2020 Breakout Sessions
Tracks
Beginner-Friendly Spring
#Bootiful Time
Josh Long Spring Developer Advocate, VMware
Mario Gray Principal Technologist, VMware
Agile Leadership
18 Months to Migrate 800 Applications: State Farm’s Transformation Journey
Jeff Anderson Architecture Manager, State Farm Insurance
Matt Hubbard Technology Engineer, State Farm Insurance
Ryan Alberti Technology Manager, State Farm Insurance
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
A Deep Dive into Spring Application Events
Oliver Drotbohm Senior Principal Software Engineer, VMware
Agile Leadership
A Leader’s Guide to DevOps Practices and Culture
Tiffany Jachja Tech Evangelist, Harness
Agile Leadership
A Model of Technical Leadership
Adib Saikali Principal Platfrom Architect, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Accelerate Spring Apps to Cloud at Scale—Discussion with Azure Spring Cloud Customers
Adib Saikali Principal Platfrom Architect, VMware
Armando Guzman Principal Software Engineer, Raley's Family of Stores
Asir Selvasingh Principal PM Architect, Java on Azure, Microsoft
Jonathan Jones Technical Lead for Group Finance IT, Swiss Re
Peter Verstraete Java Software Crafter, Liantis
Architecture
API First or Events First: Is it a Binary Choice?
Madhav Sathe Cloud Applications Architect, VMware
Rohit Kelapure Principal Solution Architect, VMware
Agile Leadership
As an Attacker, I Want Your Data: Anticipating Security Threats
Eleftheria Stein Software Engineer, VMware
Kate Griggs Product Management, Zendesk
Architecture
Automated Virtualized Testing (AVT) with Docker, Kubernetes, WireMock and Gatling
Tongyu Wang Architect, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Wei Li Solutions Engineer, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Batching for the Modern Enterprise
Michael Minella Sr Manager, VMware
Architecture
Bootiful Azure Spring Cloud
Josh Long Spring Developer Advocate, VMware
Julien Dubois Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Bootiful GraphQL with Kotlin
Dariusz Kuc Principal Engineer, Expedia Group
Guillaume Scheibel Principal Engineer, Expedia Group
Agile Leadership
BT’s Consumer Digital Commerce Transformation is Driving New Revenue Opportunities
Cathal O’Neill Software Engineering Lead, BT
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Building Flexible APIs with Spring HATEOAS
Greg Turnquist Principal Software Engineer, VMware
Agile Leadership
Building the Business Case for App Modernization
Dormain Drewitz Director, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Bulletproof Microservices with Spring and Kubernetes
Bella Bai Software Engineer, VMware
Ollie Hughes Senior Member of Technical Staff—Spring, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Cancel, Retry and Timeouts: Keep Your Sanity Thanks to Reactive Programming
Simon Baslé Reactor Project Lead, VMware
Architecture
Cloud Native Service Mesh Using Spring Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Technologies: A Case Study
Srini Penchikala Senior IT Architect, GM
Architecture
Connect Your Functions with RSocket
Oleg Zhurakousky Software Engineer, VMware
Spencer Gibb Spring Cloud Core Lead, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Connecting Spring Apps to Distributed SQL Clusters Running in Kubernetes
Anthony Vetter Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware
Nikhil Chandrappa Software Engineer Lead, Yugabyte Inc
Cloud Native Platforms
Crafting a New Enterprise App Platform with Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Istio, and More
Boskey Savla Technical Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware
Jared Ruckle Group Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Crossing the Streams! Rollout Strategies to Keep Your Users Happy!
