UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 006

The UC Berkeley Cloud Community of Practice will be holding our sixth meetup in the Berkeley SkyDeck Penthouse. We have some excellent guests and topics and hope to see you there. We will be having one of UC Berkeley's team talk about their automation of web publishing for campus, and Mayank Malik as a special guest from SLAC, where he's the chief architect for computing.

Everyone is welcome - this is a really inclusive group! You don't have to be an expert, or already know about cloud technologies; we get together so people can learn from each other. The Berkeley SkyDeck is at 2150 Shattuck, on the top floor (press "PH" in the elevator.)

The plan for the meetup's format is to have speakers talk about their work. There will be soft drinks and pizza from Lavalle's!

AGENDA:

4:30- 5:00 Networking & info sharing / people arrive and food arrives

5:00 Host welcome and announcements

5:15: Speakers: Brian Wood and Anna Gazdowicz, UC Berkeley Web Platform Services (https://web.berkeley.edu). Brian will describe how Web Platform Services leverages AWS services like EC2 and SQS to automate software updates for Open Berkeley websites. Anna will discuss how the Web Platform Services team is able to build on the cloud strategy and offer a robust turnkey service for a variety of audiences and provide "Marvel-ous Customer Support with Limited Resources."

5:45 Speaker: Mayank Malik, Chief Architect for Computing at SLAC
https://energy.stanford.edu/people/mayank-malik (more description coming soon)

6:15: Q&A - Discussion & feedback

6:30: Networking & info sharing

7:00 pm - End/Doors close

Note: in order to make the event as inclusive as possible please know it is OK to bring kids - the SkyDeck is a child (and baby)-friendly venue. If you can't make it at this time, we do film all the talks and post them on YouTube.