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The Future of Swiss Cloud | Interlaken

Exoscale event

The Future of Swiss Cloud | Interlaken

6 October 2021 08:30–16:00 CEST

Interlaken, Switzerland

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When
6 October 2021 · 08:30–16:00 CEST
Where
Victoria Jungfrau Grand HotelInterlaken3800 Interlaken, SwitzerlandView on OpenStreetMap
Format
In person
Languages
German, English

After more than one year of virtual events and numerous online meetings, we are excited to offer our hybrid event on October 6th, 2021. Our event will address the topic of “The Future of Swiss Cloud 2021”. Next to many interesting keynotes of our partners VSHN - The DevOps Company and Adfinis AG, we will tackle the topic of Cloud Act and GDPR compliance. Additionally, we will give insights into the further development of the Exoscale Cloud Platform, as well as updating you on the latest product launches. Take the chance to interact and get in contact with the other attendees and create many valuable new connections. Also, get in contact with our experts.

Agenda

  • 08:30–09:30

    Registration & Get Together

    Details
    Registration and time for refreshments and networking.
  • 09:30–09:45

    Welcome (German) DE

    Mathias Nöbauer, Oliver Fuchs

    Details
    Welcome words and overview of the upcoming day.
  • 09:45–10:00

    DevOps - More Agility and Security for Software (German) DE

    Aarno Aukia

    Details
    How can more agility and security be ensured for software? Within this keynote real-life examples from enterprise, finance, insurance and public organizations show the advantages of DevOps and Cloud-Native Computing for the operation of applications on the Exoscale platform. Topics like cost management, higher productivity, user- and security management are focused.
  • 10:00–10:30

    Using and managing Kubernetes on Exoscale (English)

    Adrian Kosmaczewski

    Details
    Kubernetes is everywhere. Customers of Exoscale can already use Kubernetes with the Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) easily. We will show, which opportunities come with the Exoscale Platform and how you can simply and easily crate a Kubernetes cluster by using Open Source tools. We will further dive into the management using GitLab and the Project Syn Suite to enable multi-cluster management. Finally, we show how backups can be enabled by using the Exoscale Object Storage with the Kubernetes Backup Operator K8up.
  • 10:30–11:00

    Exoscale Roadmap, Major Releases and what will come next (English)

    Antoine Coetsier

    Details
    COO and co-founder of Exoscale, Antoine Coetsier, will dive into the current major releases, Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) and Database as a Service (DBaaS) and will give insights into the roadmap 2021/22.
  • 11:00–11:30

    Break

    Details
    Coffee break & Networking
  • 11:30–12:15

    Cloud Act, GDPR, the Swiss DSG and the Bank Act (German) DE

    Dennis G. Jansen

    Details
    An importanct topic within the cloud market - data protection. Storage and processing of personal data is not only in the EU, but also in Switzerland subject to different regulations. The use of US-based Cloud Providers is attached to many issues, due to GDPR, the Swiss DSG and the Bank Act as well as the US Cloud Act. We will talk about implications you have to consider as a company and responsible person.
  • 12:15–13:00

    Zero Trust: Security and Conformity without Trust (German) DE

    Nicolas Christener, Sandro Köchli

    Details
    It is obvious, the cloud offers many advantages. How can it be ensured, that compliance requirements, security concerns and data protection regulations are observed within the public cloud? All this without being required to trust every component 100 %?
  • 13:00–14:30

    Lunch

    Details
    Lunch & Networking
  • 14:30–15:30

    Panel Discussion: How will the cloud develop in the future? (German) DE

    Aarno Aukia, Nicolas Christener, Gernot Horak, Vadim Bauer

    Details

    What Game Changers are just around the corner? What will change in the near future? What should you be prepard for? In our live discussion, moderated by Beatrix Kemfelja (Head Centor of Expertise, Exoscale), we dive into these topics from different angles.

