Party Circuit: Waves of Excitement Wash over KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019

Portworx sponsored The New Stack’s coverage of Kubecon+CloudNativeCon North America 2019.

Despite the rare appearance of a couple of rainy days in San Diego, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon saw plenty of seaside socializing. It certainly helped that the conference venue, the San Diego Convention Center, is located adjacent to the city’s primary entertainment district, the historic Gaslamp Quarter. The conference’s sponsor showcase also provided many opportunities to network and learn about new technology.

(L to R) Liz Rice of Aqua Security and Michelle Noorali of Microsoft found some four-legged friends. The San Diego Humane Society brought in rescue dogs as part of their “Puppy Pawlooza” program to relieve stress.  

All the activities at KubeCon kept the wheels turning for these employees of Lyft. (L to R)  Jonathan Burns, Haytham Abuelfutuh, Surinder Singh, Anmol Khurana, and Ketan Umare.

The CloudBees hive at KubeCon. (L to R)  Casey Vega, Matt Elgin, Logan Donley, Kurt Madel, Brent Seth, and Saleena Glowik.

Two smiling faces from Pivotal. (L to R) Kristine Scott and Claire Laurence.

(L to R) Ryan Sharkey of Educational Media Foundation, and Thea Lamkin of Google  find a little bit of Legoland at KubeCon.

Representing Palo Alto Networks (L to R)  Rick Murray, Paul Fox, Eliane Bader and Berret Terry.

Merging for a photo are new business associates, (L to R) Lindsay Shaw of NGINX and Konrad Palubicki of F5 Networks.

Pointing the way toward the Google Cloud are Spencer Sugarman and Ahmet Alp Balkan.

CloudBees, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Palo Alto Networks, Pivotal and Portworx are sponsors of The New Stack.

Feature image: Surf’s up for the team from Portworx. (L to R) April Bacarro, Kateryna Ivashchenko, Andrew Hatfield, Grant Griffiths, Luis Pabon and Ryan Wallner.