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APRIL 2023
Tired of events with a bunch of talking heads? Here’s one where you can get your hands dirty and build a real-time app leveraging JSON objects and real-time queries in a technical workshop.
If you’re clamoring to find out what they can do with generative AI such as chatGPT or with vector similarity search, this session is for you.
You can also network with not just Redis experts, but also with customers about how they’ve used Redis to transform their businesses and drive savings on development and operational costs.
Our latest innovations can fuel your next big idea
Learn how you can expand the power of Redis into new uses like real-time queries or vector similarity search for generative AI. Then see how Redis can be used to boost performance for a growing e-commerce website as we demo Redis Enterprise in an actual retail application. Imagine the impact of implementing Redis in your applications and gaining a competitive edge in your career.
Revolutionize your apps with speed and scale
Learn from our customers as they discuss how Redis Enterprise enabled their real-time applications with massive workloads, complex hybrid architectures, and under increased customer demands. Discover how Redis can transform your applications and help you meet the demands of modern, data-intensive environments.
Connect with experts and get insider insights
Learn firsthand what’s next in real-time data innovation and gain invaluable insights from the very people who are shaping the future of Redis. This is a unique opportunity to network with like-minded professionals and expand your knowledge in a collaborative and dynamic environment.
Tim Hall
Chief Product Officer, Redis
Tim Hall is the Chief Product Officer at Redis and oversees the product management teams for the company’s commercial software and managed services. His responsibilities also include overseeing the technical enablement, education, documentation, and developer relations teams. Tim is passionate about building products that developers love to use and that are easy to run and manage for customers. For more than a decade in senior leadership positions, his teams have been focused on executing to make these values a reality for leading open source, enterprise and developer products and cloud-based platforms at InfluxData, Hortonworks, Oracle and HP. Previously, Tim worked in professional services, building solutions and delivering systems integration projects for a wide variety of customers, from financial services to distribution and logistics companies and more.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in science and management with a concentration in physics from Claremont McKenna College.
Omar Koncobo
Director Ecommerce/IT Systems, Ulta Beauty
I have over 15 years’ experience in the IT field, operating in various IT disciplines at multiple Industries, Trading, Insurance, Pharmacy, Retail.
I am also a coffee farmer who loves tea, and my favorite sport is soccer or football depending on which part of the world you come from.
Shruti Pathak
Senior Product Manager, Azure Cache for Redis
Shruti Pathak is a Product Manager for Azure Cache for Redis at Microsoft. After obtaining her master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University, Shruti worked on a variety of cloud and distributed systems projects for one of the biggest cloud providers. Equipped with almost a decade in the tech industry as a software engineer, Shruti decided to transition into product management to lean into her passion to solve customer needs. Her technical background and deep understanding of the development process gave her a unique perspective on how to build successful products and lead cross-functional teams.
When she’s not working, Shruti enjoys baking with her son and traveling with her family.
Jude Cadet
Senior Systems Engineer, Fiserv
Jude’s twenty years of IT experience has been focused primarily on engineering in the Unix/Linux and Networking space. As a Senior Systems Engineer Jude has worked for various enterprise companies such as Sun Microsystems, IBM and Ericsson to name a few. Jude has also provided support, consultation, and developed solutions through scripting and coding. In his current role at Fiserv, Jude is driving the architecture and implementation of next generation solutions such as cloud computing and container platforms.
Udi Gottlieb
VP, Product and Solutions Marketing, Redis
Udi has been building and taking tech products to market across 3 geographies for over 20 years. As a passionate tech storyteller, in the past 10 years Udi has been focusing on product marketing as the cross section between technology and the go-to-market. Udi has deep roots in IT engineering and is specialized in SaaS and cloud based solutions. Most recently – prior to joining Redis, Udi led product marketing for Solarwinds’s IT service management business, following the acquisition of Samange and prior to that helped drive ServiceNow’s rise to a leadership position in the service management space.
Justin Castilla
Senior Developer Advocate, Redis
Justin is a Senior Developer Advocate at Redis. He has helped to produce several courses at Redis University and has created numerous videos and instructional content for the Redis YouTube channel. Previous to Redis, Justin led as a curriculum developer and instructor lead at a Web Development boot camp, a software engineer for Sauce Labs, and a freelance Android Developer.
