Schedule of Events
Event Schedules
Whether you’re attending Xplore 2024 in-person at CTC in Philly or at one of our watch parties with your co-workers, you can find the schedule of events here. The Virtual Experience schedule can be found directly in Airmeet.
While Xplore 2024 is a two-day event, the majority of our watch parties will be hosted in-person on the second day (October 10th) only. Once you are registered, you will receive the QR code to join in-person and the link to join the virtual experience on either day. Can’t wait to see you at the conference!
In-Person Locations:
- CTC Philadelphia: RJR Forum (18th/19th Floors)
- Denver: Lady Bell Mine, 183 Inverness
- Orlando: Promenade North, Aerobot and Bumblebee Conference Rooms (3rd Floor)
- Sky Central: Sky Cinema
- Sky Brick Lane: Meeting Room 4.5
- Sky Scotland WMK: Meeting Rooms 2.1 and 2.2
- Sky Germany: MEA 1.6.4 / 20 pax
- Sky Italy: TBD
- CIEC: Amphitheater
Day 1 – CTC Philadelphia
10:05 AM – 10:50 AM
Workshops
(details below)
11:05 AM – 11:50 AM
Workshops
(details below)
12:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Kickoff Remarks
(Rick Rioboli, Keith Jackson, Elad Nafshi)
1:20 PM
Central Services Showcase
(TBD)
2:05 PM
YODA Interactive OpenAI RDK-OPS Bot
(Ravi Varma, Prabhakar Cheruvu)
2:25 PM
Centralized, Secure Code Scanning
(Keith Pifko, Greg Patselas)
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
Dojo Fuels Transformation
(Karolyn Maynard, Abhishek Gupta, Paola Kullaj, Jivitesh Poojary, Matthew Thanner)
3:20 PM
Innovation UDX Mobile App
(Lawrence Wisne)
3:40 PM
The Human Solution to Unlocking Scale and Centralizing with Empathy
(Gregor Mcquattie, Tammy Soares, Tim Staebler)
4:10 PM
Closing Remarks
(Dang Ly)
4:20 PM
Networking Reception & Expo Hall
Day 1 Workshops – CTC Philadelphia
Seamless Journeys: Crafting Developer Paths to Dream Destinations
(Neville George)
Unlocking the Power of Big Data: Advanced Natural Language Processing for Efficient Querying
(Pavan Madhineni)
FinOps Presents: Public Cloud Cost Optimization
(Will Heinemann Johnson, Caleb Elican)
Driving Security and Privacy Compliance via Universal Work List
(Mike Gala, Junaid Butt)
From Zero to Hero: Building Terraform Community Modules in My First Year as a Junior Developer
(Katrina Janeczko)
TSF on Open Stack
(Charles Bitter, Todd Outten, Jeff Stoklosa, Nishanth Ganeshsankar)
Leveraging GenAI for Predictive Analysis in Syndication Partner Data with Xumo RDK-V
(Alvinviswas Kommu, Jayapaul Katta)
SRE Automation
(Gregg Carder)
Hands On with AMA, Comcast’s AI Agent Framework
(Patrick Dwyer)
Day 2 – CTC Philadelphia
9:30 AM
Day 2 Welcome
(Charlie Herrin)
9:40 AM
STEAM: Powering Asset Mapping at Scale with Innovation & Centralization
(Sai Srinivasan Balasubramaniam)
10:00 AM
Collaboration and Innovation across Comcast/Sky/NBCU
(Andrew Brown, Stuart Brown, Declan McGarry)
10:20 AM
Gen AI in the SDLC: Driving Collaboration and Business Value
(Nick Sarkissian, Matt Dymek)
10:40 AM
Find Your Zen
(Marie Lanzalotti, Earl Crenshaw)
10:50 AM
AI & Cloud – Now/Next/Later
(Jan Neuman, Chris Power)
11:10 AM
Insight Network Topology Visualization Tool
(Femy Joseph, Cameron Brackmann)
11:30 AM
MetaHub: a Data Management Solution
(Montreaux Rodgers, Brian Johnson)
11:50 AM
Data Fabric
(Murali Gundu, Kaycee Lai)
12:20 PM
Expo Hall Lunch Extravaganza
2:00 PM
Keynote: How to Win Friends and Influence Developers
(Rory Richardson, AWS)
2:40 PM
CX Answers – Live Customer and Device Data Powered Chat Bot
(Rahul Yadav, Satya Nerella, Pallavi Mukherjee)
3:00 PM
Olympics Data
(Jeff Szuba)
3:20 PM
Closing Remarks
(Stephanie Trotter, Paul Roach, Andrew Clyne)
Day 2 – SKY Watch Parties
2:30 PM
Welcome & Kickoff
(TBD)
2:40 PM
Unified Innovation: Building a Harmonised and Scalable Tool Chain Ecosystem at Sky
(Paul Crossan, Matt Mackmin, and James Cruickshank)
3:00 PM
Personalization at Scale – AI-powered Product and Content Recommendations at Sky Germany
(Melissa Stiller and Can Akgoel)
3:20 PM
Talk from Philadelphia Xplore Main Stage
3:40 PM
Break
3:50 PM
Workshops – by site
(details below)
4:30 PM
Closing Remarks
(TBD)
Day 2 – SKY Workshops
SKY Central – Workshop TBD
SKY Brick Lane – AI Transformation of working style
(Rabia Mansoor – Product Experience Engineering)
SKY Scotland WMK – Scaling process mining: enabling faster pipelining of automation development opportunities, leveraging best in class process technology, to accelerate delivery and support business growth
(Monica Aikman – GETS)
SKY Italy – Amplifying the Voice of the Customer: a cross-channel approach to centralized customer insights
(Daniele Moltisanti – Data Science)
SKY Germany – Workshop TBD
(TBD)
Day 2 – Orlando Viewing Party
Looking for a conference viewing location in Orlando? We are thrilled to host our first-ever Xplore 2024 Orlando Viewing Party, where we will enjoy some food and conference swag while we watch Day 2 of the live-streaming event from Philadelphia together. Note: If you’re interested in joining us, please help us ensure you have building access by emailing DTCommunications@uniparks.com with the Subject Line: Xplore 2024 Viewing Party!
October 17 – CIEC Watch Party
11:00 AM
Welcome
(TBD)
11:20 AM
STEAM: Powering Asset Mapping at Scale with Innovation and Centralization
(Sai Srinivasan Balasubramaniam)
11:35 AM
Central Services Showcase
(TBD)
12:20 PM
xGitGuard: The Defenders of Code Secrecy
(Dinesh Prakash)
12:35 PM
Snacks & Swag
12:40 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Cafeterias for Expo Hall
2:30 PM
Workshops, Closing Remarks & Swag
(workshop details below)
October 17 – CIEC Workshops
Building a 3-Tier Architecture on CCP
(Deepan Shanmugam)
Workshop 2
(TBD)
Workshop 3
(TBD)
Workshop 4
(TBD)