Observability with Prometheus and Beyond: Leveraging Cloud-native Technologies Outside of Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Explained: For Normal People
Cloud Security: The Beauty Of Open-Source

101 Essentials -Embedded Linux

Tuesday, September 28

From an Idea to a Patch in the Linux Mainline
Build System Tuning: More is Not Necessarily Better

101 Essentials -Linux Administration

Tuesday, September 28

Development Best Practices: An Overview of Working in the Software World

AI & Data

Monday, September 27

Integrating Feast Online Feature Store with KFServing
Designing High-Performance Scalable Middleware for HPC, AI, and Data Science in Exascale Systems and Clouds
Simplifying Testing of Spark Applications
AI-powered Vector Search Engine Weaviate
Enforcing Data Quality in Data Processing and ML Pipelines with Flyte and Pandera

Tuesday, September 28

The Future of Data Pipelines with Atomic Wasm Transformations and the Evolving Role of Data Engineers
Defending Against Adversarial Model Attacks using Kubeflow
Self-serve Feature Engineering Platform Using Flyte and Feast

Wednesday, September 29

Infusing Trusted AI using Machine Learning Payload Logging on Kubernetes
End-to-end AI Marketplace with Execution Engine on Kubernetes
Lightning Talk: AIOps vs. MLOps: What’s the Difference?
Efficient Data Parallel Distributed Training with Flyte, Spark & Horovod
Lightning Talk: Deploying AI Solutions on the Edge with Containers
Presto -Today and Beyond -The Open Source SQL Engine for Querying all Data Lakes
Embedded Deep Learning Super Resolution on GStreamer using ONNX Inference Runtime

Case Studies

Monday, September 27

Case Study: When the Open Source Program Office is Responsible for Innovation
Lessons Learned from Creating an OSPO at Goldman Sachs
Ten Years of Practice from Tencent Open Source
Our Open Source Journey: How Aspen Mesh went from an Outsider to a Leader in the Istio Community
What does an Open Source Office do in a Bank?

Tuesday, September 28

Evolving Open Source Governance From Compliance To Program Offices: The LGE Case Study
The Daimler FOSS Manifesto – Our Commitment to be Truly Open
Moving from Federation to Trust and Coordination
Growing Open Source Culture Inside Sony

Wednesday, September 29

Improving Developer Experience: How We Built a Cloud Native Dev Stack for 100s of Engineers
Case Study: Consolidate Usage of GNU/Linux in a Heterogeneous Industrial Context

Cloud Infrastructure

Monday, September 27

Robocat Meets Octopus and Octocat: Interoperability in CI/CD
- Tutorial: Introducing Centaurus: A Cloud Native Infrastructure Project for Large Scale Distributed Cloud
- Tutorial: Hack My Mis-Configured Kubernetes
The Secret to Brewing up a Good API
- Under the Hood with Fluent Bit Operator: Kubernetes-native Log Processor
AI Pipelines Workflows and ML lineage using Tekton Pipelines
- Hail Hydrate! From Stream to Lake Using Open Source
Securing Serverless Functions on Kubernetes with Quarkus Extensions
Achieving End-to-end Visibility into Complex Event-sourcing Transactions using Distributed Tracing
- Leveraging WebAssembly to Write Kubernetes Admission Policies

Tuesday, September 28

Introduction to Kubernetes Operators
- Security and Flexibility: Decouple Policy to Enable Architectural Choice
- Unify Data and Storage Management with SODA ODF
Instant Self-contained Development Environments for Everyone
- Same-day Delivery: A Narrative in Painful Anecdotes about CI at Scale
Container Standards Explained
Making Complex Open Source Safe for Operations

Wednesday, September 29

Running My Actions: An Introduction to GitHub and GitLab Workflows
- What’s Breaking My Build? AIOps Tooling to Aid Your CI/CD Workflows
Kubernetes Policy as Code with Kyverno
- Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus
- Open Source for Better Observability
Building Scalable APIs Using Serverless
- Deep-dive into Open Policy Agent + Conftest + GateKeeper: Kubernetes Policy in Action
Enhancing Metrics and Logs Support in OpenTelemetry
- How CNCF is Enabling End User Driven Open Source
CYOK -Choose Your Own Kubernetes For Local Development
- Agile and Dependable Service Development with Bosque and Morphir
Distributed Authorization for Microservices Powered by Kubernetes, Istio and Open Policy Agent

