Cloud Open LinuxCon North America & CloudOpen North America

LinuxCon North America & CloudOpen North America
September 16-18, 2013
New Orleans, LA

Interested in speaking at LinuxCon or CloudOpen? We are accepting proposals through June 17th for a variety of topics, from all levels of speakers.

LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen North America will be co-located with a variety of technical events to increase opportunities for learning and networking, including Linux Plumbers Conference, UEFI Plugfest, Gluster Workshop, Linux Security Summit, Linux Wireless Summit, and the Xen Project User Summit. Think of everything you can accomplish in just one week this September in New Orleans!

Keynote Speakers

Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of OpenStack Foundation will talk about “Developers: The New Superpower.” Martin Fink, CTO and Director of HP Labs, will reflect on his long career in open source software and where the industry is headed today. Kevin Kelly, digital visionary and founding Executive Editor, Wired Magazine, will present “The Technium”.

Gabe Newell, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Valve, will talk about the company's reasons for switching to Linux. Imad Sousou, Vice President for Intel’s Software and Services Group and General Manager for Intel Open Source Technology Center, will talk about mobile computing and the role of HTML5. Eben Upton, Founder of Raspberry Pi Foundation, will share the latest work on the popular technology.

Additional Featured Presentations:

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin will reveal new information about Linux, open cloud and collaboration.

Linux Kernel Panel featuring leading kernel developers and maintainers who will provide insights into the state of the Linux kernel as well as ongoing and future work.

The Linux Foundation will again offer attendance this year to both LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen North America with just one registration fee. Be sure to take advantage of the current registration fee of only $575 before the fee increases on July 29th!