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09:00 IST

Introductory Remarks - Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation

Speakers

Jim Zemlin

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through the... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 09:00 - 09:10 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

09:10 IST

Keynote: Man vs. Machine: High Frequency Trading and the Rise of the Algorithm - Sean Gourley, Quid

In this talk, Sean Gourley looks at the limitations of human cognition. He helps your team to understand what the brain can and cannot do and see how these limits create niches for algorithms to exploit. Gourley takes the audience on a journey through understanding the world of high frequency trading, from quote stuffing to how the speed of light allows for relativistic arbitrage and perhaps trading platforms on oil rigs in the atlantic, and how a single tweet can move a market. The financial markets are a world dominated by algorithms: but these same types of algorithms also define the world that we humans live in, from the things we read, to the price of our insurance and the friends we connect with. Algorithms are a big part of our lives, and its unclear if we are creating them or they are creating us. The talk is broad and accessible, it covers a range of topics from predatory algorithms to machine readable news to the lessons we can learn from studying ecological networks in the high Sierras.

Speakers

Sean Gourley

TED Fellow and Founder of Quid, Quid

I’m originally from New Zealand and am now based in San Francisco where I split my time between Mathematical research and my venture backed startup Quid which I co-founded in 2009. I have a PhD in physics from Oxford where I studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. My academic research... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 09:10 - 09:30 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

09:30 IST

Transforming for the Digital Economy with Open Technology - Stefanie Chiras, Director and Business Line Executive for Scale-Out Power Systems, IBM

New computing models and workloads – from cloud to big data and analytics to mobile and social – are transforming IT. Linux, OpenStack, Docker, and other open technology projects are at the centre of many of these innovations, offering platform choice and open collaboration. In this presentation, Stefanie Chiras, Director and Business Line Executive for Scale-Out Power Systems at IBM, will discuss how businesses and IT are transforming with open technologies, the opportunities Linux offers to optimize workloads with enterprise platforms, and how open innovation driven by Linux at IBM is changing the world.

Speakers

Stefanie Chiras

Director and Business Line Executive, IBM Power Systems, IBM

Stefanie Chiras is the Director and Business Line Executive for IBM Power Systems Scale-out line of servers. She works collaboratively to bring new client solutions and server offerings to the market, and works across an extended team to address and influence open source solutions... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 09:30 - 09:50 IST
Auditorium

Keynote, Any

09:50 IST

Keynote: The Future of Drones & Open Source - Lorenz Meier, Dronecode Project and Tully Foote, Open Source Robotics Foundation

Speakers

Tully Foote

Lorenz Meier

PhD Student, ETH Zurich / PX4

Lorenz is the Dronecode Community Directory and interested in mobile localization and 3D reconstruction on smartphones and micro air vehicles. He started his aerial robotics project, PIXHAWK, in 2008 as a master student. He participated in the sFly EU research project 2011-2012 and... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 09:50 - 10:10 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

10:30 IST

What Does Container Security Actually Look Like? - Matthew Garrett, CoreOS

Containers are used for a range of deployment scenarios, from low-cost VM substitutes to easier application deployment and all the way up to resource-efficient large-scale clusters. But this flexibility comes at a cost - containers share an underlying kernel, leaving a larger attack surface.

Various technical approaches exist to mitigate this limitation, including seccomp (reducing the number of system calls available), svirt (using SELinux to isolate containers) and Intel's clear containers (using very light weight VMs as a substitute for traditional containers). But which should be used, and when? And are these the full story?

This presentation will discuss the risks associated with containers, how seriously they need to be taken and which approaches are most worthwhile in avoiding them.

Speakers

Matthew Garrett

Staff Security Developer, Google

Matthew Garrett is a security developer at Google, working on infrastructural security for Linux desktop and mobile platforms.

