Dallas Executive Insights Dinner - The State of Resilience in 2025

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 5:30 pm - 8:30 PM

Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse | 5905 Legacy Dr, Suite A120, Plano, TX 75024

Join us on Wednesday, January 15, for an exclusive dinner and discussion with Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball and Co-Founder & CTO Peter Mattis. This is a unique opportunity to connect with enterprise tech leaders and explore cutting-edge strategies on resilience, as we discuss The State of Resilience in 2025 and how companies are tackling the challenge of downtime.

Why Attend?

  • Engage in thought-provoking discussions on building resilience within enterprise environments.

  • Gain insights into strategies for reducing downtime and enhancing system robustness from the industry's top leaders.

  • Network with fellow IT executives and share experiences on overcoming challenges in 2025.

RSVP Required:
Space is limited. Please confirm your attendance at your earliest convenience.

We look forward to an engaging evening of insights, strategy, and collaboration.

Spencer Kimball 

Spencer is the CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he leads the development of scalable and resilient database solutions. Prior to this, he was an engineer at Square, contributing to their payment platform, and served as CTO at Viewfinder, overseeing social photo-sharing applications. He also spent nearly a decade at Google as a Staff Software Engineer, working on projects like the Google Servlet Engine and Colossus, Google’s distributed file storage system. Earlier in his career, Spencer co-founded WeGo Systems, where he led technology development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Peter Mattis

Peter is the co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs where he works on a bit of everything, from low-level optimization of code to refining the overall design. He has worked on distributed systems for most of his career, designing and implementing the original Gmail backend search and storage system at Google and designing and implementing Colossus, the successor to Google's original distributed file system. In his university days, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP and is still amazed when people tell him they use it frequently.

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