Open Source India 2017
A panel discussion on ‘Open Source vs Enterprise Open Source:
Is this a key reason for the success of Open Source?’Open Source and You (Success Stories)
This was a full-day track with multiple sessions, during which
enterprise end users (CXOs, IT heads, etc) shared their success
stories. This track was led by speakers like K. Rajasekhar
(deputy director general, NIC, MeitY), Ravi Trivedi (founder,
PushEngage.com), Vikram Mehta (associate director, information
security, MakeMyTrip), Dr Michael Meskes (CEO, credativ
international GmbH) and Prasanna Lohar (head, technology,
DCB Bank Ltd).Application Development Day
This was a half-day track with multiple sessions on the role
of open source in hybrid application
development. Speakers
included Vivek Sridhar
(developer advocate,
Digital Ocean),
Rajdeep Dua (director- developer relations,
Salesforce India) and
Bindukaladeepan
Chinasamy (senior
technical evangelist,
Microsoft), amongst others.
The Cloud and Big Data
This was a half-day track
with multiple sessions
that helped IT managers/
heads in understanding the role of
open source in different aspects of the
cloud and in Big Data. This track had
speakers like Sudhir Rawat (senior
technical evangelist, Microsoft),
Rajkumar Natarajan (CIO, Prodevans
Technologies), Rajesh Jeyapaul
(architect, mentor and advocate,
IBM), Suman Debnath (project
leader, Toshiba) and Sangeetha Priya
(director, Axcensa Technologies), amongst others.Database Day
Open source databases have always been of great importance.
The event had speakers from leading database companies
including Sujatha Sivakumar and Madhusudhan Joshi (Oracle
India), Soh Hiong (senior consultant, NetApp), Pavan Deolasee
(PostgreSQL consultant, 2nd Quadrant India), Gagan Mehra
(director, Information Strategy, MongoDB) and Karthik P. R.
(CEO and DB architect, Mydbops), amongst others.
OpenStack India
This was a half-day track with multiple sessions on what’sKey tracks @ osi 2017
hot in OpenStack. This track was done in collaboration with the
Open Stack community and attracted a lot of cloud architects, IT
managers, CXOs, etc. Speakers for this track included famous
OpenStack enthusiasts like Anil Bidari, Chandan Kumar, M. Ranga
Swami and Janki Chhatbar, amongst others.
Cyber Security Day
Open source plays an important role with respect to security. So it was
security experts, IT heads and project leaders working on mission-
critical projects who attended this track that had multiple sessions on
understanding cyber security and open source.
Speakers for this track included Biju George
(co-founder, Instasafe), Sandeep Athiyarath
(founder, FCOOS), and Joerg Simon (ISECOM
and Fedora Project), amongst others.Open Source in IoT
This half-day track with multiple sessions
was on the role of open source in the Internet
of Things (IoT). This track was one of the
most sought after and saw thought leaders
like Adnyesh Dalpati (director – solutions
architect and presales, Alef Mobitech),
Rajesh Sola (education specialist, KPIT
Technologies), Aahit Gaba (counsel -
open source, HP Enterprise)
and Ramakrishna Rama
(director - software, Dell
India R&D) sharing their
knowledge on the subject.
Container Day
This half-day track, conducted
in collaboration with the
Docker community, had leaders
from the Docker community as
well as experts from the industry
share their thoughts. The
speakers included Neependra
Khare (founder, CloudYuga
Technologies), Uma Mukkara (co-
founder and COO, OpenEBS), Ananda Murthy (data centre solutions
architect, Microfocus India) and Sudharshan Govindan (senior
developer, IBM India), amongst others.Open Source and You
This half-day track was about the latest in open source and how
its future is shaping up. This track had speakers like Krishna
M. Kumar and Sanil Kumar D. (chief architects in cloud R&D,
Huawei India), Vishal Singh (VP – IT infra and solutions, Eli
Research India), Biju K. Nair (executive director, Sflc.in) and
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