Secrets of Successful Cloud Foundry Adopters

Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 Food & Networking
6:30 - 8:00 Presentations

1. Secrets of Successful Cloud Foundry Adopters - Dormain Drewitz

What are the practices and hallmarks of organizations that are running Cloud Foundry at scale? How did they get started? How did they attract hundreds of developers and equip them to deploy thousands of applications?

2017 was a year when more enterprises hit critical mass with their Cloud Foundry deployments. The best part? They shared details of how they did it. Team structures, enablement tactics, target applications… there is a growing body of examples to learn from. But you have to absorb it all! Is there a Readers’ Digest version? Yes. Yes there is.

Wherever you are on your digital transformation journey, learn from your predecessors. In this talk, Dormain Drewitz distills the learnings from several companies using Cloud Foundry. She shares the patterns around strategies, processes, and tactics.

2. Aon's Transformational Journey - Aon Platform Engineering Team

Come hear from Aon’s platform engineering group about their journey as a lean platform product team. They will compare a week in the life of their old way of operating vs how they operate today. Learn about platform as an XP product team, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.

Speaker bios:
Dormain Drewitz is a Senior Director of Product and Customer Marketing with Pivotal. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. She’s presented at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit; Open Source Summit; Cloud Foundry Summit, and numerous software user events. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

David Brock - Aon Director – Cloud Foundry Service Owner

Anand Gopal – Aon Platform Engineer

Joe Goller – Aon Platform Engineer