2021 Breakout Sessions
Tracks
Cloud Native Platforms
A Developer’s Introduction to Containers
Nigel Brown Senior Open Source Community Manager, VMware
Agile Leadership
A Recipe for Scale: Succeeding with Agile Software Development in the Enterprise
Becki Hyde Senior Product Manager, VMware
Jen Handler Director, Customer Experience and Success, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
A Series of Fortunate Events: Building an Operator in Java
Alberto C. Ríos Staff Engineer, VMware
Bella Bai Software Engineer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
A Spring Data’s Guide to Persistence
Christoph Strobl Spring Data Engineer, VMware
Architecture
A Tour of the Modern Java Platform
Bruce Eckel President, Mindview LLC
James Ward Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud
Agile Leadership
Accelerate Spring Apps to Cloud at Scale—Discussion with Azure Spring Cloud Customers
Adib Saikali Principal Solutions Engineer, VMware
Asir Selvasingh Architect - Java on Azure, Microsoft
Devon Yost Enterprise Architect, Digital Realty
Dhiren Shah Distinguished Engineer, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Georg Deschler Senior Manager, Bosch.IO GmbH
Agile Leadership
Achieving Escape Velocity in Your Digital Transformation Through Product Thinking
Gautham Pallapa Executive Advisor, VMware
Henri van den Bulk Executive Technical Advisor, VMware
Agile Leadership
Albertsons’ Journey: Modernize and Migrate On-Premises Retail Systems to Cloud
Anand Rao Advisory Platform Architect, VMware
Gaurav Jain Sr. Manager - Container Platform, Albertsons Companies Inc
Architecture
API Gateway How-To: The Many Ways to Apply the Gateway Pattern
Alberto C. Ríos Staff Engineer, VMware
Shruti B Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Application Modernization: Migrating Mainframe Apps to the Cloud Using Spring
Glenn Renfro Spring Developer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Bootiful Spring Tooling for the Masses
Hadi Hariri Developer Advocacy, JetBrains
Martin Lippert Spring Tools Lead, VMware
Sandra Ahlgrimm Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Bootiful Vaccine Scavenger: A Tale of the Pragmatic Spring Framework
Greg Meyer Director, Distinguished Engineer, Cerner Corp.
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Building Fast and Scalable Persistence Layers with Spring Data JPA
Thorben Janssen Freelancer, Self-employed
Agile Leadership
Building Gender Diversity in Organizations to Deliver Award-Winning Products
Brian Chang Principal Technologist, VMware
Kerry Schaffer Senior IT Director, OneMagnify
Nicole Wierzbowski Hosting Engagement Manager, OneMagnify
Rajalakshmi Padmanaban IT Director, OneMagnify
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Building Layers of Defense for Your Application Using Spring Security Framework
Neha Sardana Software Developer, BNY Mellon
Agile Leadership
Building Resiliency to Discomfort
Ellie Tumbuan Head of Strategy and Culture, The Justice Collective
Nicole Nelson Manager of Marketing and Communications, The Justice Collective
Agile Leadership
Challenges of Being an ISV and Customer in a K8s World
Barry Mullan Staff Solution Engineer, VMware
Roberto Scata Staff Solutions Engineer, VMware
Agile Leadership
Cloud Native Engineering Reimagined by CNAP
Ajay Balasankula Sr Cloud Architect, Wipro Limited
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Code Wars: Database Decisions for Application Development
Jennifer Reif Developer Relations Engineer, Neo4j
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Collaborative Applications at Scale with RSocket
Sergey Tselovalnikov Software Engineer, Canva
Agile Leadership
Containerizing Business Outcomes—Industry Panel: Finance and Healthcare
Henri van den Bulk Executive Technical Advisor, VMware
JT Perry Tanzu Value Advisor, VMware
Michael Coté Staff Technologist 2, VMware
Vivian Ko Managing Director, Charles Schwab
Cloud Native Platforms
Creating Polyglot Communication Between Kubernetes Clusters and Legacy Systems with an Event Mesh
Michael Hilmen Principal Architect, Solace
Robbie Jerrom Principal SE - Office of the CTO, VMware
Agile Leadership
Daimler’s Community Approach to TAS Platform Monitoring
Jürgen Freund Software Architect, EXXETA AG
Lukas Frensel Senior Consultant, EXXETA AG
Thomas Müller Product Owner - Cloud Foundry Platform, Daimler AG
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Debugging Complex Issues in Web Applications
Mark Thomas Staff Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Demystify LDAP and OIDC Providing Security to Your App on Kubernetes
Dodd Pfeffer Advisory Solution Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Deploy Code into Production Faster on Kubernetes
Valentina Alaria Director Product Management, VMware
Agile Leadership
Driveway to Highway: Driving Outcomes with Infrastructure as a Product
Heather Romero Product Manager, Scientific Research Corporation
Scott Hiland Manager, Solution Leads, VMware Tanzu Labs
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Driving the Data Pipelines for Connected Vehicles with Spring Cloud Data Flow
Banu Parasuraman Chief Technologist, Wipro
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Enable Authentication and Authorization with Azure Active Directory and Spring Security
Josh Cummings Software Engineer, VMware
Sean Li Product Manager, Microsoft
Cloud Native Platforms
Ensuring Security and Feature Freshness with VMware Tanzu Observability
Amber Salome Senior Solutions Architect, VMware
Architecture
Event Sourcing with RSocket—Now We’re Talking!
Steven van Beelen Lead Developer, AxonIQ
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
From Spring Framework 5.3 to 6.0
Juergen Hoeller Spring Framework Project Lead, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
From Zero to Spring Boot Hero with GitHub Codespaces
Martin Lippert Spring Tools Lead, VMware
Sandra Ahlgrimm Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Full-Stack Development with Spring Boot and VueJS
Dan Vega Enteprise Java Architect, Briebug Software
Cloud Native Platforms
Full-Stack Observability for IoT Event Stream Data Processing at Penske
Krishna Gogineni Advisory Platform Architect, VMware
Shruti Modi Director Data Platform, Penske Transportation Solution
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Getting Started with Spring Authorization Server
Joe Grandja Spring Security Engineer, VMware
Steve Riesenberg Software Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
GitOps, Your Kubernetes Runtime, and You
Jason Morgan Technical Evangelist, Buoyant
Architecture
Going Serverless Using the Spring Framework Ecosystem
Timo Salm Specialist Solution Engineer, VMware
Architecture
How Spring Cloud Gateway Orchestrated Our App Modernization
Dodd Pfeffer Advisory Solution Engineer, VMware
Partha Chandramohan Solutions Architect, AARP
Architecture
How To Be a Java Automated Testing Superstar
Billy Korando Java Developer Advocate, Oracle
Agile Leadership
How to Start Your Application Modernization Journey
Steve Hawkins Sr. Manager Converged Infrastructure, BT
Agile Leadership
How to Use KPIs in an Agile Delivery Environment
Arijit Sarbagna Director - Agile & DevSecOps, Atos
Cloud Native Platforms
How VMware IT Modernized Customer Connect to Deliver an Exceptional Customer Experience
Moin Tavargere Senior Manager, VMware
Nicy Thomas Sr. Product Owner, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Ingress? That’s So 2020! Introducing the Kubernetes Gateway API
Abhinav Rau Principal Architect, Google
Madhav Sathe Cloud Customer Engineer, Google
Cloud Native Platforms
Inner Loop Development with Spring Boot on Kubernetes
Dave Syer Senior Engineering Consultant, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Leap Ahead with Redis 6.2
Brian Sam-Bodden Developer Advocate, Redis Labs
DaShaun Carter Partner Solution Architect, Redis
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Learning RSocket Using RSC
Toshiaki Maki Staff Cloud Native Architect, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Leveraging Standard Buildpacks to Migrate Not-So-Standard Apps
Brandon Blincoe App Modernization Strategist, VMware
Matthew Campbell Solutions Architect, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Live Coding Spring Data Queries to the End of the Persistence Universe
Greg Turnquist Principal Software Engineer, VMware
Architecture
Live Coding Spring, Kafka, & Elasticsearch: Personalized Search Results on Ranking and User Profile
Erdem Günay CTO, Layermark
Cloud Native Platforms
Lock That Sh*t Down! Auth Security Patterns for Apps, APIs, and Infra
Brian Demers Developer Advocate, Okta
Matt Raible Java Web Developer, Okta
Cloud Native Platforms
Making Onboarding Suck Less
Anand Rao Advisory Platform Architect, VMware
Chris Phillipson Manager, Solutions Engineering, MAPBU, VMware
Agile Leadership
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Using Team Operation Metrics to Optimize a Scaling Software Shop
Daniel Witenberg Senior Product Manager, VMware
Krista Luna Product Manager, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Measuring DevOps Impact to Boost Effectiveness
Pradeep Behl Director, Cognizant
Architecture
Microservices Testing at Scale
Kishore Kota Sr Architect, Discover Financial Services
Sindhu Nair Principal Value Stream Architect, Discover Financial Services
Ying Zhe Director, Application Development, Discover Financial Services
Architecture
Modern Application Configuration in Kubernetes
Craig Walls Engineer, VMware
Architecture
Modernizing Customer Messaging at T-Mobile
Al Garay Manager, Enterprise Technology Solutions, T-Mobile
