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AGENDA 2023

THE CONFERENCES

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19thOctober 2023

Title: OpenSource AI/ML – AWS and India opportunity

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 10:00 – 10:45 PM

Speaker: Dr. Biswajit Mohapatra, Head, Customer Solutions Management, Amazon Web Services


Title: Harnessing The Power of Text Embedding

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 10:45 – 11:30 AM

Speaker: Srikar Yekollu, Site Architecture and Data Science Head, Clari


Title: India Builds On Open Source

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 02:30 – 03:15 PM

Speaker: Karan MV, Senior Manager, International Developer Relations, GitHub

 

FOSS For Everyone: Open Source Enables Startups

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 15:30 – 15:45 PM

Panelists:  Alok Bardiya, Head of Corporate Development, WSO2
Abhas Abhinav, Founder, DeepRoot GNU/Linux
Divyanshu Verma, Co-Founder, Redinent Innovations
Sanil Kumar D, Founder, Caze Labs Private Limited

Title: Enabling the ONDC Revolution through Open-Source Accelerators

Date: 19th October 2023
Time: 11:45 to 12:15 PM

Speaker: Procheta Bhattacharyya, Application Developer, Thoughtworks Technologies
Hariharan Thiagarajan, Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks Technologies


Title: Green Data Storage in the Open Source World

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 12:15 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Ajeya Motaganahalli, Vice President, Engineering and Managing Director, R&D, India, Pure Storage India Private Limited


Title: Embracing inner sourcing towards open sourcing

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 1:00 – 1:30 PM

Speaker: Laxminarayan Chandrashekar and Akash Sonune; Siemens Technology Services


Panel Discussion: Open Source Enables Startups

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 15:30 – 16:15 PM

Speaker: Alok Bardiya, Head of Corporate Development, WSO2
Abhas Abhinav, Founder, DeepRoot GNU/Linux
Divyanshu Verma, Co-Founder, Redinent Innovations
Sanil Kumar D, Founder, Caze Labs Private Limited
Sunil Kalkunte, Engineering Leader & Country Head, India CodeAndTheory
Naveen Agrawal, Catastrophe Analytics


Title: OpenG2P: A building block for Digital Public Infrastructure

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 04:15 – 04:45 PM

Speaker: Puneet Joshi, CTO, OpenG2P


Title: Generative AI and Intellectual Property(IP) – Understanding the techno-legal landscape

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 04:45 – 05:30 PM

Speaker:  Srivathsa NS, Senior Engineering Director, Office Of The CTO, Unisys
Biju K Nair, Founding And Managing Partner, Legalitech.In


Title: fastn – A new fullstack programming language for web development

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 05:30 – 06:00 PM

Speaker: Amit Upadhyay; Founder/CEO, fastn.com


Title: DevSecOps in Industrial Data pipeline

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 11:45 – 12:30 PM

Speaker: Sudipta Saha, Managing Director, Accenture


Title: Crafting K8s-Powered Managed Notebooks in Salesforce’s Data Lake

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 12:30 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Preetdeep Kumar, Senior Manager, Salesforce.com India Pvt Ltd

Gonaiah Aare, Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce.com India Pvt Ltd


Title: Our Journey With Cassandra

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 1:00 – 1:30 PM

Speaker: Ananth Kumar, Leadership, Zoho


Title: Reimagining MLOps with Kubeflow and Portworx

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 03:30-04:00 PM

Speaker: Leela Srinivas Siripurapu, Member Of Technical Staff; Pure Storage

Dhruv Bhatnagar, Member Of Technical Staff; Pure Storage


Title: Is OpenTelemetry the future of Observability?

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 04:00-04:45 PM

Speaker: Zameer Fouzan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic


Title: Progressive Delivery on Kubernetes with Argo and Istio

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 05:00-05:45 PM

Speaker: Animesh Rastogi, Technical Account Manager, Searce


Title: How Thanos Almost Snapped $100,000 from our Infra Budget

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 05:45-06:15 PM

Speaker: Shubham Srivastava, Head of Developer Relations, Zenduty
Deepak Kumar, Senior Cloud Architect, Zenduty


Title: Enabling AI workloads with OpenCL and CUDA

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 11:45 – 12:15 PM

Speaker: Vijay Kulari, Sr. Solutions Architect, Pure Storage

Keerthivasan Suresh, Solutions Architect, Pure Storage


Title: Exploring modern applications with opensource large language models

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 12:15 – 12:45 PM

Speaker: Arun Balaji, Principal Prototyping Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Aastha Varma, Prototyping Engineer, Amazon Web Services


