Agenda
From leadership sessions and keynote conversations to huge product announcements, explore everything we’ve got in store for virtual Perform.
THU
10
FRI
11
14:00 CET
Perform Day 1 primer
14:10 CET
Welcome to Perform Mainstage!
14:20 CET
Company momentum and game-changing vision
14:35 CET
Driving better business outcomes
14:45 CET
TECH SESSION // Innovating the Dynatrace platform
15:10 CET
CUSTOMER PANEL // Empowering digital gamechangers
A transformational leader, passionate about delivering value through innovation. Over 20 years of experience in a variety of IT roles with strong leadership and technical skills. Able to translate strategy into technical deliverables.
Krista has been with Ford since 2016 and is currently the service owner for core monitoring services. This includes infrastructure and application monitoring services to internal IT product and service teams. Krista also leads Monitoring Services customer centricity for the portfolio which includes expanding their internal monitoring customer communications and learning resources.
15:30 CET
KEYNOTE // Professor Max Tegmark on being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence
16:00 CET
Breakout sessions
Accelerate your transformation journey with cloud native apps to innovate faster.
Accelerate your transformation journey with cloud native apps to innovate faster.
The dynamic nature of cloud-native technologies like serverless, containers and Kubernetes creates observability challenges which can impact user experience and availability. In this session, you will learn how Dynatrace enabled Wiley, a leader in research and education, to accelerate their journey to the cloud and deliver better customer experiences.
Speakers:
Mario Mauracher, Product Manager - Dynatrace
Patrick Thurner, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Eric Lytle, Director of Tools Engineering - Wiley
Extend microservices observability to hybrid for enhanced performance and availability.
Extend microservices observability to hybrid for enhanced performance and availability.
Traditional observability tools struggle with the dynamic and ephemeral nature of modern microservices-centered applications. In this session, you will learn how Dynatrace delivers end-to-end multi-cloud observability for modern applications which helps companies innovate faster and deliver better digital experiences. Loan Depot will also present and share how Dynatrace has enabled them to accelerate microservices adoption and improve business outcomes.
Speakers:
Alois Mayr, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Michal Franczak, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Andy Wong, Manager of Applications Performance Engineering - loanDepot
Extend AI-powered observability to opensource data to get better insights.
Extend AI-powered observability to opensource data to get better insights.
Many companies are adopting opensource solutions such as StatsD, Micrometer, OpenTelemetry, Telegraf and Prometheus as part of their observability strategy. They struggle with siloed telemetry data and an inability to get answers. In this session, you will learn how Dynatrace can extends enterprise scale and AI-powered answers to opensource. SAP will also present in the session and describe how Dynatrace has enabled their observability journey.
Speakers:
Michael Kopp, Senior Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Tim Gerlach, Product Owner - SAP
Optimize app performance with end-to-end visibility from UX to code.
Optimize app performance with end-to-end visibility from UX to code.
In this session, you will learn how Dynatrace provides a complete front-to-back view of application performance and deep code level insights to help optimize application performance and improve user experience. The State of Minnesota will share how they use Dynatrace to ensure uninterrupted access and accelerate innovation.
Speakers:
Thomas Rothschaedl, Product Manager - Dynatrace
Phillip Kastner, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Kailey Smith, Application Architect - State of Minnesota
How Dynatrace can Elevate your DevOps & SRE.
How Dynatrace can Elevate your DevOps & SRE.
Attend this session to learn about the most critical Development, DevOps and SRE use cases, best practice implementations and how Dynatrace extends far beyond monitoring to support your software development lifecycle. You will walk away with a good understanding of how Dynatrace can improve production reliability, eliminate release risk, accelerate developer innovation and scale your DevOps & SRE practice though an AI driven approach.
Speakers:
Saif Gunja, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
Michael Winkler, Director of Product Management - Dynatrace
Adopting SLOs into your Day to Day for better business reliability.
