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August 22nd - 24th in Toronto, Canada
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Gregory Fong

Virgin Galactic
Senior Software Engineer
Long Beach, CA
Websitevirgingalactic.com/
Gregory Fong is a Senior Software Engineer at Virgin Galactic, where he has been making extensive use of Linux and Openembedded/Yocto for the flight computer of LauncherOne, a small satellite launch vehicle. Before that, he was a Linux kernel developer at Broadcom, where he made a handful of contributions to the Linux kernel, including the Broadcom STB GPIO controller driver, and also maintained the stbgcc cross-compiler toolchain and the kernel and rootfs for the 40nm BMIPS processor.
Monday, August 22
 

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Welcome and Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation Frontenac

9:25am EDT

Keynote: How Technology Shapes Us - Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, Science Evangelist & Author Frontenac

9:45am EDT

Keynote: Unleashing the Full Power of Container with Orchestration & Management Platform - Dr. Ying Xiong, Chief Architect, Cloud Platform, Huawei Technologies Frontenac

10:00am EDT

Coffee Break Metropolitan Ballroom

10:45am EDT

Open Source Entrepreneurship - Jen Indovina, Tenrehte Technologies Pier 3 Heresy in the Church of Docker - Corey Quinn, FutureAdvisor Harbour B

11:45am EDT

Solving the Package Problem - Joe Brockmeier, Red Hat Queen's Quay OpenMRS: WRITE CODE, SAVE LIVES! - Judy Gichoya, OpenMRS Pier 3

12:35pm EDT

Lunch (Attendees On Own) TBA

2:00pm EDT

DevOps for Pointy-Haired Bosses - Victoria Blessing, Texas A&M University Frontenac

3:00pm EDT

Async Execution with Workqueue - Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Linux Kernel Regatta gce-xfstests: Testing Kernels in the Cloud - Theodore Ts'o, Google Pier 4

3:30pm EDT

Sponsor Showcase Metropolitan Ballroom

3:50pm EDT

Coffee Break Metropolitan Ballroom

4:20pm EDT

Give Me a REST! - Amanda Folson, GitLab Pier 5 If You Build It, They Won't Come - Ruth Suehle, Red Hat Frontenac

5:30pm EDT

BoF: RDMA Subsystem - Christoph Lameter, Gentwo & Leon Romanovsky, Mellanox Technologies Pier 2
 
Tuesday, August 23
 

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Open For Good - Jim Whitehurst, President & CEO, Red Hat Frontenac

9:25am EDT

Keynote: A Tale of Penguins: Microsoft’s Approach to Linux & Open Source in the Cloud - Wim Coekaerts, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Open Source, Microsoft Frontenac

9:45am EDT

Keynote: Lock it Open: What FLOSS Taught Us about Being Our Best Selves - Cory Doctorow, Journalist, Activist, Blogger & Science Fiction Author Frontenac

10:10am EDT

Keynote: From Seattle to Blockchain - Donna Dillenberger, Fellow, Watson Research Center & Jim Wasko, Vice President - Open Systems Development, IBM Frontenac

10:55am EDT

Versions All the Way Down: Versioning Commits and Patches with Git-Series - Josh Triplett, Intel Pier 4 Community Is Always Local: Launching Meetups - Brian Proffitt, RedHat Pier 3

11:55am EDT

Tracking Huge Files with Git LFS - Tim Pettersen, Atlassian Pier 4 Using Rust for Embedded Kernel Development - Theo Belaire, University of Waterloo Marine

12:45pm EDT

Lunch (Attendees On Own) TBA

2:10pm EDT

Kernel Internship Report and Outreachy Panel - Moderated by Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Conservancy; Helen Fornazier, Rik Van Riel & Bhaktipriya Shridhar Pier 7/8 Running Linux on Tiny Peripherals - Marcel Holtmann, Intel Frontenac Terrible Ideas in Git - Corey Quinn, FutureAdvisor Pier 4 Visualize Your Code Repos and More with Gource - Dawn Foster, The Scale Factory Marine

3:10pm EDT

Git and Testing - Christian Couder Pier 4 Resource Allocation: Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) - Fenghua Yu, Intel Frontenac The World of 100G Networking - Christoph Lameter, Gentwo Regatta

4:00pm EDT

Coffee Break Metropolitan Ballroom

4:30pm EDT

Keynote: Beyond Measure: The True Power and Skill of Collaboration - Dr. Margaret Heffernan, Author, Advisor & Producer Frontenac

4:55pm EDT

Keynote: New Requirements for Application Delivery in a Micro-services Application World - Abhishek Chauhan, VP and CTO, Citrix Frontenac

5:15pm EDT

Keynote: The Operations Dividend - Joe Beda, Entrepreneur in Residence with Accel Partners and Advisor, CoreOS and Shippable. Frontenac

5:40pm EDT

Keynote: Community Software Powers the Machine - Grant Likely, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Linux, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Frontenac
 
Wednesday, August 24
 

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Metropolitan Ballroom

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Dirk Hohndel, VP, Chief Open Source Officer, VMware, in conversation with Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Frontenac

9:35am EDT

Keynote: World Domination. What Next? - Olaf Kirch, VP, Linux Enterprise R&D, SUSE Frontenac

9:55am EDT

Keynote: Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger Project Frontenac

10:20am EDT

Keynote: Impossible is Nothing! The 10x hpothesis - Arjan van de Ven, Sr. Principal Engineer & Director, Open Source Technology Center, Intel Frontenac

10:35am EDT

Coffee Break Metropolitan Ballroom

10:55am EDT

Introduction to fd.io - Ed Warnicke, Cisco Systems Marine Experience in Developing a Driver for a Complex New Hardware Device on Qemu/KVM - Knut Omang, Oracle Harbour A Real Time KVM - Rik van Riel, Red Hat Pier 5 Validating Kernels for Production Usage - Yannick Brosseau, Facebook Pier 3

11:55am EDT

Enhancing the Linux Radix Tree - Matthew Wilcox, Microsoft Pier 4 Open Source in Every Car with Automotive Grade Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation Frontenac Lessons from Database Failures - Colin Charles, Percona Pier 3

12:45pm EDT

Lunch (Attendees On Own) TBA

2:15pm EDT

Userland Page Faults and Beyond: Why, How and What's Next - Andrea Arcangeli, Red Hat Pier 4 Simplifying Network Programmability Using Model-Driven APIs - Santiago Alvarez, Cisco Marine

3:05pm EDT

Coffee Break Harbour Ballroom Foyer