News

Featured Talks Overview

September 19, 2023

Featured Talks cover interesting and widely applicable topics and are 45 minutes in duration. They’re always a big hit with attendees. Each core day of programming – Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, will host “Featured Talks” in the 12:45 pm ET time block. See who and what will be covered below, and plan…

Hardware / IoT Track Overview

Hardware and IoT continue to be two of the most interesting and fastest growing areas of technology, and much of both are open source. This year’s track features world-class speakers and topics attendees will truly benefit from learning more about. See who and what will be featured below.  *Please note this track will only take…

Business Track Overview

For years most didn’t understand the business component of open source, and as a result, there weren’t many sessions or attention focused on it.   But times have changed. Nearly everyone now understands the impact of open source on business models and operations, and they want to know and learn more.   Some of the…

Driving the global conversation about “Open Source AI”

September 18, 2023

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) continues the work of exploring complexities surrounding the development and use of artificial intelligence in Deep Dive: AI – Defining Open Source AI, with the goal of collaboratively establishing a clear and defensible definition of “Open Source AI.” OSI is bringing together global experts to establish a shared set of principles…

Open Source can Make AI Trustworthy: Let’s Build Explainable AI Together 

By Dr. Chris Hazard, CTO and co-founder of Howso  The Howso Engine in action What’s one thing we can all agree on when it comes to AI? It’s not very trustworthy. Most people feel AI is not ready to make critical decisions about our personal and collective lives–because it messes up so often and we have no idea why. A query…

How Equinix Supercharges Critical Open Source Projects

From kernel.org to Alpine and Flatcar Linux, many important OSS projects run their critical workloads on Equinix-contributed infrastructure Open source software is everywhere. It’s permeated all stages of software development. Contributing to OSS projects, which benefit individuals, organizations and the community at large, can be very rewarding for both seasoned developers and folks who are…

Calling All Volunteers!

September 12, 2023

Over the years, incredibly wonderful and talented people have heeded our call for volunteers, and we could not be more grateful and appreciative.  If you’re interested in helping out and making All Things Open 2023 possible, you’ve come to the right place. We sincerely hope you’ll consider volunteering, but do hurry as slots fill up…

2023 Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers always play a vital role in ATO, and this year will be no different. They set the tone for each day’s programming and touch on topics we (and they) feel are important to a wide range of attendees. This year’s keynote lineup includes some truly amazing speakers and we are beyond thrilled. All keynote…

Community Track Overview

The difference between a successful open source project and/or consumption/contribution and a not-so-successful experience is often community. We’ve seen it time-and-time again. We feel community and community focused content are so important we’re dedicating an entire event to it this year  – the Community Leadership Summit on Sunday, October 15. And good news… We’ll also feature an…

101 Track Overview

Introductory level content is extremely important to many existing and early-career open source technologists. As always, an entire track of 101-level content will be featured at ATO 2023 on both core conference days (Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17). See who’s speaking and what topics are being featured below. Monday, October 16 Getting the…