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Open Source Summit North America 2017

September 11-14, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA
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Ritch Dusome

CENGN
CEO & President
Ritch Dusome

Ritch Dusome is President & CEO of CENGN – Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks. He has held this position since its inception in September 2014 and is also a Board Member for the organization. CENGN is a federal- and industry-funded consortium focused on Next Generation Networking including areas such as Open Compute Data Centre, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization and the Internet of Things. Ritch has over 30 years of Data Centre, Networking and Internet Experience working at a variety of companies including: CENGN, Cisco Systems, Bell Canada, and TD Bank. Ritch holds a B.Sc. from the University of Ottawa and is also a 10-year CCIE Emeritus alumni and Enterprise Architect.

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

11:50am PDT

Advances in CPU Performance Scaling - Rafael Wysocki, Intel Georgia I/II

2:00pm PDT

Container & Kubernetes Networking 101 - Arun Sriraman, Platform9 Systems Inc. & Aditya Amar Diamond Ballroom 7

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 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

GPU, USB, NICs and Other Physical Devices in Your Containers - Stéphane Graber, Canonical Ltd. Diamond Ballroom 6

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Community Health Analytics for Open Source - Matt Germonprez & Georg Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha Georgia I/II

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

11:05am PDT

Executive Forum, sponsored by IBM (Additional Registration Required) Gold 2

11:55am PDT

Testing Software Performance and Scalability Using Containers - Saurabh Badhwar, Red Hat Diamond Ballroom 7

1:55pm PDT

Containers: In Your House and Moving the Furniture - Steven Pousty, Red Hat Gold 4

2:45pm PDT

Marketing Your Open Source Project - Deirdre Straughan Diamond Ballroom 9

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