Version 0.17 Sept. 20, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Slide Karaoke!” by Jeff Ligon.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “RISC-V the Unavoidable Evolution” by Isaac Chute

Version 0.16 Sept. 19, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Moving from Management to Individual Contributor, a journey” by Jeff Ligon.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Redesigning Team Dynamics: How Neurodiversity Makes Open Source Stronger” by Quinn Burdine

Version 0.15 Sept. 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “How Secure is Your Base Image? A Live Security Test of Popular Containers” by John Amaral

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “CoreOS Demystified – The Specialized OS Powering OpenShift and Containers” by Renata Ravanelli (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:30 p.m.)
• “Born Agile: Why Engineers Resist What Comes Naturally” by Allison King (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:50 p.m.)
• “Podman Health Check: A Data-Driven Look at Community, Performance, and Trends” by Mohan Boddu, Ashley Cui (Sept. 20, 2025, 1:20 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:10 p.m.)
• “OpenShift Installer: Past, Present, & a Potential Future” by Patrick Dillon (Sept. 20, 2025, 1:20 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:10 p.m.)
• “Training AI Models on Massive Datasets” by Julio Faracco (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:30 p.m.)
• “Characterizing AI inferencing stacks” by Ryan Malone (Sept. 20, 2025, 1 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:50 p.m.)
• “Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary - Lessons learned with a career in software?” by Daniel Walsh (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 4:05 p.m.)
• “Language Model Post-Training in 2025: an Overview of Customization Options Today” by Mustafa Eyceoz (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:50 p.m.)
• “8Knot Chatbot” by Alvin Yu (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:30 p.m.)
• “RISC-V the Unavoidable Evolution” by Isaac Chute (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:30 p.m.)
• “Building easily deployable RAG applications with Llamastack” by Peter Zhao (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:50 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m.)
• “SDG_Hub: An Open-Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Generation and LLM Customization” by Shivchander Sudalairaj, Abhishek (Sept. 20, 2025, 1:20 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:10 p.m.)
• “Getting real DevOps ROI with your Generative AI” by Allen Gilbert Andrews (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:50 p.m.)
• “Post-Quantum Cryptography for Digital Signing” by Arthur Savage (Sept. 19, 2025, 4:40 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “What's new with RamaLama” by Daniel Walsh (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:50 p.m.)
• “How I made a powerful cache system using Go” by Sylvain COMBRAQUE (Sept. 20, 2025, 1:20 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 1:10 p.m.)
• “Closing + Trivia!” by Urvashi Mohnani, Sally O'Malley, Dorka Volavkova (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:45 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 4:40 p.m.)
• “Decoding Employment Inequities: Finding your place in an industry that seems built for someone else” by mb Pierce (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m., Hewitt Boardroom (Capacity 35) → Sept. 19, 2025, 4:40 p.m., 106 (Capacity 45))

Version 0.14 Sept. 9, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “The Missing Metrics: Measuring Memory Noisy Neighbors in Cloud Native Environments” by Jonathan Perry
• “Strategies for Mitigating Performance Interference in Cloud-Native Systems” by Jonathan Perry

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Kubernetes Under Fire: Igniting Performance and Burning Through Bottlenecks with Kube-Burner” by Sai Sindhur Malleni, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Challa (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 2:50 p.m.)
• “Extending Quality Management with Audio, Video, and KVM using Podman Quadlets” by Douglas Schilling Landgraf, Yariv Rachmani (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m., 106 (Capacity 45) → Sept. 19, 2025, 4:40 p.m., 101 (Capacity 48))
• “Closing + Trivia!” by Urvashi Mohnani, Sally O'Malley, Dorka Volavkova (Sept. 20, 2025, 5:05 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 4:45 p.m.)
• “Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary - Lessons learned with a career in software?” by Daniel Walsh (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m.)
• “Intelligent Pipelines: Bringing AI/ML into DevSecOps Automation” by Heber Romero Tellez, Bernardo Guerrero, Francisco Javier Monroy Garcia, Jorge Varela, Francisco Zompa, Aldo Luevano (Sept. 19, 2025, 4:40 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 10:40 a.m.)

Version 0.13 Sept. 5, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Getting Started in Open Source” by Shaun McCance, Amy Marrich.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Leveraging Teacher Models for Efficient Synthetic Data Generation in LLMs” by Aakanksha Duggal
• “Midori Browser an ecosystem of privacy, security and productivity” by Alfonso Hernandez

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “LLMs on the Edge: The Future of On-Device Intelligence” by Rakesh Musalay (Sept. 20, 2025, 3:50 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
• “Don't tell me RAG is easy” by Major Hayden (Sept. 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 11:20 a.m.)

Version 0.12 Aug. 26, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “What's new with RamaLama” by Daniel Walsh (Sept. 20, 2025, 9 a.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “Cluster Provisioning in a New Avatar: An AI/ML-Driven Approach to Platform Lifecycle Management” by Prithvi Raj, Justin Winter (Sept. 20, 2025, 2 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 9 a.m.)

