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Jefro Osier-Mixon

Linux Foundation
Program Manager
Victoria, British Columbia
"Jefro" Osier-Mixon has been an open source professional since the early 1990s as a technical writer and occasional developer as well as community manager, program manager, and OSPO leader. His primary activities over the years have included the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, GNU tools, BeagleBoard Foundation, and LF Energy, and he now works with RISC-V International. Jefro has been an active public speaker at open source oriented events since 2008 and has served on the program committee for the Embedded Linux Conference series since 2011.

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Sunday, September 10
 

3:00pm PDT

Pre-Registration Platinum Foyer
 
Monday, September 11
 

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

Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS): An Open Source Community for Advancing Project Transparency - Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Bitergia; Matt Germonprez; University of Nebraska; Harish PIllay... Plaza I/II 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

Lunch (Attendees on Own) Attendees On Own

2:00pm PDT

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

2:50pm PDT

Collaboration in Kernel Mailing Lists - Dawn Foster, The Scale Factory Gold 1

3:30pm PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

4:00pm PDT

So You've Decided You Need an Open Source Program Office - Duane O'Brien, PayPal & Nithya Ruff, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 9 Fireside Chat: Blockchain, Healthcare and the Role of Open Source - Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger; Siva Kannan, GEM; Presanna V Sundararajan, Wipro Plaza III

4:50pm PDT

Hit the Open Road with Automotive Grade Linux - Walt Miner, Linux Foundation Gold 1 Finding People: Job Posting Strategies - Deb Nicholson, Open Invention Network Diamond Ballroom 9 Increasing Student Participation in Open Source - Gregory Hislop, Drexel University & Heidi Ellis, Western New England University Diamond Ballroom 10

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Community Health Analytics for Open Source - Matt Germonprez & Georg Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha Georgia I/II BoF: Are You Getting Paid What You’re Worth? Know Your Skills Value - Alison Kane, DICE Plaza III

6:30pm PDT

Partner Reception (Invitation Required) The Rooftop at The Standard, Downtown LA
 
Tuesday, September 12
 

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

How to Build a Community in Your Organization from the Ground-Up - Shilla Saebi, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 10 So You Have a Code of Conduct... Now What? - Sarah Sharp, Otter Tech Diamond Ballroom 9

11:55am PDT

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

12:35pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own) Attendees On Own

1:55pm PDT

Bootstrapping Community - Colin Charles, Percona Diamond Ballroom 9 Fora, Q&A, Mailing Lists, Chat...Oh My! - Jeremy Garcia, LinuxQuestions.org / Datadog Diamond Ballroom 10

2:45pm PDT

Marketing Your Open Source Project - Deirdre Straughan Diamond Ballroom 9 Panel Discussion: Building and Maintaining Open Source Communities - Moderated by Jonas Rosland, {code} Diamond Ballroom 10 The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us - Carol Smith, Microsoft Plaza III

3:30pm PDT

Linux Academy Technologist Q&A Platinum Ballroom

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
 
Wednesday, September 13
 

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

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

11:00am PDT

Data Science for Community Managers - Manrique Lopez, Bitergia Diamond Ballroom 9 Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions - VM (Vicky) Brasseur Diamond Ballroom 10 Building Trust: Testing SPDX Generation Tools - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation & Philippe Ombredanne, nexB Atrium III Growing Open Source Talent via Certification - Clyde Seepersad, The Linux Foundation Plaza III

11:50am PDT

How We Built Fuel OpenStack Community: Challenges of OpenSource Projects - Evgeniya Shumakher, Mirantis Diamond Ballroom 9 Mixed License FOSS Projects: Unintended Consequences, Worked Examples, Best Practices - Lars Kurth, Citrix Diamond Ballroom 10

12:30pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own) Attendees On Own

2:00pm PDT

Open Source Licensing 101 - Jim Jagielski, Capital One Diamond Ballroom 9 Selling Open Source, Keeping Your Soul - Jessica Rose, Crate.io Diamond Ballroom 10

2:50pm PDT

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 The Trouble with Open Source Software - Stephen Walli Diamond Ballroom 10

4:00pm PDT

Venture Capital Community: Applying Open Source Principles to Disrupt a Traditional Industry - Cory Bolotsky, Underscore VC Diamond Ballroom 9

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
 
Thursday, September 14
 

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

Panel Discussion: Diversity & Inclusion: On the Path to Increasing the 10 Percent - Moderated by Nicole Huesman, Intel Gold 2 Time for Action - Innovating for D&I in Open Source Communities - Emma Irwin & Larissa Shapiro, Mozilla Gold 1

12:15pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own) TBA

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