Day One will feature individual talks and panel discussions focused on some key areas being transformed by demand for real-time access, large scale deployments, cloud computing environments and the need to connect with millions of devices. Day One speakers will discuss the challenges faced, the potential for the future if these challenges are met, how Node.js is helping overcome these challenges, and provide real-world examples where Node.js has been deployed and is making things possible that were never before achievable.

• 7:30 AM REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

• 8:30 AM Setting the Stage for Node Summit

  Emceed by:

  Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO, Joyent

• 8:40 AM The Importance of Cross Platform

  How a multi-company effort enabled the abstraction of Node.js across platforms, and why this is key for the future of Node.

  Moderated by:

  Stephen O’Grady, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder, RedMonk

  Speakers:

  Ryan Dahl, Software Engineer, Joyent

  Paul Querna, Architect, Rackspace

  Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director of Open Source Communities, Microsoft

• 9:10 AM Platform as a Service

  Hear from some of the leading and emerging PaaS providers about their views on the importance of Node now and in the future, and their efforts to support Node.js.

  Moderated by:

  James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy, enStratus

  Speakers:

  Derek Collison, CTO and Chief Architect, Cloud Application Platforms, VMware

  Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP, Microsoft

  Charlie Robbins, CEO, Nodejitsu

  Oren Teich, COO, Heroku

• 10:00 AM BREAK (Sponsored Workshops – Located on Level 2)

  • 10:05 AM – Joyent Sponsor Workshop – Room 1
    

    The Business Justification for Commercial Production with Node

    Hear from three innovative companies about how they approached building commercial applications in Node from a business perspective. An advertising agency, a real-time web app developer, and a solutions provider will discuss the business decision points they used to select Node.

    Moderated by:

    John Rymer, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester

    Speakers:

    Glen Lougheed, CEO, NodeFly Systems

    Jevon MacDonald, Co-Founder and CEO, GoInstant

    Colin Rand, Associate Director of Technology, AKQA

  • 10:05 AM – Cloud Foundry Sponsor Workshop – Room 2
    

    Building an Activity Stream Engine on Cloud Foundry with Node.js

    This hands-on lab will serve as an intro to Node.js development on Cloud Foundry. The session will cover the basics of the Activity Stream API and will demonstrate step-by-step, how to publish and syndicate activities in real time using Node.js and Redis.

    Speaker:

    Monica Wilkinson, Developer Relations, Cloud Foundry

• 10:40 AM The Internet of Things

  The Internet of things has become a reality. We ship more compute and storage capacity per year in “devices” than traditional PCs, and it feels like we have to get offline on purpose rather than online. This marks a sea change for the types of applications that need to be developed and the types of platforms that can emerge.

  Speaker:

  Steve Pawlowski, Senior Fellow, CTO and GM, Intel

• 11:00 AM Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

  Increasing demands on data centers to integrate IT and Facilities data, and a desire to track everything that goes on in real-time, 24/7 has led to a significant change in how companies think about and implement DCIM. Hear the latest thinking on the topic and learn how Node.js is playing an important role in the next wave of DCIM.

  Speaker:

  Baz Khuti, CTO and VP Engineering, Emerson Network Power/Avocent Products and Services

• 11:15 AM Machine to Machine

  Leveraging Node.js to deliver on the promise of real-time machine to machine communications.

  Moderated by:

  Eric Braun, Business Development, Node.js, Joyent

  Speakers:

  Chris Allen, CEO, Brass Monkey

  Baz Khuti, CTO and VP Engineering, Emerson Network Power/Avocent Products and Services

  John McKinley, CTO, News Corporation

• 11:45 AM Walmart: Save Money, Use Node.js

  James Watters talks with Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith about Walmart’s mobile strategy and how they are leveraging Node.js at the largest retailer in the world.

  Moderated by:

  James Watters, Group Manager Ecosystem Development, Cloud Foundry

  Speakers:

  Dion Almaer, VP Mobile Architecture, Walmart.com

  Ben Galbraith, VP Mobile Engineering, Walmart.com

• 12:05 PM Enterprises and the Cloud

  The cloud is changing everything about corporate IT: where they run things, how they write applications, and how those applications are delivered to users. This talk will discuss VMware’s view of this new world, how it will challenge IT, and some of the opportunities for the Node community.

