Schedule

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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