Chocolatey Fest 2018

Join us in San Francisco for a full day event
focused on Chocolatey and Windows automation (WinOps).

Chocolatey Fest brings together WinOps experts from companies that are leading the Windows automation movement — showing you how you can use Chocolatey and related technologies to increase time to value, reduce errors, and improve security.

You’ll hear talks from managers and engineers at Microsoft, Red Hat, Yelp, and others about the topics that matter to you: infrastructure as code, automated testing and deployment, containers, security, and more.

Plus, you’ll have an opportunity to join us for an optional evening hackathon with workshops centered around Docker on Windows, and best practices for deploying Chocolatey.

Come meet and learn from the team behind Chocolatey, and other WinOps experts from around the country!

Chocolatey Fest 2018 Session Replays

Mukesh Sharma

- Chocolatey Software COO

"Welcome to Chocolatey Fest 2018"

Mark Gewurz & Peter Sisk

- Yelp

"Using Chocolatey & Puppet at Yelp"

Tony Cheng

- CME Group

"Chef + Chocolatey: Sweet Recipes"

Chris Hunt

- Stack Overflow

"Wardley Maps Saved The Day: How Stack Overflow Enterprise automated..."

Mark Johnson

- Solutions Architect

"Provision & Manage Servers w/Otter, DSC, Git, & Chocolatey"

Stefan Scherer

- SEAL Systems AG

"Docker - A Container Full of Chocolatey"

Michel Buczynski

- TD Securities

"Facilitating CD in a FinTech world w/Salt, Jenkins, Nexus & Chocolatey"

Steven Murawski

- Microsoft

"Improving Infrastructure Quality"

Matt Davis

- Red Hat

"10 Things I Hate About You: Taming Windows w/Ansible"

Karen Kwentus

- Chef Software

"Ensuring Compliant, Consistent Systems w/Chef, InSpec, & Chocolatey"

Dan Franciscus

- Institute for Advanced Study

"How I completely automated Managing Windows Desktop Software...Forever"

Joey Aiello & Yosef Durr

- Microsoft

"Bootstrapping a New Machine in 1 Click"

Manfred Wallner

- KS Engineers

"Killing Golden Images In Your Infrastructure Setups"

Gilbert Sanchez

- Facebook

"Maintenance Mode: Leveraging Chef to Schedule Patching,"

Dwight Bragdon

- Qualcomm

"WinOps in a Secure Environment"

Rob Reynolds

- Chocolatey Software Founder

"The Future of Windows Automation"

Golden Ticket Winners

Charles Stuart

Click to Watch Video

Marvin Carpenter

Laura Unterguggenberger

Must be registered for the event to win (full or Hackathon ticket). Golden Ticket Winners receive a free ticket to Chocolatey Fest including up to $500 in travel costs and up to 2 nights hotel stay. Golden tickets are unlocked based on the number of registrations to Chocolatey Fest. Open to US residents only. For more details, please see terms and conditions below.

Sweepstakes Terms & Conditions

Location and Hotel Information

Chocolatey Fest 2018 will take place at the Park Central Hotel San Francisco in downtown.
Book your hotel and get public transit, parking and driving details below.

Park Central Hotel San Francisco

50 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

To make a reservation, visit https://www.parkcentralsf.com/ or call the hotel direct at (415) 974-6400. Room rates start at $350 and go up. We have not booked a group block for this event.

Public Transit

The event venue is located right next to Powell BART with MUNI station.

Get directions from your location at https://www.bart.gov/stations/closest.

Directions from the hotel to BART:

Head northwest on 3rd St toward Stevenson St - 417 ft ((Pass by Subway Restaurants (on the right in 246 ft))
Turn left onto Market St - 0.2 mi ((Pass by Chase Bank (on the right))
Turn left - 39 ft
Arrive at Powell St. BART Station, San Francisco, CA

Parking

Jessie Square Garage

217 Stevenson St, San Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 978-9634

Impark Parking Garage

35 2nd St

(415) 495-3909

Hearst Parking Center

45 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 989-4000

Driving Directions

From San Francisco International Airport

Highway 101, San Francisco, CA 94128

Head northwest on US-101 N (9.1 mi)
Use the right 2 lanes to take exit 430A toward Downtown SF (0.8 mi)
Merge onto I-280 N (2.4 mi)
Use the right 2 lanes to take exit 57 for Sixth Street 0.6 mi)
Turn right onto Brannan St (0.5 mi)
Turn left onto 3rd St (0.6 mi)
Turn left onto 3rd St (0.6 mi)
Arrive at The Park Central San Francisco - 50 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103

From San Jose International Airport

1701 Airport Blvd, San Jose, CA 95110

Get on I-880 S from Airport Blvd (2.2 mi)
Take I-280 N and US-101 N to Bryant St in San Francisco. Take exit 2 from I-80 E (53.0 mi)
Drive to 3rd St (0.7 mi)
Arrive at The Park Central San Francisco - 50 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Chocolatey Fest 2018

A sweet conference focused on Windows automation (WinOps)

Stay tuned! Chocolatey Fest will return in 2020!

Charles Stuart

Marvin Carpenter

Laura Unterguggenberger

Park Central Hotel San Francisco

50 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Transit

Directions from the hotel to BART:

Parking

Jessie Square Garage

Impark Parking Garage

Hearst Parking Center

Driving Directions

From San Francisco International Airport

From San Jose International Airport

8 October 2018 | Park Central Hotel San Francisco

Public Transit

Directions from the hotel to BART:

Parking

Jessie Square Garage

Impark Parking Garage

Hearst Parking Center

Driving Directions

From San Francisco International Airport

From San Jose International Airport