Jefferson Frazer

Director, Cloud Infrastructure, Shutterstock

Talk: Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story

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Michel Geadah

Head of Partner Engineering, Google Cloud

Talk: Accelerating AI at the edge with Google and Fastly

Michel leads the North America ISV Partner Engineering team at Google Cloud, driving strategic technical co-selling initiatives with top ISV partners through the Google Cloud Marketplace. He empowers customers to accelerate their digital transformations and address complex challenges by leveraging innovative ISV partner solutions.

Brian Giori

Software Engineering Manager, Amplitude

Talk: Open innovation: Building on a connected ecosystem

Brian Giori is the Lead Engineer and Manager for the Experiment product team at Amplitude.

Jim Ketchman

VP, Engineering, Paramount Global

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Jim Ketcham serves as the Vice President of Engineering for Platform Products at Paramount Global, overseeing the Cloud Architecture, DevOps, QA, Data and Data Science, CMS, and User Platform Engineering teams for CBSSports, CBSNews, and Entertainment divisions. With over two decades of experience spanning a wide range of products, Jim brings deep expertise in scaling, securing, and enhancing the observability of complex, large-scale systems. He maintains a strong commitment to driving innovation and consistently embraces opportunities to explore and integrate emerging technologies.

David Merritt

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Watch Duty

Talk: Building a better internet: The Watch Duty Story with Fastly

David Merritt is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Watch Duty, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing real-time wildfire alerts to the public. With fifteen years of experience in software, he has held key roles at companies like Zenput and Fluxx, specializing in developing scalable and impactful technology solutions. Passionate about using technology for public safety and crisis response, David leads the technical vision at Watch Duty, ensuring communities have access to accurate, timely wildfire information. He strongly believes that technology can be used in pragmatic and impactful ways to improve the world.

John Mills

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Watch Duty

Talk: Building a better internet: The Watch Duty Story with Fastly

John has changed the way we live with fire through his 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Watch Duty. John spent many years in Silicon Valley focusing on underserved markets that had been overlooked by technologists. In 2012, he founded Zenput as CTO, focused on retail food services operations, which was acquired in 2022. After living in San Francisco for 16 years, he moved off the grid to Sonoma County in 2020, where he was faced with the terrifying reality of life in the wildlands without the information needed to make informed decisions. Having developed software for over 30 years, beginning at age 8, John found himself with a life-or-death problem he had to solve not only for himself, but for his community. Today, Watch Duty has a team of over 200 active and retired wildland firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters supporting tens of millions of citizens and first responders who rely on the Watch Duty App across the American West to stay safe.

Kevin Ponds

Director, Security Engineering, TheRealReal

Talk: How The RealReal transformed application security with a developer-first approach

Kevin Ponds is a cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience, spanning traditional systems administration and network security, through to modern cloud security. Starting his career in systems and network defense, he has evolved with the industry—now focusing on securing cloud-native workloads, leveraging DevOps methodologies, and leveraging CDN platforms for security. As Director of Cybersecurity at The RealReal, Kevin specializes in building resilient security architectures, driving automation, and aligning security with agile development. Passionate about threat mitigation and innovation, he helps organizations stay ahead in an ever-changing digital landscape.

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Artur Bergman

Founder and CTO, Fastly

Talk: Fastly, Festool and the power of a platform

Artur Bergman is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Fastly. Since co-founding Fastly in 2011, Artur has helped shepherd the company’s evolution in a variety of roles including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Architect, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Prior to co-founding Fastly, Artur held a number of leadership and management roles, including Chief Technology Officer of Wikia, Inc., a global community knowledge-sharing platform, Engineering Manager for SixApart Ltd., a social networking service, and Fotango, Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Europe.

Kip Compton

Chief Product Officer, Fastly

Talk: A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly

Kip Compton is the Chief Product Officer of Fastly and brings more than 25 years of senior leadership experience driving innovation in cloud, video, Internet of Things (IoT) and networking.

Prior to joining Fastly, Kip served as the senior vice president of strategy of the Cisco Networking business at Cisco where he led teams responsible for strategy, portfolio management, investments and acquisitions.

