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Open Source Summit North America 2017

September 11-14, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA
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Amanda Gonser

PagerDuty
Manager, Community Events & Content
Portland, OR

Amanda Gonser is conference and community organizer who dreams in details. She managed the programming for Drupal, the open source CMS, conferences around the world for 4 years - leading teams from New Orleans, to Barcelona, to Mumbai. In doing so, she oversaw some of the largest and most diverse program teams who consistently received 600+ proposals for conference CFPs. A change champion at the Drupal Association, she prioritized diversity and inclusion in the already welcoming Drupal community to help make DrupalCon a more equitable event for all speakers. She is currently the Manager of Community Events & Content at PagerDuty.

7:30am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer Registration Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:25am PDT

Keynote: Open Source Software as Activism - Christine Corbett Moran, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, CALTECH Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:45am PDT

Keynote Lightning Talk: Human Enablement - Alan Clark, Director, Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source, SUSE Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:50am PDT

Keynote: A Conversation with Linux and Git Creator Linus Torvalds Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:20am PDT

Keynote: The Impact of the Ecosystem - Jono Bacon, Community/Developer Strategy Consultant and Author Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:30am PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

11:00am PDT

Building Predictable Community: Strategy, Incentives, Value, and Psychology - Jono Bacon, Community/Developer Strategy Consultant and Author Diamond Ballroom 10

11:50am PDT

Leading By Experience: The Unvarnished Truth about Community Leadership - Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation Diamond Ballroom 10

12:30pm PDT

Women in Open Source Lunch - Sponsored by Intel (Limited Availability, Registration Required) Gold 3

2:00pm PDT

Sponsor Showcase Platinum Ballroom

3:30pm PDT

Open Source Summit Speed Networking & Mentoring Session (Limited Availability, Registration Required) Diamond Ballroom 1

4:50pm PDT

Increasing Student Participation in Open Source - Gregory Hislop, Drexel University & Heidi Ellis, Western New England University Diamond Ballroom 10

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Smashing Silos: Changing Culture in Organizations - Matt Micene, Red Hat Diamond Ballroom 10

7:30am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: The Difference Between a Crowd and a Community - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor, Founder and Director of HITRECORD Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:35am PDT

Keynote: Harnessing Billions to Save Millions - Barry Baker, Vice President, Offering Management, IBM Z & LinuxONE, IBM & Shaun Frankson, Co-founder, The Plastic Bank Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:50am PDT

Keynote Lightning Talk: Openness in a Cloud Centric World - Aparna Sinha, Group Product Manager for Kubernetes and Container Engine, Google Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:55am PDT

Keynote: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble - Dan Lyons, Fortune Columnist & Author Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:20am PDT

Keynote: How Open Source Powers the Cloud to the Edge - Imad Sousou, Vice President and General Manager, Software & Services Group, Intel Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:35am PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

11:05am PDT

So You Have a Code of Conduct... Now What? - Sarah Sharp, Otter Tech Diamond Ballroom 9

11:55am PDT

Freedom & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '16 - Brady Kriss, Ragtag Diamond Ballroom 9

2:45pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Building and Maintaining Open Source Communities - Moderated by Jonas Rosland, {code} Diamond Ballroom 10

4:00pm PDT

Keynote: Re-Interpreting Open Source in a World where Computing is Closing - Zeynep Tufekci, Professor, New York TImes Writer, Author and Technosociologist Diamond Ballroom 4-5

4:25pm PDT

Keynote: Open Source & Cloud Application Platform: Our Learnings from a Developer-First Journey - Julia Liuson, Corporate Vice President, VS & .NET, Developer Division, Microsoft Diamond Ballroom 4-5

4:45pm PDT

Lightning Keynote: Bridging the Divide: Bringing Network and DevOps People Together to Build a Unified Cloud Native Future - Ed Warnicke, Principal Engineer, Cisco Diamond Ballroom 4-5

4:55pm PDT

Keynote: Open-Sourced Inspiration - The Present and Future of Tech - AI - Tanmay Bakshi, Algorithm-ist & Cognitive Developer, Author and TEDx Speaker Diamond Ballroom 4-5

5:15pm PDT

Onsite Attendee Reception & Sponsor Showcase Platinum Ballroom

6:45am PDT

Downtown Los Angeles Sightseeing Bus Tour JW Marriott Hotel Lobby

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Cloud Native Updates - Chris Aniszczyk, COO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:20am PDT

Keynote: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal, Behavorial Designer and Bestselling Author Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:45am PDT

Lightning Keynote: Containers, Culture & Community - Chris Wright, VP & Chief Technologist, Office of Technology, Red Hat Diamond Ballroom 4-5

9:50am PDT

Keynote: Partnered Leadership - Bindi Belanger, Executive Program Director, Ticketmaster Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:15am PDT

Keynote: Open Source & Operational Excellence - Mark Cavage, Vice President of Software Development, Oracle Diamond Ballroom 4-5

10:30am PDT

Puppy Pawlooza Platinum Foyer

11:00am PDT

Data Science for Community Managers - Manrique Lopez, Bitergia Diamond Ballroom 9

2:50pm PDT

First 90 Days - Building an OSS Practice - Nithya Ruff, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 9 The Trouble with Open Source Software - Stephen Walli Diamond Ballroom 10

3:30pm PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

4:00pm PDT

Venture Capital Community: Applying Open Source Principles to Disrupt a Traditional Industry - Cory Bolotsky, Underscore VC Diamond Ballroom 9 Who Owns that Open Source Brand? - Shane Curcuru, The Apache Software Foundation Diamond Ballroom 10

4:50pm PDT

Community Building in Anytown - Josh Simmons, Google + Open Source Initiative Diamond Ballroom 10 Why and How We Build and Run a Global OSS Community - Masafumi Ohta, Japanese Raspberry Pi Users Group Diamond Ballroom 9

6:30pm PDT

All Attendee Evening Event at Paramount Picture Studios - Sponsored by Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CoreOS, {code}, and Ticketmaster Paramount Picture Studios

8:00am PDT

Breakfast Platinum Foyer

9:00am PDT

Chaos Theory + Civil Rights = 21st Century Corporate Practices - Kate Ertmann, GO Gold 2

9:20am PDT

A Woman in Tech: Journey through VFX and Animation - Munira Tayabji, Digital Supervisor of Technology, Dreamworks Animation Gold 2

9:40am PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

10:05am PDT

Open Your Arms to Open Source: Solutions to Bring in Social Innovation to All Walks of Life All Over the World - Arpana Durgaprasad, IBM Gold 2

10:50am PDT

Diversity and Collaboration - Tameika Reed, Women in Linux Gold 1

11:35am PDT

Time for Action - Innovating for D&I in Open Source Communities - Emma Irwin & Larissa Shapiro, Mozilla Gold 1

1:25pm PDT

Diversity through the Eyes of a Senior Engineer - Rupa Dachere, CodeChix Gold 1

2:10pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Chasing and Redefining Grace: Stories of Women in Tech - Moderated by Jennifer Cloer, reTHINKit Gold 2

2:50pm PDT

Coffee Break & Small Group Discussion Break-outs Gold 1 & 2

3:40pm PDT

Diversity in Open Source: No Longer at Square One - Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Red Hat Gold 2

4:25pm PDT

Eliminating Biases and Encouraging Diversity - Swarna Podila, Avi Networks Gold 1