Opscode #ChefConf 2012 View Full Schedule: chefconf2012.sched.org

May 15 • Tuesday


  9:00AM –  5:00PM W Chef 101 Workshop - Focus on Developer Workflow (SOLD OUT) Rancho Mirage Room
Speakers: Kevin Smith, Seth Chisamore, Christopher Maier
  9:00AM –  5:00PM W Chef 101 Workshop - Focus on Systems Administration & Engineering (SOLD OUT) Salon G-J
Speakers: Matt Ray, Joshua Timberman, Sean OMeara, Mandi Walls, Aaron Peterson
  1:00PM –  7:00PM B #ChefConf Pre-event Hackday: TEST ALL THE THINGS!!! Irvine Room
Speakers: Bryan Berry
  6:00PM –  8:00PM P Welcome Party! Hotel Lounge
Speakers: Matt Ray, Jesse Robbins, Mandi Walls
  9:00PM – 11:00PM B BoF: Diablo 3 Irvine Room
Speakers: Joshua Timberman, Adam Jacob

May 16 • Wednesday

  7:30AM –  8:30AM R Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer
  8:30AM –  8:40AM K Welcome! Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Matt Ray, Jesse Robbins, Mandi Walls
  8:45AM – 10:00AM K Opscode Chef State of the Union Part 1: Chef, Past and Present Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Christopher Brown, Jesse Robbins, Adam Jacob
 10:00AM – 10:20AM R Break Exhibit Hall: Salon F
 10:30AM – 10:55AM K Concentrated Awesome: Building the HP Cloud Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Jon-Paul Sullivan
 11:00AM – 11:30AM K Test-driven Development for Chef Practitioners Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Jim Hopp
 11:25AM – 11:45AM K Building the Next Big Game Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Sarah Novotny
 11:45AM – 12:00PM K Operations Secret Sauce: Incident Managment Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Ron Vidal
 12:00PM –  1:00PM R Lunch Bayside Ballroom
  1:00PM –  1:50PM S Enough Ruby to be Dangerous Salon G-J
Speakers: Greg Albrecht
  1:00PM –  1:50PM S How Opscode Migrated Hosted Chef API to Erlang & Changed Databases Without Breaking Customers Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Seth Falcon
  1:00PM –  1:50PM N Iron Chef: Whipping up OpenStack Clouds with Chef and Dell Crowbar Rancho Mirage Room
Speakers: Rob Hirschfeld
  1:50PM –  2:40PM S The Joy of Cooking - Whip Up a Rails Environment with Chef Salon G-J
Speakers: Nathen Harvey
  1:50PM –  2:40PM S Using Chef for Application Configuration Breakout 1: Salon A-E
  1:50PM –  2:40PM N How does the world of infrastructure and business monitoring need to change to leverage the future of system automation? Rancho Mirage Room
Speakers: Theo Schlossnagle
  2:40PM –  3:00PM L Surviving Incidents for Ops Salon G-J
Speakers: Jason Cook
  2:40PM –  3:30PM L Logging Patterns with Logstash and Chef Salon G-J
Speakers: John Vincent
  2:40PM –  3:30PM S It's Not Just for Servers: Chefing Your Development Environment (The Pivotal Way) Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Matthew Kocher
  2:40PM –  3:30PM N Cloud Foundry BOSH: Where the Platform Rubber meets the Infrastructure Road Rancho Mirage Room
Speakers: Patrick Chanezon
  4:00PM –  4:50PM S Consistent Local Development with Vagrant and Chef Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Lew Goettner
  4:00PM –  4:50PM S Gestalt Informant - Chef Driven Monitoring, Metrics and Alerting Salon G-J
Speakers: Sean Escriva
  4:00PM –  4:50PM N The Road to an Agile Cloud with Scalr and Chef Rancho Mirage Room
Speakers: Michel
  4:50PM –  5:40PM L Cross-node Orchestration for Chef with Noah Salon G-J
Speakers: John Vincent
  4:50PM –  5:40PM L Dreadnot: Chef-Powered Deployment Automation Salon G-J
Speakers: Russell Haering
  4:50PM –  5:40PM S Lessons from Etsy: Avoiding Kitchen Nightmares Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Patrick McDonnell
  6:00PM –  7:00PM M DevOpsCafe Live @ #ChefConf Newport Beach Room
Speakers: John Willis, Damon Edwards
  7:00PM –  8:30PM P Ignite #ChefConf! - Party Exhibit Hall: Salon F
Speakers: Andrew Clay Shafer
  8:00PM –  9:30PM I VC Disaster Porn: Why startups fail Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Sunil Dhaliwal
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I Chef for Humans Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Nick Stielau
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I DevOps isn't just for the Web Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Juanje Ojeda
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I Don't be afraid of Objects! Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Bryan Berry
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I How to cook a brisket properly. Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Sean OMeara
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I Ignite Chef Community!!! Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Nathen Harvey
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I Jonah and the Robots - Nothing Changed... Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: John Willis
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I Riak for Operations Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Sean Carey
  8:00PM – 10:00PM I Translating cloud culture and traditional IT Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Rob Hirschfeld
  8:30PM – 10:00PM I Ignite #ChefConf 2012 Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Andrew Clay Shafer

