Thank You for Attending
Open Source Leadership Summit 2019 is a wrap! Thank you to all the attendees and sponsors who joined us in Half Moon Bay this year. To experience the best of this year’s summit, be sure to watch the keynote session recordings, view photos from the event, and review session slides from the speakers who provided them.
Save the Date for 2020
This event will take place March 10 – 12, 2020, at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, California.
Featured Keynote Speakers
Andi Gutmans
General Manager, Amazon Web Services
Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur. He helped co-create PHP and co-founded Zend Technologies[1] and is a General Manager at Amazon Web Services. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances, including the PHP 5 [2] and most recent PHP 7 releases.Andrew Glover
Director of Delivery Engineering, Netflix
Andrew Glover is the Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix. He and his team are responsible for Spinnaker, the Continuous Delivery platform that is facilitating Netflix's rapid global expansion. Before joining Netflix, he served as the CTO of App47, where he led the development of a SaaS Mobile Application Management platform. He is the founder of the 2009 Jolt award winning easyb Behavior-Driven Development framework and is the co-author of a number of books including 2008's Jolt award winning Continuous Integration, Groovy in Action, and Java Testing Patterns.Bryan Che
Chief Strategy Officer, Huawei
Bryan Che is Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei. In this capacity, Bryan is responsible for leading Huawei’s strategy across its businesses and portfolio, which spans mobile and consumer electronics, telecommunications, and cloud/enterprise IT. Bryan has tremendous experience building new enterprise businesses and open source technologies. Prior to Huawei, Bryan spent over 15 years at Red Hat, where he was the general manager of their cloud business and also led overall product strategy across the company. As an American expat employed in China who has traveled 3 million miles to over 40 countries, Bryan has worked extensively with many customers and partners around the world. Bryan graduated with his Bachelors and Masters degrees in computer science from MIT.Christie Wilson
Software Engineer, Google
Christie Wilson (she/her) is a software engineer at Google, currently leading the Tekton Pipelines project. Over the past ten years she has worked in the mobile, financial and video game industries. Prior to working at Google she led a team of software developers to build load testing tools for AAA video game titles, and founded the Vancouver chapter of PyLadies. In her spare time she influences company culture through cat pictures.Craig McLuckie
Vice President R&D, VMware
Craig was the founder and CEO of Heptio, a startup recently acquired by VMware. Before that he worked at Google where he was a founder of Kubernetes, supported the bootstrapping of the Cloud Native Computing foundation, and was the initial product lead for Google Compute Engine.Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
Global Lead for Responsible AI, Accenture Applied Intelligence
Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She holds degrees in quantitative social science and has been a practicing data scientist and AI developer since 2013. She is currently the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, where she works with C-suite clients to create cutting-edge technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI. In her work as Accenture’s Responsible AI lead, she led the design of the Fairness Tool, a first-in-industry algorithmic tool to identify and mitigate bias in AI systems. The Fairness Tool has been utilized successfully at Accenture clients around the world. Dr. Chowdhury co-authored a Harvard Business Review piece on the tool. Rumman has been featured in international media, including the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, BBC, Axios, Cheddar TV, CRN, The Verge, Fast Company, Quartz, Corrierre Della Serra, Optio, Australian Broadcasting Channel and Nikkei Business Times. She is a TedX speaker, a Forbes Tech contributing author and has been named by InformationWeek as one of 10 influential AI and machine learning experts to follow on Twitter. She was also named one of BBC’s 100 Women for 2017, recognized as one of the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40, and honoured to be inducted to the British Royal Society of the Arts (RSA). She has also been named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI. Rumman serves as co-chair of the RSA’s Citizen AI Jury and actively participates in IEEE standards committees, the Partnership on AI, as an advisor to the UK House of Lords Parliamentary group on AI, and other global AI and ethics organizations. She has presented at multiple international governing bodies, including the United Nations, the OECD and the UK Parliament.Eiso Kant
CEO & Co-founder, source{d}
Eiso Kant is the CEO & Co-founder of source{d} where he considers himself very privileged to work alongside an incredible team. Together they are focused on bringing Code As Data and Machine Learning on Code to developers and engineering leaders.James Strachan
Distinguished Engineer, Cloudbees
James Strachan is a Java Champion working as a Distinguished Engineer at CloudBees. He's currently working on Jenkins X (http://www.jenkins.io/projects/jenkins-x) to help developers automate their CI/CD for cloud-native applications and help them go faster. He also created Apache Groovy language & Apache Camel.Jason Chan
Vice President of Information Security, Netflix
Jason leads the teams at Netflix responsible for corporate infosec, product and application security, privacy engineering, security operations, infrastructure, and incident response. Prior to joining Netflix, he led the information security team at VMware. He spent most of his earlier career in security consulting for firms such as @stake and iSEC Partners.Jim Zemlin
Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Jim'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 use of open source and Linux. At The Linux Foundation, Jim works with the world’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others to help define the future of computing on the server, in the cloud, and on a variety of new mobile computing devices. His work at the vendor-neutral Linux Foundation gives him a unique and aggregate perspective on the global technology industry. Jim has been recognized for his insights on the changing economics of the technology industry. His writing has appeared in Businessweek, Wired, and other top technology journals, and he is a regular keynote speaker at industry events. He advises a variety of startups, including Splashtop, and sits on the boards of the Global Economic Symposium, Open Source For America, and Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.Jory Burson
Standards Liaison, Bocoup
Jory Burson is the COO of Bocoup, the open source tech consultancy working on web platform standards and performance. Day-to-day at Bocoup, she guides the company's strategic planning process, medium-term development of new initiatives, and business operations. Jory also founded Bocoup Education, where she enjoys collaborating with people to create unique content and high-quality training resources for the Open Web. She has contributed to open source projects such as jQuery, Grunt and Johnny-Five; and is an active participant in web standards and open source development, serving on boards, committees, and working groups for the JS Foundation, Ecma International, and the W3C. Jory is most excited about researching and improving the web technology standards process, and about creating positive social changes to improve quality of life for open source developers. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family in Boston and making art. She can be found on GitHub and Twitter at @jorydotcom. Previously, Jory has spoken at Node Day Toronto, Node.js Interactive, and JSConfUS, and has been featured in Always Forward and The Web Platform podcast.Joseph Jacks
Founder and General Partner, OSS Capital
Joseph Jacks is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. He is based in San Francisco and leads the US investing arm as well as global investment strategies. Joseph is also the Co-Founder of Aljabr. Previously, Joseph was an EIR at Quantum Corporation in support of the Rook project which was subsequently donated to the CNCF (its first storage project) where he has also been involved (at the board level, in various committees and as an advisor) since inception. Joseph also founded KubeCon (now also run by the Linux Foundation's CNCF) while also building Kismatic, the first enterprise-focused commercial Kubernetes company (acquired by Apprenda). Over the preceding several years, Joseph worked at Mesosphere, Enstratius (acquired by Dell Software), TIBCO Software and Talend.Kim Lewandowski
Product Manager, Google
Kim is a product manager on the Google Cloud DevOps team. In this role, she’s passionate about making developers’ lives easier as their code travels to production. Previously, she worked on the Google Serverless team and launched several Google Cloud Platform products. Prior to joining Google, Kim wrote code for the world’s most powerful laser at a nuclear research lab, and also worked at a number of startups including her own. Kim has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from Florida State University.Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Creator of Jenkins and Chief Scientist, CloudBees
Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins. He is a well-respected developer and popular speaker at industry and Jenkins community events. He is often asked to speak about his experience and approach in creating Jenkins; a continuous delivery platform that has become a widely adopted and successful community-driven open source project. The principles behind the Jenkins community - extensibility, inclusiveness, low barriers to participation - have been the keys to its success. Kawaguchi’s sensibilities in creating Jenkins and his deep understanding of how to translate its capabilities into usable software have also had a major impact on CloudBees’ strategy as a company. Before joining CloudBees, Kawaguchi was with Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he worked on a variety of projects and initiated the open source work that led to Jenkins.Lee Byron
Co-Creator of GraphQL
Marten Mickos
CEO, HackerOne
Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the #1 bug bounty and vulnerability coordination platform. Previously, Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. Marten served as CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008 and as a board member of Nokia from 2012 to 2015. Marten is a thought leader on leadership and disruptive business models.Martin Fink
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Western Digital
Martin Fink joined Western Digital as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in January 2017. In this role, Fink leads the company’s technology innovation agenda as Western Digital continues to transform its business and expand its capabilities and technology portfolio. Prior to joining Western Digital, Fink most recently served as Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President and Director of Hewlett Packard Labs at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company, and served as CTO and EVP of HP, Inc, overseeing HP Labs, the company’s advanced research center. In his 30-year career at Hewlett-Packard Company and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company, Fink worked in a wide range of roles, including General Manager of HP Cloud and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Business Critical Systems and Converged Application Systems. He has been a board member of Hortonworks, Inc. since July 2014, and a board member of Wild Beer Co., since February 2016. Fink holds an associate’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Loyalist College and an M.B.A. from Colorado State University.Mazin Gilbert