Monday October 5, 2015 10:30 - 11:20 IST
Auditorium

CloudOpen, Intermediate

11:30 IST

The New Cloud Foundry Runtime: Heterogenous Container Scheduling, Docker & More - David Soul, Pivotal

An overview of Diego, the new Cloud Foundry runtime design for orchestrating heterogeneous containerized workloads across any IaaS. Learn how Diego manages tasks and long-running processes using auction-based scheduling and monitoring for Docker, rkt, Garden containers.

Speakers

David Soul

Technical Marketing, Pivotal

David Soul works on technical marketing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. His background includes software development, technical marketing with Heroku and time as an early employee at Atlassian.

Monday October 5, 2015 11:30 - 12:20 IST
Auditorium

CloudOpen, Intermediate

14:00 IST

What can Ironic-Inspector Do For You - An Introduction For OpenStack Discovering Hardware Propertieis of Baremetal Nodes - Yuiko Mori, NEC

Ironic-inspector is the project which started 2014 and has become an official OpenStack project in the Liberty release cycle.
Ironic is a OpenStack project for baremetal provisioning.
Ironic-inspector is an auxiliary service for discovering hardware properties for a baremetal node managed by OpenStack Ironic.
In this session, I will introduce Ironic and Ironic-inspector and you can learn how Ironic-inspector useful for baremetal provisioning and the mechanism of discovering hardware properties.

Speakers

Yuiko Mori

Yuiko Takada is a software engineer at NEC for 9 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software. She's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Havana release.

Monday October 5, 2015 14:00 - 14:50 IST
Auditorium

CloudOpen, Beginner

15:00 IST

Complex Applications in Containers - Jan Pazdziora, Red Hat

When containerizing applications, the traditional approach calls for putting each component into its own container which does just the one thing, listens on one or few ports, and stores its configuration and data in a single location. Then we need to add a way to tie these containerized components together into a working solution. However, how about applications whose purpose is to integrate multiple components and daemons, packaging them into one working solution?

FreeIPA is such an application, bringing easy WebUI and CLI interfaces to otherwise complex technologies including Kerberos, directory services, DNS, and certificate management, resulting in a unified identity and authentication provider under one umbrella, with common installer. In this talk, we will look at the approach we took with containerizing this complex application suite.

Speakers

Jan Pazdziora

Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jan is member of Red Hat's Identity Management group. He focuses on enabling the use of external identity and authentication providers in projects and products, making it easier to deploy the software in large organizations, as well as finding better ways to structure new applica... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 15:00 - 15:50 IST
Auditorium

CloudOpen, Advanced

16:00 IST

The Life and Times of an OpenStack Virtual Machine Instance - Mark McLoughlin, Red Hat

What exactly happens when you click Launch Instance in OpenStack’s Dashboard?

The basics are pretty well understood, but how about if we look a level deeper than the simple, abstract narrative? What are the technologies involved below OpenStack? How does OpenStack coordinate those technologies to get you a running VM that you can SSH into?

In this session, Mark will cover as much of much of the high-level and low-level details of the story of your “Launch Instance” request right up until the time that you get a shell on your VM. By the end of the session, even the most seasoned expert will hopefully have learned some surprising facts and be eager to learn more about some obscure detail of how this crazy cloud thing works!

Speakers

Mark McLoughlin

OpenStack Technical Director, Red Hat, 1980

Mark McLoughlin is Technical Director for OpenStack at Red Hat and has spent over a decade contributing to and leading open source projects like GNOME, Fedora, KVM, qemu, libvirt, oVirt and, of course, OpenStack. Mark is a member of the OpenStack Foundation board of directors, and... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 16:00 - 16:50 IST
Auditorium

CloudOpen, Any

17:10 IST

Keynote: Kernel Developer Panel - Moderated by Grant Likely

Speakers

Kristen Accardi

Security Architect, Intel

Kristen is a Security Architect for Intel’s Open Source Technology Center (OTC), focusing on the Linux kernel. Kristen has contributed to the Linux kernel for over 15 years in various different subsystems including PCI, SATA, ACPI, and Power Management. Kristen is currently leading... Read More →

Stephen Hemminger

Principal SW Engineer, Independent

Stephen has been actively involved with Linux kernel development for over 10 years. He has contributed several network device drivers, a network emulator, and is the maintainer of the bridging and iproute2utilities. After leaving LF, he went on to Vyatta (now acquired by Brocade... Read More →

Kevin Hilman

CTO, BayLibre, Inc.

