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Open Source Summit North America 2017

September 11-14, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA
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Behan Webster

Converse in Code Inc
Chief Engineer

Behan Webster is a Computer Engineer who has spent more than two decades in diverse tech industries such as telecom, datacom, optical, wireless, automotive, medical, defence, and the game industry writing code for a range of hardware from the very small to the very large. Throughout his career, his work has always involved Linux most often in the areas of kernel level programming, drivers, embedded software, board bring-ups, software architecture, and build systems. He has been involved in a number of Open Source projects including being an early contributor to Debian Linux. Currently, Behan is the lead consultant and founder of Converse in Code Inc, an embedded Linux engineer and former project lead working on the LLVMLinux project as well as being a Trainer for the Linux Foundation. He has previously spoken at various Linux Conferences: Collab/OSLS, ELC, ELCE, OSSNA, Linux.conf.au, SCaLE, FOSDEM, Linaro Connect, LLVMdev. He is under the delusion he can fix most things with a “tiny little script”.

7:30am PDT

Breakfast 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

Live Patching, Virtual Machine Introspection and Vulnerability Management: A Primer and Practical Guide - Lars Kurth, Citrix Diamond Ballroom 3 Signing Linux Executables for Fun and Security - Matthew Garrett, Google Gold 1 Building Predictable Community: Strategy, Incentives, Value, and Psychology - Jono Bacon, Community/Developer Strategy Consultant and Author Diamond Ballroom 10

11:50am PDT

Advances in CPU Performance Scaling - Rafael Wysocki, Intel Georgia I/II Understanding SCHED_DEADLINE - Steven Rostedt, VMware Gold 1 Leading By Experience: The Unvarnished Truth about Community Leadership - Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation Diamond Ballroom 10

12:30pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own) Attendees On Own

2:00pm PDT

Boosting Linux Performance with GCC/GLIBC Latest Technologies - Victor Rodriguez, Intel Georgia I/II Building an aarch64 Linux Laptop - Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Linaro Gold 1 Sponsor Showcase Platinum Ballroom

2:50pm PDT

The Open Road to Autonomous Driving - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation Plaza III

4:00pm PDT

Raspberry Pi Hacks - Ruth Suehle, Red Hat Gold 1

4:50pm PDT

Deterministic Memory Allocation for Mission-Critical Linux - Jim Huang, South Star Xelerator & Keng-Fu Hsu, National Cheng Kung University Georgia I/II Hit the Open Road with Automotive Grade Linux - Walt Miner, Linux Foundation Gold 1 uftrace: Function (Graph) Tracer for Userspace - Namhyung Kim, LG Electronics Plaza I/II

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Are You Getting Paid What You’re Worth? Know Your Skills Value - Alison Kane, DICE Plaza III

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

Code Detective: How to Investigate Linux Performance Issues - Gabriel Krisman Bertazi, Collabora Plaza I/II Making the Kernel's Networking Data Path Programmable with BPF and XDP - Daniel Borkmann, Covalent Georgia I/II

12:35pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own) Attendees On Own

1:55pm PDT

Decoding Those Inscrutable RCU CPU Stall Warnings - Paul McKenney, IBM Plaza I/II MD Software RAID on NVDIMM (Non Volatile DIMM) - Lijun Pan, Dell Georgia I/II

2:45pm PDT

Transparent Huge Pages on Steroids - Nitin Gupta, Oracle Gold 1 The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us - Carol Smith, Microsoft Plaza III

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

11:00am PDT

Replacing the Radix Tree - Matthew Wilcox, Microsoft Georgia I/II The Kernel's Limits to Growth - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net Diamond Ballroom 3 Building Trust: Testing SPDX Generation Tools - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation & Philippe Ombredanne, nexB Atrium III

11:50am PDT

email2git: A Cregit Plugin to Link Reviews to Git Commits - Alexandre Courouble, Polytechnique Montreal Diamond Ballroom 3

2:00pm PDT

Performance Analysis Superpowers with Linux BPF - Brendan Gregg, Netflix Diamond Ballroom 3

2:50pm PDT

hugetlbfs, Still Alive and Kicking - Mike Kravetz, Oracle Diamond Ballroom 3 Kernel Developer Panel Discussion - Moderated by Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net Plaza I/II Copyleft.org: The Definitive Guide for Copyleft Education and Compliance - Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy Plaza III First 90 Days - Building an OSS Practice - Nithya Ruff, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 9

4:00pm PDT

Linux Cryptographic Acceleration on an i.MX6 - Sean Hudson, Mentor Graphics, Inc Plaza I/II

4:50pm PDT

How Will Linux Handle Quantum Computing? - Paul McKenney, IBM Diamond Ballroom 3 Open Build Service in Debian - Andrew Lee, Collabora Georgia I/II

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