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Upstream Schedule

June 7, 2023

Morning hallway
9:45 AM - 1:30 PM EDT
Kanish Sharma
Kanish Sharma
Product and content
Tidelift
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Amy Hays
Amy Hays
Upstream chair
Tidelift
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Caitlin Bixby
Caitlin Bixby
Senior technical writer
Tidelift
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Sofia Javed
Sofia Javed
Software engineer II
Tidelift
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Keynote: Why are we talking about supply chains? + fireside chat with Jordan Harband
10:00 AM - 10:36 AM EDT
Luis Villa
Luis Villa
Co-founder and general counsel
Tidelift
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Jordan Harband
Jordan Harband
Maintainer
Javascript
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Keynote: The accidental relationship
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM EDT
Nithya Ruff
Nithya Ruff
Head, Open source program office
Amazon
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Lessons from offering paid support for OSS projects
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Valeri Karpov
Valeri Karpov
Maintainer
Mongoose
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Secure by design: proactively engineering software supply chain security at the largest organizations
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM EDT
Donald Fischer
Donald Fischer
CEO + Co-founder
Tidelift
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Veronica Daigle
Veronica Daigle
Executive director, legislative affairs
Boeing
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Vijoy Pandey
Vijoy Pandey
Senior Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Incubation
Cisco
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Fireside chat: Hardware bills of material with Deutsche Bahn
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM EDT
Luis Villa
Luis Villa
Co-founder and general counsel
Tidelift
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Erik Schaufuß
Erik Schaufuß
Expert Governance OT-Security rolling stock located at the CISO-Department of the DB Fernverkehr
Deutsche Bahn
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Max Mehl
Max Mehl
Open Source Strategy & Governance with the CTO of DB Systel
Deutsche Bahn
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My accidental supplychain: From OSS maintainer to humanitarian aid worker
12:20 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
Taylor Fairbank
Taylor Fairbank
Director of Growth
Distribute Aid
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A field report on standards, incentives, and what open source maintainers are thinking about the new wave of software accountability
12:20 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
Lauren Hanford
Lauren Hanford
VP, Product
Tidelift
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Keynote: Software transparency: SBOM in a world built on open source
1:10 PM - 1:50 PM EDT
Allan Friedman
Allan Friedman
Senior Advisor and Strategist
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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Afternoon hallway
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Chris Grams
Chris Grams
CMO
Tidelift
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John Bintz
John Bintz
Senior staff software engineer
Tidelift
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Bee Smith
Bee Smith
Software engineer
Tidelift
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Sofia Javed
Sofia Javed
Software engineer II
Tidelift
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Natwan Morrison
Natwan Morrison
UX designer II
Tidelift
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Mariah Gillespie
Mariah Gillespie
Head of people
Tidelift
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Navigating large repositories: How I learned to read a codebase with nearly a million lines of code
1:55 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
Lucia Cerchie
Lucia Cerchie
Developer Advocate
Confluent
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Panel: Top findings from the 2023 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report
1:55 PM - 2:55 PM EDT
Chris Grams
Chris Grams
CMO
Tidelift
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Lauren Hanford
Lauren Hanford
VP, Product
Tidelift
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Seth Larson
Seth Larson
Maintainer
urllib3
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Al Gillen
Al Gillen
Group VP, software development and open source
IDC
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This software is provided “as is”
2:25 PM - 2:50 PM EDT
Tobie Langel
Tobie Langel
Principal & Managing Partner
UnlockOpen
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Evening hallway
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Luis Villa
Luis Villa
Co-founder and general counsel
Tidelift
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Chris Grams
Chris Grams
CMO
Tidelift
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Christine Taylor
Christine Taylor
Senior software engineering manager
Tidelift
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Chelsie Luis
Chelsie Luis
Support engineering lead
Tidelift
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Nora Hans
Nora Hans
Senior customer success manager
Tidelift
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Margot van den Broek
Margot van den Broek
Upstream producer
Tidelift
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Keynote: Open source won, now comes the hard part
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM EDT
Mike Milinkovich
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
The Eclipse Foundation
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How to community: Anatomy of healthy open source communities and projects
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM EDT
Anita Ihuman
Anita Ihuman
Developer Advocate
Layer5
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Leveraging InnerSource practices to drive external Open Source solutions
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM EDT
Brittany Istenes
Brittany Istenes
OSPO Strategist
Fannie Mae
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Fireside chat: AI’s creative and software supply shains with Creative Commons and CMU
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM EDT
Luis Villa
Luis Villa
Co-founder and general counsel
Tidelift
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David Widder
David Widder
Doctoral Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, incoming Postdoc at Cornell Tech in NYC
Carnegie Mellon University
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Catherine Stihler
Catherine Stihler
CEO
Creative Commons
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Securing your open source project on Github.com
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM EDT
Jose Palafox
Jose Palafox
Strategic Application Security Executive
GitHub
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Maintaining the maintainers: The human element of open source
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM EDT
Felix Boehm
Felix Boehm
Open source maintainer
Cheerio / htmlparser2 / parse5
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Tips and best practices for growing open source adoption
4:45 PM - 5:10 PM EDT
Matthew Yonkovit
Matthew Yonkovit
Head of Open Source Strategy and Growth
Scarf
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Panel: Maintainer state of the union
4:45 PM - 5:25 PM EDT
Ceki Gulcu
Ceki Gulcu
Software developer
QOS.CH Sarl
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Gary Gregory
Gary Gregory
Member, committer
The Apache Foundation
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Kanish Sharma
Kanish Sharma
Product and content
Tidelift
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Amy Hays
Amy Hays
Upstream chair
Tidelift
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Jason Coombs
Jason Coombs
Maintainer
Setuptools
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Fireside chat: Voting’s chain of custody with VotingWorks’ Ben Adida
5:10 PM - 5:40 PM EDT
Luis Villa
Luis Villa
Co-founder and general counsel
Tidelift
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Ben Adida
Ben Adida
Executive director
VotingWorks
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Keynote: How we treat others is a supply chain issue
5:45 PM - 6:39 PM EDT
Julia Ferraioli
Julia Ferraioli
Open source human
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Closing remarks: Findings from the journey upstream
6:40 PM - 6:55 PM EDT
Donald Fischer
Donald Fischer
CEO + Co-founder
Tidelift
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Resources to check out while you wait...

New video story: How Distributive uses Tidelift to maximize open source security and resilience

New video story: How Distributive uses Tidelift to maximize open source security and resilience

Within days of using the Tidelift application, the Distributive team found a potential vulnerability that npm-audit hadn’t, and quickly and safely fixed those issues with Tidelift’s CLI tool.

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The 2023 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report

The 2023 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report

Hundreds of maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.

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