Version 0.11 Aug. 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “We can automate that!” by Zack Zlotnik.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Breaking Down Barriers: Automate Accessibility Checks in your CI/CD process” by Suriya Prakash
• “Beyond the Broken Links: Optimizing Your Website with Redirects” by Suriya Prakash

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Auto-tuning vllm” by Rehan Samaratunga (101 (Capacity 48) → Hewitt Boardroom (Capacity 35))
• “UV Migration” by Moryan Tchoumi Noukoua (101 (Capacity 48) → Hewitt Boardroom (Capacity 35))
• “GPU Programming with Triton Kernels” by Kyle Yu (101 (Capacity 48) → Hewitt Boardroom (Capacity 35))
• “WebAssembly's Journey Beyond the Browser” by Matthew Flug (Sept. 19, 2025, 11:20 a.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 11 a.m.)

Version 0.10 Aug. 6, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Auto-tuning vllm” by Rehan Samaratunga
• “Demystifying Confidential Computing: A technical update for enthusiasts and professionals” by Jake Correnti

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Keycloak Chronicles: Managing Identity in a Decentralized World” by Meha Bhalodiya
• “Breaking Limits: Benchmarking Kubernetes Performance with Kube-burner and Cluster Loader 2” by Meha Bhalodiya

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “GPU Programming with Triton Kernels” by Kyle Yu (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:20 p.m., Ladd Room (Capacity 170) → Sept. 19, 2025, 11:30 a.m., 101 (Capacity 48))
• “UV Migration” by Moryan Tchoumi Noukoua (Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m., Ladd Room (Capacity 170) → Sept. 19, 2025, 11:40 a.m., 101 (Capacity 48))

Version 0.9 Aug. 1, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Introduction to Perses, an Open Source Observability Dashboard” by Jenny Zhu.

Version 0.8 July 28, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Auto-tuning vllm” by Rehan Samaratunga

Version 0.7 July 24, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Market Requirements Document” by Cherilyn Kim
• “Probabilistic Analysis of WCETs on RT Systems: When Your Worst Case Isn't Worst Enough” by Aseef Imran
• “Auto-tuning vllm” by Rehan Samaratunga
• “Portfolio Marketing Metrics and Insights” by Hannah Choe

Version 0.6 July 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.5 July 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “How Might We Achieve Better Outcomes Using Gen AI?” by Beau Morley, Vince Conzola, Cece Tan, Andy Braren.

Version 0.4 July 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Mastering Multi-Format Document Processing for AI with Docling” by Mingxuan Zhao, Rafael Vasquez
• “GPU Programming with Triton Kernels” by Kyle Yu
• “UV Migration” by Moryan Tchoumi Noukoua
• “Characterizing AI inferencing stacks” by Ryan Malone
• “8Knot Chatbot” by Alvin Yu
• “Building Reliable AI Agents with BeeAI” by Sandi Besen
• “Building easily deployable RAG applications with Llamastack” by Peter Zhao
• “Zero Trust Visualization” by Nathan Strahs
• “Simplifying Cloud Native Application Development with Kind” by Alyssa Goins

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Open Source Monitoring: Innovations Shaping Tomorrow” by Joseph Zikusooka (Zik)
• “From Vision to Reality : How AWX(Ansible Automation Platform) became the Automation Pillar in the Enterprise Customer” by Arnav Bhati
• “Self heal your Infrastructure using Artificial Intelligence and Event Driven Ansible - Use cases !” by Arnav Bhati

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “No UI, Still a Journey: Mapping UX for the Unseen” by Tiffany Nolan (Sept. 19, 2025, 11:20 a.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 1:20 p.m.)
• “Disease Detection in the Age of Quantum Computing” by Andrew Miller (Sept. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)
• “ARA Ansible for the team” by Kirill Satarin (Sept. 19, 2025, 4:20 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 4:40 p.m.)
• “Breaking GitOps Bottlenecks: The Power of Sharding” by Anuj Tyagi (Sept. 19, 2025, 3:40 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization” by Taylor Smith, Legare Kerrison (Sept. 19, 2025, 2:40 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 2:30 p.m.)
• “xDSnap: A Lightweight Tool to Debug Envoy and Consul Dataplanes with Confidence” by Mark Campbell-Vincent (Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 4:20 p.m.)
• “Decoding Employment Inequities: Finding your place in an industry that seems built for someone else” by mb Pierce (Sept. 20, 2025, 2:50 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 4:10 p.m.)
• “WebAssembly's Journey Beyond the Browser” by Matthew Flug (Sept. 19, 2025, 1:20 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 11:20 a.m.)
• “An open cloud for european researchers, staff and students - a private/public sector collaboration between Walton Institute, SETU and Red Hat” by Colm Dunphy (Sept. 19, 2025, 1:40 p.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 3:20 p.m.)

Version 0.3 June 25, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Unlocking Business Insights with Natural Language and Generative AI” by Vijaya Bashyam, Neerju gupta (Sept. 20, 2025, 11 a.m. → Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Generative AI Model Data Pre-Training on Kubernetes: A Use Case Study” by Santosh Borse (Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m. → Sept. 20, 2025, 11 a.m.)

Version 0.2 June 25, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Test-Driven Development: It's easier than you think!” by Eric Deandrea (Sept. 20, 2025, 9:40 a.m., 106 (Capacity 45) → Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m., 101 (Capacity 48))
• “Observability In The Loop: Bootstrapping Application and Operational Development With Devcontainers and The Grafana LGTM Stack” by Tyler Auerbeck (Sept. 19, 2025, 4 p.m., 101 (Capacity 48) → Sept. 20, 2025, 9:40 a.m., 106 (Capacity 45))

Version 0.1 June 25, 2025

We released our first schedule!