Kevin has been a Linux user since 1994, and a kernel hacker since 1999when he started writing drivers and working on kernel ports to new embedded platforms. He has been a driver/kernel developer for Equator Technologies, MontaVista, Texas Instruments, Linaro and currently a co-founder... Read More →

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow, Linux Foundation

Greg Kroah-Hartman is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as a Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully... Read More →

Julia Lawall

Senior Researcher, Inria

Julia Lawall is a Senior Research Scientist at Inria. Her research is at the intersection of programming languages and operating systems. She develops the tool Coccinelle and has over 2000 patches in the Linux kernel based on this work.

Grant Likely

Fellow, Linaro

Monday October 5, 2015 17:10 - 17:40 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

17:40 IST

Achieving DevOps in a Multi-Vendor Distributed Environment - Ralf Flaxa, Vice President of Engineering, SUSE

The close collaboration, integration and automation required to achieve DevOps, means you usually only see it within a single organization. But does it have to be this limited? In this presentation, Ralf Flaxa will share examples of how some organizations are using open source tools like OpenQA, Open Build Service and Studio, to extend DevOps into distributed, multi-vendor environments."

Speakers

Ralf Flaxa

Vice President of Engineering, SUSE

As Vice President of Engineering for SUSE, Ralf Flaxa is responsible for leading the global team of engineers that develop SUSE solutions. Flaxa joined and has contributed to the Linux community since 1991, and has over 15 years of international management experience working for global... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 17:40 - 17:50 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

17:50 IST

Keynote: Ten Years of OIN - Keith Bergelt, OIN

Keith Bergelt, CEO of OIN, will look back at the history of patent aggression in Linux and OSS on the 10th Anniversary of OIN's founding as well as discuss the growing culture of co-opetition and patent non-aggression which we currently enjoy

Speakers

Keith Bergelt

CEO, Open Invention Network (OIN)

Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. In this capacity he is directly responsible for enabling, influencing and defending... Read More →

Monday October 5, 2015 17:50 - 18:00 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

09:00 IST

Keynote: Securing an Open Future - Leigh Honeywell, Slack Technologies

Speakers

Leigh Honeywell

Security Engineer, Slack Technologies

Leigh is a Security Engineer at Slack. Prior to Slack, she worked at Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Symantec. Founder of several hackerspaces, she is currently Chief Security Officer of Double Union, a women’s hackerspace in San Francisco and advisor to several nonprofits and startups... Read More →

Tuesday October 6, 2015 09:00 - 09:20 IST
Auditorium

Keynote, Any

09:20 IST

Keynote: Container Panel - Moderated by Joe Brockmeier

Speakers

Tom Barlow

Software Engineer, Docker, Inc.

Tom Barlow (@tomwbarlow) is helping to build enterprise products and solutions at Docker, Inc. He became interested in container technologies whilst working at HP and found that Docker's solid product made packaging up an application for deployment easy. He's currently involved... Read More →

Joe Brockmeier

Head of Community, Percona

Joe Brockmeier is Head of Community at Percona. Brockmeier has been involved in open source for more than 20 years, is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has previously worked at Red Hat, Citrix, and SUSE. He also has an long history in the tech press and publishing... Read More →

Sebastien Goasguen

Senior Open Source Solutions Architect, Citrix

Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90's when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high performance computing and with... Read More →

