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CALL FOR PAPERS OSI 2018

Calling Experts to share their knowledge at the 15th edition of India’s most exciting convention on Open Source

Open Source India (OSI) is the premier Open Source conference in Asia targeted at nurturing and promoting the Open Source ecosystem in the subcontinent. Started as LinuxAsia in 2004, OSI has been at the helm of bringing together the Open Source industry and the community in the last 14 years. The 15th edition of OSI this year aims to take this event a notch higher by focusing on the Open Source ecosystem in Asia, and more specifically, in India.

We have put in our best to make the submission process simple. All you need to do is to click “Submit Talk” and fill the form with the details required .

Each session is of 30-45 minutes which includes a 5 to 10 minutes of Q and A. If you are interested in conducting a workshop, then do fill the details for that too. The workshop should be of minimum 3 hours.

If your submission gets selected, you will be notified by us. For any further query/suggestion you can reach us at info@opensourceindia.in or call us at 011-40596600.

Call for Papers is now closed with 500% over submissions
BELOW ARE THE DETAILS ON WHAT YOU CAN TALK
Tracks Open Source & You
Type Conference
Primary Audience Anyone interested in success of Open Source
Take-away Why go for open source solution.
Date 11th Oct, 2018 (Thursday)
Hall 1
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • How’s Open Source enabling growth of India?
  • What are the challenges in growing an open source community and how to overcome?
  • What are the challenges in adopting open source practices and what are the solutions to overcome them?
  • What are the emerging trends in Open Source?
  • How’re communities in India and abroad working towards growth of Open Source?
ENTRY Community Pass and above
Tracks Web & Mobile App Development
Type Tech Conference
Primary Audience Anyone involved in software development for web or mobile devices
Take-away Be able to develop better, faster and cheaper solutions using Open Source
Date 11th Oct, 2018 (Thursday)
Hall 2
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • What are the new tools and technologies for Developers to exploit?
  • What are the latest best practices and methodologies?
  • Which are the latest technology stacks worth upgrading your skills on?
  • What’s new with respect to development for Connected (IOT) devices?
  • How’s the eco-system in India to support you?
ENTRY Gold Pass and above
Tracks Database Day
Type Tech Conference
Primary Audience Decision makers & influencers with respect to data and databases
Take-away Make informed decisions with respect to selection and management of databases
Date 12th Oct, 2018 (Friday)
Hall 1
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • What’s the latest in the world of Open Source Databases?
  • What are the best practices & techniques to manage and optimise your databases?
  • How to be ready for the era of IOT and Big Data?
  • Any success stories that prove the power and RoI of Open Source databases?
  • How’s the eco-system in India to support you?
ENTRY Gold Pass and above
Tracks DevOps Day
Type Tech Conference
Primary Audience Decision Makers & influencers on DevOps
Take-away Leverage the power of latest Open Source solutions for your DevOps
Date 12th Oct, 2018 (Friday)
Hall 2
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • What are your options? What are their pros & cons?
  • What are the latest technologies, best practices and techniques?
  • Success stories of Open Source and DevOps
  • How’s the eco-system in India to support you?
ENTRY Gold Pass and above
Tracks OpenStack India
Type Tech Conference
Primary Audience Decision makers & influencers related to cloud infrastructure
Take-away Reap the benefits of cloud by using OpenStack
Date 12th Oct, 2018 (Friday)
Hall 2 (Post Lunch)
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • How’s OpenStack revolutionising the world of cloud infrastructure?
  • What are the latest best practices and techniques for deploying OpenStack?
  • How’s Community playing an important role here?
ENTRY Community Pass and above
Tracks Cloud and BigData
Type SmartIT Track
Primary Audience Decision makers & influencers involved in management of IT infrastructure
Take-away Maximise returns on investments in cloud and BigData
Date 11th Oct, 2018 (Thursday)
Hall 3 (Pre Lunch)
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • What are the latest technologies, tools and best practices in the world of Cloud and BigData?
  • How important are Open Source tools in deploying cloud and BigData?
  • How to setup your infra for handling AI/ML applications?
  • How to ready your infra for IOT or connected devices era?
  • What’s the readiness of India’s eco-system to support you?
ENTRY Gold Pass and above
Tracks Cyber Security Day
Type Tech Conference
Primary Audience Decision makers & influencers accountable for managing security
Take-away Enhance capability to mitigate the cyber attacks
Date 11th Oct, 2018 (Thursday)
Hall 3 (Post Lunch)
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • What are latest threats and how are the experts mitigating them?
  • What are the additional complexities in the world of connect devices (IOT)?
  • What are the implications in a Hyperconverged infra? How to mitigate attacks?
  • AI, Deep Learning and ML—friend or foe of cyber-security?
  • What’s the readiness of India’s eco-system to support you?
ENTRY Gold Pass and above
Tracks Manage. IT. Smart.
Type Tech Track
Primary Audience Decision makers & influencers accountable for managing IT infrastructure.
Take-away Manage your IT Infra smarter.
Date 12th Oct, 2018 (Friday)
Hall 3
Questions That Will Be Answered Here
  • Best practices & techniques in managing IT Infra smartly
  • Latest tools & technologies that promise to make managing IT simpler
  • How to get the best out of Open Source stack for managing IT infra?
  • Hyper-converged: to do or not to do?
  • What’re the best practices & techniques to influence the non-technical decision makers?
ENTRY Gold Pass and above

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