LinuxCon Europe + CloudOpen Europe: Directory

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Company Twitter
Location San Francisco, CA
URL https://twitter.com/jobs

Keynote: The Twitter Stack - Chris Aniszczyk, Head of Open Source, Twitter

Bruno de Oliveira Abinader

Bruno is an open source enthusiast since 2005. Has experience with languages like C, C++ and Rust, among others. Has contributed to Maemo/MeeGo platforms and developed using UI toolkits like Qt and EFL. Passionate by new and creative technologies, specially when they are fit in the open source, community-oriented world.Works at Samsung Open Source Group developing web engines (Servo, Blink & WebKit) and is a member of the W3C's CSS Working Group.

Company Samsung Research America
Position Senior Web R&D Engineer
Location Manaus, AM, Brazil
URL http://brunoabinader.com

Lessons from Contributing to WebKit and Blink - Bruno de Oliveira Abinader, Samsung Electronics

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Rafael Antognolli

Rafael Antognolli is graduated as Computer Engineer at the University of Campinas, and Software Engineer at Intel. He is developer of the EFL and WebKit projects, and contributor of the Wayland project. He has presented several talks about Free Software development, including WebKit, Linux Debugging Tools, Autotools and GUI development with EFL at events like the LinuxCon North America (2012), the LinuxCon Brazil (2011), at the International Free Software Forum (FISL10) and at UNICAMP (University of Campinas).

Company Intel
Position Software Engineer

EFL on Wayland - Rafael Antognolli, Intel

Neil Armitage

Neil Armitage, Cluster Implementation Engineer at Continuent, has over 20 years of experience developing applications and managing database servers. He joined Continuent in 2012 after working with Tungsten Replication. Currently working on automating the deployments of database clusters in various Cloud environments and developing DBaaS technologies. Has spoken at several MySQL events including Percona Live at London, New York and Santa Clara.

Company Continuent
Position Cluster Engineer
Location United Kingdom

Deploying Database Clusters in the Cloud - Neil Armitage, Continuent

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Vijay Bellur

Vijay Bellur is a co-maintainer for the upstream GlusterFS project and was an architect at Gluster before its acquisition by Red Hat in 2011. He has been involved with building enterprise storage and scalable, distributed systems for the past decade. Vijay works out of the Red Hat office in Boston and his topics of interest include file systems, cloud technologies, and Big Data.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Principal Software Engineer

GlusterFS Architecture & Roadmap - Vijay Bellur, Red Hat Gluster, QEMU, KVM and oVirt - Vijay Bellur

Dustin L. Black

Openness and transparency are keys to organizational success in the modern world. Innovation and progress are crowd-driven, and leadership today means being a steward of the community.

I have been a proud disruptor of traditional and antiquated business practices and ideologies since the beginning of my career. And it continues as my mission to champion community over hierarchy and meritocracy over authority.

As a Red Hat CSA, I partner with global leaders across diverse industries and the public sector to facilitate high-touch relationships for successful enterprise deployments of cloud... Read more

Company Red Hat
Position Principal Cloud Success Architect
Location Greater Philadelphia Area
URL people.redhat.com/dblack

Open Storage in the Enterprise with GlusterFS - Dustin Black, Red Hat Gluster for SysAdmins, An In-depth Look - Dustin Black

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James E. Blair

James is a founding member of the OpenStack Project Infrastructure team. He has been instrumental in creating OpenStack's development process and now works for the OpenStack Foundation continuing to develop the infrastructure needed for a growing project. He has been active in free software for quite some time, and has previously worked for UC Berkeley and the Free Software Foundation. OpenStack presentations at LCA 2012 and 2013, UDS-P plenary, LinuxCon Europe 2012, and others.

Company IBM

How OpenStack Improves Code Quality with Project Gating and Zuul - James E. Blair, OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Development: The Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure - James E. Blair, OpenStack Foundation

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Jason Bloomberg

Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company. He is a global thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He created the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA course and associated credential, and runs the LZA course as well as his Enterprise Cloud Computing course around the world. He is a frequent conference speaker and prolific writer. His new book, The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-based SOA, and Mobile Computing are Changing Enterprise IT (John Wiley & Sons), was published in... Read more

Company ZapThink
Position President

Big Data for Good or Evil -- Lessons from the NSA PRISM Scandal - Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink

Mike Blumenkrantz

Mike Blumenkrantz is a Senior Engineer at Samsung R&D America. He is the maintainer of the Enlightenment desktop as well as a contributor to the Servo browser engine. He has presented at several LinuxCons.

Company Samsung R&D USA
Position Senior Engineer
Location United States

Wayland/X Compositor Architecture By Example: Enlightenment DR19 - Mike Blumenkrantz, Samsung Electronics

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James Bottomley

James Bottomley is CTO of Server Virtualisation at Parallels with a current focus on Open Source container technologies and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux and the 53c700 set of drivers. He has made contributions in the areas of x86 architecture and SMP, filesystems, storage and memory management and coherency. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T... Read more

Containers and the Cloud: Do You Need Another Virtual Environment? - James Bottomley, Parallels

Rich Bowen

Rich Bowen has been involved in open source since before we started calling it that. He's a member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he currently serves as a board member and VP Conferences. Rich is an Open Source Strategist at AWS.

Company AWS
Position Open Source Strategist
Location Lexington, Kentucky
URL http://drbacchus.com/

What's New in Apache httpd 2.4 - Rich Bowen, Red Hat

Joe Brockmeier

Joe Brockmeier is Head of Community at Percona. Brockmeier has been involved in open source for more than 20 years, is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has previously worked at Red Hat, Citrix, and SUSE. He also has an long history in the tech press and publishing, having been editor-in-chief of Linux Magazine, editorial director of Linux.com, and a contributor to LWN.net, ZDNet, UnixReview.com, and many others.

