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Thursday, April 20 • 15:25 - 16:00
Building a Successful Business in Cloud Native - Liz Rice, Isovalent; Guillermo Rauch, Vercel; Kelsey Hightower, Google; Sheng Liang, Acorn Labs; Tom Manville, Kasten by Veeam

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The cloud native community brings together an ecosystem of open source projects, end user companies, and vendors. Like a natural ecosystem, there’s a delicate balance between the species, and some will thrive while others struggle.

In this panel we’ll discuss how start-ups and smaller vendors can best take advantage of opportunities to succeed within the cloud native ecosystem. How can contributing to open source projects help a business? How can vendors make their products appeal to a community centred around open source? How does this business environment differ from traditional markets, and how can you use these differences to best effect?

Our panel includes practitioners and entrepreneurs who will share the lessons they have learned from their own companies and from their broad perspective across the cloud native ecosystem. We’ll help you understand what works and what doesn’t when you’re building a cloud native business.
Speakers
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Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of O'Reilly books "Learning eBPF" and... Read More →
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Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Software Engineer
Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go... Read More →
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Guillermo Rauch

CEO, Vercel
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel where he leads the company’s mission to enable developers to create at the moment of inspiration. Prior to founding Vercel, Guillermo co-founded LearnBoost and Cloudup where he served the company as CTO through its acquisition by... Read More →
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Sheng Liang

Cofounder and CEO, Acorn Labs
Sheng Liang is Cofounder and CEO of Acorn Labs. Previously he was the President of Engineering and Innovation at SUSE. Prior to SUSE, Sheng was Co-Founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, CTO of Cloud Platforms at Citrix, and Founder and CEO of Cloud.com. He started as a Staff Engineer in... Read More →
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Tom Manville

VP Engineering, Kasten by Veeam
Tom is an accomplished engineering executive with a history of delivering data-intensive systems to the market. Tom was a founding engineer at Kasten, where they built the leading cloud-native data management platform, and played a significant role in the company's successful acquisition... Read More →

Thursday April 20, 2023 15:25 - 16:00 CEST
Hall 7, Room B | Ground Floor | Europe Complex
  Business Value, Startup Track