Name: Speaker Office Hours
Start: 2025-06-25T15:45:00-0600
End: 2025-06-25T16:20:00-0600

June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm 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.

Wednesday 3:45 – 4:20 PM

Jeff Shapiro & Gary O'Neall - Topic Discussion: Generating and using SBOMs and Open Source License Best Practices
Kevin Zhao - Topic Discussion: Arm Confidential Computing Architecture(CCA) software enablement status and plan
Ildiko Vancsa - Topic Discussion: Career advice, following up on the topic of this panel proposal
Sriram Panyam - Topic Discussion: Large Scale System Design, Software Engineering Interviews, Distributed Systems, Career Development, Engineering Leadership

Speakers

Gary O'Neall

Founder and Principal Consultant, Source Auditor Inc.

Gary is a contributor to the Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX™) - an open standard for communicating software bill of material information, including components, licenses, copyrights, and security references. Gary has contributed several open source tools.Gary O’Neall is... Read More →

Jeff Shapiro

Director of License Scanning, The Linux Foundation

Jeff Shapiro is the Director of License Scanning for The Linux Foundation. He has 30 years of experience in the software industry, including 10 years in software auditing, open source scanning, and training developers in OSS license compliance.

Kevin Zhao

Senior Tech Lead, Linaro

Kevin Zhao is currently the tech lead at Linaro Data Center Group. He has been working on Arm server ecosystem for more than 8 years, including the open source IAAS solutions, distribute storage and confidential computing. Now, he is actively working on Arm Confidential Computing... Read More →

Ildiko Vancsa

Director of Community, Open Infrastructure Foundation

As Director of Community at the OpenInfra Foundation, Ildikó is the Community Manager for the StarlingX and the Kata Containers projects, and a co-leader of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group. Ildikó has been contributing to projects like OpenStack, Anuket and State of the Edge... Read More →

Sriram Panyam

Chief Architect and Founding Engineer, Independent

As an engineering leader who's conducted 100s of technical interviews, I've seen exceptional talent fail due to the mysterious nature of system design interviews. I've built large-scale distributed systems and mentored engineers through the bewildering interview process at top tech... Read More →

Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:20pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom Foyer - Space behind the escalators

Speaker Office Hours

Open Source Summit North America 2025

Gary O'Neall

Jeff Shapiro

Kevin Zhao

Ildiko Vancsa

Sriram Panyam

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