Open Source For You — December 2017

Open Source India 2017

conferences are always planned with this
diversity in mind, there were tracks for the
creators (developers, project managers,
R&D teams, etc) as well as for the
implementers of open source software.
The star-studded speakers’ list
included international experts like Tony
Wasserman (professor of the software
management practice at Carnegie Mellon
University, Silicon Valley), Joerg Simon
(ISECOM and Fedora Project), and Soh
Hiong, senior consultant, NetApp. There
was also active participation from the
government of India with Debabrata
Nayak (project director, NeGD, MeitY)
and K. Rajasekhar (deputy director
general, NIC, MeitY), delivering speeches
at the event.
Industry experts like Andrew Aitken
(GM and global open source practice
leader, Wipro Technologies), Sandeep
Alur (director, technical engagements
(partners), Microsoft Corporation
India), Sanjay Manwani (MySQL India
director, Oracle), Rajdeep Dua (director,
developer relations at Salesforce), Gagan
Mehra (director, information strategy,
MongoDB), Rajesh Jeyapaul (architect,
mentor and advocate, IBM), Valluri
Kumar (chief architect, Huawei India),
and Ramakrishna Rama (director -
software, Dell India R&D) were amongst
the 70+ experts who spoke at the event.
The many intriguing topics covered
compelled visitors to stay glued to their
seats till late in the evening on both days.
A few topics that solicited special interest
from the audience included a panel
discussion on ‘Open Source vs Enterprise
Open Source. Is this a Key Reason for the
Success of Open Source?’, ‘Accelerating
the Path to Digital with Cloud Data
Strategy’, ‘Open Source - A Blessing or a
Curse?’, ‘Intelligent Cloud and AI – The
Next Big Leap’ and ‘IoT Considerations -
Decisive Open Source Policy’.
“We owe our success to the active
participation of the community and
the industry. It’s exciting to see how
this event, which had just a handful of
exhibitors in its initial stages, has grown

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to the stage at which, today, the who’s

who of open source are demonstrating

their solutions to the audience. I hope

that we continue to make this event even

more exciting, and ensure it becomes one

of the biggest open source events across

the globe,” said Rahul Chopra, editorial

director, EFY Group.

Delegates looking to buy workshop

passes on the spot were disappointed, as

all the workshops were sold out earlier,

online, even before the commencement of

the event. Workshops like ‘Self-Service

Automation in OpenStack Cloud’,

‘Building Machine Learning Pipelines with

PredictionIO’, ‘Analyzing Packets using

Wireshark’, ‘OpenShift DevOps Solution’,

‘Make your First Open Source IoT Product’

and ‘Tools and Techniques to Dive into the

Mathematics of Machine Learning’ drew a

lot of interest from the techie audience.

“We would like to thank our

sponsors, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle,

Salesforce, 2nd Quadrant, Wipro

Technologies, Zoho Corporation, Digital

Ocean, SUSE, Siemens, Huawei and

others for their valuable participation and

support for the event. We look forward

to having an even bigger showcase

of open source technologies with the

support of our existing partners as well

as many new stalwarts from the tech

industry,” said Atul Goel, vice president

of events at EFY.

Adding to this, Rahul Chopra said,

“With the overwhelming response of the

tech audience and the demand for more

sessions, we have decided to expand the

event, starting from the 2018 edition.

The event will now become a three-day

affair instead of a two-day one. This

means more tracks, more speakers,

more workshops and more knowledge-

sharing on open source. We have

already announced the dates for the next

edition. It’s going to happen right here,

at the same venue, on October 11, 12

and 13, 2018.”

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