Kansas City Observability Dinner and Peer Networking with Splunk & Evolutio | Casual Animal Brewing

Overview

Join Evolutio, an Observability-focused consultancy, and Splunk in Kansas City, MO in the Power & Light at Casual Animal Brewing Co. We'll have time for networking over drinks, a tour of this local brewery facility, and catered Q39 BBQ. This fun and informative networking event will allow us to chat with peers on all things OpenTelemetry, Observability landscape trends, and maturing an SRE practice for on-prem, hybrid, and containerized environments.

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Fireside Chat Discussion Topics Include:

- Relating Logging & Observability to key business KPI's with telemetry correlation and business inputs like SLOs & SLIs

- Executive insights on the value of Cisco & Splunk together

- Tying infrastructure performance to the business with Ed Hubbard, Director of Site Reliability & Monitoring at Travelport. Ed will help highlight how infrastructure performance is linked to key services. At a high-level, Ed can touch on what this means for Travelport's clients and major users, like the health of travel aggregation services like hotels, car rentals, trip packages, etc.

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‍Date and time:

At Casual Animal Brewing Co (with Q39 BBQ Catering) on Tuesday, October 22nd at 3:30 pm Central

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Agenda (Central):

3:30 pm
Arrival, drinks, and Q39 BBQ, networking with peers

4:30 pm
Fireside chat on Observability Maturity and tying infrastructure performance to the business with Ed Hubbard, Director of Site Reliability & Monitoring, Travelport

5:00 pm
Tour the brewing facility and tasting led by a brewmaster at Casual Animal Brewing Co.

6:30 pm
Wrap up, Q&A, Depart

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Casual Animal Brewing Co., Location & Speakers:

Presenter

Author

Ed Hubbard

Director of Site Reliability and Monitoring at Travelport

With nearly 30 years at Travelport, Ed is a results-driven IT professional with a distinguished career in IT Services Management, specializing in Incident Management. Adept in Data Center Management, he has successfully implemented and overseen a highly effective Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) program, contributing to substantial improvements in operational support. His expertise extends to leading DevOps tool engineering initiatives, delivering impactful enhancements to platforms and applications. Known for enhancing observability through advanced root cause correlation and synthetic monitoring, Ed is dedicated to optimizing system performance and reliability.

Jason Samide

Senior Solutions Engineer at Splunk

Jason has worked in IT for the past 15 years. After working in IT for Finance, State government, DoD, UHNWFs, he is currently back in private sector. Each of these experiences have brought its own perspective to Information Security with each experience building on the next. He has focused his career goals toward cybersecurity and continue to hone his skills. He is passionate and driven to provide secure options to the environment.

Specialties: Malware life cycle, Data Loss Prevention, Data Discovery, Secure Network Architecture, Successful Project Management, Fundamental Attack and Penetration testing, Web Application Penetration Testing, Mobility Architecture, Virtual CISO.

Gwen Adler

Regional Director, Central & West at Evolutio

Gwen Adler is a seasoned professional with nearly two decades of experience in the technology sector. With significant focus in the areas of Observability, IT Service Management (ITSM) and most recently AI, Gwen specializes in helping clients advance their functional maturity from reactive to predictive through best practice methodologies and frameworks. She has held key roles in leading software companies and consulting firms, leveraging her ITIL v3 certification for optimal outcomes. Gwen is a passionate advocate for the advancement of women in STEM fields. At Evolutio, Gwen is Regional Director for Central and West Commercial organizations.