Kelly Tenn

Kelly Tenn, CoreOS

Tuesday October 6, 2015 09:20 - 09:50 IST
Auditorium

Keynote, Any

09:50 IST

Keynote: Open Source Fueling the Growth of the Internet of Things - Mark Skarpness, Intel

Billions of devices are beginning to come online, and many of these devices, large and small, are running open source software. To fuel this innovation, open source is becoming more important than ever for the evolution of these devices. From a software stack to build your device, cloud solutions to analyze data, to a common framework to allow devices to communicate with each other and the cloud, open source plays an integral role in making the Internet of Things a reality. For over two decades, Intel's contributions to open-source projects-from one end of the solution stack to the other-have helped ensure that a breadth of solutions are available to developers to make what they imagine a reality. Intel is dedicated to easing the development cycle and interoperability of devices for any developer in the open source community. As one of the founding members of the Linux Foundation, a top external contributor to the Android Open Source Project, and a leader behind USB, WiFi, Bluetooth and other projects and standards, Intel has the depth of knowledge and a unique approach to move things forward to benefit developers and consumers.

Speakers

Mark Skarpness

Director of Systems Engineering, Open Source Technology Center, Intel

Mark is the Director of Systems Engineering in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. His team is responsible for integration, release engineering, distribution infrastructure, security, and quality assurance for Andorid, Tizen, and Yocto. Mark has held a variety of technical... Read More →

Tuesday October 6, 2015 09:50 - 10:00 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

10:30 IST

Catch Up on the Raspberry Pi - Ruth Suehle, Red Hat & Tom Callaway, Red Hat

Maybe you bought a Raspberry Pi a year or two ago and never got around to using it. Or you built something interesting, but now there's a new Pi and new add-ons, and you want to know if they could make your project even better?

The Raspberry Pi has grown from its original purpose as a teaching tool to become the tiny computer of choice for many makers, allowing those with varied Linux and hardware experience to have a fully functional computer the size of a credit card powering their ideas. Regardless of where you are in Pi experience, join Ruth Suehle and Tom Callaway to hear some of the best tricks for getting the most out of the Raspberry Pi. They'll also share some of the best projects they and others have built, from gaming devices to home automation, and they'll fill you in on what the Raspberry Pi 2 can help you do.

Speakers

Tom Callaway

University Outreach Lead, Red Hat

The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform and to collaborate on and share user-focused solutions built on that platform. Or, in plain English, we make an operating system and we make it easy for you do useful stuff... Read More →

Ruth Suehle

Director, Community Outreach, Open Source Program Office, Red Hat

Ruth Suehle is Director of Community Outreach in Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office. She is also executive vice-president of the Apache Software Foundation, co-chair of the Free and Open Source Software SIG in the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), and governing... Read More →

Tuesday October 6, 2015 10:30 - 11:20 IST
Auditorium

LinuxCon, Intermediate

11:30 IST

Introduction to GPUs and the Free Software Graphics Stack - Alexandre Courbot, NVIDIA

The GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is one of the most complex and interesting components of a modern personal computer, be it a desktop machine or a mobile SoC. This talk is intended to be a gentle introduction to GPU history, how modern GPUs work, and how the Linux graphics stack is built to take advantage of all their features. Due to obvious time limits we will only scratch the surface, but we hope to lift some of the mystery that shrouds GPUs and encourage curious but potentially scared developers to study and contribute to the open-source graphics stack. The talk will cover how 3D graphics are rendered, how GPUs accelerate the process, and the basic layout of the kernel and user-space drivers. NVIDIA GPUs and the Nouveau Free driver will be used as references for this talk, but the general principles should be applicable to any modern GPU.

Speakers

Alexandre Courbot

Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Alex is employed by NVIDIA to support the latest Tegra GPUs with the Nouveau free driver. His other kernel-related tasks include co-maintaining the Tegra architecture and GPIO subsystems.

