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Speaker Catalog 2023

Speaker Catalog 2023

Read First

Hello Everyone! I am excited to push live this refreshed version of the Speaker Catalog! Previously we linked out to a google sheet, which was less than ideal for a few reasons, so I've opted to make it live RIGHT HERE in the Knowledge Base of the Splunk User Group Leaders Hub. 

10 new speakers have been added in 2023
Last updated - 3/23/23
Apply to speak here

A few items to note:

  • Currently, the only "filter" available is simply the Table of Contents which can be used to navigate to a speaker's section. Therefore, if you're looking for a specific topic, you may CTRL/COMMAND + F on this page, or scroll through and see what is of interest to you.
  • Nearly all fields of the Speaker Interest form were marked optional, so if there's an element that seems to be missing in one speaker's section that you see elsewhere, it's just because they didn't fill it in.
  • Did you reach out to a speaker and not hear back? Are you a speaker and found outdated info in here? Any other issues? Please email me: rwoods@splunk.com
  • Are you or is someone you know interested in speaking at a Splunk User Group? Send them the form so that they can be added! Anyone may submit, as it's up to the User Group leaders to actually select the speaker.
  • Most of what you see here is technical, but other topics are relevant too! Would you like to lead a wellness session, tech resume writing, professional development, beer tasting, Bollywood dancing, or any other type of talk or session? If you have the expertise, you are welcome to submit a talk! 
  • Not seeing a topic that you need? Would you like to request a topic or a speaker? Contact rwoods@splunk.com with all relevant details.

Thank you all! Feel free to comment on this article if you have any questions.

Best,
Renee Woods 
Sr. Manager, Splunk Community 

Link to Submit/Apply to Speak

 

 

2023 Splunk User Group Speaker Catalog 

 

Austin Rose 

Security Solutions Engineering Manager, State of California - Department of Technology

Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Customer

Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Splunk On Prem in the Cloud (Multisite, Clustered Search Head, MultiTB ingest, Smartstore, AWS Experience)

  • Maturing a Security Operations Center (See included YouTube presentation)

Ready-to-go sessions

  • (Not built) Lessons learned from deploying in the cloud.

  • (Ready) A Novel Approach to Security Monitoring Use Case Development. Using Mitre ATT&CK, MaGMa and Atomic Threat Coverage to development and track Use Cases through the entire life cycle.

Additional info they’d like to share

Presented in local User Group, see attached YouTube video.

General Availability
In-Person: West Coast USA
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions):
Virtual:  Pacific Time, times available widely ranging given enough lead time.

How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email.
Email address: Austin.rose@state.ca.gov

 

Will Searle

Technology Manager / Splunk Consultant, NHS Digital
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Customer


Bio: Ive been using Splunk for 7 years in various capacities and recently certified as a core consultant. My current focus is migrating 50+ instances onto SplunkCloud so doing lots of work managing cloud environments, continuous delivery pipelines and site reliability.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Data from anything (Everything has an API these days, and where there is an API, there is data...)

  • AWS Environments

  • CI/CD

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Removing human-error from RBAC management of SplunkCloud [SAML mapping App]

  • You can save on electricity costs (or get it for free) at home, using Splunk! [Electric meter monitoring]

Additional info they’d like to share

Previously lead/presented at UK National Government Usergroup, numerous UK roadshows with Splunk SEs and on a panel at SplunkLive London

General Availability
In-Person: United Kingdom
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): Leeds based but can travel depending on work commitments.
Virtual:  9am-5pm BST + evenings if needed.

