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Building a Successful Open Source Program Office

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Are you strategically managing your open source use and policies? Maybe yes, maybe no. Given the continued increase in security risks with headline-making vulnerabilities like Log4j and Spring, maybe you’re in planning mode. Because of the potential variability across your organization in how open source and third-party code is owned, used and distributed, it needs to be centrally and strategically managed. This is the job of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO).

In this webinar, experts speak to their own experiences with why OSPOs are important. We’ll take a look at the role of the OSPO in providing:

  • Established program objectives, roles and responsibilities, and policies that form the foundation to your corporate risk profile
  • Appropriate training and enablement for various stakeholders
  • The right oversight of determining which components and licenses are appropriate to use and when
  • Accelerated software development
  • A solid reputation as a responsible open source community member

Learn which stakeholders should play critical roles in your OSPO and how to get started.

ALEX RYBAK
Senior Director of Product Management, Revenera
As the Senior Director of Product Management at Revenera, Alex owns the thought leadership and overall direction for SCA products. Alex also heads up Revenera's Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and is a member of the internal cybersecurity and incident response team. He has been with Revenera (formerly Palamida) since 2006 and has worked in a number of roles that run the gamut, including professional services, technical support, pre-sales support, solutions engineering and product management. Prior to Revenera, Alex spent seven years at Selectica under various roles including professional services, pre-sales support and solutions engineering.
Ria Farrell Schalnat
Open Source Compliance Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ria Farrell Schalnat is the Compliance Manager for the Open Source Program Office of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She leverages her prior lives as a computer programmer, lawyer and adjunct professor specializing in many intellectual property subjects including Open Source. She has represented clients in a wide array of matters ranging from patent portfolio management and prosecution, intellectual property due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and software licensing. In her free time, she enjoys skiing in the Pacific Northwest during the winter months, biking in the summer and playing strategy games all year around. You can reach her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaschalnat/.
David Cuka
FOSS Program Manager, Bank of America
David is the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Program Manager at Bank of America with over 15 years of experience managing open source. David manages policy, procedures, and governance specializing in efficient processes and automation. David started his career at Bell Labs where he worked on reliability, embedded systems, domain engineering, and software development processes. At Motorola, David managed a team applying domain engineering concepts to multimodal applications to integrate voice and text inputs into single applications. David holds both Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and North Central College in Naperville, Illinois respectively.

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