  Speaker:

  Steve Herrod, CTO and SVP of R&D, VMware

• 12:30 PM LUNCH (Sponsored Workshops – Located on Level 2)

  • 12:45 PM – Heroku Sponsor Workshop – Room 1
    

    Node in the Cloud

    Heroku is a polyglot platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Node.js, Ruby, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala. Deployment is as simple as doing a “git push”. This session will show you how to instantly deploy and scale Node.js apps on Heroku.

    Speaker:

    David Dollar, Developer Experience, Heroku

  • 12:45 PM – Nodejitsu Sponsor Workshop – Room 2
    

    Enterprise Node.js

    Every production software solution has unique challenges and dials that tune performance. Node.js is no different. Come hear lessons learned about server dependencies, logging, monitoring, simple deployments and more from 18-months of production node.js across thousands of machines at Nodejitsu.

    Speaker:

    Charlie Robbins, CEO, Nodejitsu

• 1:30 PM Large Scale Web

  Hear from the “Big Boys” about the challenges of operating at web scale and how to leverage Node.js to keep up with the ever increasing demand for always on, real-time connectivity.

  Moderated by:

  Cade Metz, Editor, Wired.com, Conde Nast

  Speakers:

  Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, VP, Platform Architect, Yahoo!

  Ilya Grigorik, Instigator, Google

  Sean Hess, CTO, i.TV

  Mark Mayo, Principal Engineer, Mozilla

• 2:15 PM Node.js and Windows Azure

  Microsoft was one of the first companies to recognize the potential of Node.js and has committed significant resources towards its ongoing development within the open source community. Hear why Microsoft is focused on Node.js and see what Windows Azure and Node.js together can provide for developers who want a compelling PaaS solution.

  Speaker:

  Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP, Microsoft

• 2:40 PM APIs & Endpoints at Scale

  Hear about the challenges faced by some of the world’s most transactionally busy systems in keeping up with massive scaling requirements while meeting demand for ever faster response times, and hear how Node.js can help overcome some of the key roadblocks ahead.

  Moderated by:

  Theo Schlossnagle, CEO, OmniTI

  Speakers:

  Subbu Allamaraju, Principal Member of Technical Staff, eBay

  Chito Manansala, Sr. Principal Architect, Mobile, Sabre

  Tim Milliron, Director of Engineering, Twilio

• 3:10 PM BREAK (Sponsored Workshops – Located on Level 2)

  • 3:15 PM – Microsoft Sponsor Workshop – Room 1
    

    Windows Azure + Node.js: Why and How

    Learn why Windows Azure is a great cloud for running Node.js applications. In this talk, we’ll dive into Windows Azure’s support for Node, including command-line deployment and using Windows Azure’s scalable storage from any Node application.

    Speaker:

    Glenn Block, Senior Program Manager, Windows Azure SDK, Microsoft

  • 3:15 PM – eBay Sponsor Workshop – Room 2
    

    Node.js + ql.io: Consuming HTTP at Scale

    Web APIs are a need for any app developer today, but orchestrating HTTP from clients at scale is a pain. This talk will show how ql.io can help cut down the number of lines of code and yet improve performance. Whether you are building a front-end or a mobile app, ql.io can help.

    Speaker:

    Subbu Allamaraju, Principal Member of Technical Staff, eBay

• 3:50 PM Instrumenting the Real-Time Web

  What it takes to run Node.js in production

  Speaker:

  Bryan Cantrill, VP Engineering, Joyent

• 4:10 PM Everything is a Node: The Rise of M2M and Mobile

  Most of us carry around mobile “machines” that generate all sorts of data about us and our environment without any human input. Machine-generated data is in between user- and science-generated data in terms of size and will require an entirely updated approach to infrastructure.

  Speaker:

  Vish Nandlall, SVP, Strategy and CTO, Ericsson.com

• 4:30 PM Mobile (’nuff said)

  Enterprise applications have traditionally been used by a few people between the hours of 9 to 5. With the consumerization of IT, and the prevalence of mobile connectivity, many “workers” are accessing applications via a mobile device. This trend is crushing traditional enterprise architectures. The same goes for traditional web architectures. With the rise of mobile-first applications, applications are often becoming connection-bound and architectures are changing to account for this.

