Call For Papers OSI 2019

Calling Experts to share their knowledge at the 16th edition of India’s most exciting convention on Open Source

Open Source India (OSI) is the premier Open Source conference in Asia targeted at nurturing and promoting the Open Source ecosystem in the subcontinent. Started as LinuxAsia in 2004, OSI has been at the helm of bringing together the Open Source industry and the community in the last 15 years. The 16th edition of OSI this year aims to take this event a notch higher by focusing on the Open Source ecosystem in Asia, and more specifically, in India. We have put in our best to make the submission process simple. All you need to do is to click “Submit Talk” and fill the form with the details required . Each session is of 30-45 minutes which includes a 5 to 10 minutes of Q and A. If you are interested in conducting a workshop, then do fill the details for that too. The workshop should be of minimum 3 hours or maximum 6 hours. If your submission gets selected, you will be notified by us. For any further query/suggestion you can reach us at [email protected] or call us at 011-40596600.

BELOW ARE THE DETAILS ON WHAT YOU CAN TALK

Tracks	Open Source & You
Type	Conference
Primary Audience	Anyone interested in success of Open Source
Take-away	Why go for open source solution.
Date	17th Oct, 2019 (Thursday)
Hall	1
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	How’s Open Source enabling growth of India? What are the challenges in growing an open source community and how to overcome? What are the challenges in adopting open source practices and what are the solutions to overcome them? What are the emerging trends in Open Source? How’re communities in India and abroad working towards growth of Open Source?
ENTRY	Community Pass and above

Tracks	Web & Mobile App Development
Type	Tech Conference
Primary Audience	Anyone involved in software development for web or mobile devices
Take-away	Be able to develop better, faster and cheaper solutions using Open Source
Date	17th or 18th Oct, 2019
Hall	2
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	The track will have special focus on Progressive Web Apps What are the new tools and technologies for Developers to exploit? What are the latest best practices and methodologies? Which are the latest technology stacks worth upgrading your skills on? What’s new with respect to development for Connected (IOT) devices? How’s the eco-system in India to support you?
ENTRY	Gold Pass and above

Tracks	Database Day
Type	Tech Conference
Primary Audience	Decision makers & influencers with respect to data and databases
Take-away	Make informed decisions with respect to selection and management of databases
Date	17th or 18th Oct, 2019
Hall	1
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	What’s the latest in the world of Open Source Databases? What are the best practices & techniques to manage and optimise your databases? How to be ready for the era of IOT and Big Data? Any success stories that prove the power and RoI of Open Source databases? How’s the eco-system in India to support you?
ENTRY	Gold Pass and above

Tracks	DevOps Day
Type	Tech Conference
Primary Audience	Decision Makers & influencers on DevOps
Take-away	Leverage the power of latest Open Source solutions for your DevOps
Date	17th or 18th Oct, 2019
Hall	2
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	What are your options? What are their pros & cons? What are the latest technologies, best practices and techniques? Success stories of Open Source and DevOps How’s the eco-system in India to support you?
ENTRY	Gold Pass and above

Tracks	Cloud and BigData
Type	Tech Conference
Primary Audience	Decision makers & influencers involved in management of IT infrastructure
Take-away	Maximise returns on investments in cloud and BigData
Date	17th or 18th Oct, 2019
Hall	3 (Pre Lunch)
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	What are the latest technologies, tools and best practices in the world of Cloud and BigData? How important are Open Source tools in deploying cloud and BigData? How to setup your infra for handling AI/ML applications? How to ready your infra for IOT or connected devices era? What’s the readiness of India’s eco-system to support you?
ENTRY	Gold Pass and above

Tracks	Cyber Security Day
Type	Tech Conference
Primary Audience	Decision makers & influencers accountable for managing security
Take-away	Enhance capability to mitigate the cyber attacks
Date	17th or 18th, Oct 2019
Hall	3 (Post Lunch)
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	What are latest threats and how are the experts mitigating them? What are the additional complexities in the world of connect devices (IOT)? What are the implications in a Hyperconverged infra? How to mitigate attacks? AI, Deep Learning and ML—friend or foe of cyber-security? What’s the readiness of India’s eco-system to support you?
ENTRY	Gold Pass and above

Tracks	Manage. IT. Smart.
Type	Tech Track
Primary Audience	Decision makers & influencers accountable for managing IT infrastructure.
Take-away	Manage your IT Infra smarter.
Date	12th Oct, 2018 (Friday)
Hall	3
Questions That Will Be Answered Here	Best practices & techniques in managing IT Infra smartly Latest tools & technologies that promise to make managing IT simpler How to get the best out of Open Source stack for managing IT infra? Hyper-converged: to do or not to do? What’re the best practices & techniques to influence the non-technical decision makers?
ENTRY	Gold Pass and above