Raj Palanisamy Senior Software Engineer, T-Mobile
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Multiplatform Apps with Spring, Kotlin, and RSocket
Anton Arhipov Developer Advocate, JetBrains
Oleh Dokuka Senior Software Engineer, VMware
Architecture
Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud and Kubernetes
Ryan Baxter Staff Software Engineer, VMware
Agile Leadership
Optimizing TAS Usage at Ford Motor Company
Mathivanan Vairaperumal Consulting Architect, Ford Motor Company
Todd Hall Application Architect, Ford Motor Company
Agile Leadership
Outcomes-Oriented Roadmap: From Vision to Reality
Fani Bahar Senior Product Manager, VMware Tanzu Labs
Julia Keis Product Manager, AUDI AG
Architecture
Packaging and Distributing Applications for Kubernetes
Ian Zink Staff Software Engineer, VMware
Nitasha Verma Solutions Engineer, VMware
Cloud Native Platforms
Peering Inside the Black Box: A Case for Observability
Gergely Toth Senior Java Developer, Morgan Stanley
Cloud Native Platforms
Platform Agility, Reliability, and Security: Can You Really Have it All in the Federal Sector?
Dan Loomis Product Manager, VMware
Matthew Goehring Platform Engineer, Scientific Research Corporation
Agile Leadership
Preparing the Gap Inc. Ecommerce Platform for Traffic Surge During the Holiday Season
Anand Rao Advisory Platform Architect, VMware
Ram Kesavan Senior Director, SRE/PaaS/API Platform, Gap, Inc
Agile Leadership
Proactively Designing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Megan Peaslee Lead UX Researcher, University of Washington - Masters Student
Meghna Nayak Product Designer, N/A
Rachel Feltes UX Designer, University of Washington
Sara Koeck UX Researcher, University of Washington
Cloud Native Platforms
Prod-Like Integration Testing for Distributed Containerized Applications
Cora Iberkleid Developer Advocate, VMware
Maria Gabriella Brodi Staff Solutions Engineer, VMware
Architecture
Quantum Computing and Java QC API—Strange
Sasi Peri Architect, Cardinalhealth
Architecture
Rapid Development with Azure Spring Cloud
Josh Long Spring Developer Advocate, VMware
Julien Dubois Java Developer Advocacy Manager, Microsoft
Layla Porter Developer Advocate, .NET communities, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Reactive Applications with Apache Pulsar and Spring Boot
Lari Hotari Senior Software Engineer, DataStax, Inc
Architecture
Resilient and Adaptable Systems with Cloud Native APIs
Olga Maciaszek-Sharma Senior Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Spencer Gibb Spring Cloud Core Lead, VMware
Agile Leadership
Saving the DoD $800M: How Portfolio Management is the Missing Link Between Agile and Waterfall
Jackie Ho Staff Product Designer, VMware
Oscar Chacon Portfolio PM, United States Space Force
Architecture
Scaling Enterprise Observability on Tanzu Foundations
Nitin Gokhale VP , Head of DevOps & Transformation, Mphasis
Olivier Fay Director, Observability Solutions, VMware
Uday Tang VP of Industry Solutions Group, Mphasis
Cloud Native Platforms
Security as Code: A DevSecOps Approach
Alvaro Muñoz Staff Security Researcher, GitHub
Tony Torralba Software Engineer, GitHub
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Spring Boot on Amazon Web Services with Spring Cloud AWS
Maciej Walkowiak Software Consultant, Independent
Matej Nedic Software engineer, Ingemark
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Spring Boot—Production Boost
Thomas Vitale Senior Software Engineer, Systematic
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Caches with Protocol Buffers
Katia Aresti Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Architecture
Spring Cloud Function: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going
Marc DiPasquale Developer Advocate, Solace
Mark Sailes Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless, Amazon Web Services
Oleg Zhurakousky Developer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Data JDBC: Beyond the Obvious
Jens Schauder Staff Engineer, VMware
Architecture
