At The New Stack’s panel Wednesday morning at the OpenStack summit in Austin, over 300 people ate stacks – of pancakes – while listening to a panel chew over the future of workload orchestration.

The panel, comprised of Jonathan Donaldson, vice president of Intel's data center group, Madhura Maskasky, head of product management at OpenStack distributor Platform9, Joab Jackson, managing editor of The New Stack, and Brian 'redbeard' Harrington, head of infrastructure at CoreOS, spoke on the importance of interoperability. TNS founder Alex Williams moderated the panel, and TNS reporter Scott M. Fulton III scoured the audience for questions.