Adopting SLOs into your Day to Day for better business reliability.
In this session we step into Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice describing cultural requirements and monitoring aspects of how to measure and present reliability. Steve will present the motivation and theory around how Service Level Objectives (SLOs) were developed at Google and how Google built automation around SLOs to deliver high reliability at global scale. You will then learn how to get started with SLOs in Dynatrace, how you can leverage SLIs for your evaluation and finally how leveraging Davis AI helps ensure you meet your key business objectives.
Speakers:
Wolfgang Heider, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Steve McGhee, Reliability Advocate - Google
Shift-Left SLOs to automate release validation in pre-production.
Shift-Left SLOs to automate release validation in pre-production.
Join this session if you are a site-reliability or performance engineer like Mike Kobush from NAIC. Learn how Dynatrace helps Mike analyze more software releases in his load testing environment by leveraging Dynatrace’s automated SLO-based quality gates. Then hear from Andi Grabner how to enable developers to switch towards SLO-as-Code driven development!
Speakers:
Andi Grabner, DevOps Activist - Dynatrace
Mike Kobush, Performance Engineer III - NAIC
Drive production resiliency through automated incident management and remediation.
Drive production resiliency through automated incident management and remediation.
Manual triage and remediation of problems is a slow and time-consuming process that distracts DevOps and SRE teams from more valuable and strategic activities. In this session, you’ll learn how Dynatrace’s automatic problem detection can integrate with ITSM and remediation tools like Ansible to trigger repeatable remediation workflows, automatically resolve incidents, relieve operational burdens, and help you regain valuable time.
Speakers:
JP Contreras, Practice Manager - Dynatrace
Jason Ostroski, Principal Sales Engineer - Dynatrace
Venkatesh Harikrishnan, Enterprise Resource Manager - Parker Hannifin
How Kroger leveraged Dynatrace to automate SRE adoption.
How Kroger leveraged Dynatrace to automate SRE adoption.
10 years ago, Google pioneered the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice to increase reliability and system performance. Since then, Development teams are slowly understanding the value of SRE for their business, as it increases happiness of their customers. But there is always a gap between understanding the concept and implementing it at scale. In this session Henrik will revisit the core concepts of SRE and how they can be implemented with Dynatrace. We will then have Jay and Tyler from Kroger walking us through their journey of automating SRE practices and reducing toil with Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation capabilities.
Speakers:
Henrik Rexed, Senior Staff Engineer - Dynatrace
Jay Cotton, Advanced Infrastructure Engineer - Kroger
Build a proactive approach to cloud operations for increased resilience.
Build a proactive approach to cloud operations for increased resilience.
Cloud adoption is accelerating at a rapid pace and hybrid environments/approach is now the new normal. In this session, learn why and how American Family Insurance implemented Dynatrace to support hundreds of cloud accounts to provide multiple teams with the value from Dynatrace AI. The session also covers Dynatrace approach and capabilities to for hybrid cloud to bring you intelligent observability and Single Source of truth.
Speakers:
Michael Nalezinski, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Rob Jahn, Senior Technical Partner Manager - Dynatrace
Thomas Janik, Technology Services Manager, Monitoring & Event Management - American Family Insurance
Matt Gault, Senior Staff Engineer - American Family Insurance
Modernize your cloud operations from reactive to proactive.
Modernize your cloud operations from reactive to proactive.
As multicloud and Kubernetes environments grow exponentially operations teams struggles to keep the lights on, manage resources and support the pace of innovation. In this situation the Dynatrace platform becomes a gamechanger for platform operators and SREs replacing reactive troubleshooting with forward-looking proactive intelligence and automation.
Speakers:
Peter Putz, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager - Dynatrace
Michael Kopp, Senior Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
David Catanoso, Acting Director, Cloud and Edge Solutions - Department of Veterans Affairs
Simplify Kubernetes complexity with advanced AIOps.
