DKM XL / what happened at KubeCon?

Hi Kubernauts!

For our September 22 we'll invite several KubeCon speakers, as well as prominent community members to comment on all things announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Virtual. Join on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dzx884Yzw

Sarah Khalife, Solutions Engineer at GitHub
Sarah (@_skhalife) is passionate about creating an environment to help organizations implement best practices and improve their Software Development Life Cycle operations. She helps drive open source and innersource, automated workflows, and more secure development for enterprise customers. Previously, she worked as a Senior Software Engineer, deploying and operating GE Digital’s Industrial IoT platform and container service in production using Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, as well as developing microservices.

Alessandro Vozza, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Alessandro (@bongo on Twitter) is a Microsoft OSS Champion, CNCF Ambassador, and community organizer (Kubernetes Community Days; this very meetup).

Karen Chu, Community Program Manager II
Karen (@karenhchu) is a Community PM on the Microsoft Azure Container Compute Upstream team with a focus on open source tools such as Helm, CNAB, Brigade, CNAB, and more. She is a CNCF Ambassador, meetup-, and conference organizer. She has also worked The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes book series. When she’s not connecting dots in the community, you can find her traveling, pursuing photography, and enjoying awesome chai.

Thatcher Peskens, co-founder of LeafCloud (formerly GreenEdge)
LeafCloud is a truly green cloud; where the heat its servers produce is re-used to save energy. Thatcher likes to think of himself a product nerd, part nerd, part business development. You'll find him talking to people to understand what they really need, but also getting plenty of development time.

Taylor Dolezal, Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp
At HashiCorp, Taylor (@onlydole) works on infrastructure tools that enable innovation. Taylor works closely with open source communities, and is passionate about Kubernetes, Terraform, and solving problems with distributed systems. You can usually find Taylor buried deep in a book, preparing a technical talk, or running with his two dogs.

K Rain Leander, Developer Advocate at Packet, an Equinix Company
Rain (@rainleander) is a systematic, slightly psychic, interdisciplinary community liaison with a Bachelor’s in dance and a Master’s in IT. An epic public speaker, they have disappeared within a box stuffed with swords, created life, and went skydiving with the Queen. Seriously. Rain is an active technical contributor with OpenStack, RDO, TripleO, Fedora, and DjangoGirls.

Pieter Lange, "does Kubernetes" at Fullstaq
Pieter (@kuberpieters) is an OSS Cloud Native Engineer, and community organizer for the Dutch Kubernetes Meetup. In his free time he clears the waters of his hometown from "plastic soup".

Program:
18:00 - 19:00 Panel #1
19:00 - 19:40 Thatcher Peskens - How to love Kubernetes and not wreck the planet (talk inspired by Holly Cummins' Kubecon 2020 session "How to love K8S and not wreck the planet")
19:40 - 20:30 Panel #2 & Closing Notes

Bring your questions!