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LISA16

5:30pm EST

On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer Welcome Get-Together Back Bay Ballroom AB

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

Workshop: Hybrid Cloud Reference Architectures Jefferson RoomEdward L. Haletky Tutorial S4: Professional Conduct and Ethics for System Administrators Gardner RoomLee Damon Tutorial S6: Statistics for Operations: Making Sense out of Data Fairfax RoomKyrre Begnum • Nicole Forsgren Tutorial S3: SRE Classroom: Non-Abstract Commonwealth BallroomSalim Virji Tutorial S1: Linux Performance Tuning Constitution Ballroom ATheodore Ts'o Tutorial S2: Automation Tools Bootcamp Constitution Ballroom BTyler Fitch LISA Build Republic Ballroom A

12:30pm EST

Lunch for Training and Workshop Attendees Back Bay Ballroom ABC

1:30pm EST

Workshop: Data Center Virtual Realities: What Could They Look Like? Jefferson RoomTony Foster Tutorial S5: How to Not Get Paged: Managing On-Call to Reduce Outages Fairfax RoomThomas Limoncelli Tutorial S7: Documentation Techniques for System Administrators Gardner RoomMike Ciavarella

8:00pm EST

Board Game Night Exeter Room

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

Workshop: Government Interaction Roundtable Jefferson RoomBranson Matheson Tutorial M1: "I Never Want to Live through This Again!": Running Excellent Retrospectives Fairfax RoomCourtney Eckhardt • Lex Neva Tutorial M6: Advanced Communication: Practical Tactics and Strategy Gardner RoomLee Damon • John H. Nyhuis Workshop: Going beyond the "Shrink Wrap:" Inclusion, Diversity, and IT Exeter RoomJ. Goosby Smith, Ph.D. Tutorial M4: Demystifying Systemd Constitution Ballroom ABen Breard Tutorial M8: Software Defined Networking for Network Administrators 9:00am–12:30pm Commonwealth Ballroom / 1:30pm–5:00pm Back Bay Ballroom D (LISA Lab)Nick Feamster Tutorial M3: Everything You Wanted to Know about Operating Systems but Were Afraid to Ask Constitution Ballroom BCaskey L. Dickson

12:30pm EST

Lunch for Training and Workshop Attendees Back Bay Ballroom ABC

1:30pm EST

Tutorial M5: Designing Your VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Optimal Performance, Resilience, and Availability—Straight from the Source Constitution Ballroom ADeji Akomolafe • Cody Chapman • David Klee Tutorial M7: Personal Time Management: The Basics for Sysadmins That Are Overloaded Fairfax RoomThomas Limoncelli Workshop: Government and Military System Administration Workshop Jefferson RoomAndy Seely Workshop: Sourcing, Interviewing, and Hiring Systems Engineers Exeter RoomConnie-Lynne Villani Tutorial M2: An Introduction to R for System Administrators Commonwealth BallroomRobert A. Ballance, Ph.D.

7:00pm EST

USENIX Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) BoF Jefferson Room

8:00pm EST

Students and Young Professionals Meetup Jefferson Room

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

SESA '16: Welcome Jefferson RoomKyrre Begnum • Charles Border Tutorial T3: Speed up Your Change Control Fairfax RoomJeanne Schock Workshop: Managing System Managers Exeter RoomCory Lueninghoener Tutorial T5: Linux Performance Analysis Using Perf and BPF Commonwealth BallroomSasha Goldshtein • Brendan Gregg Workshop: HPC Compute Cluster Workshop Berkeley RoomClay England Tutorial T1: Deploying and Scaling Applications with Docker Swarm Constitution Ballroom AAJ Bowen • Jérôme Petazzoni Tutorial T2: Applied Security Tools for Sysadmins Constitution Ballroom BBranson Matheson Tutorial T7: Interfacing with a Low Power IoT Back Bay Ballroom DMichael Schloh

9:15am EST

SESA '16 Keynote: How DevOps Is Transforming IT and What It Should Do to Sysadmin Education Jefferson RoomNicole Forsgren

10:00am EST

SESA '16: Developing Relevant Academic Programs Jefferson RoomS.K Bhashkar

10:30am EST

SESA '16: Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Foyer

11:00am EST

SESA '16: Outcome-Based Training: A Simple Approach Jefferson RoomEric Sorbo

11:30am EST

SESA '16: Balancing Education and Training Goals for the U.S. Air Force Jefferson RoomJason Abshire

12:00pm EST

SESA '16: Sysadmin Should Be Taught Top-Down, Not Bottom-Up Jefferson RoomChristina Hogan • Thomas Limoncelli

