Linaro Connect Bangkok

Linaro Connect Bangkok opening keynote by Linaro CEO; Li Gong.

The future is an intelligent digital world, where everything is to be sensible, connected to the cloud and AI enabled. That brings huge amount of information, and the relative calculation power
requirements. However the scenarios for computing applications are varied. The diversity of applications and the resulting data are also diverse. Diverse applications produce diverse data,
including text, images, and video, as well as structured, unstructured data.

Because of the diversity of data, the appreciated computing architectures are also diverse. The ARM architecture has proved its value in the consumer-grade terminal industry. With the
continuous innovation of ARM architecture, the performance of enterprise-grade ARM CPU will be greatly improved, ARM architecture is moving toward edge computing and data centers from the end, however an open ecosystem is critical for this leap.
In this presentation Huawei will share their opinion and plans on how to build an open, competitive and win-win ARM data center ecosystem with industry partners.

Everybody wants to be digital. But getting there can be an interesting journey, especially for an industrial company with few digital roots.
How do cultural change, business model innovation, new (and old) technologies and open source play together in such an environment?
And how are industry alliances and communities fitting in with this? Some tales from the coal face will be shared to illustrate this.

A fundamental change is happening in the way software is made in the
FOSS communities in the 21st century. These communities are now mature
and the people who work there understand their work place differently.
Over a decade and a half as more and more companies employ developers to
contribute to FOSS and the communities become diverse, different
expectations have begun to emerge from all stakeholders. These global
communities have narrower social interactions, say, around a  water
cooler or in person, therefore, putting a premium on the way their
internal intermediated communication is  conducted. This talk will
examine why Code of Conduct in this new world are on the rise and are a
positive sign for mature FOSS projects that govern themselves and don't
like suits. It will explore ways of  managing legal risk by drafting
codes of conduct addressing bias, creating a frictionless reporting
mechanism for legal incident response, and making the project a fun,
inclusive productive place.

Much of the innovation today can be contributed to various forms of open source software initiatives.  This open source collaboration has produced a number of essential open source building blocks used in advanced next generation solutions such as machine learning, IoT, and wireless connectivity. However to effectively use these open source building blocks, engineering organizations much ensure the proper underlying infrastructure is in place to allow for portability, performance, interoperability and scale.  This talk will provide some context and examples around this growing software development model in the semiconductor industry.