SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/26/15 —
Summit to bring together developers and IT experts to from companies such as AllState, Humana, Lockheed Martin and Verizon
include musician and author Christine McKinley, IBM–s Angel Diaz, author Cory Doctorow, Cloud Foundry CEO Sam Ramji and author Andy Weir, among others
on topics ranging from microservices architectures to data lifecycle management, and more
, home of the leading open source cloud native application platform, today is announcing the program, sessions and keynotes for the Cloud Foundry Summit. The Summit takes place May 11-12, 2015 in Santa Clara, Calif at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Cloud Foundry is the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) open source project and is experiencing significant increases in community contributions and user and vendor investments. Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 is bringing together more than 1500 application developers, IT operations experts, technical managers, business leaders, service providers and project contributors in an independent forum to accelerate and advance the Cloud Foundry open source project and help the community set its agenda for the year.
“With community contributions on the rise and investments in the platform deeper than ever, we expect the Cloud Foundry Summit to bring the best and brightest together to advance the state of open cloud computing,” said Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation.
Keynote speakers will shed light on the state of technology across cloud, mobile and the Internet of Things:
Christine McKinley is a mechanical engineer, musician and author and will discuss “The Oath of the Innovator.”
Dr. Angel Diaz, vice president of cloud architecture and technology, IBM, will present “Left Brain Meets Right Brain: The Power of Code, Community and Culture.”
Cory Doctorow, a well-known science fiction writer, blogger and technology activist, will present “I Can–t Let You Do That Dave: Why the Opposite of –Free– is –Slave.–“
Sam Ramji, the Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO, will present “Steampunk Meets Cyberpunk: The Makings of a Cloud Native Application Platform.”
Andy Weir, programmer, space nerd and novelist, whose book “The Martian” is currently being made into a movie, will share “How I Used Open Source Ideology to Make a Bestselling Novel.”
EMC–s Brian Gallagher will present “Not All Clouds are Created Equal.”
Huawei–s Dr. Ying Xiong will share his thoughts on “Communication as a Service with Cloud Foundry.”
Bill Hilf from HP will present “Apps and Platforms: Enablers for Today–s Cloud Native Enterprises.”
User spotlight keynotes include:
Allstate Technology Strategic Ventures: Developing the freedom to disrupt
Humana: Consumerizing healthcare through lean and agile digital product development
Lockheed Martin: Managing cultural transformation
Sessions are designed to share user stories, as well as provide in-depth technical content. Highlights from the user sessions include:
Launching the Next Generation Satellite Ground System on Cloud Foundry and Microservices
The Start of Kroger–s Journey to Cloud Foundry
A Case Study: Orange Labs and Cloud Foundry
The technical track will include a variety of focus areas, including these highlights:
Cloud Foundry on Azure
Building a Docker Backend for Garden
Psycho Security – End to End Encryption
For more information and to register for the Summit, please visit:
Platinum sponsors for Cloud Foundry Summit include EMC, General Electric, HP, Huawei, IBM, Pivotal and VMware. Gold sponsors include Altaros, CenturyLink and Stackato.
The Cloud Foundry Foundation is an independent non-profit organization formed to sustain the development, promotion and adoption of Cloud Foundry as the global industry standard for open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is an Apache 2.0 licensed project available on Github: . To learn more visit .
*IDC, Worldwide Competitive Public Cloud Platform as a Service 2014-2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares, doc #249893, July 2014.
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