Schedule

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Sunday | Community Leadership Summit
October 27, 2024
9:00 am-5:00 pm US/ET
10:00 am-10:30 am US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Kick-Off – Welcome / Thank You’s
Jono Bacon
10:30 am-11:00 am US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Unconference Pitches and Talk Selections
11:00 am-11:45 am US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Unconference session block
11:45 am-12:00 pm US/ET
Break
Break
12:00 pm-1:00 pm US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Unconference session block
1:00 pm-2:00 pm US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Lunch & Networking
2:00 pm-2:45 pm US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Unconference session block
2:45 pm-3:00 pm US/ET
Break
Break
3:00 pm-3:45 pm US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Unconference session block
3:45 pm-4:00 pm US/ET
Break
Break
4:00 pm-4:45 pm US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Unconference session block
4:45 pm-5:00 pm US/ET
Break
Break
5:05 pm-5:15 pm US/ET
CLS 2024 - Rooms 301 - 304
Wrap Up & Thank You’s
Jono Bacon
5:30 pm-7:00 pm US/ET
Sunday | Inclusion and Diversity in Open Source event
October 27, 2024
9:00 am-5:00 pm US/ET
1:00 pm-1:10 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Welcome and Thank You’s
Lisa-Marie Namphy
1:10 pm-1:25 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Is AI Sexist? Examining Gender Bias in Large Language Models
Emily Maxie
1:30 pm-1:45 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Unlocking Inclusion: The Vital Importance of Accessibility
Angela Peterson
1:50 pm-2:05 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Neurodivergency: The Sunflower Human OS:
Matt Henry
2:10 pm-2:25 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Product Design
Denitresse Ferrell
2:30 pm-2:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
2:45 pm-3:00 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
How to be Inclusive in Challenging Times
Lisa Shissler Smith
3:05 pm-3:20 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Paving the Way for Contributions of All Kinds
Elizabeth Barron
3:25 pm-3:40 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Reshaping the landscape of belonging to transform community
Winstina Hughes
3:45 pm-4:00 pm US/ET
I&D Keynotes - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Why Diverse Data is Essential for Inclusive Generative AI
Vrushali Sawant
4:00 pm-4:10 pm US/ET
Break
Break
4:15 pm-5:15 pm US/ET
I&D Breakouts - Rooms 306 A, B, & C
Open Source, Open Minds: Redefining DEI in the Age of AI
Lisa-Marie Namphy, Jerome J. Sanders, Kenyetta Hall
5:30 pm-7:00 pm US/ET
Monday | All Things Open (Day One)
October 28, 2024
7:45 am-5:00 pm US/ET
8:45 am-10:20 am US/ET
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Welcome and Thank You’s
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Community-centric approaches to securing AI-generated code
Craig McLuckie
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Thriving in Tech: A Developer’s Guide to Adaptability and Entrepreneurial Success
Adhithi Ravichandran
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Navigating the Surge: the Growth and Impact of Open Source in Africa
Edidiong Asikpo
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Google Summer of Code: Celebrating 20 years of supporting open source
Timothy Jordan
10:20 am-10:30 am US/ET
Break
Break
10:30 am-11:15 am US/ET
Developer 1 - Ballroom B
How I Bought Booze with a JSON Web Token
Angie Jones
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Techniques
Timothy Spann
Machine Learning/AI 2 - Room 301 B
A Tour of the AI Open Source Project Landscape Featuring InstructLab
Brad Topol
Linux - Room 302 A
Linux Install Clinic
Jay Lacroix
Big Data - Room 302 B
Open-source alternatives to the Cloud Data Warehouse
Tanya Bragin
Cloud - Room 302 C
Cloud Native Security For The Rest Of Us
Tiffany Jernigan
Developer 2 - Room 305 A
You’re Going to Need a Test for That
Lara Newsom
Case Study/Demo 2 - Room 306 B
Tricks to catch mistakes in code and text
Artjoms Rimdjonoks
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
Time to first 200OK — Building a great DevX for your APIs
Marc Laventure, Addison Schultz
Business - Room 307
Managing the project-product tug of war
Emily Omier
Databases - Room 201
Vector Search in Modern Databases
Vadim Tkachenko
Open Data/Open Government - Room 202
The Challenges of Public Code … Building an Open Source Culture at the BBC
David Buckhurst, Tom Sadler
11:15 am-11:30 am US/ET
Break
Break
11:30 am-12:15 pm US/ET
Developer 1 - Ballroom B
Exploring the Power of React Server Components
Adhithi Ravichandran
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
10 Lessons from Building AI-Powered Features
Dalia Abo Sheasha
Machine Learning/AI 2 - Room 301 B
Build your own CoPilot
Callum Whyte
Hardware/IoT - Room 301 A
Obirdability: Building an observability system for bird songs
Sven Großmann, Ivana Huckova
Linux - Room 302 A
Access self-hosted services securely from anywhere
Alex Kretzschmar
Cloud - Room 302 C
Kubernetes, AI, and Data: Oh My!