Simplify Kubernetes complexity with advanced AIOps.
In this session we describe the tense relationship between a Kubernetes operations team and one of a dozen application teams running on different clusters. We show how Dynatrace brings these teams together in a collaborative manner. We talk about resource quotas and cost, management zones, customized dashboards and advanced AI-powered problem resolution.
Speakers:
Matt Reider, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Florian Geigl, Product Manager - Dynatrace
Extend the value of Dynatrace across your cloud ecosystem.
Extend the value of Dynatrace across your cloud ecosystem.
Like Hubble and Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe, this session will widen your horizon and explore the unknown. We will examine the possibilities of extending Dynatrace to cover the entire landscape of enterprise applications and systems and how that augments Davis and our full stack approach. There will be practical examples of Citrix, SAP, F5, IBM MQ and more to illustrate what’s possible for specific apps and infrastructure components. We will also share the Dynatrace extensibility evolution path and look to the future.
Speakers:
Krzysztof Ziemianowicz, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Michael Lundstrom, Practice Director - Dynatrace
Dynatrace’s unique approach to AIOPs: designed for dynamic multicloud unlike alternatives.
Dynatrace’s unique approach to AIOPs: designed for dynamic multicloud unlike alternatives.
AIOps is becoming a key to cope with the overwhelming complexity of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. Seamlessly combining all the available, observable context into consistent answers is a game changer compared to simply applying correlation-based ML models on unstructured data-lakes. In this session, we will explore how Davis unifies observability and causal AIOps to tackle the velocity, volume, and complexity of dynamic clouds.
Speakers:
Wolfgang Beer, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Joel Alcon, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
How Dynatrace AIOPs powers cloud observability to optimize your apps and multi-cloud platforms.
How Dynatrace AIOPs powers cloud observability to optimize your apps and multi-cloud platforms.
AIOps solutions have emerged during recent years, but most lack the unified observability and causal AI necessary to power multicloud environments. Discover how the OneAgent and Smartscape, combined with Davis, deliver AI at the core to fuel continuous automation and innovation.
Speakers:
Illana Labuschagne, Practice Manager - Dynatrace
Joel Alcon, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
David Jones, Director of Sales Engineering - Dynatrace
How to ensure crash-free, five-star mobile applications.
How to ensure crash-free, five-star mobile applications.
Customers increasingly depend on mobile apps to interact quickly and efficiently with businesses, but application crashes, errors and a slow user interface can severely impact your ability to attract new users and keep existing ones. Join this session to learn how Ford improved customer experience by reducing application crashes and increasing crash-free users for their FordPass App.
Speakers:
Thomas Billicsich, Product Manager - Dynatrace
Mike Martinez, Product Manager - Ford Motor Company
Drive better business outcomes by optimizing every step of the customer journey.
Drive better business outcomes by optimizing every step of the customer journey.
Delivering great customer experience requires visibility and context into a multitude of customer-facing and back-end services. Join this session to learn how to see which steps in your critical journey are failing to meet thresholds and what the impact is to your business. Hear real examples of how deeper insight into the entire customer journey has brought business and IT together to improve customer experience.
Speakers:
Alistair Emslie, Sales Engineering Manager - Dynatrace
Ahnaf Prio, Sr Engineering Consultant - Securian Financial
How to improve business-IT collaboration and increase ROI for all your digital business initiatives.
How to improve business-IT collaboration and increase ROI for all your digital business initiatives.
Getting Line of Business and IT on the same page can be challenging at times. Different KPIs, different languages, all stand in between people. In this session, we will look at how Blue Cross Blue Shield and others have elevated their collaboration from "get us a dashboard showing availability and throughput" to real collaboration with a focus on better business outcomes.
Speakers:
Klaus Enzenhofer, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Bill Scheuernstuhl, Senior Performance Monitoring Engineer - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
Software Intelligence Platform roadmap.
Software Intelligence Platform roadmap.