Title: Into the LLM-Verse: Building Open-Source Generative AI Agents to Supercharge your Workflows

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 12:45 – 01:30 PM

Speaker: Amith K K, Senior Engineer, Unisys


Title: Orchestrate your AI with Semantic Kernel

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 03:30 – 04:00 PM

Speaker: Vivek Sridhar, CTO – Microsoft for Startups, Microsoft


Title: The Rise of the Open Source LLM’s and factors for Enterprise Success

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 04:00 – 04:30 PM

Speaker: Sathyan Sethumadhavan, AI Strategist / Architect, Thoughtworks Technologies

Karrtik Iyer, Principal Data Scientist, Thoughtworks Technologies


Title: From Generic to Specialized: Fine Tuning Large Language Mode

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 4:45 – 05:15 PM

Speaker: Binitha MT, Software Principal Engineer and Subhankar Adak, Senior Software Engineer; Dell Technologies


Title: AI For Security & Security For AI

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 05:15-05:45 PM

Speaker: Ankit Sharma, Leader, Security Test Engineering, Cisco Systems Inc


Title: Open Source and Artificial Intelligence

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 05:45-06:15 PM

Speaker: Akshita Agrawal, Legal Associate, LegaliTech

20th October 2023

Title of Keynote: Finally, India is starting to be an uploading Nation

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 10:00-10:45 AM

Speaker: Prof Sowmya Narayanan Sadagopan, Former Chairman, BoG, IIITDM-Kancheepuram, Founder Director, IIIT Bangalore, IIIT Bangalore


Title of Keynote: Introducing LibreOffice Technology THE Open Source Office Productivity Software and it’s awesome community behind

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 10:45-11:30 AM

Speaker: Lothar Karl Becker, Member and former chairman of The Document Foundation


Title of Keynote: Discovering Unstructured Data!

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 02:30-03:15 PM

Speaker: Steven Tan, VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Futurewei, Board Chair, SODA Foundation
Sanil Kumar D
, Founder & CEO, Caze Labs Private Limited, TOC Co-Chair, SODA Foundation


 

Title: Organizational Adoption and Governance of Open Source Software

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 11:45 – 12:30 PM

Speaker: Tony Wasserman, Software and Strategy Advisor


Title: From Code to Culture: How Open Source is Redefining Organisational Dynamics

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 12:30 – 01:00 PM

Speaker: Indumathi Venkataraman, Director of Engineering, Code and Theory


Title: Building a community – Then and Now

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 01:15-01:30 PM

Speaker: Sachin GargCTO; NavankurIT


Hands-On

Title: From Concept to Code: Accelerating Generative AI Performance

This workshop delves into the challenges faced in AI development and model deployment across various hardware. It introduces OpenVINO as a solution, showcasing its potential in accelerating Generative AI tasks. Attendees will explore the developer journey with OpenVINO, gaining insights into overcoming deployment hurdles. A hands-on demonstration on stable diffusion with OpenVINO will underline its efficacy in enhancing Generative AI performance, providing a practical understanding of translating conceptual AI models into optimized, deployable solutions. Through this interactive session, participants will grasp how OpenVINO acts as a catalyst in bridging the gap between AI development and seamless deployment.

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 03:30-05:00 PM

Speaker: Anisha Udayakumar, AI Software Evangelist (APJ), Intel

Goodies Time: 4:30 to 5:00

At the end of workshop, attendees will have a chance to win cool swags after completion of small tasks like participating in hands-on activities based on the workshop.


 

Title: Automating Workloads with Kubernetes Operator

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 15:30-16:00 PM

Speaker: Aditya Joshi, Software Engineer 3, Walmart


Title: ReVoman (Rev-Woman) | A Template-driven API automation tool for JVM

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 11:45 – 12:30 PM

Speaker: Gopal S Akshintala, Lead Member of Technical Staff Salesforce.com India Pvt Ltd


Title: Unleashing Java Performance: Harnessing Data Parallelism with the Java Vector API

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 12:30-01:00 PM

Speaker: Sourav Kumar Paul, Engineering Manager, Intel
Abhijit Kulkarni, Senior Software Engineer, Intel corporation


Title: REST in Motion: Harnessing Zilla for Dynamic API Delivery in Event-Driven Architectures

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 01:00-01:30 PM

Speaker: Ankit Kumar, Core Engineer, Aklivity


Title: Write your Kubernetes Infrastructure as Go code with CDK for Kubernetes (cdk8s)

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 04:00-04:30 PM

Speaker: Abhishek Gupta, Principal Developer Advocate; Amazon Web Services


Title: Optimize Carbon Footprint of your code and containers – The New Sustainability KRA for Developers

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 04:45-05:15 PM

Speaker: Vinay Rajagopal, ISV Technology Lead, RedHat


Title: PID 1 Predicament: NPM’s Impact on Dockerized Node.js Applications.

