Ensuring Performance, Efficiency, and Scalability of Digital Transformation
The CMG Impact conference (February 10-12, 2020 in Las Vegas) is coming. Looking at the program I have the same problem as I always had with CMG conferences – how could I attend all the sessions I want considering that we have multiple tracks?
Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 days. And we still have a lot of great sessions covering other hot topics: digital transformation, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, etc. – which would be great to attend to keep up with recent developments and their impact on my area.
So here is the list of 21 sessions on my “to attend” list (check the full agenda as you may be interested in another topics and technologies – and there many more great sessions there) – in the same random order they are in the list of sessions).
What’s that VM/Server Doing? by Debbie Sheetz, MBI Solutions
– Somehow VMs is not a popular topic anymore – and this is in the time when practically everything is running on VMs. So you need to understand what is going on there – and Debbie is definitely an authority in that area.
ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM
– Bringing best of two different worlds together…
Computing System Congestion Management Using Exponential Smoothing Forecasting by James Brady, State of Nevada
– System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it.
System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba
– Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider.
How is DevOps changing the Modern Software Development Landscape?, a Panel Discussion
– Clearly a hot topic – and the most interesting point here would be how it is changing performance engineering.
You can’t always get what you want. Or can you? An Evaluation of Cloud-Native Tools by Karen Hughes, BMC
– Looks like cloud-native performance tools mature – it is important to understand what they could do and what you need third-party tools for.
Optimizing your Cloud by Igor Trubin, Capital One
– Optimizing cloud costs is probably the #1 challenge of any operations – and it is very interesting to learn how it is done on the Capital One scale.
Solving the “Need for Speed” in the World of Continuous Integration by Vivek Koul, Mcgraw Hill
– Today’s hottest question for development – how we build performance engineering into continuous integration.
Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering
– I am supposed to lead the session. Will start with a short history of performance engineering – and hope to trigger a meaningful discussion about today’s performance engineering challenges and its future.
How Website Speed affects your Bottom Line and what you can do about it by Alla Gringaus, Rigor
– Alla, a Web Performance expert, will be talking about business cases for performance. Something we all struggle with.
How to select appropriate IT Infrastructure to support Digital Transformation by Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext
– Optimizing IT infrastructure – with specific use cases. Boris has unique expertise in that area – especially in Big Data applications.
The story of a Bank, a Bot, and an ELK (or how Banca d’Italia used Machine Learning to enable Capacity Planning and Anomaly Resolution) by Pietro Tiberi, Marco Capotosto, Banca d’Italia
– And probably the hottest question for operations – anomaly detection.
Resource Optimization in an Ever-changing Landscape by Tuli Nivas, Salesforce
– Another presentation on resource optimization – this one from Salesforce.
Marrying Artificial Intelligence and Automation to Drive Operational Efficiencies by Priyanka Arora, Asha Somayajula, Subarna Gaine, Mastercard.
– Application of Artificial Intelligence to operations – as done at Mastercard.
Performance is not only about response time by Henrik Rexed, Neotys
– Henrik will discuss today’s load testing challenges – and Neotys is at the forefront in this area.
Among a Billion Configurations, How Would You Find the Best One? by Stefano Doni, Akamas
– Akamas has a unique AI-based approach to optimizing configurations.
Building a Modern-Day Site Reliability Team by Anjeneya Dubey, McGraw Hill
– As Anjeneya has performance and capacity in his title, I wonder how McGraw Hill integrates them with Site Reliability.
Driving the Business Case for Performance and Optimization by Michael Perera, IBM, Allan Zander,Randy McCoy, DataKinetics / omNovos
– Industry experts share their unique experience on how to justify performance engineering.
Performance Engineering as a Service: Enabling Performance Testing at Scale in a DevOps World Using Infrastructure Automation by Jaishankar Padmanabhan, Wayfair
– Integrating performance testing into DevOps is a hot topics – and Jaishankar will share the unique Wayfair experience.
Changing the Rules of Engagement: Supporting Business Growth through Capacity Planning at Cerner by Andrea Gallo, Moviri, Justin Martin, Cerner
– Highlighting the role of capacity planning in digital transformation.
Netflix Performance Tales in One Take by Ed Hunter, Netflix
– No details on what specific tales would be – but all stories I heard from Ed and his team are always exceptional. Something you shouldn’t miss.
So we have great speakers lined up into the 2.5-day program. And the greatest advantage of the CMG Impact conference is that you have a chance to communicate with world renowned experts face-to-face. The conference is not very large nowadays – which is actually a blessing for attendees: you don’t need to get through a huge crowd to ask your question / have a short conversation. To facilitate discussions, in addition to Q&A, we have panels, “Meeting of the Minds” sessions, and networking events.
And, by the way, you may get a discount with my personal code Podelko10. See you there!
