2020 Featured Talks – Something for Everyone

In addition to the keynotes announced last week, we're proud to announce twenty Featured Talks in 2020 sure to be of interest and deliver value to nearly everyone in attendance.

Featured Talks take place on both days of the conference across a single time block, and each are 45 minutes in duration. Nine (9) will take place on Monday the 19th and another 12 on Tuesday the 20th.

Take a look at all 21 talks below and plan now to attend.

Monday, October 19

*The Featured Talk time block on Monday is 1:00 - 1:45 pm ET. Nine (9) sessions will take place across the block.*

Executive Panel Discussion: Inclusion & Diversity Best Practices

Join Danese Cooper as she hosts global thought leaders to discuss best practices from the executive perspective.

Danese Cooper, VP of Special Initiatives, Nearform  (moderator)
Wendy John, Fidelity Investments - Head of Global Diversity & Inclusion Fidelity investments
Demetris Cheatham, Senior Director of Global DI&B Strategy, GitHub

The Future of Open Source Looks Like Cloud

Matt Asay, Head of Open Source Strategy and Marketing, Amazon Web Services

Deploy Your Static Web App with Your Favorite Framework in Minutes

John Papa, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Burke Holland, Developer Advocate, Microsoft

Machines Making Software: Paving and maintaining the road with zero trust open source

Derek Weeks, Vice President, Sonatype

Contributor-Centric Systems: design lessons from open source and nonprofit orgs

Joel Worrall, Director of Open Source and Developer Advocacy, New Relic

The Leaders in Open Source and How They Got to the Top

Alex Williams, Founder & Publisher, The New Stack

Kubernetes Disrupts! Security Threats & Shifts You Can’t Ignore

Loris Degioanni, Founder and CTO, Sysdig

Open Source, DevOps, & Telework at the National Security Agency

Jacob DePriest, Technical Senior Leader, National Security Agency (NSA)

Policy Enforcement Using OPA & Policy As Code

Tim Hinrichs, CTO and co-founder of Styra , co-inventor of Open Policy Agent

Tuesday, October 20

*The Featured Talk time block on Tuesday is 12:30 - 1:15 pm ET. Twelve (12) sessions will take place across the block.*

So Happy Together: Making the Promise of DevSecOps a Reality

Alyssa Miller, Application Security Advocate, Snyk

Do What You Can with What You Have - How Nonprofit Volunteers built an Open Source Solution to help military families with Salesforce.org

Cori O'Brien, Open Source Program Manager Nonprofit, Salesforce.org
Mary Crozier, Ombudsman Cloud Care
David Reed, Performance Engineer, Salesforce

7 things you can learn from Microsoft's Open Source Experience

Stormy Peters, Director, Open Source Programs Office, Microsoft

Fostering an Open Environment for Developers in a Regulated Industry

John Mark Walker, Director of the Open Source Program Office, CapitalOne

eXplainable Predictive Decisioning: combine ML and Decision Management to promote trust on automated decision making

Matteo Mortari, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Daniele Zonca, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Open Source, InnerSource - Similarities, Differences, Connections

Nithya Ruff, Head, Open Source Program Office, Comcast

3 ways to improve workplace collaboration and productivity

Teresa Dietrich, Chief Product Officer, Stack Overflow

Under-represented Communities in Code 

Tuesday, October 20, 12:30 - 1:15 pm ET

Justin Dawkins, Managing Partner, Collab Capital
Christina Saunders, Human Rights Officer, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Anesha Grant, Director of Education & Alumnae Programs, Black Girls CODE
Stephanie Tena-Meza, Kode With Klossy Scholar, Stanford University
Ndu Emuchay, IBM Fellow, IBM Services Cloud Transformation Member, IBM Academy of Technology, IBM

The world needs open-source now more than ever

Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, Ushahidi

Beyond Coding: The Hallmarks of a Great Open Source Engineer

Dr. Shallon Brown, Chief Information Officer, North Studio

Live coding a 3D game in 45 minutes (with open source tech!)

Paris Buttfield-Addison, Producer, Secret Lab
Tim Nugent, Lonely.Coffee

Hidden Infrastructure: The Foundations of Open Source

Joshua Simmons, Senior Open Source Strategist, Salesforce and OSI

Be sure to register today to attend both days of All Things Open 2020. For the first time ever there is a FREE option, courtesy of our Presenting Sponsors.