Amine Hilaly, AWS W194ab Lessons from the Field: Running Kubernetes at the Wellsite - Michael Maxey, ZEDEDA W192abc OTTL Me Why Transforming Telemetry in the OpenTelemetry Collector Just Got Better - Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb & Evan Bradley, Dynatrace W176abc 11:30am CST
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Modernizing Authorization for Cloud Native Applications Using OpenFGA - Andres Aguiar & María Inés Parnisari, Okta W178ab Lessons from Implementing Pull Request Generated Preview Apps at MasterClass - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity & Paul Phipps, MasterClass W185abc Migrating CI/CD from Jenkins to Argo - Bertrand Quenin, Intuit & Caelan Urquhart Pipekit.io W184abcd Tailored Deployment Strategies: Argo Rollouts for Diverse Applications - Larisa Danaila, Adobe W187abc Using Cilium CNI in ClickHouse Cloud - Timur Solodovnikov, ClickHouse, Inc W179ab Extending Sidecarless Applications with Wasm in Istio Ambient Mesh - Lin Sun & Ben Leggett, Solo.io W180 Run PostgreSQL in Warp Speed Using NVMe/TCP in the Cloud - Sagy Volkov, Lightbits W471ab Statefulsets on Kubernetes: The Guardians of Your Data Galaxy - Eddie Wassef, Vonage W193ab Introduce MetaProtocol Proxy: A Layer-7 Proxy Framework Powered by Envoy - Huabing Zhao, Tetrate W175abc Ambient Operations: Automating Istio Orchestration with Argo - Mitch Connors, Aviatrix & Christian Hernandez, Akuity W470ab Scheduling Jupyter Notebooks Using Airflow on Kubernetes - Akshay Chitneni & Rus Pandey, Apple W194ab Building Smart Farms with Edge Computing Systems Using Kubernetes - Sergio Méndez, Yalo W192abc Dynamic Sampling in Practice - Kent Quirk, Honeycomb W176abc Panel: A Front Row Seat to Backstage Adoption - Poonam Garg, U.S. Bank; Guillermo Manzo, Expedia Group; Alec Jacobs, Twilio Segment and Kasper Nissen, Lunar W196abc 12:10pm CST
⚡ Lightning Talk: Where Has My Circuit Breaker Gone? - Bilgin Ibryam, Diagrid W178ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: 🚀 Git Going Fast with Cilium and Argo - Christine Kim, Isovalent W184abcd ⚡ Lightning Talk: Should You Run Your Database on Kubernetes - George Hantzaras, MongoDB W471ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: Dissecting Service Mesh Overheads - Xiangfeng Zhu, University of Washington W470ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: Harnessing Generative AI Without Making a Faux Pas - Shwetha Subramanian, Kasten by Veeam W194ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: Unleashing the Potential of IoT Wireless Devices with Kubernetes at Edge - Vitumbiko Mafeni, Soongsil University W192abc Juggling Argo Rollouts for Progressive Delivery Across Multiple-Services - Dan Garfield, Codefresh W187abc The Journey from ClickOps to GitOps at Ford with Red Hat - Arthur Vardevanyan, Ford Motor Company & Jehlum Vitasta Pandit, Red Hat W185abc Introduction and Usage of Fine-Grain Logger, Admin Console Primer, and Envoy’s Universal HTTP Validator - Boteng Yao & Joshua Marantz & Yan Avlasov, Google W175abc Monitoring and Metadata - Exploring Approaches to Attaching Metadata to Logs, Metrics and Traces - Ridwan Sharif, Google W176abc Panel: The Future of Database as a Service - Oded Poncz, DragonflyDB; Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck; Bart Farrell, Bartfarrell.com; Lisa-Marie Namphy, Cockroach Labs & Monica Sarbu, Xata.io W193ab 12:15pm CST