Bill Koch Software Engineer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Steve Sloka Sr. Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Agile Leadership
Delivering Essentials for Albertsons: VMware TAS’s Critical Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bhuvan Padakanti Sr. DevOps Manager, Albertsons
Gautham Pallapa Global CTO, VMware
Architecture
Deploying Fearlessly in a Continuous World
Justina Nguyen Developer Evangelist Lead, Optimizely
Agile Leadership
Developers Are Users, Too
Erick Arias Senior Product Designer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
DevOps KPIs as a Service: Daimler’s Solution
Dieter Flick Platform Architect, VMware
Robert Werner Engagement Director, VMware
Roland Fetscher Platform Architect, Daimler AG
Thomas Mueller Product Owner, Daimler AG
Cloud Native Platforms
DevSecOps with Confidence
Maria Gabriella Brodi Sr. Solution Engineer, VMware
Prasanna Upperi Senior Platform Architect, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Distribute Your App and Engage Your Community with a Helm Repository
Tomas Pizarro Moreno Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Driving TAS Enterprise Fitness
Ishaan Khurana Data Scientist/ Analyst, Ford Motor Company
Kyle Hinton Solution Architect, Slalom Detroit
Seth Jones Solution Owner, Slalom LLC
Tom Woods Platform Services Analytics and Billing Super, Ford Motor Company
Cloud Native Platforms
Enabling Cloud Native Buildpacks for Windows Containers
Andrew Meyer Software Engineer, VMware
Daniella Corricelli Product Manager, VMware
Malini Valliath Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Micah Young Software Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Enabling Self-Service Prescriptive Adoption of Native Services to Complement Application Workloads
Ryan Niksch Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Explain it to Me Like I’m 5: Oauth2 and OpenID
Daniel Mikusa Senior Staff Technical Support Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
From Java Monoliths to K8s
Mauricio Salatino Principal Software Engineer, Camunda
Agile Leadership
From Zero to A11Y: Building an Accessibility Culture
Ayesha Mazumdar Senior UX Engineer, Optimizely
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Full Steam Ahead, R2DBC!
Mark Paluch Spring Data Project Lead, VMware
Architecture
Functions: Implement Once, Execute Anywhere!
Oleg Zhurakousky Software Engineer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Fundamental Spring Boot: Keep it Simple, Get it Right, Be Productive and Have Fun!
Wei Li Solutions Engineer, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Architecture
Game of Streams 🐉: How to Tame and Get the Most from Your Messaging Platforms
Mark Heckler Spring Developer & Advocate, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Getting Started With RSocket
Ben Wilcock Developer Relations, VMware
Agile Leadership
Girls Can Do IT!
Kerry Schaffer Senior IT Director, OneMagnify
Madison Schlegel Customer Advocacy Program Manager, VMware
Miranda LeBlanc Solutions Engineer, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Shuchi Mittal Director Formation Labs, Fiserv
Yvonne Brye-Vela Manager, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Handling Secrets in Your Cloud Native Architecture
Jonathan Regehr Architect, Garmin
Beginner-Friendly Spring
High-Precision GPS Positioning for Spring Developers
Gunnar Hillert Software Developer, Hillert Inc.
Agile Leadership
How (Not) to Develop a Modern Product Management Practice at Speed
Jana Werner Head of Transformation, Tesco Bank
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
How to Avoid Common Mistakes When Using Reactor Netty
Violeta Georgieva Staff Engineer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
If Hemingway Wrote JavaDocs
Jay Bryant Senior Technical Writer, VMware
Josh Cummings Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Improving Your Company’s Health with Middleware Takeout
Banu Parasuraman Chief Technologist - Cloud Native Platforms, Wipro
Architecture
Integrate Machine Learning into Your Spring Application in Less than an Hour
Hermann Burgmeier Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Mikhail Shapirov Senior Partner Solutions, Amazon Web Services, Inc
Qing Lan Software Developement Engineer, AWS
Vaibhav Goel Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Architecture
Introducing Saga Pattern in Microservices with Spring Statemachine
Omotola Awofolu Senior Platform Architect/Solution Engineer, VMware
Architecture
Introducing Spring Cloud Gateway and API Hub for VMware Tanzu
Alexey Nesterov Software Engineer, VMware
Gareth Clay Senior Member Technical Staff, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Introducing Spring Framework 5.3
Juergen Hoeller Senior Staff Engineer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Introduction to Spring Cloud
Olga Maciaszek-Sharma Member of Technical Staff 3, VMware
Spencer Gibb Spring Cloud Core Lead, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Introduction to WebMvc.fn
Arjen Poutsma Senior Staff Engineer, VMware
Architecture
IoT Scale Event-Stream Processing for Connected Fleet at Penske
Krishna Gogineni Sr. Platfrom Architect, VMware
Shruti Modi Sr. Platform Manager, Penske
Cloud Native Platforms
Kubernetes YAML + Science = Sanity
Bryan Liles Sr. Staff Engineer, VMware
Agile Leadership
Leading Engineers to Water: The Art, Science, and Culture of Technical Coaching
Michael Migliacio Lead Engineer & Software Engineering Coach, Target
Agile Leadership
Lessons from Veteran Agile Leaders and the Importance of Community
Andrew Zusman Design Practice Lead, VMware
Jennifer Handler Services Strategy & Product Management Lead, VMware
John Handy Leader of FordLabs, Ford Motor Company
Joshua Bullock Product Design, Formerly Dell
Kristin Pearson Customer Success Manager, VMware
Robert Papandrea Head of Digital Transformation Services, Boeing
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Make Spring Home (Spring Customization and Extensibility)
Sasi Peri Enterprise Architect, Cardinal Health
Cloud Native Platforms
Make Your Kubernetes Clusters Production-Ready with VMware Tanzu
Tiffany Jernigan Senior Developer Advocate, VMware
Architecture
Making the Business a First-Class Citizen During the Application Modernization Journey
Ryan Johnson Associate Director, Accenture
Agile Leadership
Manager, Heal Thyself!
