6:30 - Networking/Socializing

7:00 - General announcements

7:05 - Tim Veil, Head of Solutions Architecture (Cockroach Labs)

Tim will help you get started with CockroachDB and Kubernetes! He will walk you through how to spin up a simple cluster. Bring your laptop if you want to follow along or feel free to just watch Tim!

Tim has spent the last 20 years working in technology from full stack java development to big data and numerous distributed systems. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and three daughters.

7:55 - Karthik Prabhakar, Director of Solution Architecture (Tigera)

Cloud Platform Considerations for Network Connectivity and Security - We will explore the connectivity considerations to, from and within Kubernetes on the common cloud platforms, and enabling dynamic and declarative network security for microservices within and outside Kubernetes.

Karthik Prabhakar is the Director of Solution Architecture at Tigera, where he helps customers with secure application connectivity designs leveraging various open source projects that Tigera maintains or is involved with. Karthik has assisted in the architecture of numerous containerized and cloud infrastructure deployments at scale.

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