Ben Sigelman is the General Manager of ServiceNow Cloud Observability, which solves for the reliability and performance of cloud and cloud-native applications while broadening the scope and leverage of the broader Now Platform.

Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of Lightstep, which ServiceNow acquired in 2021, and co-created both the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. Ben also helped define modern observability with his work on tracing and metrics monitoring at Google (the Monarch and Dapper projects) and was a pioneer in SRE best practices and tooling.

He holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brown University.

BJ Badyk is a human who desires an easier life. Nerd from birth, his curiosity led him down a path through the start of ISPs, Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble, the last few years of the Playboy brand, and into the world of Adtech.

He currently runs the platform engineering team at Nexxen, where they work on unique ways of handling millions of requests per second with Kubernetes. The team was an early adopter of Talos Linux, which they now run at scale. He presented at TalosCon 2023 and continues to pursue simple solutions to complex problems. In his free time, he can be found listening to synth-wave, motorcycling, or roaming around the woods with his ham radios. ------------ TalosCon 2023: https://youtu.be/WpE1EyB3fSE Nexxen: https://nexxen.com Find BJ @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjbadyk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/transmissions

Ashan Senevirathne is an experienced Product Owner and Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in driving innovation and efficiency in telecommunications. Currently with Swisscom, leading the development of a cloud-native orchestration framework for 5G Core using Kubernetes. Adept at optimizing release engineering processes, championing CI/CD workflows, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Recognized for his expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud-native principles, and network orchestration.

Joel Studler is a DevOps Engineer who currently works in a team that builds the cloud native 5G core at Swisscom. He is experienced in infrastructure automation, software-defined networking, and highly available databases. He is CK* certified and has written several CRD/Operator-based Kubernetes extensions. He is passionate about automation and user experience to make everyday life easier. Outside the tech sphere, he is an active musician both live and in the studio. Ashan & Joel's talk at KubeCon EU 2024: How We Are Moving from GitOps to Kubernetes Resource Model in 5G Core is now available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/crmTnB6Zwt8?si=I7QofgXQpc5n40y0