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Keynote: Community Software Powers the Machine by Grant Likely

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Channel: The Linux Foundation · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Keynote: Community Software Powers the Machine - Grant Likely, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Linux, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has undertaken a large-scale development effort called "The Machine" which represents a radical departure – what HPE calls “Memory-Driven Computing” -- from traditional computer architectures.  The software that makes The Machine possible includes open source projects and HPE is committed to develop this new enabling software as open source.

We don’t want to do it alone. That means that YOU are a critical part of what will make The Machine and Memory-Driven Computing possible. 

In this session Grant Likely, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Linux at Hewlett Packard Enterprise will explain why he joined HPE, offer his insights on the software that drives The Machine and how you can get started bringing this game-changing platform to life.  This keynote is intended to be a continuation of the “Hardware and Software Architecture of ‘The Machine’” keynote that was presented at LinuxCon NA 2015 by Keith Packard.

About Grant Likely

Grant recently joined the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Linux organization to lead the ARM64 kernel work and efforts to make the ARM64 Linux kernel enterprise ready.

Grant has spent over 10 years contributing to Open Source and the Linux kernel. He first got involved in 2005 while doing embedded Linux work when he started submitting board support patches for several platforms. Eventually, his work lead to taking on maintainership of several platforms as well as the SPI, GPIO and Device tree subsystems. Grant is also an active leader in the Linux developer community. He has been twice elected to serve on the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board (TAB), a position he currently holds, and also served as the TAB chair from September 2014 to April 2016. He's been involved with the organization of several conferences including the Linux Plumbers Conference (2011 and 2012), and Kernel Summit (2014 and 2015).

Grant started his career with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and worked for several telecom companies after graduation including Nortel Networks and Computing Devices Canada. In 2005 he struck out on his own and founded a small embedded engineering company where he balanced the customer demands and remaining committed to Open Source development. It was through the consulting work that Grant first started working with Linaro, and in 2013 he took a full time position with Linaro in the Office of the CTO where he was promoted to Fellow.

Grant, his wife Caireen, and their three children are originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. However, in 2012 the whole family moved to Aberdeen, Scotland for Caireen to work on Ph.D. in theological ethics at the University of Aberdeen. The whole family has enjoyed exploring their new home and taking advantage of being on the doorstep to the rest of Europe. When not exploring, Grant can be found tinkering with electronics of all sorts and encouraging his children to code and use a soldering iron. More than one afternoon has been misspent building Lightsabers.

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