Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

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Inspiring the Future of OpenStack Through Diversity
Community Building

The incredible spirit of open source and a community-driven development approach has spawned one of the fastest-growing open source communities in the world, with over 54,000 members across 180 countries now contributing to the OpenStack platform in some form. While there is strength in numbers, there is also strength in diversity of viewpoints and perspectives, fundamental to guiding the future of OpenStack and ensuring its vitality. Join us for a captivating session that features TED-style talks from inspiring individuals within the OpenStack community who will share their experiences and insights, and help ease the path for others to join us on our journey. Potential speakers include individuals from EMC, Comcast, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Rackspace, SanDisk, and SUSE.


What can I expect to learn?

1. Diverse perspectives around the importance of diversity in driving OpenStack forward in the future.

2. Insights into successes & opportunities for improvement.

3. Ways for newcomers to get involved & participate.

Wednesday, October 26, 12:15pm-12:55pm (10:15am - 10:55am UTC)
CCIB - Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona - P1 - Room 133/134
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Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Community Enterprise Diversity Operator User Women of OpenStack UX
Nicole Huesman
Community and Developer Advocate
For over 20 years, Nicole Huesman has applied her aptitude in storytelling to the technology industry—helping shine a light on the importance and impact of the incredible feats of her engineering colleagues. She dove into the world of open source six years ago, and quickly became a strong advocate—from the embedded market (Yocto Project) to the cloud (OpenStack, KVM, Xen). She is... FULL PROFILE
Carol Barrett
Data Center Software Planner
Carol is a 30+ yr high tech veteran, currently working within the Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corporation. She has broad software development experience ranging from weapon control systems on submarines to web based kids games to data center applications. She’s held many roles in her career including: Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Business Development, Technology... FULL PROFILE
Holly Bazemore
Director, Elastic Cloud Strategy & Deployments
Holly Bazemore leads the Elastic Cloud Strategy & Deployments team at Comcast, driving the success of Comcast OpenStack private cloud offering. Her team focuses on deployments, architecture, customer experience, community and all things strategic. Holly has over 20 years of technology operations, project management, communications and leadership experience. Prior to joining Comcast, she... FULL PROFILE
Xing Yang
Lead Architect
Xing Yang is a contributor in Kubernetes and Container Storage Interface (CSI), co-lead of Volume Snapshot project in Kubernetes SIG-Storage, co-author of CNCF Storage Landscape white paper, and core reviewer in OpenStack Cinder & Manila. Xing is a Lead Architect at Huawei, leading the project and architecture design of OpenSDS, an open source project under Linux Foundation. She previously... FULL PROFILE
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Posted: 3087 days ago
Very inspiring presentation from all three speakers.
Posted: 3087 days ago
Holly was an amazing engaging speaker! Her info was incredibly useful! Would love to hear her speak again.