Surge 2011 Keynote & Speaker List
Discussing Scalability Matters...
...because scalability matters. Surge is a chance to identify emerging trends and meet the architects behind established technologies. Learn from their mistakes and see how their victories can power your business forward.
Speaker
Adam Jacob President & Co-founder, Opscode
Adam Jacob is a co-founder of Opscode and the creator of Chef. Prior to Opscode, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During his two years at HJK, he built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Adam has 13 years of experience as a systems administrator, systems architect, and tools developer. He has been responsible for large production infrastructures, internal corporate automation, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.
Adam's Talks
Choose Your Own Adventure
Time: 4-5 p.m., September 29th
Location: Veterans Room
This talk focuses on letting the audience guide the presentation, and serves as a kind of round-up for topics such as: infrastructure automation, cloud computing, configuration management tools, NoSQL, CAP theorem and scalable web application, building open source communities and funding a start up. The presentation contains 16 different segments, with each segment being a 5 minute round-up of the topic. The audience calls out which topic they want to hear, and is encouraged to ask questions as they come up.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