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Crafting Resilient and Scalable Systems with Orchestration and Choreography Patterns on Kubernetes - Carlos Santana & Mithun Mallick, AWS W178ab Extending Argo Projects: Customizing Argo CD and Argo Rollouts for Your Needs - Leonardo Luz Almeida & Zach Aller, Intuit W187abc How to Train an LLM with Argo Workflows and Hera - JP Zivalich, Pipekit & Flaviu Vadan, Dyno Therapeutics W184abcd Scaling Argo Events for Enterprise Scheduling: A Case Study from Intuit - Antonio Si & Prema devi Kuppuswamy, Intuit W185abc What Does Backstage Really Offer – Looking Beyond Catalog and Templates and Into the Core Platform - Himanshu Mishra, Harness.io W196abc Secure Infrastructure with Combined Runtime and Network Security - Thomas Graf, Isovalent W179ab Future of CNCF + LFN's Telco Initiatives - Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop & Ranny Haiby, The Linux Foundation W193ab Syscall Me by Your Name: Sandboxing Wasm Programs - Ryan Petrich, Two Sigma Investments W180 CSI Driver X FUSE Drivers: a Kubernetes Object Storage Solution for AI/ML Data Portability - Jiaxun Song, Google W471ab Envoy Gateway: An in-Depth Guide of Its Benefits, Use Cases, and Features - Ekansh Gupta, Zeta; Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, Independent W175abc Identity, Istio, And You - Jackie Elliott, Microsoft W470ab Improving GPU Utilization and Accelerating Model Training with Scheduling Framework and NRI - He Cao, ByteDance W194ab Multi-Tenancy Architecture Lessons Learned - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy W192ab Huddle - Insightful Latency Optimizer for Clusters with Sparse and Complex App Flows - Yash Bhatnagar, Google W176abc 1:45pm CST
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Dapr Workflows: The Key to Simplifying Business Process Orchestration - Alice Gibbons & Kendall Roden, Diagrid W178ab Hitting the Runway with ArgoCD at American Airlines - Christian Hernandez, Akuity & Karl Haworth, American Airlines W187abc The ArgoCD AppProject - What Is a Project and How to Power Your Multi-Tenant Security - Luke Philips, & Serhiy Martynenko, The New York Times W184abcd The Life of an Argo Workflows Salesperson - Kimberly Lee & Xiaozhou Fang, Salesforce W185abc Getting Started with Backstage in 2023 - Djamaile Rahamat & Mitchell Hentges, Spotify W196abc From Eventual to Strict Encryption – Securing Cilium’s WireGuard Encryption - Leonard Cohnen, Edgeless Systems W179ab Nephio: A New Approach for Automating Telco Workloads - Wim Henderickx, Nokia & John Belamaric, Google W193ab Navigating Strategies for Debugging WASM - Ashwin Kumar Uppala, GitHub & Shivay Lamba, Meilisearch W180 Is It Safe? Security Hardening for Databases Using Kubernetes Operators - Robert Hodges, Altinity W471ab Envoy Gateway Project Update - Arko Dasgupta, Tetrate & Alice Wasko, Ambassador Labs W175abc Kiali Beyond the Graph – Troubleshooting Istio - Jay Shaughnessy & Nick Fox, Red Hat W470ab Training Large Language Models on Kubernetes - Ronen Dar, Run:ai W194ab Orchestrating Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes Environments with Flux - Priyanka Ravi, Weaveworks W192ab How Prometheus Halved Its Memory Usage - Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs W176abc 2:30pm CST
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AI-Ready Microservice Architecture - Ali Ok & Pierangelo Di Pilato, Red Hat W178ab Securing Backstage Plugins Using the Permissions Framework - Gorkem Ercan, Red Hat W196abc Come BGP with Me - Daneyon Hansen, Solo.io & Yutaro Hayakawa, Isovalent W179ab Exploit Parallelism for AI Workloads with WASM and OpenMP - Atanas Atanasov & Andrew Brown, Intel W180 Stop Worrying and Keep Querying, Using Automated Multi-Region Disaster Recovery - Shivani Gupta, Elotl & Sergey Pronin, Percona W471ab Envoy Gateway End User Threat Model Report: Raising Awareness of Gateway API Security - James Callaghan & Torin van den Bulk, ControlPlane W175abc Challenges and Best Practices While Upgrading Istio in a Production Environment - Ekansh Gupta, Zeta & Nirupama Singh, Reskilll W470ab Keep HPC Running - an SRE's Guide to Supporting GPUs on Kubernetes - Christopher Dutra, JP Morgan W194ab What We Learned Designing & Securing a Multi-Tenant Developer Platform at The New York Times - Ahmed Bebars & David Grizzanti, The New York Times W192ab "How Much Overhead?": How to Evaluate Observability Agent Performance - Braydon Kains, Google Cloud W176abc 2:45pm CST