How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email/Slack
Email address: will@livehybrid.com

 

Mary Cordova

Manager, Incident Response, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Customer


Bio: Mary Cordova has worked in the threat detection and response space for various industry leaders in gaming, media, and entertainment. She lurks around several L.A. based infosec communities.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • ... and now we can SPL "(?<foo>s[hi]{2}t)" - a hands on getting you know your data methodology workshop

Ready-to-go sessions

  • oops see previous

General Availability
In-Person: los angeles
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): southern california
Virtual:  pacific regular times, and or evenings but not mornings

How to contact/ request as a speaker: email
Email address: ms.marycordova@gmail.com

 

Cary Petterborg

Splunk Architect, Stage 2 Security
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Partner


Bio: Cary has been a software developer for 40 years, and a Splunk user for 9 years. He is a Certified Splunk Architect (currently working on contract to one of Splunk's largest customers), a member of the Splunk Trust since 2017, and a four-time .conf speaker (twice speaking about regular expressions). He heads the local Splunk User Group in the Greater Salt Lake City area and has been teaching Splunk and various Linux and software development skills to users for many years.

Speaking Topics

  • Regular expressions (rex, regex, .conf files, etc.)
  • Administering a large Splunk instance (120+ IDXs)
  • Optimizing searches

Ready-to-go sessions

  • So, you need to redact values in your Splunk data, but still search and correlate events?
  • It’s hard to make your data really secure from prying eyes for a customer that needs to prevent even the usernames or hostnames redacted, right? Well, with a few little tricks you can do that and still maintain the ability to search for a particular user or host in the events.


How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email or Slack (splunk-usergroups)
Email address: carypetterborg@gmail.com

Tom West

VP of Engineering, Big Data Beard
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Splunk Trust

Speaking Topics

  • Searching best practices (either purely looking at best ways to use SPL, or via the SPL Rehab app I've developed)
  • Dashboarding wowzas

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Check Out SPL Rehab: Finding problems with your searches, so you dont have to! ABSTRACT: A walkthrough of the SPL Rehab app and show you how it will identify problems with your searches and assist you in resolving them.

Additional info they’d like to share

User groups include, SF, Boston, London, Zurich, Yorkshire (UK), and Kansas City. Audiences range from 5 - 50 in size. I've also done a DevOps lightning talk in-person to the GitLab conference as well as associated interviews backstage.

General Availability
In-Person: UK
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): UK. Can travel further if expense-able.
Virtual:  Mon - Fri anytime between 7AM and 1AM UTC. Based in the UK

How to contact/ request as a speaker: westy@bigdatabeard.com
Email address: westy@bigdatabeard.com

 

Michael Bentley

Splunk Doctor, Stage 2 Security
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Partner


Bio: Michael is know primarily as the Splunk Doctor and also known as IT's Swiss Army Knife.   He's earned these titles by working in every facet of IT; from customer service and tech support to networking, security, full stack architecture and executive/management.

Where to Find Online

  • LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/splunk-professional-services-consultant

Speaking Topics

  •  What the cURL! A quick explanation on using the TA-webtools | curl command for your inter-pipeline data enrichment pleasure.

Ready-to-go sessions

  • What the cURL!:
  • A quick explanation on using the TA-webtools | curl command for your inter-pipeline data enrichment pleasure.

General Availability
In-Person: New York, Atlanta
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions):
Virtual:  24/7

How to contact/ request as a speaker: Phone or Email and Slack
Email address: Michael@bentleypc.com

Ryan Adler

Senior Security Engineer, Stage 2 Security
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Partner


Bio: I've been working in the Splunk space/work in some capacity since 2012 and the tech space since 2006. I've gone from user, to architect, to administration and consultant.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Splunking 3D Printers with OctoPrint

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Splunk Your Hobby - 3D Printers
  • After getting into Dungeons and Dragons a bit, I decided to start 3D printing miniatures, battle scenery, and enemies. After 2 rolls of PLA through my printer, I noticed there was an option in Octoprint to log the system. So I Splunk'd my 3D printer logs, got a more accurate analysis of print time, and print weight, and was able to prioritize prints based on remaining filament and time until the next session. I built a dashboard that integrated with the Camera on the rig so I could keep tabs on print status, and overall efficiency. The logs also helped me decide which slicer software was most efficient in estimations and material usage.

Additional info they’d like to share

Presented at 2017 - Dessert Deity, Using a Raspberry Pi, Kali Linux, and Splunk to make rash and likely inaccurate assumptions about people based on their wifi habits.