Cloud Native Development

Monday, September 27

The Community Management Handbook: The Open Source Way 2.0
Lessons Learned from Open Source in Business
A Beginners Guide to Open Source Metrics and Analysis
How to Talk About your Open Source Project so People Get It
Panel Discussion: Words Matter: Inclusive Language in Software, Open Source, & the Enterprise
Getting Started with Getting Started: How to Engage New Users
How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision
Panel Discussion: Evolving the Confidential Computing Consortium: Non-profit Collaboration for Growth

Tuesday, September 28

Don’t Forget to Like and Contribute: Streaming and Open Source Communities
The 7 Guiding Principles for Developer Engagement
Panel Discussion: Peace, Love and JavaScript: Community and Culture
How the Fastest Growing Open Hardware Project is Leveraging Visibility and Community Engagement for Industry Adoption and Member Success
Bootstrapping an Open Source Project on GitHub

Wednesday, September 29

Building an Open Source Community from the Ground Up
Delivering Bad News: Helping your Community Through a Rough Patch
Panel Discussion: Contributor Leaderboards to Incentivize Good Community Citizenship
- Panel Discussion: The EU Open Source Economic Impact Study: Findings, Analyses, Recommendations
Panel Discussion: Eliminating Common Barriers to Contribution for More Inclusive Communities
Europe’s Strategic Bet for an Open Source, Sovereign Edge Cloud
Unlocking Open Source Communities’ Potential: Community Handbook Best Practices to Foster Inclusivity and Diversity
Training our Next Generation of Great Open Source Citizens
How Google Fostered Open Source Community During the Pandemic
BoF: Open-Source Developer Burnout, And How to Avoid It

Community Management & Leadership

Monday, September 27

The Community Management Handbook: The Open Source Way 2.0
Lessons Learned from Open Source in Business
A Beginners Guide to Open Source Metrics and Analysis
How to Talk About your Open Source Project so People Get It
Panel Discussion: Words Matter: Inclusive Language in Software, Open Source, & the Enterprise
Getting Started with Getting Started: How to Engage New Users
How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision
Panel Discussion: Evolving the Confidential Computing Consortium: Non-profit Collaboration for Growth

Tuesday, September 28

Don’t Forget to Like and Contribute: Streaming and Open Source Communities
The 7 Guiding Principles for Developer Engagement
Panel Discussion: Peace, Love and JavaScript: Community and Culture
How the Fastest Growing Open Hardware Project is Leveraging Visibility and Community Engagement for Industry Adoption and Member Success
Bootstrapping an Open Source Project on GitHub

Wednesday, September 29

Building an Open Source Community from the Ground Up
Delivering Bad News: Helping your Community Through a Rough Patch
Panel Discussion: Contributor Leaderboards to Incentivize Good Community Citizenship
- Panel Discussion: The EU Open Source Economic Impact Study: Findings, Analyses, Recommendations
Panel Discussion: Eliminating Common Barriers to Contribution for More Inclusive Communities
Europe’s Strategic Bet for an Open Source, Sovereign Edge Cloud
Unlocking Open Source Communities’ Potential: Community Handbook Best Practices to Foster Inclusivity and Diversity
Training our Next Generation of Great Open Source Citizens
How Google Fostered Open Source Community During the Pandemic
BoF: Open-Source Developer Burnout, And How to Avoid It

Diversity Summit hosted by Google

Monday, September 27

Start with Ally as a “verb” and Build that with Partnership
Scaling Communities to be more Inclusive
Allyship Workshop with Dr. Kim Tran
Panel Discussion: Words Matter: Inclusive Language in Software, Open Source, & the Enterprise
CHAOSS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Open Source Badging Initiative
Creating An Inclusive Interview Environment
How to Demonstrate Allyship to Women+ in Open Source

Tuesday, September 28

Making an Impact from India to the Rest of the World by Building and Nurturing Women Infosec Community
Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem
Women of Open Source Community Africa; Emerging a Star
Growing Diversity in Open Hardware: It’s a Task for All of Us!
- Supporting Free and Open Source Software in Africa
Creating an Employee Resource Group: Red Hat Asian Network
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech
Inclusion in Open Source
Panel Discussion: Experiences in Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Source Governance
- Additional Panelists to be Announced

Wednesday, September 29

Getting Over Your Imposter Syndrome to Become a Conference Speaker
So You Have a Popular GitHub Project and are Considering Building a Company -How do You Get Your Culture of Contribution and Inclusivity Right, Right Away?
Designing Open Source Interoperability Payment Models to Advance Financial Inclusion
Lightning Talk: Why a Diverse Team is Crucial to Startup Success
Lightning Talk: Strategies for Inclusivity as an Open Source Project Maintainer

Embedded Linux Conference (ELC)

