Summit Content Categories

Hands-on Workshops
Hands-on Workshops offer a window into OpenStack training for operators and application developers. Sessions are typically 90 minutes and require RSVP and some prep work. Bring your laptop and walk away with OpenStack skills.

The Forum
At The Forum, OpenStack users and developers in equal parts gather to brainstorm the requirements for the next release, gather feedback on the past version and have strategic discussions that go beyond just one release cycle. Development teams, working groups and interested individuals will discuss release requirements, connect with community members about cross-project collaboration, and to exchange feedback between design and operations members. These are collaborative, interactive group working sessions.

Case Studies
Sharing knowledge is a core value for the OpenStack community. In the case studies track, you'll hear directly from end users, service providers and application developers who are using OpenStack to address their business problems. Learn challenges, best practices and measured results.

CIO Cloud Strategy
Now that you're starting with OpenStack, tackle the details and strategy decisions, from choosing the right cloud model, planning multiple environments, optimizing costs, meeting regulatory requirements and mitigating risks.

Cultural & Organizational Change
Open source success requires organizational cultures that support it. This track will discuss developing and nurturing cultures that support open source success, recruiting in the OpenStack ecosystem, and developer satisfaction.

Evaluating OpenStack
From evaluating OpenStack to planning your cloud transition, this track covers the basics of what you need to know from a business perspective to get started with OpenStack.

Products, Tools, and Services
How do your existing tools mix with OpenStack? How do tools your dev team is asking for fit within an OpenStack framework? Sessions in this track will answer the "OpenStack and..." question from a business perspective. OpenStack is surrounded by a vibrant network of tools and services, and in this track you'll come to understand what's possible, what's best practice, and where to go from here.

Telecom & NFV Strategy
86% of global telecoms report OpenStack important to their success. In this track, telecoms will cover the value of OpenStack and open source standards to address leading use cases like IoT, NFV and 5G.

Community Building
OpenStack is a large, diverse community with more than 75 user groups, 3,000 developers contributing upstream and hundreds supporting companies. In the community building track, community leaders will share their experiences growing and maturing local communities and discuss new tools, metrics and ongoing diversity initiatives. Content in this track will be viewable across all Summit Categories and should be tailored to the appropriate audience.

Architectural Decisions
If you are a cloud architect or involved in planning your cloud strategy, this track will discuss proven reference architectures, configuration options, workload optimization, and experienced users will share their architectures and experiences.

Operations War Stories
Sharing knowledge and best practices is a core value for the OpenStack community. In this track, you'll hear directly from fellow cloud architects and operators who will share their stories from the trenches and lessons learned.

Networking
The networking track will feature technical presentations, use cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud networking, specifically topics like SDN, scale, IPv6, policies, HA and performance.

Storage
The storage track will feature technical presentations, use cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud storage and OpenStack.

How To & Best Practices
This track is about what it takes to run OpenStack in production. Automation, upgrade management, efficient tool use, cluster management, and other topics that production users encounter and want to discuss, learn and improve. If you're already running OpenStack in production, join other users in the Forum for advanced working sessions to collaborate on enhancing the OpenStack software and ops tools.

Security
Technical presentations, design and implementation discussions relevant to security and OpenStack.

HPC / Research
HPC and HTC continue to be popular use cases for OpenStack, allowing operators to run workloads on standard hardware rather than supercomputers. In this track, we'll discuss reference architectures, best practices and case studies for high performance computing.

Telecom / NFV Operations
This track will cover technical presentations, design and implementation discussions relevant to telecom operators and architects. Navigate the growing telecom ecosystem of emerging projects, cross-community collaboration and leading use cases.

OpenStack Ops 101
Are you new to the OpenStack ops community? The sessions in this track will give you OpenStack 101, including an overview of the technology, navigating the ops community, and using the tools of the OpenStack project.

Ops Tools
OpenStack provides cloud infrastructure services, but there are many other tools that come into play when operating a full cloud environment. In this track, you'll learn from fellow operators and cloud experts about popular open source and commercial tools, including monitoring, billing, lifecycle management, and more.

Big Data
Learn about specific reference architectures and use cases for big data, along with updates on relevant OpenStack projects like Sahara, which rapidly provisions Hadoop or Spark clusters for big data analysis.

Cloud App Development
A large community of application developers and ecosystem of development tools is growing around OpenStack. This track will be for users who are building and deploying applications on OpenStack clouds, and cover topics like automating and managing application deployment, application software configuration, SDKs, tools, PaaS and big data.

Containers
OpenStack provides a single platform and set of APIs for virtual machines, bare metal and containers. OpenStack is a prime deployment environment for containers, but many organizations are also starting to use containers to deploy OpenStack. In this track, learn how containers fit with OpenStack, including reference architectures, use cases and updates from OpenStack projects like Magnum, Kolla and Kuryr.

Upstream Development
Upstream development sessions are targeted toward prospective and existing contributors, to discover new processes, learn about common cross-project features or libraries you should adopt in your project, or share best development practices.

How to Contribute
The How to Contribute track is for community members and companies interested in contributing to the OpenStack code, with a focus on the community processes, tools and best practices.