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Open Source Leadership Summit 2017

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Georg Link

Bitergia
Director of Sales
Omaha, NE

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several open source projects and has presented on open source topics on many occasions. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting metrics and making open source more sustainable. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading fiction and hot-air ballooning.

9:00am PST

Keynote: State of the Union - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:30am PST

Keynote: Security and Privacy in a Hyper-connected World - Bruce Schneier, Security Expert Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:50am PST

Keynote: Open Source: The Impossibilities Are Endless™ - William Hurley (aka ‘whurley’), Entrepreneur, Innovator & Author Grand Sierra Ballroom

10:10am PST

Keynote: State of Blockchain - Christopher Ferris, Distinguished Engineer & CTO of Open Technology, IBM Grand Sierra Ballroom

10:30am PST

Keynote: Collaborative Project Updates: AGL, SPDX, FOSSology & OpenChain Grand Sierra Ballroom

11:20am PST

SPDX Generation via Yocto and the New LID code License Scanner - Mark Charlebois & Craig Northway, Qualcomm Technologies Monument Peak

12:00pm PST

Eclipse Foundation: Lessons Learned, Both Bitter and Sweet - Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation Grand Sierra A By Leveraging the SPDX, OpenChain and Hyperledger Initiatives, We Can Solve the Open Source Management Supply Chain Puzzle - Mark Gisi & Sameer Ahmed, Wind River Monument Peak

1:45pm PST

How Walmart is Building a Successful Open Source Culture - Andrew Mitry & Megan Rossetti, Walmart Grand Sierra B Hyperledger Project Update - Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger Monument Peak

2:25pm PST

Open Spaces Unconference Session - Community Health & Sustainability Metrics Emigrant Peak

3:30pm PST

How to Run a Business that Relies on Open Source and Internal vs External Developer Adoption - Edward Hsu & Benjamin Hindman, Mesosphere Grand Sierra A

4:50pm PST

CII Best Practices Badge, 1 Year Later - David Wheeler, IDA Grand Sierra B

8:00am PST

Breakfast, sponsored by IBM Foyer

9:00am PST

Keynote: A Conversation with Linus Torvalds Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:25am PST

Keynote: SDN and Open Source - Chris Rice, SVP of AT&T Labs, Domain 2.0 Architecture and Design, AT&T Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:45am PST

Keynote: How Kubernetes Works: Community, Velocity and Contribution - Brian Grant, Principal Software Engineer & Aparna Sinha, Product Management Lead, Google Grand Sierra Ballroom

10:05am PST

Keynote: Project, Process, Product(ion) - Dirk Hohndel, VP, Chief Open Source Officer, VMWare Grand Sierra Ballroom

11:15am PST

Keynote: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones - Simon Wardley, Researcher, Leading Edge Forum Grand Sierra Ballroom

11:35am PST

Keynote: Building and Motivating Engineering Teams - Camille Fournier, Senior Thinker and Raconteur Grand Sierra Ballroom

11:55am PST

Keynote: Collaborative Project Updates: Hyperledger, ONF, OCI, Node.js, OPNFV & JS Foundation Grand Sierra Ballroom

2:00pm PST

Combining Open Source with Open Standards - Charles Eckel, Cisco Grand Sierra B

2:40pm PST

Making Compliance Easy: Filling in the Missing Pieces - Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation Monument Peak

3:20pm PST

Keeping the Lawyers Happy, Keeping the Developers Happy, and Making Your Boss Happier - Dave Stokes, Oracle Monument Peak SW360 - An Open Component Hub - Steffen Evers, Bosch Software Innovations Grand Sierra C/D

4:10pm PST

Running a Successful Open Source Project - Gunnar Wagenknecht, Salesforce & Wayne Beaton, Eclipse Foundation Grand Sierra C/D

9:00am PST

Keynote: Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble - Dan Lyons, Fortune Columnist & Author Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:20am PST

Keynote: Linux and Open Source Software: Applying the Learnings of the Past to the Future - Al Gillen, Group Vice President, Software Development and Open Source, IDC Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:40am PST

Keynote: How Cross-Foundation Collaboration is a Win for Open Source - Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry Foundation Grand Sierra Ballroom

10:00am PST

Keynote: Creative Approaches To Diversity - Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer, Mozilla Grand Sierra Ballroom

10:20am PST

Keynote: Collaborative Project Updates: ODP, CNCF, OpenSwitch & CII Grand Sierra Ballroom

11:00am PST

SPDX Meeting - Open to All Attendees Castle Peak B

2:00pm PST

How to Deliver High Quality Commercial Products with Open Source Software - Greg Olson & Bill Weinberg, The Linux Foundation Grand Sierra B

2:40pm PST

Community Dashboards for Linux Foundation Projects: From Open to Inner Source Metrics - Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona & Daniel Izquierdo, Bitergia Monument Peak

4:00pm PST

Using Community Metrics to Evaluate the Health of Your Open Source Projects - Ray Paik, The Linux Foundation Monument Peak