General Availability
In-Person: - Not presently with Covid-19 -  
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): Phoenix, Tucson
Virtual:  Generally - Monday through Friday 1500-1700 PST

How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email to rladler@outlook.com
Email address: rladler@outlook.com

Sasha Velednitsky

VP of Business Development, Co-founder, NetFlow Logic
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Partner


Bio: Sasha Velednitsky has over 25 years of experience in software development and entrepreneurial leadership. He is a co-founder and VP of Business Development of NetFlow Logic .  Sasha is responsible for the development of new business opportunities that will establish NetFlow Logic’s product as a dominant solution for big data streams, such as NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and public cloud flow logs (Amazon, Google Cloud, Azure).

Over the years Sasha has held a number of senior development, consulting, and management positions with leading global technology companies.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • How to improve monitoring and cyber defense capabilities with NetFlow and Cloud Flow logs
  • Network packets data or NetFlow data: what to ingest into Splunk
  • Real-time Operational Intelligence for Virtual & Physical Networks

Ready-to-go sessions

  • NetFlow Optimizer for Splunk Overview
  • Network Health Monitoring: Using NetFlow / IPFIX / *flow for
  • NetOps and Security use cases

 

General Availability
In-Person: San Francisco Bay Area
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): San Francisco Bay Area, also at .conf
Virtual:  Any day from 8:30pm Pacific

How to contact/ request as a speaker: by email
Email address: svelednitsky@netflowlogic.com

Mark Karlstrand

Senior Product Manager, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: Mark Karlstrand is a Senior Product Manager at Splunk in the Getting Data In “GDI” Team. He is currently leading efforts to reduce the pain of onboarding security data sources into Splunk. These efforts include partner collaboration, R&D for dozens of technical add-ons and Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S). When Mark isn’t working or busy annoying his two tweens, he can be found pedaling his bike out in the woods.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Splunk Connect for Syslog

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Splunk Connect for Syslog is a containerized Syslog-ng server with a configuration framework designed to simplify getting syslog data into Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. This approach provides an agnostic solution allowing administrators to deploy using the container runtime environment of their choice. Additionally, skilled deployment engineers with syslog server experience can utilize the source and configurations directly to craft their own custom solutions more easily and more consistently than starting from scratch.


How to contact/ request as a speaker: email
Email address: mkarlstrand@splunk.com

Harsimran Singh Maan

Senior Engineer, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")

Bio: Senior engineer, extensive experience scaling and building secure distributed systems

Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Cloud native development
  • Kubernetes
  • Software security

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Using Splunk to monitor jupyterhub deployments (Slides need prep, would come with a live/recorded demo). The presentation would be a walkthrough of the journey of the ML team at Splunk and how how we dog food our own tools not just for monitoring but for training our ML models on data collected from Jupyterhub itself. We use this extensively on the ML team at Splunk.
  • Deploying applications and services on Kubernetes using qbec (splunk's opensource tool). qbec is tool to manage k8s deployments across multiple clusters and environments. The tool is extensively used by engineering teams across Splunk Cloud Services with adoption on the rise in the community. The session would cover best practices when dealing with deployments on kubernetes. Slides tbd

Additional info they’d like to share

I have presented multiple times at the annual Developer Kick-off Meeting at SAP on the topics of multi-tenancy and operational excellence in the cloud. Regular presenter at the local tech meetup - SurreyCodes. Open source contributor to ruby, ruby on rails, minikube, jupyter projects, ory projects, Splunk's qbec. Creator and maintainer of jupyterhub-istio-proxy.

General Availability
In-Person: Global
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions):
Virtual:  Pacific time. Although I don't mind early mornings.

