The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Chicago, Illinois. Come meet Discover® engineers and developers as we talk open source and fintech development.
Discover is a proud diamond sponsor with over 200 Discover engineers that will be in attendance.
Join us before the main event at Windy City Tech Connect
In addition to sponsoring KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Discover is partnering with 1871, Red Hat, Avanade, and Pluralsight to host the Windy City Tech Connect event on November 6, 2023 at 5:30pm CT. This will be an intimate engagement with the diverse Chicago tech community where technologists will discuss tech topics including as Kubernetes, cloud, and DevOps, chat about DE&I in tech, and provide opportunities to connect with other Chicago technologists.
Discover Speakers
Angel Diaz, VP Technology Capabilities & Innovation, and Joe Natale, Expert Enterprise Architect, will both be speakers at KubeCon. Please join us at their talks!
Platforms all the way down: Always has been
Tuesday, November 7 | 3:25 - 4 p.m. | W196ab
Speaker: Joe Natale, Technical Architecture Manager
Discover Technical Architecture Manager Joe Natale is participating in a panel discussion. CNCF defines a "platform" as an integrated collection of capabilities serving a use case, a definition intended to encompass web application development, large-scale data analysis and operation of third-party "COTS" applications, to name a few. Though platform engineering is in high demand today, per the CNCF's definition platforms have been an integral part of computing for decades - even an operating system like DOS or Unix also collects and brings consistency to disparate hardware functions to enable developing and running software. So why are platforms so vital to cloud-native computing in particular? How should a platform in support of cloud-native software be constructed? In this panel discussion leaders of CNCF's WG Platforms and cloud-native end user companies will share answers to these based on their experiences and the WG's white paper and maturity model. We'll discuss popular approaches to constructing a cloud-native platform and tactics to mature your own practices.
Keynote: Open source and cloud native: A shining path to a brighter financial future
Thursday, November 9 | 9:20 a.m. CST. | Skyline ballroom
Speaker: Angel Diaz, VP Technology Capabilities & Innovation
Like many enterprise organizations, Chicago-based Discover Financial Services is undergoing a digital transformation. As the company continues its move toward a product & platform -centric operating model, it employs open source principles to manage the shift. Through an internal focus on serving its people, improving processes, and improving its cloud native technology, Discover has rapidly evolved the way it helps customers achieve a brighter financial future. The open source principles of code, contribution, and community have been essential to the early success Discover has seen in this effort, and now the company is looking to build on its strong tradition of work in open communities. In this session, hear how the Discover Technology Academy is empowering the company’s technologists to create a single agile way of working, while allowing them to innovate faster, together.
Lightning Talks
Hear from Discover technologists in a series of wide-ranging lightning talks that will take place at the Discover booth (C3). Take a look at the schedule and plan to come see us!
Tuesday, November 7
| Times | Speakers & Topics |
|---|---|
| 10:35 - 10:45 a.m. | Speaker: Umang Singh Topic: Service Mesh adoptions and benefits |
| 10:50 - 11 a.m. | Speaker: Shikha Gupta Topic: Payment Account reference rollout with OCP |
| 12:35 - 12:45 p.m. | Speaker: Gunjan Taleja Topic: HPA in Kubernetes - Scaling on custom metric |
| 12:50 - 1 p.m. | Speaker: Vincent Edwards Topic: Open Source Project Office |
| 1:05 - 1:15 p.m. | Speaker: Andrew Duckett Topic: Community development |
| 1:20 - 1:30 p.m. | Speaker**: Priya Krishnamoorthy Topic: Discover's DevEx Journey - Accelerating software delivery through Golden Paths |
| 3:35 - 3:45 p.m. | Speaker: Megan Shelton Topic: Monitoring -- its not just a checkmark! |
| 4:05 - 4:15 p.m. | Speaker: Sajjan Pathak Topic: OpenShift Namespace Onboarding Operator |
| 4:20 - 4:30 p.m. | Speaker: Mahesh Panajala Topic: Automation of OCP Cluster creation |
| 6:05 - 6:15 p.m. | Speaker: Sujan Gautam Topic: DevOps at scale with Kubernetes |
| 6:20 - 6:35 p.m. | Speaker: Peterson Ngo Topic: Github Branching Strategy |
| 6:40 - 6:55 p.m. | Speaker: Naresh Makkena Topic: Accelerating Machine Learning (Model Life Cycle) on Kubernetes. |
Wednesday, November 8
| Times | Speakers & Topics |
|---|---|
| 10:35 - 10:45 a.m. | Speaker: Mark Creamer Topic: One test suite, many environments. Writing portable Cucumber tests. |
| 10:50 - 11 a.m. | Speaker: Vinod Suresh Topic: Build infrastructure on Kubernetes |
| 12:35 - 12:45 p.m. | Speaker:: Samir Sheth Topic: Federating Custom Resources in a multi-cluster env |
| 12:50 - 1 p.m. | Speaker: Mo Haghighi Topic: Limitless Automation with Kubernetes Operators |
| 1:05 - 1:15 p.m. | Speaker: Chandramohan Sadasivam Topic: Kubernetes Misconceptions |
| 1:20 - 1:30 p.m. | Speaker: Shuvo Chatterjee Topic: gRPC workload load balancing in Kubernetes without a Service Mesh or Kubernetes Headless Service |
| 3:35 - 3:45 p.m. | Speaker: Mike Stelzer Topic: Accelerating Testing via Opinionated test runner |
| 4:05 - 4:15 p.m. | Speaker: Ankur Bansa Topic: Red Hat OCP vs Vanilla Kubernetes |
| 4:20 - 4:30 p.m. | Speaker: Mahesh Panajala Topic: Automation of OCP Cluster creation |
| 6:05 - 6:15 p.m. | Speaker: Naresh Regalla Topic: Sealed Secrets in Kubernetes |
Thursday, November 9
| Times | Speakers & Topics |
|---|---|
| 10:35 - 10:45 a.m. | Speaker: Ankur Bansal Topic: Should I self host my Kubernetes cluster? |
| 10:50 - 11 a.m. | Speaker: Ehfaj Khan Topic: Realtime Credit Card Acquisitions in Kubernetes with RabbitMQ Operator and Kafka |
| 12:35 - 12:45 p.m. | Speaker: Rommel Aguilar Topic: Equilibrium between customer experience and risk management thru containers, DevOps and APIs |
| 12:50 - 1 p.m. | Speaker: Mo Haghighi Topic: ArgoCD to the Rescue |
| 1:05 - 1:15 p.m. | Speaker: Sat Agrawal Topic: Empowering Containerized Applications with Service Mesh |
| 1:20 - 1:30 p.m. | Speaker: Leslie Ropelato Topic: Obtaining Kubernetes certifications with a corporate cohort |
| 3:35 - 3:45 p.m. | Speaker: Ramya Ravi Topic: Helm charts and developer experience |
| 3:50 - 4 p.m. | Speaker: Umang Singh Topic: Kubernetes Interprocess Communication with respect to Services and Service Mesh |
