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Wednesday, August 29
 

11:10am PDT

From XML to Flat Protobufs: Markup in the Twenty-teens - Elliotte Rusty Harold, Google
As Andrew Tanenbaum once said, “The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.” In this talk we’ll discuss the most common markup formats in use today including:

* XML
* JSON
* YAML
* Protobufs
* EXI
* Flat Protobufs

We’ll talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each with an eye toward helping you choose the best format for your projects. We’ll talk about both the internal and external (tool support) features that each format brings to the table.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold

SWE, Google
Elliotte Rusty Harold is originally from New Orleans to which he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he currently resides in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn with his wife Beth and dog Thor. His books include Java I/O, Java Network Programming... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 11:10am - 11:50am PDT
Room 207

12:00pm PDT

Deep Learning Neural Network Acceleration at the Edge - Andrea Gallo, Linaro
The dramatically growing amount of data captured by sensors and the ever more stringent requirements for latency and real time constraints are paving the way for edge computing, and this implies that not only big data analytics but also AI inference shall be executed at the edge. The multiple options for neural network acceleration in recent Arm-based platforms provides an unprecedented opportunity for new intelligent devices with AI inference. It also brings the risk of fragmentation and duplication of efforts when multiple frameworks shall support multiple accelerators. Andrea Gallo, Linaro VP of Segment Groups, will summarise the existing NN frameworks, model description formats, accelerator solutions, low cost development boards and will describe the efforts underway to identify the best technologies to improve the consolidation and enable the competitive innovative advantage from all vendors.

Speakers
avatar for Andrea Gallo

Andrea Gallo

VP of Business Development, Linaro
Andrea is VP of Business Development at Linaro. He joined the Linaro Technical Steering Committee in 2010 as an ST-Ericsson Fellow before becoming a Linaro employee in 2012 as the Director of the Linaro Enterprise Group (now known as the Linaro Data Center and Cloud Group). He then... Read More →



Wednesday August 29, 2018 12:00pm - 12:40pm PDT
Room 207

2:10pm PDT

Upcoming Projects: LF Energy, ASWF, KernelCI - Michael Dolan, The Linux Foundation & David Morin, Academy Software Foundation
Speakers
avatar for Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan

SVP and GM of Projects, The Linux Foundation
Michael Dolan is SVP and GM of Projects at the Linux Foundation supporting open source projects and legal programs He has set up and launched hundreds of open source and open standards projects covering technology segments including networking, virtualization, cloud, blockchain, Internet... Read More →
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David Morin

Executive Director, Academy Software Foundation
David Morin serves as the Executive Director of the Academy Software Foundation, an organization created by the motion picture industry to develop the use of open source software in all media. David is also chair of the Joint Technology Committee on Virtual Production at the American... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 2:10pm - 2:50pm PDT
Room 207
  Emerging Technologies / Wildcard
  • about Michael Dolan is VP of Strategic Programs supporting open source projects and legal programs at The Linux Foundation. He has set up and launched dozens of open source and open standards projects covering technology segments including networking, virtualization, cloud, blockchain, Internet of Things, big data and analytics, security, containers, storage, and embedded devices.<br><br>Mike is also involved in OpenChain and SPDX, and runs open source legal programs such as The Linux Foundation’s annual Legal Summit and Open Compliance Summit. Prior to joining The Linux Foundation, he spent eight years at IBM in roles across systems, services, and software.<br>He received an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, a J.D. from Cleveland State University, and a B.S. in economics from John Carroll University. Mike is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association.

3:00pm PDT

The Open Source Approach to Enabling Vehicle Autonomy - Brian Gerkey, Open Robotics
As the autonomous vehicle industry matures and garners international attention, safety and security should be front and center for every manufacturer. Having a shared reference implementation, with company-specific modifications, is key to safety; think ABS brakes, for example. Simulation is another area where open source plays an important role in advancing safety. In order to replicate a real-world environment, a significant amount of time and distance involving a wide range of moving objects -- such as people, animals, cars with drivers and those without -- are needed. Simulation can provide a real-world environment on a large scale to advance development and validate safety that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

Learn from Open Robotics CEO Brian Gerkey how autonomous vehicle manufacturers use open source to build best in class reference implementations and simulation environments.

Speakers
avatar for Brian Gerkey

Brian Gerkey

co-founder and CEO, Open Robotics
Brian Gerkey is co-founder and CEO of Open Robotics, which drives the development and adoption of open software and hardware for robotics. Prior to Open Robotics, Brian worked at Willow Garage, SRI, Stanford, and USC. Brian is a strong believer in, frequent contributor to, and constant... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 3:00pm - 3:40pm PDT
Room 207

4:00pm PDT

Blockchain Ledger in the Wild: Using the Hyperledger Platform to Manage Open Source - Mark Gisi & Sameer Ahmed, Wind River
Software solutions, whether it is an application, library, container or an entire Linux runtime are comprised of some percentage of open source software. Tracking which components were used, when and by whom across the software supply chain has multiple benefits. We discuss the benefits and how a Blockchain ledger is used to solve the open source tracking problem for both internal development teams in large organizations and external suppliers across a supply chain. We will present a public Blockchain ledger used to track and manage open source compliance artifacts (source, notices, SPDX data) for various hardware runtime builds of the Zephyr project.

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Sameer Ahmed

Senior Member of Technical Staff - App, Wind River Systems
Sameer Ahmed is a Sr. Member of Technical Staff at Wind River Systems. He has developed various cloud system applications including tools to generate and consumer SPDX data. Sameer is the technology lead of the SParts project and core blockchain ledger developer. Sameer has a Master... Read More →
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Mark Gisi

Director, Open Source Program Office, Wind River Systems
Mark is the Director of the Open Source Program Office at Wind River Systems where he is responsible for open source adoption; risk mitigation; community engagement and innovation acceleration using open source principles. He was an early contributor to the SPDX project and founding... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm PDT
Room 207

4:50pm PDT

The Apache Way - Daniel Ruggeri, Mastercard
From humble beginnings, the Apache Software Foundation has grown to be the home to hundreds of Open Source projects and the keeper of the famous Apache Public License. The ASF is a great example of a Public Good foundation that values "Community Over Code"... but what does that even mean? What are the values of the ASF? What is the structure of the foundation? How do I get involved?

Come join Daniel as we take a walk through some of the history, structure, processes and all of the stuff that makes the ASF what it is. From demystifying how to begin contributing to managing entire projects in the ASF, you will be well introduced to The Apache Way.

Speakers
avatar for Daniel Ruggeri

Daniel Ruggeri

Principal Engineer, Mastercard
Daniel is Principle Cloud Architect at Mastercard and an Open Source evangelist. Responsible for setting the direction of Mastercard regarding the Web and Cloud space, he spends his days and nights playing with infrastructure and the code that powers it both inside the firewall and... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 4:50pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 207

5:40pm PDT

BoF: ACRN – The Little Hypervisor for IoT Development - Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel
ACRN, a Linux Foundation Collaboration Project is built with real-time and safety criticality elements in mind. ACRN is a lightweight open source reference hypervisor, tailor-made for the unique needs of embedded IoT development. If you’ve haven’t heard about project ACRN before or better yet, if you already have, this BoF is an ideal place to learn about our latest release and bring your questions directly to the project’s maintainers. Everyone is welcome. We look forward to hearing and answering your questions on project ACRN!

Speakers
avatar for Jefro Osier-Mixon

Jefro Osier-Mixon

Program Manager, Linux Foundation
"Jefro" Osier-Mixon has been an open source professional since the early 1990s as a technical writer and occasional developer as well as community manager, program manager, and OSPO leader. His primary activities over the years have included the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, GNU... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 5:40pm - 6:20pm PDT
Room 109

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Driving the Future of Data Infrastructure for High-Scale Data Centers - Ihab Hamadi, Western Digital
The exponential growth in data is not only fueling new Big Data and Fast Data applications, it is also creating complexities in the way that data is being captured, preserved, accessed and transformed. 
 
New NVMe™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) devices will soon be available from multiple vendors. These new fabric devices will require additional management procedures above and beyond what has been historically used.
 
The OpenFlex™ architecture disaggregates flash and disk, compute and network resources into independent, scalable pools that can be connected via common networking technologies, such as Ethernet. The open Kingfish™ API enables these pools to be presented as software composable infrastructure that can be quickly and easily orchestrated to precisely address the needs of complex and dynamic applications and data workflows.  Various KingFish™ tools will also be contributed to open-source.

Speakers
avatar for Ihab Hamadi

Ihab Hamadi

Fellow, Datacenter Systems, Western Digital
Ihab Hamadi is Sr. Director of Engineering at Western Digital, where he focuses on the innovation and growth of the company's platforms business, delivering data and application-centric solutions for the enterprise and cloud.  He has a solid 21-year track record of building leading-edge... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 5:40pm - 6:20pm PDT
Room 121

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Open Source Project to Deploy Software Updates to IoT - Eystein Stenberg, Mender.io
As IoT moves past being a buzzword and into the implementation phase, there have been some obvious challenges that has arisen. One of them is the ability to deploy updates and patch security vulnerabilities to IoT devices. The update process for embedded systems deployed in the field, whether it is a connected car, industrial automation, medical devices, can be a risky endeavor as a device can be bricked if the update is interrupted for any reason, including power loss or poor network connectivity.

In this BOF, Eystein Stenberg (CTO of the OSS Mender.io project) will give an update to this project and go over some of the key risks of IoT implementation and how the project is going about solving those challenges with a freely available over-the-air (OTA) updater.

Speakers
avatar for Eystein Stenberg

Eystein Stenberg

CTO, Mender.io
Eystein Stenberg has ten years of experience in security and systems management as a developer, a support engineer, a technical account manager, a product manager, and now CTO.He has been in the front lines of some of the largest production environments in various roles and has in-depth... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 5:40pm - 6:20pm PDT
Room 114/115

5:40pm PDT

BoF: Software for Software Development Analytics: Status on CHAOSS Software Projects - Jesus M., Bitergia & Sean Goggins, University of Missouri
This birds-of-a-feather session is for anyone who has an interest in analyzing open source projects. We will introduce how to use Augur and GrimoireLab, two software tools developed by the CHAOSS project. We will discuss how to gather and visualize metrics about open source project software development and how to run analytics on them. The development team has two objectives for this BoF: (1) share knowledge and information about how to do open source project analytics with specific tools; (2) receive feedback from participants to guide future development.

https://github.com/OSSHealth/augur/

https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab/

Speakers
avatar for Sean Goggins

Sean Goggins

Professor, CHAOSS Project
Sean is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri, where his research foci are open source software, and human centered data science. Sean is a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s working group on community health analytics for... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 5:40pm - 6:20pm PDT
Room 207
 
Thursday, August 30
 

11:00am PDT

Ansible: Why Simplicity Matters - Robyn Bergeron, Red Hat
Developed by a community of more than 3,500 contributors, Ansible is an open source, radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and manage.  In this session, we'll provide an overview of Ansible and discuss many of its use cases, including examples from the traditional to the unorthodox, as well as overviews of both AWX and the universe of shared content in Ansible Galaxy. Finally, we’ll discuss how the simplicity of Ansible’s design and usage, and the architectural decisions made with the goal of simplicity at the beginning stages of the project’s evolution, have enabled the project to become one of the most active open source communities in the world.

