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After all these years, open source skills are more important and sought after than ever.

More than anything, ATO is an educational conference where attendees learn about new technologies and topics, and it’s always been that way. The goal is for attendees to leave having learned something or been made aware of something new.

Open Source has never been more popular and skills have never been in more demand

Open source project creation is up 27% year-over-year. 95% of enterprises say it's "strategically important." 100 Mission are now on GitHub. 4.5 Billion GitHub contributions in the last year.

The speaker lineup is second-to-none

We’ve said it a thousand times – speakers are the reason people attend an event, period. The sessions they deliver provide the education that is so valuable. The lineup in 2025 will be tremendous. See speakers from 2024, 2023202220212020 and 2019

Just a few past speakers include:
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Jim Whitehurst
IBM

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Saron Yitbarek
Code Newbie

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Mitchell Hashimoto
Hashicorp

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Stephen Augustus
Cisco

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Venkat Subramaniam

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Angie Jones
Block

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Sarah Drasner
Google

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Chris Coyier
CodePen and CSS Tricks

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Kelsey Hightower
Google

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Kent C. Dodds
Engineer & Educato

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Scott Hanselman
Microsoft

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Emma Wedekind
Spotify

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Arun Gupta
Intel

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whurley
Strangeworks

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Edidiong Asikpo
Ambassador Labs

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Alyssa Miller
Global

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Jason Lengstorf
Netlify

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Emily Freeman
AWS

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Marten Mickos
HackerOne

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Ceora Ford
Okta & StackOverflow Podcast

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Max Howell
Creator of Homebrew

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Danny Thompson

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Kelly Vaughn
Spot AI

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Craig McLuckie
Stacklok

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Adhithi Ravichandran
Surya Consulting, Inc.

You’ll be joining a technical and sophisticated audience

Attendance at ATO is always very, very good and the audience is a technical and sophisticated one.

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The venue is world-class and is structured perfectly for an amazing experience

For the 12th year in a row, the Raleigh Convention Center in downtown Raleigh, NC will serve as the host location. The layout is structured perfectly for an amazing attendee experience. In addition, it is downtown and within easy walking distance from attractions, hotels, restaurants and some of the top tech companies in the world.


Located in a Global Epicenter of Technology and Open Source Innovation

You’ll be visiting Raleigh and The Research Triangle Park, one of the fastest growing tech centers in the U.S. and the world. Learn more about the location and venue.

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The overall vibe is positive, fun and exciting. The experience is second-to-none.

The ATO community is a good one – kind, generous and genuinely supportive of other attendees and the open source community in general.

The price is fair and designed to maximize attendee and participant ROI

We started All Things Open to create an accessible and affordable world-class open source/tech/web conference. We strongly felt a world-class experience and accessibility shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, and 12 years later, we still do.