Cindy
Goldberg
VP Silicon Alliances at Canonical
"The Next Breakthrough in Open Source"
"The Next Breakthrough in Open Source"
09 - 12:40 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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Session: The Next Breakthrough in Open Source
Open source has been a magical accelerant for innovation in software; with the mesmerizing sophistication of AI chatbots, as the latest example. Developers from every corner of the planet can contribute and benefit from open source projects. A given open source package could have a hundred dependencies- each of those dependencies has a version that is subject to updates and security patching. So how can you be sure that your open source project and all of its dependencies will work and be secure for a decade? The next frontier in open source will be eradicating the hidden friction and risks to simplify, secure and harden products built on open source software.Key Takeaways
- The next frontier in open source will be eradicating the hidden friction and risks to simplify, secure and harden products built on open source software.
- A given open source package could have a hundred dependencies- each of those dependencies has a version that is subject to updates and security patching
- Developers from every corner of the planet can contribute and benefit from open source projects.
Bio
As VP of Canonical’s Silicon Alliances, Cindy’s team leads our global partnerships with semiconductor companies. Her team partners with established leaders, like Intel, Nvidia, Mediatek and AMD as well as rising startups in the RISC-V ecosystem and AI space. The Silicon Alliance team builds partnerships to optimize ubuntu for established and emerging architectures, and deliver software designed for the spectrum from cloud infrastructure to IOT edge devices. Prior to joining Canonical, Cindy led semiconductor R&D teams at IBM, STMicroelectronics, and Freescale (now NXP). She has a long track record of highly effective partnerships with companies like Samsung, TSMC, Applied Materials, KLA, and Globalfoundries. As Program Director of IBM’s AI Hardware Center, she led global teams to create a pipeline of AI accelerator technologies with hardware and software co-optimization. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Biology.