Hello NYC Kubernauts!

Ready for our first event of the summer? We're kicking things off with an evening on networking!

Karthik from Tigera is stopping by to demo the very recently announced Istio / Envoy project - it's all the rage. If you're not familiar, check this out and join us on the 8th!

Also presenting will be Iheanyi from DigitalOcean. He'll be talking to us about some exciting new developments from the folks at DO.

See ya soon!

Agenda: 
6:30 - 7:00 - Social 
7:00 - 7:20 -  Iheanyi Ekechukwu, DigitalOcean
7:20 - 8:00 -  Karthik Prabhakar, Tigera
8:00 - 8:30 - Flynn, Datawire.io
8:30 - 9:00 - Social / Wrap-up

Bios
Iheanyi Ekechukwu (@kwuchu) is a Software Engineer on DigitalOcean's High Availability team. He focuses on building out delightful and scalable products throughout the entire stack. In his free time, you'll probably catch him playing Overwatch or recording an episode of the podcast he co-hosts, Two Black Nerds.

Karthik Prabhakar, Tigera - After years of experience with large cloud infrastructure deployments involving Kubernetes or OpenStack, Karthik discovered the power of Project Calico, combining a scalable, simple IP routed network fabric with distributed intent-based policy enforcement designed for cloud-native scale. He is now focused on building awareness of how to build and operate network and policy infrastructure at scale for cloud-native workloads.

Flynn (@_flynn) is a Principal Software Engineer at Datawire.io. His career in computing spans more than thirty years and runs the gamut from bringup on bare metal up through mobile applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout. Recently he’s been working on tools to help developers take advantage of microservice patterns to be more effective.