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The Show Continues to Grow

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The beautiful city of Bengaluru, threatened by thick dark clouds, kept convention delegates anxious about reaching the venue on time, since they also knew they would be braving

the city’s legendary traffic. Thankfully, the weather gods heard the OSI team’s prayers and the clouds refrained from drenching the visitors, allowing many from the open source industry as well as enthusiasts from the community to reach the NIMHANS Convention Center well before the 8:30 a.m. registration time. While there were a lot of familiar faces — participants who have been loyally attending the event over the past years, it was also heartwarming to welcome new enthusiasts, who’d come on account of the positive word-of-mouth publicity the event has been building up over the years.

In terms of numbers, the 14th edition of the event, which happened on October 13 and 14, 2017, witnessed 2,367 unique visitors over the two days, breaking all previous attendance records. The event boasted of 70+ industry and community experts coming together to speak in the nine conference tracks and 14 hands-on workshops.

The visitors, as usual, comprised a cross-section of people in terms of their expertise and experience. Since the tracks for the

KEY FACTSShow dates: October 13-14, 2017

Location: NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Number of exhibitors: 27

Brands represented: 33

Unique visitors: 2,367

Number of conferences: 09

Number of workshops: 14

Number of speakers: 70+

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conferences are always planned with this diversity in mind, there were tracks for the creators (developers, project managers, R&D teams, etc) as well as for the implementers of open source software.

The star-studded speakers’ list included international experts like Tony Wasserman (professor of the software management practice at Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley), Joerg Simon (ISECOM and Fedora Project), and Soh Hiong, senior consultant, NetApp. There was also active participation from the government of India with Debabrata Nayak (project director, NeGD, MeitY) and K. Rajasekhar (deputy director general, NIC, MeitY), delivering speeches at the event.

Industry experts like Andrew Aitken (GM and global open source practice leader, Wipro Technologies), Sandeep Alur (director, technical engagements (partners), Microsoft Corporation India), Sanjay Manwani (MySQL India director, Oracle), Rajdeep Dua (director, developer relations at Salesforce), Gagan Mehra (director, information strategy, MongoDB), Rajesh Jeyapaul (architect, mentor and advocate, IBM), Valluri Kumar (chief architect, Huawei India), and Ramakrishna Rama (director - software, Dell India R&D) were amongst the 70+ experts who spoke at the event.

The many intriguing topics covered compelled visitors to stay glued to their seats till late in the evening on both days. A few topics that solicited special interest from the audience included a panel discussion on ‘Open Source vs Enterprise Open Source. Is this a Key Reason for the Success of Open Source?’, ‘Accelerating the Path to Digital with Cloud Data Strategy’, ‘Open Source - A Blessing or a Curse?’, ‘Intelligent Cloud and AI – The Next Big Leap’ and ‘IoT Considerations - Decisive Open Source Policy’.

“We owe our success to the active participation of the community and the industry. It’s exciting to see how this event, which had just a handful of exhibitors in its initial stages, has grown

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to the stage at which, today, the who’s who of open source are demonstrating their solutions to the audience. I hope that we continue to make this event even more exciting, and ensure it becomes one of the biggest open source events across the globe,” said Rahul Chopra, editorial director, EFY Group.

Delegates looking to buy workshop passes on the spot were disappointed, as all the workshops were sold out earlier, online, even before the commencement of the event. Workshops like ‘Self-Service Automation in OpenStack Cloud’, ‘Building Machine Learning Pipelines with PredictionIO’, ‘Analyzing Packets using Wireshark’, ‘OpenShift DevOps Solution’, ‘Make your First Open Source IoT Product’ and ‘Tools and Techniques to Dive into the Mathematics of Machine Learning’ drew a lot of interest from the techie audience.

“We would like to thank our sponsors, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, 2nd Quadrant, Wipro

Technologies, Zoho Corporation, Digital Ocean, SUSE, Siemens, Huawei and others for their valuable participation and support for the event. We look forward to having an even bigger showcase of open source technologies with the support of our existing partners as well as many new stalwarts from the tech industry,” said Atul Goel, vice president of events at EFY.

Adding to this, Rahul Chopra said, “With the overwhelming response of the tech audience and the demand for more sessions, we have decided to expand the event, starting from the 2018 edition. The event will now become a three-day affair instead of a two-day one. This means more tracks, more speakers, more workshops and more knowledge-sharing on open source. We have already announced the dates for the next edition. It’s going to happen right here, at the same venue, on October 11, 12 and 13, 2018.”

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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 DayThis 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 DataThis 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 DayOpen 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 IndiaThis was a half-day track with multiple sessions on what’s

Key tracks @ osi 2017hot 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 DayOpen 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 IoTThis 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 DayThis 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 Kumar Priyansh (developer, BackSlash Linux).

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A workshop in progress at OSI 2017

Key workshops @ osi 2017Self-Service Automation in OpenStack Cloud (by Soh Hiong, senior consultant, NetApp)To build an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure, there is only one choice for block storage. SolidFire delivers a very comprehensive OpenStack block storage integration. This workshop helped participants to learn how SolidFire’s integration with OpenStack Cinder seamlessly enables self-service automation of storage and guarantees QoS for each and every application.

