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Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021

September 27-30, 2021
Seattle, Washington, USA + Virtual
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9:00am PDT

(IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL) Monday Keynote Sessions Regency Ballroom

11:00am PDT

(VIRTUAL) Start with Ally as a “verb” and Build that with Partnership - Lekha Rani Lalitha & Kaushik Venkatesh, IBM INDIA PVT LTD MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

11:15am PDT

(IN-PERSON) The Community Management Handbook: The Open Source Way 2.0 - Karsten Wade, Red Hat Room 402 (IN-PERSON) Welcome & Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Room 401 (VIRTUAL) Co-host Sponsor Session: Open, Innovate, Fail Fast: MindSpore Community Operation - Zhipeng Huang, MindSpore Community Manager, Huawei MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Case Study: When the Open Source Program Office is Responsible for Innovation - Mark Gisi & Amanda Huynh, Wind River Room 302 (IN-PERSON) Tutorial: Introducing Centaurus: A Cloud Native Infrastructure Project for Large Scale Distributed Cloud - Sponsored by Futurewei Room 301 (IN-PERSON) The State of Open Source Games and Open Source Gaming Tools in 2021 - David Graham Brooks, David Graham Brooks Elwha A (IN-PERSON) Building and Growing an Open Source Community for an Incubating Project - Sandra Youssef & Ketan Umare, Union.ai Room 502 (VIRTUAL) Leveraging Specifications in Open Source Projects - Scott Nicholas, Linux Foundation MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

11:25am PDT

(VIRTUAL) Scaling Communities to be more Inclusive - Kunal Kushwaha, Civo MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Lessons Learned from Open Source in Business - Dave Neary, Red Hat Room 402 (IN-PERSON) Why OSPOs are Important To A Company's Innovation Strategy? - Nithya Ruff, Comcast Room 401

1:30pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) A Beginners Guide to Open Source Metrics and Analysis - Sophia Vargas, Google Room 402 (IN-PERSON) Lessons Learned from Creating an OSPO at Goldman Sachs - Rohan Deshpande & Rosalie Bartlett, Goldman Sachs Room 302 (IN-PERSON) 35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes (plus Q&A!) - Matthew Miller, Red Hat Elwha A (VIRTUAL) Panel Discussion: A New Era: Emerging and Evolving OSPOs - Dawn Foster, VMware; Duane O'Brien, Indeed.com; Nithya Ruff, Comcast; Stormy Peters, Microsoft MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Allyship Workshop with Dr. Kim Tran - Sponsored by Google MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

1:55pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) How to Talk About your Open Source Project so People Get It - Emily Omier, Emily Omier Consulting Room 402

2:30pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Ten Years of Practice from Tencent Open Source - Mark Shan, Tencent MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) How CNCF is Enabling End User Driven Open Source - DeVauna Lee Bolar, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Room 302 (IN-PERSON) How Has Covid-19 Impacted the Kernel Development Over the Last Year? - Daniel German, University of Victoria & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation Elwha A

2:55pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Justifying an OSPO in Dollars and Cents - Van Lindberg, OSPOCO Room 401

3:50pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Getting Started with Getting Started: How to Engage New Users - Omer Bensaadon, VMware Room 402 (IN-PERSON) Business Reviewers within Enterprise Compliance Systems - Carol Smith, Microsoft Room 401 (IN-PERSON) CHAOSS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Open Source Badging Initiative - Ruth Ikegah & Matt Cantu, CHAOSS Room 502 (IN-PERSON) It's All about the Strategy: A Brief Story of the Open Source Renaissance in Financial Services - Gabriele Columbro, FINOS Elwha B

4:15pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Navigating Open Source Project Risk - Dawn Foster, VMware Room 401

4:50pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Creating An Inclusive Interview Environment - Jeffrey Strauss, Snapchat Room 502 (IN-PERSON) University-based Open Source Programs Offices - Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University Room 401 (VIRTUAL) Panel Discussion: Evolving the Confidential Computing Consortium: Non-profit Collaboration for Growth - David Greene, Fortanix; Aeva Black, Microsoft; Mike Bursell, Profian MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) How to Demonstrate Allyship to Women+ in Open Source - Radha Jhatakia & Mike Bufano, Google Open Source Programs Office MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

5:15pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Open@RIT, Creation of a University OSPO and the First Year's Lessons Learned - Stephen Jacobs, Rochester Institute of Technology Room 401