    Panel List:

    • Aarno Aukia (CTO @VSHN - The DevOps Company)
    • Nicolas Christener (CTO @ Adfinis AG)
    • Vadim Bauer (Founder @8gears AG)
    • Gernot Horak (Cloud Solution Architect @ Exoscale)
  • 15:30–15:45

    Conclusion (German) DE

    Mathias Nöbauer, Oliver Fuchs

    Details
    Summary of the event & farewell to the get together
  • 15:45–17:00

    Conclusion of the day

    Details
    Drinks, Fingerfood & Networking

Speakers

  • Antoine Coetsier

    Antoine Coetsier

    COO

    Exoscale

    Biography
    Antoine Coetsier ist co-founder and COO of Exoscale. He dedicates himself to the creation and development of high industrialized and safe innovative businesses. With more than 20 years of experience in the service provider business, Antoine manages the business and operational aspects of Exoscale. Previous to the foundation of Exoscale in 2011, he has been responsible for driving innovations for IT resources in the telcom sector at the Bouygues Telecom. In 2009 he started one of the first European Cloud Computing offerings specialized for press and media.

  • Oliver Fuchs

    Senior Account Executive

    Exoscale

  • Mathias Nöbauer

    CEO

    Exoscale

    Biography
    Mathias Nöbauer, CEO and member of the Exoscale board, has more than 20 years of experience in the IT business. Within the last 5 years he significantly influenced the growth of Exoscale. His aim is to build and develop a rock-solid, innovative European Cloud for everybody, who want to operate Cloud-Native software. Mathias is driven bei the endless opportunities we have and the chance to create our future together.

  • Nicolas Christener

    CEO

    Adfinis AG

    Biography
    Nicolas Christener is CEO, CTO and member of the administrative board at Adfinis AG and board member of the Document Foundation. In the past years he was part of the board at CH Open and the administrative board of Medelexis and contributed to the establishment of Open-Source solutions in the enterprise environment. Nicolas is passionate about everything, that you can compile and optimize yourself, to being able to address customer requirements.

  • Aarno Aukia

    CTO

    VSHN - The DevOps Company

    Biography
    Aarno Aukia is CTO and co-founder of VSHN - The DevOps Company. After his studies in informatics at the ETCH Zurich and his employment at Google he founded VSHN, to help software developers on focusing on their work and not need to care for the operation of their software. This is ensured by offering a 24/7 Operations Engineering Support Service for standard software like databases and Kubernetes/OpenShift Container platforms like APPUiO.ch - Swiss Container Platform - on every infrastructure.

  • Adrian Kosmaczewski

    Developer Relations Manager

    VSHN - The DevOps Company

    Biography
    Adrian Kosmaczewski leads the developer relations department at VSHN - The DevOps Company. Since 1996 he is software developer, trainer and author. Adrian has a master’s degree in information technology of the University of Liverpool. When he is not developing or teaching, he spends his time with his wife Claudia and his cat max; and his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter.

  • Dennis G. Jansen

    Lawyer and Data Privacy Expert

    LL.M. (Berkeley)

    Biography
    After his legal training at the universities in Freiburg, Berlin, Sydney, London and Berkley Dennis G. Jansen worked as legal advisor, lawyer and lecturer with a focus on IT law and international data privacy. He also founded the digital forensic enterprise Devidence.

  • Sandro Köchli

    Sales Engineer and Member of the Administrative Board

    Adfinis AG

    Biography
    Sandro Köchli is sales engineer and member of the administrative board of the Adfinis AG. Next to his many years of experience in different positions at Adfinis, he is a seasoned expert for cloud technologies and evangelist of the Zero Trust Architecture.

  • Gernot Horak

    Cloud Solution Architect

    Exoscale

    Biography
    Gernot Horak has been working as Cloud Solution Architect at Exoscale for four years. Before that he worked more than 10 years as team lead at A1 Austria. In this position he has been responsible for the planning, provisioning and operation of the server infrastructure (incl. operating system).

  • Vadim Bauer

    Founder

    8gears Ltd

    Biography
    Vadim Bauer is the founder of 8gears as well as a partner at 56k.Cloud. Since the early days of containerization, he has been developing solutions and advising companies around containers, cloud and SaaS transformation.