2023 Schedule

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Monday, March 27th, 2023

09:00AM BST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

AI Bias and Sustainability

Leslie Miley - Microsoft

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM BST

Break

10:35AM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Scaling Google's Global Cloud L7 Load Balancer

James Spooner - Google

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid!

Susanne Braun - SAP Signavio

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Building Security in Earlier

Security Checks Simplified: How to Implement Best Practices with Ease

Varun Sharma - StepSecurity

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Innovations in Data Engineering

A New Era for Database Design with TigerBeetle

Joran Greef - TigerBeetle

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Staff+ Engineering Beyond Big Techs: How to Succeed in the Technical Path on Non Tech Companies

Loiane Groner - Citibank

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Raising the Bar on Resilience: Designing Systems for Resilience at Scale Using Feature Flags

Alex Hardman - LaunchDarkly

Westminster (4th Fl.)

11:25AM BST

Break

11:50AM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Building Modern Backends

The Commoditization of the Software Stack: How Application-first Cloud Services are Changing the Game

Bilgin Ibryam - Diagrid

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building Security in Earlier

How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavy Regulated Organization

Ana Sirvent - KPMG UK

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Innovations in Data Engineering

Speed of Apache Pinot at the Cost of Cloud Object Storage with Tiered Storage

Neha Pawar - StarTree

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Psychological Safety for Staff+ Engineers

Jitesh Gosai - BBC

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
01:40PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Building High-Fidelity Data Streams

Sid Anand - Walmart

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Unconference: Building Modern Backends

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Building Security in Earlier

Sustainable Security Requirements with the ASVS

Josh Grossman - Bounce Security

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Innovations in Data Engineering

Change Data Capture for Microservices

Gunnar Morling - Decodable

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Why Technical Experience Matters: How To Build a Lifelong Career in Software Development

Sven Reimers - Airbus Defence and Space

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

02:30PM BST

Break

02:55PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages

Andrea Medda - Smithy Security

Matt Boyle - Smithy Security

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry

Daniel Gomez Blanco - Skyscanner

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building Security in Earlier

Unconference: Building Security in Earlier

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Innovations in Data Engineering

Amazon DynamoDB Distributed Transactions at Scale

Akshat Vig - Amazon Web Services

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Sven Reimers - Airbus Defence and Space

Loiane Groner - Citibank

Jitesh Gosai - BBC

Erin Schnabel - Red Hat

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Building Better Software: Lessons from Construction

Uroš Trebec - Sleuth

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Live online

RECORDING: Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer

Sabrina Leandro - Intercom

Interview Available
03:45PM BST

Break

04:10PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Zoom: Why Does It Work?

Ian Sleebe - Zoom

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Building Modern Backends

Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World

Ben Gamble - Aiven

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Building Security in Earlier

Panel: Building Security in Earlier

Ana Sirvent - KPMG UK

Josh Grossman - Bounce Security

Varun Sharma - StepSecurity

Henry Tze - Virgin Media O2

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Innovations in Data Engineering

Multi-Region Data Streaming with Redpanda

Michał Maślanka - Redpanda

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Staff+ Engineering in Practice

You Can Go Your Own Way: Navigating Your Own Career Path

Erin Schnabel - Red Hat

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Escape Queue Abyss With Durable Execution

Maxim Fateev - Temporal Technologies

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Live online

Online Unconference: Architectures

05:00PM BST

Break

05:25PM BST

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Banking on Thousands of Microservices

Suhail Patel - Monzo

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Building Modern Backends

What is Derived Data? (And do You Already Have Any?)

Felix GV - LinkedIn

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Building Security in Earlier

Getting Developers into F1 Driver Seats with Security?

Henry Tze - Virgin Media O2

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Innovations in Data Engineering

In-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB

Hannes Mühleisen - DuckDB Labs

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Unconference: Staff+ Engineering in Practice

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

Debugging Cloud Applications: From Static to Dynamic

Nathan Shain - Rookout

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

09:00AM BST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Computer Networks: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries

Radia Perlman - Dell Technologies

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM BST

Break

10:35AM BST

Track:
Architecture in 2025

How will Evolutionary Architecture Evolve?

Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

The Web's Next Transition

Kent C. Dodds - EpicWeb.dev

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Debugging Production

Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage

Chris Sinjakli - PlanetScale

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems

Frank Yu - Coinbase

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Socially Conscious Software

Digital Exclusion & How to Change It

Sareh Heidari - F1 Arcade®

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Streaming Events? You Should Be Storing Them

Yves Lorphelin - Event Store

Matt Macchia - Event Store

Westminster (4th Fl.)

11:25AM BST

Break

11:50AM BST

Track:
Architecture in 2025

Unconference: Architectures in 2025

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

From Monorepo Mess to Monorepo Bliss: Avoiding Common Mistakes

Juri Strumpflohner - Nx

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Debugging Production

Celebrity Vulnerabilities: Effective Response to Critical Production Threats

Alyssa Miller - Epiq Global

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

FINOS and Open Source in the Financial Services Industry

Elspeth Minty - Royal Bank of Canada

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Socially Conscious Software

Tech's Carbon Footprint: Understanding and Tackling the Impact of Tech on the Climate Crisis

Paul Lawson - Supercritical

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

ChatGPT is Fun, but the Future is Fully Autonomous AI for Code

Mathew Lodge - Diffblue

Westminster (4th Fl.)

01:40PM BST

Track:
Architecture in 2025

Leveling Up Your Architecture Game

Thomas Betts - Blackbaud

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

Unconference: Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Debugging Production

Observable Frontends

Jessica Kerr - Honeycomb.io

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Future of Web3 in Debt Capital Markets

Avtar Sehra - Clinaro

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Socially Conscious Software

Socially Responsible Companies -- Do We All HAVE to Change the World?

Germán Bencci - Code Your Future

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

How ING Accelerated Kubernetes Deployments Across 500+ Applications: Challenges & Lessons Learned

Wouter Ligtenberg - ING Group

Westminster (4th Fl.)

02:30PM BST

Break

02:55PM BST

Track:
Architecture in 2025

From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native

Rosemary Wang - Hashicorp

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing

Erica Pisani - Float Financial

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Debugging Production

Unconference: Debugging in Production

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Panel: Tech of FinTech

Elspeth Minty - Royal Bank of Canada

Frank Yu - Coinbase

Oli Bage - LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Avtar Sehra - Clinaro

John O'Hara

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Socially Conscious Software

How Big Tech Lost Its Way

Andrew Walker - Kraken Industries

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

Pipeline Patterns for Platform Teams

Zan Markan - CircleCI

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

03:45PM BST

Break

04:10PM BST

Track:
Architecture in 2025

Platform Engineering: Where Do We Go From Here?

Crystal Hirschorn - Zoa.io

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

Micro Frontends: The Evolution of Frontend Architecture

Ruben Casas - Postman

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Debugging Production

Your Java Application Is Slow? Check Out These Open-Source Profilers

Johannes Bechberger - SAP SE

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

Unconference: Tech of FinTech

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Socially Conscious Software

Panel: Socially Conscious Software

Sareh Heidari - F1 Arcade®

Andrew Walker - Kraken Industries

Germán Bencci - Code Your Future

Aleena Baig

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

InfoQ - Ask an editor

Daniel Bryant - InfoQ

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Live online

Online Unconference: Platforms - Building Modern Backends & Frontends

05:00PM BST

Break

05:25PM BST

Track:
Architecture in 2025

Panel: Architectures in 2025

Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks

Thomas Betts - Blackbaud

Rosemary Wang - Hashicorp

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture

Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure

Natalia Venditto - Microsoft

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Debugging Production

No Instrumentation Observability With eBPF - Are We There Yet?

Anna Kapuścińska - Isovalent

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
The Tech of FinTech

LSEG Cloud Lessons Learned: After Nearly a Decade of Being Cloud-First, What Have We Learned?

Oli Bage - LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Socially Conscious Software

Unconference: Socially Conscious Software

Shane Hastie - SoftEd / InfoQ

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

It's time to talk about your Big Code problem!

