O’Reilly Velocity Conference New York 2017 | O'reilly Velocity | 2 October 2017 | New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10019

From DevOps to Distributed Systems Engineering & Performance

From customer-facing services to marketing systems and manufacturing tool chains, every aspect of your business needs to be strong, resilient, and primed for the new distributed architectures.

Your work is to build, manage, and scale distributed systems—and Velocity is the place to make this happen. Join other in-the-trenches engineers, developers, and architects to learn best practices and form meaningful connections.

Whether you're running microservices in production, migrating your critical services to the cloud, constructing applications that need to be resilient to failure, or just getting started with DevOps—get the tools and skills you need to successfully manage today’s complex systems.

2017 SPEAKERS

Craig Adams
Akamai Technologies

Tom Adams
ThoughtWorks

Neeraj Agrawal
Engineering Manager, Quora

Vinu Charanya Athangudi Purushothaman
Software Engineer, Twitter

Kevin Beck
Senoir Software Engineer, New Relic

Kristopher Beevers
CEO, NS1

David Belson
Oracle+Dyn

Andrew Betts
Principal Developer Advocate, Fastly

Blake Bisset
Chief Turtle Stacking Officer

Shawn Bower
Cloud Architect, Cornell University

VM Brasseur
Senior Engineering Manager, @vmbrasseur

VM Brasseur
Sessions

Joseph Breuer
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Yevgeniy Brikman
Cofounder, Gruntwork

Brendan Burns
Director of Engineering, Microsoft

Pieter Buteneers
Data Strategist, CoScale

Robert Castley
Senior Performance Engineer, EMEA, Catchpoint Systems

Jack Chan
Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Shutterfly

Mark Cho
Software Engineer, Pinterest

Rob Claire
Operational Intelligence Engineer, Pinterest

Richard Cook
Physician, Educator, and Researcher, Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers

Matt Cutts
Distinguished Engineer, United States Digital Service (USDS)

Arshan Dabirsiaghi
Chief Scientist, Contrast Security

Dino Dai Zovi
CTO, Capsule8

Bart De Vylder
Data Scientist, CoScale

Kate Deutscher
Technical Team Lead, GreenSync

Frederik Deweerdt
Software Engineer, Fastly

Rob Dickinson
Software Architect, NVML Development, Intel

Kellan Elliott-McCrea
SVP, Blink Health

Bret Fisher
DevOps Sysadmin and Docker Captain, Independent Consultant

Andrew Fong
SRE, Dropbox

Jessica Frazelle
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Nikhil Garg
Software Engineering Manager, Quora

Felix Glaser
Production Engineer, Shopify

Sebastien Goasguen
Senior Director of Cloud Technologies, Bitnami

Joe Goldberg
Lead Solutions Marketing Manager, BMC Software

Dina Goldshtein
Software Engineer, Riverbed

Sasha Goldshtein
CTO, Sela Group

Margaret Gourlay
Senior QA Engineer, VictorOps

Michael Hausenblas
Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Kelsey Hightower
Staff Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform, Google

Lara Hogan
Vice President, Engineering, Kickstarter

Jonah Horowitz
Site Reliability Engineer, Stripe

Oded Keret
Senior Product Manager, Micro Focus

Karthik Kirupanithi
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Ignat Korchagin
Systems Engineer, Cloudflare

John Le Drew
Founder and Principal Consultant, Wise Noodles

Claire Le Goues
Carnegie Mellon University

Richard Li
CEO, datawire.io

Bryan Liles
Principal Engineer, Capital One

Ben Linsay
Engineer, Bumpers

Phil Lombardi
Senior Platform Engineer, Datawire

Kelly Looney
Director of DevOps Consulting, Skytap

Suresh Margabandu
Sr. Engineering Manager, Shutterfly

Mark McBride
CEO, Turbine Labs

Duncan McCallister
Senior Enterprise Architect, Akamai Technologies

Mike McGarr
Engineering Manager, Build Tools, Netflix

Tyler McMullen
CTO, Fastly

Won Jun Jang
Software Engineer, Uber

Carin Meier
Software Developer, Cognitect

Terran Melconian
Data Science Consultant and Trainer, Air Network Simulation and Analysis

Jon Moore
Chief Software Architect, Comcast Cable

Neha Narula
Director of Research, Digital Currency Initiative

Lex Neva
SRE, Heroku

Deb Nicholson
Community Outreach Director , Open Invention Network

Michelle Noorali
Software Engineer, Deis

Alex Petrov
Lead Data Infrastructure Engineer, DataStax

Lisa Phillips
Fastly

Guy Podjarny
Founder and CEO, Snyk

Tony Pujals
Director of Cloud Engineering, Appcelerator

Prithvi Raj
Observability Engineer, Uber

Akshay Ranganath
Enterprise Architect, Akamai Technologies

Anant Rao
Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Tanya Reilly
Site Reliability Engineer, Google

Robert Reta
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

Liz Rice
Technology Evangelist, Aqua Security

Nick Rockwell
Chief Technology Officer, The New York Times

Andrew Rodland
Senior Backend Engineer, Video Systems, Vimeo

Alexander Rukletsov
Distributed Systems Engineer, Mesosphere

Cynthia Savard Saucier
Director of Design, Shopify

Rafael Schloming
CTO, Datawire

Baron Schwartz
CEO, VividCortex

Yuri Shkuro
Staff Engineer, Uber

Julien SIMON
Technical Evangelist, AWS

Michal Skiba
Principal Product Line Manager, Intel Corporation

Ines Sombra
Engineer, Fastly

Cindy Sridharan
Engineer, imgix

Mike Strickland
Programmable Solutions Group Lead, Intel Corporation

Swaminathan Sundaramurthy
Engineering Manager, Pinterest

Mary Treseler
Vice President, Content Strategy, O'Reilly Media

Andrew Turley
Lead Engineer, Wallaroo Labs

James Turnbull
CTO, Empatico

Jeffrey Valeo
Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Grubhub

Seth Vargo
Director of Technical Advocacy at HashiCorp, HashiCorp

Leif Walsh
Engineer, Two Sigma

Sarah Wells
Principal Engineer, Financial Times

David Woods
Professor, Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers

Susie Xia
Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Zhenzhong Xu
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

2017 SPONSORS

• Elite Sponsors •
Google Cloud

• Platinum •
Akamai Developer
BMC
CatchPoint
NS1.

• Gold •
Big Panda
Evidon
Infuxdata
Jet Brains
Launch Darkly
MicroFocus
Oracle + Dyn
Signal Sciences
Signal Fx
Vmware
x matters

• Silver •
Action
ActiveState
Bugsnag
coative
contrast security
Data Dog
Electric Cloud
Fastly
Haproxy
Imperva Incapsula
Nginx
Pivotal
Turbine Labs
VictorOps

• Innovators •
Applitools
cedexis
kublr
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• Supporters •
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intel