Featured Talks Preview
Each year Featured Talks cover interesting and widely applicable topics and are 45 minutes in duration. They’re always a big hit with attendees.
A limited number of these talks are being featured in 2025 and each will take place in the 12:45 – 1:30 pm ET time block on both Monday, October 13 and Tuesday, October 14. This is during lunch on both days, and attendees are encouraged to eat while watching.
See who and what will be covered below, and plan now to see them live and in person!
*Note, the talks take place over lunch / while lunch is available each day, so feel free to eat as you attend a session.
Monday, October 13
Using AI Agents to Empower Application Modernization for Kubernetes
Lachlan Evenson, Azure Cloud Native Ecosystem
Seamless Data Movement and Validation
Josh Hicks, Jumpmind
Tuesday, October 14
Building the Web We Want With AI
Ronnie Burt, WordPress.com
Policy: Beyond the Bottom Line: Sustaining the Open Source Ecosystem
Amir Montazery, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc, Patrick Masson, Apereo Foundation, & Ruth Suehle, SAS
Neurodivergent Roundtable
Squatch Henry, Bigfoot Systems