The venue will be open from 8:30 onwards, with hearty breakfast platters
and barista made coffee provided to get you fueled up for a big day :)

We'll officially kick off

Ankur Kotwal, APAC Lead of Cloud
Developer & DevOps Advocacy at Google

Ankur will lead us in with an inspirational keynote talk on how the
Cloud Native Ecosystem has been built over the last 20 years, what part Google
has played and how open source has been key in shaping it all.

Kevin Collas-Arundell, Solution Engineer at ME Bank

In my time running Kubernetes, I've pushed duplicate ingresses, wrongly matching service labels,
exposed ingresses under the wrong domain, and more. As clusters grow in the number of users
we need ways of codifying our production policies, ensure our compliance with various internal rules
and help users of your cluster with quick responses. In this talk I'll walk you through some basic policy
implementations with the Open Policy Agent and how we can use them to save you from making my mistakes

Emma Haruka Iwao, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform

We have calculated 31.4 trillion digits of Pi in 2019 and broke the world record in the Pi computation.
The process took about four months and 200 TiB of storage. Record-breaking Pi calculations have traditionally
been done on supercomputers and special-made hardware, but we did it on Cloud for the first time.
This talk will discuss the nature of the calculation, the architecture, challenges and techniques, and of course
the brief history of Pi computation. Calculating Pi has been the speaker's childhood dream and this
talk will also explain how the small dream grew to the new world record.

We'll take a short break to consume some more coffee and snacks. And maybe play some Mario Kart.

Jemma Stones, Director at Deloitte, Analytics & Cognitive

As Google's "Data Warehouse" solution, BigQuery is often positioned to replace the traditional
on-premise data warehouse with the promise of massive performance improvements.
Migrating a data warehouse to BigQuery requires more than just redirecting your data ingestion pipeline.
There are many new concepts to deal with which impact architecture, data modelling and access patterns
among other considerations. This talk will overlay the traditional approach to designing & building
data warehouses with considerations for BigQuery to ensure a considered approach to
migrating data warehouses to GCP.

Vaughn Muirhead, GCP Practice Lead at intelia

Vaughn Muirhead is a mild mannered Cloud Architect by day but on evenings and weekends
he becomes a mild mannered developer and inventor, building cool things and learning about emerging
technologies along the way. He will be talking about a unique application of deep learning
at the edge involving dogs and rubbish bins.

Lunch will be provided in the form of tasty, nutritious Goldilocks lunchboxes.

Rad Kanapathipillai, Senior DevSecOps Consultant at Shelde

Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys,
and other secrets in modern computing using HashiCorp Vault.

Harmeet Sokhi, Senior Consultant - Data Engineer at ThoughtWorks

Data is the most complex and hard part of machine learning and data scientists spend
a lot of time selecting and transforming features for training their machine learning models.
Ad hoc feature engineering creates a pipeline jungle which can be easily avoided by using the Feature Stores.
This session explains what features are, why they are vital in data strategy and how we can store features
in an extremely curated way so that usage of features can be standardized across the organization.
This not only makes you ready for the future but also makes features reusable. This talk will be
mostly focused on feature store architecture and criticality, but as this is a Google devfest,
I will also introduce Feast (Googles's feature store)

I guess you've had your fill of coffee by this point, but we'll take a break anyways.

Binura Gunasekara, Senior Software Engineer at Platformer

Title sounds bit crazy however the idea is to provide a solution for smaller customers with limited IT staff the ability to start an application on a GCE VM without having to call their IT staff. The benefits such minimal maintenance work as well as cost savings are considered in implementing the solution.

We'll bring the day to a close and give away some awesome door prizes!

We will head over to the Harlow pub to have a couple of drinks, play some pool
and continue our cloudy conversations. Feel free to join us!