CD security 2024 - where networking meets expertise!

Philip Welz is a GitLab Hero and works as Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer. At white duck, Philip accompanies customers along their Cloud Native Journey on Azure and help them sail Kubernetes into calm waters. His primary focus is on topics around Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and Cloud.

Nico Meisenzahl works as Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations at white duck. As Cloud Solution Architect, an elected Microsoft MVP and GitLab Hero, his current passion is for topics around Cloud Native and Kubernetes. Nico is a frequent speaker at conferences, user group events, and Meetups in Europe and the United States.

Benjamin Ritter is a Cloud Engineer, who has been working in consulting for four years. During this time he architected and implemented Cloud Native architectures, focused around Kubernetes and assisted customers in their journey to the cloud.

Thomas Fricke has been working with containers and Kubernetes for 9 years, with Linux and networks for 30 and with computers for 40. His focus is on security in KRITIS environments (energy, health care) and all the transformations that are necessary to turn these environments cloud native. He is a freelancer, founder and is working on projects with the German government to push the administration into the DevSecOps direction.

Mario is a Professional Service Engineer and a DevOps since the beginning of the merge of Dev and Ops, Mario started working on infrastructure as a developer, when bare metal was the normal case. Since the transition to docker and container based infrastructure, he shares his knowledge about cloud related Topics either as GDG Cloud Munich organizer or as a Google Developer Exper on Meetups and conferences. The mixture of being a developer and also an ops for more than 12 years, give his talks & blogs a more hands on and more real scenario approach.

Max Rigling is a Managing Consultant at Senacor. Max has several years of experience as a Cloud Architect with a focus on transformation and digitization projects in the banking sector. During this time, he has worked on system landscapes and cloud infrastructures of various major German banks and additionally leads the Cloud Innovation Chapter at Senacor Technologies.

Bastian Hafer is Lead Developer at Senacor Technologies focusing on cloud security. The trained computer scientist has already dealt with cryptography and IT security during his studies. As a Security Expert at Senacor, he is responsible for the Security Innovation Chapter and advises companies on the security of their IT landscapes and helps them to migrate safely to the cloud.

Stefan Trimborn has been in the IT industry for more than 10 years, working for companies such as Trend Micro, Red Hat and Docker. Sysdig allows him to combine his two passions namely Containers and Security. With a broad view on many different verticals Stefan hopes to be at your service to strengthen your fort and keep unpleasant digital visitors at bay.

Jan Bruder is a solution architect at SUSE with a focus on cloud-native technologies, particularly containers and Kubernetes. He has several years of experience working with large enterprise organizations on the adoption of Kubernetes and has contributed to multiple open source projects as a developer.

Nic is an experienced hands-on technologist, evangelist and product owner who has been working in the fields of Cloud-Native technologies, Open Source Software, Virtualization and Datacenter networking for the past 18 years. He is passionate about enabling communities and building innovative tech solutions solving real-life problems.

Jeremy is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent – the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium.

Jeremy enjoys the bits and bytes of what makes good security. Prior to joining Isovalent, Jeremy worked in roles as a security engineer architecting, configuring, and implementing secure systems and as a technical PMM in the container security space. He graduated from Princeton, focusing on policy around privacy and information security. He also has a Masters in Information Security from UC Berkeley.

Outside of Isovalent, Jeremy enjoys playing soccer and volunteering with Best Buddies.

Software entrepreneur focused on Open Source and cloud infrastructure. Enjoys inspiring change with technology and building effective go-to-market strategies. Co-founder of Jetstack, the company behind ‘cert-manager’, the de-facto TLS certificate management project for the Cloud Native ecosystem which is downloaded more than 2 million times a day. Jetstack was acquired by Venafi, the world leader in machine identity management in May 2020. Venafi then took strategic investment from private equity firm Thoma Bravo, valuing it at $1bn+.

Mattias is a technology leader working as Director of Tech at Venafi, specializing in helping companies with their Cloud Native strategy. A strong open-source enthusiast and contributor to many well-known Cloud Native projects, Mattias has been active in the ecosystem since the early days when Kubernetes was first established. A passionate advocate for DevOps practices, Mattias uses his skills and knowledge to foster better collaboration between development and operations teams to lead container-based and modern platform engineering initiatives successfully. More recently, Mattias has focused on DevSecOps. With a deep interest in Cloud Native Security, Software Supply Chain Security, and Workload Identity, he regularly shares his insights on how security teams can successfully adopt cutting-edge security practices.