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 05:15-05:45 PM

Speaker: Goli Akshay Sujith, Software Development Engineer, Slice


 

Title: OSS DB Architectures: Building Blocks of OLTP, OLAP and Realtime DBs

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 11:45 to 12:30 PM

Speaker: Shivji Kumar Jha, Staff Engineer, Nutanix


Title: MySQL Ecosystem: Choices For Scalability

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 12:30 to 01:00 PM

Speaker: Vinoth Kanna, Co Founder, Mydbops


Title: Unveiling Business Data Observability: Harnessing Open-Source Technology

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 01:00 to 01:30 PM

Speaker: Vijay P, Chief Solutions Officer, Tibil Solutions

Title: Common Network Security in Kubernetes based Platforms

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 03:30-04:00

Speaker: Baskaran, Senior Software Engineer; Dell India Private Limited


Title: Cloud Native Security in GPT Days!

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 4:00 to 4:30 PM

Speaker: Dharmanandana Reddy Pothula and Lijoy J, Caze Labs


Title: SONiC – The Future of Networking OS

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 4:30 to 5:00 PM

Speaker: Ashay Krishna, Director of Engineering; Microsoft India Pvt Ltd


Title: The Open Standard Modular Hardware System for Data Center

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 5:00 to 5:30 PM

Speaker: Padala Raveendra Reddy, Software Senior Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies


Title: Transforming the Tech Stack: A Case Study of our Shift from CPanel to Kubernetes

Date: 20-Oct-2023

Time: 5:30 to 6:00 PM

Speaker: Karan Singh, Co-Founder & CTO, Scogo Networks Pvt. Ltd

 

WORKSHOPS

Title: Managing a statefull application in K8s using Go Language and Helm [WS03].

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM

Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Sreeja Radhakrishnan, Puja Chaudhury, Ramya Gogi, Karan Singh, DELL


Title:  A hands-on experience with customising embeddings [WS06]

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM

Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Srikar Yekollu, Site Architecture and Data Science Head, Clari


Title: Building an App alive with Generative AI [WS01]

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 11:30-02:00 PM

Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Mohan Sridharan, Principal Solutions Engineer GitHub
Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan, Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer GitHub


Title: GitOps Mastery: Declarative Configuration Management with Kubernetes [WS02]

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 03:30 to 6:30 PM

Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Mayank Raj, Lead Member of Technical Staff Salesforce.com India Pvt Ltd


Title: Mastering Site24x7: A Hands-On Monitoring Workshop

Date: 19th October 2023

Time: 03:30 to 6:30 PM

Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Sarath, Zoho 


 

Title: Let us do Kubernetes Monitoring along with AI-powered Observability! [WS08]

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 11:30-02:00 PM

Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Sanil Kumar D,Founder, CEO & Director, Caze Labs Private Limited
Amit Kumar, Co-Founder, CTO & Director, Caze Labs Private Limited
Sushantha Kumar, Co-Founder, CTO & Director, Caze Labs Private Limited
Uday Swamy


Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 11:30-02:00 PM

Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Neependra Khare, Founder and Principal Trainer, CloudYuga Technologies Pvt. Ltd.



Title: From Concept to Code: Accelerating Generative AI Performance

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 15:30-17:00 PM

Venue: Hall A, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Anisha Udayakumar, AI Software Evangelist (APJ), Intel<br>

This workshop delves into the challenges faced in AI development and model deployment across various hardware. It introduces OpenVINO as a solution, showcasing its potential in accelerating Generative AI tasks.


 

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 11:30-02:00 PM

Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Rahul Garg, Lead Consultant Thoughtworks Technologies,


 

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 03:30-06:00 PM

Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Sangram Rath, Cloud Architect & Technology Advisor,  Founder OD10


 

Date: 20th October 2023

Time: 03:30-06:00 PM

Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

Speaker: Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, CEO, Comorin Consulting Services