Serverless is a lot more than Lambda or Knative. Serverless is a mindset and increasingly, an approach to strategic innovation for enterprises. The technical aspects of serverless are important but above all, this sector of technology is a paradigm shift in engineering. In this talk, Farrah Campbell, Ecosystem Director at Stackery and AWS Serverless Hero, will share how adopting a "Serverless Mindset" empowers teams and people to overcome exis...

This past spring, COBOL hit the tech news in a big way as states explored their tech stacks in light of new demands on their unemployment systems. This got us thinking, can you run COBOL in Kubernetes? And does this even make sense? Join JJ Asghar and Elizabeth K. Joseph from IBM as they show off an experiment with Kubernetes and GnuCOBOL, then get into how enterprises use Kubernetes, and how COBOL is used on the modern mainframe.

Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) has a long and storied history - formed in the crucible of the Second World War as part of the Manhattan Project, ORNL is the largest science and energy national lab in the Department of Energy system. Located in Oak Ridge, TN - their scientific pursuits continue to solve challenges in energy, advanced materials and physics. They are currently host to Summit, one of the world's fastest supercomputers.We’ll...

The Public Sector Coffee Hour series is a bi-weekly videocast featuring luminaries from technology, society and the world of STEM. Topics for discussion will include governmental and societal impacts of technology, open source in Sci/Tech/Med., as well as the role of technology and work/life balance. Amy Vetter is the “Mindful Technologist” with a focus on mindful relationships between people, technology, and leaders. Her experienc...

Do you think your containers are secure? Hot off the press. Liz Rice shares her security checklist, from her new book, covering items you should consider in order to secure your applications running in containers. In this session, we’ll discuss highlights from that list, and consider strategies to avoid weaknesses that arise through the misuse and misconfiguration of containers. The takeaway challenge: do your own deployments comply with...

The Public sector Coffee Hour series is a bi-weekly videocast featuring luminaries from technology, society and the world of STEM. Topics for discussion will include governmental and societal impacts of technology, open source in Sci/Tech/Med., as well as the role of technology and work/life balance. Superstar physician (and certified clown) Patch Adams has been prescribing smiles and laughter for over 50 years. Adam and Patch will talk about...

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, applied at the edge are driving a new generation of intelligent applications. Data generated from billions of IoT devices and sensors must be processed very quickly at the edge to derive real-time insights, and help achieve key mission goals and objectives like saving lives, providing tactical advantage, saving costs, improving security and safety, etc. How can you operationalize these innovative tech...

The Public Sector Coffee Hour series is a bi-weekly videocast featuring luminaries from technology, society and the world of STEM. Topics for discussion will include governmental and societal impacts of technology, open source in Sci/Tech/Med., as well as the role of technology and work/life balance. Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI’s most wanted hacker. Mr. Mitnick was arrested for what Sun Microsystems would later do themselves - publishing...

Are you trying to build a new application that needs to incorporate location services? You are not alone. With the rise of COVID and other critical topics, there is an increasing need for applications using location and geospatial data. How do developers serve up geospatial data in a cloud native way? Come to this session to find out how. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) members and international community are creating Open APIs for cloud...

In almost any conversation about DevOps (or DevSecOps), the topic of culture will come up. Why is culture so important when it comes to technological paradigms like DevOps, Cloud Native, SRE, etc.? In this edition of DNF: Deconstructed, we talk with Nathen Harvery of Google to better understand the role of culture in adopting a technology shift.