6:30 PM - food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM - General announcements
7:10 PM - Stateful workloads in production - Francois Martel

Sponsored by Portworx - www.portworx.com

Francois Martel is a Solutions Architect for Portworx, a cloud native storage solution for running stateful containers in production. Francois has been architecting solutions that help customers extend the benefits of DevOps and Container Platforms to their database operations and data management teams. Francois works with Portworx customers to build modern highly available and distributed data architectures that benefit from persistent volumes, smart provisioning, replication, and deep integration with all the popular container schedulers to ensure data security, data mobility, and high availability. Francois is a native Canadian from Montréal with a Master’s degree in computer science. Before joining Portworx, Francois worked at Pivotal, working on distributed systems to drive adoption of cloud native architectures as well as data science.