  Moderated by:

  Todd Papaioannou, Entrepreneur in Residence, Battery Ventures

  Speakers:

  Jason Delker, Director of Product Development, Sprint

  Kiran Prasad, Director of Engineering Mobile, LinkedIn

  Matt Ranney, CTO, Voxer

• 5:10 PM The Future of Cloud Networking

  Networking is seeing a dramatic change from a cost center to a profit center. New applications, real time latency, cloud computing scale, network wide virtualization and the rise of storage are changing the future of data centers. Jayshree Ullal will discuss some of the trends and technologies that are causing this revival.

  Speaker:

  Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO, Arista Networks

• 5:25 PM Closing Remarks

  Speaker:

  Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO, Joyent

• 5:30 PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION

  Take some time to network (or geek out) with fellow Node Summit attendees, speakers and random people who sneak in and grab free food and drinks.

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Day Two features a select group of startup companies participating in the first annual NodeJam. Each company will have five minutes to pitch their company, explain how they are leveraging Node.js, and convince the audience and the NodeJam judges to come and learn more in the NodeJam Demo Hall. These innovative companies will provide attendees with a clear sense of what is possible now, and what the future holds for Node.js. The NodeJam pitches will be interspersed with short presentations by major technology companies showcasing their development efforts with Node.js and showing off node powered solutions deployed and operating at scale today.

Day Two will include a panel discussion between Node.js creator Ryan Dahl and technology luminaries who created some of the core building blocks that enable the Internet as we know it today.

• 7:30 AM REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

  NodeJam Demo Hall Open – Get a first look at the NodeJam Startups and hear the inside scoop before they take the stage.

• 8:30 AM Opening Remarks

  Speaker:

  Jason Hoffman, Founder & CTO, Joyent

• 8:40 AM NodeJam Part One

  The first eleven NodeJam participants take the stage. Each company will have five minutes to pitch their business and talk about the importance of Node.js as a part of their offering.

  Moderated by:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

  Speakers:

  Stephen Guerin, Founder, SimTable

  Paul Doyle, CEO and Co-Founder, Fabric Engine

  Jonathon Anthony, Script Writer, OMEGAWD

  Krishna Guda, CEO, syntacticE Software

  Chris Williams, VP of Product Development, SaferAging

  Jeff Ferber, Founder, ProxV

  Brett Hellman, CEO, HALL.com

  Nuno Job, CEO, expense.cat

  Rafi Dudekula, CEO, AgileSense

  Eric Gundersen, CEO, MapBox

  Darshan Shankar, Founder and CEO, Flotype

• 9:45 AM The Evolution of Javascript

  Hear about the evolution of Javascript from a panel of experts who have taken it from an idea to where it stands today, and learn what is on the horizon for the little scripting language that became one of the most popular programming languages in the world.

  Moderated by

  Erik Meijer, Iconoclast, Microsoft

  Speakers

  Brian Beckman, Principal Software Architect, Microsoft

  Ryan Dahl, Software Engineer, Joyent

  Brendan Eich, CTO, Mozilla

  Jonathan Gay, Founder, Freestone Ranch

• 10:25 AM BREAK (Sponsored Workshops – Located on Level 2)

  • 10:30 AM – Nodejitsu Sponsor Workshop – Room 1
    

    Getting Started with Nodejitsu

    Come get started with the Nodejitsu toolchain. Deploy an application using jitsu and get familiar with our best-in-breed node.js Platform. For partners learn about the upcoming Addon program and how you can get involved in the private alpha.

    Speaker:

    Paolo Fragomeni, CTO, Nodejitsu

  • 10:30 AM – dotCloud Sponsor Workshop – Room 2
    

    Hello *Real* World: Building Hybrid Applications with Node.js

    Real applications are big and messy, but your deployments shouldn’t be. Take Node beyond “Hello, World” chat apps — explore how to integrate Node with existing applications and build new multi-component applications from the ground up.

    Speaker:

    Gabriel Grant, Web Lead, DotCloud

• 11:05 AM PaaS Services and Tools

  This panel will feature some of the leading providers of services and tools for companies developing and deploying in the cloud. The panel will talk about the use of Node.js within their offerings as well as the trends in use across their customer bases, and will highlight the efforts being made to provide additional support for Node.

  Moderated by:

  Jolie O’Dell, Reporter, VentureBeat

  Speakers:

  Ruben Daniels, CEO, Cloud9 IDE

  Max Schireson, President, 10gen/MongoDB

  John Sheehan, Product Manager, Developer Experience, Twilio

• 11:35 AM NodeJam Part Two

  Six more NodeJam companies take the stage for five minutes of fame (or flames). Hear what these startups are working on, how they are changing markets, and how Node.js is helping to make it all possible.

