Contributed by: Lori Lorusso, JFrog, cdCon Program Committee Chair
The cdCon Call for Papers is well underway and, based on the submissions the program committee just reviewed, this year’s cdCon is going to be jam-packed with amazing technical content and community-focused sessions from project maintainers, end users, and notables in the continuous delivery space. With over 40 submissions received in just a week we were hard-pressed to choose just five to announce early but without further ado… check out the first five early bird talks:
Panel: The Continuous Delivery Paradox – Balancing Business Value with Speed
Moderator: Gautham Pallapa, VMWare
Fidelity’s Software Delivery Platform – Frictionless Approach To Achieve Autonomic DevOps & Enhanced Security/Compliance Practices
Speakers: Jamie Plower & Evan Elms, Fidelity Investments
Operating Tekton with Secure Defaults
Speakers: Christie Wilson (Warwick) & Wendy Dembowski, Google
CI/CD for Data – Building Dev/Test Data Environments with Open Source Stacks
Speaker: Vinodhini Duraisamy, Treeverse
Trusted Open Source Artifacts on the Blockchain: A Hands-On Introduction to Pyrsia
Speaker: Adam Gardner, Dynatrace
Congratulations to the speakers of these talks!
*If you weren’t a part of the first five – have no fear, you are still in the running for acceptance into the cdCon 2023 program. We will send out notifications for the remaining program on March 3, 2023.*
Submit Your Talk
The CFP deadline is Friday, February 10 at 11:59 PM PST and we need more submissions to review so we can curate the best content to help others on their path to continuous delivery. We’re looking for talks in the following tracks:
- 101 (beginners to the CDF & continuous delivery content)
- Interoperability in CD
- Cloud Native CD
- Progressive Delivery
- Best Practices in Continuous Delivery
- MLOps
- Observability & Analytics
- Performance
- Security & Supply Chain Security
- Developer Experience & Productivity
- Platform Engineering
- Policy & Governance
- Automation & Testing
- Leadership
- Community & Culture
Don’t miss this great opportunity to share your knowledge with the CDF community.
Have Questions? – Ask The Committee
Our Program Committee members are your resource if you have any questions during the submission process. Each member brings their own experience in continuous delivery to the table and we are here to help you if you need help with your abstracts. Please feel free to reach out to me on the CDF Slack Channel, Twitter, or LinkedIn and I can help connect you to one of our members that would be best suited to answer your questions.
- Adam Kaplan (Red Hat)
- Alyssa Tong (CloudBees)
- Andrew Fong (Prodvana)
- Batuhan Apaydın (Trendyol)
- Brad McCoy (Basiq)
- Carlos Panato (Chainguard)
- Dadisi Sanyika (Apple)
- Garima Bajpai (Ericsson)
- Lori Lorusso (JFrog) – Program Committee Chair
We’ve partnered with Techstrong.TV to launch a new series of videos on various Continuous Delivery (CD) topics. Techstrong.TV features industry thought leaders, experts and practitioners in CD, DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. This partnership extends our audience reach and encourages folks to get involved in the CD dialogue.
The CD Pipeline
The series is called The CD Pipeline: Continuously Delivering Software from A to Z. It spotlights all aspects of CD as we interview community thought leaders about different technologies, open source, best practices, and future trends. Key topics include Continuous Delivery events, interoperability, software supply chain, and more.
The episodes will be hosted by Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group and Lori Lorusso, JFrog and CDF Outreach Committee Chair.
Episode 1: The State of Pipelines: Past, Present & Future – Part 1
Continuous Delivery has evolved since its inception. For our inaugural episode, we are starting a series on The State of Pipelines: Past, Present & Future. Our featured guests are maintainers, contributors, and active voices in the Tekton project and CD Foundation.
Tekton is an open source framework for creating CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premise systems. Join us as we talk with the Tekton project about CD and how it has transformed since its inception in the early 2000s.
Thank you to our guests for taking the time to chat about Tekton and the State of CD Pipelines:
- Dibyo Mukherjee – Google, Software Engineer
- Lee Bernick – Google, Software Engineer
- Andrea Frittoli – IBM, Developer Advocate, OS Developer
Watch Now
Watch the first episode on Techstrong.TV. The next one will be centered around the Jenkins project.
The Continuous Delivery Foundation is hosting two great events at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America:
- Continuous Delivery Summit (October 25)
- Spinnaker Summit (October 24 – 25)
Spinnaker Summit brings together a global community of collaborators, focused on the future of Spinnaker, the open-source continuous delivery platform. Including hands-on workshops, keynotes, happy hours, and more.
CD Summit aims to connect the community—from leaders, industry experts, practitioners, and open source developers—to allow them to share and discuss how to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed.
Both events will be located at the same venue, Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center! This will make it easier for the broader CDF community to gather together.
 Register Now
There are a few options for registrations to suit everyone.
- Register for Spinnaker Summit
- 2-day pass
- 1-day pass
- virtual
- Register for CD Summit (day pass only)
- Register for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. You can add one or both events to your KubeCon + CloudNativeCon registration. (Already registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon? Modify your registration to include the summits.)
We look forward to seeing you all there!