Platform Engineers Berlin

Platforms are the perfect foundation to craft eco-friendlier environments, helping end users to understand and become carbon and energy-efficient.

Leaving every IT department by itself to find ways to be more sustainable is a strategy for failing. From our experience, platforms play an essential part in decarbonizing IT, leading and orchestrating various efforts, and providing a unified place to make single activities a helpful product.

During this talk, attendees will take away:

• The importance of platform features for enhancing transparency in power consumption and carbon footprint.
• Essential capabilities required for dynamically adjusting applications.
• Proactive strategies for educating platform users on sustainable practices.

The session will be based on experiences drawn from changing and adopting environments for different customers, and the knowledge we gained during open source work.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Max Körbächer, Founder & Cloud Native Advocate at Liquid Reply
Max is the Founder and Cloud Native Advocate at Liquid Reply based in Munich. His focus is on building cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes and platform engineering to simplify the current challenges of complex target environments. He is co-chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group and was part of the Kubernetes release team for three years.

Please join Jordan Chernev, former Sr. Director, Platform Engineering @ Wayfair, as he discusses best practices on evolving away from a centralized DevOps team to a platform engineering practice. Jordan will discuss building and supporting a global and highly scalable platform-as-a-product that enables and accelerates cloud-native development and application modernization efforts.

During this webinar, Jordan will cover:

• Organizational product-market-fit & TAM discovery
• Socialization & buy-in for your platform
• Product vision & GTM

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:

Jordan Chernev, Frmr. Sr. Director, Platform Engineering at Wayfair
Innovative, pragmatic, technology and product savvy leader with proven experience in building high performing teams and who creates strong alliances across organizational lines to deliver solutions to complex business needs. Emphasis on fostering team unity through personal relationship building, career growth, and professional development. Predictable delivery by way of proactive product planning and stakeholder management with outcomes that are relevant, visible, focused, and aligned with current and future organizational objectives and key results.

With platform engineering becoming integral to the way companies build and deploy to their cloud native setups, enterprises are turning to Platform Orchestrators to ensure their Internal Developer Platforms are secure and scalable.

Platform orchestration started back in 2022 with Humanitec pioneering the idea of engineering organizations using a Platform Orchestrator as the centerpiece of their Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).

A Platform Orchestrator is the core configuration engine of an IDP, allowing platform teams to set baseline configs and design clear golden paths for developers. This enables developers to consume infrastructure in a standardized and secure way.

During this webinar, we will dive into:

• Whether 2024 is the year of the Platform Orchestrator and why
• Why a Platform Orchestrator is an integral part of your IDP
• How enterprises use orchestration to standardize and automate their config setup, increasing deployment speed by 4x

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
Luca routinely speaks to tens of engineering teams every month. He summarizes his learnings and takeaways from looking at hundreds of DevOps setups into crisp, insightful reads for everyone in the industry, from beginner-Ops to cloud experts.

“All the world’s a stage” is one of the marquee phrases from As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. The phrase talks about the seven stages of life a person goes through from birth to death. But what if I said that William Shakespeare could have also written this for platforms?

From the infancy of the portal where it barely exists, to adolescence when large teams use it, and eventually the elder years when it matured and now has everything the team needs. The portal has left a legacy, offering lessons and inspiration to the next generation of platforms, developers, and platform engineers.

Join me Atulpriya Sharma, Sr. Developer Advocate @ InfraCloud & CNCF Ambassador, in this witty, insightful, and theatrical exploration of the life stages of a platform.

During this webinar you will:

• Understand the evolutionary journey of platforms, from their inception to legacy, and how each stage influences organizational innovation culture.
• Gain insights into the transformative effects of platforms on work processes and their implications for developers and engineers.
• Explore the intersection of wit and wisdom as we delve into the lifecycle of platforms, drawing parallels to Shakespeare's “All the World’s a Stage” and uncovering key lessons for fostering innovation within organizations.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, during which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Atulpriya Sharma, Sr. Developer Advocate @ InfraCloud | CNCF Ambassador
Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about cloud native, Kubernetes, and DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content such as blog posts and webinars, host Twitter spaces, and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.

In addition, I'm also a CNCF Ambassador and the organizer of CNCF Hyderabad. When I am not working, I’m a food and travel blogger who loves exploring eateries and going on road trips. You can find me at @TheTechMaharaj on Twitter.