Technology has enveloped our lives - Smart TVs at home, FortNite on your morning commute, to communication with our colleagues… even when they’re the next cubicle over. Before the Internet, people who are blind had to rely on others to read the news to them, unless they were fortunate enough to have access to a braille copy. Today, a staggering amount of information is at their fingertips, thanks to the Internet and screen readers. People with limited mobility can now work home if they choose to. One disability group still faces significant challenges. Over 70% of Deaf sign language users are under- or un-employed. Many people have implicit bias assuming that communication with Deaf and Hard of Hearing employees is difficult, costly, challenging.In this presentation, Davin and Jarlath discuss how offices can not only become accessible, but go beyond creating a culture of inclusion, awareness and equity.

Speaker(s)
Jarlath Bloom, Technical Support Account Manager, Splunk
Davin Searls, Community & Corporate Partnership Manager, Communication Service for the Deaf, Inc.

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND2209.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Beginner

Nutanix implemented Splunk to improve operations and security. Attend this session to learn how we started small and grew our Splunk footprint, going from 80 GB/day to 700GB-1.8TB/day, to satisfy key IT and business needs. You will also learn how we leveraged Splunk and our own Nutanix infrastructure for a successful data center migration that involved over 2000 clients and 80+TB of data. We’ll share best practices and insights into running virtualized Splunk Enterprise on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). You’ll also learn about an app for Phantom, which we’ll demo, we built to provide security operations teams the ability to quickly contain a VM by stopping or suspending it, then safely starting it, plus the other workloads, like firewall, Docker (incl. Splunk Docker), ETL, etc., we run alongside Splunk on the same infrastructure stack. Whether you’re a Splunk user or own the infrastructure that supports your Splunk team, you’ll get details to help you in your job.

Speaker(s)
Nicholas Pierini, Manager, Security Engineering, Nutanix
Brandon Gagliardi, Sr. Security Engineer, Nutanix

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FNS2584.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Phantom

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

In a world full of AI, wouldn't it be nice to foster some Natural Curiosity? Coming from a Humanities background, I tend to look at data a little differently than most engineers and data scientists. Using Splunk I'm able to freely navigate through the data and explore different use cases.

Speaker(s)
Kam Amir, Cloud Architect, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1098.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Intermediate

Generation Z is our largest generation ever. They are over 2 billion strong and are predicted to make up nearly 30% of the workforce by 2025. Fifty percent of them are likely to have a university degree that will carry them through 17 jobs, spanning five different careers in their lifetime. So how can we harness the energy of this huge pool of "think differently," "act differently" resources? With an internship program. Learn how the Splunk ANZ team focused on addressing the staffing challenges many tech companies face, particularly with regard to promoting diversity and including underrepresented groups, such as female students studying STEM subjects. This session will review how they built an internship program that not only delivered huge value to the business, including Gen Z diversity, but also focused on transferring technical and soft skills to facilitate their transition into full-time employment.

Speaker(s)
Neil Gow, SE Director, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND1364.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Business Flow

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

Want to run Splunk on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Have a GCP environment you aren’t monitoring in Splunk? In this joint Google & Splunk session, you’ll learn how to architect, build and scale a Splunk environment on GCP according to best practices for availability, performance and cost. We’ll walk you through the setup of a real-world Splunk environment on GCP, as well as the various options available for ingesting valuable Google Cloud data in any Splunk environment. We’ll leverage streaming services from Google Cloud like Pub/Sub and Dataflow to capture in near real-time operational, audit, billing, inventory data, and more. We’ll then demonstrate how to analyze this wealth of data and get immediate insights for several use cases from IT Ops to Security.

Speaker(s)
Alex Cain, Sr. Product Manager | Getting Data In, Splunk
Roy Arsan, Cloud Partner Engineer, Google

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1263.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

Wouldn’t it be great if you can just be proactively told when your Splunk deployment needs your attention? Wouldn’t it be simply awesome to go to one place and know exactly what the problem is and how to resolve it? At Splunk we understand that every organization suffers the pain of throwing resources to keep the lights on for their infrastructure environment. Fortunately the new version of Splunk Monitoring helps you know when things are not performing as expected. You can now see health of deployment wide without affecting your search or indexing latency and go through guided set of checks curated from years of support experience to solve issues first hand. 

Speaker(s)
Amrit Bath, Sr Manager, Engineering, Splunk
Shruti Anand, Product Manager, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2087.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

This session will illuminate the world of Intellectual Property (IP) so that women are more empowered to gain recognition. The underrepresentation of women in STEM has meant that, historically, men have had a reputational advantage, but women can gain ground. IP rights provide an avenue for increased acknowledgement, both inside and outside the company. This session will cover the issues of ownership as well as the different types of IP, and which IP may be most valuable to the company. It also will explain the role of an IP group in a company, and how women can take advantage of their efforts to see their contributions being acknowledged. It also will discuss the business pressures at play, with different company groups and products vying for limited resources. The goal of this session is to give women the information and tools they need to take advantage of opportunities, gaining the much-deserved recognition they deserve, and boosting their professional career in technology!

Speaker(s)
Rimma Budnitskaya, Director, Legal (IP), Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FND1502.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise Security

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

At Splunk, we listen to our data for insights on how to improve our products and provide better services for our customers. We collect aggregated product usage, configuration and performance data from customers who share this information, and use it for benchmarking product performance and building more realistic test environments, developing sizing calculators and best practice configuration guidelines, prioritizing what products and features to develop on various platforms, improving user experience and workflows, and more proactively support our customers. Come hear from a panel of Splunkers about how they have been able to deliver valuable outcomes using telemetry data.

Speaker(s)
Bharath Aleti, Director, Product Management, Splunk
Archana Ganapathi, Director Data Strategy, Splunk
Miranda Luna, Product Management, Splunk
Tracy Knight, Director Performance Engineering, Splunk
Kevin Louther, Data Analyst, Product Analytics, Splunk
David Alward, Sr. Monitoring Manager, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2041.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

NBIM decided in 2018 to move all solutions to cloud within 18 months project. That included also our SPLUNK solutions. What now? As NBIM security lead engineer, I would like to share our experiences from a NBIM project moving SPLUNK Enterprise Security SOC solutions to SPLUNK CLOUD.

Speaker(s)
Hans Edvard Uleberg, Lead Security Engineer, NBIM

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2515.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Good for all skill levels

How would you go about exploring your data assets using Splunk’s newly available Data Fabric Search? What should you expect when you adopt Data Fabric Search for your Splunk deployments? We will show you how to go about enriching your Splunk searches and navigating through the different search phases to effectively utilize your resources.

Speaker(s)
Nikhil Roy, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk
Asha Andrade, Principal Software Engineer, Data Fabric Search, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2143.pdf?podcast=1577146201

Product: Splunk Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor

Track: Foundations/Platform

Level: Intermediate