Diversity Summit [
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9:00am PDT
9:20am PDT
9:40am PDT
10:05am PDT
10:05am PDT
You're Not a *Real* Software Engineer - Amy Chen, Rancher Labs
Speakers
Systems Software Engineer, VMware
Amy Chen (VMware) is a systems software engineer at VMware who joined through the Heptio acquisition. She is passionate about Kubernetes, Go, containers, and distributed systems. In her free time, she also runs a Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/AmyCodes) that discusses software...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 10:05am - 10:45am PDT
Gold 1
10:50am PDT
BoF: All Kids Should Code - Keith Wilson, Vasey Corporation P/L
Speakers
Director, Vasey Corporation P/L
Retired teacher delivering free coding workshops using donated refurbished laptops running Linux Mint. Providing online resources to support coding activities. Keen to discuss how people are maximizing opportunities for all kids to code.
Thursday September 14, 2017 10:50am - 11:30am PDT
Gold 2
10:50am PDT
Diversity and Collaboration - Tameika Reed, Women in Linux
Speakers
Founder, Women In Linux
Tameika Reed Founder of Women In Linux. Since its launch, Tameika leads initiatives with focus on exploring careers in Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps and IOT, pivoting into leadership and continuous skill building. As a self-taught System Administrator, Tameika believes...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 10:50am - 11:30am PDT
Gold 1
11:35am PDT
Panel Discussion: Diversity & Inclusion: On the Path to Increasing the 10 Percent - Moderated by Nicole Huesman, Intel
Moderators
Community & Developer Advocate, Intel Corporation
For over 20 years, Nicole has applied her aptitude in storytelling to the technology industry—helping shine a light on the importance of the work of her engineering colleagues in a way that delivers true business value. She dove into the world of open source at Intel over eight...
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Speakers
Developer Evangelist, Codefresh
Chloe is the Developer Evangelist for Codefresh where she helps engineering and infrastructure teams streamline their development processes by adopting container driven development tooling on Kubernetes. Before becoming an Engineer, Chloe was a musical theatre actress who decided...
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Director of Consulting, Bitergia
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems. Currently the chief data officer at Bitergia, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies...
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Principal Technical Marketing Manger, Red Hat
Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She previously worked at a small Open Source e-assessment company in Luxembourg where she was the Open Source Community and Global Training Manager. Previously she was the OpenStack Instructor at Linux Academy and...
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Head of Open Source, Indeed
Duane is the Head of Open Source at Indeed.com, the #1 job site in the world. He is passionate about enabling smart and meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem by both developers and corporations. Duane navigates the path between engineering and management, drawing on...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 11:35am - 12:15pm PDT
Gold 2
11:35am PDT
12:15pm PDT
1:25pm PDT
Diversity through the Eyes of a Senior Engineer - Rupa Dachere, CodeChix
Speakers
Founder & CEO, Code Chix
Rupa Dachere is the Founder and CEO of CodeChix.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education, promotion and mentorship of women engineers. Creator of PiDoorbell (circa 2012 on the first Rpi) and entrepreneur, she is an FTE and holds Advisory roles at the Stanford GAP-For-Good...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 1:25pm - 2:05pm PDT
Gold 1
2:10pm PDT
Lessons learned from the OpenStack Gender-Diversity Report - Nicole Huesman, Intel & Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia
Speakers
Community & Developer Advocate, Intel Corporation
For over 20 years, Nicole has applied her aptitude in storytelling to the technology industry—helping shine a light on the importance of the work of her engineering colleagues in a way that delivers true business value. She dove into the world of open source at Intel over eight...
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Director of Consulting, Bitergia
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems. Currently the chief data officer at Bitergia, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Gold 1
2:10pm PDT
Panel Discussion: Chasing and Redefining Grace: Stories of Women in Tech - Moderated by Jennifer Cloer, reTHINKit
Moderators
Creator and Executive Producer, The Chasing Grace Project
Jennifer’s career has been dedicated to telling the stories that have defined a generation of technology developers, from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to the men and women who started Creative Commons and Google’s first I/O Conference. For more than 15 years, Jennifer has been...
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Speakers
Founder, ScoutSavvy
Kathryn Brown is the founder and CEO of ScoutSavvy. ScoutSavvy improves workplace diversity with intelligent recruiting software. Kathryn was an early employee at Techstars company DailyBurn (acquired by IAC), where she lead content strategy and growth strategy for a 2 million + member...
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Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation
Executive Director, Open Source Program Officer, Comcast & Chair, Board of Directors, The Linux Foundation
Nithya A. Ruff is the Head of Comcast’s Open Source Program Office. She is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities. Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 3 years and was recently...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Gold 2
2:50pm PDT
3:40pm PDT
BoF: CO.LAB: A Collaborative, Mobile Learning Experience - John Adams, Red Hat
Speakers JA
Sr. Director, Global Brand Strategy & Management, Red Hat
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, John first moved to the Triangle in 1992 to attend college. When his UNC Tar Heels won the NCAA National Championship that year, he knew he had found his new home. After graduating from UNC, John moved to Charlotte to work for management consultancy Accenture...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 3:40pm - 4:20pm PDT
Gold 1
3:40pm PDT
4:25pm PDT
Eliminating Biases and Encouraging Diversity - Swarna Podila, Avi Networks
Speakers
Head of Product Marketing, Avi Networks
Swarna Podila leads the product marketing function at Avi Networks. Prior to Avi Networks, Podila has led product marketing functions at smaller organizations such as Mocana and large enterprises such as Citrix and Symantec. Podila feels strongly about diversity and strives to bring...
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Thursday September 14, 2017 4:25pm - 5:05pm PDT
Gold 1
4:25pm PDT