Trevor Martin
Solutions Architect, Redis
Trevor enjoys working on the latest and greatest technologies and getting his hands dirty in the process. His unique experience and skillset allow him to excel at learning new ideas, and sharing that knowledge with others in a way that is easy to understand. When it comes to using the Redis technologies to solve some of the hardest business problems, he’s always looking for the next challenge.
Guy Royse
Senior Developer Advocate, Redis
Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for learning—and for sharing what he has learned—Guy explores interesting topics and spreads the knowledge he has gained around developer communities worldwide.
Teaching and community have long been a focus for Guy. He runs his local JavaScript meetup in Ohio and has served on the selection committees of numerous conferences. He’ll happily speak anywhere that will have him and has even has helped teach programming at a prison in central Ohio.
In his personal life, Guy is a hard-boiled geek interested in role-playing games, science fiction, and technology. He also has a slightly less geeky interest in history and linguistics. In his spare time he likes to camp and studies history and linguistics.
Guy lives in Ohio with his wife, his sons, and an entire wall of board and role-playing games.
Tyler Hutcherson
Senior Applied AI Engineer, Redis
Tyler Hutcherson is an applied AI engineer at Redis working hands-on with customers, partners, and the open-source community on real-time machine learning workloads. Previously, Tyler led ML engineering at early-stage ecommerce startups, building scalable search and recommendation systems. He studied Physics (BS) and Data Science (MS) at the University of Virginia. His passions involve real-time ML system design, vector databases, microservices, music, and college basketball.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023
Technical Workshop: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Main Event: 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Workshop Registration Opens
Time: 8:00am – 9:00am
Banking on Redis with Guy Royse and Justin Castilla
This hands-on workshop starts with a walk-through of Redis data structures, including streams, JSON, timeseries, and query capabilities. Attendees will then use these data types to build a Node.js, Express, Redis, and Vue.js application containing a searchable transaction overview with real-time updates as well as a personal finance overview with real-time balance and biggest spenders updates.
Features in this workshop:
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Workshop Lunch
Lunch will be provided for workshop attendees
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Main Event Registration Opens
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Opening: Real-time, right now
How long does it take for you to download a new app on your phone? 5 seconds? That’s also how long it can take for you to lose new business to a competing product or service. Learn how successful applications are making use of real-time database technology to deliver instantaneous experiences, and how Redis is at the core of real-time applications.
Time: 2:00pm – 2:10pm
Opening Keynote: Real-time Innovation with Redis
Everyone’s looking for an advantage in the age of real-time. Join Tim Hall, Redis’ chief product officer, to see how the world’s leading companies across a growing number of industries use Redis, from caching to beyond, as the foundation of their next generation of applications. Then hear about what’s coming next through a sneak peek of Redis’ innovative upcoming product roadmap.
Time: 2:10pm – 2:45pm
Customer session with Ulta Beauty
As one of the United State’s leading retail beauty brands, Ulta Beauty specializes in making its customers look like a million bucks. Join to learn how Redis Enterprise returned the favor by saving Ulta Beauty millions of dollars, all while making its application faster and more scalable.
Time: 2:45pm – 3:15pm
Boost Your Generative AI Products on Azure with Redis as a Vector Database
Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are taking the world by storm, yet harnessing their potential in production remains challenging. Discover how Vector Similarity Search (VSS) in Redis Enterprise supercharges LLM performance and accuracy for real-time search, question answering, and more! We’ll also delve into other Redis techniques for optimizing throughput and reducing costs across your system.
Time: 3:15pm – 3:45pm
Customer session with Fiserv
Are you looking to get a handle on Redis in your hybrid cloud environment? Hear from a real customer, Fiserv, as they discuss how Redis Enterprise helps deploy, manage, scale, and operate Redis with the flexibility needed in today’s hybrid cloud world.
Time: 3:45pm – 4:15pm
Live Demo: Boosting retail performance and fueling global expansion
Join Redis for an interactive demo that showcases the power and simplicity of Redis Enterprise’s built-in search and active-active capabilities and discover firsthand how they can boost performance for a growing e-commerce website.
Time: 4:15pm – 4:30pm
RedisDays Atlanta Reception
It’s been a long and busy day. Kick back with a beverage and some snacks, check out the demo stations, ask panelists the questions you didn’t want to ask in a roomful of people, and let Redis executives know what you really think. We want to hear from you.
Time: 4:30 – 6:00pm
