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What is Open Source North?

An Open Dialogue on Open Source

Open Source North (OSN) is a Twin Cities tech conference that brings enterprise developers and industry experts together to learn, share, and connect. We’re all about Open Source technologies emerging within the enterprise community. OSN is a great way to meet, mingle, and mix with other Open Source leaders. Join the group this June!

Save The Date

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Kopp Student Center/Normandale Community College 9700 France Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55431
Map + Directions
From the North

Take MN-100 South
Continue on County Hwy 34 S/Normandale Blvd
Turn left on 98th Street
Turn left on Collegeville Road
Kopp Student Center is ahead on your right.

From The South

Take I-35W North
Take exit 6 for 98th Street/County Hwy 1
At end of exit ramp, turn left
Move to the right lane to stay on 98th Street
Proceed west past France Avenue
Turn left on Collegeville Road
Kopp Student Center is ahead on your right.

From The East

Take I-494 West
Take France Avenue exit
At end of exit ramp, turn left
Proceed south to 98th Street
Turn right onto 98th Street
Turn right on Collegeville Road
Kopp Student Center is ahead on your right.

From The West

Take I-494 East
Take France Avenue exit
At end of exit ramp, turn right
Proceed south to 98th Street
Turn right onto 98th Street
Turn right on Collegeville Road
Kopp Student Center is ahead on your right.

Explore Open Source North

Open Doors

Form connections in the open source community and rub shoulders with industry leaders, sponsors and local meetups.

OSN 2018

2018 Topics include: Microservices, React, Elastic APM, DevOps, Blockchain, JWT, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Jakarta EE, Neural Networks

91%

of OSN 2017 attendees would recommend this conference to a friend or colleague. We think you will, too.

550+

2017 sold out! 550+ attendees. Don’t miss out on 2018!

Great Job! One of the best conferences in the Minneapolis area.

— 2017 Attendee
OSN 2018

2018 Speakers – Some of the organizations represented are Red Hat, Target, GitHub, Microsoft, Pivotal, Elastic, MongoDB, Auth0, Code42, McKesson, Tomitribe

Open Information

Expand your knowledge with expert speakers and friendly discussions on open source enterprise technologies and solutions.

Looking forward to Open Source North 2018! #osn2017

— @cjgennaula
+115%

That’s how much our attendance increased from year one.

The conference was very well organized, fun atmosphere and had good flow. It's one of the best conferences I've been to, and will continue to attend. Really well done!

— 2017 Attendee
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

6 ROOMS. 43 SPEAKERS. INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.

Open Source North works hard all year to curate the best group of open source experts from around the world. Whether you’re interested in enterprise-level open source technology for your own business or just looking to learn a new thing or two – OSN has got you covered.

Select a track to view the schedule.

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:10

Welcoming Remarks

4:20 - 4:30

Prize Drawings

4:30 - 6:30

Complimentary Happy Hour (on-site)

9:15 - 10:15

Track 1

Room: P0806

Serverless at the Edge

James Landro, Senior Front End Consultant, sdg

10:35 - 11:35

Track 1

Room: P0806

React Unit Testing with Jest & Enzyme

Steven Hicks, Senior JavaScript Engineer, Northwestern Mutual

12:35 - 1:00

Track 1

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Branching out with Elm: FUNctional programming for your frontend toolkit

Lauren Beatty, Software Engineer, ITM/TwentyFirst

1:10 - 1:35

Track 1

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Using JavaScript to write Native Applications for iOS, Android and the Web.

Derek Anderson, Member of Technical Staff, PayPal

Siddharth Reddy Malkireddy, Software Engineer 2, PayPal

1:55 - 2:55

Track 1

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Hacking the Human Perception

Chris DeMars, Senior UI Developer, United Shore

3:15 - 4:15

Track 1

Room: P1838

Responsive and Progressive Web Application Journey

Senthil Kumaran, Senior Manager Web and Mobile Services, Virtuwell

9:15 - 10:15

Track 2

Room: P0838

The State of OSS and .NET

Jason Bock, Practice Lead, Magenic

10:35 - 11:35

Track 2

Room: P1838

Talk Over Text: Conversational Content Strategy and Usability

Preston So, Director of Research and Innovation, Acquia

12:35 - 1:00

Track 2

Room: P1808

How to make your first contribution to Node.js and what to do next

Casie Siekman, Consultant, sdg

1:10 - 1:35

Track 2

Room: P1838

To Vector or not to Vector, that is the Question

Joshua Giowaya, Sr. Front-End Developer, Code42

1:55 - 2:55

Track 2

Room: P1808

Drama-Free Decisions in Software Development Teams

Martin Hertz, Software Engineering Manager, Jamf

3:15 - 4:15

Track 2

Room: P0838

Great Expectations: A Secure Software Story

Brian Glas, Director of Strategic Services, nVisium

9:15 - 10:15

Track 3

Room: P1808

How to Know What We Cannot Know: Building A Better Data Ingestion System

Elena Palmer, Software Developer, NetSPI

10:35 - 11:35

Track 3

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Blockchain App Development with Hyperledger Sawtooth

Zac Delventhal, Senior Software Engineer, Bitwise IO

12:35 - 1:00

Track 3

Room: P0808

Building High Performance React Applications

Joe Karlsson, JavaScript Engineer, Consultant

1:10 - 1:35

Track 3

Room: P0806

Why GraphQL?

