2025 Speakers

Kyle Forster is the Founder and CEO of RunWhen, an AI Ops startup bridging observability with automation. Prior to founding RunWhen, Kyle was the Senior Director for Product Management on Google's Kubernetes team. Earlier, he was the Founder of Big Switch Networks, a pioneer of Software Defined Networking which he helped grow to $70m in sales before being acquired by Arista in 2020. Kyle had eaerlier held product management and strategy roles at Cisco and Microsoft. He has 9 patents in Software Defined Networking and Wireless Networking, an MBA and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.