Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology, and is fascinated by what happens next. In his role as VP Sustainability Architecture at Amazon, he is developing and sharing best practices for sustainable product architectures, and working with teams across AWS to support their own sustainability programs.

Cockcroft started out with a degree in Applied Physics and Electronics from The City University, London. He worked as a developer in the UK, joined Sun Microsystems and then moved to the United States in 1993, ending up as a Distinguished Engineer. Cockcroft left Sun in 2004, was a founding member of eBay research labs, and started at Netflix in 2007. He initially directed a team working on personalization algorithms and then became cloud architect, helping teams scale and migrate to AWS. As Netflix shared its architecture publicly, Cockcroft became a regular speaker at conferences and executive summits, and he created and led the Netflix open source program. In 2014, he joined VC firm Battery Ventures, promoting new ideas around DevOps, microservices, cloud and containers, and joined AWS in October 2016, focused on the needs of cloud native and “all-in” customers. He recruited a team of experienced open source technologists to AWS, and has given keynote presentations at AWS Summits and many other events around the world. In 2021 he left AWS to transition to the Amazon Sustainability Team, and is the board observer for Amazon at the OS-Climate foundation.

Cockcroft is a published author of four books, notably Sun Performance and Tuning (Prentice Hall, 1998), and contributed forwards to several books including Ahead In The Cloud – Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT (2018). 

Cheryl Hung (@oicheryl) is VP Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where she leads the CNCF End User Community. At over 140 members, including global names such as Apple, Spotify and Mastercard, it is the largest end user community of any open source foundation or standards body. CNCF is home to over 70 of the fastest growing open source infrastructure projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy, as part of the Linux Foundation.

Cheryl is a regular keynote speaker and founded the Cloud Native London meetup with 6000 members. She previously built backend features for Google Maps as a C++ engineer, and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, King’s College.

Eric Mulartrick is the FinOps Lead at Boomi, a Dell Technologies Business, where he leads the Boomi organization to get the most value out of every dollar spent in the cloud. Eric’s passion has driven increased efficiency, silo reduction, and cultural changes within Boomi. Boomi quickly and easily unites everything in your digital technology foundation so you can achieve business outcomes, quickly and efficiently. As an iPaaS pioneer and a leader in Gartner’s Enterprise iPaaS Magic Quadrant for 7 years in a row, Boomi understands the importance of enabling you to deliver truly integrated experiences that simplify your user’s lives, create loyalty and trust, and grant wishes – whether you’re looking to gain a comprehensive view of your data, unify your ecosystem, or engage users how, when, and where they want.

Eric is a member of the FinOps Foundation and is passionate about the subject of cloud efficiencies. Eric holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from La Salle University and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Virginia Tech.