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Thursday August 30, 2018 11:00am - 11:40am PDT
Room 116/117

11:00am PDT

EdgeX Explorations - Tiejun Chen & Huaqiao Zhang, VMware
EdgeX Foundry, https://www.edgexfoundry.org/, is a vendor-neutral software platform at the edge of IoT. It interacts with a variety of IoT devices. Essentially, EdgeX Foundry is a good microservices architecture based on container like docker. Typically, these microservices are categorized into 4 primary service layers. Oftentimes they are deployed at IoT edge system. But in recent years there is a burgeoning trend of supporting multi-tenancy and isolation, and the security issue is the biggest concern in the IoT. So considering such an increasing vulnerability to native container, hw-assisted virtualization like hypervisor and lightweight VM are promoted in IoT edge system. So here we would like to discuss if-how we can put hardware virtualization technologies down to edge site with EdgeX Foundry. Additionally, we incorporate one universal web console into EdgeX to manage and provision IoT devices efficiently.

Speakers
avatar for Tiejun Chen

Tiejun Chen

Sr. Technical Lead, VMware
Tiejun Chen is Sr. technical leader from VMware OCTO, also strategic Representative of RISC-V International TSC 2023. He's been working on a lot of areas - cloud native, edge computing, ML/AI, RISC-V, WebAssembly, etc. He ever made many presentations at kubecon China 2021, Kube Edge... Read More →
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Huaqiao Zhang

software developer, VMware
Huaqiao Zhang is a developer of working on EdgeX development at VMware.


Thursday August 30, 2018 11:00am - 11:40am PDT
Room 207

11:50am PDT

Accelerating Connected & Autonomous Vehicles through Open Source Software - Dan Cauchy, The Linux Foundation
The race to roll out new technology features, mobility services and autonomous vehicles continues to heat up across the tech and automotive industries. In order to compete at the speed of a tech company, many automakers have shifted from traditional development processes to agile, rapid development through open source software.

Dan Cauchy, Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) at The Linux Foundation, will provide an overview of AGL, key milestones including the launch of Toyota’s AGL-based infotainment system globally, and the project roadmap for the future including vehicle-to-cloud services and functional safety. He will also discuss AGL's vision for an open source platform for autonomous driving that will help accelerate the development of self-driving technology while creating a sustainable ecosystem that can maintain it as it evolves over time.

Speakers
avatar for Dan Cauchy

Dan Cauchy

Executive Director, Automotive Grade Linux, The Linux Foundation
Dan Cauchy is the General Manager of Automotive at The Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of Automotive Grade Linux, a cross-industry effort to build an open software platform for automotive applications. Cauchy has over 22 years of experience spanning the automotive, telecom... Read More →


Thursday August 30, 2018 11:50am - 12:30pm PDT
Room 116/117

11:50am PDT

Zephyr 101- Thea Aldrich, Zephyr Project
In an increasingly fragmented RTOS market, Zephyr OS is setting the standard for cross-company, cross-architecture collaboration and technical innovation. This presentation will provide an overview of the current RTOS ecosystem, discuss the mission of the Zephyr Project and the current state of both the project and community. It will take attendees through the technical feature road map of Zephyr OS, as well as a detailed look at our model for collaboration and lessons learned.

A dive deep into the mechanics of managing the Zephyr Project and the ways technical decisions are made, how release cycles are handled and other practical aspects of open source development will also be covered. This includes best practices and practical recommendations for how to leverage Zephyr OS in your organization to take full advantage of the benefits and truly open source RTOS provides.

Speakers
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Thea Aldrich

Developer Advocate, Zephyr Project
Thea is a Developer Evangelist at Zephyr Project (Linux Foundation). Previously she worked as a developer advocate at Eclipse Foundation. She is passionate about data, connectivity and IoT.


Thursday August 30, 2018 11:50am - 12:30pm PDT
Room 207

2:00pm PDT

Building a Test-Driven Network Infrastructure - Tyler Christiansen, Sauce Labs
As businesses evolve, they demand greater agility alongside greater infrastructure reliability. How do network professionals and their colleagues deliver on the ever-increasing demands of the business? Tyler Christiansen will show how open source tools can be used to build test-driven network infrastructure pipelines with environment promotion using fundamental tools such as git and Python as well as popular projects like Vagrant and SaltStack.

Speakers
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Tyler Christiansen

Network Architect, Sauce Labs
Tyler Christiansen is a Network Architect for Sauce Labs where he helps build their networking infrastructure. He has been active in the open source community, including contributing to open source projects. He has spoken previously about Test-Driven Networking and Automated Remediation... Read More →


Thursday August 30, 2018 2:00pm - 2:40pm PDT
Room 207

2:00pm PDT

Building an Open Source Culture at Microsoft - Jose Miguel Parrella & Ria Bhatia, Microsoft
For well over a decade, Microsoft has been in an open source journey. And many things have happened since then. The cloud changed our relationship with customers and partners. Openness has become central to what we do, yet not every step in this journey has been perfect or without controversy. At Microsoft, we’re driving a cultural transformation and we know our customers and partners are, too.

In this session, Ria and Jose Miguel will share not only the what, but the why and the how of our open source efforts through inside the firewall stories that illustrate how we cross organizational boundaries, reconcile our own differentiators, rethink ecosystem and collaboration and embed open source into global programs.

If your organization is getting nimbler and doubling down on open source technologies, consider attending this session where we'll share some of Microsoft's learnings and initiatives driving an open source cultural transformation.

Speakers
avatar for Ria Bhatia

Ria Bhatia

Program Manager, Microsoft
Ria Bhatia is a Program Manager with the Cloud Native Compute team in Microsoft. She's a maintainer of the open source project, Virtual Kubelet and has spoken at multiple conferences and meet-ups. She believes deeply in changing the tech landscape to include members from all backgrounds... Read More →



Thursday August 30, 2018 2:00pm - 2:40pm PDT
Room 119/120

2:50pm PDT

Open Hardware and Open Networking Software: How We Got Here and Where We are Going - Steven Noble, Big Switch Networks / NetDEF
The open hardware, open networking software movement is growing faster than ever. Companies such as Accton/Edge-Core, Quanta and Delta continue to expand the open hardware space covering 1G-400G switches. Open network operating systems such as Stratum, a P4 based NOS first demonstrated by Google, FBOSS, a thrift managed NOS contributed by Facebook combined with the FRRouting project are becoming mainstream. In this talk Steven will quickly cover the growth of the open hardware movement from 2010-now, discuss how each step happened and dive deeply into what the future holds.

Speakers
avatar for Steven Noble

Steven Noble

President of the Board, Network Device Education Foundation
As an Open Networking Evangelist for Big Switch Networks, Steven works on the Open Network Linux project https://opennetlinux.org. Steven is responsible for maintaining the code, managing support requests and evangelizing on the subjects of Open Network Linux and Open Networking... Read More →


Thursday August 30, 2018 2:50pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 207

4:00pm PDT

State of Container Networking: Where Are We and Where are We Going? - Frederick Franklin Kautz IV, Red Hat
In this talk, Frederick discusses the current state of container networking including recent development and future trends.

Container Networking and SDN integration have hit several important milestones that are unlocking solutions to important use cases held by both enterprise and telco customers. Frederick dives into these developments describing what they are, why they are important, and give insight into how they may be leveraged to solve connectivity and performance problems.

Finally, Frederick will discuss recent changes and patterns in orchestration and container networking that impact container networking such as eBPF, bpfilter, application service mesh, network service mesh and AI on the data plane.

