# Fireside Chat: Kubernetes and Serverless

We are pleased to have Kelsey Hightower, Hans Kristian Flaatten, and Rustam Mehmandarov to talk us about Kubernetes and Serverless. This is an invitation extended to us from GDG Bergen.

## Guests

### Kelsey Hightower, Developer Advocate, Google

Kelsey Hightower is Developer Advocate at Google and is one of the most recognized names in the Kubernetes community. Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration, and his favorite Linux distribution (CoreOS).

### Hans Kristian Flaatten, Chief Consultant, TietoEVRY

Hans Kristian Flaatten is an experienced Platform Engineering Team Lead. He has lead multiple engineering teams that builds and operates Cloud Native and Kubernetes-based application platforms for large government institutions, banking and the insurance sector.

He is a Chief Consultant and DevOps Practice Lead at EVRY where he drives the adoption of DevOps, SRE and Cloud Native practices internally and for customers.

### Rustam Mehmandarov, Chief Engineer, Computas

Rustam Mehmandarov is a passionate computer scientist. A Java Champion and Google Developers Expert (GDE) for Cloud. JavaOne Rockstar. Public speaker. Ex-leader of JavaZone and Norwegian JUG – javaBin.

The moderators will be taking questions from the audience and we have some dope prizes for the best ones. Please have your question ready before the meetup, and you can ask them in the chat.

Hope to see you there! Stay safe.