Vice President of Advanced Technology and Systems, AT&T
Dr. Mazin Gilbert is the Vice President of Advanced Technology at AT&T Labs. He leads AT&T’s research and advanced technology of its software-defined network. In this role, Mazin oversees advancements in networking and IP network management, big data, video technologies, artificial intelligence, information systems and visualization, algorithms and optimization, and scalable, reliable software platforms. Mazin was previously the Assistant Vice President of Intelligence Services and Platform Research, where he and his team were responsible for using AT&T’s data and machine learning capabilities to build services that can transform the way we do things today. Mazin holds 163 U.S. patents in communication and multimedia processing and has published over 100 technical papers in human-machine communication. He is the author of the book titled, “Artificial Neural Networks for Speech Analysis/Synthesis.” With more than three decades of experience under his belt, Mazin has worked in the industry at AT&T Labs and previously Bell Labs, BBC and British Telecom. He’s also worked in academia at Rutgers University, Princeton University and Liverpool University. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2012. Mazin earned a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree, with first-class honors, in electrical engineering from the University of Liverpool. He also earned an MBA for Executives from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of his technology career, Mazin is an entrepreneur owning six limited liability companies specializing in commercial and residential real estate and the dental industry. He also serves on a number of industrial boards including the International Computer Science Institute. In his free time, Mazin loves to spend time with his daughters and is an avid runner.Myles Borins
Developer Advocate, Google
Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker. He works for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem. He graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from c.c.r.m.a. Myles cares about the open web and healthy communities.Noah Goodman
Fellow at Uber AI Labs, Co-creator of Pyro and Associate Professor, Stanford University
Noah Goodman is a fellow at Uber AI Labs and an Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Stanford University.Remy DeCausemaker
Open Source Program Manager, Twitter
Ruchi Bhargava
Vice President of Security Solutions Delivery, Comcast
Ruchi Bhargava is Vice President, Security Solutions Delivery for Comcast. Her responsibilities include the function of Business Information Security Officers, Cloud Security and, Mergers & Acquisition due diligence practice for Comcast Cable. Ruchi joined Comcast from Intel Corporation, where she held leadership roles like Director of Data Center Open Source Software development, IT product owner of Hybrid Cloud and Country Manager of Intel Malaysia IT. Her experience at Intel covered Open Source Software Development, Manufacturing Computing Engineering and Operations, Supply Chain IT, several fab and assembly/test factory startups, and factory automation application development. Ruchi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi University (Delhi College of Engineering)Shuah Khan
Fellow, The Linux Foundation
Sid Sidbranji
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, GitLab
Sid saw the first ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much he learned to program and made this his profession. Before that he was engaged in various businesses, from selling programmable infrared receivers to starting a recreational submarine company. He is always looking to publicly document an answer or to make a process more efficient. He was never good at sports but tries to make it up in quantity by hiking, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, dancing Zouk, squashing, and running. He loves participating in conversations on Hacker News, and reading Marc Andreessen's tweets (now that Marc stopped this greatly increased his productivity).Tracy Miranda
Director of Open Source Community, CloudBees
Tracy Miranda is director of open source community at CloudBees, where she works closely with the Jenkins & Jenkins X communities. A developer and open source veteran, Tracy is on the board of directors for the Eclipse Foundation. Tracy has a background in electronics system design and holds patents for her work on processor architectures. She writes for JAXenter.com and Opensource.com on tech, open source, and diversity. Tracy is a regular conference speaker, most recently having spoken at VelocityConf London & JAX London. https://tracymiranda.com/speaking/Travis Gorkin
Engineering Manager, Uber
Travis Gorkin leads the Special Projects and Platforms team at Uber developing open source tools for data visualization and urban computing. His team builds advanced data visualization products to explore self-driving car, geospatial and business data in the context of urban mobility. In this role, Travis oversees advancement of an ecosystem of open source urban computing projects supporting regulators, policy-makers, researchers, students, 3rd party companies and civic hackers. Travis earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University, as well as a Master of Science and Engineering degree in Computer Graphics from University of Pennsylvania.Yonas Beshawred
CEO, StackShare.io