Kip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an MBA degree from the Wharton School. He also holds multiple patents in the areas of digital video, security, and networking.

Brooks Cunningham

Security Strategist, Fastly

Talk: End the CAPTCHA nightmare: A bold old new approach to Bot Management

As a Security Strategist at Fastly, Brooks focuses on helping customers deliver performant and secure experiences to their end users. For years, he has had first-hand operational experience managing team members who were responsible for deploying and managing systems designed to combat online fraud and abuse. Brooks continues to advocate for creative solutions to mitigate online attacks such as account takeover, gift card stuffing, and inventory denial of service. He is a proud graduate of Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management.

Hossein Lotfi

VP of Engineering, Fastly

Talk: Preparing for the unexpected: Fastly’s six pillars of network resilience

Hossein Lotfi is the VP of Engineering leading Edge Systems Organization at Fastly. Hossein has over 20 years of experience building networks and large-scale systems ranging from startups to hyper-scale cloud infrastructure. He has scaled multiple engineering organizations geared towards rapid development and novel innovations.

He firmly believes in the compounding effect of having experts in every part of the stack working together to build innovative solutions for intricate scalability and efficiency challenges. Hossein’s engineering leadership style is rooted in deep involvement with the state of production systems. At Fastly, Hossein is responsible for building reliable, cost-effective, and low-latency systems at the edge that deliver network services to our customers. He oversees the following engineering groups: Traffic Engineering (Egress and Ingress), Edge Delivery Platform (Varnish, CacheD), Kernel and DataPath (XDP), Edge Protocols (e.g. TLS, QUIC), Layer 7 load balancing (H2O), Hardware Engineering and Network Architecture.

Todd Nightingale

Chief Executive Officer, Fastly

Talk: Building a better internet: The Watch Duty Story with Fastly

Todd Nightingale is the Chief Executive Officer of Fastly. He assumed the role of CEO and joined the Fastly Board of Directors in September 2022.

Todd has spent more than 20 years making the internet a better place. He previously served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Networking and Cloud at Cisco Systems, Inc. Todd is known for his passionate technology leadership and his vision of powerful, simple solutions for businesses, schools, and governments.

Prior to Fastly, Todd served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Meraki where his focus on delivering a simple, secure, digital workplace led to the expansion and growth of the Meraki portfolio, making it the largest cloud-managed networking platform in the world at the time.

He previously held engineering and senior management positions at AirDefense, where he was responsible for product development and guided the company through a successful acquisition by Motorola.

Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jamie Sherry

Staff Product Manager, Media, Fastly

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Jamie is a Staff Product Manager, focused on ensuring the highest satisfaction and success for the top global media brands at Fastly. Before joining Fastly, he worked at Wowza Media Systems, Akamai, and Lumen, and has over 14 years of experience specializing in streaming and digital media, telecom, and network services. When not working, Jamie enjoys spending time with family, skiing, trail running, surfing, traveling, and more.

Kelly Shortridge

VP Product, Security, Fastly

Talk: A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly
Talk 2: How The RealReal transformed application security with a developer-first approach

Kelly Shortridge is VP of Product Management for Fastly's Security business and the author of "Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems" (O'Reilly Media). Best known as a cybersecurity and resilience expert, Shortridge is a frequent industry commentator (BBC News, Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal), keynote speaker at international technology conferences, and published researcher (ACM, HICSS, IEEE, and USENIX).

Laura Thomson

Senior Vice President, Engineering, Fastly

Talk: Open innovation: Building on a connected ecosystem

Laura Thomson is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Fastly.

Prior to Fastly, Laura held a variety of engineering leadership roles at Mozilla and has worked as a software engineer, company founder, consultant, and computer science academic. Laura is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, where she currently serves as Treasurer. She previously served on the board of Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit that operates Let’s Encrypt.

Laura is a best-selling author who has written several books on various open source technologies, including “PHP and MySQL Web Development” (with Luke Welling). She has contributed to many open source projects, and spoken at dozens of conferences worldwide on a variety of technology topics.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Applied Science from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Jesse Von Doom

Director of Product Management, Fastly

Talk: Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story

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