Last year at .conf20, we launched our Splunk4U track, which shined a light on four key areas: Splunk Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Splunk for Good, and Splunk on Splunk. This year, I am so excited to share that this track is back and better than ever, and you can view all of the Splunk4U breakout sessions in our newly released Session Catalog. Our company, products and community continue to impress and excite me, and this year’s speaker lineup for our Splunk4U track will impress and excite you, too!
This year, customers, partners, and Splunkers have prepared nearly 20 sessions that will engage you no matter your role and how you use Splunk.
Selecting sessions is always challenging, considering we receive so many wonderful and well-qualified submissions. I wish we could have accepted them all! This year, we had lots of help, so I want to thank all of the Splunkers and Splunk Community members who volunteered their time to review and provide feedback on all of this year’s Call for Speakers submissions. Your feedback was invaluable to this year’s selection committee! Truly, every session selected is a “must-see,” in my humble opinion. And I want to call out just a few stand-outs as well!
S4U1525C - Mobilizing Technology Assets for Social Impact, featuring Kriss Deiglmeier (Splunk), Mark Reading (Atlassian), Erin Baudo Felter (Okta), and Christine Lopez (Splunk)
For the first time, the 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks report includes the concentration of digital power and digital inequality among the top global risks. Income inequality, climate change, racial and gender inequity and the pandemic all intersect with and compound one another — and all these issues must make smart use of technology to make meaningful change in the world. Learn how technology companies leverage their product, charitable investments, employee talent and impact investments to be part of the solution. Learn from Splunk and key technology companies the importance of bringing all company assets to help solve social and environmental challenges.
S4U1422B - Splunk Community Super Session: Ride the Next Wave of Learning, Giving Back, & Having Fun, featuring Bryan Jennewein (Splunk)
No matter your role, the products you use, or the organization you support... the Splunk Community is here to help you succeed. In this session, we'll preview the future of our fabulous Splunk Community and Splunk Answers, User Groups, Trust/MVP, Ideas, and so much more! Our new and longstanding community members will share their best tips and tactics for how you can make the most of these programs and spaces and share their own real success stories.
S4U1535C - Why D&I Is So Much More Than the “New Kid On the Block" featuring Neil Gow (Splunk)
The market for capturing and harnessing the next generation of Tech Talent is hot and getting hotter where competition is fierce to capture and foster our thought leaders of tomorrow, so a Diverse and Inclusive mindset has never been more important. Why? Three simple reasons; this demographic is the most diverse in history, 67% of job seekers see D&I as key and organizations with above-average diversity levels outperform other less diverse companies. Join this session to learn how the Splunk ANZ team took this challenge, which many Tech companies face, head-on. They will share how they built out a program founded on D&I principles that resonate to deliver huge value to employers and employees.
S4U1169C - Splunk Cloud Platform Lessons Learned from Splunk@Splunk, featuring Clara Merriman (Splunk) and Micah Kemp (Splunk)
The Splunk@Splunk team runs one of the largest Splunk Cloud Platform environments in the industry, and with that, at times, come many challenges. We're here to share what we’ve learned on how to scale and maintain a large environment with high availability. You’ll hear about some of the problems that we've faced and how we've overcome them. This is a session you wouldn’t want to miss.
I hope this small preview leaves you as eager and excited for .conf21 Virtual as I am. In its second year, our Splunk4U track is guaranteed to leave you inspired and ignite your passion as our speakers share their experiences. Together, we can continue to reach beyond great products and solutions and take up the charge to drive even greater innovation, extend help and support through communities, promote diversity and inclusion at all levels, and to be among our own best users. And may your experience with .conf21 Virtual embolden your work, accelerate your careers, and usher in ever-greater success for your organizations.
Visit our Session Catalog to learn more about our .conf21 Virtual breakouts, and register now!
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Bryan Jennewein
The Splunk platform removes the barriers between data and action, empowering observability, IT and security teams to ensure their organizations are secure, resilient and innovative.
Founded in 2003, Splunk is a global company — with over 7,500 employees, Splunkers have received over 1,020 patents to date and availability in 21 regions around the world — and offers an open, extensible data platform that supports shared data across any environment so that all teams in an organization can get end-to-end visibility, with context, for every interaction and business process. Build a strong data foundation with Splunk.