BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RSVP//Portland startup events//EN X-WR-CALNAME:RSVP — Saying Yes to BYOC: What It Takes to Run Inside a Cu stomer's Environment BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Saying Yes to BYOC: What It Takes to Run Inside a Customer's Envir onment DTSTART:20261106T010000Z DTEND:20261106T030000Z DTSTAMP:20261105T223400Z UID:rsvp-2022@rsvp.local DESCRIPTION:Enterprises are asking vendors to run software inside their ow n environments instead of buying it as SaaS\, usually because of rules abo ut where their data can sit or a security team that won't approve it leavi ng the network.\nWhen that ask comes in\, many vendors say no\, because th ey imagine maintaining the product twice\, forever. We are hosting an even ing with teams that said yes and can tell you what it actually took. Expec t the parts that went wrong\, not just the parts that went right.\nEach sp eaker gives a short talk\, then we'll get them on a panel and take your qu estions.\nIf you're working through this\, you'll be in good company.\nIt' s free and food and drinks are on us!\nAgenda\n5:00pm: Networking\n5:30-6: 30pm: Talks and speaker panel\n6:30-7:00pm: Networking\nSpeakers\nEryn Mue tzel\, Co-Founder and CPO\, Tensor9\nMichael Ten-Pow\, Co-Founder and CEO\ , Tensor9 (Panelist)\nRobert Hodges\, CEO\, Altinity\nRoss Kukulinski\, VP of Product\, Tailscale\nMin Song\, Founding Member of Technical Staff\, O umi\nTalk Descriptions\nWhat It Takes to Say "Yes" to BYOC\nSpeaker: Eryn Muetzel\, Co-Founder and CPO @ Tensor9\nEnterprises push for BYOC for reas ons that compound: data residency and sovereignty\, security teams that wo n't let sensitive data leave their boundary\, and cost. Moving the biggest \, most sensitive datasets out to a vendor's SaaS is expensive\, and egres s plus duplicated storage adds up fast.\nMost vendors never say "yes\," be cause they assume BYOC means a second version of the product running next to the SaaS: two codebases\, every upgrade done twice. It doesn't have to work that way. We'll walk through the sharp edges and the ways through the m. How a control plane reaches into a customer's environment. Where the sh ared-responsibility line actually falls. Why you're often better off leavi ng some dependencies managed than absorbing every one of them yourself. An d the one most teams underestimate\, that equivalent functionality is not identical runtime behavior\, with concrete examples of where that bites\, and how to handle it.\nCome away knowing why enterprises want BYOC\, why i t's more achievable than the horror stories suggest\, and how to say "yes" with confidence.\nDebunking Three Myths on Oumi’s Path to BYOC\nSpeaker : Min Song\, Founding Member of Technical Staff\, Oumi\nSince GPT-3.5 laun ched\, working in AI has meant constantly racing against a market that cha nges every few months. At Oumi\, we made an early bet that companies would want to build and own custom models instead of relying only on frontier A PIs\, and that helped our open-source platform gain early popularity. But turning that popularity into an enterprise business forced us to debunk th ree myths: that broad adoption naturally leads to revenue\, that customers mainly want custom models to save money\, and that BYOC or on-prem deploy ments are too risky for an early-stage startup. We found that many of the strongest customers were large enterprises that cared more about accuracy\ , privacy\, and data residency. In this talk\, I’ll share how those less ons changed our strategy and how Tensor9 helped us say yes to those custom ers much faster.\nUnifying Cloud Convenience with User Control: BYOC for D atabases has Entered the Building\nSpeaker: Robert Hodges\, CEO @ Altinity \nManaging databases by yourself is hard especially in the age of AI. Clou d database-as-a-service locks you in. What's a user to do? Enter Bring You r Own Cloud: a cloud management model that automates the tasks you hate bu t still lets you control costs\, data location\, and security. Using Click House® as an example\, we'll explain how BYOC works for databases\, when you should pick it over other approaches\, and what you should look for in BYOC services. We'll also show some of the clever tricks that BYOC enable s for building fast\, cost-efficient\, analytic systems. Spend the savings on tokens!\nBYOC Moves the Software. What About Access?\nSpeaker: Ross Ku kulinski\, VP of Product\, Tailscale\nMoving software into a customer's cl oud changes more than where it runs. Vendors still need to deploy updates\ , monitor performance\, and troubleshoot problems. Customers want to contr ol how those connections happen\, without opening up their infrastructure to unnecessary risk.\nSo how do you give vendors the connectivity they nee d without compromising the customer's security requirements?\nIn this talk \, we'll explore the networking challenges behind Bring Your Own Cloud\, f rom control-plane connectivity to secure operational access. Using Tensor9 's integration with Tailscale as a practical example\, we'll look at how i dentity-based private networking can simplify connectivity across cloud en vironments\, reduce reliance on public endpoints\, and avoid turning every customer deployment into a bespoke networking project.\nAltinity talk abs tract coming soon… LOCATION:Seattle\, WA URL:https://seattleflow.org/event/saying-yes-to-byoc-what-it-takes-to-run- inside-customer-s-enviro?utm_source=rsvpwme&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR