Featured Talks Overview
Each core day of programming – Tuesday, November 1 and Wednesday, November 2, will host “Featured Talks” in the 12:45 pm ET time block.
These are talks covering interesting and widely applicable topics and are 45 minutes in duration. They’re always a big hit with attendees.
See who and what will be covered below, and plan now to see them live and in-person in downtown Raleigh!
*Note, the talks take place over lunch / while lunch is available each day, so feel free to eat as you attend a session. Also, updates will be made to the sessions below, so keep checking back between now and the event.
Tuesday, November 1
Steam Away the Wait
Kent C. Dodds, ReMix
Say Vulnerabilities One More Time – Ending Open Source Security Fatigue (extended version of Alyssa’s 15 minute keynote talk)
Alyssa Miller, Epiq Global
Major League Hacking (MLH) Executive Panel – Where Do Great Open Source Contributors, Maintainers, & Hires Come From?
Jon Gottfried, Co-founder, MLH, Stephen Augustus, Cisco, & Akersh Srivastava, Meta
Lessons Learned leading an OSS Diversity Team
Fatima Sarah Khalid, GitLab
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
Open Source IoT on Amazon Web Services
Richard Elberger, AWS
Wednesday, November 2
Improving Open Source Ecosystem Sustainability Through Automation & amp; Creating a Seamless Contribution Process
Nureen D’Souza, Jeremy Goodsitt, & Sri Ranganathan, Capital One
How Content Creation Took My Career to the Next Level
James Q. Quick, Technical Content Creator
Non-technical skills eat technical skills for breakfast (extended version of his keynote talk)
Arun Gupta, Intel
Creating Community: A frank discussion between a megacorp and a start-up
Karen Chu, Microsoft Azure & Matthew Butcher, Fermeyon
Why Should Developers Care About Container Security?
Eric Smalling, Snyk
Full Stack Developer Experience: Grow your developer community by building an open and easy to use platform
Eric Thiel, Cisco Systems
Becoming Cloudy with Kubernetes
Burr Sutter, Red Hat
Open Source: The Next Generation
Mike Swift, Major League Hacking