Projects

• Dan leads the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

• He consults for companies and advises startups focused on cloud, security, open source and enterprise software development.

• Some of my recent projects:

  • Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

  • The Cloud Native Landscape

  • The Cloud Native Trail Map

  • The 30 highest velocity open source projects

  • Why I recommend the Apache Software License

  • DevStats, analysis of Kubernetes contributions

  • The CII Best Practices Badge

  • Presentation: How Good Is Our Code?

  • Presentation: Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes

  • Presentation: A Brief History of the Cloud

  • Changelog podcast interviews: Sep 2018, Nov 2017

  • IBM Industries Blog on my history and present

• I'm a Recurse Center alumnus:

“Today, as the head of CNCF, Kohn is changing the way companies do business on the Internet yet again. And he’s doing it by advocating for the same spirit of technological collaboration that powered his history-making achievement in 1994.”

— IBM Industries, September 2018

Bio

Dan is Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus. He also helped create the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative as an industry-wide response to the security vulnerabilities demonstrated by Heartbleed.

He previously served as CTO of several startups, including Spreemo, a healthcare marketplace, and Shopbeam, a shoppable ads company. Earlier, he was a general partner at Skymoon Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm that created startups in semiconductors and telecom infrastructure.

Dan helped manage a number of telecoms firms controlled by Craig McCaw and started his career as founder and CEO of NetMarket, one of the first Internet companies. In 1994, he led the development of the first music store on the web, conducting the first secure commercial transaction after building the first web shopping cart. When not traveling, Dan lives in Manhattan with his wife and two sons.

He can be reached at dan@dankohn.com.

Events

Upcoming

• Alibaba Cloud Conference, Hangzhou, 9/19-23/2018
• Open Networking Summit EU, Amsterdam, 9/25-27/2018
• Open Fintech Forum, New York, 10/10-11/2018
• Huawei Connect, Shanghai, 10/10-12/2018
• Open Source Summit EU, Edinburgh, 10/22-24/2018
• VMWorld Europe, Barcelona, 11/6-8/2018
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, Shanghai, 11/14-15/2018
• AWS Reinvent, Las Vegas, 11/27-29/2018
• DockerCon EU, Barcelona, 12/3-5/2018
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Seattle, 12/11-13/2018
• Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 2/25-28/2019
• Open Source Leadership Summit, Half Moon Bay, 3/12-14/2019
• Open Networking Summit NA, San Jose, 4/2-5/2019
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Barcelona, 5/21-23/2019
• Open Source Summit China, Shanghai, 6/24-25/2019
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, Shanghai, 6/27-28/2019
• Open Source Summit Japan, Tokyo, 7/17-19/2019
• Open Source Summit NA, San Diego, 8/21-23/2019
• Open Source Summit EU, Lyon, 10/28-30/2019
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, San Diego, 11/19-21/2019

Recent Talks

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Copenhagen, 5/2/2018
• Cloud Unfiltered, Video Podcast, 3/15/2018
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Austin, 12/6-8/2018
• Google Cloud Webinar, 11/15/2017
• Alibaba Cloud Conference, Hangzhou, 10/11-15/2017
• Open Source Summit Japan, Tokyo, 6/1-2/2017
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Berlin, 3/29-30/2017
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Seattle, 11/8-9/2016
• LinuxCon + ContainerCon EU, Berlin, 10/4-6/2016

“CNCF executive director Dan Kohn said the broader story is that Kubernetes and containers are rapidly displacing virtualization as the go-to software deployment model”

— Fortune Magazine, August 2017

Recent Tweets

“China today has this classic example of a second-mover advantage where they just didn’t have the couple decades of previous investment into proprietary technologies. So they’re building up from scratch today, and looking at best practices from around the world.”

— Architecht podcast, June 2017

Watch this 4 minute video (with sound) about my startup conducting the first secure purchase on the web in 1994
(November 2015)