Our events are the only place where companies can reach the maintainers and deve

lopers who steer the open source projects they use to create their commercial pr
oducts and services across enterprise, networking, embedded, IoT, and cloud infr
astructure. Linux Foundation events also bring companies together to share their
solutions to open source problems and exchange best practices to improve and st
rengthen their strategy and participation.
Past and future speakers and attendees at our events are among the world s most im
portant and knowledgeable leaders in open source technology and collaborative de
velopment. They include:

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git, at LinuxCon North America

Doug CuttingDoug Cutting, Apache Hadoop creator, at Apache Big Data
Benjamin Hindman, co-creator of Apache Mesos and founder of Mesosphere, at Mesos
Con North America
Gabe Newell, co-founder of video game development company Valve, at LinuxCon Nor
th America
Cornelia Davis, CTO at Pivotal, at Collaboration Summit
Anant Argarwal, CEO of online learning giant edX, at LinuxCon North America
Solomon Hykes, founder and creator of Docker, at LinuxCon North America
Candy Chang, TED senior fellow and artist, at L