EVENT SUMMARY



• Date: Monday 6th July 2015



• Time:[masked]: Doors open at 17.30pm.



• Venue: Button Factory (https://twitter.com/ButtonFactoryv), Temple Bar, Dublin 2



• Speakers:



> Amazon Web Services

> Science Logic - @ScienceLogic (https://twitter.com/ScienceLogic)

> Intercom - @intercom (https://twitter.com/intercom)

> Alert Logic - @alertlogic (https://twitter.com/alertlogic)



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SPONSORS



# Security Sponsor: Science Logic



# Data Centre Sponsor: Infinity Data Centres



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AGENDA



17.30 – doors open / registration

18.15 – START / Sponsors' welcome - Jason O'Conaill



****18.20 – AWS - Ian Massingham:



Session Title: 'What's New in AWS' + Q&A - 30 mins



****18.50 – Science Logic - Richard Chart + Q&A - 30 mins



Session Title: Negotiating the rocky-road of emerging cloud platform APIs without losing a wheel



Speaker: Richard Chart, Co-Founder / EVP, Product Management, ScienceLogic



Session Summary: Modern Cloud application architectures are almost entirely API driven. What happens when you need to move beyond the Amazon Web Services APIs to deliver services on a different platform? What are the challenges and pitfalls you should expect, and conversely, what might get better when adding support for something like Azure or vCloud Air?I will compare the pros and cons of APIs of some of the major cloud platforms, from ScienceLogic’s perspective of a platform-agnostic monitoring solution. We monitor workloads on many different platforms and have learnt the hard way what works and what doesn’t!



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19.20 - FOOD / DRINKS / NETWORKING

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****19.50 Intercom - Danny Fallon + Q&A - 30 mins



Session Title: Surviving Turbulence in The Cloud



Intercom's mission is to make web business personal. They do this by providing a SaaS solution that enables Product, Sales, Marketing and Support teams too all have live, personal, authentic conversations and send targeted messages to customers through a single interface. The Intercom App is 100% hosted on AWS and makes use of almost every AWS service.



In this talk, Danny Fallon (senior ops engineer @ Intercom), will talk through some war stories and lessons learned that Intercom have experienced over the last 6 months while experiencing exponential growth and usage of their application. Danny will discuss issues such as scaling on native AWS data stores (RDS), scaling self-managed data stores (MongoDB) and scaling their metrics infrastructure (Graphite).



Bio: Danny Fallon



Danny is a full-stack software engineer, specialising in systems/infrastructure and serves as a senior engineer on the Intercom Ops team. At Intercom Danny has worked on a wide-range of projects from scaling/migrating data stores, to moving Intercom from Amazon Classic to VPC, to maintaining/scaling the metrics/logging systems to building Intercom's first ETL pipeline and analytics platform on Redshift.



Prior to Intercom Danny worked as a software developer at Boards.ie, An Foras Feasa and EXADS.



****20.20 – Alert Logic - James Brown - Q&A - 30mins

Session Title: 'The Realities of Security in the Cloud' – live Cyber Hack Demo



Speaker: James Brown, Director of Cloud Computing and Solutions Architecture, AlertLogic.



Session Summary: After years of FUD around cloud and security, we have now got beyond people insisting the cloud could ‘never be secure’; major companies are moving secure and compliant workloads to the cloud on a daily basis. But the widespread adoption of cloud infrastructure exposes organisations to new threats and presents new opportunities for attackers – Crime-as-a-service has become a reality. In this sessions I will cover the responsibilities that you have in the cloud, and how hackers are going to try and take advantage of that. In high tempo you will experience a live hack demo where I compromise a public web application and show the latest tricks attackers are using and what you should focus on to keep data and systems secure



***20.50 - Closing remarks & DRAW - Jason O'Conaill



..followed by Networking, Schmoozing, Job Seeking & Refreshments.



21.00 – close



* Food will be served @ 7.20pm.

* Catering by @StapleFoods



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