GOTOpia February 2021 Schedule

Tuesday, February 9

Time Sessions
09:30 - 10:00
Morning Yoga
  • Morning Yoga at Your Desk [Social Room]
    • Pia Cumine – Yoga teacher & former scientist
10:00 - 10:50
Morning Keynote
  • Scale, Flow and Microservices [Keynote Room]
    • James Lewis – Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks
10:50 - 11:10
Break
11:10 - 11:50
Parallel Sessions
  • Leadership During Chaos [Room 1]
    • Ranganathan Balashanmugam – Co-founder and CTO of EverestEngineering
  • GraphQL Anywhere - Our Journey With GraphQL Mesh and Schema Stitching [Room 2]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service [Room 3]
    • Nicki Watt – CEO/CTO at OpenCredo
  • You're Testing WHAT? [Room 4]
    • Gojko Adzic – Award-winning author and software delivery consultant
11:50 - 12:10
Break
  • Scavenger Hunt [Social Room]
12:10 - 12:50
Parallel Sessions
  • Cloud Native Development Without the Toil: An Overview of Practices and Tooling [Room 1]
    • Daniel Bryant – Platform engineer at Syntasso
  • Dungeons, Dragons and Developers [Room 2]
    • Matt Brunt – Dungeon Master, Code Tinkerer & Cybersecurity Pro
  • Streaming with Structure [Room 3]
    • Katherine Stanley – Software engineer at IBM Event Streams
  • Practical Cloud Native: What Works, What Doesn't [Room 4]
    • Sarah Wells – Independent Consultant, Author
12:50 - 13:10
Break
13:10 - 13:40
Lunch Session
  • Eat'n'Greet [Social Room]
13:40 - 14:20
Meet the partners
  • Kickstarting Your Azure Pipeline with Templates [Room 1]
    • Cosmin Mitescu – DevOps engineer at ING Tech Romania, the software development hub of ING
    • Florin Ioanitescu – Senior DevOps engineer at ING Tech Romania, the software development hub of ING
    • Wouter Ligtenberg – Engineering lead at ING Tech Romania, the software development hub of ING
14:20 - 14:50
Break
14:50 - 15:30
Parallel Sessions
  • How Google SRE and Developers Work Together [Room 1]
    • Christof Leng – Lead for Google's SRE Engagement Model and SRE review programs
  • A Beginner's Guide to eBPF [Room 2]
    • Liz Rice – VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security
  • The Automation Challenge: Kubernetes Operators vs Helm Charts [Room 3]
    • Ana-Maria Mihalceanu – Developer Advocate at Red Hat
  • Embarking on Your Security Journey [Room 4]
    • Seth Vargo – Engineer at Google
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 16:40
Parallel Sessions
  • Let’s Make It Easy [Room 1]
    • Woody Zuill – Senior consultant, agile expert and coach
  • How Microteams Change the Way We Collaborate. Again [Room 2]
    • Sander Hoogendoorn – CTO at iBood.com
  • Batching vs. Streaming - John Deere's Journey to Scale & Process Millions of Measurements a Second [Room 3]
    • Adam Butler – Principal engineer for Intelligent Solution Group's data platform
  • From Experimentation to Products: The Production ML Journey [Room 4]
    • Robert Crowe – TensorFlow developer advocate at Google
16:40 - 17:10
Break
17:10 - 18:00
Evening Keynote
  • Hybrid Intelligence: First Rate Humans, Not Second Class Robots [Keynote Room]
    • Jacob Sherson – Founding director of Center for Hybrid Intelligence and ScienceAtHome.org
18:00 - 18:10
Break
18:10 - 18:40
Social Event
  • Fireside Chat About OAuth 2.0 [Social Room]
    • Aaron Parecki – Director of Identity Standards at Okta
    • Eric Johnson – Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