Company Percona
Position Head of Community
Location North Carolina, USA

Everything I Know About the Cloud, I Learned from Game of Thrones - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat

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University of New Brunswick

Improving J9 Java Virtual Machine with LTTng for Efficient & Effective Tracing, Yang Wang, University of New Brunswick

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Yang Wang, University of New Brunswick

Wang Yang is currently working as a PDF with IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), Atlantic, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Before joining CAS Atlantic in May, 2012, he was a research fellow at the National University of Singapore (2010-2012). He received BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Ocean University of China, and MS and PhD (2008) from Carleton and University of Alberta, respectively.

This research is sponsored by IBM CAS (Atlantic), Canada and Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).

Company University of New Brunswick

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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao

Fernando is a Linux developer based in Tokyo. His current interests include virtualization, data center bridging technologies, and high performance networking and storage systems. He is currently a principal software engineer at NTT Open Software Center and senior consultant at NTT Data Intellilink, dividing his time between community open source work and his consulting and support duties at NTT.

Fixing the Filesystem Freeze API - Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, NTT Open Software Center

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Andrea Casillas

Prior to becoming Director of Linux Defenders at Open Invention Network, Andrea Casillas was a postgraduate fellow at the Institution for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, Assistant Director of the Center for Information Law and Policy and the Director of Peer To Patent an initiative allowing the public to contribute to the USPTO's patent examination process. She has a J.D. from New York Law School and a B.S. from Arizona State University.

Andrea has presented at various conferences including LinuxCon Europe, LinuxCon North America, FSFE Legal Workshop, Open Source Festival, Google Summer of Code, Gnome, Peer Review Prior Art Roundtable at WIPO in Geneva and the USPTO, in addition to guest lecturing at various universities... Read more

Company Open Invention Network
Position Director, Linux Defenders
Location United States

Promoting Innovation By Preventing Bad Patents - Andrea Casillas, Open Invention Network

Adenilson Cavalcanti

Adenilson has a wide variety of experience with different programming languages and operating systems. He has special interests in Web Engines, *nix and embedded and mobile devices, where he is always looking for new ideas and opportunities to use FOSS in new and innovative ways. Adenilson is a maintainer in Chromium and a commiter in WebKit and Mozilla's Servo project.
Currently at ARM working in optimizing Chromium on mobile devices.

Company ARM
Position Staff Engineer

A Deep Look Into WebEngines: From the GET Request Up to the Screen Pixel - Adenilson Cavalcanti, Samsung Research America

Kashyap Chamarthy

Kashyap Chamarthy works at Red Hat, as part of OpenStack Infrastructure engineering group, focusing his contributions on interactions between OpenStack and its underlying Virtualization components (libvirt, QEMU, KVM). In the past, he's presented and participated in the past four European editions of LinuxCon / KVMForum, FOSDEM, and some Fedora Project contributor conferences.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Software Engineer
URL kashyapc.com

Notes on Taking KVM-on-KVM Nested Virtualization for a Spin - Kashyap Chamarthy, Red Hat

Steve Chambers

Steve joined Canopy in 2012 and is responsible for Canopy Cloud architecture, development and industry thought leadership. Steve aspires to help governments and organisations on their journey to the cloud, moving legacy IT out of their way of progress.Prior to Canopy Cloud, after an initial seven years in banking IT and web hosting, Steve then spent ten years in technical, sales, marketing and leadership positions with Loudcloud, VMware, Cisco and VCE which has embedded the cloud principles of broad access, self service and innovation into his career DNA. Steve successfully completed his B.Sc in... Read more

Company Canopy Cloud
Position CTO

Keynote Panel: Next Generation Cloud Platforms - Moderated By Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CloudSoft

Colin Charles

Colin Charles is a Consultant at Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster. Previously, Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. Colin has been a MySQL user since 2000.

Company codership (galera cluster)
Position Consultant
Location Up In The Air

MySQL in the Cloud, Colin Charles - Monty Program Ab Tuning Linux for Your Database - Colin Charles, Monty Program Ab

Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Samsung

Mauro is the upstream maintainer of the Linux kernel media and EDAC subsystems, and also a major contributor for the Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS) subsystems. Mauro also maintains Tizen on Yocto packages upstream. He works for the Samsung Open Source Group since 2013. Has worked during 5 years at the Red Hat RHEL Kernel team, having broad experience in telecommunications due to his work at some of the Brazilian largest wired and wireless carriers.

Company Samsung
Position Linux Kernel Media Maintainer
Location Brasília, Brazil
URL http://linuxtv.org

Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS) on Linux - Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Samsung

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Michael Christofferson

Michael Christofferson, Enea

Previous speaking: 2014 - 1) ELC San Jose, April 29-May 2, 2014, "User Space Drivers in Linux – Pros, Cons, and Implementation Issues. In 2013 - 1) Linux Embedded Systems Conference San Franciso, Feb 20-22 2013 on the "Yocto Meta-Virtualization Project", 2) LinuxCon/Cloud Open North America, Sept 2014, on "A Platform Independent, Clock Cycle Based Performance Measurement System”, 3) The Embedded World Conference, Europe/Edinburgh, Oct 21-23, 2014, with "A Platform Independent, Clock Cycle Based Performance Measurement System”, and others. I am a product marketing director at Enea, and have...

Company Enea
Position Product Marketing Director
Location United States
URL http://www.enea.com

Alan Clark

Company SUSE
Position CTO Office
Location United States

The Disruptive Nature of Open Source Cloud - Alan Clark, SUSE

Justin Clift

Justin works for Red Hat as an Aeolus Evangelist for Aeolus.

He has been contributing significantly to many Open Source software projects for over a decade, including PostgreSQL, OpenOffice, Salasaga, Libvirt, along with many others.