Monday, September 27

Introduction to Pin Muxing and GPIO Control Under Linux
- Panel Discussion: Industrial Linux Beyond 2022
- Additional Panelists to be Announced Teach an Old Network Driver New Tricks
Building Robotics Applications at Scale using Open Source from Zero to Hero
Cross Debugging on Linux : A History, Current State of the Art and Coming Improvements
- The 5 Key Success Factors to Deploy Yocto for “Production Grade” Embedded/IoT Devices
- Using OP-TEE as a Cryptography Engine
Building Open Hardware with Open Software
- Reaching the Multimedia Web from Embedded Platforms with WPEWebKit
- Static Partitioning and VM-to-VM Communication Mechanisms
BoF: Automotive Grade Linux Developer
- Panel Discussion: Super Long Term Kernel Maintenance
- Yocto Continuous Integration in a Kube

Tuesday, September 28

Board Farm APIs for Automated Testing of Embedded Linux -An Update
- Timesys Giving Linux a Camera Stack: libcamera’s 3 Years Journey and Exciting Future
- Ideas on Board Meet All Scenarios OS: A Distributed O.S. with Feet on the Ground
Automated Testing for Embedded Development: Next Generation Board Farming
- Binary Artifacts and the Ease of Use Onramp for the Yocto Project
- Improving the Linux Display Stack Reliability
Exploring PWM Subsystem and its Usage in Embedded Devices
- Host Performance Booster (HPB): Introduction and Current Mainline Support Status
Embedded Linux Nuggets found in Buildroot Package Eldorado
- Stateless HEVC Decoding in Mainline Linux: The Rocky Road to Becoming a Stable API
- The Future of Linux on RISC-V
Building a Low-key XIP-enabled RISC-V Linux System
Hypervisor-less virtio for Real-time and Safety

Wednesday, September 29

A Tale of Three Build Systems: Building a Custom Linux OS for BeagleV Starlight with Buildroot, Isar and Yocto Project
- Collabora Will it Boot? – The Case for Platform Standards in Embedded
Behind the Curtains of Making Real Consumer Devices using Debian
- LAVA + OpenQA = Automated, Continuous Full System Testing
- OP-TEE: When Linux Loses Control
Practical Experience with Linux A/B Upgrades
- Project and Android –Compare and Contrast
BoF: The Yocto Project and Embedded Linux
- Demystifying Graphics and Media Work Synchronisation
Advanced Camera Support on Allwinner SoCs with Mainline Linux
- BoF: Linux on Smartphones
- Huawei Understanding Linux Interrupt Subsystem
Embedded Linux Conference Annual Closing Game

Internet of Things

Monday, September 27

Automating & Monitoring Seedling Growth in the Cloud Using IoT, Messaging & Micronaut
zenoh: A Next-Generation Protocol for IoT and Edge Computing
Panel Discussion: Pyrrha, A Call for Code Open Source Project
Picolibc: A C Library for Smaller Systems

Tuesday, September 28

Zephyr Project: RTOS Start-up and Initialization Flow
Building Embedded Drivers for Industrial Communication using Code-generation
Building Low-Latency Secure Embedded System Using eBPF
Pets vs Cattle: Fleet Monitoring for Connected Devices

Wednesday, September 29

Tutorial: Build a Green House Controller Using the MicroBit v2 and Rust
Remote Access to IoT Devices: Common Needs and Approaches
Lightning Talk: Managed VMs with WebAssembly for Scalable Secure IoT Deployments
- Adding RISC-V Support to Zephyr RTOS
IoT as a Platform: Scaling IoT Applications for the Enterprise Using Kubenernetes/OpenShift

Keynote Sessions

Monday, September 27

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Keynote: Open 3D Engine
Keynote: Save Lives with OS Software: Join the OpenTreatments Movement
Keynote: In Community We Trust: Open Source Software and Supply Chain Security
Keynote: Window Snyder, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thistle Technologies in conversation with Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday, September 28

Keynote: Heather E. McGowan, Future of Work Strategist
Keynote: Advance Data, AI and Quantum Using Open Source
Keynote: Open and Interoperable are the True Drivers of Innovation
Keynote to be Announced
Keynote: Introducing LF Research: A New Kind of “Team Sport” at the Linux Foundation
Keynote: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion: The Open Source Way
Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Vice President & Chief Open Source Officer, VMware
Keynote: Staying Power: How OSS Projects can Thrive for the Long Term
Keynote: Anima Anandkumar, The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences & Director of Machine Learning, NVIDIA

Wednesday, September 29

Keynote: Linux on Mars: How the Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter Leveraged Linux to Accomplish their Mission
- Software and Operations Lead for the Mars Helicopter, NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
Keynote: Microsoft
Keynote: Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems & Dr. David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, The Linux Foundation