Spring for Architects
Jakub Pilimon Software Engineer, VMware
Nate Schutta Architect, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring GraphQL
Andreas Marek Software Architect, Atlassian
Rossen Stoyanchev Senior Staff, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Spring Native
Sébastien Deleuze Spring Framework Committer, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Spring Security 5.5 From Taxi to Takeoff
Josh Cummings Software Engineer, VMware
Marcus Da Coregio Software Engineer, VMware
Steve Riesenberg Software Engineer, VMware
Agile Leadership
Start Counting: How We Unlocked Platform Efficiency and Reliability While Saving Over $730,000
Alvin Coch Senior Platform Reliability Engineer, Manulife Financial
David Wu Senior Staff Solutions Architect, VMware Tanzu Labs
David Filippelli Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Manulife
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Staying Ahead of the Curve
Trisha Gee Lead Java Advocate, JetBrains
Cloud Native Platforms
TDD and the Terminator: An Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Layla Porter Developer Advocate, .NET communities, VMware
Agile Leadership
Technology Transformation: Lessons from Large Orgs and Startups
Nicholas Kalpakis Lead Software Engineer, Dispute
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Test-Driven Security
Eleftheria Stein Software Engineer, VMware
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
Testing with JUnit 5 and Spring
Sam Brannen Staff Software Engineer, VMware
Architecture
The Art of Clean Code
Chiamaka Okenwa Software Engineer, Renmoney
Beginner-Friendly Spring
The Build That Cried Broken: Building Trust in Your Continuous Integration Tests
Angie Jones Senior Director, Developer Relations, Applitools
Intermediate/Advanced Spring
The Making of the Oracle R2DBC Driver and How to Take Your Code from Synchronous to Reactive
Kuassi Mensah Director of Product Management, Oracle
Michael McMahon Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Architecture
The One Best Way is Continual Improvement
Heidi Waterhouse Transformation Advocate, LaunchDarkly
Agile Leadership
The ‘Magic Box’ Problem, and How to Get Out of It
Daniel Witenberg Senior Product Manager, VMware
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Tracing Issues in Your Application
Jonatan Ivanov Senior Software Engineer, VMware
Marcin Grzejszczak Staff Engineer, Spring Cloud, VMware
Architecture
Transporting Data at Warp Speed: How to Connect Spring Boot Apps Quickly, Powerfully, and Painlessly
Mark Heckler Cloud Advocate, Java/JVM Languages, Microsoft
Cloud Native Platforms
Treating Security Like a Product
Alex Barbato Solutions Architect, VMware
Hannah Hunt Chief Product and Innovation Officer, U.S. Army Software Factory
Cloud Native Platforms
Understanding the Security Landscape of Kubernetes with VMware Tanzu
Anand Parulkar Senior Manager, Accenture
Mahesh Bandkar Senior Technology Architect, Accenture
Agile Leadership
VMware Tanzu Application Service as an Integration Platform
Manoj Thekumpurath Sr. Manager, Deloitte
Siddharth Mehrotra Senior Manager, Deloitte
Cloud Native Platforms
Voice Applications (Alexa Skills) Cloud Native on Kubernetes with Terraform
Xavier Portilla Edo Infrastructure Engineer, Voiceflow
Agile Leadership
Voya’s Digital Transformation: We Planned on a Trip to Venice and Ended Up in Amsterdam
Mike Stevens AVP, Lead Digital Architect, Voya Financial
Ruchi Gupta Solutions Architect, Voya Financial
Beginner-Friendly Spring
What Is Spring?
Glenn Renfro Spring Developer, VMware
Agile Leadership
Why Every Software Team Should Have a Designer
Antonia Horvath Delivery Lead & Design Manager, VMware Tanzu Labs
Architecture
Winning the Lottery with Spring: A Microservices Case Study for the Dutch Lotteries
Joris Kuipers CTO, Trifork
Beginner-Friendly Spring
Writing Unadulterated Services with Kotlin and Coroutines
Zohaib Sibte Hassan Tech Lead Manager, DoorDash
Beginner-Friendly Spring
You Can Be Cloud Native, Too
Hananiel Sarella Software Engineer, VMware