Business Track Overview
The Business track is made possible by the team at Crunchy Data
For years most didn’t understand the business component of open source, and as a result, there weren’t many sessions or attention focused on it.
My how times have changed.
Nearly everyone now understands the impact of open source on business models and operations, and they want to know and learn more.
Some of the world’s top experts will be featured on the track this year discussing truly interesting topics.
See who and what will be covered below, and plan now to attend and participate.
Tuesday, November 1
Building and Running A Support Department for an Open Source Product
Matt Yonkovit, SteamNative
OSPO Journey: From Open Source ad-hoc to Strategic Decision-Making Partners
Ana Jiménez Santamaría, TODO Group
Open Source Law, Policy and Practice Book Panel (a panel discussion)
Amanda Brock, OpenUK, Jilayne Lovejoy, Red Hat, Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation, Nithya Ruff, Amazon, Pamela Chestek, Chestek Legal, and Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Conservancy
Improving Licensing Upstream
Jilayne Lovejoy, Red Hat
The new OSS community: enabling for advocates not customers
Andrea Griffiths, GitHub
Making content decisions between open source and enterprise versions of a software product
Art Berger, solo.io
GPL: The Best Open Source License for Small Business
James Bottomley, IBM Research
Wednesday, November 2
Consumers to Contributor: Open source as a competitive advantage
Brendan O’Leary, GitLab
Measuring and making decisions based on Social Currency
Venia Logan, SociallyConstructed.Online
The Value of an Open Source Community
Where — as Aristotle said — “Our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”
Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network (OIN)
Hiring is Broken: Towards Effective and Equitable Technical Interviews
Christopher Parnin, North Carolina State University