Speakers
avatar for Frederick Kautz

Frederick Kautz

Director of R&D, TestifySec
Frederick collaborates on security and networking. He is on the SPIFFE Steering Committee, focusing on providing Zero Trust Workload Identity to compute workloads and resources. Frederick co-authored Solving the Bottom Turtle. He is a co-founder of OmniBOR and maintains the reference... Read More →


Thursday August 30, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm PDT
Room 119/120

4:50pm PDT

Upstream Success with the OpenBMC Linux Kernel - Joel Stanley, IBM
OpenBMC kernel: Upstream efforts and latest progress

As the OpenBMC kernel maintainer, in this talk I will share with the community the efforts over the past year in upstreaming BMC kernel support. This has been an area of positive collboration, with contributions from Intel, Facebook, Qualcomm, Google, Innvotech, Nuvoton, and IBM, in offices that span the globe.

I will cover the work that is coming up over the next few months to enable new machines that various OpenBMC contributors plan to build.

Speakers
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Joel Stanley

Kernel Hacker, IBM
Software Enigneer with IBM Linux Technology Centre, as part of the OzLabs team in Australia I am the kernel maintainer for the OpenPower Linux-as-bootloader and for the OpenBMC Linux kernel. I have spoken at several Linux.conf.au, Python Conference Australia (PyConAU), and Linux... Read More →


Thursday August 30, 2018 4:50pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 207
 
Friday, August 31
 

11:00am PDT

Multimodal Operating System - Bridge Traditional and Software-Defined Infrastructure - Kai Dupke, SUSE
As organizations around the world transform their enterprise systems to embrace modern and agile technologies, multiple infrastructures for different workloads and applications are needed. This often means integrating cloud-based platforms into enterprise systems, merging containerized development with traditional development, or combining legacy applications with microservices. To bridge traditional and software-defined infrastructure, a multimodal operating system is needed. In this session, you will learn about multimodal IT and the design requirements of an operating system to support multimodal IT environment.

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Kai Dupke

Senior Product Manager, SUSE
Kai Dupke is Senior Product Manager at SUSE. He is responsible for the SUSE flagship product SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. In the past, he has also led High Availability, Real Time, and High-Performance Computing. Before joining SUSE, Kai Dupke was head of Linux, Open Source, and... Read More →


Friday August 31, 2018 11:00am - 11:40am PDT
Room 207

11:50am PDT

Hold My Beer While I Open Source with TOSCA, ONAP, and Networking - DeWayne Filppi, Cloudify
Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, recently said, “The biggest problem in open source today is not innovation; it’s integration.”

So how do we find a happy medium and claim the benefits of both open source and standards to ensure integration and, ultimately, scalability? Here are a few suggestions: 1) Open source should drive standards, not the other way around. 2) We need to define “just enough standards” to ensure interoperability - and let the technology do the rest.

In this talk, I will dive into how open source is already driving standards, discuss examples for how to just enough standards works in practice, and how taking a programmatic approach to standards, this degree of interoperability, integration, and scalability can be achieved even today.

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Friday August 31, 2018 11:50am - 12:30pm PDT
Room 207

4:00pm PDT

The 'S' in 'IoT' Stands for 'Security' - Viktor Petersson, Screenly & Andrew Martin, Control Plane
Along with the proliferation of IoT devices in our homes and lives has come string of laughable breaches to the extent that IoT has become synonymous with botnets. Many, if not most, of these breaches could have been easily prevented by simply applying well established best practices from the the software industry. Yet, device manufactures frequently ignore security concerns.

After exploring the problem space, we will talk about how to solve it. The talk will focus largely on securing consumer-like devices, such as the Raspberry Pi, and include topics like building a good pipeline (CD/CI), automating updates over the air, testing and basic security best practices. After all, IoT security is not rocket science. Best practices for software engineering still applies, despite the reduced resources and physical footprint.

Speakers
avatar for Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

CEO, ControlPlane
Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience... Read More →
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Viktor Petersson

Co-founder and CEO, Screenly
While still in college, Viktor Petersson co-founded the software lab WireLoad, which grew into a thriving business, with multiple successful products in the marketplace. With the releases of the first Raspberry Pi in 2012, Viktor started writing what is today known as Screenly. The... Read More →



Friday August 31, 2018 4:00pm - 4:40pm PDT
Room 207
 
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