ChefConf 2018: Barry Crist Opening
Barry Crist
Chef, CEO

ChefConf 2018: Adam Jacob Day 2 Opening
Adam Jacob
Chef, CTO & co-founder of Chef

Product Vision and Announcements
Corey Scobie
Chef, SVP of Products & Engineering

“Do Change” with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sue Taylor
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CIO

Microsoft Azure & Chef Integration and Demo
Jeremy Winter
Microsoft Azure, Partner Director of Program Management

Chef Automate’s Impact upon Toyota Financial Services
Mohammad Malik
Toyota Financial Services, National Manager – Cloud Engineering

CSG International and How DevOps Delivers Results
Erica Morrison
CSG International, Exec Director – Software Development & Operations

Harnessing the Cloud with OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Stephen Figgins
University of Kansas, Assoc. Director of Operations of Agile Technology Solutions

Detect, Correct and Automate with Chef on AWS
Arun Gupta
Amazon Web Services, Principal Open Source Technologist

Choir!Choir!Choir! Sing-along
Daveed & Nobu (AKA DaBu)
Pretty much everyone at ChefConf 2018

The Chef Awards
Dan Webb
Romain Sertelon
Edmund Haselwanter
Tim Smith
IBM
Alaska Airline
Orasi

Automating a Payments Engine
Trevlin Pillay
Automation Engineer, Standard Bank

Chef- and Habitat-powered Runtime for Stateful SaaS

Deepack Sihag – DevOps Consultant

Amulya Sharma – Sr Staff Software Engineer, GE

How to Prepare for an Audit (AKA Make Audits Suck Less)
Seth Thoenen
Systems Engineer, Jack Henry & Associates

Cloud Compliance with InSpec and Chef Automate

Victoria Jeffrey – Software Engineer, Chef

Rick Marry – Senior Software Engineer, Chef

CI Techniques for Delivering the Chef-Repo: Three Case Studies
Lamont Lucas
Co-Founder, FastRobot

Chef and InSpec Builds with Jenkins

Annie Hedgpeth – Cloud Automation Engineer, 10th Magnitude

Nick Hudacin – Senior Systems Engineer, Relativity

Test Driven DevOps
Chris Todd
Founder, TapHere! Technology

Capital One’s Fully Automated, Scalable & Regionally Fault-tolerant Chef Platform
John Casanova
Master Software Engineer, Capital One

Herding Cats – How to Get an Entire Organization Cooking with Chef
Brittany Woods
Automation Engineer, CARFAX

Chef @ Yahoo! JAPAN: Powering the Largest Portal Site in Japan

Ippei Suzuki – Chef Strategy Officer (CSO), Creationline, Inc. (representing Yahoo! JAPAN)

Kenta Kawaharada – Yahoo! JAPAN

Developing the Essential macOS Cookbook at Microsoft

Jacob Zaval – Service Engineer, Microsoft

Eric Hanko – Service Engineer, Microsoft

Multicloud Compliance as Code with InSpec
Martez Reed
Senior DevOps Engineer, Slalom

Achieving Cloud Agnostic Application Deployment with Habitat
Scott Ford
Principal Strategic Solutions Architect, Chef

Distribute and Conquer- the Federated Model for Chef Automate on AWS

Jonathan Weiss – Senior Engineering Manager, Amazon Web Services

Mark Rambow – Software Development Manage, Amazon Web Services

VMware & Chef – What is the Ecosystem Like and Where Does Everything Fit?
JJ Asghar
Partner Architect, Chef

Using Chef and InSpec to Securely Manage Endpoints (Panel)

Mike Dodge – Client Platform Engineer, Facebook

Ryan Moon – Client Platform Engineer, Slack

John McCrae – IT Manager, Chef

Easy Ad-hoc Remote Tasks and the Future of Chef Workstation on the Desktop

Tyler Ball – Software Development Engineer, Chef

Jon Morrow – Engineering Lead, Chef

Global Scale Application Architecture With Habitat and Microsoft Azure

John Kerry – Operations Architect, NCR

William Stewart – Software Engineer, NCR

Chef + Google Kubernetes Engine
Alex Stephen
Software Engineer, Google

Building and Running ASP.Net Applications in Habitat
Matt Wrock
Software Developer, Chef

