Distributed Systems Summit 2020

Event Details

Participants

Dr. Dr. Nikhil Rao 🇺🇸

CloudScale Institute

Conference Chair

Session_chair: General Chair Track: Program Room: Main Hall Featured

Chair: Session

Leads large-scale cloud data systems research.

LinkedIn

Prof. Prof. Amira Saleh 🇪🇬

Cairo University

Professor of Computer Science

Keynote: Opening Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Mar 2, 2020 4:00 AM – 4:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Resilience Patterns for Cloud-Native Data

Graceful degradation, retries, and chaos tests.

Distributed systems and dependable computing.

LinkedIn

Dr. Dr. Lucas Ferreira 🇧🇷

DataAurora

Head of Engineering

Keynote: Industry Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Mar 2, 2020 5:00 AM – 5:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Nation-Scale Streaming: What Breaks First

Throughput, hot partitions, and backpressure.

Streaming analytics at national scale.

LinkedIn

Hyejin Park 🇰🇷

CloudHub

Track Chair

Session_chair: Platforms Track Chair Track: Platforms Room: Room P Featured

Chair: Session

Kubernetes platform engineering.

LinkedIn

Marco Bianchi 🇮🇹

StreamForge

Track Chair

Session_chair: Streaming Track Chair Track: Streaming Room: Room S Featured

Chair: Session

Event streaming and CDC.

LinkedIn

Elena Petrova 🇷🇺

KubeCraft

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab A Mar 3, 2020 5:30 AM – 7:00 AM Featured

Workshop: GitOps for Data Platforms

ArgoCD, Helm, and guardrails.

K8s operators and GitOps.

LinkedIn

Ritika Sharma 🇮🇳

PayWorld

Senior Data Engineer

Speaker Track: Streaming Room: Room S Mar 2, 2020 6:15 AM – 6:45 AM

Talk: High-Throughput CDC to Kafka

Debezium pitfalls and schema evolution.

Kafka + Flink fraud pipelines.

LinkedIn

James O�Connor 🇮🇪

CloudFly

Staff SRE

Speaker Track: Platforms Room: Room P Mar 2, 2020 7:00 AM – 7:30 AM

Talk: Playbooks for On-Call Data Incidents

Runbooks, SLOs, and error budgets.

SRE for data infra.

LinkedIn

Xinyi Liu 🇨🇳

ModelOps Co.

ML Engineer

Speaker Track: Platforms Room: Room P Mar 2, 2020 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Talk: Feature Stores vs. Data Contracts

Alignment, versioning, and SLAs.

MLOps and drift detection.

LinkedIn

Helga S�rensen 🇩🇰

Nordic Data

Architect

Speaker Track: Governance Room: Room G Mar 2, 2020 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Talk: Practical Data Mesh in Regulated Orgs

Domains, ownership, and trust.

Data mesh and governance.

LinkedIn

Diego Alvarez 🇪🇸

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Platforms Room: Room P Mar 2, 2020 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Panel: Incident Stories: What We Learned

Root causes and remediations.

Moderates SRE and data panels.

LinkedIn

Nadia Rahim 🇵🇰

FinStack

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Platforms Room: Room P Mar 2, 2020 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Panel: Incident Stories: What We Learned

Controls, audits, and RCA depth.

PCI and privacy engineering.

LinkedIn

Tom�s Herrera 🇲🇽

RetailCloud

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Platforms Room: Room P Mar 2, 2020 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Panel: Incident Stories: What We Learned

SLIs, SLOs, and alerts.

Data reliability in retail.

LinkedIn

Zolt�n Kov�cs 🇭🇺

StreamLab

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab B Mar 3, 2020 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Workshop: Exactly-Once End-to-End

Idempotence, EOS, and retries.

Streaming state and checkpoints.

LinkedIn

Grace Miller 🇺🇸

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Program Operations

Ops: Session

Program ops and speaker care.

Ralph Jensen 🇺🇸

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Logistics

Ops: Session

Venue and AV.

Fatima Al Mansoori 🇦🇪

Desert Cloud

Security Engineer

Speaker Track: Security Room: Room SEC Mar 3, 2020 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

Talk: KMS & Secrets in Multi-Account Setups

Rotation, scopes, and blast radius.

Secrets mgmt and KMS.

LinkedIn

Pedro Almeida 🇵🇹

BankCloud

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Strategy Room: Room ST Mar 3, 2020 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Panel: Vendor vs. Build: The 2020s Edition

TCO, lock-in, and skills.

Data platforms in finance.

LinkedIn

Marta Rossi 🇮🇹

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Strategy Room: Room ST Mar 3, 2020 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Panel: Vendor vs. Build: The 2020s Edition

Moderated discussion.

Strategic tech moderator.

LinkedIn

Dr. Dr. Pavel Ivanov 🇷🇺

OpenEval

Judge

Judge: Innovation Awards Judge Mar 3, 2020 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Judging: Session

Independent awards judge.

LinkedIn

Professional Impact & Significance

This event represents a platform where leaders, researchers, and practitioners exchange advancements that influence real-world technical, scientific, and organizational practices. The contributions and presentations delivered here reflect recognized expertise in the field and demonstrate active participation in advancing modern knowledge.

• Knowledge Dissemination: Presentations in this event contribute to broader understanding of emerging methodologies, frameworks, and applied innovations.
• Thought Leadership: Individuals delivering keynote sessions, panels, or workshop instruction play an important role in shaping direction and awareness in their area of specialization.
• Field Advancement: The work shared here introduces practices, models, or insights that can be adopted by other organizations, academic groups, or practitioners.
• Recognition by Community: Participation as a featured speaker, session chair, or event organizer highlights expertise acknowledged by independent professional bodies, institutions, or industry groups.
• Collaborative Development: The event facilitates interaction and shared problem-solving across domains, encouraging innovation through collaboration.

Participants are encouraged to archive discussions, slide decks, and session recordings as part of documenting their contributions, outcomes, and role in shaping the dialogue presented here.