Jon Owings
Developer 2 - Room 305 A
Making your own Testcontainers module for fun and profit!
Oleg Šelajev
Case Study/Demo 2 - Room 306 B
Optimizing AI: From RAG to Riches!
Jesse Hall
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
The state of AlmaLinux
benny Vasquez
Community - Room 306 C
Demonstrating Allyship to Women+ in Open Source
Mike Bufano
Business - Room 307
Exposing the Interview Process
Taylor Desseyn
Databases - Room 201
Explaining the Postgres Query Optimizer
Bruce Momjian
101 - Room 206
Vector Databases – what, why, and how
Steven Pousty
12:15 pm-1:45 pm US/ET
12:45 pm-1:30 pm US/ET
DevOps - Ballroom A
Introducing the AI Alliance
Adam Pingel
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Open Source AI Definition Stable Release Presentation
Mer Joyce, Stefano Maffulli, Nick Vidal, Carlo Piana
Case Study/Demo 2 - Room 306 B
Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Spark to Ray
Patrick Ames
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
SolarWinds Capabilities in Open Source Technologies
RJ Gazarek, Kevin Kline, Robert Mandeville, Bradley Sisson
1:30 pm-1:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
1:45 pm-2:30 pm US/ET
Developer 1 - Ballroom B
2 for 1: GitHub Copilot: Empowering people with disabilities / Open-Source Low-Code
Maria Lamardo, Craig St. Jean
Linux - Room 302 A
Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?
Jim Salter
Cloud - Room 302 C
2 for 1: Why Open Infrastructure matters / The Open Source Ecosystem for eBPF in Kubernetes
Thierry Carrez, Andre Fredette, Ph.D., Billy McFall
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
2 for 1: Setting Up an Open Source Fund – Key Learnings to Date / Tech Debt as Innovation
George Chellapa, Lisa Shissler Smith
Open Data/Open Government - Room 202
Demystifying Open Source in Government: A Collaborative Exploration
Gia Coelho, Emma Irwin, Deedee Lavinder, Sabrina Parker Colwell
2:30 pm-2:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
2:45 pm-3:30 pm US/ET
DevOps - Ballroom A
Generative DevOps
Cecelia Martinez
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
LangChain Legends: Building LLM powered Applications
Rishab Kumar
Machine Learning/AI 2 - Room 301 B
Crash Course in Open Source GenAI
Mark Hinkle
Hardware/IoT - Room 301 A
Getting Started With Android OS open source development
Anant Chowdhary, Jayant Chowdhary, Avichal Rakesh
Linux - Room 302 A
Making OS updates fast, easy, and safe
Matt Micene
Big Data - Room 302 B
Adding Kafka Streaming to your Data Products
Lauren Maffeo
Security - Room 303
Secure Authentication for Modern Web Apps: Leveraging Azure AD and PKCE
Dipanjan Haldar, Aneesha Vallabhaneni
Blockchain/Web3 - Room 304
The Critical Role of Open Source in the Future of Blockchain and Web3
Brindrajsinh Chauhan
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
What’s Your Future as a Developer?