In this session, discover how to make the most of our latest platform innovations to automate and manage your operations at web-scale. Hear directly from our product management team about new and upcoming platform and scalability enhancements involving attribute-based access management, dashboards, log analysis, Davis AI, and more.
Speakers:
Wolfgang Beer, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Paul Schumacher, Senior Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Red Hat
xMatters
LaunchDarkly
Tricentis
14:00 CET
Perform Day 2 primer
14:10 CET
Welcome back to Perform Mainstage!
14:15 CET
CUSTOMER PANEL // Innovating with advanced AIOps
Mark Cook serves as Duke Energy’s Managing Director, IT Infrastructure, Operations & Critical Infrastructure Operations (CIOPS). He oversees the company’s end user technology (Help Desk, local IT, audio video, workstations and mobile devices), CIOPS, data center facilities, cost containment/ management, and database, mainframe, server, storage, infrastructure architecture and incident command center (ICC) functions. His team enables the company’s broader efforts to shift existing infrastructure to the Cloud and ensures strong IT and business partner relationships across the enterprise.
David Walker is an industry leader in the Application and Network Performance / Automation IT domain space. David's 20+ year career spanned from the United States Air Force to over 17 years at Lockheed Martin, where he currently leads application, network and systems integrations and IT architectural designs. As an industry technology SME at Lockheed Martin, David developed conceptual data driven dashboard models for the enterprise NOC while continuing to champion technology integrations including self-healing and automation use cases with many industry partners.
As Park ‘N Fly’s Senior Director of Information Technology for the last four years, Ken Schirrmacher has taken the company’s efficiency, agility, and connection with customers to the highest level. Over the course of his 15-year career, he has managed large-scale projects for hospitals, universities and government institutions, served as a Cloud Architect responsible for optimizing the IT offerings of multi-billion dollar companies, and received 13 respected IT industry certifications that make him a leader in the field.
14:35 CET
TECH SESSION // Powering cloud automation
14:55 CET
KEYNOTE // Kelsey Hightower explores the future of infrastructure
15:15 CET
FIRESIDE CHAT // Simone Biles takes the floor
15:35 CET
Customer awards
15:40 CET
A vision for the future
16:00 CET
Women in Tech - Digital Gamechangers
16:00 CET
Breakout sessions
Accelerate your cloud migration strategy to modernize faster.
Accelerate your cloud migration strategy to modernize faster.
Refactoring a complex monolithic application can be challenging due to the many application interdependencies. In this session, you will learn how Dynatrace SmartScape can provide a complete view of all services to help accelerate modernization. Dell will present in the session and share how Dynatrace has helped them accelerate their application modernization projects.
Speakers:
Lucas Hocker, Director of Sales Engineering - Dynatrace
Kayla Bondy, Senior Technical Product Specialist - Dynatrace
Jeremy Tupa, Product Manager - Dell
Get actionable answers at scale from OpenTelemetry.
Get actionable answers at scale from OpenTelemetry.
In this session, you will gain deeper insight into the current state of OpenTelemetry. The session will also explore how Dynatrace extends OpenTelemetry with enterprise grade security, scale and AIOps to deliver actionable answers. WW Grainger will also present and share their experiences implementing OpenTelemetry.
Speakers:
Arlindo Lima, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Jay Livens, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
Jaspreet Sethi, Software Engineer V - Grainger
Address log4shell with ease - Why integrated runtime security and observability is key for DevSecOps.
Address log4shell with ease - Why integrated runtime security and observability is key for DevSecOps.
Securing modern cloud apps in highly dynamic and complex production environments is a big challenge as traditional manual approaches cannot keep up and companies adopt DevSecOps approaches to cover app security end-to-end. Learn how to easily extend Dynatrace observability to automatically assess and mitigate security risks throughout the SDLC and accelerate DevSecOps throughput.