How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email: hmaan@splunk.com
Email address: hmaan@splunk.com

Gregg Woodcock

President, Splunxter Inc.
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Partner


Bio: Gregg Woodcock is a gun-toting, Christian, homeschooling father of three whose 30+ years of IT experience (primarily in Telecom) and early adoption of Splunk (v3) has positioned him on the leading edge of the Big Data explosion and uniquely qualified him to launch "Splunxter", a Splunk-focused professional services and contracting company headquartered in the Dallas area. He is the founder and chairman of the Dallas-area Splunk User Group, a two-time speaker at "Splunk Live!", a twice-invited speaker for LTE North America, an Instructor with Global Big Data Boot Camps, occasional street-preacher, and the current Chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas. He is a genuine evangelist of all the best things in life and that of course includes Splunk!


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • SPL
  • Best Practices
  • Architecture

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Looping/Loops in Splunk
  • Gotchas

Additional info they’d like to share

I have also spoken at many church groups on evangelism.

General Availability
In-Person: If you pay for travel, I will go anywhere.
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): I will drive on my dime up to a couple of hours away from DFW Texas.
Virtual:  Not Sunday

How to contact/ request as a speaker: email: woodcock@Splunxter.com
Email address: woodcock@splunxter.com

Deepti Bhutani

Sr Solution Engineer, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Observability
  • SRE
  • Devops

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Measure, Monitor and Optimize Front End Performance With Splunk Observability


How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email :dbhutani@splunk.com
Email address: dbhutani@splunk.com

Steve Flanders

Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: As an Engineering Leader at Splunk, Steve leads the Observability platform area including contributions to the CNCF OpenTelemetry project. Previously, he served as a founding member and Head of Product at Omnition; and Global Engineering Manager for log analytics at VMware. Steve’s background includes business strategy, software development, product management, user experience, and operations management. He uses data-driven decision-making, agile development processes, and teamwork to create innovative and sustainable solutions; and is distinctly passionate about open-source software and democratizing data. Steve authors SFlanders.net, a technology-centric weblog, and presents regularly at international conferences including KubeCon and Google Cloud Next.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Observability / Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Metrics, Traces, or Logs

Ready-to-go sessions

  • 5 Reasons Why OpenTelemetry is the Future of Observability
  • It has been said that open source is eating the world and in the observability space, the project behind this movement is OpenTelemetry. When it comes to observability, there are lots of opinions, but limited answers. Understanding what data to collect and how to collect it properly is fundamental to ensuring users have the answers they need when they need them. The OpenTelemetry approach focuses on open standards and open-source instrumentation as well as data collection. Why is an open standard and open-source approach to instrumentation and data collection so compelling? This talk will provide five reasons why OpenTelemetry is disrupting the observability market.
  • Log Support in OpenTelemetry
  • End users are interested in the plans for logs in OpenTelemetry. Will logging client libraries be introduced? Will native logging capabilities be added to the collector? How do context and resources work with logs? This session will dive into these topics to explain the current state and future direction. A demo of the current capabilities will be provided.

Additional info they’d like to share

I have presented to large and small audiences for more than 10 years. I have multiple others topics I can talk about include: An Introduction to Splunk Observability Cloud.

General Availability
In-Person: New England area - anywhere in North America with tons of advanced notice
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): I spent a lot of time on the west coast so California and Washington. I can also make it to NY or DC area easily. Montreal and Toronto are also easy options. Again, flexible to more areas with enough heads up.
Virtual:  I can make any day work with enough heads up. I am mostly on Eastern time with a preference to finish presentations by 5:00pm ET.

How to contact/ request as a speaker: email: smflanders@gmail.com
Email address: sflanders@splunk.com

 

Chris Duffey

Staff Security Specialist, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: Chris Duffey is a Staff Security Engineer working on leveraging data to secure the OT environment and DevSecOps at Splunk.  In this role, he works with private and public sector companies to figure out how to start and be successful in their OT Cyber Security journey both technically and strategically.  His previous roles included cyber security consulting, architecture, and implementation of security controls at various companies.  Prior to that, Chris worked in the OT environment for a major oil and gas pipeline company, including responding to cyber security incidents as well as developing an OT Cyber Security Program from the ground up.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • OT Security
  • DevSecOps
  • Resiliency in OT

