Upstream conferences and talks
A list of technical talks (and a few contributor panel discussions) that gave at various conferences — "Open Source Summit" (by the Linux Foundation), KVM Forum, FOSDEM, OpenStack Summit, and others.
2018–present, FOSDEM, Brussels
I help co-organize the Virt and Cloud "devroom" (developer room) at FOSDEM. It's a sub-conference of various virt-related topics.
2024, KVM Forum, Brno, Czech Republic
Participated in technical BoF sessions.
2022, KVM Forum, Dublin
Moderated a contributor panel discussion. Panelists are from Google, Arm, Intel, and Red Hat. (Video: 2022)
2020, Red Hat Tech Day, Brussels
Talk [PDF]: Secure CPU configuration for KVM-based guests
2019, KVM Forum, Lyon
Moderated a contributor panel discussion. Panelists are from Red Hat, Amazon, Oracle, and Google. (Video: 2019)
2018, OpenStack Summit, Berlin
Talk [PDF]: Effective Virtual CPU Configuration in Nova.
2018, Open Source Summit & KVM Forum, Edinburgh
Talk [PDF]: Effective Virtual CPU Configuration with QEMU and libvirt.
Organized a contributor panel at KVM Forum.
2017, KVM Forum, Prague
Participated in technical BoF sessions.
2017, FOSDEM, Brussels
Co-organized the Virt & IaaS DevRoom.
2016, Open Source Summit & KVM Forum, Toronto
Talk [PDF]: A Practical Look at QEMU’s Block Layer Primitives
Organized a technical contributor panel discussion.
2015, OpenStack Summit, Tokyo
Talk [PDF]: Debugging the Virtualization Layer (libvirt and QEMU) in OpenStack.
(Also presented this at DevConf 2016.)
2015, Open Source Summit, Dublin
Talk: "Debugging the virtualization layer in OpenStack". Similar to the Tokyo presentation.
2015, Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit & KVM Forum, Seattle
Participated in technical BoF sessions and meeting the broader virtualization community.
2015; Infrastructure Summit, Ghent
Talk [PDF]: Advanced snapshots with libvirt and QEMU.
2014, LinuxCon & KVM Forum, Düsseldorf
Talk [PDF]: An Update (and Demo) on Techniques to Manage libvirt/QEMU-based Virtual Machine Snapshots and Disk Image Chains.
2013, LinuxCon & KVM Forum, Edinburgh
Talk [PDF]: Notes on Nested Virtualization (KVM on KVM)
Participated in technical BoF sessions at the KVM Forum
2012; LinuxCon & KVM Forum, Barcelona
Talk [PDF]: Virtual machine snapshots—overview and illustration of different types of snapshots with libvirt and QEMU
2012, FOSDEM, Brussels
A talk on Red Hat Certificate System (a PKI-based project). Slides and demo