The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live is perhaps best known for its hands-on learning labs, workshops, and coding classes. But it would be a mistake to overlook the expert panel sessions.
Next week at #CLEUS in Berlin, the DevNet Zone will host six panel discussions that bring expert insight into some of today’s hot topics for developers – from network programmability to Cloud Collaboration, Native Cloud Computing, and the Internet of Things.
What follows is a short description about each panel. Check your Cisco Live schedule, and fit in 45 minutes of insight and inspiration.
Network Programmability and Using DNA to Automate, Simplify and Secure Your Network
Session ID: DEVNET-1036 Tuesday, Feb 21, 12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Cisco business and other top industry leaders discuss how the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) automates, analyzes, simplifies and secures the digital Network. They will discuss the APIs and how developers leverage them to automate the network and serve customers in engaging new ways. DNA is an open and extensible, software-driven architecture that accelerates and simplifies your enterprise network operations
Speakers:
Robert Grasby, Senior Business Development Manager, Cisco
Colin Lowenberg, API Product Management, Cisco
Mark Montanez, Distinguished Consulting Engineer, Cisco — Distinguished Speaker
Adam Radford, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco, Australia and New Zealand,Cisco — (Distinguished Speaker
Susie Wee, VP & CTO, Networked Experiences, Cisco
Cloud Native Experts with CNCF TOC
Session ID: DEVNET-1033 Tuesday, Feb 21, 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
This panel will talk about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) first year retrospective and what is planned for the second year. Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the CNCF "technical supreme court" and is expected to facilitate driving neutral consensus for: defining and maintaining the technical vision for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, approving new projects within the scope for CNCF set by the Governing Board, and create a conceptual architecture for the projects, aligning projects, removing or archiving projects, accepting feedback from end user committee and map to projects, aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects.
Speakers:
Chris Aniszczyk, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Jonathan Boulle, Site Lead, CoreOS
Luke Marsden, Head of Developer Experience, Weaveworks
Ken Owens, CTO, Cisco
The Power of Cloud Collaboration APIs - How Accelerating Features and Cisco Incubation Programs are Expanding Developer Opportunities
Session ID: DEVNET-1037 Tuesday, Feb 21, 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Cisco is rapidly driving change in the cloud collaboration space by accelerating release of innovative features and building developer empowerment programs. What are the immediate solution markets Cisco and its strategic partners see being opened up by the latest features? What is the medium and long term vision of pervasive collaboration integrated into any application on any platform? What tools, training, incubation programs and marketing opportunities are being offered to help make developers successful? Join us as our Cisco collaboration luminaries and partners share their thoughts and experiences on the direction of cloud collaboration platforms, use cases, market opportunities, roadmap, and more.
Speakers:
Sara Axelrod, COO, Local Measure
Casey Bleeker, Business Development Manager, Cisco — Distinguished Speaker
Brian Dreyer, Director, Product Management, VBrick
Jason Goecke, Senior Director & GM of Tropo BU, Cisco
Snorre Kjesbu, VP/GM TelePresence Systems Business Unit, Cisco
Rick Tywoniak, Senior Director, DevNet, Cisco
Rebuilding the DevNet Developer Platform as a Cloud Application
Session ID: DEVNET-2440 Tuesday, Feb 21, 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
On this panel we will share with you the journey of rebuilding Cisco’s developer platform to meet the growing needs of today’s developer community. From making the right technology and architecture choices to building the right team, organization and processes, we will discuss it all. What are the implications of public versus private versus hybrid cloud hosting especially on aspects such as data privacy? What is involved in making the move towards DevOps and automation from tools, process and organization point of view? How important are cloud native concepts such as microservices and containers and how can they help? How can we define an MVP that balances platform stability and new features without slowing the launch and adoption of the new platform? What role can open source software play in accelerating the transformation?
Speakers:
Fabio Giannetti, Principal Engineer, Cisco
Nermeen Ismail, Principal Engineer, Cisco (Distinguished Speaker)
Ken Owens, CTO, Cisco
Hank Preston, Developer Evangelist, Cisco (Distinguished Speaker)
Susie Wee, VP & CTO, Networked Experiences, Cisco
Edwin Zhang, Director of software development, Cisco
A Discussion of Cisco IoT Integrations and Solutions
Session ID: DEVNET-1038 Tuesday, Feb 21, 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m
Join us for a panel discussion on the Internet of Things from the Cisco product teams themselves. Hear about the challenges of integration, how Cisco products work with each other, Cisco partnerships in IoT, and what the future might hold. There will be an opportunity to ask your own questions of the panel so please attend for what will be a unique and informative session.
Speakers:
John Apostolopoulos, VP.CTO, Cisco
Shaun Cooley, CTO - IoT & Industries, Cisco
Lionel Hunt, Manager Technical Marketing, Cisco
Maciej Kranz, Vice President, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group, Cisco
Srikrishnan Subramanian, Director of Engineering, Cisco Inc
Susie Wee, VP & CTO, Networked Experiences, Cisco
Open Source, Does it Pass the Sniff Test?
Session ID: DEVNET-1034 Tuesday, Feb 21, 5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
The tech industry has witnessed a boom in open source projects and foundations the past several years, particularly in cloud computing and networking (e.g. OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, FD.io). How does one decide if open source is the right choice for their application or platform, which project(s) best meet their needs, and how to engage successfully with the open source community. Join our distinguished panel as they share experience and insights that can help you navigate the open source landscape.
This session takes place in the DevNet Zone.
Speakers:
John Apostolopoulos, VP.CTO, Cisco
Bernd Himmelsbach, VP Cloud infrastructure Engineering & Automation, SAP SE
Ken Owens, CTO, Cisco
Christopher Price, Open Source Strategist, Ericsson
David Ward, SVP, Chief Architect, & CTO Engineering, Cisco
Jan Wildeboer, EMEA Evangelist, Red Hat
