Name: Speaker Office Hours
Start: 2025-06-24T10:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-24T11:00:00-0600

June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours is an opportunity for attendees to connect with subject matter experts to ask questions and seek guidance. The set-up is informal, with speakers sitting at reserved tables in an “open-office” setting. Participating speakers will be available during breaks allowing attendees to ‘drop by’ to talk to them during those times.

Tuesday 10:30 – 11:00 AM
Divya Mohan - Topic Discussion: Growing Communities around Open Source projects
Euan Harris - Topic Discussion: Containerization, build system integration, developer experience, and the open source Swift ecosystem
Georg Link - Topic Discussion: Metrics and measures about open source project health
Marcel Ziswiler - Topic Discussion: Embedded Linux from A to Z
Syed Usman Ahmad - Topic Discussion: Using the Low code No code approach to built dashboards
Tatsushi Inagaki - Topic Discussion: Why Confidential Containers is important for CI/CD security

Speakers

Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to and advocates for its open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global... Read More →

Euan Harris

Software Engineer, Apple

Euan builds cloud services and infrastructure using Swift at Apple. He enjoys working with containers, virtual machines, networks and interesting programming languages.Previously, Euan helped maintain Docker Swarm's overlay networking and HTTP ingress, and contributed to XenServer's... Read More →

Georg Link

Open Source Strategist and Director of Sales, Bitergia

Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional by using community metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several projects and has often presented on open... Read More →

Marcel Ziswiler

Senior Software Engineer, Codethink

In 2024 Marcel Ziswiler joined Codethink. Before, he spearheaded Toradex' Embedded Linux adoption. His intro of an upstream first policy led to being a top 10 U-Boot as well as Linux kernel Arm SoC contributor. He has broad experience in designing real-time and mobile applications... Read More →

Syed Usman Ahmad

Staff Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany and works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.He has over 15 years of experience in IT and Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over EU, US and Japan.He... Read More →

Tatsushi Inagaki

Staff Research Scientist, IBM

Tatsushi is working on research to enhance the security of IBM Z. He contributed to various open source projects. He is recently contributing to Confidential Containers, which is a sandbox project of Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours

Open Source Summit North America 2025