IEEE Infrastructure Conference
Thank you to all who participated in the 2018 IEEE Infrastructure Conference! Stay tuned for updates on future events.
Gain insight and inspiration to think, or re-think, your infrastructure in sessions guided by and in discussion with foremost experts across the technology industry.
Join us as we discuss big picture questions to give you overall, forward thinking insight, as well as operational nuts & bolts for maximizing your infrastructure, such as:
- Understanding the evolving role of AI to automate, address complex challenges, and improve overall productivity and customer experience
- Leveraging systems, services design, and operational management in scale
- Managing failures and lessons learned using real-world scenarios and examples
- Assessing trust models in your system paradigms
- Addressing the engineering culture and customer experience
Let's learn from each other, tell our stories, and create a community and network that we can trust and reach out to when needed.
What Makes this Conference Different
- Designed for and by practitioners, with speakers who have all led, managed or built large infrastructures themselves
- An intimate, neutral environment for networking and learning with leaders from top technology companies
- Convened by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity
Topics include:
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Storage & Data
- Micro-services & Programming Models
- Security & Trust
- Linux & System Management
- Scalability & Reliability
If you're looking for answers, ideas, or the right people to connect with regarding infrastructure, this unique event is for you!
2018 Featured Speakers

Jennifer Fraser
Twitter
Senior Director Infrastructure Engineering
Global Co-Chair @TwitterWomen
Chair Panel: How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned
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Danny Lange
Unity Technologies
Vice President of AI and Machine Learning
From Cloud to Cyber-physical Systems, AI, and Beyond
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Benjamin Treynor Sloss
Google
VP of Engineering
Scaling Challenges in Infrastructure: Single Points of Failure, and Expensive Heuristics
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2018 Speakers

Arya Asemanfar
LightStep
Software Engineer
Panel: How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned
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Raymond W. Blaine
U. S. Military Academy, Dept. of EECS
Director, Cyber Research Center
Securing Infrastructure's Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
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Nitzan Blouin
WeWork
Director of Engineering in Test
Five Simple Steps for Changing an Engineering Culture
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Tian-Ying Chang
Pinterest
Senior Staff Engineer, Tech Lead and Engineer Manager of Storage and Caching Team
Goku: Pinterest's in-house time series database
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Vinu Charanya
Twitter
Senior Software Engineer
How Twitter built a Framework to improve Infrastructure Efficiency at Scale
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Berk D. Demir
Facebook
Production Engineer
Panel: How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned
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Scott Engstrom
Oracle
Vice President, Production Engineering
Panel: How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned
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Sabrina Farmer
Google
Senior Director of Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering
Panel: How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned
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Ihab Hamadi
Western Digital
Sr. Director of Engineering
Driving the Future of Data Infrastructure for High-Scale Data Centers
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Amin Heydari
Box Inc.
Staff Capacity Engineer
Scaling to an Exabyte Storage System in a Multi-Cloud Environment with Strict Governance Requirements
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Ed Huang
PingCAP
CTO and Co-Founder
Designing Relational Databases in 2010s: Trends and Methodology
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Dinesh Joshi
Apache Cassandra
Senior Software Engineer
Need for speed: Boosting Apache Cassandra's performance using Netty
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Bo Liu
Pinterest
Software Engineering Manager
Build a dynamic and responsive Pinterest on AWS: a system engineer’s perspective
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Ruben Oanta
Twitter
Software Engineer
Deterministic Aperture: An algorithm for non-cooperative, client-side load balancing
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Keith Packard
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Distinguished Technologist
Gen-Z Support for Linux
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Prasanth Pulavarthi
Microsoft
Product Manager, AI Platform
ONNX: Open Ecosystem for Interoperable and Scalable AI
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Sandy Strong
Twitter
SRE Tech Lead for the Revenue Platform
Capacity Planning for Twitter's Adaptive Ad Server
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Jamie Turner
Dropbox
Director of Persistent Systems Engineering
Pushing Boundaries in Cloud Storage
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Dathan Vance Pattishall
WeWork
Principal Engineer in Service Infrastructure
WeWork K8s from nothing to happy customers
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Natalia Vassilieva
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sr. Research Manager
HPE Deep Learning Cookbook: How to Choose an Optimal Infrastructure for Deep Learning Workloads
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Lohit VijayaRenu
Twitter
Hadoop and Log Management
Large Scale Event Log Management @Twitter
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Zhenzhao Wang
Twitter
Hadoop and Log Management
Large Scale Event Log Management @Twitter
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2018 Location
Terra Gallery
511 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA, USA 94105
Step away from your daily routine and join us at San Francisco's Terra Gallery for the day. The open space encourages collaboration and networking, while also inspiring innovation.
2018 Conference Program Committee
Mazdak Hashemi, Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
Mazdak Hashemi's career has been focused on building and scaling platforms & infrastructures for both consumer and enterprise companies. He was formally the Vice President of Engineering at Twitter where during his tenure [2012-2018] he championed a number of efforts which improved Twitter’s reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Prior to that, he was leading Infrastructure and Security for Support.com, the remote technology company, and he was part of their core team to architect and launch their Cloud platform. Mazdak was the CTO/Founder for a software start up company and has held different engineering roles for small to medium size global software companies both in early stage to mature public companies. He has served as faculty at the University of Colorado, his alma mater. His areas of technical expertise include software engineering, data mining, databases, and distributed systems. Mazdak is an advocate of promoting equality in technology and was a male ally executive sponsor for @TwitterWomen.
Dejan Milojicic, Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
Dejan is a distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA [1998-]. His areas of technical expertise include operating systems, distributed systems, and systems management. He worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. He received his PhD from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). From his early career, Dejan has been involved in infrastructure development: from OS support for transactional systems deployed across Eastern Europe; to microkernel support for distributed systems; to global memory management in shared memory clusters; to appliance aggregation architecture; virtual desktop systems; Open Cirrus Cloud Computing stack; software architecture for accelerators for AI, and many more.
2018 Conference Program Committee Members

Barry Shoop
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy at West Point
Why Infrastructure Matters - A Note From the Chair
Infrastructures are the backend, heart and foundations of many products and companies. What I've learned throughout my career is that creativity, innovations, understanding your customers, and researching other technologies are important factors when building and running infrastructure at different scales. The problem sets and challenges could vary based on the business, architecture and the scale of each company, however, the learnings can apply uniformly independent of what industry you are in.
Our goal for this conference is to bring folks that have been or interested to be involved in building and running infrastructure at any scale and create a community that we can all learn from each other. We hope we can share our stories, lessons learned and when it makes sense even start working together on standards. We also plan on having this conference focus on different topics and based on the feedback from the participants we will adjust the frequency, location and sessions.