Keynote

The Future of Digital In a COVID-19 Era (Sponsored by Huawei)

COVID-19 has been a terrible blight upon the world. It has also greatly accelerated the adoption and transformation of digital technologies, especially around open source, cloud, and AI. Around the world, including in Europe and in China, there are also large new investments into digital technologies to spur economic recovery, such as Next Generation EU.

This presentation will discuss the future of digital technologies and the policies that will shape them in this COVID-19 era. And, it will also consider why there is good reason to hope for recovery based on these trends.

Experience level:

Beginner

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Innovation Ecosystems: Building (Open Source) Commons for More Efficient and Sustainable Industries

Benjamin Jean

Facing the digital age and embracing the "open innovation paradigm," an increasing number of industrial players have developed ecosystem strategies to innovate in a more sustainable and efficient manner. In practice, this means building and managing open resources (software, data, materials) that they identify as useful to their activity.

Experience level:

Beginner

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The State of the Eclipse Community

Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation)

The Eclipse Foundation was one of the original open source foundations, and like most began with a singular mission: to support the evolution of the Eclipse IDE and its rich client platform. But our community's unique model of fostering both our open source projects and a sustainable commercial ecosystem based on them has proven to be attractive to many developers and organizations worldwide. So we have grown from a relatively small and focused community to one of the largest in the world, with over 1600 committers, 375 projects, and 300 members.

Experience level:

Beginner

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The Foundations of Open Source

Josh Simmons, Open Source Initiative; Salesforce

Modern software development wouldn't be possible but for the work of countless nonprofits, yet we the benefactors of their work largely labor in blissful ignorance of this hidden infrastructure. I did too, for 15 years. What do these nonprofits do? Why does it matter? And what does this mean for you?

Experience level:

Beginner

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Looking after Your Mental Health in Agile Teams

Alexandra Schladebeck (BREDEX GmbH)

Do you ever feel like you’re running faster and faster to keep up, can’t take a break, can’t afford to make a mistake – and you’re not even really getting anywhere? Welcome to knowledge work in the 21st century… This is a feeling that many of us know, and some of us have dealt with for so long that health problems arise – including burnout. The statistics worldwide are terrifying.

Experience level:

Beginner

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The Eclipse IDE 2020-09 is now available!