SKILup Hour: Open Source

SKILup Hours: Educational Webinars for IT Professionals include roundtable discussions that are moderated by industry experts; providing discreet buildable how-to knowledge on topics crossing people, process and technology. 

Open source is everywhere and for good reason; it leverages community and makes invention more accessible. It can make for a compelling low-cost proposition for business, but there are downsides too be they hidden license costs, lack of support models, poor quality or questionable security testing. Organizations often don’t have a clear, communicated open source policy, and even when they do, they frequently don’t reflect the reality of what is happening in the teams and application infrastructure.

Join our experts for this SKILup Hour to learn more about how to develop and maintain the open source policies that work for your business. 

You Will Learn

• The upsides and downsides of open source software and how to balance the two 
• How to mitigate risks with using open source software in the context of software supply chain hygiene
• How to choose the right open source strategy and tools for your teams and make sure they have the right skills to make the most of the investment

Who Should Attend

Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), DevOps and Engineering Leaders, Developers, IT Operations People, Support Analysts, Cloud Architects, and Site Reliability Engineers.