Panel discussion: Essential Keys for Navigating the path to Platform Engineering Excellence 

Areti Panou, Product Owner Internal CI/CD Development Tool, SAP; Abby Bangser, CNCF Platforms Working Group Lead, Syntasso; Charity Majors, CTO, Honeycomb; Cortney Nickerson, Developer Advocate, Kubeshop; William Rizzo, Lead Architect Consultant, SUSE
Kubernetes is fast becoming the infrastructure base to build platforms, making the transition toward Platform-as-a-Product practices possible and ultimately necessary. This panel brings together platform experts to discuss hows, whys, and where we are headed, as well as the best way to get started on your platform-as-a-service journey (if you haven't already). We'll focus on actionable steps to ensure effective platform engineering, as well as:
When (and why) do you build vs buy?
Integration of best practices and new tools over time
The most important roles different people will play on this journey
And, as AI/ML continues to be the current tech revolution disruptors, we will discuss how they have impacted and will impact Platform Engineering