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Preview Environments: Now Everyone Is Part of the Software Development Process - Ramiro Berrelleza, Okteto & Sully Martinez W178ab Orchestrating Rocket Simulations W/ Argo - Ken Caruso, Astra W184abcd Streamlining Big Data Workflows with Memoization & Work Avoidance - Alan Clucas, Pipekit & Julie Vogelman, Intuit W187abc Threat Model Report: Security Considerations for Hardening Declarative GitOps on K8s with Argo CD - Torin van den Bulk & James Callaghan, ControlPlane W185abc How Brazil's Stock Exchange Is Building a Developer Self-Service Platform with Backstage - Gregório Melo, Thoughtworks & Marcos Albino Rodrigues, B3 W196abc Day 2 with Cilium - What to Expect Running at Scale - Hemanth Malla & Maxime Visonneau, Datadog W179ab A Telco CNF Journey from Zero to Millions - Sharath Rao & Abdul Hannan Khan, Ericsson W193ab Orchestrating Wasm: Reconciliation Loops Aren't Owned by Kubernetes - Taylor Thomas & Dan Norris, Cosmonic W180 Make Your Kafka Cluster Production-Ready - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat W471ab Proxying HTTP/3 (QUIC) Using CONNECT-UDP with Envoy - Jeongseok Son, Google W175abc Bridging Trust Between Multi-Cluster Meshes - Lukonde Mwila & Ovidiu Valeanu, AWS W470ab Poisoned Pickles Make You Ill - Adrian Gonzalez-Martin, Seldon W194ab Panel: Unlocking the Power of Multi-Tenancy: Perspectives from Platform Leaders - Moderated by Welly Siauw, AWS; Mohan Atreya, Rafay Systems; Ritesh Patel, Nirmata; & Praseeda Sathaye, AWS W192ab Journey from Fluent Bit, Fluentd and Prometheus to OpenTelemetry Collector - Lessons Learned - Marcin "Perk" Stożek, Canonical W176abc For Founders from Founders: Lessons Learned from Recent Fundraises - David Aronchick, Expanso; Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Mark Fussell, Diagrid; Moderated by Jesse Robbins, Heavybit Grand Horizon Ballroom F/G (Marriott Marquis) 3:45pm CST
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Run Your CI in Code, Not YAML - Kyle Penfound, Dagger W178ab How We Made Backstage Improve Developer Efficiency of 1000+ Engineers - Wolfgang Gottesheim & Andi Grabner, Dynatrace W196abc Why KVStoreMesh? Lessons Learned from Scale Testing Cluster Mesh with 50k Nodes Across 255 Clusters - Ryan Drew, Isovalent W179ab Evolution of Application Visibility for Telcos: From Programmable Switches to Cloud Native - Himal Kumar, Canopus Networks & Thomas Graf, Isovalent W193ab Wasm Workers Server: Portable Serverless Apps with WebAssembly - Angel M De Miguel Meana, VMware W180 Stateful Applications and CD Pipelines: What We Learned from DevOps - Christopher Crow, Portworx & Stephen Atwell, Armory.io W471ab A Practical Guide to Understanding and Configuring Envoy Filters - Peter Jausovec, Solo.io W175abc Panel: Ask Me Anything About Istio Service Mesh - Lin Sun & Neeraj Poddar, Solo.io; John Howard, Google; Mitch Connors, Aviatrix & Eric Van Norman, IBM W470ab Constructing Kubeflow Super Nodes with Karpenter - Roland Barcia & Apoorva Kulkarni, AWS W194ab Enhanced Security for Multi-Tenant Architectures: Key Components and Best Practices - Naveen Chakrapani, Rafay Systems & Thomas Labarussias, Sysdig W192ab Observability Considerations for Infrastructure Cost Optimization - Alolita Sharma, Apple W176abc Sponsored Workshop: Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts - Gerald Nunn, Red Hat W184abcd Sponsored Workshop: Promotion Between Environments - Dan Garfield, Kostis Kapelonis & Laurent Rochette, Codefresh W187abc Sponsored Workshop: Scaling Multi-cluster Management with Argo CD and Application Sets - Jesse Suen, Hong Wang, Alexander Matyushentsev, Nicholas Morey, & Christian Hernandez, Akuity W185abc 4:25pm CST