May 17 • Thursday

  7:30AM –  8:30AM R Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer
  8:30AM –  8:40AM K Welcome: Day 2 Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Mitch Hill
  9:00AM – 10:00AM K Opscode Chef State of the Union Part 2: Chef, the Future Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Christopher Brown, Jesse Robbins, Adam Jacob, Mitch Hill
 10:00AM – 10:20AM R Break Exhibit Hall: Salon F
 10:30AM – 10:40AM K A Few Words of Encouragement from Artur Bergman Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Artur Bergman
 10:40AM – 11:00AM K Fidelity IT's Journey to Cloud and & Click2Compute Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Keith Shinn
 11:00AM – 11:30AM K Transformation to Continuous Delivery at Ancestry Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: John Esser
 11:30AM – 12:00PM K CycleCloud + Chef = 50,000-core Utility Supercomputer for Science Main Stage: Salon A - E
Speakers: Jason Stowe
 12:00PM –  1:00PM R Lunch Bayside Ballroom
  1:00PM –  1:45PM S Using Rundeck and Chef to build DevOps Toolchains Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Alex Honor, Anthony Shortland
  1:00PM –  1:50PM S DevOps + Chef + Windows at Ancestry.com Salon G-J
  1:50PM –  2:40PM S Chef Behind Joyent's Cloud Salon G-J
Speakers: Ben Rockwood
  1:50PM –  2:40PM S Using Chef + Amazon Cloud Formation to scale Mint, GoPayment, TurboTax Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Brett Weaver
  2:40PM –  3:30PM S Abusing databags for fun and profit Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Thom May
  2:40PM –  3:30PM S Business Intelligence in the Cloud with Chef Salon G-J
Speakers: Jeremy Winters
  3:30PM –  4:00PM R Break Exhibit Hall: Salon F
  4:00PM –  4:50PM L 5 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Chef But Were Afraid to Ask Salon G-J
Speakers: Nathen Harvey
  4:00PM –  4:50PM L Spiceweasel, Your Infrastructure as Code Table of Contents Salon G-J
Speakers: Matt Ray
  4:00PM –  4:50PM S Build a Hadoop Cluster in 20 Minutes with Ironfan Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Dhruv Bansal, Nathaniel Eliot
  4:50PM –  5:40PM S Choose your own Adventure! Salon G-J
Speakers: Adam Jacob
  4:50PM –  5:40PM S Test Driven Development Roundtable Breakout 1: Salon A-E
Speakers: Stephen Nelson-Smith

May 18 • Friday

  9:00AM –  5:00PM W Encore Presentation: Chef 101 Workshop - Focus on Systems Administration & Engineering (REQUIRES WORKSHOP PASS) Junior Ballroom
Speakers: Joshua Timberman