Company Red Hat
Position Aeolus Evangelist
Location Australia

Developing Apps and Integrating with GlusterFS - Justin Clift

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Theron Conrey

Theron Conrey spends most of his time helping organizations tackle the challenges that come with growing legacy virtuailization projects as well as the deployment of new cloud deployments with a focus on automation and distributed storage. Active in both the Open Source and VMware communities around virtualization, Theron helps try and deliver Open Source solutions wherever applicable. He is also one of the founders of VMunderground, a VMworld event in it's seventh year helping provide a community driven venue for virtuaization adoption.

In the past Theron has spoken at different events fro... Read more

Company TDS
Position Solutions Architect
Location United States

Jonathan Corbet

Jonathan Corbet is the kernel documentation maintainer, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), a member of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board, and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Company LWN.net
Position Penguin herder

The Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net

Bruno Cornec

Bruno Cornec has been managing various Unix systems since 1987 and Linux since 1993 (0.99pl14).
Bruno first worked 8 years around Software Engineering and Configuration Management Systems in Unix environments.

Since 1995, he is Open Source and Linux (OSL) Technology Strategist, Linux Community Lead and OSL Advocate for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the WW HPE Customer Innovation Center.

Bruno is contributor in various OSL projects: MondoRescue, Mageia, LinuxCOE, Tellico, FOSSology, Fedora, rinse, collectl, Pause.
He is also project leader for MondoRescue (GPL disaster recovery solution), project-b... Read more

Company HPE
Position Open Source & Technology Strategist
Location Grenoble Area, France
URL https://www.hpe.com/info/proliantlinux

A FLOSS ITIL Compliant Solution Stack to Manage Your Data Center - Bruno Cornec, HP

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Glauber Costa

Biography coming soon.

Introducing OSv: A New Open Source Operating System Designed for the Cloud - Avi Kivity & Glauber Costa Cloudius

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Christian Couder

Christian Couder is a software engineer with 20 years of professional experience in software development, release, build and version control. He is a Git developer since June 2006. He has been working on many part of Git, especially "git bisect" and lately "git rebase". Since March 2015 he is an editor of the monthly Git Rev News newsletter. He works from his home in Paris, France as a freelance consultant and developer for Booking.com and GitLab on Git, and for Protocol Labs on IPFS (https://ipfs.io/). He has given presentations about Git at many conferences since 2009.

Company Software Engineer
Position Software Engineer
Location Paris, France
URL http://blog.couder.net

Enjoy Fighting Regressions with git bisect - Christian Couder

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Mark Dawson

Latency Analysis in the Trading Community - Christoph Lameter & Mark Dawson

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Julien Desfossez

Julien Desfossez is a software developer at Efficios Inc. He comes from a background of large scale system administration and security after working several years at Revolution Linux. He is now also a Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montreal. His main focus is Linux kernel tracing as a monitoring and debugging facility for large scale data centers.

Company Efficios
Position software developer

Efficient and Large-scale Infrastructure Monitoring With Tracing - Julien Desfossez, Efficios Inc.

Mathieu Desnoyers

Mathieu Desnoyers main contributions are in the area of tracing (monitoring/performance analysis/debugging) and scalability, both at the kernel and user-space levels. He is maintainer of the LTTng project, the Userspace RCU library, and of the Linux kernel membarrier(2) and rseq(2) system calls. He works in close collaboration with the telecommunication industry, many Linux distributions, and with customers developing hardware scaling from small embedded devices to large-deployment servers. He is CEO and Senior Software Architect at EfficiOS.

Company EfficiOS Inc.
Position CEO
Location Montreal
URL http://www.efficios.com

(Tutorial) Hands-On Tutorial on Scalability with Userspace RCU - Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS Inc. LTTng: Cloud Monitoring and Distribution Bug Reporting with Live Streaming and Snapshots, Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS

Mac Devine

Mac has 24 years of experience with networking and virtualization.

Mac started and served as the Chief Architect of the zCloud Innovation team, became the WebSphere CTO for Cloud Computing, and then CTO for Cloud Partnerships and Client Innovations within IBM Corporate Strategy. Mac's designs and innovations have seen him recognised as an IBM Master Inventor, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and appointed as a member of IBM’s prestigious Academy of Technology.

As Director and CTO - Cloud Portfolio for IBM Global Technology Services Mac led the technical due diligence for the SoftLayer acquisitio... Read more

Company IBM Cloud Services
Position Director of CloudFirst Innovation and CTO

Keynote: Gain the Competitive Edge with Next Generation Cloud Platforms - Mac Devine, Director of CloudFirst Innovation and CTO, IBM Cloud Services Keynote Panel: Next Generation Cloud Platforms - Moderated By Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CloudSoft

George Dunlap

George Dunlap worked with the Xen project while a graduate student at
the University of Michigan before receiving his PhD in 2006. He is
currently working as Staff Software Engineer for Citrix on the
open-source Xen team in Cambridge, England. He has done work in many
areas of Xen, including performance analysis, scheduling, and memory
management. He is a committer and maintianer for the scheduling and
mm subsystems in Xen, and also serves on the Xen security team. He
writes technical articles regularly for the xenproject.org blog,
including one describing in detail the Intel SYSRET vulnerabil... Read more

Company XenServer
Position Principle Software Engineer
Location Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Securing Your Xen-Based Cloud - George Dunlap, Citrix

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Pavel Emelyanov

Pavel is a principal engineer at Odin working on company’s Cloud Server projects. He holds a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He now maintains CRIU and works on its integration with other Linux containers projects. His speaking experience includes many talks and presentations of Containers and Checkpoint/Restore projects at such conferences as LSFMM summit, Kernel Summit, LinuxCon, Plumbers and Linux Conf AU in the recent years.