Ready-to-go sessions

  • OT Security and Splunk - Presentation on how Splunk can be leverage to secure and protect OT environments include best practices from customer
  • Leveraging Splunk to optimize operations - Presentation on using Splunk within OT environments to support operations

 

Additional info they’d like to share

General Availability
In-Person: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions):
Virtual:  CDT

How to contact/ request as a speaker: cduffey@splunk.com, slack
Email address: cduffey@splunk.com

Ted Skinner

Professional Services Regional Practice Architect, Security, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: I am a veteran Splunker who began as a customer nearly a dozen years ago.My professional passion is information security, where I've spent the last 15+ years of my career. I've served as a consultant to public sector customers for a dozen years. Outside of work, a lot of my time is dedicated to, along side my wife, learning how to raise a little boy who is partially deaf, and has no off switch. I've learned as much from spending time with him as I have from my career.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Enterprise Security/RBA Related topics
  • Security Monitoring
  • Splunk Architecture

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Splunk RBA Tuning Best Practices - (just delivered at Splunk Tech Summit)
  • First Class Express, RBA Delivers at the Federal Level (22 conf talk)

Additional info they’d like to share

I have a talk from our 22 tech summit as well on Asset and Identities Framework, Also have a Bsides talk about using endpoint data model to investigate Windows and Linux hosts. I'm also working on about 3 additional talks with targets over the next 4 months.

General Availability
In-Person: Baltimore, DC, Northern Va, Delaware, Southern PA (Philly, Harronsonburg, York, etc.)  
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): Baltimore, DC, Northern Va, Delaware, Southern PA (Philly, Harronsonburg, York, etc.) , anywhere if splunk and my manager approved the time and travel.
Virtual:  Monday, Wednesday and Fridays, lunchtime - evening, I am EST timezone

How to contact/ request as a speaker: email - tskinner@splunk.com
Email address: tskinner@splunk.com

Matt Sayar

Product Manager, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: Product Manager at Splunk for Mission Control

Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Mission Control
  • SOAR
  • Enterprise Security

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Beginner's Guide to Mission Control
  • How to create SOAR Connectors

General Availability
In-Person: Colorado Springs, Denver
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): Anywhere
Virtual:  M-F 9-5

How to contact/ request as a speaker: msayar@splunk.com
Email address: msayar@splunk.com

Rod Soto

Principal Security Research Engineer, SPLUNK
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")

Bio: Principal Security Research Engineer with Splunk Threat Research Team


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Attack Range
  • Ransomware Detections
  • Commonalities in Ransomware Payloads

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Linux Threat Detection with Attack Range
  • Commonalities in Ransomware Payloads

Additional info they’d like to share

i have done these presentations in .conf and industry conferences

General Availability
In-Person: anywhere
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): anywhere
Virtual:  tuesdays thursdays afternoon EST
How to contact/ request as a speaker: email
Email address: rsoto@splunk.com

James Young

Staff Security Strategist, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: As a member of the Global Technical Security Strategist team at Splunk, James brings more than 25 years cyber security experience across cyber security engineering, architecture and consulting roles. James is focused on developing innovative approaches to help Splunk partners and customers improve cyber security capabilities and maturity.  When James is not working you will find him with his family surfing, snowboarding or sailing.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Splunk attack_range
  • Splunk Risk Based Alerting (RBA)
  • Splunk Detection as Code (DaC) - CI/CD for detection engineering

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Optimizing Threat Detection with Splunk Security - RBA, attack_range, detection engineering, detection as code.  This would be in conjunction with the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT)

Additional info they’d like to share

highest rated security session at .conf21 just to list one example.

