Name: Kanika Gera
Designation: Technical Product Manager
Company: Adobe Systems Inc, USA
Topic of Talk: Adobe Open Source: How Adobe is changing its culture around Open Source
About the Talk:
Kanika Gera will be presenting on the journey Adobe has been on changing its culture to embrace open source and open development. They will discuss the journey of creating an open source programs office and the wins and challenges the office has faced to date. She will cover how to get management on board, show off some of the tools the OSPO has created and how they are working with engineers to foster a grass roots OS effort. A demo on an OS ranking system they have created to track progress on how Adobe is doing contributing to OS projects vs other companies.
About the Speaker:
Technical Product Manager for disruptive Innovation team – Adobe@Adobe and developer ecosystem and platform. Evangelizing and Advocating Open Source development and developer documentation. Contributions to Release Scoping, Architecture and Infrastructure of developer website, integrations, release management, agile/scrum product development, product strategy and roadmap. A member of the open source office and community at Adobe.