Linux Systems

Monday, September 27

Perf on RISC-V: The Past, the Present and the Future
- The State of Open Source Games and Open Source Gaming Tools in 2021
35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes (plus Q&A!)
How Has Covid-19 Impacted the Kernel Development over the Last Year?
- The Linux Foundation Panel Discussion: Kernel Internship Report (Outreachy)
Icebreaker: Introducing Upstream Kernels to Google’s Data-centers
- openSUSE on the Mainframe
Demystify Intel Security Technologies in the Firmware
- What is new in KernelShark two

Tuesday, September 28

Extra Boot Configuration -Expanding Kernel and Init Boot Parameters
- Sandboxing Applications with Landlock
A Rolling Stable Kernel Model
- Google Lessons Learned Applying Compile-time Hardening Options for Security-Critical Program Binary in Linux
Restricted Address Spaces for Container Security
- Tracking Down What Happened: A Comparison of Tracing Solutions
A Practical Approach to Control Unauthorized Execution of Interpreters
- Ply: Lightweight BPF Tracing

Wednesday, September 29

“Plan to Throw One Away” -Pitfalls of API Design for Low-level User-space Libraries and Kernel Interfaces
- Virtual Addressing for High Performance Arm Infrastructure Platforms
Container Kernel Development
- Transport-level Testing of NVMe Devices using VFIO
Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA): Running Mainline on Commercial Switches
Idmapped Mounts
- The Forefront of the Development for NVDIMM on Linux Kernel
Guider: Performance Tracing Features for Linux
- Toolchains for People in a Hurry: Latest Features of GCC/GLIBC
Finding Unmet Dependencies in Kconfig with the Kismet Static Analyzer
- Linux Kernel Tracing Using eBPF

OS Databases

Monday, September 27

When Your Data has Relationships, Choose the Right Match
How to Choose a Right Database for Your Microservices?
Hyperledger Fabric: The Enterprise Blockchain Framework
MySQL 8.0 New Features

Tuesday, September 28

Horizontal Scaling with Vitess
Cassandra Made Easy: Interact with your Data using Stargate HTTP APIs
The PostgreSQL Twin Bill: The 7 Deadly PostgreSQL Mistakes & Review of What’s New in PostgreSQL 14

Wednesday, September 29

Milvus 2.0: Building the World’s Most Advanced Open-source Vector Database
From a Database in Container to DBaaS on Kubernetes

OS Dependability

Monday, September 27

Are We Forever Doomed to Software Supply Chain Security?
How Open Source is Eating Software: Numbers and Trends
Supply Chain Attacks: The New Reality
- Whitesource Tips and Tricks: Protecting Cloud Infrastructure
SW360 SBOM and License Obligation Management
Field Report: Setting up a Software Product Line (SPL) Architecture based on Zephyr

Tuesday, September 28

A Maintainable, Scalable, and Verifiable SW Qualification Approach for Automotive in Linux
Software Composition Analysis with Free Tools
Tutorial: Functional Safety Basics for Open Source Software Developers

Wednesday, September 29

Broken Brokers in Boxes: Fuzzing Breaks Everything, Even Erlang
A Complex Web of Open Source Software Dependencies Risk
Supply Chain Armoring: Tools and Techniques for Open Source Projects
Planning for and Handling Failures from Open Hardware, Aviation, to Production at Google
Secure Your Supply Chain: Adding a Software Bill of Materials to Your Containers to Improve Vulnerability Scanning
Protect Yourself from Malicious Dependencies with One Cool Trick

OSPOCon

Monday, September 27

Co-host Sponsor Session: Open, Innovate, Fail Fast: MindSpore Community Operation
Welcome & Remarks
Why OSPOs are Important To A Company’s Innovation Strategy?
Panel Discussion hosted by VMware
Connecting Communities and Business to Create Data-Driven Decisions
Justifying an OSPO in Dollars and Cents
Business Reviewers within Enterprise Compliance Systems
Navigating Open Source Project Risk
University-based Open Source Programs Offices
Open@RIT, Creation of a University OSPO and the First Year’s Lessons Learned.

