Announcing Target, Harvard, NCR, & more at Sensu Summit 2019

We’re pleased to announce the speaker lineup and schedule for Sensu Summit 2019, happening September 9-10, 2019! We’ll gather at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon for two days of technical talks, workshops, and all the #monitoringlove, featuring talks from the folks at Harvard, NCR, Target, and more. Take a look at the schedule at a glance below, and don’t forget to register to save your seat — early bird tickets are still available.

Day 1: September 9, 2019

Join us on day 1 of Sensu Summit for ecosystem talks & breakout tutorials

8:30am-1:00pm Technical and Customer Advisory Board meetings (plus breakfast and lunch). Interested in participating? Let us know when you register!

1:00pm-1:30pm Welcome keynote from Jef Spaleta, Developer Advocate, Sensu

1:30pm-3:30pm Ecosystem sessions with Puppet & PagerDuty (plus a break to refuel ☕)

3:30pm-4:00pm Moogsoft workshop with Adam Frank, Senior Product Manager, Moogsoft

4:00pm-5:30pm Unconference + breakout tutorials from sponsors Grafana and InfluxData

5:30pm-8:30pm Closing remarks from Caleb, followed by optional drinks on the rooftop bar 😎

Day 2: September 10, 2019

The Sensu user conference, featuring keynotes, sessions, and a panel, followed by an after party

8:00am-9:00am Registration & breakfast (get those donuts! 🍩)

9:00am-9:05am Welcome from Jef Spaleta, Developer Advocate, Sensu

9:05am-9:30am Sensu CEO Caleb Hailey on Sensu as a multi-cloud monitoring control plane

9:30am-10:00am Sensu CTO Sean Porter on scaling Sensu Go

10:05am-10:40am Measuring the right things with Tiffany Longworth, SRE at Zapproved

10:40am-11:10am Break 💃🏽

11:10am-11:35am NCR’s Michael Hedgpeth and TJ Campbell on Sensu at the edge: NCR’s journey to apply Sensu Go to a million (!) IoT global restaurant endpoints

11:35am-12:00pm Harvard’s Molly Duggan on creating order from chaos (AKA, automating monitoring configuration)

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch 🍽️

1:30pm-2:00pm Panel: The mission-critical role of monitoring in a multi-cloud environment with Sensu co-founders Caleb Hailey and Sean Porter, plus a special guest

2:00pm-2:25pm Sensu VP of Product Anna Plotkin on Sensu Go: then, now, and the future

2:25pm-2:40pm Break 😴

2:40pm-3:15pm Lightning talks:

• Building a security team without becoming “the bad guy” from Doximity’s Ben Abrams, Sr Devops Engineer, Security
• Testing and monitoring and broken things from Sensu’s Nikki Attea
• Seniority by chaos: the changing role of the senior engineering from Lightstep’s James Burns

3:15pm-3:45pm Break ☕

3:45pm-4:10pm Target’s Adam Westman on GoAlert, their on-call scheduling and notification open source product

4:10-4:35pm Talk coming soon

4:35pm-5:00pm Closing keynote from Sensu’s Caleb Hailey

5:00pm-5:15pm Thank you + sendoff from Sensu’s Sean Porter

5:15pm-5:30pm Group photo 📸

5:30pm-8:00pm After party 🍹

Take a look at the schedule for the full lineup (speaker bios and abstracts), and don’t forget to grab your ticket. ICYMI, we’re still accepting submissions for our diversity scholarship — check out the details here and submit your application by July 1. We hope to see you there!