The WWCode Portland September Networking Night will be hosted by the women within the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. The theme of the night is Women Who Open Source. Join us for lightning talks on Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Chrome, Data Center and Cloud Environment, and Security, and dinner at McMenamins.

Our distinguished speakers are all women from the Open Source Technology Center at Intel and they are:

- Kelly Hammond -- Director of Clear Linux Stacks and Performance Engineering
- Kristen Accardi -- Security Architect
- Margarita Maroto -- Chrome OS Engineering Director
- Monica Ene-Pietrosanu -- Software Engineering Director of Datacenter Solutions & Languages Optimization

AGENDA

6:00 - 6:30 PM – Doors Open + Networking
6:30 - 6:45 PM – Welcome from Women at OTC, Intel and WWCode Portland
6:45 - 7:45 PM – Lighting Talks: Women at Open Source Technology Center, Intel + Q&A from the audience
7:45 - 8:30 PM – Networking + Closing Remarks

THE TALKS

Kristen Accardi -- Micro-architectural side channel attacks are here to stay. What can we do inside the operating system to defend against them? This talk will summarize some of the software mitigations that Intel’s Open Source Technology Center have developed to improve resistance to side channel attacks within the Linux kernel.

Monica Ene-Pietrosanu -- Cloud computing, containers, runtime languages, and software orchestration. Everything that’s changing the way developers do computation is covered in this important discussion. Join Monica as she lays out what you need to know about today’s Data Center and Cloud environment and how Intel continues to shape it.

Kelly Hammond -- What does it mean to be open source, and why should software developers want to work in open source? In this talk, Kelly will cover some of the motivation for working in open source, the difference between open source software and an open source community, and what you get out of being a part of an open source community. She will also discuss the open source efforts she is driving with robotics.

Margarita Maroto -- Chromebooks have evolved into premium devices with advanced features and high adoption. Learn about the exciting future of Chrome OS and all the exciting new features Intel is currently working on.

SPEAKER BIOS

Kelly Hammond is a Software Engineering Manager in SSG's Open Source Technology Center and Director of Stacks Engineering for Clear Linux. Her organization delivers system capabilities on Linux operating systems, such as open source robotics software, machine vision, object recognition, media and graphics, with a charter for end to end performance. She has held both program and people management positions within Intel delivering products such as Android phones, the first Ultrabook, and the Clear Linux operating system. She has a master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in system design and management, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. Prior to Intel she worked at Northrup Grumman as a program manager and systems engineer for F-22 radars and satellite navigation systems.

Kristen Accardi is a Security Architect for Intel’s Open Source Technology Center (OTC), focusing on the Linux kernel. Kristen has contributed to the Linux kernel for over 15 years in various different subsystems including PCI, SATA, ACPI, and Power Management. Kristen is currently leading the OTC's side channel defense project.

Margarita Maroto began her career at Motorola and later joined Intel in 1998. She has worked in a variety of roles including quality and reliability engineering, engineering management, and program management. Most recently, Margarita manages the Chrome OS Engineering organization. Margarita received the Intel Achievement Award in 2017 for Winning leadership market segment share in Chromebooks. She holds an undergraduate degree in industrial and mechanical engineering and a Master of Science degree in industrial-reliability statistics from Arizona State University.

Monica Ene-Pietrosanu is a Software Engineering Director with Intel’s Software & Services Group where she leads a team of performance engineers and compiler experts in optimizing runtimes for the most popular scripting languages used in enterprise and cloud applications. Previously, she led worldwide Intel software engineering teams in the delivery of firmware-to-cloud software management stacks, aligned to evolving data center manageability standards. Prior to joining Intel, Monica spent 13 years with Microsoft focusing on operating systems development and security architectures for public key infrastructures, identity management, authentication systems, and file system encryption technologies. Monica holds PhD, M.S., and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (her thesis was in security protocols for distributed systems), a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, and five US patents related to security and encryption technologies.

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