Speaking Engagements
A curated collection of talks and presentations I’ve given from 2018-2025, covering cloud-native technologies, container runtimes, security, and AI infrastructure.
2025
Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: Advancing Cloud-Native Innovation from AI to Edge
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025 | London, UK
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
2024
Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: From AI, WASM, OS, Edge to Workloads in the Heart of Salt Lake City
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 | Salt Lake City, Utah
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
Tick, TAG, TOC - Keeping Cloud Native Running
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 | Salt Lake City, Utah
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
Unlocking the TAG-Runtime Magic: Where Cloud-Native, Workloads, and AI Join Forces!
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 | Paris, France
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
Panel: Beyond the Clouds: Charting the Course for AI in the CloudNative World
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 | Paris, France
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
2023
The Power of RAG at Scale: A Year of Explosive Growth and Observability Challenges
📅 AI_dev NA 2023 | San Jose, California
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
The Cloud-Native Workloads Journey Through the CNCF Tag-Runtime
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 | Chicago, Illinois
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
Keynote: Hot Dog! The Technical Oversight Committee is on a Roll!
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 | Chicago, Illinois
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
Walk, Jog and Run with Cloud Native and the CNCF TAG-Runtime
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2023 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details
2022
CNCF TAG-Runtime: Cloud Native Open Source Core Components
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022 | Valencia, Spain
🎤 Panel Discussion
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
Simplify Your Postmortems and Focus on Scaling
📅 LeadDev New York 2022 | New York, New York
🎥 Video
2021
CNCF TAG-Runtime: What’s Next in Cloud Native Workloads?
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021 | Los Angeles, California
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
CNCF SIG-Runtime: The Cloud Native Runtimes Outlook
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2021 | Virtual
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
2020
Intro: CNCF SIG-Runtime
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 | Virtual
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
End-Users Won’t Even Notice, Painless Kubernetes Upgrades
📅 All Things Open 2020 | Virtual
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
In-place Upgrade Noway! Blue/Green Your Way to a New Kubernetes Version
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020 | Virtual
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
Store This and That: The Case for Serverless Datastores
📅 Open Source Summit NA 2020 | Virtual
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
2019
Adventures in Production with GitOps, Secure Pipelines and Compliance
📅 Kubernetes Forum Seoul & Sydney 2019
🎥 Seoul Video | 🎥 Sydney Video
🔗 Seoul Event | 🔗 Sydney Event | 📊 Slides
Let Your Software Supply Chain Ride with Kubernetes CI/CD
📅 LISA 2019 | Portland, Oregon
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
It’s Time to Jump on the Secure GitOps Bandwagon
📅 Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference NA 2019 | San Diego, California
🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
Untrusted? No problem: A story on the latest Kubernetes container sandbox mechanisms
📅 O’Reilly Velocity 2019 | San Jose, California
🎥 Video (O’Reilly subscription required) | 📊 Slides
Enhancing Your Workload Security with Kata Containers
📅 Container World 2019 | Santa Clara, California
🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
2018
Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 | Seattle, Washington
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
Container Security & Multi-Tenancy Tales from Kata & Nabla
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 | Seattle, Washington
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
Spice Up Your Workloads with Kata Containers
📅 Open Source Summit NA 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides
What’s Up With All The Different Container Runtimes?
📅 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2018 | Copenhagen, Denmark
🎥 Video | 🔗 Event Details | 📊 Slides