12:30pm EST

Lunch for Training and Workshop Attendees Back Bay Ballroom ABC

1:30pm EST

SESA '16 Panel: Future of Education Jefferson RoomSki Kacoroski • Carolyn Rowland Tutorial T6: Building a Process to Manage the Problems That Cause Incidents Fairfax RoomJeanne Schock Workshop: "Plays Well with Others"—Applied Improv for Technologists Berkeley RoomBrian Sebby Tutorial T4: Go: The Programming Language Commonwealth BallroomChris McEniry

2:00pm EST

SESA '16: DevOps and the Future of System Administration Education Jefferson RoomCharles Border

2:30pm EST

SESA '16 Lightning Talks Jefferson RoomCharles Wiseman

3:00pm EST

SESA '16: Break with Refreshments Jefferson Room

3:30pm EST

SESA '16: Designing a New Cyber Security Course by Dissecting Recent Cyber Breaches Jefferson RoomYu Cai

4:00pm EST

SESA '16: An Introductory Lab for Information Security Jefferson RoomSuzanna Schmeelk

4:30pm EST

SESA '16: Cloud Computing Systems Administration in an IS Program: Solving Both Sides of the 50/50 Equation Jefferson RoomRonald E. Pike

5:00pm EST

SESA '16 Closing Remarks Jefferson RoomKyrre Begnum • Charles Border

6:00pm EST

Meet the USENIX Board of Directors and Staff Jefferson Room

7:00pm EST

AuriStor Vendor BoF: Why is Managing Unstructured Data SO Hard? Berkeley Room ITIL: What works, does not, etc. on anything ITSM Jefferson RoomEric Sorbo Cambridge Computer Beer and Ice Cream Social Vendor BoF Republic Ballroom B Mars Data Challenge Hackathon sponsored by {code} by Dell EMC Back Bay Ballroom D

8:00pm EST

LGBTQA* and Friends BoF Exeter Room Metrics & Monitoring Berkeley Room

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

Opening Remarks Constitution BallroomJohn Arrasjid • Matt Simmons

9:15am EST

Keynote: The Evolution of People, Process, and Technology in the Digital Age Constitution BallroomJohn Roese

10:30am EST

Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Foyer

11:00am EST

Invited Talk: Building a Billion User Load Balancer Constitution Ballroom BPatrick Shuff Invited Talk: Modern Cryptography Concepts: Hype or Hope Back Bay Ballroom ABRadia Perlman Invited Talk: UAVs, IoT, and Cybersecurity Constitution Ballroom ADavid Kovar Mini Tutorial: How to Virtualize the End-User's Desktop (or How to Play More Warcraft/Halo during the Day) Back Bay Ballroom CLinus Bourque Mini Tutorial: Beginning Wireshark Back Bay Ballroom DBrett Thorson Mini Tutorial: Git Crash Course Commonwealth BallroomThomas Uphill

11:45am EST

Invited Talk: Stop Lying to Your Customers—the Cloud Is Neither Private nor Secure: What Your Customers Need to Do for Privacy and Security, and How You Can Help Them Constitution Ballroom AJames "Brad" Whitehead Invited Talk: Strategic Storytelling Back Bay Ballroom ABJessica Hilt Invited Talk: Sensu and the Art of Monitoring Constitution Ballroom BSean Porter

12:00pm EST

LISA16 Expo Grand Ballroom Complex

12:30pm EST

Conference Lunch in the Expo Grand Ballroom Complex

2:00pm EST

Invited Talk: Capturing All of Stack Overflow's Logs Constitution Ballroom BGeorge Beech Invited Talk: How Should We Ops? Constitution Ballroom ACourtney Eckhardt Invited Talk: Traps and Cookies: A Mystery Package from Your Former Self Back Bay Ballroom ABTanya Reilly Mini Tutorial: S, M, and L Logstash Architectures: The Foundations Commonwealth BallroomJamie Riedesel Mini Tutorial: Quick Start to Pacemaker HA Back Bay Ballroom CMike Diehn Tutorial: Core Skills: Scripting for Automation Back Bay Ballroom DMike Ciavarella

2:45pm EST

Invited Talk: How to Succeed in Ops without Really Trying Back Bay Ballroom ABChastity Blackwell Invited Talk: SRE at a StartUp: Lessons from LinkedIn Constitution Ballroom ACraig Sebenik Invited Talk: The Hard Truths about Microservices and Software Delivery Constitution Ballroom BAvantika Mathur • Anders Wallgren

