Agenda 2017

BelFOSS – Friday 27th January 2017

09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:40 Welcome Prof Stan Scott Slides | Video
09:40 – 10.00 An introduction to FOSS Phil Weir (Flax & Teal) Video
10:00 – 10:25 Fablab: Innovation through Fabrication Steven Hunter (FabLab) Video
10:25 – 10:40 Software Defined Networking Sandra Scott-Hayward (ECIT, QUB) | Video
10:40 – 10:55 FOSS4G Lorraine Barry (Geosciences, QUB) Slides | Video
10:55 – 11:05 Missing Maps Steven Boyd (DFPNI) Video
Conor Graham (Geosciences, QUB)
11:05 – 11:25 Tea/Coffee
11:25 – 11:55 Open Source Smart Limerick & Urban Digital Transformation Mihai Bilauca (Limerick Council) | Video
11:55 – 12:20 A year of OpenDataNI
GaffGame: Using OpenData for Education
Suzanne McLaughlin (DoF) Slides | Video
Rose Kane-Quinn (Neueda) | Video
12:20 – 12:30 Telling Stories with D3.js – Open-Source Data Visualisation Rose Kane-Quinn (Neueda) | Video
12:30 – 12:50 Blockchain & Deloitte SmartIdentity Solidity Contract Jamie Bentham & Ciarán Molloy (Deloitte Digital) Slides | Video
12:50 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:50 Open Source Security Chris Fearon (Black Duck Software)
13.50 – 14.10 Email Threat Prevention Jolene Dunne (Proofpoint)
14:10 – 14:30 How Composer saved PHP Ryan Kilfedder (The Tomorrow Lab) Slides
14:30 – 14:55 The Rust Programming Language: Community Driven, Free
Software Development at Scale
Chris Nixon (Mintel) Slides
14:55 – 15:05 Afternoon Break
15:05 – 15:30 Docker for Developers Paul Mayne (Liberty IT) | Video
15:30 – 16:10 Open Source: It’s Not About Software Matt Curry (Allstate) | Video
16:10 – 16:40 Panel Discussion – Hard & Soft Licensing
16:40 – 16:45 Summary & Close
16:40 – 17:10 Practical ‘Missing Maps’ Session:
Innovation Lab, CSB Building
Conor Graham (QUB)
Steven Boyd (DFPNI)