Open Source North

May 24th, 2023 | Saint Paul, MN

Since 2015, OSN has been bringing the open source, enterprise community together to learn, share, and connect ™. We are planning for up to 1,200 attendees in 2023!

Over the years, nearly 7,000 people have been a part of the OSN community through our conferences, speaker series events, and kick-off happy hours.

About Open Source North

After two years of not being able to be in-person, #osn2022 was back in-person and had more then 900 attendees, 42 presentations, and 50 sponsors!

Mark your calendars! The 2023 Open Source North Conference ™ will be on Wednesday, May 24.

Speakers 2023!

The Open Source North Conference is excited to announce our speakers/presentations:

• Aaron Ploetz, Datastax – Building a Full-Stack Environment with Cassandra and React
• Amy Leonard, Virgin Pulse – How to Beat Outages like Escape Rooms
• AmyJune Hineline, Red Hat – What’s New in 2023? Accessibility is a moving target. 
• Andy Fleener, Total Expert – Are we there yet? Building an internal Development Platform
• Bill Zhang, Cloudera – Accelerate Open Data Lakehouse Implementation with Apache Iceberg
• Brad Koehn, Koehn Consulting, Inc.  – Growing Leaders
• Brad Schlicht, Medtronic – DevOps and Platform Engineering – The Reality Behind the Hype
• Brian Olsen & Cody Zwiefelhofer, Starburst – Federated Data with Trino: Run SQL statements across any of your data sources (*or your money back) *It’s free
• David Sanchez, Datadog – Continuous Profiling, Effectively
• Derek Anderson, Blockless – Web3, Web Assembly, and the future of Computing at the Edge
• Guillermo Rauch, Vercel – The Future of the Web: Collaborative, Open Source, Global Cloud Autonomy
• Isaac Johnson, Wellsky – Open Source and Cloud – It Just Makes Cents
• Javier Perez, Perforce – The State of Open Source Software in 2023
• Jeff Blaisdell, SmartThings – IoT Eventing Evolution: SmartThings Case Study
• Jeff Bursik & Rob Koste, Target – Data Discovery – Building an Enterprise Data Search Engine
• Jennifer Ehman, SDG – Let’s Chat about ChatGPT
• Jessica Pennell, Xcel Energy – Sky Gardens: Working with MacOS Cloud runners
• Joel Tosi, Dojo and Co – Product Thinking & Architecture – Discovering Teams and Balancing Decisions
• Justin Grammens, Lab651 – ChatGPT: What’s Going on in that Brain of Yours?
• Karen Huaulme, MongoDB – GraphQL: The Easy Way to Do the Hard Stuff
• Kate Wardin, Netflix – 4 Reasons your Best Engineers are Leaving
• Keith Resar, Confluent – Real-Time Data Transformation by Example
• Kevin Hakanson, AWS – Sharpen your “Architecture Documentation” Saw: Architectural Decision Records (ADR) and Diagrams-as-Code
• Kevin Johnson, Cargill – Under-Engineering
• Lauren Maffeo, Steampunk – Designing Data Governance for Data Mesh Architecture
• Lindsey Miller, Thrivent – Divining Your Role Leading Teams Through Transformation
• Lynn Wehrman, Digital Accessibility by WeCo – How History, Law and Societal Norms Continue to Exclude Users with Disabilities from Digital Inclusion

• Madhu Rao, U. S. Bank, Enterprise Architecture – From the Ivory Tower to the Fields of Innovation 

• Manish Rajkarnikar, Shipt – Service Mesh at Shipt
• Matt Richards, Infinite Campus – From VMs to Containers to Serverless: A Demonstration of Evolving. 
• Meagan Taylor, Riot Games – Give the UX Designer a Cookie. UX in Gaming: A League of Legends Story
• Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan Consulting LLC – Goodbye Jenkins! Hello Github actions – Migrating your CI/CD to something less crappy
• Mike Bollinger, Livefront – UI design trickery that makes software faster
• Monica Tamboli, IBM – GitOps to the rescue – boosting productivity and automation
• Neil Buesing, Kinetic Edge – Kafka Streams – A Journey From Evaluation to Production
• Nick Larson, Improving – Flink Around, Find Out
• Nick Morgan, C.H. Robinson – Theoretical Gains and Practical Pitfalls: Learnings from A/B Testing at CH Robinson
• Nikhil Barthwal, Facebook – Cloud Native CI/CD with Tekton pipelines
• Ramesh Babu, Best Buy – Technology Modernization using a Multi-Cloud Workload Distribution Strategy
• Sean O’Neil, Optum Health – The Smart Village – how open source is driving sustainable development in Africa
• Senthil S.Kumaran, HealthPartners – Role of Generative AI in Healthcare
• Shaun Jurgemeyer & John Ross, Chewy – Change your Purr-spective on Testing
• Sri Harsha Gajavalli, Intel AI – Machine Intelligence for Cyber Defense
• Stu Keroff, Aspen Academy – Open Source in School: Successful and Proven Strategies
• Todd Gardner, TrackJS – Hostile JavaScript: Attacking and Defending the Browser
• Travis Gosselin, SPS Commerce – Unleashing Deploy Velocity with Feature Flags
• Valerie Lockhart, Code Savvy – Stable Diffusion and the Open-Source AI Art Revolution
• Zach Dahl, Cargill – You Should Write Boring Code