Mark McCauley - Sourcegraph

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Live online

RECORDING: From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos

Michael Friedrich - GitLab

Interview Available

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

09:00AM BST

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) From Netflix

Adrian Cockcroft

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM BST

Break

10:35AM BST

Track:
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience

5 Principles for Enablement with (Almost) Nothing to do with Building Tools

Steph Egan - BBC

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends

Strategy & Principles to Scale and Evolve MLOps @DoorDash

Hien Luu - Zoox

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Performance: Designing and Tuning

Adventures in Performance

Thomas Dullien

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind

Can Green Software Engineering Solve the Climate Crisis?

Sara Bergman - Microsoft

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?

The Interaction Between the Hybrid and Remote Working Revolution and Maintaining Our Mental Health

Helen Bartimote, C.Psychol - Container Solutions

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Building a Time Series Analytics Platform With InfluxDB and the Apache Ecosystem

Jay Clifford - Influxdata

Westminster (4th Fl.)

11:25AM BST

Break

11:50AM BST

Track:
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience

Available, Affordable, Attractive: Enabling Platform Adoption

Olga Sermon - Superawesome

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends

Cognitive Digital Twins: A New Era of Intelligent Automation

Yannis Georgas - Capgemini

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Performance: Designing and Tuning

Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar

John Spray - Neon

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind

Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them

Holly Cummins - Red Hat

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?

How to Lead Effectively in Hybrid and Remote Environments (And What This Means for Our Brave New World)

Erica Farmer - Quantum Rise Talent Group Ltd

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Tips & Tricks to Respect Your Users When Writing a Data-Centric Application?

Laurent Doguin - Couchbase

Westminster (4th Fl.)

01:40PM BST

Track:
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience

How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow

Jelmer Borst - Picnic Technologies

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends

Responsible AI: From Principle to Practice!

Mehrnoosh Sameki - Microsoft

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Performance: Designing and Tuning

Providing a Personalized Experience to Millions of Users @BBC

Manisha Lopes - BBC

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind

Cloud Provider Sustainability, Current Status and Future Directions

Adrian Cockcroft

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Track:
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?

The Shape of Thoughts: How to Create Visual Templates to Bring Clarity, Context and Change to You and Your Teams!

Gemma Honour - Bryter Work

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Maximising Business Outcomes with Secure and Compliant Value Stream Optimisation

Stefania Chaplin - DevStefOps

Westminster (4th Fl.)

02:30PM BST

Break

02:55PM BST

Track:
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience

Go Far, Go Together - Growing the Netflix Federated Graph

Kavitha Srinivasan - Netflix

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends

Graph Learning at the Scale of Modern Data Warehouses

Subramanya Dulloor - Kumo AI

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Performance: Designing and Tuning

What We Talk About When We Talk About Networks

Keith Winstein - Stanford University

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind

Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments?

Holly Cummins - Red Hat

Sara Bergman - Microsoft

Adrian Cockcroft

Sarah (Chun-Wei) Hsu - Goldman Sachs

Asim Hussain - Green Software and Ecosystems

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?

Remote Working: The Day 8,000 People Suddenly Worked From Home Through the Present

Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Building Reliable Backends with Temporal

Andrew S. Fitz Gibbon - Temporal Technologies

03:45PM BST

Break

04:10PM BST

Track:
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience

Using Customer Obsession to Drive Platform Adoption

Varun Achar - Razorpay

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends

Simplifying Real-Time ML Pipelines with Quix Streams: An Open Source Python Library for ML Engineers

Tomáš Neubauer - Quix

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Performance: Designing and Tuning

WebGPU is Not Just About the Web

Élie Michel - Adobe

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind

From Runtime Efficiency to Carbon Efficiency

Michal Dorko - Goldman Sachs

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?

Panel: Remote and Hybrid Work

Helen Bartimote, C.Psychol - Container Solutions

Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks

Gemma Honour - Bryter Work

Westminster (4th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

Resource Optimization for a Sustainable Cloud

Nithin Das - Zoho

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available

Track:
Live online

Online Unconference: People & Culture

05:30PM BST

Evening Keynote:

Malignant Intelligence?

Alasdair Allan - Raspberry Pi

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)