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Conveying the Importance of Platform as a Product in the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Danielle Cook, StackGen; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Colin Griffin, Krumware
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
A problem in the cloud native community is explaining the value of cloud native to stakeholders. Yet AI and other emerging technologies are driving the need for cloud native and the support platforms provide. Implementing a Platform as a Product can increase the value to the diverse teams and businesses by delivering features faster and with a methodology that can support self-service and focuses on a user-centric approach.

By defining a platform as a product and not a project, they establish themselves as core business and an asset the business will invest in and iterate on over time, driving up the ability to provide capabilities for a business to deliver value to all customers.

Panellists will discuss a product approach to platforms, how they can be managed, iterated on, and mature within the organization. They will draw on materials such as the Platforms Whitepaper, Platform Maturity Model, and new content about Platform as a Product built by the Platform Working Group.
Speakers
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Colin Griffin

CEO, Krumware
Colin Griffin is CEO at Krumware, and a Co-Chair of the CNCF Platforms Working Group. Colin Griffin is a software engineer by trade, specializing in cloud-native application and infrastructure development; with an emphasis on developer enablement and platform engineering. He founded... Read More →
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Valentina Rodriguez Sosa

Principal Architect, Red Hat
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. She loves contributing to the community, such as co-organizing KCD NY, and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly... Read More →
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Simon Forster

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador, Stackegy
Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus... Read More →
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Danielle Cook

StackGen, VP
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
  Platform Engineering
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