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Open Source Summit North America 2017

September 11-14, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA
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Krista Khare

Comcast
Open Source Compliance and Delivery Manager
Philadelphia, PA

Krista Khare is a Program Manager with Comcast’s Open Source Practice and has been with Comcast since early 2017. In her role, Krista helps engineers to open source their software and also acts as a consultant on open source compliance. She enjoys launching and managing early-stage programs, just one fun aspect of joining a new OSP. She is relatively new to tech and open source and is loving the open source community so far.

Krista holds an MBA from Drexel University. Prior to her MBA, Krista’s professional experience was focused on marketing research, helping to better connect companies to their customers through the power of consumer insights. Feel free to ask her about her transition into tech!

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

11:00am PDT

Onto Petaflops with Kubernetes - Vishnu Kannan, Google Diamond Ballroom 8

11:50am PDT

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

Building Open Source Project Infrastructures - Elizabeth K. Joseph, Mesosphere Diamond Ballroom 9 Scaling Open Source - Lessons Learned at the Apache Software Foundation - Phil Steitz, Apache Software Foundation Diamond Ballroom 10

3:30pm PDT

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

4:00pm PDT

So You've Decided You Need an Open Source Program Office - Duane O'Brien, PayPal & Nithya Ruff, Comcast Diamond Ballroom 9

4:50pm PDT

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

7:45am PDT

Have a Short Stack with The New Stack Breakfast Gold 3

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

11:55am PDT

Freedom & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '16 - Brady Kriss, Ragtag Diamond Ballroom 9 Just Good Practice: Developing Business with Open Source Technology - Christopher Price, Ericsson Diamond Ballroom 10

1:55pm PDT

Intellectual Property for Engineers - Noah Kantrowitz, SAP Plaza III

2:00pm PDT

CHAOSS Project Breakout Session Diamond Ballroom 2

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

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 Building Trust: Testing SPDX Generation Tools - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation & Philippe Ombredanne, nexB Atrium III

11:50am PDT

Mixed License FOSS Projects: Unintended Consequences, Worked Examples, Best Practices - Lars Kurth, Citrix Diamond Ballroom 10

2:00pm PDT

Open Source Licensing 101 - Jim Jagielski, Capital One Diamond Ballroom 9

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 Giving Everyone Access To Open Source Best Practices: The OpenChain Curriculum - Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Atrium III

3:30pm PDT

Coffee Break Platinum Foyer

4:00pm PDT

A Security State of Mind: Compliance and Vulnerability Audits for Containers - Chris Van Tuin, Red Hat Diamond Ballroom 7

6:30pm PDT

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

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

You're Not a *Real* Software Engineer - Amy Chen, Rancher Labs Gold 1

10:50am PDT

BoF: All Kids Should Code - Keith Wilson, Vasey Corporation P/L Gold 2

11:35am PDT

Panel Discussion: Diversity & Inclusion: On the Path to Increasing the 10 Percent - Moderated by Nicole Huesman, Intel Gold 2

1:25pm PDT

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

2:50pm PDT

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