9:00am PDT

(IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL) Tuesday Morning Keynote Sessions Regency Ballroom

11:00am PDT

(IN-PERSON) Co-host Sponsor Session: Silona Bonewald, Executive Director, IEEE SA OPEN Room 401 (IN-PERSON) Don't Forget to Like and Contribute: Streaming and Open Source Communities - Monica Ayhens-Madon, Canonical Room 402 (VIRTUAL) Making an Impact from India to the Rest of the World by Building and Nurturing Women Infosec Community - Vandana Verma Sehgal, Snyk MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Evolving Open Source Governance From Compliance To Program Offices: The LGE Case Study - Kyoungae Kim, LG Electronics MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Unify Data and Storage Management with SODA ODF - Steven Tan, Futurewei & Anjaneya ‘Reddy’ Chagam, Intel MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

11:15am PDT

(IN-PERSON) Welcome - Stormy Peters, Microsoft Room 401

11:25am PDT

(IN-PERSON) How the Fastest Growing Open Hardware Project is Leveraging Visibility and Community Engagement for Industry Adoption and Member Success - Kim McMahon, RISC-V International Room 402 (VIRTUAL) The 7 Guiding Principles for Developer Engagement - Barton George, Dell Technologies MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem - Yumiko Sato, Independent Room 502 (VIRTUAL) MVG - Minimum Viable Governance for Your Organization’s Open Collaboration Needs - Ashley Wolf & Justin Colannino, GitHub MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

12:00pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Default to Open - Steps and Traps - Matt Yonkovit, Percona Room 401 (VIRTUAL) The Mercedes-Benz FOSS Manifesto – Our Commitment to be Truly Open - Dr. Wolfgang Gehring, Daimler TSS MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Panel Discussion: Peace, Love and JavaScript: Community and Culture - Robin Ginn, OpenJS Foundation; Sara Chipps, LinkedIn; Liz Parody, NodeSource; Todd Moore, IBM Room 402 (VIRTUAL) Open Source and ISO Standards - OpenChain and the Future of Compliance - Shane Martin Coughlan, Linux Foundation MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

12:25pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Growing Diversity in Open Hardware: It’s a Task for All of Us! - Kim McMahon, RISC-V Room 502 (VIRTUAL) Supporting Free and Open Source Software in Africa - Victory Brown MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Open Source Contribution Policies that Don't Suck - Tobie Langel, UnlockOpen MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

2:20pm PDT

(IN PERSON + VIRTUAL) Tuesday Afternoon Keynote Sessions Regency Ballroom

4:00pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Creating an Employee Resource Group: Red Hat Asian Network - Jennifer Madriaga, Red Hat Room 502 (IN-PERSON) Building a Foundation for Open Collaboration - Justin Rackliffe, Fidelity Investments Room 401 (VIRTUAL) Call for Code with The Linux Foundation: Contributing to Tech-for-good Even if You're Not Technical - Daniel Krook & Demi Ajayi, IBM MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

4:25pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Diversity & Inclusion in Tech - Pink Doughnuts & 'Hey Guys' - Chris Howard, EPAM Systems MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) GitHub Gone Wrong - Lessons Learned from Organic Open Source - Charles Eckel, Cisco Room 401

5:00pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Inclusion in Open Source - Allies, Outlaws and Dinosaurs - David C Stewart, Intel Corporation MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Growing Open Source Culture Inside Sony - Kazumi Sato & Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Sony Group Corporation MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision - Federico Lucifredi, Red Hat MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON ATTENDEES ONLY) Maintainers Listening Tour: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Focus Group - Demetris Cheatham, GitHub Room 502

5:25pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Experiences in Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Source Governance - Dan Middleton, Intel & Lindsay Nuon, Google MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) 2021 Open Source Program Trends - Alex Williams, The New Stack; Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation; Chris Aniszczyk, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Room 401

9:00am PDT

(IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL) Wednesday Keynote Sessions Regency Ballroom

10:30am PDT

(Virtual) Co-host Sponsor Session: Making Open Source More Secure by Moving Upstream - Luis Villa, Co-founder, Tidelift MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Building an Open Source Community from the Ground Up - Red Hat’s Game Industry Community of Practice - Ruth Suehle & Derek Reese, Red Hat Room 502 (IN-PERSON) Health Credentials, Travel, Climate Change, Financial Inclusion and More: Digital Identity Gets Real - Brian Behlendorf, Linux Foundation & Christine Leong, Accenture Room 501

