IoT and Cloud Developers : Great speakers and content for DevNet Create on May 23–24 in San Francisco

Announcing a solid lineup of speakers and content for DevNet Create

DevNet Create is a new developer conference focused on IoT and Cloud developers. Creating a new developer conference is nerve racking, as many of you know. Do we have a good venue? Do we have good speakers and content? Will people come?

I’m happy to announce that we crossed an important milestone- We finished speaker and content selection and I'm happy to say: We have a solid lineup of speakers and content for DevNet Create!

We poured through the proposals and had so many great submissions. As we read through the proposals we asked ourselves “What talk would I be excited to see at a developer conference?” After seeing the submissions, my only regret was that we didn’t plan a longer venue, because we easily had enough content for three full days. We had to turn down many great submissions. But this also means we were very selective and have very solid content and speakers for our first DevNet Create!

Also, the registration is only $200. Many developer conferences with this lineup are $1,500 or $2,000. Why is the price so low? It’s because we have taken the approach to make DevNet Create our give back to the community. We want to encourage people to attend to further the technical agenda and we don’t want cost to be an issue. We hope to see you at DevNet Create to further the discussion on Where Apps meet…

We have two tracks: 1) IoT and Apps and 2) Cloud and DevOps. We used the “Where Apps meet…” theme and created our sessions accordingly. Without further ado, here is the content! And, while you’re at it, please register to attend DevNet Create.

IoT and Apps Track: Where Apps Meet People, Places, Things, and Design

Where Apps Meet People

• Amazon Alexa and Recent Advances in Conversational AI, Amit Jotwani, Amazon
• Building Bots for the Enterprise, Ben Brown, Botkit
• To Bot or Not?, Murray Newlands, Chatty People
• Add Voice and Video Calling to Your App in 3 Lines of Code, Jonathan Field, Cisco
• Build Your Own Natural Language Processor in Node JS, Nick Marus, Cumberland Group

Where Apps Meet Places

• Mobility Presence and Operational Intelligence with Splunk and Cisco Meraki, Wissam Ali-Ahmad, Splunk
• Node-RED with Meraki APIs, Cory Guynn, Cisco Meraki
• Voice Computing in your Ear, Kinuko Masaki, SmartEar
• Where Apps Meet the City Infrastructure, Jose Bogarin, Altus Consulting

Where Apps Meet Things

• Blockchain in IoT, Kamalnath Devarakonda
• Combining AI and IoT. New Industrial Revolution in our Houses and in the Universe, Karina Popova, LINK Mobility GmbH
• Where Artificial Intelligence Meets IoT for Anomaly Detection, Patricia Sampedro, Cisco
• An Intro to Secure IoT with MQTT, Matthew Garrett, Kris Vassallo, Cisco
• Are Device Response Times a Neglected Risk of IoT, Balwinder Kaur, AppDynamics

Where Apps Meet Design

• APIs Done Right (and Wrong): Data Formats, Protocols, Libs, and Auth, Ryan Boyd, Neo Technology
• Building your API for Longevity, Michael Stowe, Tigera
• The Network is the Computer: How Always-on Apps are Driving Microservices to the Edge, Bhavana Srinivas, PubNub
• Webhooks Dos and Don’ts: What we Learned After Integrating +100 Different APIs, Giuliano Lacobelli, Stamplay

Cloud & DevOps Track: Where Apps Meet Microservices, Deployment, Security, and Analytics

Where Apps Meet Microservices

• Becoming Cloud Native: Taking it One Container at a Time, Val Bercovici, SolidFire; Jess Frazelle, Google; Mackenzie Burnett, CoreOS; Mark Thiele, Apcera; Stephen Day, Docker
• Building Highly Available, Fault Tolerant Software, Wissam Jarjoui
• Deploying PHP Apps to Kubernetes: Lessons in Container-Centric Development, Michelle Krejci
• Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes, Dan Kohn, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Linkerd HOWTO: Building Resilient Cloud Native Applications with a Service Mesh, Alex Leong, Buoyant

Where Apps Meet Deployment

• 2017 State of the Software Supply Chain, Matt Howard, Sonatype
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Serverless Microservices on Microsoft Azure, Cory Fowler, Microsoft
• Solving for “Segration/Separation of Duties” in a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Juni Mukherjee, LifeLock
• The Great Migration, Sean O’Connor, Bitly
• #!@&% a Word Can Make Network Engineers Cringe?, Jonathan Miles, Choice Hotels International
• Daily Development with Kubernetes, Steven Pousty, Red Hat
• ETL Using Dockerizing Camel, Kafka, Spark to Create a Data Pipeline, Zakeria Hassan, Red Hat
• I Don’t Miss Those Calls at Night: Lessons Learnt Building and Maintaining Micro-Services at Scale, Alex Bulankou, Microsoft

Where Apps Meet Security

• Application Security Made DevOps, Boris Chen
• Project Contiv, Rohit Agarwalla
• Snort 3.0, Russ Combs, Cisco

Where Apps Meet Analytics

• A Primer on Neural Networks: The Good Bits, Chase Aucoin, Keyhole Software
• Graphs: The Fabric of DevOps, Ashley Sun, Rob Schoening
• Network Data Mining for AI, Paul Greenberg, BNY Mellon
• Terabytes at Your Fingertips: Interactive Coding with Big Data, Sam Penrose, Mozilla

These are the talks that we would love to see at a developer conference, so we’re excited to have them at our inaugural DevNet Create. What do you think of the lineup?

By the way, we have workshops and keynotes too. You can also see the workshops on the DevNet Create page, and I’ll be posting more about the exciting keynotes soon!