  Moderated by:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

  Speakers:

  Sascha Reuter, Co-Founder and Technical Lead, Doctape

  Jeff Huang, Co-Founder, Observe.it

  Luc Castera, Lead Developer, GroupDock

  Nathan Lands, CEO and Co-Founder, Gamify

  Glen Lougheed, CEO, NodeFly Systems

  Gregory Ray, COO, FeZo

• 12:10 PM NodeJam – Judges Panel

  Venture Investors and Technology Experts discuss the morning NodeJam companies.

  Moderated by:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

  Speakers:

  Jeff Hinck, General Partner, El Dorado Ventures

  Tom Hughes-Croucher, Principal, Jetpacks for Dinosaurs

  Mark Lewis, President, EMC Ventures and Chief Strategy Officer, EMC

  Luis Robles, Partner, Sequoia Capital

• 12:30 PM LUNCH

  Grab your lunch and head to the NodeJam Demo Hall to meet with the NodeJam startups that interest you.

• 1:30 PM Playing for Real – Gaming with Node.js

  Hear leading edge gaming companies discuss how Node.js, as a real-time technology has become central to their game app, platform and engine development strategies.

  Moderated by:

  Steve Tuck, General Manager, Joyent Cloud, Joyent

  Speakers:

  Chris Allen, CEO, Brass Monkey

  Olivier Francois, CEO, Cloud Mobile Games

  Hernan Silberman , Software Developer, ngmoco:)

• 2:00 PM NodeJam Part Three

  Ready for more? Twelve more NodeJam companies take the main stage to present. Make sure you are submitting your votes as things move along, only a handful of NodeJam presenters are left after this group.

  Moderated by:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

  Speakers:

  Christian Sanz, Co-Founder and CTO, Geeklist

  Kelsey Falter, Founder, Markover

  Bryant Chou, CTO, Vungle

  Adam Zeck, Founder and COO, Grow the Game Golf

  John Hurliman, CTO, Cull TV

  Mícheál Ó Foghlú, CTO, FeedHenry

  Benjamin Lowenstein, Founder, Colingo

  Stephen Rivas Jr, Project Manager, Host Kit

  Sachin Anand, Founder, WebMobi

  S Sriram, Founder, BrowserEggs

  Andrew Sutherland, Founder, Quizlet

  Travis Glines, Co-Founder and CEO, Shopaboo

• 3:05 PM BREAK

  Last chance to meet with the NodeJam companies in the Demo Hall before final voting on the NodeJam winners.

• 3:45 PM NodeJam Part 4 (The Final Chapter)

  The last five NodeJam presenters take to the stage. If these companies don’t inspire the entrepreneur in you….. well, don’t worry, they will.

  Moderated by:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

  Speakers:

  Brian McKelvey, Co-Founder and CEO, Worlize

  Jonas Huckestein, Co-Founder and CTO, Ark

  Xavier Damman, Co-Founder and CEO, Storify

  Ray Morgan, Co-Founder, Rumgr

  Hunter Loftis, Director of Engineering, ClickDummy

• 4:15 PM NodeJam – Judges Panel

  Venture Investors and Technology Experts Discuss the afternoon NodeJam Companies.

  Moderated by:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

  Speakers:

  Jason Pressman, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

  Chris Stone, Managing Director, EPIC Ventures

  Rich Wong, Partner, Accel Partners

• 4:35 PM Where Node.js goes from here

  Ryan Dahl discusses what’s next for Node.js with Mikeal Rogers.

  Moderated by:

  Mikeal Rogers, CEO, Pouch

  Speaker:

  Ryan Dahl, Software Engineer, Joyent

• 4:50 PM NodeJam Winners

  Judge and Attendee scores will be tallied and we’ll announce the winners of the inaugural NodeJam event. Fireworks, balloons, prizes, term sheets and eternal glory await.

  Speaker:

  Naval Ravikant, CEO, AngelList

• 5:00 PM Closing Remarks

  Speaker:

  Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO, Joyent

• 5:05 PM NodeJam Demo Hall

  The NodeJam Demo Hall will be open after the main conference ends. One last chance to meet with the participating companies and learn more about the winners of NodeJam 2012.

• 6:00 PM PROGRAM ENDS

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