Jana Werner Head of Transformation, Tesco Bank
Jon Osborn IT Executive, Bell Tracy, Ltd.
Michael Coté Staff Technologist, VMware
Neville George Manager, Comcast
Agile Leadership
Measuring ROI and Driving Adoption of TAS in an Enterprise
Daryl Dwyer Principal Architect, TD Ameritrade
Nuz Mahmood Senior Manager, Enterprise Projects, TD Ameritrade
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
No Hate on Java 8, But 9–14 Reign Supreme
Angie Jones Senior Developer Advocate, Applitools
Agile Leadership
Not Just Initializing
Elspeth Minty Head of Java Platform Engineering, Morgan Stanley
George Ball Developer, Java Platform Engineering, Morgan Stanley
Architecture
Observability Enhancements in Steeltoe
Hananiel Sarella Staff Software Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Observability, Distributed Tracing, and Open Source: The Missing Primer
Daniel Khan Director Technology Strategy, Dynatrace
Agile Leadership
Operational Transformation: Teachers’ Journey from App Servers to VMware Tanzu
Adam Di Felice DevOps Engineer, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Agile Leadership
Outcomes and the Death of Heroes
Johnny Scimeca Product Manager, Raytheon
Scott Hiland Solutions Lead, VMware
Agile Leadership
Own Your AppTx Destiny—Be Your Own Banker: Self-Fund Your Transformation
Luis Benavides Hybrid Cloud & App TX Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Matt Wood VP Alliances, Deloitte
Cloud Native Platforms
Permission to Fail
Dawn Parzych Developer Advocate, LaunchDarkly
Cloud Native Platforms
Practical DevSecOps Using Security Instrumentation
Jeff Williams CTO & Co-Founder, Contrast Security
Architecture
Replatforming Legacy Packaged Applications: Block-by-Block with Minecraft
Michael Villiger Sr. Technical Partner Manager, Dynatrace
Cloud Native Platforms
Revealing Resilience Vulnerabilities in Spring Boot Architectures
Yury Yineth Nina Roa SRE & Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Cloud Native Platforms
Running Persistent Data in a Multi-Cloud Architecture
Aditya Tripathi Product Manager, VMware
Judy Wang Product Manager, VMware
Architecture
Security Patterns for Microservice Architectures
Matt Raible Open Source Developer, Okta
Agile Leadership
Software Architecture: A Story About Business Value and Tradeoffs
Abel Fresnillo Silva Senior Software Engineer, Lowe's Companies
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Boot Loves K8s
Brian Clozel Spring Team Member, VMware
Stéphane Nicoll Software Engineer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Spring Boot Observability
DaShaun Carter Tanzu Solutions Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Boot Omakase: A Fast-Paced “Chef’s Choice” Dive into Fun and Useful Topics!
