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The Upstream agenda is out, and it's 🔥

It's happening! 🎉 The first pass at the Upstream agenda is out, and we hope you're ready for an action-packed day. If you haven't already marked June 7, 2023 on your calendars, you should do it now. RSVP here. ✅ (The first 500 U.S.-based registrants get a free shirt 👉...don't wait.)

This year’s theme is the accidental supply chain, and we can't wait to hear what the speakers have in store for you regarding this topic and others important to open source.

Here’s a preview of the day:

  • Luis Villa, Tidelift co-founder, will kick off the day by introducing the accidental supply chain theme—and give us some ideas for how the open source community can make it a little less...well... accidental.
  • Nithya Ruff, head of the open source program office at AWS, will discuss how we live in this world of unintended relationships between supplier and consumer, and who is responsible for making it work for both.
  • Allan Friedman, senior advisor and strategist at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will share a unique perspective as someone within the agency responsible for strengthening cybersecurity and infrastructure protection.
  • Julia Ferraioli, co-founder of Open Source Stories, will discuss how the sustainability and supply chain conversations oftentimes leave out a critical factor in the equation: the people and social systems without which there would be no open source.
  • Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, will discuss how well-meaning attempts to regulate the global open source phenomenon run the risk of killing the very thing that made it successful in the first place.
  • Taylor Fairbank, Director of Growth at Distributive Aid, will tell the tale of his accidental supply chain, describing how he went from OSS maintainer to humanitarian aid worker.
  • Jose Palafox, Strategic Application Security Executive at GitHub, will share ways to secure your open source project on Github.com.
  • And tons more talks from experts throughout the open source community.

Throughout the day, we will hear directly from both the maintainers of the accidental supply chain and the consumers who depend on them. We expect some fascinating discussion, and can't wait to hang out with you all day.

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