Tuesday, September 28

Co-host Sponsor Session: Silona Bonewald, Executive Director, IEEE SA OPEN
Welcome
MVG -Minimum Viable Governance for Your Organization’s Open Collaboration Needs
Default to Open
Open Source Contribution Policies that Don’t Suck
Building a Foundation for Open Collaboration
GitHub Gone Wrong
Emerging Automated License Compliance for Containers
2021 Open Source Program Trends
- The Linux Foundation;

Wednesday, September 29

Co-host Sponsor Session: Making Open Source More Secure by Moving Upstream
Managing a GitHub Organization: Tools, Tips, and Best Practices
Panel Discussion: How Government OSPOs Deliver Value for Citizens at Scale
- OpenForum Europe;
- United Nations;
- GitHub;
Monorepo Madness: Dependencies, License Compliance, and Automation
Lightning Talk: Amplifying University Research Impact with Open Source
- UC Santa Cruz Ensuring OSS License Compliance the Easy Way
Open Source Corporate Sustainability – Models to Consider
Growing Communities: A Research-based Framework for Eliminating Barriers to Contribution
Everything We’ve Learned From Three Years Of Funding Open Source
The OSPO as a Construct for Global Change

Project Highlights

Monday, September 27

Building and Growing an Open Source Community for an Incubating Project
- Leveraging Specifications in Open Source Projects
Welcome to JavaScriptLandia
Memory Safety for Critical Digital Infrastructure
It’s All about the Strategy: A Brief Story of the Open Source Renaissance in Financial Services
Evolving FOSSology Ecosystem

Tuesday, September 28

CDLA and Open Data Collaboration
Open Source and ISO Standards
Open Hardware: Skyrocketing Momentum and Global Adoption from Embedded to Enterprise

Wednesday, September 29

Health Credentials, Travel, Climate Change, Financial Inclusion and More: Digital Identity Gets Real
Modernizing Code Older than You Are: One Student Takes a COBOL Bank App to Hybrid Cloud
Trademarks and Open Source
Open19 Project – Driving Open-source Hardware from LF
LF Research: Creating Value through Insight into Open Source Technologies, Standards, and Communities

Project Mini-Summits

Thursday, September 30

CHAOSSCon North America 2021 (Pre-Registration Required) Open Software Open Hardware with the RISC-V and Zephyr Communities. BOOM! (Pre-registration Required)
OpenChain Quarterly Mini-Summit (Pre-Registration Required)

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

Sunday, September 26

Pre-event Registration & Badge Pick-up
Newcomer Orientation & Social
Better Together Diversity Social

Monday, September 27

Registration & Badge Pick-up
Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase
Lunch Break (Attendees on Own) Women in Open Source Lunch
Sponsor Showcase
Coffee Break
Partner Reception (Invitation Only)

Tuesday, September 28

5K Fun “Run”
Registration & Badge Pick-up
Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase
Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)
Book Signing with Gordon Haff Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase Sponsor Showcase
Onsite Attendee Reception & Sponsor Showcase (Open to All Attendees!)

Wednesday, September 29

Morning Yoga and Meditation
Registration & Badge Pick-up
Coffee Break Puppy Pawlooza Sponsor Showcase
Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)
Sponsor Showcase
Coffee Break
Closing Attendee Reception (Open to All Attendees!)

Wildcard

Monday, September 27

Cybersecurity Challenges & Community Based Risk Management
Arduino Sensor Data History in MySQL
- Optum Tutorial: Managing Raspberry Pi Pico Applications Using Tock OS and Rust
“Installation Information” and GPLv3 & GPLv2 – What Information Must you Provide, and What do you Need Not Provide, for your Embedded Systems?
Mattermost’s Approach to Layered Extensibility in Open Source
A Solution to the Tension Between Worker Shortage and the Hungry Hungry Developer
- Panel Discussion: Start Simple to Scale Decentralized Identity

Tuesday, September 28

Essential Guide to Preserving Freedom of Action for Open Source Developers
- IBM Tutorial: Blockchain Interoperability Demo with Cactus
Tutorial: Yes, Your Applications are Under Attack -Struts2 Vulnerability Workshop
An Account of OpenAirInterface’s Open Software in 5G RAN, CORE NETWORK and MOSAIC5G
- Qualcomm Call for Code with The Linux Foundation: Contributing to Tech-for-good Even if You’re Not Technical

Wednesday, September 29

Getting Started with Reference Design Toolkit (RDK) Open Source
- Tata Elxsi Open Source Metrics: Moving from Vanity to Value
Embrace FreeBSD to Let Your Innovations Soar!
- The FreeBSD Foundation Open Source Tooling for Software Bill of Materials
Creating Quality Control Dashboard using Python for Manufacturing Issues
Bridging Worlds: Using Rust Build Scripts to Leverage Existing Build Infrastructure
Panel Discussion: Stories of Open Hardware in an Internet of Production
- Internet of Production Alliance;
- Field Ready;
- Wikifactory;
BoF: Software in Space -What Earthlings can Learn from Rocket Science Missions!
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