Mark Heckler Spring Developer & Advocate, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Boot Revisited with KoFu and JaFu
Audrey Neveu Software Engineer on Reactor, VMware
Sébastien Deleuze Spring Framework Committer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Spring Security Patterns
Eleftheria Stein Software Engineer, VMware
Josh Cummings Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring to Image
Ben Hale Lead Java on Cloud Platforms, VMware MAPBU, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Spring Tools 4: Bootiful Spring Tooling for the Masses
Martin Lippert Senior Principal Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Up Your Graph
Gerrit Meier Software Engineer, Neo4j
Michael Simons Software Engineer, Neo4j, Inc
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring: Your Next Java Micro-Framework
Alexey Nesterov Software Engineer, VMware
Architecture
State of Steeltoe 2020
Tim Hess Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Staying Ahead of the Curve with Spring and Cassandra 4
Alexandre Dutra Technical Manager, DataStax
Mark Paluch Spring Data Project Lead, VMware
Agile Leadership
Successful and Sustainable Business Transformation: The 4 x 3 Approach
Gautham Pallapa Global CTO, VMware
Architecture
Supercharge Your Spring Boot Apps!
Kylie Liang Principal PM Lead, Microsoft
Rory Preddy Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Agile Leadership
The Brilliant Practice of Balanced Platform Teams
Christie Lynam Solutions Architect, VMware
Christopher Pittman Product Person, VMware
Samah Majadla Solutions Architect, VMware
Taj Moore Product Manager, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
The Past Year in Spring for Apache Geode
John Blum Staff Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
The Path Towards Spring Boot Native Applications
Andy Clement Director, VMware
Sébastien Deleuze Spring Framework Committer, VMware
Agile Leadership
The Role of Corporate IT in the Digital Age—Best Practices on How to Reinterpret It
Sophie Seiwald CEO & Managing Director Mercedes-Benz.io, Mercedes-Benz
Architecture
The Tales of Event-Driven Told by a Spring Developer
Viktor Gamov Developer Advocate, Confluent
Agile Leadership
Transformation: Not Only the App But Also the Way We Work
Fani Bahar Senior Product Manager, VMware
Martin Wolf Product Owner, DATEV eG
Agile Leadership
Transforming AirFrance-KLM’s Payment Application to Cloud Native in Six Weeks
Oya Ünlü Duygulu Group Manager Digital, AirFrance-KLM
Patrick Zijlstra Software Developer, KLM
Architecture
Unleash the True Power of Spring Cloud: Learn How to Customize Spring Cloud
Olga Maciaszek-Sharma Member of Technical Staff 3, VMware
Ryan Baxter Software Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Unlock Sustainable Kubernetes Services for TAS
Mikey Boldt Software Engineer, VMware
Sara Arntz Manager, Product Management, VMware
Tiffany Jordan Product Lead, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
VMware Tanzu Service Mesh from the Developer’s Perspective
Deepa Kalani Staff Engineer 2, VMware
Ramiro Salas Staff Technologist II, R&D, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Walking Through Spring Cloud Data Flow
Glenn Renfro Software Developer, VMware
Ilayaperumal Gopinathan Staff Software Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Weaving Through the Mesh: Making Sense of Istio and Overlapping Technologies
Cora Iberkleid Advisory Solutions Engineer, VMware
Maria Gabriella Brodi Sr. Solution Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Welcome to the Metrics
Alexandre Roman Solution Engineer, VMware
Didier Burkhalter Senior Platform Architect, VMware
Agile Leadership
What Does it Take to Deliver a Solution to Process Over $2B in Loans from Inception to Production?
Clint Myers Vice President, Architecture / CTO - AP, Fiserv
Henri van den Bulk Global Field CTO, VMware
Srinivas Machani Chief Architect, Fiserv
Beginner-Friendly Spring
What Is Spring?
Glenn Renfro Software Developer, VMware
Agile Leadership
What Makes a Great Product Manager
Adrien Hensley Agile Transformation Coach, The Boeing Company
Jennifer Handler Services Strategy & Product Management Lead, VMware
Kenneth McDougall Director of Product, Kessel Run
Michael Gresham Sr. Product Manager, VMWare
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
What’s New in Spring Batch?
Mahmoud Ben Hassine Principal Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
What’s New in Spring Data MongoDB
Christoph Strobl Staff Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
You Want to Kubernetes? You MUST Know Containers!
Angel Rivera Developer Advocate, CircleCI
Agile Leadership
“Sh*^%# on Fire, Yo!”: A True Story Inspired by Real Events
Brendan Aye Technical Director, Platform Architecture, T-Mobile
James Webb MTS, T-Mobile