CIOs, Devs and Ops Teams: Learn From Your Peers at SpringOne Platform 2018

There’s nothing like learning from your peers. That’s true if you’re a noodler, a philatelist or a CIO tasked with implementing digital transformation at your enterprise. Same holds for ops teams and engineers learning modern platform operations and cloud-native development, respectively. That’s why you can’t afford to miss SpringOne Platform 2018, taking place September 25 to 27 in Washington, D.C.
There’s an entire track at the show dedicated to enterprise practitioners sharing their stories about what it’s like to transform large, well-established enterprises with entrenched IT and development practices. These brave souls will share not just their successes, but also their failures and lessons learned so you, dear conference attendee, can avoid them. The presenters include developers, platform architects, security pros and more from both U.S. and international enterprises cross industries.
With the event just a few short weeks away, I thought now is as good a time as any to share my practitioner’s guide to SpringOne Platform. Each of the following sessions is led by an enterprise practitioner — not a vendor, analyst or consultant — and focuses on their real-world experiences, both good and bad. Get ready to learn from your peers in D.C.
Day 1: Tuesday, September 25
DBS Bank : Changing the Way We Hire, Work and Deliver Digital Experiences to Our Customers
Digital transformation includes a number of different elements. The most obvious are new approaches to application development and platform operations. But it also impacts how and who companies hire to join the effort. In this session, Siew Choo Soh from DBS, a leading financial services firm serving Singapore, Taiwan, China, India and more, shares the results of the bank’s three year transformation effort. This includes creating a start-up culture within a large, well-established bank and how it grows and nurtures teams.
Siew Choo Soh, Managing Director, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology, DBS Bank
2:00 pm — 2:30 pm
Migrating from Big Data Architecture to Spring Cloud
Back when I was an industry analyst covering the big data space, there was a lot of focus on the “big” part of big data. Yes, there’s a lot more data being created today and new, more scalable and cost-efficient ways of storing it was required. But that’s often as far as the conversation went. What about actually analyzing all that data and putting the results to work for the business? In this session, Northern Trust’s Lenny Jaramillo discusses how the company adopted Spring and PCF to evolve its big data architecture and accelerate delivery of insights and new functionality to users.
Lenny Jaramillo, Lead Architect, Northern Trust
2:40 pm — 3:10 pm
The Cloud Challenge
Everyone, it seems, wants to move to the cloud. But why, exactly? For Fidelity Investment, answering that question was the key to success. The company didn’t want to move to the cloud just for the sake of it or simply recreate its on-premises challenges in someone else’s data center. In this session, learn how Fidelity took a pattern-based approach that maximizes the development power of PCF and the operational power of containers to successfully navigate the cloud challenge.
Richard Moran, Head of Enterprise Cloud Computing Architecture, Fidelity Investments
3:20 pm — 3:50 pm
Real World Transformation Experiences at StubHub
If you’ve attended a concert or live sporting event at any point over the last decade or more, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered StubHub. Over the last 18 years, the company has grown from a plucky upstart in the live events business to the largest online ticket marketplace in the world. But having been founded at the turn of the millennium, StubHub’s infrastructure, development practices and culture required a reboot. It started with the ops team, which wanted to build private cloud capabilities for application deployment, but soon expanded to include much more. StubHub’s George Loyer pick ups the story from there.
George Loyer, Director, Technical Operations, Stubhub
4:20 pm — 4:50 pm
Numbers in the Hidden: A Pragmatic View of ‘Nirvana’
There are many benefits to adopting a modern platform and cloud-native development. Teams learn to trust each other more. Developers better understand how their users feel. And there’s usually a significant reduction in useless meetings and roadblocks to doing meaningful work, which makes everybody happy. And that’s all fine and dandy, but what happens when you have to get up in front of the board of directors to report real, tangible improvements to business outcomes? As Cerner’s Bryan Kelly and Greg Meyer put it, “After your hard work, what tangible benefits do you bring to the table? Your top brass isn’t as interested in the experience, but instead want to see hard line numbers of productivity and improvement.” The good news is, these important metrics are hiding in plain sight. You just have to know where to look for them.
Bryan Kelly, Senior Software Architect, Cerner Corp
Greg Meyer, Director, Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Cerner Corp
5:00 pm — 5:30 pm
PCF Data Collection for MasterCard
MasterCard is well into its digital transformation journey. In recent years the company embraced cloud-native development practices, adopted Pivotal Cloud Foundry as the foundation of its modern applications and digital services, and continues to evolve its culture with an eye towards greater collaboration and empathy. The next step in its transformations is bringing more accountability and transparency to developers and lines of business. In this session, learn how MasterCard’s Digital Native Architecture group is formalizing the mechanisms and processes for collecting infrastructure, platform and application data to identify and report costs back to the company’s LOBs. The goal is to understand dependencies between products and infrastructure/platform resources for show-back and, eventually, chargeback.
Raj Sivaraj, Senior Consultant, Mastercard
Chris Busch, Platform Architect, Pivotal
5:40 pm to 6:10 pm
Day 2: Wednesday, September 26
Automation and Culture Changes for 40M Subscriber Platform Operation at Yahoo! Japan
When you provide hundreds of digital services to tens of millions of users, you better be nimble and ready to adapt to changing customer demands. That’s why Yahoo! JAPAN, which serves over 40 Million subscribers in Japan (that’s ⅓ of the entire population of that country!), adopted Pivotal Cloud Foundry back in 2016. Since then, use of the platform took off. In this session, learn how Yahoo! Japan optimizes platform operations to support its digital offerings and enables developer productivity.
Yuichiro Sano, Senior Manager, System Management Group, Platform Development Division, Yahoo! JAPAN
2:40 pm — 3:10 pm
DevSecOps: Security at the Speed of DevOps
If you want to stay secure, slooooooow down. That used to be the conventional wisdom. Not anymore. Today, the inverse is true. Enterprises that use automation to increase the speed with which they apply security patches across large, distributed systems are the ones improving their security posture. It’s also critical for security professionals to stop saying “NO!” and, instead, start partnering with the business and developers to incorporate security into the application development process itself. In this session, Comcast’s Larry Maccherone introduces his DevSecOps Manifesto and offers a process model for successful DevSecOps culture transformation.
Larry Maccherone, DevSecOps Transformation Lead, Comcast
3:20 pm — 3:50 pm
Achieving Hyper-Productivity Through the Use of Microservices and PCF
Mercedes-Benz.io just pushed its digital transformation into hyper-drive. Thomas Seibert and Gregor Zurowski will discuss how the digital property for the German automaker helps its developers achieve massive productivity gains with the help of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. They’ll also share tips for scaling modern development throughout a large enterprise across a multitude of teams.
Thomas Seibert, Senior Technical Lead Architect, Mercedes-Benz.io GmbH
Gregor Zurowski, Software Architect, Independent Consultant
4:20 pm — 4:50 pm
Security in the Hybrid Cloud at Liberty Mutual
Liberty Mutual is leading the charge when it comes to digital transformation in the insurance industry. Part of that leadership includes extolling the virtues of a hybrid cloud model. But while hybrid cloud has many benefits, it also introduces security challenges. Learn how the company is using a combination of tools and techniques geared towards enabling automation and self-service among its delivery teams to deliver customer value via highly-secure pipelines to the cloud.
Matt Ruel, Security Architect, Liberty Mutual
5:00 pm — 5:30 pm
Building Digital Capabilities in the Energy Sector Leveraging Agile Processes & Cloud Technologies
Singapore Power knows a thing or two about the energy and utilities business. The company serves over a million customers in Singapore and Australia, operates the world’s largest underground district cooling network, and is setting up new district cooling operations in China. In this session, SP’s Sau Sheong shares details of the company’s cloud-native journey and how it adopted Agile and modern development practices to lay the foundation for new digital capabilities and products for its millions of customers.
Sau Sheong Chang, Managing Director, SP Digital, Singapore Power
5:40 pm — 6:10 pm
Day 3: Thursday, September 27
T-Mobile Success Story of Migrating Monolithic Application to Spring Cloud Services
How do you refactor a giant monolithic application that’s responsible for core enterprise functions and processes up to 70 million transactions per day, all without impacting existing users? The answer: carefully. In this session, three T-Mobile engineers walk through the process of breaking down the company’s Retail Services Platform into 60 to 70 microservices using Spring Cloud Services and adhering to 12 Factor principles.
Linga Reddy Boddam, Principal Engineer, T-Mobile
Ramesh Majj, Senior Engineer, T-Mobile
Ravi Prativadi, Manager, Software Development, T-Mobile
10:30 am — 11:00 am
Mission Impossible: Deploying Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Nine Air Operational Sites in a Year
No, this isn’t the next installment in the uber-successful Tom Cruise vehicle. But it’s the next best thing! Real-life super hero Lt. Davis Gunter, Chief of Platform Ops, United States Air Force, will share his experience fundamentally transforming how software is built at the nine Air Operations Centers, where all planning and execution of air missions for the Air Force takes place. The story includes partnering with other federal agencies and coordinating across seven primary operational theaters.
Lt. Davis Gunter, Chief of Platform Ops, United States Air Force
11:10 am — 11:40 am
Safety at Speed: Panel Discussion with Boeing Corporation
Executing digital transformation at a large, well established enterprise is sometimes likened to changing the tires on a car that’s barreling down the highway at 60 mph. How about swapping out the engines on a plane flying over 600 mph? In this panel discussion, get the lowdown on Boeing’s transformation efforts, including how “developers challenged the status quo by driving positive change into Boeing IT with new levels of expectations and mindset shifts of the possible.”
David Ibanez, Software Engineer, Boeing
Rob Monroe, Technical Product Manager, Boeing
Brad Schaefbauer, Platform Service Owner, Boeing Enterprise Cloud Services , Boeing
Chris Phillipson, Senior Platform Architect, Pivotal
11:50 am — 12:20 pm
Peer Insights at SpringOne Platform
Now is the time to learn from your peers. Download the SpringOne Platform mobile app (from the Apple App Store or Google Play) and start building your agenda today! Haven’t registered yet? There’s still time! Register now and use discount code S1P200_JKelly to save $200! See you in D.C.!