Bid Farewell to “Compliance Theater” and Welcome Continuous Compliance
Carter McHugh
Executive Director of Agile Architecture, CSG International

Habitat Essentials – An Absolute Beginner’s Guide
Ryan Keairns
Principal Product Designer, Chef

How the Habitat-operator Brings Habitat Awesomeness to Kubernetes
Indradhanush Gupta
Software Engineer, Kinvolk

Production-Ready Kubernetes and Habitat in 40 Minutes
Joey Schluchter
Azure Cloud Architect, Microsoft

Meshing Legacy Systems with Habitat to Lift & Shift
Graham Weldon
Technical Coordinator and Vision Lead, Rakuten

Seems Legit – Testing Cloud Provisioning with InSpec
Clinton Wolfe
Software Engineer, Chef

NFCU and Chef – A Year of Automating AIX, Linux, and More
Alan Thatcher
Support Lead (Chef), Navy Federal Credit Union

How SAP leverages Chef Automation

Martin Schygulla – Automation Team Manager, SAP

Juan Carlos Martinez – Automation Engineer, SAP

DevOps is Not a War
Chris Short
Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies

Using HashiCorp Vault with Chef
Emily Ye
Software Engineer, Google

Chef & Sensu – Delightful Monitoring
Sean Porter
CTO, Sensu

Build a Recipe for Success with Chef and Splunk
Domnick Eger
Global DevOps Practitioner – ITOA Practice Lead, Splunk

How We Drove Everything Towards Automation and Still Made the Auditors Happy

Greg Rommel – Sr. Cloud Automation Engineer, Discover

Ryan Kotecki – Cloud Automation Engineer, Discover

Putting Governance Into Your DevOps Processes
Vibhuti Sinha
Chief Cloud Officer, Saviynt

Ditch Fear, Embrace DevOps, Lead with Vulnerability
Sameer Doshi
Cloud Architect, Relativity

Don’t Burn Your Fingers with HPE Synergy and Docker with Chef Automate

Nigel Wright – Cloud Architect, Dimension Data

Anthony Rees – Solution Architect, Chef

How ActBlue Automates Compliance with Chef, Terraform & AWS

Cookbook Quality Metrics and You!

Robb Kidd – Software Development Engineer, Chef

David Aronsohn – DNSquirrel, DNSimple

My Life in the Chef Community
Aaron Kalin
Caffeine Powered Server Fox, DNSimple

Media and Analyst Q&A – On the Present and Future of DevOps

Alex Williams – Founder and Editor, The New Stack

Mike Kravis – Managing Director, Deloitte

Beth Pariseau – Senior News Writer, TechTarget

Torsten Volk – Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates

Using Compliance to Quarantine – Remove the Risk & Rebuild Clean
Galen Emery
Customer Architect (Federal), Chef

Empowering Strategic Charitable Investments with Automation Science
Andrew Morris
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Delivering the World’s Most Powerful GIS Software Continuously

Mark Carlson – System Architect, Esri

Cherry Lin – Product Engineer, Esri

How Rakuten became a Chef Training Partner and trained 200 Chef employees

Rex Cerbas – Technical Account Manager, Rakuten

Takaaki Furukawa – Server Engineer, Rakuten

John Fitzpatrick – Training Program Manager, Chef

How DB Systel Manages Computing Infrastructure on High Speed Trains
Heike Hallenberger
Software Developer, DB Systel

Developer-Friendly IBM Cloud Automation Manager and IBM Cloud Private
Bill Stoddard
Program Director of Offering Management (IBM Cloud Automation Manager), IBM

Cooperating Fault Tolerant Habicat #cheffriends: Live Demo
Sean Horn
Customer Advocate/System Engineer, Chef

Data-driven Postmortems
Jason Yee
Technical Evangelist, Datadog

Y2K and Other Disappointing Disasters: Risk Reduction and Harm Mitigation
Heidi Waterhouse
Developer Advocate, LaunchDarkly