UpSCALE is a set of lightening talks held at SCALE, in the style of Ignite presentations. Speakers will get 5 minutes to enlighten the audience. Slides will auto-advance while chosen speakers deliver their message, a brief story of open source deliciousness. The format makes for a fast paced, fun event for participants and audience.  Please join us as members of the Free and Open Source community do their best to beat the clock and get their ideas out! Want to be an UpSCaLE speaker? Email your proposal to hannah@socallinuxexpo.org.

34:40 Naja Faisal - How Important is #AI In Your Life

40:26 Krista Burdine - Fostering community in your open source project

45:39 Elias Voelker - Taking an Open Source Company Across the Pond

51:10 Sash Ghosh - Decoding the Matrix: A Marketer’s Journey Through Tech Space

56:27 Michael Gat - Lessons from the woodshed

1:02:02 Corey Quinn - ChatGPT

1:07:52 Special Guest Forrest Brazeal - Closing song: Containers vs Serverless Rap Battle

More information coming soon.

Words define and shape out view of the world and how we internalize our worth. Let's embrace our unique attributes and abilities, and embrace our internal princess. DevOps Princess signifies the ability to own one's future, to be proud of the skills and talent we bring to the table, and to be confident in inspiring others to believe in themselves.

The free software movement has always been the Rebel Alliance. (Duh!) But who is the enemy? Many of you think it's Darth Gates, but sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. Strangling people who make mistakes, insisting on homogeneity or just being mean to our own people is the dark side. We'll take a look at all the mistakes the First Order makes and hopefully, we'll resolve not to emulate them in our communities this year.

LXC Linux Cocntainers have made it possible to deploy any Oracle Enterprise Software on Ubuntu Linux natively with NO hypervisor and at bare-metal resource utilizations with 10x the density of hypervisor solutions.

A long-lived Internet bug is spreading malware, enabling fraud, and taking financial support away from important cultural goods. The good news is that anyone with a web site can help fix it. I'll cover how to use one line of JavaScript to help warn your site's users when they're vulnerable to third-party tracking, and how to inform, nudge, and reward them to get protected.

In this talk, Dave Nielsen, Developer Advocate at Redis Labs, will share the functions and data structures used by Redis developers to solve common scalability challenges facing web scale companies. 

The UpSCALE talks are held in the style of the Ignite presentations made popular by various O'Reilly sponsored events. Participants are given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 automatically-advanced slides, making this a fast paced, fun event for participants and audience.

The UpSCALE talks will take place on Friday the 22nd at 7pm in Ballroom DE. Please join us as members of the Free and Open Source community do their best to beat the clock and get their ideas out!

You've already heard the news: "There is no cloud, only somebody else's computer". But whose computer is it? Where? How did your data or VM get there? And the scary part; Which components of this glorious Rube Goldberg machine can malfunction in a way that destroys your uptime or your imaginary server forever?