The existing cloud conferences are, for the most part, pretty biased (self-serving) events where content is caged within the context of the host cloud. This is why we decided to create ESCAPE/19 - The Multi-Cloud Conference.

ESCAPE/19 will gather practitioners and technologists in NYC on Oct. 16th/17th, to have an open and independent conversation about the cloud and multi-cloud outside the context of the large public cloud providers. This is not a show about databases in the cloud, rather a more broad event to talk about the technical and business issues we’ll face with our cloud investments.

We've built a promo code for those who find us in this community. Just use SOCIAL40 when you buy your ticket to get 40% off.

Please let me know if you have any questions & check out some of the speakers. Full Agenda is here https://escapeconference.io/schedule/

October 16- MORNING SESSIONS

Spencer Kimball, CEO/Co-founder, Cockroach Labs
The future of the cloud is a global world where details of each cloud provider are abstracted away from our apps/services so our developer can get busy coding.

Armon Dadger, CTO and Co-founder, Hashicorp
The many definitions of multi-cloud and how to distill this into workflow portability, workload portability, traffic portability, or data portability.

MIke Shindle, Riot Games & Jeremy Hermann
A panel discussion on the practical reality of the cloud in our complex enterprise environments.

James Waters, SVP Product, Pivotal
James will explore how we can turn the challenges of multi-cloud into business value.

Bassam Tabbara, CEO & Founder, Upbound
How can the open-source community tip the market towards a more open, horizontally-integrated cloud ecosystem?

October 16 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Zac Smith, CEO, Packet
How to balance price, performance, proximity, politics and pride to gain a better picture of your multicloud challenges and strategy.

Max Beauchemin
Dealing with multiple data ingestion challenges and doing this at scale - lessons learned and best practices.

Lisa Marie Namphy - Portworx, Allan Naim - Google, Eric Han - Portworx and Joseph Sandoval, Adobe
This panel brings together end-user practitioners and infrastructure providers to talk multi-cloud challenges, value and what workloads suit this new world best.

Frans van Rooyen - Senior Infrastructure Architect, Adobe
Designing Scalable Cloud Systems: Architecture for Multi-Cloud Implementations.

Nathalie Gholmieh, UCSD
Our journey to cloud-agnostic PaaS - containers first, multi-vendor orchestration, avoid unrationalized vendor lock-in, and go open source wherever possible.

Christina Noren, Cloudbees
ISVs in a Multi-Cloud World: Understand how the cloud platform oligopoly impacts the strategies of independent software vendors critical to the modern enterprise.

Chris Kuhl, CEO & Founder - Kinvolk
The many technical challenges of orchestrating and tunning workloads in a multi-cloud environment.

Kris Nova, Chief Open Source Advocate, Sysdig
The unique constraints of running a low level forensics analysis and incident response engine in a multilcloud environment.

Fritz Wetschnig, CISO & VP Enterprise Information Technology, Flex
Herding Cats- a CISO’s perspective on securing multi-cloud infrastructure. How security teams must retrofit and reimagine for multicloud.

Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer, Gremlin
Multi-cloud presents a whole new level of complexity for our apps and services. How can chaos engineering help you identify and squash issues?

Cornelia Davis, Vice President Of Technology, Pivotal
A look at a number of different approaches to infrastructure abstraction including Openstack, BOSH and cluster-api.

October 17 - MORNING SESSIONS

Rob Reid, Principal Engineer - Lush
How do you measure the eco-friendliness of the various public cloud providers.

Scott Johnston, CPO, Docker
The complexities that developers face when building, sharing and running modern apps, and how they can adapt to this new environment.

Michael Willette, Technical Fellow USAA
How we can apply science and apply a methodology to get a handle on your investment in multiple cloud providers.

Steve Mullany - Aviatrix and Fernando Robayo, Jeffries Financial
A “fireside chat” about the drivers and challenges multi-cloud enterprises face, regulatory compliance and corporate governance for the multi-cloud era.

Brendan O’Leary, Senior Solutions Manager - Gitlab
Building and deploying applications in the multi-cloud world and the challenges of this modern supply chain.

October 17 - AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Liz Fong-Jones, CTO, Honeycomb
As distributed systems and cloud become more widespread, who is involved in production, how do they collaborate, and how do we measure their success?

Chris Smit, VP Engineering - Ticketmaster
The challenges we faced managing new and legacy systems in a hybrid cloud environment, and the benefits derived, some of which may surprise you.

Daniel Spoonhower, Co-Founder & CTO, Lightstep
Why distributed tracing should become the backbone for observability in “deep systems” at scale.

Jeremy Hermann, Co-Founder
The key challenges that companies face when trying to scale their ML efforts in a multi-cloud environment.

Dan Papandrea, Field CTO, Sysdig
Real-world examples of deploying clusters and applications across clouds with realtime golden signal visibility, alerting, and lifecycle security.

Bill Shetti, Director Sales Engr & Dev Advocacy, VMware
How continuous verification can reduce and potentially eliminate post-deployment headaches and increase the pace and reliability of software delivery.

Eddie Satterly, Co-Founder, Amari.ai & DataNexus
Leveraging Hybrid Clouds to Enable Capability Inside and Out - How to choose the right tools for the right job.

Andy Woods, Product Manager, Cockroach Labs
Benchmarking the cloud providers. A methodology for testing performance and what to look out for.

Brian Denker, Co-Founder & COO, Tackle.io
Public Cloud Provider Marketplaces - Under the Covers: a look inside the way we consume software on the public cloud providers.

Ethan Jackson, CEO & Founder - Kelda
Kubernetes presents a consistent API that's expressive, portable, and has everything required to develop a new class of cloud-agnostic tools.