Software Defined Interviews
Deep discussions about technology, enterprise IT, and the like
Displaying 2 items of Software Defined Interviews with the tag "conferences".
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Episode 127: The KubeCon Drone Demo, CFP Reviewing at Scale, and the Agentic AI Foundation, with Lin Sun
September 20th, 2026 | 1 hr 4 mins
agentic ai, cncf, conferences, istio, kubecon, kubernetes, open source, public speaking
Lin Sun flew a drone over 13,000 people in a KubeCon keynote so an AI model on her laptop could score how engaged they were. It broke twice on stage, and she's thinking of doing it again. Why that still worked, what a KubeCon program co-chair actually does with three thousand submissions, how they spot AI-written CFPs, and whether working on open source makes you less strategic to the company paying your salary.
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Episode 126: DevOpsDays, Technical Storytelling, and Loading the Dishwasher, with Jason Yee
September 2nd, 2026 | 1 hr 5 mins
DevOps, Storytelling, community, conferences, devopsdays, devrel, sponsorship
Jason Yee has two jobs that turn out to be the same job - Staff Technical Advocate at Datadog, and one of three global co-chairs of DevOpsDays - and both are about getting other people to talk. How the DevOpsDays machine actually runs, what sponsorship looks like now that DevOps is mature rather than hot, and why the sponsors doing well have stopped counting leads and started running workshops.