Living Open Source at Siemens

By Jan Kiszka of Siemens
Time: 11:00 Room: Auditorium K

Abstract

Building products and services upon open source software (OSS) has become standard, also in the domains of Siemens. However, driving or creating OSS according to our needs remains challenging.
In this talk, we will try to shed a light on how Siemens embraces OSS, where we believe having been successful already, and where we want to improve further. We will look at some of our community engagements, may they be directly or via foundations. We will furthermore underline the increasing importance of working with our customers and suppliers also via OSS communities - openly, constructively, and on eye level. Last but not least, we will point out what key role "upstream first" plays in this while not denying that this is continuous hard work for everyone who is in touch with both OSS and business needs.

Biography

Jan Kiszka is working as consultant, open source evangelist and Principal Key Expert Engineer in the Competence Center Embedded Linux at Siemens Technology. He is supporting Siemens businesses with adapting, enhancing or strategically driving open source as platform for their product demands. He is maintaining several open source projects and is contributing to others, specifically in the area of real-time, virtualization, embedded Linux tooling.