Tuesday October 6, 2015 11:30 - 12:20 IST
Auditorium

LinuxCon, Intermediate

14:00 IST

Reducing Latency for Linux Transport - Andreas Petlund, Simula Research Laboratory & Dr. Per Hurtig, Karlstad University

Linux networking, and especially Linux TCP has seen a lot of development recently. In the Reducing Internet Transport Latency (RITE) EU project, one of the goals is to develop networking technology that enables lower latency transport available to the public and industry, and Linux is at the centre of this focus. Prototypes implemented in the Linux kernel includes keeping the congestion window appropriately open for bursty traffic (newCWV) [1], Faster retransmissions for application limited flows (RTO restart and TLP restart) [2], Redundant bundling to avoid retransmissions for thin streams [3] and bringing hybrid delay-based congestion control to the Linux kernel for less queue buildup in bottlenecks [4]. Our talk will present these latency enhancements in the Kernel.
[1] http://bit.ly/1KVKeyb
[2] http://bit.ly/1FkmGvL
[3] http://bit.ly/1ejYIvC
[4] http://bit.ly/1HOwZhU

Speakers

Dr. Per Hurtig

Dr. Per Hurtig received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2012 from Karlstad University, Sweden. In his thesis, he focused on low-latency transport for short-lived flows, a work that resulted in several mechanisms to reduce transport-level latency, some now being available by default... Read More →

Andreas Petlund

Research Scientist, Simula Research Laboratory

I am currently working for Simula Research Laboratory as Research Scientist and head of the Media Performance Group (MPG): https://www.simula.no/research/communication-systems/media Main research interests: - Transport protocols. - Real-time and multimedia network communication... Read More →

Tuesday October 6, 2015 14:00 - 14:50 IST
Auditorium

LinuxCon, Intermediate

15:00 IST

Developers Care About the License: Using SPDX to Describe License Information - Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM

Adoption of open source software is dependent on being able to communicate license information. With some of the open source packages and distributions containing hundreds of contributions and a wide variety of licenses, having a consistent and precise way of communicating the licenses is a challenge that the SPDX workgroup has taken on.

If you are a developer and want to take advantage of SPDX in your own code, you may well take a look at the spec and come away with the impression that it is large, complex, and difficult to implement. Fortunately, it is much easier than you may think. There are some easy ways to get started by just using the SPDX license identifiers in your code. There are also a number of new open source tools being developed that you might want to know about!

Speakers

Jilayne Lovejoy

Principal Open Source Counsel, ARM

Jilayne is principal open source counsel at Arm, where she advises legal, business, and engineering on open source related issues, provides training, and drives improved processes around open source. She helped form and chairs the Arm Open Source Office. Jilayne participates in various... Read More →

Tuesday October 6, 2015 15:00 - 15:50 IST
Auditorium

LinuxCon, Intermediate

16:00 IST

GENEVE Tunnels For Linux Endpoints - John Linville, Red Hat

GENEVE is a tunneling protocol used to create virtual networks on top of real IPv4 and IPv6 underlay networks. In many ways GENEVE is similar to VXLAN, NVGRE, and other tunneling protocols, but it is designed to be more suitable than other existing technologies for meeting modern challenges.

An Open vSwitch virtual port implementation of GENEVE has been available for some time, but until recently there was no Linux kernel network driver implementation. Without such an implementation, it has been difficult or impossible to use GENEVE for connections to servers at the edge of a virtual network. More recently, I have been implementing such a driver.

This presentation will provide an overview of GENEVE and its features. It will also provide a progress report on the GENEVE network device implementation, and it will discuss ongoing work relating to use of GENEVE on Linux servers.