Speakers:
Ajay Gandhi, VP of Product Marketing - Dynatrace
Andreas Berger, Senior Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Christian Schwarzbauer, Fellow Product Architect - Dynatrace
Achieve risk-free releases by automating zero downtime release strategies.
Achieve risk-free releases by automating zero downtime release strategies.
Modern software delivery methods such as blue/green, canary, or feature flags are on the rise as they give you flexibility and reduce deployment risk. Dynatrace’s built-in release and version awareness gives you an automated overview of all deployed releases by build, release, environment, or product. Dynatrace allows you to monitor your SLOs (Service Level Objectives), detect anomalies, find and auto-remediate the root causes in case a deployment fails.
Speakers:
Kristof Renders, Practice Manager - Dynatrace
Rob Jahn, Senior Technical Partner Manager - Dynatrace
Quinn Johns, Director, High Performance Engineering - Humana
Andrew Foster, Director, DevOps Engineering - Humana
Scale DevOps & SRE through open-source Keptn.
Scale DevOps & SRE through open-source Keptn.
Keptn, the control-plane to orchestrate your day 1 and day 2 DevOps tasks, was contributed to the CNCF by Dynatrace with the goal to accelerate innovation by eliminating the need for custom automation scripts and point-2-point tool integrations. This session covers the architecture, the roadmap, and explains how Dynatrace customers benefit from Keptn.
Speakers:
Andi Grabner, DevOps Activist - Dynatrace
Observability Driven Orchestration from Git Commit to Production Release.
Observability Driven Orchestration from Git Commit to Production Release.
This session is targeted to developers, architects and performance engineers helping you understand how you can get automated and instant feedback on the impact of every code change, every commit and every release. We will demonstrate how to integrate observability into your DevOps pipeline to automate deployment and release validation based on your key Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This systematic and generic approach can be applied to any software that Dynatrace monitors, from cloud native technologies to legacy systems and everything in between. You will walk away learning how to speed up your delivery process, detect issues faster on code changes and some best practices to make your CI/CD pipelines more intelligent and scalable.
Speakers:
Sergio Hinojosa, Sales Engineering Manager - Dynatrace
Accelerate your hybrid cloud and the modern apps that rely on it.
Accelerate your hybrid cloud and the modern apps that rely on it.
Adopting a hybrid cloud architecture allows companies to run and scale their applications based on business demands, but it also creates complexity and blind spots in the application observability. Learn how the Dynatrace platform can accelerate your hybrid cloud by providing complete insights into how every transaction is impacted by end-to-end environments from public clouds to mainframes.
Speakers:
Alexander Hütter, Product Manager - Dynatrace
Peter Putz, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager - Dynatrace
Get precise insights from logs and events to optimize your cloud platform & apps.
Get precise insights from logs and events to optimize your cloud platform & apps.
Modern cloud applications generate a lot of telemetry every single second. Just having access to metrics, logs and traces is not enough. To better optimize your cloud workloads, you must understand context and meaning of data no matter what is the source. In this session you will learn how Dynatrace applies context to telemetry and helps to optimize applications running in the clouds.
Speakers:
Michal Franczak, Principal Product Manager - Dynatrace
Matt Reider, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Master Kubernetes observability for better resilience, resource utilization and service performance.
Master Kubernetes observability for better resilience, resource utilization and service performance.
Prometheus, k8s Events, Service Meshes, FluentBit, Loki or Promtail. In this session Henrik Rexed, host of #IsItObservable, explains everything you need to know to make your k8s cluster observable for those cloud native frameworks. You will also learn how Dynatrace ingests, connects and analysis this data to help you keep your k8s clusters reliable!
Speakers:
Henrik Rexed, Senior Staff Engineer - Dynatrace
Leverage Dynatrace Platform Extensions to cover business specific monitoring needs.
Leverage Dynatrace Platform Extensions to cover business specific monitoring needs.
