We recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of Linux; a major success in the progressive story of open source. It is amazing to reflect on the drastic software, hardware and networking evolution over the last 2.5 decades. At SUSE, we have witnessed over the past 25 years, Business change across all industries and use cases, thanks to the mass adoption of open source in general, and of Linux in particular.
And now we are at the root of an expanding explosion of innovation and technological ideas. Ideas that are turning into 100's of compelling open source projects. Is there a unifying driving force? What is it that motivates business to change and for you and I to innovate new ideas and technological attainment? Alan Clark, an experienced industry and corporate leader who has participated in open source for several years, will explore some ideas to provide thought on these questions in lightning time.
Alan is the current Board Chair for the Open Stack Foundation, is a board member for the openHPC and open Mainframe projects. Alan is a SUSE Director for Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source.
Communities and ecosystems are the connective tissue between people and technology, and they are rising in significance. In this new keynote from Jono Bacon, leading community strategy consultant, author, and founder/chair of the Open Community Conference, he will provide an overview of this value of building communities and ecosystems, both the business value for an organization, the intrinsic value for participants, and how to approach to deliver solid results. He will also introduce the Open Community Conference, which launches at the Open Source Summit North America, and cover the goals of the conference, highlights, and how to make the most of the content.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, founder and director of the online collaborative production company HITRECORD, delivers a Keynote presentation with video elements, featuring his views on the evolution of the Internet as a collaborative medium, and key technological lessons learned since the Company’s launch 9 years ago. The online entrepreneur discusses the three pillars of today’s Internet that he views as limiting to our ability to come together and be creative, and offers alternatives to collectively approach technology for a more productive and collaborative future.
These solutions are guided by principles Joseph has discovered organically over years of building, growing and directing the HITRECORD community. In this presentation, he explores both principles and solutions via an animated Keynote presentation, and a brief video example from the Company’s television show “HIT RECORD ON TV.” This presentation shines a light on critical issues facing Internet culture today, and offers realistic solutions with a positive vision for the future of the Web.
The world has problems that are daunting in their breadth and scale. Thankfully, we have code! Wait - what? Code can save the world? Hear from Barry Baker, VP at IBM, about new innovations that support applications on a massive scale, and see for yourself how Shaun Frankson, Chief Strategist for The Plastic Bank, will use billions of transactions to keep millions of pounds of plastic out of the ocean.
Aparna Sinha leads the product team at Google for Kubernetes and Container Engine. She co-leads the Kubernetes Community PM Group which maintains the open source roadmap. She is also a participant in the CNCF Governing Board. Prior to Google, Aparna worked in enterprise software for 15+ years, and was Director of Product Management at NetApp. Aparna holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and has several technical publications from her research.
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession -- until one Friday morning he received a phone call and learned that his job at Newsweek no longer existed. An idea hit: Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley, but now maybe he should get in on the action. HubSpot, a hot startup in Boston, offered Dan a pile of stock options and the chance to pursue his start-up dream. What could go wrong? In a word, everything. In this talk Dan tells the tale of his less-than-triumphant attempt to start a new career in his fifties -- and shares a few thoughts about what's gone wrong with the tech industry during the second dotcom bubble.
As we move toward a world where everything is smart and connected, there is a massive flood of data. This considerable growth requires the data center to analyze and transform data at an unprecedented scale. These transformations are powered by an end-to-end infrastructure from the cloud and data center, the network, and the Internet of Things (IoT), and are bound together by connectivity. Imad Sousou, Vice President of the Software and Services Group, and General Manager Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corporation, will highlight how we connect devices to the cloud, how edge computing accelerates the digital transformation, and how other open source software supports our rapidly changing world.
Microsoft’s approach to open source in the cloud is about much more than just enabling key technologies. The multi-year journey to providing great Linux support for customers in the cloud has yielded significant learnings that are now applied across Microsoft’s platform from .NET Core to Azure, benefitting developers and meeting them where they are. Learn more about this approach and see first-hand a live demo of exciting new capabilities for open source developers in Julia’s keynote, come see us at booth #203 and join our breakout sessions to learn more!
Network and DevOps people have historically thought about the world in very different ways. But neither group can succeed independently of each other. Networks without workloads developed and deployed by DevOps teams are pointless. Applications without networking are uninteresting and border on being useless. And neither group really understands the depths of each other’s domain. And the results, so far, have been less than optimal for everyone. Ed will share thoughts on simple ways we can come together to build a better cloud native future – together.
Historically, there has been an industry-wide challenge in turning talented engineers into leadership “unicorns” (i.e. those who excel in vision setting, strategic planning, technology mastery, employee mentorship and motivation, team organization, project execution, communication and all other things that leaders should be). In her talk, Bindi will share her experiences at Ticketmaster and how “partnered leadership” has allowed the technology organization to enable strong functional leaders to drive innovation and increase speed to delivery while allowing each leader to focus on developing their unique talents.