Speakers

John W. Linville

Kernel Engineer, Red Hat

As the former Linux kernel maintainer for wireless LANs, John presided over the transition of that subsystem from "constant heartache" to "mostly just works" status. More recently, John's technical pursuits have included SDN and NFV topics. Employed at Red Hat for over a decade, John... Read More →

Tuesday October 6, 2015 16:00 - 16:50 IST
Auditorium

LinuxCon, Intermediate

17:15 IST

Fireside Chat - Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel

Speakers

Dirk Hohndel

Linus Torvalds

Tuesday October 6, 2015 17:15 - 17:40 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

17:40 IST

Keynote: Linux Kernel SoC Support Mainlining Tips (By a Bunch of Other French People) - Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons

Over the last three years, Free Electrons has consistently been in the top 20 companies contributing to the Linux kernel by number of included patches. With only 6 full time engineers, we managed to push several hundreds of patches to the mainline Linux kernel to add or improve support for various ARM processors.

In this keynote, we'd like to share our experience on this mainlining effort, highlight the key factors leading to that success and the common obstacles to overcome. Hopefully other companies or organizations that would like to work with the upstream Linux kernel
community can gather tips and start contributing more efficiently.

And of course, we'll be explaining why we refer to ourselves as "a
bunch of other french people"!

Speakers

Thomas Petazzoni

Bootlin

Thomas Petazzoni is co-owner and CEO of Bootlin, an Embedded Linux consulting company providing engineering services and training services.

Tuesday October 6, 2015 17:40 - 18:00 IST
Auditorium

Keynote, Any

09:00 IST

Keynote: Getting it right - Martin Fink, HP

Open source is increasingly driving innovation, while major areas of technology are converging. As the CTO of HP, Martin Fink is tasked with establishing the technology strategy for the company. Martin draws upon his distinguished and established track record in open source to guide HP through this period of convergence and innovation. Martin will share his perspective on community collaboration and behaviors that are critical to the long-term success of open source communities.

Speakers

Martin Fink

CTO and Director of HP Labs, HP

Fink’s research team at HP Labs, the company’s exploratory and advanced research group, is responsible for anticipating IT trends to address the complex issues that will face our customers and society over the next decades. Working closely with HP’s strategy teams and the business... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2015 09:00 - 09:30 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

09:30 IST

Keynote: Building the J-Core CPU as Open Hardware: Disruptive Open Source Principles Applied to Hardware and Software - Jeff Dionne, Smart Energy Instruments

Just as the Open Source software movement created market upheaval, the Open Source hardware community will cause significant market disruption too. Advanced processor architectures will soon be available as patents expire. Prototyping and developing equipment with easily accessible source code, drivers, OS and application libraries will be commonplace. The efficiency and innovation created with the release of open source hardware and software will unleash an entire new marketplace of equipment manufacturers and application developers. The only limitation will be your imagination!

Speakers

Jeff Dionne

CEO, Smart Energy Instruments

Jeff has over 25 years of experience with chip design and software development of products. Jeff developed SEI’s Smart Grid SIP software stack, and associated signal processing technologies. He is the co-creator of the uClinux (Embedded Linux) operating system. As CEO of ANI Corp... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2015 09:30 - 09:50 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

09:50 IST

Keynote: Business Innovation within Huawei’s Service Provider Operations (SPO) Lab - David Mohally, Huawei

Giving a brief insight into the practical innovation within Huawei around next generation digital services. With the number of connected ‘things’ continuously growing, across different industries, the network requirements will vary across the different applications and industries (e.g. low latency for connected car, burtsy traffic from smart meter). Network Slicing as a Service (NSaaS) enables different network characteristics to be designed into a network slice that can target specific verticals or customer segments. Powered by the flexibility of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), to support faster time to market for new services.

Speakers

David Mohally

Product Manager, Huawei

Dave has over 20 years experience in the Telecommunications sector working with many of the leading IT and Network Equipment vendors including Ericsson, Lucent, IBM and Huawei. Having extensive experience across network roll out, solution design, product management, use case design... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2015 09:50 - 10:00 IST
Auditorium

Keynote

16:50 IST

ELC Closing Game

Wednesday October 7, 2015 16:50 - 17:30 IST
Auditorium

Embedded Linux Conference