General Availability
In-Person: Australia/New Zealand and with approval for travel APAC.
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): APAC
Virtual:  AEDT/AEST Mon-Fri

How to contact/ request as a speaker: email (jyoung@splunk.com) or slack
Email address: jyoung@splunk.com

Chris Crocco

Director - Observability Thechnical Interlock, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")

Bio: Chris Crocco has been a Splunk fan ever since he used it to monitor the internet coming out of space (no...really! Ask him about it). Based in Denver, Chris is a member of Splunk's technical field team focusing on Observability, AIOps and data streaming. When he's not getting nerdy with data, Chris can be found hiking and climbing in Colorado with his wife and dog.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Observability/Otel
  • Data Tiering/GDI Optimization
  • ITSI

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Pints and Performance Monitoring: Hands on Instrumenting Applications with OTel:
  • Come grab a pint and get your hands dirty with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM! In this session we will walk you through how to instrument your applications with OpenTelemetry and Splunk Application Performance Monitoring to standardize and enhance your distributed tracing!
  • Increasing value and managing costs with Ingest Actions and the Monitoring Console:
  • Right now, most organizations are being asked to tighten their belt and figure out ways to e more efficient. Luckily Splunk provides free features that help you do just that. Come hang out with us as we show real world examples of how to use the Monitoring console to figure out what data isn't high value in your environment, and deploy Ingest Actions rulesets to make sure you only ingest what you need.

Additional info they’d like to share

I am the organizer for the Denver Splunk User Group, having run this local group for over 5 years. I've spoken at .conf 5 times and was they main stage speaker for Splunk Live in 2018, and xMatters Innovate the same year.

General Availability
In-Person: West Coast (all), Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Las Vegas
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): I am willing to travel anywhere but China, no concerns about covid or anything else.
Virtual:  Monday -Thursday afternoons MST

How to contact/ request as a speaker: email - ccrocco@splunk.com
Email address: ccrocco@splunk.com

 

Brian Kessler

Lead Assigned Expert, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")

Bio: 6+ year splunker with focus on Platform and Core. Work directly with customers solving complex architectural, use case and optimization problems.  Current role is as an advisor to guide implementations and use towards best practices and resilience.

Speaking Topics

  • Best Practices and Optimization of Dashboards, Reports, Alerts and SPL
  • Technical debt and user impact management
  • Data onboarding for data quality

General Availability
In-Person: Global availability with enough warning.  
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): No Conditions, Global availability with enough warning.
Virtual:  EST 8-5

How to contact/ request as a speaker: bkessler@splunk.com
Email address: bkessler@splunk.com

Antoine Toulme

Senior Engineering Manager, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")


Bio: I am the engineering manager for the data collection team at Splunk, working primarily on OpenTelemetry Collector.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • OpenTelemetry
  • HEC
  • GDI

Ready-to-go sessions

  • Using the OpenTelemetry Collector to Get Data In

Additional info they’d like to share

.conf/TKO/Hyperledger events/Ethereum conferences/Apache conferences

General Availability
In-Person: California
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): California - will need brown M&Ms
Virtual:  PST

How to contact/ request as a speaker: slack
Email address: atoulme@splunk.com

Chrissy Ha

Senior Product Manager, Splunk
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Employee ("Splunker")

Speaking Topics

  • Cross-Region Disaster Recovery
  • Splunk Monitoring

General Availability
In-Person: New York City, East coast
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): AMER - East coast, midwest, west coast
Virtual:  Eastern time zone - 11am to 4pm

How to contact/ request as a speaker: cha@splunk.com
Email address: cha@splunk.com

Tony Reinke

Network Security Engineer, Children's Hospital & Medical Center - Omaha
Relationship to/ Role with Splunk: Customer

Bio: I have been using Splunk since 2009 and a User Group leader since 2013.


Where to Find Online

Speaking Topics

  • Running a User Group
  • Tracking Speeders on your street
  • Splunk and your HVAC

General Availability
In-Person: Nebraska, Potentially Iowa / Kansas, Missouri.  If paying to get me there, anywhere.
I can be available live (in-person) in the following geographical area given certain conditions (list any conditions): Schedule is free / no kids activities
Virtual:  Central US - 9am - 9pm

How to contact/ request as a speaker: Email / Slack
Email address: treinke@gmail.com

 

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