Conference Programme

• The conference programme of OSS4B has been published, but it is still subject to minimal changes.

  The event features two days of talks and workshops by international speakers focused on open source technologies and everything that ensures their successful adoption.

  OSS4B represents an unique opportunity to expand your network of professional relationships, through the many social events that will take place during the conference (including coffee breaks, lunch breaks, “aperitivi”, dinners, etc.). Don’t miss the opportunity to interact with world class speakers and the people that lead the development of your favourite open source technologies!

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  Thursday 19 September
  	Salone Grollo	Sala Veneziana	Sala Toscana
  08.30 – 09.30	Arrival and registration
  09.30 – 10.30	Opening Keynote: Why Everyone Need DevOps Now: A Fourteen Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations by Gene Kim Room: Salone Grollo
  10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break
  11.00 – 12.00	Kanban for Portfolio Management by Gaetano Mazzanti Track: management	NoSQL and the OpEx Business Plan by Joe Drumgoole Track: technologies	How automated cloud infrastructure setups can help with Continuous Delivery by Edmund Haselwanter Track: technologies
  12.00 – 13.00	From Problem to Solution. Faster: Using Interviews to Improve your Process and Accelerate Delivery by Melissa Doerken Track: management	Adopting PaaS to streamline your business by Marek Jelen Track: technologies	Manage a project portfolio: people, processes, tools by Michele Orselli Track: management
  13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
  14.00 – 15.00	Open Source Sustainability and Beyond by Roberto Galoppini Track: management	Raise The Bar! by Alessandro Franceschi Track: technologies	Open sessions
  15.00 -15.30	Coffee break
  15.30 – 16.30	Benefits of using Kanban in IT Operations by Dragos Dumitriu Track: management	Introduction to Percona XtraDB Cluster by Frédéric Descamps Track: technologies	Open sessions
  16.30 – 17.30	Success is 99% Persistence by Simon Riggs Track: management/technologies	Building Open Source Identity Management Solution with FreeIPA by Martin Kosek Track: technologies	Open sessions

  Friday 20 September
  09.30 – 10.30	Installing and managing MySQL like a real devops: automation in production by Frédéric Descamps Track: technologies	Migrating to LibreOffice by Italo Vignoli Track: management	Infrastructure as data with Ansible for easier Continuous Delivery by Carlo Bonamico Track: technologies
  10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break
  11.00 – 12.00	Debian and its ecosystem by Stefano Zacchiroli Track: management	Chef – From Configuration Management to Continuous Delivery by Chris McClimans Track: technologies	OpenERP. How to develop business solutions with Python by Davide Corio Track: technologies
  12.00 – 13.00	How Do We Better Sell DevOps? by Gene Kim Track: management	A big project starts with a small plan by Marco Marongiu Track: management	Extending the information infrastructure with opensource components by Michele Bianchi Track: management
  13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
  14.00 – 15.00	Grab yourself an alibi by Jacopo Romei Track: management	NoSQL: The New Normal for Big Data and Beyond by Luca Olivari Room: technologies	Open sessions
  15.00 -15.30	Coffee break
  15.30 -16.30	Lighting talks by Harald Armin Massa Lightning Talks are speeches limited to 5 minutes, covering any topic. The Lightning Talk Man orchestrates the proceedings. He ensures that timing is kept and links the talks with his own stories.
  16.30 – 17.30	Closing keynote by Dragos Dumitriu

  Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 September

  2-day course on “Kanban for IT operations” directly taught by Dragos Dumitriu. Read more and register immediately. Discounts available for OSS4B’s attendees.