Taylor Desseyn, Jessica Kerr, Lisa Shissler Smith, Alex Williams
Community - Room 306 C
Open Source Sustainability & Philanthropy: Building Contributor Communities
Devpriya Dave, Alyssa Wright
Business - Room 307
Freedom vs Sustainable: A Candid Necessary Debate
Paloma Oliveira, Jacob Greene, Emily Omier, benny Vasquez, Chad Whitacre
Open Data/Open Government - Room 202
Digital Public Good: Open Source for Digital Public infrastructure
Michael Schwartz
3:30 pm-3:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
3:45 pm-4:30 pm US/ET
Developer 1 - Ballroom B
A Web Performance Story
Henri Helvetica
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Applying Open Source Methods to Building and Training Large Language Models
JJ Asghar, Carol Chen
Machine Learning/AI 2 - Room 301 B
End-to-end secure ML development
Mihai Maruseac
Hardware/IoT - Room 301 A
The AR Takeover: Is the Web Browser Era Ending?
Avindra Fernando
Linux - Room 302 A
2 for 1: Top 5 Command Line Tools / TBA
Pratik Patel
Cloud - Room 302 C
I Was Wrong About The Cloud
Justin Garrison
Blockchain/Web3 - Room 304
An Introduction to Open Source Tools for Building in Web3
Alex Shorsher
Developer 2 - Room 305 A
Evolve your developer abilities within the BEAM ecosystem using Elixir
Carlo Gilmar Padilla
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
Exploit Grandma: Prompt Better with Cloudflare AI
Lizzie Siegle
Community - Room 306 C
How you write matters in open source
Kyle Davis
Business - Room 307
The Open Source Playbook for Enterprise Sales
Viktor Nagornyy
Open Data/Open Government - Room 202
Being a Smart Community & Region
John Holden
4:30 pm-4:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
4:45 pm-5:30 pm US/ET
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
The Problem With Maintaining Open Source and How tea Protocol Solves it
Max Howell
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Exclusion in Open Source: How Alienating Developers Hurts Linux Growth
Jay Lacroix
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Navigating the Cancer Journey: How AI is Transforming Care and Connection
Bonny Morris, PhD, MSPH, RN, Don Shin
Day 1 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Wrap-Up and Thank You’s
Tuesday | All Things Open (Day Two)
October 29, 2024
8:30 am-4:30 pm US/ET
9:00 am-10:00 am US/ET
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Welcome to the Connected Triangle+ Summit II
John Holden, Trey Rabon
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Opening Remarks for the Connected Triangle+ Summit II
Jeff Sural
9:30 am-11:10 am US/ET
Day 2 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Welcome and Thank You’s
Day 2 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
The U.S. Government’s Approach to Open Source Security
Jack Cable
Day 2 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
The Community That Developers Built:!
Danny Thompson
Day 2 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Designing DX
Chris Coyier
10:15 am-11:15 am US/ET
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Digital Equity & Inclusion: What we know and What we are Doing
Angela Harris, Joey Nelson, Rachel Stark
11:15 am-11:30 am US/ET
Break
Break
11:30 am-12:15 pm US/ET
DevOps - Ballroom A
Designing a composable API platform powered by open standards and open-source tools
Zaid Albirawi, Budhaditya Bhattacharya
Developer 1 - Ballroom B
Designing DX
Chris Coyier
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
A deep dive into vector search technology and tools
Olena Kutsenko
Open Source Initiative - Room 304
Doing Business with Open Source Panel
Jessica Garson, Tracy Hinds, Amanda Katona, Ann Schlemmer, Chad Whitacre
Networking/Infrastructure - Room 302 A
How to Rollout Open Source MFA, Passkeys, Biometrics, and Account Recovery
Michael Schwartz
Big Data - Room 302 B
Understanding Vector Databases
Nyah Macklin
Cloud - Room 302 C
Prometheus and OpenTelemetry: Better Together
Reese Lee, Adriana Villela
Security - Room 303
Solving for the cloud native security paradox
Robert Sirchia
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Digital Equity & Inclusion: What More We Can and Should Do
Cyndy Yu-Robinson, Veronica Creech, Annette Taylor
Developer 2 - Room 305 A
AI in Code, Testing, CI/CD: Revolutionizing Web Dev
Nikolay Advolodkin
Design/UI/UX - Room 305 B
Behavior-Driven Design: Elevating UX with Behavioral Economics
Bermon Painter
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
Open Doors, Open Minds: How Open Source Empowers Companies
Joel Lord, Rachelle Palmer
Community - Room 306 C
Change is in Our Bones
Fen Aldrich
Business - Room 307
Open Source Business Crash Course
Federico Lucifredi, Stephen Walli
Open Source Projects - Room 202
Open-source mapping using MapLibre
Tarus Balog
12:15 pm-1:45 pm US/ET
12:45 pm-1:30 pm US/ET
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Building Open Source AI featuring Granite, Continue, Ollama: A panel dicussion moderated by Changelog
Gabe Goodhart, Michael Chiang, Ty Dunn
Open Source Initiative - Room 304
Co-designing the Open Source AI Definition
Mer Joyce, Stefano Maffulli
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
A Day in the Life of a Packet
1:30 pm-1:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
1:45 pm-2:30 pm US/ET
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Training and Serving LLM’s on Kubernetes: A beginner’s guide.
