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.

Anaïs is a Developer Advocate at Aqua Security, where she contributes to Aqua’s cloud native open source projects. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before joining Aqua, Anais worked as SRE at Civo, a cloud native service provider, where she worked on infrastructure for hundreds of tenant clusters.

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.

Ori Shoshan is the Co-Founder and CTO of Otterize, where he spearheads a groundbreaking platform that streamlines network policy management with effortless automation and uncompromising security. Ori is a platform engineering enthusiast and likes keeping code simple. He is happiest when his pull requests delete more code than they add.

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.