Building Machine Learning Pipelines with PredictionIO (by Manpreet Ghotra and Rajdeep Dua, Salesforce India)Apache PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server built on top of a state-of-art open source stack for developers and data scientists to create predictive engines for any machine learning task. This workshop helped attendees understand how to build ML pipelines using PredictionIO.

Software Architecture: Principles, Patterns and Practices (by Ganesh Samarthyam, co-founder, CodeOps Technologies)Developers and designers aspiring to become architects and hence wanting to learn about the architecture of open source applications, using case studies and examples, participated in this workshop. It introduced key topics on software architecture including architectural principles, constraints, non-functional requirements (NFRs), architectural styles and design patterns, viewpoints and perspectives, and architecture tools.

Serverless Platforms: What to Expect and What to Ask For (by Monojit Basu, founder and director, TechYugadi IT Solutions and Consulting) The advent of serverless platforms evokes a feeling of déjà vu. This workshop narrowed down resource utilisation to the granularity of a function call while remaining in control of execution of the code! Serverless platforms offer various capabilities to address the questions that users of these platforms need to be aware of. The goal of this workshop was to help attendees identify the right use cases for going serverless.

Analysing packets using Wireshark (by Sumita Narshetty, security researcher at QOS Technology)The workshop helped attendees understand packets capture and analyse packets using Wireshark. It covered different aspects of packet capture and the tools needed to analyse captured

packets. Attendees also learned how to use Wireshark for troubleshooting network problems.

OpenStack Cloud Solution (by Manoj and Asutosh, Open Stack consultants for Prodevans)The workshop helped attendees to master their ability to work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OpenStack platform services with Red Hat Ceph Storage, and implement advanced networking features using the OpenStack Neutron service.

OpenShift DevOps Solution (by Chanchal Bose, CTO, Prodevans) This was a hands-on workshop to get familiar with containers. It covered OpenShift’s advantages and features as well as the DevOps CI/CD scenario on OpenShift.

Ansible Automation (by Manoj, Sohail and Varsha, Ansible consultants for Prodevans)This workshop was for those with basic Linux knowledge and an interest in Linux systems administration. It covered an introduction to Ansible, and then highlighted its advantages and features. The key

takeaway was on how to automate infrastructure using Ansible.

Make your First Open Source IoT Product (by Arzan Amaria, senior solutions architect for the cloud and IoT, CloudThat)This workshop involved a hands-on session on building a small prototype of an ideal product using open source technologies. By following step-by-step instructions and practical assistance, participants were able to

build and make a connected device, a process that inspired them to innovate new products. The instructor shared the right logic and resources required for anyone to jumpstart the journey of IoT development.

Hands-on experience of Kubernetes and Docker in action (by Sanil Kumar, chief architect, Cloud Team, Huawei India)This workshop provided exposure to and visualisation of the cloud from the PaaS perspective. It also introduced Kubernetes and containers (Docker). It was a hands-on session, designed to help participants understand how to start setting up and using Kubernetes and containers, apart from getting to learn application deployment in a cloud environment, inspecting containers, pods, applications, etc.

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Divyanshu Verma senior engineering manager, Intel R&D

Asheem Bakhtawarregional director,India, Middle East andAfrica, 2ndQuadrant India Pvt Ltd

Balaji Kesavarajhead marketing,India and SAARC, Autodesk

Dibya Prakash founder,ECDZone

Janardan RevuruOpen SourceEvangelist

Dhiraj Kharenational alliance manager, Liferay India

Obstacle Avoidance Robot with Open Hardware (by Shamik Chakraborty, Amrita School of Engineering)This workshop explored the significance of robotics in Digital India and looked at how Make in India can be galvanised by robotics. It also propagated better STEM education for a better global job market for skilled professionals, and created a space for participants to envision the tech future.

Microservices Architecture with Open Source Framework (by Dibya Prakash, founder, ECD Zone)This workshop was designed for developers, architects and engineering managers. The objective was to discuss the high-level implementation of the microservices architecture using Spring Boot and the JavaScript (Node.js) stack.

Hacking, Security and Hardening Overview for Developers – on the Linux OS and Systems Applications (by Kaiwan Billimoria, Linux consultant and trainer, kaiwanTECH)The phenomenal developments in technology, and especially software-driven products (in domains like networking, telecom, embedded-automotive, infotainment, and now IoT, ML and AI), beg for better security on end products. Hackers

are currently enjoying a field day and are only getting better at it, while product developers lag behind.

This workshop was geared towards helping participants understand where software vulnerabilities exist, while programming and after; OS hardening techniques; what tools and methodologies help prevent and mitigate security issues, etc.

Tools and Techniques to Dive Into the Mathematics of Machine Learning (by Monojit Basu, founder and director, TechYugadi IT Solutions and Consulting)In order to build an accurate model for a machine learning problem, one needs better insights into the mathematics behind these models. For those primarily focused on the programming aspects of machine learning initiatives, this workshop gave the opportunity to regain a bit of mathematical context into some of the models and algorithms frequently used, and to learn about a few open source tools that will come in handy when performing deeper mathematical analysis of machine learning algorithms.

By: Omar FarooqThe author is product head at Open Source India.

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