Registration + Welcoming Remarks

Location: Hippodrome Theater

Keynote Speaker: Max Furmanov – Global Managing Director / Partner at Accenture

In today’s digital economy technology is not just a business enabler, industry leading organizations lead by employing technology differently and lead the business with it. Hear how successful organizations are transforming their technology estate, using and setting counter intuitive emerging trends, and driving innovation at unprecedented speed. We will discuss examples from across industries and explore common misconceptions that are pervasive in tech.

Location: Speakeasy

Case Study #1 | Deploying an OpenShift Application in the AWS Gov Cloud

Speakers: Dennis Sharpe – CTO of Ippon Technologies | David Elizondo – DevOps Engineer at Ippon Technologies

Learn about the challenges we faced deploying an OpenShift Application in the AWS Gov Cloud. We talk about FedRAMP High compliance and the additional challenges that brought. Learn about FIPS compliance and the implications of using CoreOS for OpenShift. We tell a story about starting with a heavily open source based application and converting that to FedRAMP High compliance. We discuss some lessons learned and provide a list of things to think about early so they do not delay your project later.

Case Study #2 | Terraforming the Way to Scalable Architecture

Speakers: Scott Miller, Software Engineer at Invoice Cloud |Gurushyam Mony, Senior Director – Platform Engineering at Invoice Cloud

We plan to take you down the path we traveled to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale using Terraform. We’ll go over the architectural patterns that we found to be successful, as well as work through the challenges we faced, including remote state storage, security and secret management, and policy enforcement. We’ll also touch on some of the finer points of IaC, such as testing, monitoring, automation, and meeting audit/compliance standards. Our goal is to educate participants on what’s needed to run IaC effectively at any size organization, primarily using open source tooling. Apart from Terraform, we will be using Jenkins and Azure Blob Storage, although any of these tools could be swapped for another that fulfills the same role.

Location: Hippodrome Theater

Speakers: Drew Firment – SVP, Cloud Transformation at A Cloud Guru and Chris Barker – Assistant Vice President at The Federal Reserve

While 70% of CIOs plan a cloud-first strategy only 16% of organizations have the required skills to succeed. The primary impediment to scaling the adoption of cloud computing at enterprises is the lack of a  cloud-fluent workforce. Learn how local companies like The Federal Reserve are going from zero to thousands of cloud certifications in under a year — empowering individuals, business outcomes, and our community to become the Silicon Valley of the South.

Location: Hippodrome Theater

Speaker: Jeremy Davis – Chief Architect at RedHat

Event-Driven Architectures are distributed, asynchronous, and scalable. The rise of real-time decision-making, the on-demand economy, the explosion of data, and the adoption of microservices have all driven the adoption of event-driven architectures.
This presentation is built on an event-driven coffee shop built with Quarkus and Kafka and deployed to Kubernetes.

We will cover the basic building blocks of event-driven architecture and tackle the most common pitfalls of adoption EDA:

* Domain-Driven Design
* Event Storming
* Kafka or REST (or other things)
* Asynchronous testing
* Deploying to Kubernetes

At the end of this session, you will have an understanding of how to get started building your own event-driven, streaming applications, how Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architectures fit together, and a few takeaway tips for TDD in an event driven Kubernetes world.

Location: Speakeasy

Case Study #1 | Cloud Transformation

Speakers:

Diane Schnupp – EVP & CIO at Kinsale Insurance

Stephen Colebrook – Cloud Architect at Kinsale Insurance

Kinsale Insurance is in the midst of a cloud transformation journey to increase speed to business value and support significant business growth. After months of planning and testing, we did a major migration over Labor Day weekend 2020 that involved all our production databases and about 50% of our custom applications. Since then we’ve been migrating additional applications and leveraging cloud technologies to develop new apps. We’ll discuss our journey, the approach to designing and implementing the target state architecture, challenges we’ve encountered along the way, and benefits we expect to achieve.

Case Study #2 | Altria’s Cloud Transformation Goals

Speakers:

Kevin Hazzard – Cloud Strategist at Altria

In this conversational session, we will discuss how public cloud computing technology supports Altria’s vision and fosters competitiveness through innovation.

Learn about the challenges we faced deploying an OpenShift Application in the AWS Gov Cloud. We talk about FedRAMP High compliance and the additional challenges that brought. Learn about FIPS compliance and the implications of using CoreOS for OpenShift. We tell a story about starting with a heavily open source-based application and converting that to FedRAMP High compliance. We discuss some lessons learned and provide a list of things to think about early so they do not delay your project later.

We plan to take you down the path we traveled to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale using Terraform. We’ll go over the architectural patterns that we found to be successful, as well as work through the challenges we faced, including remote state storage, security and secret management, and policy enforcement. We’ll also touch on some of the finer points of IaC, such as testing, monitoring, automation, and meeting audit/compliance standards. Our goal is to educate participants on what’s needed to run IaC effectively at any size organization, primarily using open source tooling. Apart from Terraform, we will be using Jenkins and Azure Blob Storage, although any of these tools could be swapped for another that fulfills the same role.

While 70% of CIOs plan a cloud-first strategy only 16% of organizations have the required skills to succeed. The primary impediment to scaling the adoption of cloud computing at enterprises is the lack of a cloud-fluent workforce. Learn how local companies like The Federal Reserve are going from zero to thousands of cloud certifications in under a year — empowering individuals, business outcomes, and our community to become the Silicon Valley of the South.

Event-Driven Architectures are distributed, asynchronous, and scalable. The rise of real-time decision-making, the on-demand economy, the explosion of data, and the adoption of microservices have all driven the adoption of event-driven architectures. This presentation is built on an event-driven coffee shop built with Quarkus and Kafka and deployed to Kubernetes.

We will cover the basic building blocks of event-driven architecture and tackle the most common pitfalls of adoption EDA:

* Domain-Driven Design
* Event Storming
* Kafka or REST (or other things)
* Asynchronous testing
* Deploying to Kubernetes

At the end of this session, you will have an understanding of how to get started building your own event-driven, streaming applications, how Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architectures fit together, and a few takeaway tips for TDD in an event driven Kubernetes world.