How do you pick what to do at a huge conference like Explore? In my experience, some of the most powerful content is that presented by my peers and practitioners. This is not to discount the vendor and technologist-led sessions – those have significant value, especially when you’re trying to do more with your existing investments. This is to say that there is something special in learning from your peers’ experiences. To that end, we’re highlighting some of the user-led sessions at this year’s Explore EU in Barcelona so you can build a rich experience and exchange ideas with your peers and leaders!
Meet with your community
While customer-led breakout sessions and deep dives are being held throughout the conference, the Communities Zone is running multiple short-form sessions, including Community Quick Talks and VMware {code} sessions like Building RabbitMQ clusters the right way and how Tanzu RabbitMQ helped us [CMTY1543BCN] with Evoila’s Maximilian Schmitt.
The Communities Zone is also a great place to explore your curiosity with some beginner-level talks like vSphere with Tanzu – The Missing Manual [CMTY1454BCN] and
Demystifying vSphere with Tanzu and other TKG related acronyms [CMTY1479BCN], both being held at the Community Theatre.
For folks looking to up their AI game Build your first AI Proof of Concept on VCF! [CMTY1928BCN] is sure to be fun. Also being held in the community theater. In this talk Johan and Robert will guide you through their workflow to build a VMware Private AI Foundation proof of concept, including the IaaS Control Plane, as they share some of the lessons learned.
Always a crowd pleaser for those looking to sharpen their technical chops VMware {code} has tons of practical talks including Highly Available Cloud-Native Architecture with VCF and Tanzu [CODEB1872BCN] and Automating VMware Cloud Director: Terraform for Efficient Day 2 Operations [CODE1261BCN] with members of the Tanzu Vanguard community, and Good, bad and UGLY – the naked truth about VCF – VCDX’s lessons learned [CODE1473BCN] with Pawel Piotrowski who has been working with VMware products for several years! Other Tanzu Vanguard sessions of note include:
What I wish my mom had told me about VCF [CMTY1403BCN]
Demystifying Linux configuration with Cloud-Init in VMware [CMTY1077BCN]
Accelerate your Network Security with NSX using GenAI [CMTY1203BCN]
More short-form sessions are being held at the Tanzu in-booth theater, showcasing the incredible things our users are doing, so be sure to visit us there.
What would a tech conference be without… AI, Data, and Security
You can’t attend a tech conference these days without having a few sessions about AI, and of course, we have plenty of sessions about AI in general. Hearing from one of the world’s most respected automotive companies is a unique opportunity to help you tune out the noise and gain practical next steps for your enterprise AI strategy. So, make sure to attend Building a Foundation For Enterprise AI Innovation — A VMware Tanzu Platform Story [TANB1464] with Mercedes-Benz Group AG.
Other perennial topics that bring the crowds are security (a personal favorite of mine) and data. Here are a few sure-to-be fantastic sessions:
Taking Your Private Cloud to the Next Level with VMware Tanzu Data Services [TANB1834BCN] covers GCI Communication Corporation’s journey of developing a private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Tanzu Data Services.
In Evolving IPZS Digital Application Platform for Government Applications for Enhanced Security and Resiliency [TANB1836BCN] with Paolo Bazzica, CIO of IPZS – Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Italiano, you’ll learn how his team enhanced Kubernetes to meet the stringent requirements of hosting business-critical applications for government entities.
DevOps Evolution
We all appreciate candor and perspective, which is why DevOps Is for Startups: Enterprises Do Platform Engineering and Here’s Why [TANB1450] should be at the top of your list. In this session, led by Evoila GmbH’s Marco Di Martino, they’ll explore various platform engineering techniques that can help an enterprise successfully develop, scale and maintain their apps, while still providing a first-class developer experience.
For more practical examples of DevOps in practice, be sure to hit up Showcasing Stellantis Turkey’s DevOps Transformation [TANB1442] transformative journey to adopt DevOps practices as they integrated 16 microservices and more than 160 monolith applications into a standardized framework deployed seamlessly on VMware Tanzu Platform.
If you want to elevate your understanding of common challenges in adopting a platform as a product mindset, NatWest, one of the UK’s central retail and commercial banks, will share how they reduce friction in their app dev and delivery using of platform contracts on Wednesday, November 6 in their session: NatWest Developing More Robust Applications With Platform Contracts [TANB1835BCN]. Join Kieran Breen and our own Michael Coté and Dashaun Carter for a lively conversation!
Don’t just take our word for it – build your experience
The Explore content catalog is live, and you can start building your experience today! Don’t fret if you can’t do it all; you can watch many of these sessions on demand after the conference, so go ahead and start adding these sessions and more to your agenda!