Closing Remarks Grand Horizon Ballroom F/G (Marriott Marquis) Navigating the Shift to Remote Developer Environments - A Year of Insights and Challenges - Andre Marcelo-Tanner, Ada Support W178ab Democratizing Developer Experience - Ryan Emerle, Comcast W196abc Migrating from Legacy with Ease, a.k.a. Cilium in Openstack and More - Ondrej Blazek, Seznam.cz W179ab Wasm Is Becoming the Runtime for LLMs - Michael Yuan, Second State W180 Dynamic Large Scale Spark on Kubernetes: Empowering the Community with Argo Workflows and Argo Events - Ovidiu Valeanu, AWS & Vara Bonthu, Amazon W471ab Tracing HTTP/2 traffic using gRPC tapping filter with hardware acceleration - Devan Nair, Ericsson & Yizhou Xu, Intel W175abc Training Foundation Model Workloads on Kubernetes at Scale With MCAD - Abhishek Malvankar & Olivier Tardieu, IBM W194ab Embracing Multi-Tenancy While Scaling MLOps - Shivay Lamba, Meilisearch & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, Independent W192ab Observe Thy CI/CD Pipelines with OpenTelemetry - Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, Lightstep from ServiceNow W176abc Panel: Cloud Native Evolution in Telcom Infrastructure - Yoshihiro Nakajima, NTT DOCOMO; Philippe Ensarguet, Orange, Katsuhiro Horiba, SoftBank Corp, Pal Gronsund, Telenor & Ranny Haiby, Linux Foundation W193ab Workshop: Getting Started with Ambient Mesh: An Interactive Tutorial - Christian Posta & Jim Barton, Solo.io W470ab 4:55pm CST
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Secret Word of the Day: Platforms! - Whitney Lee, VMware W178ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: Backtage Beyond Engineering Teams: Can We Deliver Value to Other "Personas" Across the Organization? - Olivier Liechti, Avalia Systems W196abc ⚡ Lightning Talk: Interoperable CD for Telecom: Paving the Way to Seamless Cloud-Native Integration - Andrea Frittoli, IBM W193ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: Using Decentralized File System to Optimize ML/AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Shawn Sun, Alluxio W471ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: Leveraging Envoy's New Filter Chain Matchers for Advanced TLS Routing - Ashish Banerjee, Solo.io W175abc ⚡ Lightning Talk: Multiplayer Machine Learning with Metaflow, OpenAI Whisper and Kubernetes - Shrinand Javadekar, Outerbounds, Inc. W194ab ⚡ Lightning Talk: How We Host 1,800 Customer Instances on 8 K8s Clusters - Joanna Wyganowska, Octopus Deploy W192ab Closing Remarks, Program Committee Members - Lin Sun, Solo.io & Liam Randall, Cosmonic W180 5:10pm CST
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Closing Remarks - Evan Anderson, Stacklok W178ab Closing Remarks - Christian Hernadez, Akuity W185abc Closing Remarks - Dan Garfield, Codefresh W187abc Closing Remarks - Meghan Murphy, Intuit W184abcd Closing Remarks, Program Committee Members - Waldir Montoya, VMware and Helen Greul, Spotify W196abc Closing Remarks - Program Committee Member - Matt Turner, Tetrate W175abc Closing Remarks, Program Committee Members - Ricardo Rocha, CERN & Yuzhui Liu, Bloomberg W194ab 5:25pm CST
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