Wednesday, February 10

Time Sessions
09:30 - 10:00
Morning Yoga
  • Morning Yoga at Your Desk [Social Room]
    • Rosa Rioja – Holistic coach, yoga, meditation and nutrition teacher
10:00 - 10:50
Morning Keynote
  • Improving Business Resiliency with Chaos Engineering [Keynote Room]
    • Olga Hall – Global head at Amazon Video Availability
10:50 - 11:10
Break
11:10 - 11:50
Parallel Sessions
  • Leadership During Chaos [Room 1]
    • Ranganathan Balashanmugam – Co-founder and CTO of EverestEngineering
  • Streaming with Structure [Room 2]
    • Katherine Stanley – Software engineer at IBM Event Streams
  • Cloud Native Development Without the Toil: An Overview of Practices and Tooling [Room 3]
    • Daniel Bryant – Platform engineer at Syntasso
  • Dungeons, Dragons and Developers [Room 4]
    • Matt Brunt – Dungeon Master, Code Tinkerer & Cybersecurity Pro
  • Discovering Risks in Systems Design: Chaos Engineering in Application & Cloud Security - How DBS Dispelled the Myths of Chaos Engineering [Room 5]
    • Crystal Hirschorn – Director engineering - infrastructure, SRE & cloud security at Snyk
    • Harpreet Singh – Senior Vice President - EASRE at DBS Bank
11:50 - 12:10
Break
12:10 - 12:50
Parallel Sessions
  • Practical Cloud Native: What Works, What Doesn't [Room 1]
    • Sarah Wells – Independent Consultant, Author
  • GraphQL Anywhere - Our Journey With GraphQL Mesh and Schema Stitching [Room 2]
    • Uri Goldshtein – Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem
  • Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service [Room 3]
    • Nicki Watt – CEO/CTO at OpenCredo
  • You're Testing WHAT? [Room 4]
    • Gojko Adzic – Award-winning author and software delivery consultant
  • Looking Back to Look Forward - Deprecating Simplicity - Building a New Test Culture [Room 5]
    • Adrian Hornsby – Principal technical evangelist at AWS
    • Casey Rosenthal – Deprecating Simplicity and the Rise of CV
12:50 - 13:10
Break
13:10 - 13:40
Lunch Session
  • Eat'n'Greet [Social Room]
13:40 - 14:20
Round Table Discussion
  • Getting Started with Chaos Engineering [Keynote Room]
    • Adrian Hornsby – Principal technical evangelist at AWS
    • Casey Rosenthal – Deprecating Simplicity and the Rise of CV
    • Crystal Hirschorn – Director engineering - infrastructure, SRE & cloud security at Snyk
    • James Wickett – Head of Research at Verica
    • Mikolaj Pawlikowski – Engineering Lead at Bloomberg
14:20 - 14:50
Break
14:50 - 15:30
Parallel Sessions
  • How Microteams Change the Way We Collaborate. Again [Room 1]
    • Sander Hoogendoorn – CTO at iBood.com
  • Embarking on Your Security Journey [Room 2]
    • Seth Vargo – Engineer at Google
  • Batching vs. Streaming - John Deere's Journey to Scale & Process Millions of Measurements a Second [Room 3]
    • Adam Butler – Principal engineer for Intelligent Solution Group's data platform
  • How Google SRE and Developers Work Together [Room 4]
    • Christof Leng – Lead for Google's SRE Engagement Model and SRE review programs
  • Combining Chaos, Observability and Resilience to get Chaos Engineering - Making Chaos Engineering Boring: debunking myths hampering adoption [Room 5]
    • Mikolaj Pawlikowski – Engineering Lead at Bloomberg
    • Yury Niño – Site Reliability Engineer & Chaos Engineer Advocate
15:30 - 16:00
Break
  • Scavenger Hunt
16:00 - 16:40
Parallel Sessions
  • Organization: A Tool for Software Architects [Room 1]
    • Eberhard Wolff – Prolific author of "Microservices: Flexible Software Architecture". Working for 15+ years as an architect & consultant
  • Let’s Make It Easy [Room 2]
    • Woody Zuill – Senior consultant, agile expert and coach
  • From Experimentation to Products: The Production ML Journey [Room 3]
    • Robert Crowe – TensorFlow developer advocate at Google
  • The Automation Challenge: Kubernetes Operators vs Helm Charts [Room 4]
    • Ana-Maria Mihalceanu – Developer Advocate at Red Hat
  • Prerequisites for Chaos Engineering - The DiRT on Chaos Engineering @ Google [Room 5]
    • Courtney Nash – Founder of the VOID
    • Jason Cahoon – Site Reliability Engineer at Google
16:40 - 17:10
Break
17:10 - 18:00
Evening Keynote
  • Evening Keynote: Chaos Engineering [Keynote Room]
    • Nora Jones – Co-founder and CEO at Jeli; Chaos Engineering pioneer
18:00 - 18:30
Social Event
  • Quiz Night [Social Room]

Thursday, February 11

Time Sessions
09:00 - 13:00
Half-day masterclass
  • Shortcut to Tech Leadership: Accelerate Your Journey From Maker to Multiplier
    • Patrick Kua – Founder of the Tech Lead Academy
09:00 - 17:00
Full day masterclass
  • Agile Team Health Check
    • Jens Østergaard – Agile developer consultant & founder of the Heart of Scrum
    • Natalie Roberts – Training and operations manager at Scrum Training Institute
  • Domain-Driven Design
    • Michael Plöd – Fellow at INNOQ
  • Zero to 60 Unit Testing in C#
    • Roy Osherove – Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing" and "Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams"