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IEEE Infrastructure Conference

What Makes this Conference Different

Gain insight and inspiration to think, or re-think, your infrastructure in sessions guided by and in discussion with foremost experts across the technology industry.

» Understanding the evolving role of AI to automate, address complexchallenges, and improve overall productivity and customer experience

» Leveraging systems, services design, and operationalmanagement in scale

» Managing failures and lessons learned using real-world scenariosand examples

20 September 2018 | San Francisco, California, USA

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The Venue

Join Us

Step away from your daily routine and join us at San Francisco’s Terra Gallery for the day. The open space encourages collaboration and networking, while also inspiring innovation.

Terra Gallery51 Harrison StreetSan Francisco, CA 94105

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Join us as we discuss big picture questions to give you overall, forward thinking insight, as well as operational nuts & bolts for maximizing your infrastructure, such as:

» Assessing trust models in your system paradigms» Addressing the engineering culture and customer experience

Let's learn from each other, tell our stories, and create a community and network that we can trust and reach out to when needed.

» Designed for and by practitioners, with speakers who have all led,managed or built large infrastructures themselves

» An intimate, neutral environment for networking and learningwith leaders from top technology companies

» Convened by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional associationdedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity

» Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning» Storage & Data» Micro-services & Programming Models

Topics include:

» Security & Trust» Linux & System Management» Scalability & Reliability

If you're looking for answers, ideas, or the right people to connect with regarding infrastructure, this unique event is for you!

Hear from Infrastructure Insiders such as...

Danny Lange | Unity Technologies Vice President of AI and Machine Learning

Benjamin Treynor Sloss | Google Vice President of Engineering

Conference Chairs• Mazdak Hashemi, Ph.D. • Dejan Milojicic, Ph.D.

Preliminary Agenda ‐ subject to change Start   End   Agenda 

8:00am  8:45am  BREAKFAST GATHERING & NETWORKING 

8:45am  9:00am  Welcome Remarks & Introductions 

9:00am  9:30am  KEYNOTE ‐ Benjamin Treynor Sloss (Google) ‐ Scaling Challenges in Infrastructure:  Single Points of Failure, and Expensive Heuristics 

9:30am  10:45am MORNING SESSION ‐ SERVICES, PROGRAMMING MODELS 

Marius Eriksen (GRAIL) ‐ Simplicity in the Age of Clouds 

Norman Mauer (Apple) ‐ Scaling Netty based Services @ Apple 

Peter Sbarski (A Cloud Guru) ‐ Serverless in Practice  Andrew Wilcox (Twitter) ‐ Modern Compression at Twitter 

Bo Liu (Pinterest) ‐ Build a dynamic and responsive Pinterest on AWS: a system engineer’s perspective  

10:45am 11:00am  BREAK 

10:45am 11:45am Exhibits Open ‐ In Parallel to Session 

11:00am 12:30pm MORNING SESSION (continues) ‐ STORAGE & DATA 

Tian‐Ying Chang (Pinterest) ‐ Goku: Pinterest’s in‐house time series database 

Amin Heydari (Box Inc.) ‐ Scaling to an Exabyte Storage System in a Multi‐Cloud Environment with Strict Governance Requirements 

Ed Huang (PingCAP) ‐ Designing Relational Databases in 2010’s: Trends and Methodology 

Jamie Turner (Dropbox) ‐ Pushing Boundaries in Cloud Storage 

Dinesh Joshi (Apache Cassandra) ‐ Need for speed: Boosting Apache Cassandra’s performance using Netty 

Vinu Charanya (Twitter) ‐ How Twitter built a Framework to improve Infrastructure Efficiency at Scale 

12:30pm 1:30pm  LUNCH 

1:30pm  2:30pm  PANEL SESSION ‐ How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned, Jennifer Fraser (Twitter), Chair 

Arya Asemandar (LightStep)   

Berk D. Demir (Facebook)  

Scott Engstrom (Oracle) 

Sabrina Farmer (Google)  

Jennifer Fraser (Twitter) 

2:30pm  2:45pm  AFTERNOON SESSION ‐ SECURITY & TRUST 

Raymond W. Blaine (West Point) ‐ Securing Infrastructure’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) 

2:45pm  3:00pm  BREAK 

2:45pm  4:00pm  Exhibits Open ‐ In Parallel to Session 

3:00pm  5:30pm  AFTERNOON SESSION (continues) 

SOFT SKILLS: CULTURE, EXPERIENCE, SERVICES 

Nitzan Blouin (WeWork) ‐ Five Simple Steps for Changing an Engineering Culture 

Dathan Vance Pattishall (WeWork) ‐ WeWork K8s from nothing to happy customer 

Randy Shoup (WeWork) ‐ Service Architectures at Scale  

LINUX, SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT 

Keith Packard (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) ‐ Gen‐Z Support for Linux  Lohit Vijay & Zhenzhao Wang (Twitter) ‐ Large Scale Event Log Management @ Twitter 

Ruben Oanta (Twitter) ‐ Deterministic Aperture: An algorithm for non‐cooperative, client‐side load balancing 

Sandy Strong (Twitter) ‐ Capacity Planning for Twitter’s Adaptive Ad Server  Ihab Hamadi (Western Digital) ‐ Driving the Future of Data Infrastructure for High‐Scale Data Centers 

AI 

Prasanth Pulavarthi (Microsoft) ‐ ONNX: Open Ecosystem for Interoperable and Scalable AI 

Natalia Vassileva (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) ‐ HPE Deep Learning Cookbook: How to Choose an Optimal Infrastructure for Deep Learning Workloads 

5:30pm  6:00pm  KEYNOTE ‐ Danny Lange (Unity Technologies) ‐ From Cloud to Cyber‐physical Systems, AI, and Beyond 

6:00pm  8:00pm  SOCIAL & NETWORKING