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This article was originally published on LinkedIn.
A few days ago I shared that tech events are “invaluable opportunities to expand your perspective and connect with inspiring people” and that is effectively what I experimented during my recent attendance to Linux Foundation Europe and PyData Berlin events.
This was my first time participating in events without a specific objective so I was completely open to listen, discover and learn. I had the opportunity to remember and connect with some of the different challenges I had during my professional life:
- Music & MIDI: still at university I implemented a MIDI controller in a Motorola HC11 microprocessor. It was a great opportunity to attend Titouan Christophe talk on MIDI2 on Linux.
- Embedded Linux: in 1999 I managed to run an embedded linux-from-scratch and even wrote kernel drivers on a single-board-computer from Compulab • C-LAB for my engineering thesis. I later used that for a project with Andres Plaza and José Miguel Piquer at Universidad de Chile. Now I learned about The Yocto Project, A Linux Foundation Project and The Zephyr Project.
- Automotive: listening about Automotive Grade Linux made me go back to my work on Brazilian telematics mandate, the implemented protocol test tools (cc Gustavo Lima Ferreira). At that time we used an NXP Semiconductors reference implementation for e-call and it was nice to see them now supporting The Zephyr Project.
- M2m & IoT: Nordic Semiconductor stand and talking with the guys from Embeint brought back good memories with my remote metering days both with THE ZIGBEE ALLIANCE COMPANIES and ORBCOMM. Also i the breakfast chat with Adam Dunkels on his experiences with IoT was enriching.
- DevOps & infrastructure: I really enjoyed the chat with Nicky Pike from Coder about new trends and tools for software development lifecycle in this AI age. Furthermore, the chat with Bouke van der Meer woke an interest in Apache Flink.
- Data, Analytics, Observability: after several years of focusing in Elastic I learned about OpenSearch Project. Mehdi Ouazza workshop on DuckDB was really enjoyable. Chatting with Matthaus Krzykowski lead me to read about dltHub.
- Fintech: Hearing about FINOS and having the opportunity to speak with Gabriele Columbro took me back to 2014, when I started with Mifos Initiative. I also finally had the chance to meet Robert Jakech from Fiter in person.
- Legacy Modernization: it came to me as a surprise that there were several instances talking about how mainframe, Cobol and related stuff are still relevant for our day by day, and how Linux and AI can be used to update those environments. That reminds me of the successful migration from openVMS to Linux on cloud I lead some years ago.
AI_DEV gave me the opportunity to invest time listening directly to relevant actors such as Mark Collier , Malte Pietsch, Nicky Pike , Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis. It’s a topic everyone is talking about, but only a few truly understand.
However, the events didn’t just offer great technical content; I also had the chance to connect with several inspiring people and enjoy social moments.
Now that I’m back home, I’m ready to put all my new business ideas into action.