Fueling innovative software
July 15-18, 2019
Portland, OR

Wednesday opening welcome

Rachel Roumeliotis (O'Reilly), Kelsey Hightower (Google)
9:00am9:05am Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Location: Portland Ballroom
Average rating: ****.
(4.88, 8 ratings)

Program chairs Rachel Roumeliotis and Kelsey Hightower open the first day of keynotes.

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Rachel Roumeliotis

O'Reilly

Rachel Roumeliotis is a strategic content director at O’Reilly, where she leads an editorial team that covers a wide variety of programming topics ranging from full stack to open source in the enterprise to emerging programming languages. She is a Programming Chair of OSCON, TensorFlow World, and O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference.She has been working in technical publishing for 10 years, acquiring content in many areas including mobile programming, UX, computer security, and AI.

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Kelsey Hightower

Google

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech but most enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming and system administration to his favorite Linux distro of the month.