Speaker: Adrian Cockcroft

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Former VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture @Amazon

Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology. He’s always been fascinated by what comes next, and he writes and speaks extensively on a range of subjects. He joined Amazon as their VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy in 2016, recruited and leads their open source community engagement team. He was previously a Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures. There he advised the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence. Before joining Battery, Adrian helped lead Netflix’s migration to a large scale, highly available public-cloud architecture and the open sourcing of the cloud-native NetflixOSS platform. Prior to that at Netflix he managed a team working on personalization algorithms and service-oriented refactoring. Adrian was a founding member of eBay Research Labs, developing advanced mobile applications and even building his own homebrew phone, years before iPhone and Android launched. As a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems he wrote the best-selling “Sun Performance and Tuning” book and was chief architect for High Performance Technical Computing. He graduated from The City University, London with a Bsc in Applied Physics and Electronics, and was named one of the top leaders in Cloud Computing in 2011 and 2012 by SearchCloudComputing magazine.
 

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Keynote

Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) From Netflix

A retrospective on microservices, what we set out to do at Netflix, how it worked out, and how things have subsequently permeated across the industry, along with some of the [mis]appropriations etc. that have since happened.

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Date

Wednesday Mar 29 / 09:00AM BST ( 1 hours )

Location

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

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Cloud Provider Sustainability, Current Status and Future Directions

Cloud providers are large, growing rapidly, and leading sustainable development of datacenters, although their total capacity is still a small proportion of the global datacenter footprint.

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Date

Wednesday Mar 29 / 01:40PM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Topics

cloud sustainability

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Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments?

Sustainability has been deemed the greatest challenge of all time for many generations, yet, we have reached any substantial progress to defeat it. This is true across many industries, including the software sector.

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Date

Wednesday Mar 29 / 02:55PM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Westminster (4th Fl.)

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