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Take a day to dive deep in to service mesh on March 29, 2019 – a full-day service mesh conference with co-hosts Varun Talwar and Matt Klein.
All in? Join a day early for pre-conference workshops and lightning talks. See full schedule

March 28th: Workshops + Lightning Talks | March 29th: Main Conference
Join Varun, CEO of Tetrate (product co-founder of Istio & gRPC at Google), Matt (engineering leader at Lyft & creator of Envoy), and robust lineup of speakers.
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Four reasons to attend Service Mesh Day

Interact with Service Mesh Developers

INTERACT with customers who are using service mesh today to accelerate digital transformation

Learn About Service Mesh

LEARN how service mesh can be adopted in bare metal, virtualized and Kubernetes environments

Hear from the Creators of Envoy and Istio

HEAR from creators of Envoy and Istio

Connect with the Service Mesh Community

CONNECT with community members, cloud providers and leading academic researchers

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Who should attend this event?

  • Developers
  • Network Architects
  • DevOps Practitioners
  • CISOs & CTOs
  • Platform Owners
  • Service Mesh Architects

March 28
Tutorial

March 29
Conference

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Speakers

eric-a-brewer

Eric A. Brewer

Google, VP Infrastructure UC Berkeley, Professor of Computer Science
janna-brummel

Janna Brummel

Lead of Site Reliability Engineering , ING Nederland
larry-peterson

Larry Peterson

CTO, Open Networking Foundation (ONF);  Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at Princeton University
matt-klein

Matt Klein

Creator of Envoy & Software Engineer @Lyft
prajakta-joshi

Prajakta Joshi

Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud
louis-ryan

Louis Ryan

Principal Engineer at Google; Core Contributor Istio, gRPC
randy-bias

Randy Bias

Vice President Technology and Strategy, Cloud Software @ Juniper Networks
bernard-golden

Bernard Golden

Vice President, Cloud Strategy @ Capital One
suresh-visvanathan

Suresh Visvanathan

Sr Director at Yahoo (Verizon Media)
lin-sun

Lin Sun

Senior Technical Staff Member, Istio, IBM

varun-talwar

Varun Talwar

Founder Tetrate.io
chris-aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO/COO of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
ryan-michela

Ryan Michela

Principal Engineer @ Salesforce
robin-van-zijll

Robin van Zijll

SRE & Product Owner on the SRE team at ING Bank
jonathan-perry

Jonathan Perry

CEO, Flowmill
snow-pettersen

Snow Pettersen

Software Engineer, Square
frederick-kautz

Frederick Kautz

Head of Edge Infrastructure, Doc.ai

cameron-moreau

Cameron Moreau

Software Engineer, Pivotal

tian-wang

Tian Wang

Senior Product Manager for App and Workload Identity, Pivotal
venil-noronha

Venil Noronha

Engineer, Open Source Technology Center @ VMware
michael-cieplak

Michael Cieplak

Software Engineer, Verizon Media
ram-vennam

Ram Vennam

Product Manager: Kubernetes and Istio, IBM

lee-calcote

Lee Calcote

Founder, Layer5

The Schedule –

Join us to understand the why, what, and how of service mesh.

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Reserve Your Spot

Late

Registration

$600

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Student

Registration

$110

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General

Main Day Only

$450

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General

Main Day + Workshop

$550

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Workshop

(March 28 Only)

$270

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Service Mesh Day: Where Cloud Native Networking Takes the Stage

Service Mesh Day is the dedicated gathering for the engineers, operators, and architects who are putting the service mesh to work in production. Focused squarely on the open source ecosystems of Istio and Envoy, this conference is not a vendor pitch and it is not a beginner’s tutorial — it’s a working event for people who are already deep in cloud native infrastructure and need the next level of detail. From day-to-day operational patterns to the sharp edges of performance tuning, the content is selected to move you forward.

Over the course of the day, attendees will hear directly from maintainers, core contributors, and early adopters who are shaping the trajectory of these projects. Sessions cover the full lifecycle of a service mesh: design, deployment, security, observability, and ongoing operations. Whether you’re breaking a monolith into microservices or you’re managing a fleet of thousands of workloads, the conversations here reflect the real obstacles and the real solutions that are emerging right now.

This is a community-established event, built on the shoulders of previous editions and the network of people who make service mesh technology work every day. It is the place where the Envoy and Istio communities intersect with the broader world of Kubernetes, containers, and modern network infrastructure — and where the future of those ecosystems is discussed in plain terms.

From Architecture Diagrams to Production-Ready Patterns

The gap between a promising architecture diagram and a stable, secure, performant production mesh is wider than most people think. Service Mesh Day exists to close that gap. The sessions are not about hypotheticals; they are about the choices you actually have to make — how to handle mTLS at scale, how to shape traffic across regional clusters, how to troubleshoot a misbehaving sidecar, and how to keep your control plane from becoming a bottleneck.

We bring together the people who wrote the code, the operators who run it under load, and the residents of the community who know the sharp edges. This is the place to get the honest answer: what is ready, what is still shifting, and what might need you to get involved. The program is designed to respect the depth of the room — no filler, no sales scripts, just the technical depth that a working cloud native professional needs.

Beyond the scheduled talks, the breaks and hallway conversations are where much of the real exchange happens. Service Mesh Day is deliberately sized to keep those interactions meaningful. You will leave with a clearer understanding of the emerging patterns for multi-cluster, multi-mesh, and hybrid approaches, and with a list of people you can actually reach out to afterwards.

Who Makes Up Service Mesh Day — and Who It’s For

If you are running a service mesh in production or you are actively investigating one, this event is built with you in mind. Platform engineers, SREs, infrastructure leads, and security-focused developers will find the deepest concentration of peers, maintainers, and subject matter experts. The discussions assume familiarity with Kubernetes and container networking, and they build from there into the particular territory of Istio, Envoy, and the surrounding tooling.

What makes Service Mesh Day special is not just the schedule but the community that fuels it. The organizers are long-time members of the cloud native landscape, and the speakers are chosen for their hands-on experience and willingness to share it. The audience tends to be early adopters who operate some of the most advanced infrastructure in the region — and they come back because the conversations are genuinely useful.

Come for the talks, stay for the connections, and bring your hardest questions. Whether you’re at the beginning of your service mesh journey or you’re wrestling with the last ten percent of a fully mature deployment, this is the day and the room designed for you.