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Open Source Summit North America 2017

September 11-14, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA
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April Nassi

Google
Senior Program Manager, Open Source Foundations
San Francisco, CA

April Kyle Nassi is an Istio and gRPC community manager at Google focused on open source strategy. Previously, she created the Salesforce Developer community program and put on many a Dreamforce DevZone. She’s a CNCF Ambassador, crazy dog lady, and native Texan. You can find her on the internet just about everywhere as @thisisnotapril.

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

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 Gaining Influence in an Open Source Community - Phil Robb, Open Daylight Project Plaza III

12:30pm PDT

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

2:00pm PDT

Scaling Open Source - Lessons Learned at the Apache Software Foundation - Phil Steitz, Apache Software Foundation Diamond Ballroom 10

2:50pm PDT

Seven Lessons Learned from Growing a Project Too Fast - Matt Butcher, Microsoft Diamond Ballroom 10

4:00pm PDT

gRPC and Go: Developing Efficient and Type-Safe Services - Clinton Kitson, {code} Diamond Ballroom 6

4:50pm PDT

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

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

11:05am PDT

How to Build a Community in Your Organization from the Ground-Up - Shilla Saebi, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 10

11:55am PDT

Just Good Practice: Developing Business with Open Source Technology - Christopher Price, Ericsson Diamond Ballroom 10

2:45pm PDT

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

6:15pm PDT

Cloud Native & Open Source: Kubernetes, Istio, Security, and More Diamond Ballroom 6

9:20am PDT

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

11:00am PDT

Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions - VM (Vicky) Brasseur Diamond Ballroom 10

11:50am PDT

How We Built Fuel OpenStack Community: Challenges of OpenSource Projects - Evgeniya Shumakher, Mirantis Diamond Ballroom 9

2:50pm PDT

First 90 Days - Building an OSS Practice - Nithya Ruff, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 9

4:00pm PDT

Who Owns that Open Source Brand? - Shane Curcuru, The Apache Software Foundation Diamond Ballroom 10

4:50pm PDT

Why and How We Build and Run a Global OSS Community - Masafumi Ohta, Japanese Raspberry Pi Users Group Diamond Ballroom 9

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

3:40pm PDT

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