Abdel Sghiouar
Open Source Initiative - Room 304
Ask the Board Anything
Networking/Infrastructure - Room 302 A
2 for 1: Anatomy of Wireguard: Scaling to thousands of devices / TBA
Lee Briggs
Cloud - Room 302 C
Unleashing Agility: Crafting off-the-shelf components using serverless
Nagesh Kumar Vinnakota, Gokul Prabagaren
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Regional Smart City Tech: The Challenge Part One
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
Mecha – Build computing in the real world
Shoaib Merchant
2:30 pm-2:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
2:45 pm-3:30 pm US/ET
DevOps - Ballroom A
DevSecOps at Warp Speed with AI
Cesar Saavedra
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Simplifying Generative AI App Development: Standardization Matters
Katherine Druckman, Shirley Bailes
Open Source Initiative - Room 304
Public Policy and the Open Source Ecosystem – A Current View
Deb Bryant, Jack Cable, Jordan Maris, Aviya Skowdron, Ruth Suehle
Networking/Infrastructure - Room 302 A
SCION Internet Architecture Workshop
Robert Hernandez, John Studarus
Cloud - Room 302 C
Cilium and Istio: better together with CAKES
Christian Posta
Security - Room 303
Dependency management: the cause of—and solution to—all supply chain problems
Josie Anugerah, Eve Martin-Jones
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Regional Smart City Tech: The Challenge Part Two
Design/UI/UX - Room 305 B
From Idea to Design for Non-Designers
Abbey Perini
Case Study/Demo 2 - Room 306 B
Building Vibrant Open Source Communities: Lessons from Rocky Linux and CNCF
Krista Burdine, Jonas Rosland
Community - Room 306 C
How To (Contribute to) Open Source
Richard Schneeman
3:30 pm-3:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
3:45 pm-4:30 pm US/ET
Machine Learning/AI 1 - Ballroom C
Enforcing Trustworthy AI Standards & Best Practices in Analytical Projects
Sophia Rowland
Open Source Initiative - Room 304
The Open Source Initiative in 2025
Ariel Jolo, Nick Vidal
Networking/Infrastructure - Room 302 A
Four Habits of Highly Successful Infrastructure and Operations Teams
Kevin Kline
Big Data - Room 302 B
Machine Learning Pipelines at Scale with Apache Beam
Danny McCormick
Security - Room 303
Secure by Design: Elevating OSS Integrity through Proactive Vulnerability Management
Alua Beisekulova, Eugeny Grebenshchikov
Connected Triangle+ Summit II - Rooms 301 A & B
Closing Comments and Dialogue
Developer 2 - Room 305 A
Fresh: A Full Stack Web Framework for Deno
Nick Taylor
Design/UI/UX - Room 305 B
Inclusive by Design: Revolutionizing Accessibility
Lise Noble
Case Study/Demo 2 - Room 306 B
One Framework To Rule Them All: Faster Websites With Astro
Eddy Vinck
Case Study/Demo 1 - Room 306 A
Beyond the Binary: Seven Odd Bits of Guidance for Geeks
Guy Royse
Community - Room 306 C
Importance of mentorship in OSS communities
Stephanie Taylor
Business - Room 307
Product Management at an Open Source Company
Ben Potter
Databases - Room 201
How to Use Data Access Right
Jakob Lorberblatt
101 - Room 206
Data Driven Open Source
Amanda Martin
Open Source Projects - Room 202
Open Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads
Avi Press
4:30 pm-4:45 pm US/ET
Break
Break
4:45 pm-5:00 pm US/ET
Day 2 Keynotes - Ballrooms A, B, & C
Wrap-Up & Final Thank You’s and Sendoff
5:00 pm-7:00 pm US/ET