Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017

History teaches us that astonishing feats occur not when a singular leader envisions them, but when a mass of skilled workers collaborates to transform that vision into something material. The Pyramids of Giza, for example, were not built overnight by a Pharaoh, but constructed by tens of thousands of workers over a period of years. Today’s “pyramid” is quite a bit smaller, but a wonder of the world in its own right: The iPhone has transformed the world as we know it -- but most of its power comes from the app store, which offers thousands of apps created from the imaginations of thousands of developers. These developers are the makers of marvels in our time. They instantiate the very concept of digital transformation -- that notion of infrastructure disruption and re-assembly on the mind of every CIO. Business development is driven by software development, and software development is shaped by developers in the open source community.

In her talk, Abby Kearns empowers developers to think of themselves as the doers and makers who hold the key to unlocking digital transformation. She will cover the importance of diversity among developers for the technology industry to evolve and to reflect its user base, and will highlight the key open source concepts and technologies powering this trans-industrial transformation.

Undoubtedly, there is a strong connection between open source contribution and academia: collaboration across multiple groups, open access to information, and quality over quantity. Dr. McMullen will discuss how the SoundPadLab at the University of Florida uses open source to create novel solutions to many societal challenges. Come hear about how open source projects are being implemented in academic and human contexts.

Digital transformation is fundamentally about enabling businesses to quickly innovate on top of their core competencies. For building innovative applications without compromising enterprise-grade qualities, the underlying platform must be agile, robust and open for accessing cutting-edge technologies. In this keynote, you will learn how SAP customers are driving innovations in leaps and bounds in IoT, Machine Learning, eCommerce and other areas by using SAP Cloud Platform -- a Cloud Foundry enterprise Platform offered in a multi-cloud environment.

Comcast is the largest cable provider in the United States, meaning it is vital for its services to be available at all times to meet enormous customer demand -- while ensuring its development teams can implement updates continuously, without sacrificing uptime. Join Greg Otto, Uma Tumala and Christopher Tretina from Comcast as they discuss the reasons they chose Cloud Foundry, from three unique perspectives: operations, development and line of business. Hear about the benefits and challenges of deploying Cloud Foundry across multiple clouds in one of the largest enterprise environments in the world.

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A customer-centric Agile transformation is in flight across Liberty Mutual Insurance to drive faster time-to-market and value delivery by leveraging technology. The imperative for change in our current business landscape is just too great to ignore. Mojgan will tell a story about how her team quickly adopted the Agile mindset and methodologies to seize a multi-million dollar business opportunity in Australia and deliver customer value in record time. In true “hit the ground running” form, this 100+ year-old, Fortune 100 company is driving real change – and it all starts with transforming how software products are delivered.

Allstate, founded in 1931 and the second largest Property and Casualty Insurer in the US, is pursuing the goal of creating a 22nd Century Corporation and technology is at the forefront of this transformation. There are many pieces that must fall into place for an enterprise transformation to succeed: a strong vision, support from a leadership coalition, leveraging new technology and business models and most of all the engagement and drive of the individuals who power the corporation. Opal will discuss how she and the team took a global first approach to leading engineers and product teams on the transformation journey and enabled powerful growth for teams across three continents.

Today developers enjoy a freedom to create that is without precedent. They are faced with an embarrassment of riches in tool choices, and even ten person teams can run services with a billion users. All of this freedom is not without cost, however, and developers need to think critically about their choices and which choices are important to them. In this talk, we’ll explore this seeming paradox and strategies for how developers are responding to the challenges and opportunities in front of them.

Jessica Criscione, Director of Technology Management at Ogilvy, will be discussing how Ogilvy uses Cloud Foundry to help achieve rapid development timelines to meet client demands. This talk will go through several examples of projects we've built and the services we've used to speed up development time.

Although Cloud Foundry has greatly simplified application deployment and management, developing cloud-native apps is still challenging and time-consuming. But what if you applied the same principles of abstraction and automation that have streamlined deploying applications to building them?

Enter low-code platforms, which Forrester defines as "platforms that enable rapid application delivery with a minimum of hand-coding, and quick setup and deployment.” With the market surging to an expected $15 billion by 2020, low-code platforms are being adopted by enterprise IT organizations looking to speed innovation and business transformation.

In this panel, several leading organizations will share how they’re leveraging low-code platforms on Cloud Foundry to deliver web and mobile applications at unprecedented speed and scale. See how low-code enables a much broader range of users to build enterprise-grade applications, helping IT to close the capacity gap while maintaining control. In addition, discover how the combination of low-code and Cloud Foundry speeds each stage of the app lifecycle (ideate, develop, test, deploy and operate) to enable continuous innovation).