In this session we will explore how Dynatrace Platform Extension Services address business-specific monitoring needs by leveraging the free to use Dynatrace Extension Framework. We will also look how these customer-driven developments feed back into the Dynatrace platform, to augments Davis AI and our Full Stack monitoring approach. Examples will include IBM MQ, F5 BigIP, Citrix, Azure Desktops, and more.
Speakers:
Krzysztof Ziemianowicz, Senior Product Manager - Dynatrace
Michael Lundstrom, Practice Director - Dynatrace
Accelerate every teams' transformation with easy access to AIOPs at the core of the Dynatrace platform.
Accelerate every teams' transformation with easy access to AIOPs at the core of the Dynatrace platform.
You've heard about supply chain issues across the world, but did you know that AIOps – with unified observability, AI, and automation – is helping overcome those challenges, driving resiliency and accelerating speed to market. Skyworks joins J-P Contreras from Dynatrace ACE Services to discuss how AIOps transforms teams into performance experts to accelerate digital transformation.
Speakers:
J-P Contreras, Practice Manager - Dynatrace
Joel Alcon, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
Andrew Beier, Sr Engineering Consultant - SkyWorks
Troy Clark, Sales Engineer - Dynatrace
From reactive to proactive: how Dynatrace AIOPs helps you move at the speed of cloud with intelligent automation.
From reactive to proactive: how Dynatrace AIOPs helps you move at the speed of cloud with intelligent automation.
As organizations shift to the cloud, they must become proactive in driving faster innovation and better business outcomes. Learn how Vitality connects the dots across its tech stack with AIOps powered by Davis, resulting in proactive digital experience management with AI and automation.
Speakers:
Joel Alcon, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
Steve Amos, IT Experience Manager - Vitality
Integrated & Automated Self-Healing with Dynatrace AIOps.
Integrated & Automated Self-Healing with Dynatrace AIOps.
Automation is a critical component of scalable, dynamic clouds, but are you maximizing automation and AI to drive more efficient and resilient environments. This session explores how Lockheed Martin integrates the Dynatrace Platform into their tech stack to auto-remediate application incidents and accelerate innovation.
Speakers:
Joel Alcon, Product Marketing Director - Dynatrace
David G Walker, Fellow - Lockheed Martin
How to proactively deliver seamless user experiences with a unified approach to omnichannel digital experience.
How to proactively deliver seamless user experiences with a unified approach to omnichannel digital experience.
Join this session to learn how one of Dynatrace's customers uses our suite of DEM Products (Web & Mobile RUM, Synthetic and Session Replay) across their application life cycle to continuously evaluate and improve user experience, identifying and prioritizing points of friction that drive improved outcomes for both their customers and their business.
Speakers:
Seth Voorhies, VP of Business Insights - Dynatrace
Peter Vinh, Senior Director of Digital Experience - Dynatrace
Steve Amos, IT Experience Manager - Vitality
Combine web and mobile analytics tools with Dynatrace to enrich user insights.
Combine web and mobile analytics tools with Dynatrace to enrich user insights.
Connecting business outcomes to IT metrics is a powerful step towards efficient BizOps collaboration. But collaboration is a journey, not a destination. In this session, you’ll see how some of our customers achieved early successes – but didn’t stop there. Instead, they continued their maturity journey by connecting to a range of popular business tools.
Speakers:
Gary Kaiser, Product Manager - Dynatrace
Adam Russo, Senior Insights Analytics Manager - Dynatrace
Master Core Web Vitals to optimize your site and reach more customers.
Master Core Web Vitals to optimize your site and reach more customers.
A poor web experience can cost a business customers and revenue. And with Google’s roll out of Core Web Vitals in 2021, website performance has taken on even more importance for brand awareness and visibility. Join this session to see customer examples and learn how you can take full advantage of Core Web Vitals to improve user experience, reach more customers and drive business results.
Speakers:
Ben Rushlo, VP of DEM Services - Dynatrace