3:30pm EST

Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Complex

4:00pm EST

Invited Talk: An Architect's Guide to Designing Risk Constitution Ballroom BDaemon Behr Invited Talk: Don't Burn Out or Fade Away: Conquering Occupational Burnout Back Bay Ballroom ABAvleen Vig Invited Talk: Behind Closed Doors: Managing Passwords in a Dangerous World Constitution Ballroom ANoah Kantrowitz Mini Tutorial: Release Pipelines in Microsoft Ecosystems Back Bay Ballroom CWarren Frame • Michael Greene Mini Tutorial: S, M, and L Logstash Architectures: Reaching for the Sky Commonwealth BallroomJamie Riedesel

4:45pm EST

Invited Talk: The Road to Mordor: Information Security Issues and Your Open Source Project Constitution Ballroom AAmye Scavarda Invited Talk: You Can't Build a Team in the Thunderdome: Better Hiring through Empathy Back Bay Ballroom ABRyan McKern Invited Talk: Engineer the Future Constitution Ballroom BJinnah Hosein

5:30pm EST

Expo Happy Hour Grand Ballroom Complex

6:00pm EST

Mars Data Challenge Hackathon sponsored by {code} by Dell EMC Back Bay Ballroom D

7:00pm EST

Electronic Frontier Foundation BoF Commonwealth BallroomMaggie Kazmierczak Facebook Vendor BoF: Systems at Scale Republic Ballroom B Red Hat Vendor BoF: Linux Containers in the Real World Back Bay Ballroom C Training Sysadmins BoF Exeter RoomAleksey Tsalolikhin USENIX Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) BoF Jefferson Room Wavefront Vendor BoF: Data Science for Ops—Hype or Hope? Back Bay Ballroom AB

8:00pm EST

GPG Key Signing BoF Back Bay Ballroom CNick Bebout LISA17 Organizers BoF Commonwealth Ballroom Pythian Vendor BoF: Bringing SRE to the Seasoned Ops Professional Jefferson RoomBill Fraser • Chris Stankaitis Stacki Vendor BoF: Server Huggers Unite Republic Ballroom B Summit for Educators in Systems Administration (SESA) BoF Exeter RoomMelissa Danforth

9:00pm EST

Fedora: Modularity, Containers, and the Future of the Operating System Back Bay Ballroom C Hiring Managers Discussion BoF Exeter Room The Benefits of Using FreeBSD BoF Jefferson RoomEd Maste

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

Keynote: The Future of Engineering Tools and Techniques in Operations Constitution BallroomMitchell Hashimoto

10:00am EST

LISA16 Expo Grand Ballroom Complex

10:30am EST

Book Signing Grand Ballroom Complex Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Complex

11:00am EST

Invited Talk: TTL of a Penetration Constitution Ballroom BBranson Matheson Invited Talk: Data Has Always Been Big Back Bay Ballroom ABKyle Erf Invited Talk: Passing the Console: Fostering the Next Generation of Ops Professionals Constitution Ballroom AAlice Goldfuss Vendor Talk: NetOps Meets DevOps: Network Infrastructure Management Automation Republic Ballroom BMarcio Saito Mini Tutorial: Interfacing with Humans: How to Manage in Prod Ops Commonwealth BallroomConnie-Lynne Villani Mini Tutorial: Advanced Wireshark Back Bay Ballroom DBrett Thorson Mini Tutorial: Writing and Consuming REST Services Back Bay Ballroom CChris St. Pierre

11:45am EST

Invited Talk: Heresy in the Church of Docker Constitution Ballroom ACorey Quinn Invited Talk: What I Learned from Science-ing Four Years of DevOps Constitution Ballroom BNicole Forsgren Invited Talk: SRE: It's People All the Way Down Back Bay Ballroom ABCourtney Eckhardt • Lex Neva Vendor Talk: The Paradox of Software Craftsmanship Republic Ballroom BTheo Schlossnagle

12:30pm EST

Conference Lunch in the Expo Grand Ballroom Complex

1:30pm EST

Expo Passport Raffle Grand Ballroom Complex

2:00pm EST

Invited Talk: Why We Can't Have Nice Things: A Tale of Woe and a Hope for the Future Back Bay Ballroom ABPete Cheslock Invited Talk: Stealing the Best Ideas from DevOps: A Guide for Sysadmins without Developers Constitution Ballroom AChristina Hogan • Thomas Limoncelli Invited Talk: Dyn, DDoS, and the DNS Constitution Ballroom BChris Baker Mini Tutorial: Living in a Post-Post-Mortem World: Techniques for Incident Analysis Commonwealth BallroomConnie-Lynne Villani Mini Tutorial: The 90-Minute Cassandra DBA Back Bay Ballroom CChris McEniry Tutorial: Writing (Micro)Services with Flask Back Bay Ballroom DChris St. Pierre