Chris Arcand, Sr. Software Engineer, Software for Good

1:55 - 2:55

Track 3

Room: P0806

Advanced Schema Design for MongoDB

Matt Kalan, Principal Solution Architect, MongoDB

3:15 - 4:15

Track 3

Room: P0806

Azure Batch AI for Neural Networks

Cameron Vetter, Principal Consultant, Cloud, Safenet Consulting

9:15 - 10:15

Track 4

Room: P0808

Platform Architecture for Omnichannel Retail

Joel Crabb, VP, Architecture, Target

10:35 - 11:35

Track 4

Room: P1808

How Much Freedom is too Much? Balancing the Freedom of Microservices Teams with the Larger Interests of the Enterprise

Kelly Goetsch, Chief Product Officer, commercetools

12:35 - 1:00

Track 4

Room: P0806

WTH is a JWT

Joel Lord, Developer Evangelist, Auth0

1:10 - 1:35

Track 4

Room: P0808

Java EE is now Jakarta EE: What happened? What’s going on? Where is it going?

Richard Monson Haefel, Sr. Software Engineer, Tomitribe

1:55 - 2:55

Track 4

Room: P0838

Marrying Content and Commerce

Derek Bodin, Director of Development, McKesson

Jacob Hookom, VP of Customer Technology, McKesson

3:15 - 4:15

Track 4

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Elastic APM: Open Source Application Performance Management

Michael Heldebrant, Solutions Architect, Elastic

9:15 - 10:15

Track 5

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Kubernetes In Action: The Developer Experience

Dave Strebel, Global Open Source Architect, Microsoft

10:35 - 11:35

Track 5

Room: P0808

systemd By Example: service security, sandboxing, containers, telemetry, logging

Keith Resar, Automation Engineer, Red Hat

12:35 - 1:00

Track 5

Room: P1838

Building an Engineering Culture in Banking

Andy Hakala, Operations Integrator, TCF

Jeffrey Einhorn, Innovative IT Executive, TCF

1:10 - 1:35

Track 5

Room: P0838

Creating a DevOps Platform At Target

Greg Case, Director Engineering - Digital Client Services, Target

1:55 - 2:55

Track 5

Room: P0808

One Pipeline to Rule them All?

Craig Erdmann, Platform Architect, Pivotal

Brian Byers, Platform Architect, Pivotal

3:15 - 4:15

Track 5

Room: K1450/Garden Room

Welcome To Production

JD DeFauw, Enterprise Architect, CH Robinson

9:15 - 10:15

Track 6

Room: P1838

You Have Died of Dysentery: Product Thinking for DevOps Projects

Jess Richey, Program Manager, Granicus

Ben Ortega, Sr Software Engineer, SmartThings

10:35 - 11:35

Track 6

Room: P0838

Promoting Open Source Principles Across Your Organization

Philip Holleran, Solutions Engineer, GitHub

12:35 - 1:00

Track 6

Room: P0838

How C.H. Robinson built an Inner Source Culture around Open Source Practices

Tyler Patterson, Engineering Manager, C.H. Robinson

1:10 - 1:35

Track 6

Room: P1808

Maintaining Maintainers

Maggie Pint, Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

1:55 - 2:55

Track 6

Room: P1838

Can You Teach an Old Dog – to Tango?

Paul Ellarby, Director, Software Delivery, Merrill Corporation

Ryan Sutter, Director of Software Engineering, Merrill Corporation

3:15 - 4:15

Track 6

Room: P1808

From green screens to digital genes: Open source and open community at a 100-year-old company

Jay Hopia, Sr Director – Service Delivery, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Jake Remitz, Technical Team Lead, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Kari Wangensteen, Director, Global Products & Technology Counsel and Head of Global IP, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

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Open Source North attracts some of the brightest local Open Source enterprise talent in town. Become an OSN Sponsor for open access to this unique and talented audience.

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Share Your Smarts

Excited about a cool new technology? Learned a few tough lessons worth sharing? Have an inspiring case study? Tell us why you think it’s perfect for the OSN crowd. The deadline for submissions is March 8th.

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