Edd Wilder-James
Open Source Strategist, TensorFlow, Google

Edd Wilder-James is a strategist at Google, where he is helping build a strong and vital open source community around TensorFlow. A technology analyst, writer, and entrepreneur based in California, Edd previously helped transform businesses with data as vice president of strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science. Formerly Edd Dumbill, Edd was the founding program chair for the O’Reilly Strata Data Conference and chaired the Open Source Software Conference for six years. He was also the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Big Data. A startup veteran, Edd was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system and a cofounder of the Pharmalicensing online intellectual property exchange. An advocate and contributor to open source software, Edd has contributed to various projects such as Debian and GNOME and created the DOAP vocabulary for describing software projects. Edd has written four books, including Learning Rails (O’Reilly).

Sessions

9:30am–9:35am Monday, October 28, 2019

Location: Magnolia

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Edd Wilder-James (Google)

Edd Wilder-James welcomes you to the TensorFlow World 2019 Contributor Summit. Read more.

1:30pm–2:00pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Location: Magnolia

Getting involved in the TensorFlow community

Edd Wilder-James (Google), Joana Filipa Bernardo Carrasqueira (Google)

Learn how you can be a part of the growing TensorFlow (TF) ecosystem and become a contributor through code, documentation, education, or community leadership. Edd Wilder-James and Joana Filipa Bernardo Carrasqueira give you an overview of GitHub practices, request for comment (RFC) processes, and how to join the TF Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and make an impact in the community. Read more.

4:00pm–5:00pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Location: Magnolia

Town Hall: Contributors’ perspectives

Moderated by:

Edd Wilder-James (Google)

Panelists:

Sean Morgan (Two Six Labs), Jason Zaman (Light Labs), Karmel Allison (Google), Martin Wicke (Google), Margaret Maynard-Reid (Tiny Peppers)

Join in to hear about the rapid growth of open source ML communities and a future road map for community building. Learn best practices, use cases, and how to develop metrics for your project by learning from other contributors to TensorFlow. Read more.

8:45am–9:00am Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Location: Mission City Ballroom

Wednesday keynote welcome

Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), Edd Wilder-James (Google)

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