2:45pm EST

Invited Talk: Code Review for Operations Constitution Ballroom ASpencer Krum Invited Talk: Hard Knocks and Soft Spots: A Docker-Centric CI/CD Pipeline at VMware Back Bay Ballroom ABFabio Rapposelli Invited Talk: Linux 4.X Tracing Tools: Using BPF Superpowers Constitution Ballroom BBrendan Gregg

3:30pm EST

Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:00pm EST

Invited Talk: The 7 Righteous Fights Constitution Ballroom BHeidi Waterhouse Invited Talk: Implementing DevOps in a Regulated Traditionally Waterfall Environment Constitution Ballroom APeter Z. Lega • Jason Victor Invited Talk: No User Left Behind: Making Sure Customers Reach Your Service Back Bay Ballroom ABMohit Suley Mini Tutorial: Managing Dispersed Teams Commonwealth BallroomScott Cromar Mini Tutorial: Making Developers More Productive with Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Docker Back Bay Ballroom CJohn J. Rofrano

4:45pm EST

Invited Talk: Catch Fire and Halt: Fire in the Datacenter Constitution Ballroom AJon Kuroda Invited Talk: From BOFH to Just Another Person in the Standup, Surviving the Move to DevOps Back Bay Ballroom ABJamie Riedesel Invited Talk: Intelligent Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Internet Services Constitution Ballroom BDong Wang

6:30pm EST

LISA16 Conference Reception Grand Ballroom Complex

8:30pm EST

Cloud HPC BoF Jefferson RoomBen Cotton Docker/Rancher/Kubernetes/Mesos/Swarm/ECS ...etc. Back Bay Ballroom C Documentation: The Good, the Bad, the ANY Key BoF Exeter RoomMatt Jones LOPSA Annual Meeting Commonwealth Ballroom

9:30pm EST

User Authentication Active Directory LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD, Centrify, Vintela... Exeter Room Xooglers BoF Jefferson Room DevOps Poetry Slam BoF Back Bay Ballroom CDAmye Scavarda Google Beer and Ice Cream Vendor BoF Republic Ballroom B

10:30pm EST

Last-Minute Lightning Talks Back Bay Ballroom C

7:30am EST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer On-Site Registration and Badge Pickup Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

Keynote: Identifying Emergent Behaviors in Complex Systems Constitution BallroomJane Adams

10:30am EST

Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Foyer

11:00am EST

Invited Talk: Everything Is Terrible, and We're to Blame Back Bay Ballroom ABJim Perrin Invited Talk: Lost Treasures of the Ancient World Constitution Ballroom ADavid Blank-Edelman Invited Talk: The Devopsification of Windows Server 2016 Constitution Ballroom BJeffrey Snover Mini Tutorial: Machine Learning for SREs Back Bay Ballroom CMatt Harrison Mini Tutorial: Security Compliance for Containers and VMs with OpenSCAP Commonwealth BallroomMartin Preisler

11:45am EST

Invited Talk: Zero Trust Networks: Building Systems in Untrusted Networks Constitution Ballroom AEvan Gilman Invited Talk: Consul as a Monitoring Solution Constitution Ballroom BSeth Vargo Invited Talk: Using Open Source Telemetry to Drive Change in Management Environments Back Bay Ballroom ABSusan Young

12:30pm EST

Conference Luncheon Grand Ballroom

2:00pm EST

Invited Talk: Unik: A Platform for Automating Unikernels Compilation and Deployment Back Bay Ballroom ABIdit Levine Invited Talk: An Admin's Guide to Data Visualization Constitution Ballroom BCaskey L. Dickson Invited Talk: Network-Based LUKS Volume Decryption with Tang Constitution Ballroom ABrian J. Atkisson Mini Tutorial: Running with MongoDB: Build Your Cluster Like a Champ! Back Bay Ballroom CNuri Halperin Mini Tutorial: Culture-Driven Incident Response Commonwealth BallroomDave Nicholson

2:45pm EST

Invited Talk: Failure: Why It Happens & How to Benefit from It Back Bay Ballroom ABVM (Vicky) Brasseur Invited Talk: Interplanetary DevOps at NASA JPL Constitution Ballroom BDan Isla Panel: Sysadmins Ask the Managers Constitution Ballroom AAndy Seely

3:30pm EST

Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:00pm EST

Plenary: SRE in the Small and in the Large Constitution BallroomNiall Murphy • Todd Underwood