Company Odin
Position Architect at server virtualization dpt
Location Russian Federation

CRIU: Time and Space Travel Service for Linux Applications - Pavel Emelyanov, Parallels

Dawn Foster

Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events along with analyzing the data associated with participation in developer and open source communities. Dawn is on the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project and is a maintainer for several of the working groups... Read more

Company VMware
Position Director of Open Source Community Strategy
Location London
URL https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/

What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Building Communities - Dawn Foster, Puppet Labs

Rosemary Francis

Dr. Rosemary Francis is the CEO and technical co-founder of Ellexus Ltd, the I/O profiling company. Rosemary obtained her PhD in Computer Architecture from the Cambridge University Computer Lab. Ellexus develop unique tools for profiling scientific applications with specific expertise in resolving application dependencies and monitoring I/O. They work across the High-Performance Computing sectors with customers in oil and gas, life sciences, semiconductor and finance.

Company Ellexus
Position CEO
Location Cambridge, UK
URL www.ellexus.com

Application-Level Debugging and Profiling: Gaps in the Tool Ecosystem - Rosemary Francis, Ellexus

Omer Frenkel

Omer Frenkel is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead at Red Hat. He is a maintainer in the oVirt project, specializing on virt flows and the oVirt engine.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Tel-Aviv, Israel

oVirt and Cloud-Init integration - Omer Frenkel, Red Hat

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Fernando Garcia

Fernando has been involved for the last 5 years in various projects relating to high performance computing and low latency environments and is an expert in the configuration of systems for extremely noiseless operations.

'Tickless' Kernel: Practical Experiences - Christoph Lameter & Fernando Garcia

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Tony Gargya

I am a systems management architect with a focus on systems management and virtualization in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. My focus is primarily on open source based projects and their integration with commercial products. I work closely with numerous clients to help them manage their data centers. I have spoken often both at IBM and Linux Foundation sponsored conferences. In my current role I'm responsible for improving basic Linux Kernel based Virtual Machine (KVM) management on IBM platforms and exploit platform and Linux KVM features in cloud management stacks. Additionally I also work... Read more

Company IBM
Position Systems Management Architect
Location Boeblingen, Germany

Cloud Computing with KVM - Tony Gargya, IBM

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Matthew Garrett

Matthew Garrett is a developer at Nebula, working on tight integration of Openstack technologies with hardware to improve functionality and security. He maintains the Linux x86 platform drivers tree for handling system-specific features, contributes to kernel UEFI and ACPI support code and supports Shim, the Linux secure boot loader used by most distributions. Matthew has presented on UEFI and firmware related topics at a range of conferences, including various Linuxcon events, the Intel Developer Forum and Microsoft's internal security conference.

Company Nebula
Position Developer

Exploring the Dustier Corners of System Firmware - Matthew Garrett, Nebula

Karsten Gerloff

Karsten Gerloff is the President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. FSFE's mission as an independent not-for-profit organisation is to promote freedom in the information society
through Free Software. Karsten works together with developers, activists, business leaders and high-level political decision makers in order to shape policies and practices to fit the information society. He deals with topics such as software patents, competition and government procurement. Karsten leads FSFE's participation in community and policy processes at the European and global level, and is a frequent speaker at a wide range of conferences and events. Prior to FSFE, he worked as a researcher with the United Nations University... Read more

Company Free Software Foundation Europe
Position President

Lockdown: Serfs or Citizens in a Connected World? - Karsten Gerloff, Free Software Foundation Europe

Sebastien Goasguen

Sebastien Goasguen is a twenty year open source veteran. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he worked on Apache CloudStack and Libcloud for several years before diving into the container world. He is the founder of Skippbox, a Kubernetes startup acquired by Bitnami where he currently serves as Senior Director of Cloud Technologies. An avid blogger he enjoys spreading the word about new cutting edge technologies . Sebastien is the author of the O’Reilly Docker Cookbook and the Kubernetes Cookbook.

Company Bitnami
Position Kubernetes Lead
Location Geneva, Switzerland
URL http://www.bitnami.com

CloudStack Clients and Tools - Sebastien Goasguen, Citrix

Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona

Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona is co-founder of "Bitergia" [1], the software development analytics company specialized in the analysis of free / open source software projects. He also teaches and researches [2] in Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), in the context of the GSyC/LibreSoft research group. His interests include the study of communities of software development, with a focus on quantitative and empirical studies. He enjoys taking photos of the coffee he drinks around the world [3]. [1] http://bitergia.com [2] http://gsyc.es/~jgb [3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgbarah/sets/721576333820... Read more

Company Bitergia / Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Position Cofounder / Associate Professor
Location Madrid Area, Spain
URL http://gsyc.es/~jgb/

How To Do Your Own Analysis of the Kernel Development - Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona, Libresoft

Joe Gordon

Joe Gordon is an SRE at Pinterest, where he works on search and performance.. Before that He spent the last 4 years working full time on the open source project, OpenStack. Where he focused on improving quality. He has spoken at, and co-chaired at OpenStack summits. And has given talks at such events as Europython, LinuxCon, and assorted OpenStack conferences.

Company Pinterest

Very Large Development: How to Run Code Review for 1000 Developers - Joe Gordon, HP

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David Goulet

David Goulet works at EfficiOS Inc., an operating system efficiency R&D consultancy based in Montreal, Canada. He is currently involved in the LTTng project as the maintainer and main developer of lttng-tools.

Company EfficiOS Inc.
Position Maintainer and Main Developer of lttng-tools

LTTng as a New Monitoring Tool - David Goulet, EfficiOS Inc.

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Kamil Grondys

Tizen Dev Lab: Tizen Native API Development - Kamil Grondys

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Shekhar Gulati

Shekhar Gulati is Principal OpenShift Developer Evangelist working with Red Hat. He has 8 years of software web development experience. He regularly speaks at various conference and user groups around the world. Shekhar is an active writer and has written many technical articles for IBM DeveloperWorks, Developer.com, and JavaLobby. His current interests are NoSQL databases, cloud computing, mainly Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), mobile development, javascript frameworks, and new things happening in Java community. When he is not traveling, he loves to write code and read technology books. You can... Read more

Company Red Hat
Position Principal OpenShift Developer Evangelist

Thinking Beyond RDBMS : Building Polyglot Persistence Java Applications - Shekhar Gulati, Red Hat Make Your Mobile Web App Go Hybrid with Apache Cordova - Shekhar Gulati, Red Hat

Davor Guttierrez

Davor Guttierrez works as a System Administrator at 3 Gen d.o.o. He has been working with Linux and UNIX for 20 years, most recently on RedHat Enterprise Virtualization and SuSE Linux Enterprise Servers.

Company 3 Gen d.o.o.
Position System Administrator
Location Ig, Slovenia

Optimizing Linux Servers - Davor Guttierrez, 3 Gen d.o.o.

Florian Haas

Florian runs the Education team at City Network, and helps people learn to use, understand, and deploy complex technology. He has worked exclusively with open source software since about 2002, and has been heavily involved in OpenStack and Ceph since early 2012, and in Open edX since 2015. He co-founded hastexo, an independent professional services company, and served there as CEO and Principal Consultant until its acquisition by City Network in October 2017.

Company City Network
Location Austria
URL https://xahteiwi.eu

(Tutorial) OpenStack Tour de Force - Florian Haas, hastexo

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Tom Hacohen

Tom has been using Linux since 2003. Previously a core developer and part of the leading team in SHR (Openmoko), he is currently a core developer for the EFL (www.enlightenment.org). He has contributed to other Open Source projects over the years, including: freesmartphone.org and libunibreak. In 2010 he started working at Samsung on the Tizen Linux platform.

Company Samsung OSG
Position Senior Engineer
Location London, United Kingdom
URL http://stosb.com

Case Study: How We Migrated The Enlightenment Project To Git - Tom Hacohen & Daniel Willmann, Samsung

Arik Hadas

I'm working on the oVirt project in Red Hat and since 2/2014 I'm a co-maintainer of the ovirt-engine project.

Company Red Hat
Position Software Engineer

RAM Snapshots in oVirt - Arik Hadas, Red Hat

Gordon Haff

Gordon Haff is Technology Advocate at Red Hat where he works on market insights; writes about tech, trends, and their business impact; and is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events. Among the topics he works on are edge, AI, quantum, cloud-native platforms, and next-generation application architectures. His books include From Pots and Vats to Programs and Apps and How Open Source Ate Software. Prior to Red Hat, as an industry analyst, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in major publications on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and... Read more

Company Red Hat
Position Technology Advocate
Location United States
URL http://bitmason.blogspot.com

Controlling Clouds: Beyond Safety - Gordon Haff, Red Hat

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Richard Hartmann

Richard is a project and backbone manager at Globalways AG, a German ISP & carrier. He is freenode and OFTC staff, a Debian Maintainer, on the Debian Trademark Team and currently in the process of becoming a full Debian Developer. He is the main developer of vcsh. His interests range around Free and Open societies, communities, and using computers to make life simpler, not more complicated. Other than that, he chops wood, keeps bees, scuba dives, and likes to visit cold countries. As to previous experience, please see richardhartmann.de/talks

Company Globalways AG
Position Project and Backbone Manager

(Tutorial) Gitify Your Life - Richard Hartmann, Globalways AG

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Hisashi Hashimoto

Hisashi Hashimoto has been working on the development and management of commercial operating systems based on UNIX since he joined Hitachi. His responsibilities encompass both workstations and mainframes. He also has extensive experience managing collaborative development with other UNIX vendors. He now works with the Open Source Software Technology Center and is responsible for the collaboration with other vendors and the OSS community, including the work with the Open Source Software Promotion Forum in Japan.

Company Hitachi
Position Senior Engineer

New Technology:HTML5 - Hisashi Hashimoto, Hitachi

Peer Hasselmeyer

Peer Hasselmeyer has many years of experience in the fields of distributed computing, Software-Defined Networking, and service-oriented architectures. He received a MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and a Ph.D. from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. For many years, Peer has been contributing to the fields of software-defined networking, cloud computing, and data center and service management. He has been involved in NEC’s research and development activities on OpenFlow, SDN and NFV for more than four years and is currently applying his... Read more

Virtual Tenant Networks (VTNs) - Network Virtualization on OpenDaylight, Peer Hasselmeyer, NEC

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Jiri Olsa, Red Hat

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Red Hat

(BoFs) New Storage Technologies and Linux: Shingled Drives and Persistent Memory Linux and New Storage Challenges: Adapting to Faster and Larger Storage - Ric Wheeler, Red Hat Perf Tool Data File and Toggle Event, Jiri Olsa, Red Hat

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Thomas Hatch

Thomas Hatch is the creator, principal architect and CTO of SaltStack. His years of experience as principle cloud architect for Beyond Oblivion, software engineer for Applied Signal Technology, and systems admin for Backcountry.com provided real-world insights into requirements of the modern data center not met by existing tools. Tom’s knowledge and hands-on experience with dozens of new and old infrastructure management technologies helped to established the vision for Salt. Today, Tom is one of the most active contributors in the open-source community, and is widely regarded as rising star... Read more

Company SaltStack
Position Creator, Principal Architect and CTO

Building Web Scale Using Open Source on the Internet Assembly Line - Thomas Hatch, SaltStack

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Armijn Hemel

Binary Analysis Tool: Checking Compliance in Your Supply Chain Without Source Availability - Armijn Hemel, Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions

Alex Heneveld

Alex Heneveld is one of the creators of Apache Brooklyn, and CTO and co-founder at Cloudsoft Corporation where he works with companies large and small to build their application management strategy. With the surprisingly controversial view that applications are more important than infrastructure, he brings a no-nonsense approach to cloud which has proved successful in practice and popular with audiences from Gluecon to LinuxCon.

Company Cloudsoft
Position Co-founder & CTO

(Tutorial) Build a Global Big Data Application: Automate Cassandra Using Brooklyn - Aled Sage, Cloudsoft & Alex Heneveld, Cloudsoft

Mark Hinkle

I like open source software but I like to work with people who work on open source software even better.

Company The LInux Foundation.
Position Vice President, Marketing
Location Cary,NC
URL http://www.socializedsoftware.com

Keynote: We Won. What’s Next? - Mark Hinkle, Director of Community, Citrix

Dirk Hohndel

Dirk is Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist. He has been an active developer and contributor in the Linux space since its earlies days, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and as Unix Architect at Deutsche Bank. Dirk joined Intel in 2001 and
since then has been working in the Software and Services Group with a focus on the technology direction of Intel's Open Source Technology Center and Intel's engagements in open source. His interests range from kernel to user interaction, from massively scalable cloud services to
mobile operating systems. He is... Read more

Company Intel
Position Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist
Location United States

Keynote: Linux: Where Are We Going - Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, Intel and Linus Torvalds, Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Mikko Hypponen

Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure in Finland. He has been working with computer security for over 20 years. His TED Talk on computer security has been seen by almost a million people and has been translated to over 35 languages. He has addressed the EU Parliament and his columns have been published in the New York Times, Wired, CNN and BBC. The Foreign Policy magazine included him on the list of "Top 100 Global Thinkers". Mr. Hypponen sits in the advisory boards of the ISF and the Lifeboat foundation.

Company F-Secure
Position Chief Research Officer

Keynote: Living in a Surveillance State - Mikko Hypponen, CRO, F-Secure

Lev Iserovich

Lev Iserovich develops systems software for the Anton series of specialized supercomputers at D. E. Shaw Research. Previously, he
has worked on embedded systems software for telecommunications equipment at Ciena, Linux kernel optimization for video streaming at Ciprico Systems, and performance enhancement for the HP-UX kernel at Hewlett-Packard. He has over 20 years of industry experience writing and debugging software for platforms ranging from microcontrollers to supercomputers.
He has previously spoken at LinuxCon Europe.

Company D. E. Shaw Research
Position Research Engineer
Location New York City
URL http://www.deshawresearch.com

Using Linux to Support a Specialized Supercomputer - Lev Iserovich, D.E. Shaw Research

Duncan Johnson-Watt

Currently focused on launching Paravela, a startup based here in Riyadh to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities in the Kingdom and contribute to Vision 2030. Paravela is an enterprise data management company that enables the secure sharing of critical information about the state of any asset across multiple parties.

While this is broadly applicable, we are using our technology to tackle asset management challenges in the construction, real estate and infrastructure sectors in the first instance. For example, ensuring that insurance companies can access real-time information on the assets they are insuring such as construction equipment. In this scenario, everyone benefits since this eliminates fraud as well as payout disputes if there is an issue... Read more

Company Paravela
Position CEO & Co-Founder
Location UK/KSA
URL paravela.com

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Dmitry Kasatkin

Dmitry Kasatkin has been a Linux user since 1996 and a developer since 2000. His first major open source project was the Affix Bluetooth stack for Linux, which includes kernel space and user space components and was the first Nokia GPL Open Source project. In 2008 Dmitry's focus shifted towards security and cryptographic software. He implemented TI OMAP crypto drivers and is currently the major contributor and co-maintainer of the Linux kernel Integrity Subsystem. Dmitry currently works at Samsung Open Source Center, Finland. Previously he worked 2 years at Intel Open Source Technology Center and... Read more

Company Huawei
Position Principal SW Engineer
Location Finland

Integrity Protection Solutions in Linux - Dmitry Kasatkin, Samsung Electronics

Kostas Katrinis

Kostas Katrinis is a Research Staff Member in IBM Research - Ireland. He has been in communication networks research since 2001, taking on challenging problems across the stack, from transport-layer congestion control down to physical-layer aware optical networking solutions. He has participated as technical staff in various projects around communication networks. Dr. Katrinis has co-authored over 40 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, book chapters and patents. His latest research focuses on networks and optical/electronic interconnects for high-performance computing... Read more

Network Virtualization Support in OpenDaylight, Kostas Katrinis, IBM

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Hidehiro Kawai

Hidehiro Kawai has been working at Hitachi since 2004 and developing Linux kernel and related tools. Currently, he is working for Linux enhancement in the field of control systems.

Company Hitachi, Ltd.
Position Researcher

Identifying Kernel Messages in Low Cost - Hidehiro Kawai, Hitachi

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Shuah Khan

Shuah Khan is a Senior Linux Kernel Developer at Samsung's Open Source Group. She is a Linux Kernel Contributor who focuses on IOMMU, DMA, Linux Power Management, and PCIe, in addition to helping with stable release kernel maintenance testing and bug fixes. Shuah has several years of Unix kernel development experience. She has also contributed to OpenHPI, and LLDP projects. She has presented at several internal conferences, and will be speaking at the upcoming LinuxCon America New Orleans, LA.

Company Samsung SRA OSG
Position Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Location United States

Detecting Silent Data Corruptions and Memory Leaks Using DMA Debug API - Shuah Khan, Samsung

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Alvin Kim

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Namhyung Kim

Company Namhyung Kim

Integrating Ftrace into the Perf Tools, Namhyung Kim, LG Electronics

Yoonsoo Kim

As a Tizen platform architect, Yoonsoo Kim is actively participating in architecture design, considering desired platform qualities such as security, performance, maintainability, testability, time-to-market, and etc. at Samsung Electronics Mobile R&D Office. He is also reviewing all Tizen Native C++ APIs and in charge of Native C++ API definition and evolution as an experienced C++ developer for over 17 years.

Company Samsung
Location Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
URL http://yesarang.tistory.com

Introduction to Tizen & Architecture - Yoonsoo Kim, Samsung

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Avi Kivity

Avi Kivity is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of Cloudius Systems, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.

Introducing OSv: A New Open Source Operating System Designed for the Cloud - Avi Kivity & Glauber Costa Cloudius

Andrey Korolyov

Andrey Korolyov is a twenty-five year old engineer working currently both for Flops.ru as cofounder and for Mirantis as an employee, planning and implementing architecture in the first and doing stuff related to the Fuel product in second.

Company Flops
Position Cofounder
Location Moscow, Russian Federation
URL https://flops.ru

Developing Cloud Infrastructure From Scratch: A Tale of an ISP - Andrey Korolyov, Performix LLC

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Vangelis Koukis

Vangelis Koukis is currently working at GRNET as the Technical Lead of the ~okeanos project, delivering a large scale, full-fledged public cloud service. He is also the Technical Lead of the Synnefo project. His speaking experience includes various open source (LinuxCon/CloudOpen, FOSDEM) and academic (SC13, Euro-Par 2012, IEEE CloudCom, IPDPS) conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering also from the NTUA.

Company GRNET
Position Technical Lead, ~okeanos cloud

Synnefo: A Complete Cloud Stack Over Google Ganeti - Vangelis Koukis, Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET)

Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is the community manager for the Xen Project. Lars has 12 years of experience building and leading engineering teams, strong experience of working with open source communities, with a track record of executing several change programs impacting 1000+ users, complemented by strong analytical, communication, influencing and presentation skills, good knowledge of marketing and product management and extensive background in... Read more

Company Citrix Systems UK Ltd.
Position Director Open Source / Project Chairperson The Xen Project
Location London, UK
URL http://xenproject.org

Xen Project: Lessons Learned! - Lars Kurth, Citrix

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Christoph Lameter

Christoph Lameter is specializing in High Performance Computing and High Frequency Trading technologies. As an operating system designer and kernel developer he has been developing memory management technologies for Linux to enhance performance and reduce latencies. He is fond of new technologies and new ways of thinking that disrupt existing industries and causes new development communities to emerge.

Company Jump Trading LLC
Position R&D Team Lead

High Performance Computing Using Linux: The Good and the Bad - Christoph Lameter 'Tickless' Kernel: Practical Experiences - Christoph Lameter & Fernando Garcia Latency Analysis in the Trading Community - Christoph Lameter & Mark Dawson

Thiago Macieira

Thiago Macieira holds a double degree in Engineering and an MBA. He has been involved in several Open Source projects for over 15 years and is an experienced C++ developer, having spent the better part of the last 10 years developing Qt and Qt-based software. He has been involved with many Open Source projects in the last 10 years, and in the last two and a half, he's focused on IoT, having helped launch both the IoTivity collaborative project and the Open Connectivity Foundation. He works for Intel'sOpen Source Technology Center out of Portland, OR.

Company Open Source Technology Center, Intel
Position Engineer
Location Portland, OR, US
URL http://macieira.org/blog/

Tizen 3.0 Open Governance - Thiago Macieira, Intel & Guy Martin, Samsung Qt Project - 2 Years Later - Thiago Macieira, Intel Corp. Binary Compatibility for Library Developers - Thiago Macieira, Intel Corp.

Nils Magnus

Nils designs scalable and reliable cloud security architecture as Cloud Architect for the Open Telekom Cloud at T-Systems International GmbH, Germany and has volunteered as program chair for the LinuxTag conference since 1996. He serves at the Board of Directory of LinuxTag Association. He has spoken for 15+ years at conferences around the world on the advantages of free and open source software, and on security management issues.

Company Open Telekom Cloud, T-Systems International GmbH
Position Cloud Architect
Location Berlin, Germany
URL https://cloud.telekom.de/

10 Ways to Ruin Your Cloud Experience (and How to Mitigate Them) - Nils Magnus, LinuxTag Association

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Deepak Mane

Deepak S. Mane is a Performance/Cloud Consultant in Global Consulting practice - Performance Engineering Lab at Tata Research Development and Design Center (A Research wing of TCS). He has published 14 papers in Conference Seminars , and He is currently pursuing research in Cloud computing, Performance Management,

Company Tata Consultancy Services
Position Cloud Architect

K Means Clustering Algorithm Using Hadoop in OpenStack - Deepak Mane, Tata Research Development and Design Center

Catharina Maracke

Catharina is a lawyer by training and has been involved in intellectual property and public licensing models for over 15 years beginning with her work as director for Creative Commons International overseeing and stewarding the Creative Commons global licensing suite and managing the global license porting project. Catharina has worked closely with the World Economic Forum, where she served on the Global Agenda Council on the intellectual property system.

She has founded the Software Compliance Academy, a private training and consulting firm to support clients in their Open Source journey and c... Read more

Company Open Source Initiative
Position Chair

How to Reduce Friction and Transaction Costs in Intellectual Property Management for FOSS Projects (Standardization of Contributor Agreements and Beyond) - Catharina Maracke, Keio University

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Guy Martin

Guy is the Senior Open Source Strategist at Samsung.

Company Samsung Open Source Group
Position Senior Open Source Strategist
Location United States

Tizen 3.0 Open Governance - Thiago Macieira, Intel & Guy Martin, Samsung

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Michael Meeks

Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. He very much enjoys working for SUSE where as the Linux Desktop Architect he tries to understand and nudge the direction of our Linux investment. He works as a member of the board of The Document Foundation, and the Engineering Steering Committee on LibreOffice. He has appreciated working on various pieces of infrastructure and applications over the years: from GNOME office, through component technologies, to Evolution, Accessibility, MeeGo, and latterly LibreOffice much of the time. Prior to this he worked for Quantel gaining expertise... Read more

Company SUSE
Position Linux Desktop Architect

LibreOffice on Linux - Michael Meeks, SUSE

Maksim Melnikau

Linux mobile hobbyist; World of Tanks developer. I've been working for Wargaming.net since 2009, and nowadays I'm a Solution Architect / Team Lead in the Web Department. I implemented AMQP support for the World of Tanks game server, and designed the OpenID and Single Sign On architecture for our web projects. In The Open Source world, my interests cover the broad spectrum of everything related to Linux on mobile devices. My community involvement includes reporting bugs and submitting patches to various Open Source projects like systemd, telepathy and CRIU. I also have a lot of speaking experience... Read more

Company Wargaming.net
Position Solution Architect / Team Lead
Location Minsk, Belarus

World of Tanks: Linux and Open Source Inside - Maksim Melnikau, Wargaming.net

Giovanni Meo

Giovanni Meo is a Technical Leader in the Data Center Business Group in Cisco. He is currently committer for the controller project on OpenDayLight, and developer for several of the infrastructures pieces of the controller. He is also designer and developer for the Cisco XNC controller and working in SDN space since past 2 years. Prior to this he has been working for 13+ years on designing and developing IP multicast features and platform components for the Cisco Catalyst 6K product line.

Company Cisco
Position Technical Leader
Location Rome, Italy

OpenDaylight In Practice, Giovanni Meo, Cisco

Rich Miller

Rich Miller is President of Telematica, Inc., a holding company and consultancy with a practice in product strategy and business development for cloud computing and networked technologies.

Rich most recently served as CEO of Replicate Technologies, Inc., a provider of configuration management technology for virtualized data centers. Prior to Replicate, he co-founded and served as COO of Univa Corporation (now Univa UD), a provider of high performance computing and datacenter management systems.

Rich’s career as technologist, consultant, executive, and an early investor has focused on the formation of technology companies and their offerings that provide wireless network infrastructure, enterprise messaging utilities and application service infrastructures... Read more

Keynote Panel: Next Generation Cloud Platforms - Moderated By Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CloudSoft

Christoph Mitasch

Christoph Mitasch works as a WebOps & KT expert at Thomas-Krenn.AG. He is working with Linux since 1998 and has in-depth knowledge in the area of high availability, data replication, web services and virtualization. Christoph studied "Computer- and Media-Security" at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. His speaking experience includes LinuxTag, CeBit and OSMC. He lives near Linz, Austria and beside his work he enjoys running and juggling.

Company Thomas-Krenn.AG
Position WebOps & KT Expert
Location Freyung, Germany
URL http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/

SSD and HDD Performance Testing - Christoph Mitasch, Thomas-Krenn

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Alexandre Montplaisir

Analyzing all Kinds of Traces with the TMF Viewer - Alexandre Montplaisir, Ericsson

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Alexandre Montplaisir, Ericsson

Alexandre completed a M.Sc.A. in 2011 at École Polytechnique de Montréal, where he then worked as a research associate on the DMCT tracing project. He joined Ericsson in 2013, to continue working on TMF and related tracing tools.

Company Ericsson

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David Nalley

David is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a committer and project management committee member of Apache CloudStack. David is a recovering sysadmin, having spent a decade in operations. Other current and past open source projects include the Fedora Project and Zenoss. David is employed by Citrix in the Open Source Business Office.

Company Apache CloudStack
Position @ke4qqq
Location United States

(Tutorial) Building a Test/Dev Cloud with Apache CloudStack - David Nalley, Citrix

Deb Nicholson

Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Community Outreach Director for the Open Invention Network, the world's largest patent non-aggression community which serves Linux, GNU, Android and other key FOSS projects. She’s won the O’Reilly Open Source Award for her work with GNU MediaGoblin and OpenHatch. She is a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She also serves on the Software Freedom Conservancy's Evaluation Committee... Read more

Company Open Invention Network
Position Director of Community Outreach
Location Cambridge, MA

Software Patents: Solutions for Developers - Deb Nicholson, Open Invention Network

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Martin Oberhuber

Integrating Event Stacktrace with Trace Data Collection, Martin Oberhuber, Wind River

Phil Odence

Phil Odence is Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Black Duck Software, with responsibility for corporate and business development activities and expanding Black Duck's reach, image and product breadth by developing partnerships across Black Duck's ecosystem ecosystem (which comprises ALM companies, systems integrators, and the open source and legal communities). He is a frequent speaker at open source industry events, including LinuxCon, GOSCon, IBM Innovate, and Rational 2012. Phil chairs the Linux Foundation's Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) working group and participates... Read more

Company Black Duck Software
Position VP of Business Development
Location United States

Open Source's $59B Opportunity - Phil Odence, Black Duck Software (BoFs) SPDX - Phil Odence, Black Duck Software (Moderator)

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Jiri Olsa

Perf Tool Data File and Toggle Event, Jiri Olsa, Red Hat

Oved Ourfali

Oved Ourfali, a Senior Software Engineer for Red-Hat. Has a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. Has been working in the Computer industry for 10 years. In the last few years he has worked mostly on the oVirt project, and related ones, focusing mostly Virtualization and Cloud environments. He was a speaker both in his academic history (biggest session for 400 people), and the industry one (different sessions in several oVirt workshops, deltacloud session in the "Build A Cloud Day" in PuppetCamp in Ghent) and more.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Israel
URL ovedou.blogspot.com

(Tutorial) Scripting And Integration with the oVirt Engine - Oved Ourfali, Red Hat

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