Mark Shuttleworth
Founder of Canonical
Mark Shuttleworth @sabdfl
Founder of Canonical
Did crypto, went well, gave a load away, went to space, saw the world, founded Ubuntu, world went wild, founded Canonical, saw the world again from a plane, designed Unity, world went nuts, designed LXD, all was forgiven, designed snaps, let's see what happens next.
Michael Hausenblas
Distributed Systems Jester at Mesosphere
Michael Hausenblas @mhausenblas
Distributed Systems Jester at Mesosphere
Michael is a Developer Advocate at Mesosphere where he helps appops to build and operate distributed services. His background is in large-scale data integration, Hadoop, NoSQL datastores, IoT, as well as Web applications and he's experienced in advocacy and standardization at W3C and IETF. Michael contributes to open source software such as the DC/OS project and shares his experience with distributed operating systems and large-scale data processing through demos, blog posts and public speaking engagements.
Liz Rice
Cofounder and CEO of Microscaling Systems
Liz Rice @lizrice
Cofounder and CEO of Microscaling Systems
Liz Rice has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from her years working on network protocols and distributed systems as well as in digital technology sectors including VOD, music, and VoIP. When not building startups and writing code, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London.
Craig Box
Global Lead, Compute GTM at Google
Craig Box @craigbox
Global Lead, Compute GTM at Google
Craig helps make Google's compute platform available to you. He started his career as a systems administrator, and has worked in development, deployment, DevOps, consulting, advisory and management roles. Craig earned his Computer Science degree at the University of Waikato, and has over 15 years industry experience across North America, EMEA and APAC.
Ben Firshman
Director of Product Management at Docker
Ben Firshman @bfirsh
Director of Product Management at Docker
Ben works at Docker, where he created Docker Compose. Previously, he has founded a few companies (Orchard, Poetica, Epio) and has worked at places like The Guardian, GOV.UK, and Lanyrd.
Jonathan Boulle
Head of Containers at CoreOS
Jonathan Boulle @baronboulle
Head of Containers at CoreOS
Jonathan Boulle works at CoreOS on all things distributed and all things contained. He's contributed heavily to etcd and fleet and lead the development of the App Container (appc) specification and rkt, the first appc runtime. He is actively involved in the upstream Kubernetes project. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Twitter on their cluster management platform based on Mesos and Aurora. He's passionate about Linux, F/OSS, the Oxford comma, and developing well-defined systems that scale.
George Lestaris
Software Engineer at Pivotal
George Lestaris @glestaris
Software Engineer at Pivotal
George Lestaris is a software engineer working at Pivotal in the Garden team, the container runtime of Cloud Foundry (CF). Before Pivotal, he spent time with high throughput computing on the LHC computing grid and cloud computing research in CERN. He has given talks before in CHEP 2013 regarding virtual clusters and their use in high-energy physics, in PyCon UK 2015 on interactive cloud experimentation and in the CF summit Santa Clara 2016 on containers in CF..
Ed Robinson
Developer and Devop at Reevoo
Ed Robinson
Developer and Devop at Reevoo
Ed Robinson is a Developer and Devop at Reevoo. There he focuses on building infrastructure that won't wake him up at night. He is building OpenSource tools for building, testing and deploying containers on Kubernetes and is a Maintainer of the Traefik Load Balancer.
Chris Van Tuin
Chief Technologist at Red Hat
Chris Van Tuin @chrisvantuin
Chief Technologist at Red Hat
Chief Technologist for the West Region NA at Red Hat, Chris has over 20 years of experience in IT and Software. Since joining Red Hat in 2005, Chris has been architecting solutions for strategic customers and partners with a focus on emerging technologies including IaaS, PaaS, and DevOps. He started his career at Intel in IT and Managed Hosting followed by leadership roles in services and sales engineering at Loudcloud and Linux startups. Chris holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Alex Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at ADP
Alex Ellis @alexellisuk
Senior Software Engineer at ADP
Docker Captain Alex Ellis is a Senior Software Engineer @ ADP with expertise in the full Microsoft .NET stack, Node.js and Ruby. He enjoys making robots and IoT-connected projects with Linux and the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. He is a writer for Linux User and Developer magazine and also produces tutorials on Docker, coding and IoT for his tech blog at alexellis.io.
Nishant Totla
Software engineer at Docker
Nishant Totla @nishanttotla
Software engineer at Docker
Nishant Totla is a software engineer at Docker, and works on the core open source team. He focuses on container orchestration, currently working on Docker SwarmKit and Swarm. His interests include distributed systems and programming language design. In his spare time, he enjoys long-distance running and biking.
Dustin Kirkland
Cloud Product Manager at Canonical
Dustin Kirkland @dustinkirkland
Cloud Product Manager at Canonical
Dustin Kirkland is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team. Dustin is responsible for the technical strategy, road map, and life cycle of the Ubuntu Cloud and IoT commercial offerings.
This year we're heading to the heart of London and hosting at the amazing Picturehouse Central
We sought out the biggest screen and comfiest seats less than a minute from all the action of Piccadilly Circus.
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Zero Day
Join us on the evening September 8th for our Zero Day event.
In partnership with our friends at Docker London and Kubernetes London we've organised the UK's biggest container meetup!Lightning Talks
Our lightning lunch is a unique opportunity to share what you've been working on with the community. We invite attendees to present their projects, demos and ideas in 5 minutes or less. No pitching please.
