API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

2:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): Optimizing CI/CD for Hybrid and Cloud Environments with DevOps and AI

Wednesday September 3, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT

Kellyn Gorman, Redgate, Advocate and Engineer

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into software development, optimizing CI/CD pipelines for hybrid and cloud environments requires a balance between automation, security, and governance. This session explores how to leverage DevOps best practices and tools to build scalable, secure, and AI-enhanced CI/CD solutions that support the entire development lifecycle—from code commit to production deployment.

We’ll cover key DevOps principles, recommended tools for automation, testing, and deployment, as well as strategies for integrating AI-driven capabilities to enhance efficiency, detect anomalies, and improve decision-making. Additionally, we’ll discuss how to mitigate AI-related vulnerabilities in the DevOps pipeline, ensuring model integrity, data security, and compliance. Attendees will learn how to implement GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and progressive delivery techniques while maintaining control over AI-powered automation. Whether you're incorporating AI into your CI/CD workflows or securing an existing pipeline, this session will provide actionable insights to streamline development while minimizing risks.

Speakers

Kellyn Gorman

Advocate and Engineer, Redgate

Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman is a Database and AI Advocate and Engineer with Redgate, with a long history in multi-platform technology. An Oracle ACE Director alumnus, she has been awarded over the years for her technical contributions and community volunteerism through many organizations... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks CloudX, SRE / DevOps and Platform Engineering (CloudX), IT Operations and Enterprise Management (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

4:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): Exploring InfoSec Tools: From SCA to Hardware Solutions

Wednesday September 3, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Andrew Miller, QuCelerate, Founder

The landscape of InfoSec tooling is vast and complex. In this session, we’ll provide an overview of key security tools, including SCA, SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP, and hardware-based solutions. Learn what these tools do, how they complement each other, and how to choose the right mix for your organization’s security needs. Whether you’re new to InfoSec or looking to expand your toolkit, this talk offers a practical guide to understanding and leveraging modern security technologies effectively.

Speakers

Andrew Miller

Founder, QuCelerate

Andrew is the founder of QuCelerate, a fractional CTO consultancy. Andrew is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience in building software for regulated industries. For the last seven years, he has been heavily involved in building AI/ML solutions that drive business... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks CloudX, Security and Vulnerability Management (CloudX), IT Operations and Enterprise Management (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): Unlocking Cloud Data Insights with Grafana's API Monitoring

Thursday September 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Syed Usman Ahmad, Grafana Labs, Staff Developer Advocate

Grafana is a popular open-source monitoring tool, but often, new users are unable to utilize its full potential to efficiently monitor or visualize data.

In this talk, we will demonstrate an example of how to monitor your application running in the Cloud via API using the Grafana Infinity Plugin. Later, we see more advanced features to get key metrics for better observability.

It will be an introduction to the Dashboards, and also an excellent opportunity to learn more about the advanced features, including troubleshooting & debugging.

join us to learn more about Grafana dashboards, community contributions and share your feedback and suggestions!

Speakers

Syed Usman Ahmad

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.He has over 15 years of experience in IT and in Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks CloudX, Service Monitoring and Observability (CloudX), IT Operations and Enterprise Management (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:30pm PDT

OPEN Session (CloudX): Hack the Cloud: Attackers Love Blind Spots, Break Their Hearts

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Brian Contos, Mitiga, Field CISO

Malicious actors, on an unholy crusade, have discovered that a lack of visibility across Cloud, SaaS, and Identity, combined with legacy controls that provide limited cloud detection and response capabilities, grants them a nefarious advantage. This lack of visibility, detection, and response in cloud environments allows malicious actors to operate with an elevated ability to breach organizations, evade detection, and maintain persistence.

As businesses transition to the cloud, critical assets, sensitive data, and an increasing array of interconnected SaaS applications have followed. This shift attracts malicious actors eager to exploit any visibility gaps, such as those caused by the segmentation of environments across workloads and SaaS. While such segmentation is a beneficial security best practice for incident prevention, it also provides a stealthy refuge for attackers. In essence, your SecOps team is operating within a landscape fraught with invisible threats.

This presentation will explore real-life stories from the trenches, drawn from years of cloud-based incident response. Various hacks will be explored to illustrate how breaches occur, what happens following a breach, and why organizations are struggling to detect and respond.

Finally, we will cover mitigation strategies such as proactively preparing for a breach, discovering malicious activity, and responding. Malicious actors are counting on your passivity, your blind spots, and your inability to effectively detect and respond to attacks in the cloud. Break their hearts!

Speakers

Brian Contos

Field CISO, Mitiga

With two IPOs & eight acquisitions, Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world. He has over 25 years in the security industry as a security company entrepreneur, board advisor, investor, and author. After getting his start with the Defense Information... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks CloudX, OPEN Session, Security and Vulnerability Management (CloudX), IT Operations and Enterprise Management (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PDT

OPEN Session (CloudX): A Design Delivery System For AI and Overcoming Tech Debt

Friday September 5, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Megha Sandesh, Solvedex, CEO

Most AI projects don’t fail because of bad ideas—they fail because of bad systems. Teams rush to deploy models without a clear design framework, leading to disjointed interfaces, brittle integrations, and mounting technical debt that becomes impossible to untangle. The result? AI that never reaches its full potential, burdened by rework, inconsistency, and scalability nightmares.

My session breaks down a pragmatic, battle-tested approach to AI design and delivery—one that isn’t just about getting a model into production but ensuring it thrives there. We’ll dig into how design, engineering, and operations must work in sync from day one to prevent the common pitfalls that derail AI initiatives.

Key takeaways include:

1. Why AI projects accumulate debt faster than traditional software—and how to stop it at the source.
2. The role of system design in AI, and why model accuracy alone won’t save a broken pipeline.
3. A real-world approach to designing AI that scales without accumulating chaos.

Speakers

Megha Sandesh

CEO, Solvedex & SolveX Design

Visionary leader with extensive experience in scaling companies and leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional results.Built a successful bootstrapped company from ground zero to $5M ARR in under 2 years through innovative lean strategies, cost optimization, and a relentless... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX