Featured Talks Spotlight
Featured Talks will take place each day of the conference (Monday the 18th and Tuesday the 19th), in the 1:00 – 1:45 pm ET time block.
And similar to the keynote sessions we announced last week, the talks focus on topics we feel are applicable to a wide audience.
This year’s lineup of both sessions and speakers is impressive and should deliver a ton of value to conference attendees. Register now to attend and see them live!
*Please note, the below sessions are a mix of in-person and virtual sessions. In-person will be live streamed to the virtual platform. Virtual sessions will take place on the virtual platform only.
Monday, October 18

Learn With Jason, Extra Live!
Jason Lengstorf, Principal Developer Experience Engineer, Netlify
A live coding session with Jason Lengstorf. Watch and engage with Jason as he sets up and deploys a site with serverless functions (and maybe a database) – in real time. Pretty cool!
Virtual




Executive Panel: Where do Great Open Source Contributors, Maintainers, & Hires come from?
Jon Gottfried, Co-Founder, Major League Hacking
Demetris Cheatham, Senior Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Strategy, GitHub
Pete Davies, Senior Vice President – Head of Platform Engineering and Cloud Management
Michael Cheng, Product Manager, Facebook
In-person

Remaking the Bank: the Rise of OSS in Banking and Finance
Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network (OIN)
In-person


The Growing Research that Open Source Owns the Future in Cloud
Chris Ferris, IBM & Deb Bryant, Red Hat
Virtual

Building Prometheus Interoperability in OpenTelemetry
Alolita Sharma, Principal Technologist, AWS
Virtual

Open Source Licensing 101
Jim Jagielski, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Salesforce
Virtual



Data Profiler, an Open Source Solution to Explain Your Data
Austin Walters, Grant Eden, & Jeremy Goodsit, Capital One
Virtual
Tuesday, October 19


Using Reproducible Experiments To Create Better Machine Learning Models
Melicia McGregor, Developer Advocate, Iterative
Virtual

AlmaLinux and the New CentOS Ecosystem
Jack Aboutboul, Community Manager and Board Member, AlmaLinux Foundation
In-person





What Threats are Hiding in Your Software – And How to Find Them
Guy Martin, Executive Director, OASIS
Jason Keirstead, IBM
Richard Struse, Mitre Engenuity
Dr. Allan Friedman, US Department of Commerce
Duncan Sparrell, Network Security Evangelist
In-person

How I Built a Network on Twitter
Sebina Delilbasic, Linux with Seb & Student, University of Utah
Virtual



How open source is helping financial services adopt new technology from the ‘outside in’
Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS
In-person