10:55am PDT

(IN-PERSON) Delivering Bad News: Helping your Community Through a Rough Patch - Rich Bowen, Red Hat Room 401 (IN-PERSON) Getting Over Your Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker - Dawn Foster, VMware Room 502 (VIRTUAL) Managing a GitHub Organization: Tools, Tips, and Best Practices - Mark Matyas, Qualcomm Technologies Inc MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

11:30am PDT

(IN-PERSON) Panel Discussion: Contributor Leaderboards to Incentivize Good Community Citizenship - Georg Link, Bitergia; Elizabeth Barron, CHAOSS; Amy Marrich, Red Hat; Matthew Tift, Lullabot; Matt Germonprez, University... Room 401 (VIRTUAL) Panel Discussion: The EU Open Source Economic Impact Study: Findings, Analyses, Recommendations - Knut Blind, Fraunhofer ISI; Sachiko Muto, OpenForum Europe; Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts LLP; Mirko Boehm... MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Panel Discussion: How Government OSPOs Deliver Value for Citizens at Scale - Astor Nummelin Carlberg, OpenForum Europe; Maurizio Maria Gazzola, United Nations; Clare Dillon, Mosslabs; Mala Kumar, GitHub... MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Embrace FreeBSD to Let Your Innovations Soar! - Deb Goodkin, The FreeBSD Foundation Room 502 (VIRTUAL) Panel Discussion: Stories of Open Hardware in an Internet of Production - Barbara Schack, Internet of Production Alliance; Rawaa K. Abdulwahhab, Field Ready; Christina Rebel, Wikifactory; Emilio Velis... MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

1:45pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) So You Have a Popular GitHub Project and are Considering Building a Company - How do You Get Your Culture of Contribution and Inclusivity Right, Right Away? - Jillian Hufnagel, Slim.AI, Inc Room 502 (VIRTUAL) Panel Discussion: Eliminating Common Barriers to Contribution for More Inclusive Communities - Georg Link & Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia; Anita Sarma & Mariam Guizani, Oregon State University MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

2:10pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Lightning Talk: Amplifying University Research Impact with Open Source - Stephanie Lieggi & Carlos Maltzahn, Center for Research in Open Source Software, UC Santa Cruz MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab

2:45pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Lightning Talk: Why a Diverse Team is Crucial to Startup Success - Melissa Jurkoic, addapptation MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (VIRTUAL) Europe’s Strategic Bet for an Open Source, Sovereign Edge Cloud - Alberto P. Marti, PhD, OpenNebula MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) BoF: Open-Source Developer Burnout, And How to Avoid It - Caterina Rindi & Alex Scammon, G-Research Room 501 (IN-PERSON) A Complex Web of Open Source Software Dependencies Risk - Sean Goggins, University of Missouri & CHAOSS Project Quinault

3:10pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Unlocking Open Source Communities’ Potential: Community Handbook Best Practices to Foster Inclusivity and Diversity - Jaskirat Singh, CHAOSS / The Linux Foundation & Nuritzi Sanchez, GitLab Inc. MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) Open Source Corporate Sustainability – Models to Consider - Destiny (DB) Babjack, United Healthgroup Room 401

3:55pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) Training our Next Generation of Great Open Source Citizens - Michael Swift, Major League Hacking (MLH) Room 401 (VIRTUAL) Growing Communities: A Research-based Framework for Eliminating Barriers to Contribution - Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia & Mariam Guizani, Oregon State University MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON) LF Research: Creating Value through Insight into Open Source Technologies, Standards, and Communities - Hilary Carter, The Linux Foundation Room 301

4:20pm PDT

(IN-PERSON) What We Learned from Supporting Open Source During the Pandemic- Teresa Terasaki, Google Room 401

4:55pm PDT

(VIRTUAL) Hello World! How Microsoft's OSPO is Using Connected Learning to Teach Open Source Competencies - Emma Irwin, Microsoft MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab (IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL) Embedded Linux Conference Annual Closing Game Quinault + MeetingPlay Platform (VIRTUAL) BoF: Software in Space - What Earthlings can Learn from Rocket Science Missions! - Joseph Robert Winchester, IBM MeetingPlay Platform + Virtual Learning Lab