Abstract: Transition to cloud computing is the most democratizing change in the industry this generation.  The Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area is going to play a significant role in this transformation as it has incredible growth potential. The talk outlines how Google is investing in the RDU area, what Google Cloud is and why Networking plays such a significant role. Special focus is given to opportunities and challenges that are on the path of this ambitious transformation.

Short Bio: Slawomir Chylek is a PhD in Computer Science in the reliability field. Developer, researcher, mentor and speaker at academic conferences. He has over 15 years of experience that varies from programming mobile phones, lottery systems to power plants. In 2016 he joined Google where he worked on Google server infrastructure including Borg, Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine. In 2021 he shifted focus to Google Networking to take on new challenges.